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Subject: SPIRES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` STEEPLE-JACK, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Durer would have seen a reason for living
Last Line: Pointed star, which on a steeple %stands for hope
Subject(s): Spires; Towns


STEEPLE-JACK (REVISED VERSION), by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Durer would have seen a reason for living
Last Line: Pointed star, which on a steeple %stands for hope
Subject(s): Spires; Towns


THE BELFRY OF MONS, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: At mons there is a belfry tall
Last Line: They hear the trumpet sound.
Subject(s): Bells; Death; Peace; Soldiers; Spires; War; Dead, The; Steeples


THE SPIRE CRANES, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spire cranes. Its statuary is an aviary
Last Line: But do not travel down dumb wind like prodigals
Subject(s): Spires; Bells; Statutes; Cranes


THE STEEPLE-JACK, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Durer would have seen a reason for living
Subject(s): Spires; Towns; Steeples


TO A SOLITARY DISCIPLE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rather notice, mon cher
Last Line: Of the moon.
Subject(s): Spires; Steeples


VERSES BY THE INCUMBENT (D. 1878) AT RIVINGTON, LANCASHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who has not heard of steeple-jack
Last Line: Though I'm not he, he was my sire %for I am steeple jack
Subject(s): Spires


VERSES FOR THE NEW SPIRE, WINGHAM CHURCH, KENT, 1793, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In seventeen hundred and ninety three, %richard hodgman, of folkstone
Last Line: If you finish me well, for to make me secure, %so that a hundred of years may endure
Subject(s): Churches; Kent, England; Spires