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Subject: SLOTHS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` SLOTH, by JULIAN PALLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I envy %the sloth %its slow
Last Line: Give birth %all upside- %down- %with sky %& earth %reversed-%in lintitude
Subject(s): Sloths


SLOTH, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In moving slow he has no peer
Last Line: And you just know he knows he knows
Subject(s): Sloths


SLOTH, by GEORGE JOHN ROMANES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou most absurd of all absurdities
Subject(s): Sloths


THE SLOTH, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In moving slow he has no peer
Subject(s): Sloths


THE THREE-TOED SLOTH, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The three-toed sloth is in a deep
Subject(s): Sloths


THREE-TOED SLOTH, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The three-toed sloth is the slowest creature we know
Last Line: What passion ever inspired a sloth to mate?
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur
Subject(s): Sloths


THREE-TOED SLOTH, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The three-toed sloth is in a deep
Last Line: Is not for three-toed sloths to know
Subject(s): Sloths