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Subject: OCTOPUSES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OCTOPUS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat
Last Line: "in a curtain of powdered snow launched like a waterfall."
Subject(s): Mount Rainier; Octopuses


I'M WRESTLING WITH AN OCTOPUS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, it poured and it rained
Last Line: I come out second best
Subject(s): Octopuses; Wrestling & Wrestlers


LIKE THE OCTOPUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would enfold you in my
Last Line: Submarine squeak of love
Subject(s): Love; Octopuses


OCTOPUS, by ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strange beauty, eight-limbed and eight-handed
Last Line: And bite us again!
Subject(s): Octopuses; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)


OCTOPUS, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are many monsters that a glassen surface restrains
Last Line: Till on glass rigid with his own seizure %at length the sucking jewels freeze
Subject(s): Octopuses


OCTOPUS, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, o octopus, I begs
Last Line: If I were thou, I'd call me us
Subject(s): Animals; Octopuses; Sea


THE FIRST STORY, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid seaweed on a sultry strand, ten thousand years ago
Last Line: So he wrote the first of stories with his little fingernail.
Subject(s): Babies; Octopuses; Prehistoric Peoples; Writing & Writers; Infants


THE OCTOPUS, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are many monsters that a glassen surface restrains
Subject(s): Octopuses


THE OCTOPUS, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, o octopus, I begs
Subject(s): Animals; Octopuses; Sea; Ocean