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Subject: BULLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WOMAN POSSESSED, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She remembered the charge
Last Line: And the woman, old
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Women; Bulls


BULL, by PATRICIA BEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bull on the poster speaks
Last Line: To draw a loop out of his mouth %saying I am a bull
Subject(s): Bulls


BULL, by RALPH HODGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See an old unhappy bull
Last Line: Waiting for the flesh that dies
Subject(s): Bulls


BULL, by MARGARET JOHNSON (19TH CENTURY)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Huzza!' from box and balcony
Subject(s): Bulls


BULL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is in captivity
Last Line: And eyes matted %with hyacinthine curls
Subject(s): Bulls


BULL AND EGRET, by CHINUA ACHEBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At seventy miles an hour
Last Line: Of heavenly cattle-ticks
Subject(s): Bulls


BULL MOSES, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hoist up and I could lean over
Last Line: I kept the door wide, %closed it after him and pushed the bolt
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Bulls


BULL OF BENDYLAW, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black bull bellowed before the sea
Last Line: And the bull on the king's highway
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bulls


CASUALTIES: 9. WHAT THE SQUIRREL SAID, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They killed the lion in his den
Last Line: Of it about us, about our necks
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bulls; Death - Animals; Hunting; Leopards


GEO-BESTIARY: 5, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little bull calf gets his soft pink
Last Line: Though it's fatally illegal to take them off.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Bulls


GHAZALS: 36, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A scenario: I'm the star, lauren, faye, ali, little stars
Last Line: And he rolled over in the grass soaked with dew and said no.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Bulls; Fantasy


I INTERVIEW THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO BULL, by NATHAN WHITING    Poem Source                    
First Line: He says a big red eye
Subject(s): Bulls; Rodeos


MAGNIFICENT BULL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My bull is white like the silver fish in the river
Last Line: To guard you with my spear
Subject(s): Bulls


MARCH: A BULL ON THE HORIZON, by A. G. BECKMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the pale evening glacial yellow rims the west
Last Line: Impatient in the dusk to pass the seed of his perfection.
Subject(s): Bulls; March (month)


NICHOLAS OBERTING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing! O voice of valor, sing!
Last Line: He was so sorry and satisfied!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bulls; Children; Heroism; Praise; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Heroes; Heroines


NO STEPS, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young bull dropped his head and stared
Last Line: In a zip-lock plastic sandwich bag
Subject(s): Bulls


ON A MISCHIEVOUS BULL, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go! Thou art all unfit to share
Last Line: And claps the gate behind thee.
Subject(s): Bulls


OUTLAW, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kelly's kept an unlicensed bull, well away
Last Line: Who, in his own time, resumed the dark, the straw
Subject(s): Bulls - Breeding


PICTURE OF A BULL, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, morn by morn, when snowy mountains flamed
Last Line: And make them hear him still when they had fain forgot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Variant Title(s): A Bison-king
Subject(s): Animals; Bulls


PRIVATE PARTS OF ANIMALS, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ad boasts of something called
Last Line: With ribbon
Subject(s): Animals; Bulls


QUATRAIN FOR SITTING BULL, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say he was defiant as the prairie winds that whipped him
Last Line: "but say: ""he never wavered in allegiance to his own."
Subject(s): Bulls


THE BULL, by RALPH HODGSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See an old unhappy bull
Subject(s): Bulls


THE BULL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is in captivity
Subject(s): Bulls


THE BULL FIGHT, by L. WORTHINGTON GREEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The couriers from chihuahua go
Last Line: And juan takes his pepita back from the town.
Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Bulls; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE BULL OF BENDYLAW, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black bull bellowed before the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bulls


THE BULL RETURNS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bull returns from his day of work in the ring
Last Line: Dry and gray, as though from a split mattress
Subject(s): Bulls


THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In our museum galleries
Last Line: Thine also, mighty nineveh?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Bulls; Greece; Greeks


THE CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: BULL, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White bull with a crescent moon on your forehead
Last Line: Pardon for us from your father
Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De
Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ; Bulls


THE SEARCH, by CHARLES SHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've dropped me swag in many camps
Last Line: The big white bull through wagga.
Subject(s): Bulls; Legends; Revenge


THE WHITE BULLS OF HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white bulls of java, weighing a thousand pounds
Last Line: I am sure it is the only life god can taste
Subject(s): Bulls; Indonesia; Farm Life; Death


YOUNG BULL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This bronze ring punctures
Last Line: Against the slats wanting to murder me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Bulls; Pity; Strength