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Subject: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her fur new-licked, the whitetail fawn
Last Line: As they depart, and curse them.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty And The Beast; Cruelty; Zoos


FRIENDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time I saw beauty and the beast
Last Line: I knew my friends, though they'd swapped faces
Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Friendship


MYTHICS, by HELEN CHASIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the cautionary tales of strange girls
Last Line: Now, rewarded, I submit to his transfiguration
Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Ondine; Psyche (mythology); Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Women