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Subject: TURKEYS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANOTHER EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray lady harriot the time to assign
Last Line: That a body may come to st james' to dine.
Subject(s): Bodies; Prayer; Turkeys; Women


CARVING THE TURKEY, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meleager, one of jason's heroes, died
Last Line: If only by error. Is everyone served? -- dig in
Subject(s): Meleager (100 B.c.); Turkeys


DE CIRCUS TURKEY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He's de worst I evah see
Last Line: An' 'cisely at six o'clock yo' go ter baid.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Turkeys


FABLES: 1ST SER. 38. THE TURKEY AND THE ANT, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In other men we faults can spy
Last Line: Nor for a breakfast nations kill.
Subject(s): Ants; Food & Eating; Insects; Turkeys; Bugs


FREE TURKEY-RALPHS SUPERMARKET, NOVEMBER 16, by HOLLY PRADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is this american, or what?
Last Line: Holidays. Twelve pounds of meat and bone: my just reward
Subject(s): Americans; Grocers; Holidays; Markets; Thanksgiving Day; Turkeys


IN A PASTURE, WILD TURKEYS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Flip cow pies, looking for bugs
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Turkeys


SOLILOQUY OF A TURKEY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: De's a so't o' threatin' feelin' in de blowin' of de breeze
Last Line: An' it 's too nigh chris'mus mo'nin' now fu'me.
Subject(s): Turkeys


STUFFY TURKEY, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I limp along, looking for feathers
Last Line: Can you hear me above all this jazz?
Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians; Turkeys


SURROUNDED BY WILD TURKEYS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little calls -- as they pass
Subject(s): Turkeys


SURROUNDED BY WILD TURKEYS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little calls -- as they pass
Last Line: Look just like us
Subject(s): Turkeys


THE MOTHERLESS TURKEYS, by ANNIE DOUGLAS GREEN ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The white turkey was dead! The white turkey was dead!
Last Line: "to the hen with one chicken!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Marian
Subject(s): Turkeys


THE TURKEY, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At christmas time the poulterer's is all a blaze of gas
Last Line: He can't complain at christmas if we take him at his word.
Subject(s): Christmas; Turkeys; Nativity, The


THE TURKEY SHOT OUT OF THE OVEN, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Turkeys


TURKEY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nothing more perky
Last Line: And when he gobbles %their universe wobbles
Subject(s): Turkeys


TURKEY DISCIPLINE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horrid turkeys! What a pother!
Last Line: Evil turkeys-down she fell!
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Fear; Monsters; Turkeys


TURKEY'S WATTLE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Said the turtle to the turkey
Last Line: Say, that funny hunk of wrinkle %round a turkey's chin, what is it?!'
Subject(s): Turkeys