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Subject: KANGAROOS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TAIL OF A KANGAROO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it wasn't on the chinee coast, nor yet upon japan"
Last Line: As their parents are to travellers who've anything to lose
Subject(s): Fights;kangaroos;women


I SAW THE BEAUTY GO, by MARY CAMERON GILMORE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Kangaroos


KANGAROO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the northern hemisphere
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Kangaroos; Travel; Journeys; Trips


KANGAROO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the northern hemisphere
Last Line: Leap then, and come down on the line that draws to the earth's %deep, heavy centre
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Kangaroos; Travel


KANGAROO, by PANSY ROSE NAPALJARRI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water beneath the hills, %running slowly from the creek
Last Line: He smells the red flowers %so tired, he goes to sleep
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Kangaroos


KANGAROO, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O kangaroo, o kangaroo
Last Line: And not transmuted by a boomerang %to zestful tangy kangaroo meringue
Subject(s): Kangaroos


KANGAROO, by VENO TAUFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The kangaroo never sleeps
Last Line: With the belly full of night it rattles
Subject(s): Animals; Kangaroos


KANGAROO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old jumpety-bumpety-hop-and-go-one
Subject(s): Kangaroos


NATIVE BORN, by EVE LANGLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a white gully among fungus red
Subject(s): Kangaroos


THE AMBITIOUS KANGAROO, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They held a great meeting a king to select
Last Line: "in our choice of a king, to make leaping the test!"
Subject(s): Kangaroos


THE COUNTRY OF BOUNDERS, by ERNEST FRANCIS O'FERRALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coach was creaking up the hill, the straining nags were nodding
Last Line: "then drawled, ""hey, boss! Them blankers there is native 'boundahs' bounding!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak
Subject(s): England; Kangaroos; Language; English; Words; Vocabulary


THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the duck to the kangaroo
Last Line: As the duck and the kangaroo?
Subject(s): Ducks; Friendship; Kangaroos; Nonsense; Mallards; Drakes


THE TALE OF A KANGAROO'S HEAD, by A HUGHES MCC.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've a truthful reputation, boss, as you can well believe
Last Line: So I calls my little history, a bomer;—so it air!
Subject(s): Kangaroos; Story-telling; Whips


THE WILD KANGAROO, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain-clouds have gone to the deep
Last Line: At the death of the wild kangaroo!
Subject(s): Kangaroos