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Subject: PANTHERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE PANTHER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the panther, a wild beast is he"
Last Line: To him who doth love god's law
Subject(s): Panthers


AMORETTI: 53, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The panther, knowing that his spotted hide
Last Line: As in theyr maker ye them best may see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Panthers


FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE PANTHER, HORSE, AND OTHER BEASTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who seeks to win the fair
Last Line: Spurn'd at the crowd, and sought the plain.
Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Horses; Panthers; Women; Allegories


PANTHER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The panther is like a leopard
Last Line: Better yet, if called by a panther, %don't anther
Subject(s): Animals; Panthers


PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His vision, from the constantly passing bars
Last Line: Plunge into the heart and is gone
Subject(s): Imagination; Panthers; Paris, France; Vision


PANTHERS, by CAROLYN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I believed %they were in the woods
Last Line: My unsuspecting dog %dug frantically for groundhogs
Subject(s): Forests; Panthers


THE BLACK PANTHER, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the clouds there spreads a rosy lustre
Last Line: Beneath the forest aisle.
Subject(s): Hunting; Night; Panthers; Hunters; Bedtime


THE BLACK PANTHER, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a panther caged within my breast
Last Line: And I lie silent, but my body shakes.
Variant Title(s): Panther! Panther!
Subject(s): Panthers; Passion


THE PANTHER, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon shears up on tahoe now
Last Line: Across the caverns of the night!
Variant Title(s): Paid In Full
Subject(s): Panthers


THE PANTHER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The panther is like a leopard
Subject(s): Animals; Panthers


THER PANTHER FROM ITS DARK AND HIDDEN LAIR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Panthers