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Subject: CHAMELEONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHAMELEON, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chameleon changes his color
Last Line: I don't think he'd do it again
Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P.
Subject(s): Chameleons


CHAMELEON, by JAMES MERRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oft has it been my lot to mark
Subject(s): Chameleons


CHAMELEON, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His body is of lizard size
Last Line: Take on, insensible, unseen, %a lonely wave's translucency
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W.
Subject(s): Chameleons


CHAMELEON, by NEIL SHEPARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green fading yellow fading grey
Last Line: His color changed, green %fading yellow fading gray
Subject(s): Chameleons; Colors


CHAMELEON, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you appear to a leaf the green of the laurel's
Last Line: Away from my claws
Subject(s): Chameleons


CHAMELEON AT HOME, by DUANE ACKERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chameleon is at home everywhere but in its own house. There, all
Last Line: Knowing where to go
Subject(s): Chameleons


CHAMELON, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The changeable chameleon
Last Line: Automatically in style
Subject(s): Chameleons


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 24. COMPLIANCE IN LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each passion of my soul is timed by you
Last Line: Camelion-like the colour take, you give.
Subject(s): Chameleons; Love


THE CHAMELEON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know that I'm like, yet I am not, a snake!
Last Line: Wherein all lovely things can smile back on themselves!
Subject(s): Chameleons


THE CHAMELEON, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the chameleon, who is known
Last Line: And lies with those he never saw.
Subject(s): Chameleons; Colors; Europe; Law & Lawyers; Wisdom


THE CHAMELEON AND THE DOCTOR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a chameleon laid up in a bed
Last Line: A young lady's bright batik sweater for sport.
Subject(s): Chameleons; Physicians; Doctors


TO A CHAMELEON, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hid by the august foliage and fruit
Last Line: Could not snap the spectrum up for food as you have done.
Variant Title(s): You Are Like The Realistic Product Of An Idealistic Search For Gold ...
Subject(s): Chameleons