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Subject: HEDGEHOGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HEDGEHOG, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hedgehog hides beneath the rotten hedge
Last Line: And no one cares and still the strife goes on
Subject(s): Hedgehogs


HEDGEHOG, by EDITH KING    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Hedgehogs


HEDGEHOG, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snail moves like a
Subject(s): Hedgehogs; Secrets


HEDGEHOG AND HIS COAT, by ELIZABETH+(1) FLEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The owls have feathers lined with down
Subject(s): Hedgehogs


HIS SHIELD, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pin-swim or spine-swine
Subject(s): Hedgehogs


HIS SHIELD, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pin-swim or spine-swine
Last Line: Don't be envied or %armed with a measuring-rod
Subject(s): Hedgehogs


PITCH O' PINE SONNETS: 2. QUILLS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Si's temper was barbed-quilled as a hedgehog's tail
Last Line: He hurled one at the quills, and crushed si's head.
Subject(s): Feathers; Hedgehogs


THE HEDGE-HOG SEEN IN A FREQUENTED PATH, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherefore should man or thoughtless boy
Last Line: May cry -- ah! Noli me tangere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Hedgehogs


THE MOWER, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Death - Animals; Hedgehogs; Lawn Mowers