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Subject: WOODPECKERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away, away in the northland
Last Line: A mean and selfish man.
Subject(s): Birds; Selfishness; Woodpeckers


AS LONG AS THE WOODPECKER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A little life left in the shell
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Woodpeckers


LIKE THEY SAY, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Underneath the tree on some
Subject(s): Woodpeckers


NATURE RHYMES: 7, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "woodpecker, woodpecker / working hard for your bread"
Last Line: But forgiveness instead
Subject(s): Birds;woodpeckers


THE DOWNY WOODPECKER, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Downy came and dwelt with me
Last Line: In this charmed spot.
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


THE WOODPECKER, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I once a king and chief
Last Line: Chasing the prey.
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


THE WOODPECKER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wizard of the woods is he
Last Line: He makes the timber sound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


THE WOODPECKER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Innocence! Innocence is the condition of heaven
Last Line: Stabbing there with a barbed tongue which succeeds!
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


THE WOODPECKER KEEPS RETURNING, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The handsome red-capped bird, the missing mate
Subject(s): Woodpeckers


TUT-U-TUT-TUT, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It isn't some kind of machine gun
Last Line: That redheaded woodpecker, %redwooded headpecker, %rockheaded woodpoker's head?
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pastel shades in the sky, on hill
Subject(s): Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tread softly here
Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For such little gain?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by NI TSAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is he, the woodpecker?
Last Line: Alas! The pack of human beings: %they cannot match the heart of this bird
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woodpecker pecked out a little round hole
Last Line: And the big, big wheels of thunder roll, %he can snuggle back in the telephone pole
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by JOYCE SAMBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night I heard him in the woods
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Robin in the tree-top high
Subject(s): Birds; Robins; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the world there were but two
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Innocence! Innocence is the condition of heaven
Last Line: Flight, means only desire and desire the end of flight, %stabbing there with a barbed tongue which s
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers


WOODPECKER SONG, by ZUO FEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a bird in the southern hills
Last Line: But he who sullies himself shall fall into disgrace
Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers