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Subject: SKUNKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` SKINK, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us do justice to the skink
Last Line: Or you may be adjudged too drunk %to tell a lizard from a skunk
Subject(s): Skinks; Skunks


SKUNK, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You'd better be %nice to me
Last Line: But I won't
Subject(s): Skunks


SKUNK, by LARRY EVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Skunk %on the mesquite wood
Last Line: Sounding %sounding %sounding
Subject(s): Skunks


SKUNK, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble
Last Line: For the black plunge-line nightdress
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Skunks


SKUNK HOUR; FOR ELIZABETH BISHOP, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nautilus island's hermit / heiress still lives through winter in her spartan
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Skunk Hour
Subject(s): Maine (state); Skunks


SKUNK HOUR; FOR ELIZABETH BISHOP, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nautilus island's hermit %heiress still lives through winter in her spartan
Last Line: Drops her ostrich tail, %will not scare
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Skunk Hou
Subject(s): Maine (state); Skunks


THE SKUNK, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Skunks