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Subject: WATERFOWL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DUCK POND AT MINI'S PASTURE, A DOZEN YEARS LATER, by PHILIP DOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking out, I flushed some meadowlarks
Last Line: On set wings, down %slowly, into the last light
Subject(s): Waterfowl


ON SCARING SOME WATERFOWL IN LOCH-TURIT, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, ye tenants of the lake
Last Line: Scorn at least to be his slave.
Subject(s): Waterfowl


TO A WATERFOWL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither, midst falling dew
Last Line: Will lead my steps aright.
Variant Title(s): The Waterfowl
Subject(s): Birds; Faith; God; Migration; Nature; Religion; Soldiers; Waterfowl; Belief; Creed; Theology


TO A WATERFOWL, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women with hats like the rear ends of pink ducks
Subject(s): Waterfowl


TO A WATERFOWL, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Women with hats like the rear ends of pink ducks
Last Line: Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, not you
Subject(s): Waterfowl


WATER FOWL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark how the feathered tenants of the flood
Last Line: As if they scorned both resting-place and rest!
Subject(s): Lakes; Waterfowl; Pools; Ponds