poetry texts, poem archive at plagiarist.com

This has to be my favorite poem about Hermit Crabs!

This is not about Hermit Crabs! The shells are metaphors!

Look at these lines: "If thou could'st empty all thyself of self,/ Like to a shell dishabited/." The use of the word "like" signals a comparision is coming next. The rest of the poem builds on that comparrison.

Lately on the site dedicated to Thomas Browne i read about this poem - author of article said it was written by some T.E.Brown, poet of (if im not mistaken) 19th century -so...

This is my favorite poem ever! It has such a great meaning behind it! I have it pinned on my bulliten board, on my binder, ect...

Thanks to 'Alexander' for the info about the real author of this poem - I'd been trying to find this poem in Sir Thomas Browne's works and couldn't, and was beginning to wonder if Madeleine L'Engle (in whose novel 'Meet the Austins' I found it) had made it up. Sorry for submitting it attached to the wrong poet!