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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thing about a shark is - teeth
Last Line: I’ll never know now! Well, goodbye
Subject(s): Sharks; Teeth; Toothaches


ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thing about a shark is - teeth
Last Line: I'll never know now! Well, goodbye
Subject(s): Sharks; Teeth


FISH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are sharks that swim in ocean
Last Line: And red when they are cooked.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Sea; Sharks; Water; Cookery; Anglers; Ocean


L'ENVOI: THE RETURN OF THE SIRE DE NESLE, A.D. 16 -, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My towers at last! These rovings end
Last Line: But blest to fold but thee.
Subject(s): Sharks


NURSE SHARKS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since most sharks have no flotation bladders and must swim
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Sharks


PLAGUE OF DEAD SHARKS, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes?
Subject(s): Sharks


SALLY SIMKIN'S LAMENT, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! What is that comes gliding in
Last Line: To break off in the middle.'
Subject(s): Sea; Sharks; Ocean


SHARKS, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once, out back, where
Last Line: With a full set %of teeth and nothing to learn
Subject(s): Daughters; Mothers And Daughters; Sharks


SHARKS AT THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly drawn through the thick glass plate
Subject(s): Sharks; Aquariums


SHARKS IN THE RIVERS, by ADA LIMON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll say unbelievable things
Subject(s): Sharks


THE MALDIVE SHARK, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the shark, phlegmatical one
Last Line: Pale ravener of horrible meat.
Subject(s): Hate; Sea; Sharks; Ocean


THE SHARK, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear, let me tall you about the shark
Last Line: Be careful where you swim, my sweet
Subject(s): Sharks


THE SHARK, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The domed head rose above the water, white
Subject(s): Sharks


THE SHARK'S PARLOR, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on cumberland island
Subject(s): Sharks


THE SHARKS, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well then, the last day the sharks appeared
Subject(s): Sharks


THE SWIMMING STAR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the ocean's depths he plunged,
Last Line: "a shark was on my trail!"
Subject(s): Sharks; Swimming & Swimmers


TWO HULAS: LOVE SONG, by WALKER WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas, the shark has me, the great shark
Last Line: And that, too, the great shark has taken.
Subject(s): Sharks