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Subject: CAMELS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABLA, by ANTARA IBN SHADDAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poets have muddied all the little fountains
Last Line: Who will guide me to the dwelling of abla?
Alternate Author Name(s): Black Knight; Antarah
Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Valleys


ALPHABESTIARY: C, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: C is for camel, a very right beast
Last Line: From the camel's point of view
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Camels


BACK TRACK, by PAUL HUMPHREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The camel's pace is seldom slack
Last Line: On purpose, if you're lucky
Subject(s): Camels


CAMEL, by SYLVIA CASSEDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tan %leather seats
Last Line: Is this passenger mammal
Subject(s): Animals; Camels


CAMEL, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The camel has a single hump
Last Line: I'm never sure. Are you?
Subject(s): Camels


CAMEL COMES TO US FROM THE BARBARIANS, by RITA DOVE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This one is enormous: rough-cut
Last Line: What beauty wreaks, what mountains %pity moves
Subject(s): Camels


CAMEL'S HUMP, by PERRIN BACHELLOR FISK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The camel's hump is there on high
Last Line: As a warning against racing!
Subject(s): Camels


CAMEL'S NOSE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in his shop a workman wrought
Subject(s): Camels


DROMEDARY, by ARCHIBALD YOUNG CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In dreams I see the dromedary still
Subject(s): Animals; Camels; Dromedaries


DROMEDARY STANDING STILL, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Appears to be a very strange %perambulating range
Subject(s): Camels


EXILE, by VIRNA SHEARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ben-arabie was the camel
Subject(s): Camels


HIS CAMEL, by ALQAMATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: So leave her, and cast care from thy heart with a sturdy
Last Line: Mislikes it, all the choice is to journey on.
Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips


HOLUS BOLUS, by E. G. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He lay in the hospital, pallid and weak
Last Line: "for the blithering camel blew first!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dryblower
Subject(s): Accidents; Camels; Sickness; Illness


HOW TO TELL A CAMEL, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dromedary has one hump
Last Line: The bactrian is different from %the dromedary kind
Subject(s): Camels


IF A CAMEL CAN STRETCH IT'S MUZZLE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For three hours, then rowed my blue %so I can
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Camels; Human Behavior; Nature


LAMENT OF THE BRONZE CAMELS, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hopeless by third month's end
Last Line: Burnished eyes reflect only dusk %mixed with tears
Subject(s): Absence; Camels


LAST STRAW, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One minute the camel was standing there
Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food And Eating


MAN AND CAMEL, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ometimes there would be a fire and I would walk into it
Subject(s): Middle Age; Camels


POSTCARD FROM ALANYA, TURKEY, by ANNE SIMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man and a woman, equidistant
Last Line: Against the backdrop of glinting waves %that don't fall
Subject(s): Camels; Mankind; Photography And Photographers; Women


PRIMER, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The camel has a funny hump
Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food And Eating; Sun


SHOUTING FOR A CAMEL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was over at coolgardie that a mining speculator
Last Line: You'll be cheap, very cheap, as the speculators go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Camels; Mines And Miners


SONG OF THE CAMELS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not born to the forest are we
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Camels


THE BEACH OF ACRE, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The camel train moves slowly in the dawn
Last Line: Godfrey of bouillon, a remembered name.
Subject(s): Camels; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE CAMEL, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ship of the desert
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Camels


THE DROMEDARY, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dromedary is a cheerful bird:
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Camels


THE GIFT, by ABUL ARAB    Poem Text                    
First Line: You gave to me a camel black
Last Line: Bearing the camel and the load?
Subject(s): Camels; Gifts & Giving


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: IMR EL KAIS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep, ah weep love's losing, love's with its dwelling-place
Last Line: Cumbered the hollow places, drowned in the night-trouble.
Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Love; Poetry & Poets; Tradition


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: TARAFA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tent lines these of khaula in stone-stricken thahmadi
Last Line: Neither for pay nor raiment, nor madest thou tryst with him.
Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Travel; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips


THE LEGEND OF THE FIRST CAM-U-EL; AN ARABIAN APLOGUE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the sands of syria
Last Line: Those, wicked, heartless married men who ridicule their wives.
Subject(s): Camels


THE PLAINT OF THE CAMEL, by CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Canary-birds feed on sugar and seed
Last Line: Any shape does for me.
Variant Title(s): The Camel's Complaint
Subject(s): Camels


THE RESEMBLANCE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey did you see the man that looked like a camel
Last Line: Just likie a camel
Subject(s): Camels


THE SHIP OF THE DESERT, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Onward, my camel! - oh, though slow
Last Line: With thine, old, unlamented man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Camels


THE STRAY CAMEL; AN ARABIAN TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A camel-driver, who had lost
Last Line: "at times from being overwise!"
Subject(s): Camels