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Subject: ZEBRAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMERICANS ALL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Zebras we, a plait of black and lighter
Last Line: Our legs and bodies striped, but the belly plain
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Zebras


MISCEGENOUS ZEBRA, by ROLAND YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The zebra, born both black and white
Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Lions; Zebras


THE ZEBRA, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The zebra is undoubtedly
Subject(s): Zebras


THE ZEBRAS, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the dark woods that breathe of fallen showers
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Zebras


TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos; Childhood; World's Fairs; Expositions


TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die
Last Line: And I will learn to love you as a zebra whom I did not love as a human being
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos


ZEBRA, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The zebra is undoubtedly
Last Line: Or rather, white on black
Subject(s): Zebras


ZEBRA IN THE PUBLIC ZOO, by LUCY LOUISE HATCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I, too, have dragged out youthful years but gray
Last Line: And touch a soul, like mine, already dead.
Subject(s): Zebras


ZEBRAS, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the dark woods that breathe of fallen showers
Last Line: To roll his mare among the trampled lilies
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Zebras