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Subject: COYOTES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAGED COYOTE, by ALEX R. SCHMIDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Coil-padded, every thew a close-wound spring
Last Line: Can hold this streak of lunging, plunging fire.
Subject(s): Cages; Coyotes


ARIZONA MIDNIGHT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grief of the coyote seeems to make
Last Line: Its own necessary beauty
Subject(s): Night; Grief; Coyotes


COYOTE, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dim lithe shape moves over the mesa
Last Line: Ha, ha, coyote!
Subject(s): Coyotes


COYOTE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a little rill of water, near the den
Last Line: I thought how delicate that rock's poise was: %the storm made music, when it changed my world
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): Coyote Tells Why He Sing
Subject(s): Coyotes


COYOTE NO. 1, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just before dark
Last Line: That dreams his dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Coyotes


COYOTE [OR, THE PRAIRIE WOLF], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blown out of the prairie in twilight and dew
Last Line: A four-footed friar in orders of gray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Coyotes


COYOTE, WITH MANGE, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, unreadable one, why
Subject(s): Coyotes


FATHER COYOTE, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At twilight time, when the lamps are lit
Last Line: Skims your fate o'er the moonlit grass!
Subject(s): Coyotes


GEO-BESTIARY: 33, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coyote's bloody face makes me
Last Line: Tweezers because she plucked a flower with her toes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Blood; Coyotes


IN THE MOHAVE, by PATRICK ORR    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I rode down the arroyo through yuccas belled with bloom
Last Line: Where beat the heart of life so brief, so brief a while!
Subject(s): Coyotes; Death - Animals; Mohave Desert; Mojave Desert


MY ENEMY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All mornin' in the mesa's glare
Last Line: My enemy! My enemy!!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Coyotes; Enemies; Wilderness


THE COYOTE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trailing the last gleam after
Last Line: Voice of the western night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Coyotes


THE COYOTE AND THE LOCUST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "locust, locust, playing a flute"
Last Line: Playing a flute!
Subject(s): Coyotes;flutes;locusts;musical Instruments;native Americans - Reservations


THE COYOTE CHORUS, by ANNE BIRDSALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: At dusk, within the canyon's towering gate
Last Line: That to the hour its benediction lends.
Subject(s): Coyotes


THE DESERT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul
Last Line: Just a rain-washed track and an empty gun — and the old home trail ahead.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Coyotes; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States


THREE DEER AND ONE COYOTE RUNNING IN THE SNOW, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First three deer bounding
Subject(s): Coyotes; Deer


THREE OKIE COYOTES, by CARROLL ARNETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not four, only three
Last Line: My heart is on the ground
Alternate Author Name(s): Gogisgi
Subject(s): Coyotes


USED UP, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember the new-dropped colts in the time when I was a boy
Last Line: Into the earth
Subject(s): Animals; Coyotes; Donkeys; Horses; Burros


WHY COYOTES ARE UNPOPULAR, by JUDITH POND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The official line is that they steal
Last Line: There, and they're not %scared
Subject(s): Coyotes