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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The art of worldly wisdom
Last Line: Man, eagle, bull, and lion
Subject(s): Dragons; France; Unicorns


DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zoroaster long ago %said poetry presents us
Last Line: Ever saw growing on the trees
Subject(s): Dragons; Italy; Unicorns


DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over switzerland broods the
Last Line: Love who moves the sun and other stars
Subject(s): Dragons; Religion; Unicorns


DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New york a grey haze with flights of
Last Line: Across immeasurable distance
Subject(s): Cities; Dragons; Unicorns


DRAGON OF THE UNICORN: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And what is love?' said pilate
Last Line: The dragon and the unicorn
Subject(s): Dragons; Love; Unicorns


FABLE, by GEORGE O'NEIL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I led him on into the frosted wood
Last Line: "I'm numb, I'm going home,"" he said."
Subject(s): Fables; Unicorns; Winter; Allegories


HUNTING MANUAL, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The unicorn is an easy prey: its horn
Last Line: In the dark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Unicorns; Hunters


I STOOD IN THE MAYTIME MEADOWS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And only a virgin's magic power %shall tame his haughty heart
Subject(s): Unicorns


MATING, by GLADYS MELVILLE INT-HOUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night the frenzied unicorn
Last Line: To keep her tryst with him
Subject(s): Reproduction; Sex; Unicorns


NEPENTHE: THE UNICORN, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! In the mute, mid wilderness
Last Line: Far athwart his lair I run.
Subject(s): Pride; Unicorns; Wilderness; Self-esteem; Self-respect


SEA UNICORNS AND LAND UNICORNS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With their respective lions
Last Line: "its ""mild wild head doth lie."
Subject(s): Unicorns


SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh this beast is the one that never was
Last Line: And was, inside the mirror and in her
Variant Title(s): Unicorn; This Is The Creatur
Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Unicorns


TALIESIN'S SONG OF THE UNICORN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shouldering shapes of the skies of broceliande
Subject(s): Taliesin; Unicorns


THE BLACK UNICORN, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The black unicorn is greedy
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Unicorns; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 3, SELECTION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zoroaster long ago / said poetry presents us
Subject(s): Dragons; Italy; Unicorns; Italians


THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over switzerland broods the
Subject(s): Dragons; Religion; Unicorns; Theology


THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New york a grey haze with flights of
Subject(s): Cities; Dragons; Unicorns; Urban Life


THE DRAGON OF THE UNICORN: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And what is love?' said pilate
Subject(s): Dragons; Love; Unicorns


UNICORN, by EMILE VICTOR RIEU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The unicorn sttod, like a king in a dream
Last Line: When the hand of the fiddler surrenders the bow
Subject(s): Unicorns


UNICORN AND THE HIPPOGRIF, by MARTHA OSTENSO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pity the unicorn %pity the hippogrif
Subject(s): Unicorns


UNICORN, SELS., by RAINER MARIA RILKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Unicorns


UNICORNS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were asked to take my pick
Last Line: But I should choose white unicorns!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Unicorns


UNICORNS, by MARIE DE L. WELCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hooves of dream thunder
Subject(s): Unicorns


WHERE HAVE THE UNICORNS GONE?, by JANE YOLEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In that watery eden, the sea
Subject(s): Unicorns