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Subject: PHEASANTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLOSING DISTANCES, by PAUL MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The arbor, like a complex cross
Last Line: And wash it down with the richest red wine I can buy %till I get my own vines into the ground
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Pheasants


FOR A GOLDEN PHEASANT, by GENE BOARDMAN HOOVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: All that remains of your bright animation
Last Line: And for his vast amusement you must die!
Subject(s): Pheasants


HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field?
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field?
Last Line: If I were a young animal ready to turn home at dusk
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees


OBSCURE PLEASURE OF THE INDISTINCT, by BIN RAMKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under light soft as seawater, sounds
Subject(s): Pheasants; Restaurants


ON THE MOUNTAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Cries out, seeking her mate
Subject(s): Pheasants


OPEN SEASON, by COE BOTKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cock pheasant crowing in tyndall's ravine!
Last Line: One undefiled moment...Alas, adieu!
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Hunting; Pheasants; Hunters


PHEASANT, by SIDNEY KEYES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cock stubble-searching pheasant, delicate
Last Line: Exotic bird, haunter of autumn hedgerows
Subject(s): Birds; Pheasants


PHEASANT, by GREG KUZMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the house at bethany
Last Line: Fractures %of light split from his wing feathers %and from his jewelled breast feathers
Subject(s): Pheasants


PHEASANT, by NISHIWAKI JUNZABURO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another turn around the sun
Subject(s): Pheasants


PHEASANT, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You said you would kill it this morning
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pheasants


PHEASANT, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You said you would kill it this morning
Last Line: I trespass stupidly. Let be, let be
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pheasants


PHEASANT IN PROFILE, by GORDON LECLAIRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jewelled head erect, he brushed aside the fern
Last Line: Until limp feathers formed a jewelled shroud.
Subject(s): Pheasants


TANKA: HEARING PHEASANTS CALL AT DAWN, by OTOMO NO YAKAMOCHI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Echoing with the cries
Alternate Author Name(s): Chunagon Yakamochi; Otomo Yakamochi; Yakamochi
Subject(s): Pheasants


TANKA: HEARING PHEASANTS CALL AT DAWN, by OTOMO NO YAKAMOCHI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darting over the cedar brakes
Alternate Author Name(s): Chunagon Yakamochi; Otomo Yakamochi; Yakamochi
Subject(s): Pheasants


THANKS FOR A GIFT OF PHEASANTS, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In copeman's ear this truth let echo tell
Last Line: Of golden clients, for his golden birds.
Subject(s): Pheasants


THE COCK PHEASANT, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gold is the stubble
Last Line: Where once it was gold.
Subject(s): Life; Life Change Events; Pheasants