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Subject: FERRETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLACK-FOOTED FERRET, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thief of darkness, her body
Last Line: Into that black-masked equipoise
Subject(s): Endangered Species; Ferrets; Rare Animals


CLOTH-OF-GOLD, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ferries never go to sea like the steamers
Last Line: In plaids of gold and silver, lighter than a dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Ferrets


DEATH OF A FERRET, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside a burrow, he
Last Line: Which lingers on sadly after their twilit death
Subject(s): Death; Ferrets


FERRET, by JOHN STEWART CONN    Poem Source                    
First Line: More vicious than stoat or weasel
Subject(s): Ferrets


FERRET, by JAMES M. MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wriggles from your grasp, drops four feet
Last Line: Her evening meal a chunk of rabbit, %her teeth incisive, like butter knives
Subject(s): Ferrets


MEETING THE FERRET, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of my best encounters with animals
Subject(s): Ferrets


MEETING THE FERRET, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of my best encounters with animals
Last Line: Nevertheless, to have my own ferret
Subject(s): Ferrets


ROMANCING FERRET, by FRIEDA HUGHES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ferret colored her fur
Last Line: And washed her off to find himself %faced with his own kind
Subject(s): Ferrets