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Subject: YELLOW JACKETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` POEM FOR ADLAI STEVENSON AND YELLOW JACKETS, by DAVID YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's summer, 1956, in maine, a camp resort
Subject(s): Summer; Time; Fish & Fishing; Wasps; Anglers; Yellow Jackets


RESTLESS GHOST, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wasp's paper nest hung all winter.
Subject(s): Wasps; Ghosts; Yellow Jackets


SWEET ROUMANIAN TONGUE, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drew down the curse of heaven on her umbrella
Subject(s): Rain; Wasps; Yellow Jackets


TEN MILLS: WASPISH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On glossy wires artistically bent
Last Line: But he's as good as anybody going
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


THE ANT-LION, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By digging a hole in the sand
Last Line: And both of us live by slaughter and strife.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Wasps; Bugs; Yellow Jackets


THE BOTTLING OF THE WASP, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wasps were one morning obtrusively gay
Last Line: "in the healthy malt liquor that's sold at the ""crown."
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


THE WASP TRAP, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This moonlight makes
Last Line: So glistening.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


TO A WASP, by MARY BRODINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His body bears its purpose plain
Last Line: When that projectile wing is still.
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


TRIOLET, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Warm from the wall she chose a peach
Last Line: She took the wasps for councillors.
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches; Wasps; Yellow Jackets


UPON A WASP CHILLED WITH COLD, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bear that breaths the northern blast
Last Line: And heavenly musick, furr'd with praise.
Variant Title(s): Upon A Wasp Child With Cold
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Sickness; Wasps; Illness; Yellow Jackets


VICTORY SONG, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I run to the springhouse / to get a cold drink, / I am laughing
Subject(s): Happiness; Wasps; Joy; Delight; Yellow Jackets