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Subject: CRABS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLUE CRAB, by CAROL FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rearing up: the pincers waved in the air: by god you better let me be
Subject(s): Crabs


COLD ARE THE CRABS THAT CRAWL ON YONDER HILL, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And early pipkins bid adiew to hope
Subject(s): Crabs


CRAB CRACK, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue crabs come to the brown pond's edge
Last Line: Against their burning walls, into us
Subject(s): Crabs


CRAB CRACK, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue crabs come to the brown pond's edge
Last Line: Against their burning wills, into us
Subject(s): Crabs


CRABBING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pulling / into their pots
Last Line: Of others?
Subject(s): Crabs


DEAD CRAB, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rosy shield upon its back
Last Line: Or does it make for death to be %oneself a living armoury?
Subject(s): Crabs


DON'T YOU SEE?, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day was hotter than words can tell
Last Line: Till the whale was obliged to whale them all.
Subject(s): Crabs; Fish & Fishing; Jellyfish; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean


HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: THE HERMIT-CRAB, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hermit-fish, unarm'd by nature left
Last Line: Pow'r gives him right, and all the claim confess.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian
Subject(s): Crabs


OLD CHANG, THE CRAB, by ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old mr. Chang, I've oft heard it said
Subject(s): Crabs


THE CRAB AND THE SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Said the crab unto the serpent
Last Line: And have no crooked thought
Subject(s): Crabs


THE DEAD CRAB, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rosy shield upon its back
Subject(s): Crabs


THE HERMIT CRAB, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I looked inside
Subject(s): Crabs


TIDE POOLS IN DECEPTION PASS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A child's microcosm of monsters
Subject(s): Crabs; Sea; Ocean


WITH THE SHELL OF A HERMIT CRAB, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This lovely little life whose toes
Last Line: Stars in a wilderness of stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Crabs


WITH THE SHELL OF A HERMIT CRAB, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This lovely little life whose toes
Last Line: Stars in a wilderness of stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Crabs