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Subject: CORMORANTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COMMON CORMORANT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The common cormorant or shag
Last Line: Of wandering bears may come with buns %and steal the bags to hold the crumbs
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants


CORMORANT, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up through the buttercup meadow the children lead
Last Line: And, beyond the cove, the channel bells
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants


CORMORANT IN ITS ELEMENT, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: That bony potbellied arrow, wing-pumping along
Last Line: To do with ego, guilt, ambition, or even money
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 11. AESACUS TRANSFORMED INTO A CORMORANT, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These some old man sees wanton in the air
Last Line: From frequent diving and emerging came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting


SHAG, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the slow heron
Subject(s): Cormorants


THE CORMORANT, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up through the buttercup meadow the children lead
Last Line: And, beyond the cove, the channel bells
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants


THE IRON BRIDGE, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am standing on a disused iron bridge
Last Line: With no end or name, some boundless province of water
Subject(s): Cormorants; Bridges; Mothers; Water; Death


TO THE UNBORN AND WAITING CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went into my mother as
Last Line: You enter at your own risk
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants


TO THE UNBORN AND WAITING CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went into my mother as
Last Line: The bodies all may open wide but %you enter at your own risk
Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants