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Subject: SNARES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RAT TRAP, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Onct erbout de hour uv midnight, stealin' chick-/ens by de dim light
Last Line: En step on 'em—nebber more.
Subject(s): African Americans; Rats; Trapping & Trappers; Negroes; American Blacks; Traps; Snares; Trappers


AN EMPTY THREAT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stay
Last Line: To make them out
Subject(s): Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers


BATEESE AND HIS LITTLE DECOYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: O I'm very very tire marie
Last Line: For showin' dem de lesson! Ole jean bateese belair.
Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Mink; Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers


BEWITCHED, by HAMLEN HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now that the trap you laid
Last Line: No more of life.
Subject(s): Animals; Life; Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers


BOULE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Way back on de woods I know a man
Last Line: Gettin' de ole tam luck also.
Subject(s): Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers


ELEGY FOR A TRAPPER, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eighteen below in plains, montana
Last Line: Frozen upright on a stump.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montana; Mourning; Trapping & Trappers; Bereavement; Traps; Snares; Trappers


THE FOX WHO WATCHED FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the snowy pastures of the estate
Last Line: As if the dead hare were soon to awaken.
Subject(s): Animals; Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Medicine; Plays & Playwrights ; Trapping & Trappers; Writing & Writers; Drugs, Prescription; Dramatists; Traps; Snares; Trappers


THE SNARE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear a sudden cry of pain!
Last Line: I am searching everywhere!
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Trapping & Trappers; Hares; Traps; Snares; Trappers


THE TRAP, by LAURA LOURENE LEGEAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have a friend among the hills
Last Line: As you, one velvet paw.
Alternate Author Name(s): Humphreys, James Kevil, Mrs.
Subject(s): Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers


WOLVERINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes sir, it's quite a story though you won'r bwlieve it's true
Last Line: "I peered into the face—my god! 'twas poor old wolverine."
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Prejudice; Salvation; Trapping & Trappers; Wolves; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bias; Intolerance; Traps; Snares; Trappers