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Subject: GOLDFISH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS TO CERTAIN GOLD-FISHES, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Restless forms of living light
Last Line: By homely british fire-side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Goldfish


CHILD AND GOLDFISH, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orange the sun, upon the side
Subject(s): Goldfish


CHILD AND GOLDFISH, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orange the sun, upon the side
Last Line: An orange fish goes glancing by
Subject(s): Goldfish


FREE THE GOLDFISH, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pet store window / with an aquarium
Subject(s): Goldfish


FREE THE GOLDFISH, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pet store window %with an aquarium
Last Line: As if not to make a sound
Subject(s): Goldfish


GOLDFISH, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lazily through the clear
Subject(s): Goldfish


GOLDFISH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My goldfish stares with watery eyes
Last Line: That we are the same?
Subject(s): Goldfish


GOLDFISH, by ERNEST SLYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From dime stores
Last Line: But a most emphatic flush
Subject(s): Goldfish


GOLDFISH ON THE WRITING DESK, by MAX BROD    Poem Text                    
First Line: In front of our mouths, wherever we swim
Last Line: The two dark eyes go to and fro.
Subject(s): Goldfish


ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side
Last Line: Nor all, that glisters, gold.
Variant Title(s): Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes;gray's Elegy On Horace Walpole's Cat;on The Death Of A Favourite Cat;on A Favorite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Death - Animals; Goldfish; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


ON A VASE OF GOLD-FISH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tortured mullet served the roman's pride
Last Line: All eyes -- themselves it vexes not, nor harms.
Subject(s): Goldfish


PRIVACY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh you who are shy of the popular eye
Last Line: To ensure private life for the goldfish
Subject(s): Goldfish; Nudity


TO MISS -- ON THE DEATH OF HER GOLDFISH, by ? MEREDYTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, dry those tears; they flow too fast
Subject(s): Goldfish