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Subject: STAIRS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FROM A DREAM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm on a stair gong down
Last Line: That these stairs were built / by human hands
Subject(s): Stairs


LARKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day in exquisite air
Last Line: The song went up the stair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Singing & Singers; Stairs; Skylarks


LIKE THE TIDES I RISE AND FALL, by PATRICIA BISHOP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But beware lest you stumble
Subject(s): Riddles; Stairs


MEETING HALFWAY, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Halfway down the stairs
Last Line: Stop.
Subject(s): Stairs


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 2, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so a man I love says fifteen years is all he has
Last Line: Each other's hair. They don't believe in me or you.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Men; Reason; Stairs; Childhood; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


SARA TEASDALE, by ERMA MELLISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: You did not climb the stairs alone last night
Last Line: Edged dagger deep into his contrite heart.
Subject(s): Cups; Despair; Stairs


STAIRWAYS, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Massive and grand are those old houses know
Last Line: But stagger blindly down them at the last!
Subject(s): Stairs


STAIRWAYS, by HAZEL HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do I think of stairways
Last Line: Echoes that should drift down!
Subject(s): Stairs


THE BLUE STAIRS, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no fear
Subject(s): Stairs


THE LITTLE MOCK-MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little mock-man on the
Last Line: An' ever'body ever'wheres!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Stairs


THE STWONEN STEPS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thease stwonen steps a-zet so true
Last Line: O' veet trod vu'st the steäirs?
Subject(s): Family Life; History; Mortality; Stairs; Time; Relatives; Historians


WHITEHALL STAIRS, by AARON HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From whitehall stairs, whence oft with distant view
Last Line: I, rapt in your dear heav'n, my loss describe.
Subject(s): Love; Stairs; Suicide