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Subject: EELS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUCKET OF SEA-SERPENTS, by HOWARD ANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: On thee skim of the wharf where the planks split
Subject(s): Eels


EEL, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eel, the siren
Last Line: Not believe her sister?
Subject(s): Eels


EEL, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eel, cold-water
Last Line: Generations immersed in mud, can you %not take her for a sister?
Subject(s): Eels


EEL, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eel, the %siren of sleety seas, adandoning
Last Line: The sons of me, steeped in your mire - in this %not recognize a sister?
Subject(s): Eels


EEL, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eel, the north sea siren
Last Line: You turn up stairs
Subject(s): Eels


EEL, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eel, that north sea
Last Line: Can you believe she is not your sister
Subject(s): Eels


EEL, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eel, siren %of cold seas who leaves the baltic
Last Line: Children, sunk in your slime, can you not %think her a sister?
Subject(s): Eels


EEL, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't mind eels
Last Line: And the way they feels
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Eels; Food And Eating


EEL, by ROBERT S. OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The feel %of an eel
Last Line: Out of sight
Subject(s): Animals; Eels


EEL, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The eel, the siren %of cold seas
Last Line: Beach your feet, secure it in the brush
Subject(s): Eels


EELS, by SPIKE MILLIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eileen carroll %had a barrel
Last Line: Now she knows how it feels
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Eels; Food And Eating


ELECTRIC EELS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Electric eels are rather rude
Last Line: A highly tense electric eel
Subject(s): Eels


ELECTRIC EELS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Electric eels are rather rude
Last Line: A highly tense electric eel
Subject(s): Eels


EXPERT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After cutting the heads off the eels
Last Line: If a harpoon ripped into his back?
Subject(s): Eels; Fishing And Fishermen


FISHERMAN LIVING IN DEAL, by CHARLES CONNELL    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But my favorite dish %is a properly stuffed jellied eel
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Eels; Food And Eating


HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: EELS AND TORTOISES, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange the formation of the eely race
Last Line: To the loathed duties of an hated bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian
Subject(s): Courtship; Eels; Fish & Fishing; Reproduction; Turtles; Mating; Tortoises


HVAR, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let it rattle in my arms, in processions
Last Line: Like an eel rushing from the mouth of the sun
Subject(s): Eels; Sun


REMEMBERING OSCAR EEL, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He loved to scare
Last Line: At last he hid %his grinning head: %his flashlight %battery went dead
Subject(s): Eels


THE EEL, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eel, the siren
Subject(s): Eels


THE EEL, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't mind eels
Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Eels; Food & Eating


THREE ANIMALS: THE ELECTRIC EEL, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The electric eel / slides through the water
Last Line: It lights up
Subject(s): Eels


THREE ANIMALS: THE ELECTRIC EEL, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The electric eel %slides through the water
Last Line: It lights up
Subject(s): Eels