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Subject: JAYS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PROMPT, EXECUTIVE BIRD IS THE JAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As a magistrate
Subject(s): Jays


DEATH OF THE JAYBIRD, by RON BLOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a broken fishing line
Last Line: The washed-out roots %of a tree growing backwards
Subject(s): Death; Jays


DOWN IN THE DUMP, SOME TIRES BURNIN', by RON BLOCK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: He's quiet as a fisherman glued to his pole.'
Subject(s): Jays


EPITAPH OF A JAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Already the cattle in the shade of the stable
Last Line: The voltairesque grandpa far from his passions smokes %you can't, he says, lose the sun
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Jays


JAY A-PASS'D, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When leaves, in evenen winds, do vlee
Last Line: When did my jaÿ all pass me by?
Subject(s): Children; Home; Jays; Mortality; Time; Childhood


JAY IN MASQUERADE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a park's area vast
Last Line: Learn hence, how common sense despises %the pilf'ring literary jay
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Fables; Jays


LUNCH, by RON BLOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The jaybird comes again to hawk for trash
Last Line: Glad to curse and have the jaybird cursing back. %this is what he came here for
Subject(s): Jays


THE CRESTED JAY, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jay is a jovial bird -- heigh ho!
Last Line: That any stray fellow would see—heigh-ho!
Subject(s): Jays


THE JAUNTY JAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On my window-sill flirted a jaunty jay
Last Line: Said the jubilant, jolly, and jaunty jay.
Subject(s): Jays