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Subject: PARTRIDGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DECOY PARTRIDGE, by SIMIAS OF THEBES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more, poor partridge, taught to lure
Last Line: The road to acheron.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simmias Of Thebes
Subject(s): Partridge


ON SOME PARTRIDGES SENT TO HER ALIVE, by FLORENCIA DEL PINAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nature of these birds
Subject(s): Partridge; Women's Rights


PARTRIDGE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One day across the fields I chanced to pass
Last Line: But still they kept their seat and left no trace %and old cows snorted when they passed the place
Subject(s): Partridge


SEPTEMBER: FEAST OF ST. PARTRIDGE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The only saint in all our calendar
Last Line: In glorious death, the fierce delight of kings.
Subject(s): Hunting; Partridge; Hunters


SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The body is no prison where we lie
Last Line: The fellow heart and know thee for a man
Subject(s): Dramatists; Partridge, William Ordway (1861-1930); Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Sculpture And Sculptors; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


SONNET, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood
Last Line: To make my love an immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Love - Nature Of; Partridge; Rabbits; Hares


THE PARTRIDGE, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: List the booming from afar
Last Line: And spring is spring in very deed.
Subject(s): Partridge; Spring


THE PARTRIDGES: AN ELEGY, by ? PRATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hard by yon copse, that skirts the flowery vale
Last Line: "spare, spare my babes; and I the death embrace.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt Of Peterborough, Mr.
Subject(s): Partridge