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Subject: MATING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: EELS AND TORTOISES, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange the formation of the eely race
Last Line: To the loathed duties of an hated bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian
Subject(s): Courtship; Eels; Fish & Fishing; Reproduction; Turtles; Mating; Tortoises


PARES CONTINUAS FUTUTIONES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Says our harvard neo malthusian
Last Line: Which seems a licentious conclusion
Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep
Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk."
Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating


REPLICA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fake parthenon in nashville, stonehenge reduced by a quarter
Last Line: Everything of which there's one only in the form of its only maker.
Subject(s): Life; Reproduction; Statues; Mating


SQUIRRELS MATING, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In fits and starts around
Last Line: Their chase in fits and starts
Subject(s): Reproduction; Squirrels; Mating


THE CONJUGATION OF THE PARAMECIUM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This has nothing
Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating


THE SPEED OF DARKNESS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever despises the clitoris despises the penis
Subject(s): Sex; Reproduction; Love - Erotic; Mating


TO A GARDEN IN APRIL, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, and are you pleading now for pardon?
Last Line: You hide in leaf, but oh! Your buds are swelling.
Subject(s): April; Gardens & Gardening; Reproduction; Mating


UNBORN SONG, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rabbits breed, flies breed, said the virgin lady
Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating