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Subject: LOCUSTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEAD LOCUST, by ARISTODICUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where alcis keeps her state, shrill grasshopper
Last Line: The dew-rich flowers of gold persephone.
Subject(s): Locusts


AN EPISTLE TO J. BL-K-N, ESQ.: ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The point mr. Bl-k-n, disputed upon
Last Line: And rejoice in the health of its master;—adieu!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Locusts; Vegetables


CASUALTIES: 13. THE LOCUST HUNT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Locusts were discovered outside city walls
Last Line: Lights up a stockpile
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Locusts


LOCUST, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Locust, beguiler of my loves and persuader of sleep
Last Line: Green leek and drops of dew sprayed from my mouth
Subject(s): Locusts; Love; Pentastichs


LOCUST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is a locust?
Last Line: Walking, it becomes a razor, %desolation walks with it
Subject(s): Locusts


LOCUST-LOVERS, ATTENTION!, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My attention has been recently focused
Last Line: Just as they get adjusted seventeen years hence
Subject(s): Locusts


NIGHT CALLS: LOCUSTS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No explanation will suffice, no dictionary
Last Line: Dream-breath of all the empty world %he lives in, and speaksto, and loves
Subject(s): Locusts


NO KING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The locusts have no king, yet they go forth
Subject(s): Locusts


NOVEMBER HAS HUNG THE LOCUST', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That claw my %window
Subject(s): Locusts; November


SOLITARY & GREGARIOUS, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Locusts


THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE, by WELDON KEES    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: September was when it began.
Last Line: And heard the sound of rushing wind
Subject(s): Locusts; Bible; Religion; Theology


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 LOCUST, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Locust, beguiler of my loves and persuader of sleep
Subject(s): Locusts; Love; Pentastichs


THE LOCUST, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your hot voice sizzles from some cool tree near by
Last Line: Sharpened on the ecstatic edge of sunbeams!
Subject(s): Locusts


TO A LOCUST, by MELEAGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Charmer of longing - counsellor of sleep!
Last Line: And kissing drops of dew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Locusts


UP THE DARK VALLEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the lean road looping the narrow river
Last Line: The birds of darkness sang back every call
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Locusts; Spiders; Bugs