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Subject: BISON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks
Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.
Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LAST BISON, by CHARLES MAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eight years have fled since,in the wilderness
Subject(s): Bison


THE BISON, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bison is vain, and (I write it with pain)
Last Line: But is sewn on with needle and thread.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Bison


THE BISON TRACK, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strike the tent! The sun has risen
Last Line: Howl around each grim-eyed carcass, on the bloody bison track!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Animals; Bison; Death; Horses; Dead, The


TO A BISON; AFTER READING A RECENT ARTICLE ON HIS PRESERVATION, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Creature, regards! What though river and prairie
Last Line: Since your mere mention brings dreams such as these!
Subject(s): Bison; Endangered Species