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Subject: SEA SERPENTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I visited with the porpoises
Last Line: That harvest the tuna like wheat
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is, all around us
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


MOUNTAIN WIND, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Watchful, in a canyon resting
Last Line: Hurtling to the sea.
Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Storms; Wind; Sea Serpents


OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


THE KRAKEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Below the thunders of the upper deep
Last Line: In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea Monsters; Supernatural; Sea Serpents


THE MERMAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet mermaid of the incomparable eyes
Last Line: Oh, no. By jove! There comes the white hippocampus.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Sea Monsters; Ocean; Sea Serpents


THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore