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Subject: OYSTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONNET ON OYSTERS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To tell the truth, I really never knew
Last Line: The night grif broached that barrel for the bunch!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Oysters


AGEING OYSTER, by ALEXANDER SEAWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am an ageing oyster %going bad inside
Last Line: This oyster's not for eating, %- go nibble on a shrimp
Subject(s): Aging; Oysters


ALICE IN WONDERLAND: THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun was shining on the sea
Last Line: They'd eaten every one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis
Subject(s): Oysters; Walruses


ANATOMY OF THE OYSTER, by EDWARD FORBES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the conchiferous shell-fish
Last Line: Dear ould fish!
Subject(s): Oysters


AQUARIUM, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind glass we're learning
Last Line: The true air and we dive %in earnest
Subject(s): Aquariums; Marine Animals; Oysters


CALLER OYSTERS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a'the waters that can hobble / a fishin yole or salmon coble
Last Line: Will thole it better.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Oysters; Anglers


FIN DE SIECLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life is a gift that most of us hold dear
Subject(s): Cynicism;dreams;life;love;oysters; Nightmares


I REMEMBER BEING A CELLULAR OYSTER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into a world of lilacs and blood
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Oysters


MY SISTERS, THE OYSTERS, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel like the striped pacific bonito that can't stop swimming
Last Line: Cantilevered into the cliffs of monterey
Subject(s): California; Cities; Oysters; Pacific Ocean; Sea


OYSTER, by ROLAND FLINT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He lives in washington, d.C., and he goes all the way to georgia by car
Last Line: Ats fuckin oyrsters.'
Subject(s): Marine Animals; Oysters; Shells


OYSTER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oyster's a confusing suitor
Last Line: I'd like to be an oyster, say, %in august, june, july or may
Subject(s): Oysters


OYSTER, by FRANCIS PONGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oyster, the size of an average pebble, is of more rugged appearance
Last Line: Found at once an adornment
Subject(s): Oysters


OYSTER SHELL, by ARIAKE KAMBARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oyster in his oyster shell
Last Line: How can it not be smashed?
Subject(s): Oysters


OYSTER STEW, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a squishy
Last Line: Tell me, oyster, %mister? Sister? %girl or boyster? %which are you?
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Oysters


OYSTERING, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Secret they are, sealed, annealed, and brainless
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Oysters


OYSTERING, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Secret they are, sealed, annealed, and brainless
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Oysters


OYSTERS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oysters / are creatures
Subject(s): Oysters


OYSTERS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oysters %are creatures
Last Line: Any feature
Subject(s): Oysters


THE DEATH OF THE FATHERS: 1. OYSTERS, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oysters we ate, / sweet blue babies
Last Line: The woman won
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Oysters; Food & Eating; Coming Of Age


THE OYSTER, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the water, near the strand
Last Line: Beside the luscious oyster.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Oysters


THE OYSTER MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You've heard of a dandy dogs' meat blade
Last Line: "he has made himself rich, has the oyster man"
Subject(s): Love;oysters;singing & Singers


THE POET, THE OYSTER, AND SENSITIVE PLANT, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An oyster, cast upon the shore
Last Line: And each by shrinking showed he felt it.
Subject(s): Oysters


VERMONT OYSTER SUPPERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing that I think of more
Last Line: Them oyster-suppered nights of yore!
Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Oysters; Vermont


WILDFLOWERS, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it raining, mary, can you see?
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Oysters


WILDFLOWERS, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it raining, mary, can you see?
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Oysters