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Subject: WOOD
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1945, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When joe culhane eases the timber
Last Line: And the green bus, packed with youth, %emigrates
Subject(s): Details; Noises; Saws; Wood


ANNE HATHAWAY'S COURTING BENCH, by SUSAN J. ALLSPAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not for lack of waiting that the wood's worn
Last Line: Take turns sinking into old varnish, %rub luck out of its corners
Subject(s): Museums; Wood


BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was thick with prussian troopers
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I


BELLEAU WOODS, 1918, by NATHANIEL JOHN HASENFUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All alone in belleau woods
Last Line: Gone to peaceful realms on high.
Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I; First World War


BURN, by HENRY J. MORRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am cold so I add wood to the fire
Last Line: Are piled up in ashes
Subject(s): Fire; Wood


CARPENTER, by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He scrutinizes the wood. The tough, tender look
Last Line: The moths of twilight fill the shed
Subject(s): Carpenters; Wood


CARVE ME IN WOOD, by GAYLORD BREWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rib cage, freed from its fleshy constraint, should curve
Last Line: Chopping more wood. For what difference to me then?
Subject(s): Wood


CUTTING FIREWOOD IN AUTUMN, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we cut firewood in the late autumn forest
Last Line: In the middle of the autumn forest
Subject(s): Forests; Lumber And Lumbering; Memory; Wood


DOVETAILS, by TWYLA HANSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the shaker exhibit my husband marvels
Last Line: Material witness in its fine and delicate bones
Subject(s): Beauty; Wood


EPIGRAM ON WOOD'S BRASS MONEY, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carteret was welcomed to the shore
Last Line: Guns, trumpets, drums, and bells were drowned
Subject(s): Money; Wood, William (1671-1730)


EXCELLENT NEW SONG UPON HIS GRACE..LORD ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing not of the draper's praise, nor yet of william wood
Last Line: As did methusalem of old, and so I end my song.
Subject(s): Clergy; Wood, William (1671-1730); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


FIREWOOD, by RAYMOND HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The glittering crescent of my blade
Last Line: Of fox's foot or bird's wing?
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham
Subject(s): Axes; Wood; Hatchets


GATHERING WOOD FOR THE WINTER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soft rasp of a bow saw
Last Line: Like split loaves of fresh bread
Subject(s): Cold; Fireplaces; Winter; Wood


GHAZAL 4, by JOHN FALK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Newsprint grey in the sog of snow
Last Line: The garden can now drift to rest
Subject(s): Winter; Wood


HOLIDAY BUNTING, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has handled the new piece like a stone
Last Line: And all gone by morning, banner, noise, bird
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Wood; Work; Workers


HOLIDAY BUNTING, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has handled the new piece like a stone
Last Line: And all gone by morning, banner, noise, bird
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Wood


NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire
Last Line: Presently to die.
Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods


OLD BOARDS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to see boards lying on the ground in early spring
Last Line: As the rooster walks away springily over the dampened hay
Subject(s): Wood; Landscape


OLD BOARDS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to see boards lying on the ground in early spring
Last Line: As the rooster walks away springily over the dampened hay
Subject(s): Wood


ON WOOD THE IRONMONGER, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Salmoneus, as the grecian tale is
Last Line: Like real thunder knocked him down
Subject(s): Wood, William (1671-1730)


OSAGE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine a wood
Subject(s): Osage Wood


PEER GYNT, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat down at last on a fallen log - that had
Last Line: I take for my petals the darkness of this hour
Subject(s): Wood; Fathers


PROMETHEUS; ON WOOD THE PATENTEE'S IRISH HALFPENCE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As, when the squire and tinker, wood
Last Line: For want of vultures, we have crows
Subject(s): Money; Wood, William (1671-1730)


RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street
Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood.
Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War


SERIOUS POEM UPON WILLIAM WOOD, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When foes are overcome, we preserve them from slaughter
Last Line: I'll maintain with my life, is heraldry good
Subject(s): Wood, William (1671-1730)


SOUS LE FAIX DU FAGOT, by ANDREW SCHENKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I threw a zeugma %in my poem, like la fontaine
Last Line: Dead land or chopping down trees, living
Subject(s): Forests; Paper; Wood


SPICEWOOD, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spicewood burns along the gray, spent sky
Last Line: And all familiar as a cup, a chair.
Subject(s): Fireplaces; Wood


SPLINTERS: 8. REDWOOD FENCE SPLINTER, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peony, aster, or withered carnation
Last Line: Drive I dramatized to the dense %derelict nation
Subject(s): Wood


SPLITTING WOOD, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frost covered this ages ago
Subject(s): Wood Cutting


SPRING IN BELLEAU WOOD, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When spring returns to belleau wood
Last Line: When spring returns to belleau wood.
Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; Spring; World War I; First World War


THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun
Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray!
Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE OLD MAN WHITTLES, by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: On some lumber by a yellow box car
Last Line: On a peach-stone.
Subject(s): Wood Carving; Whittling


THE RICK OF THE GREEN WOOD, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the woodyard were green and dry
Subject(s): Wood


THE TWO-MAN SAW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rocking, ringing steel sings to and fro
Last Line: "the trunk is through. Sam grins. ""you said the truth!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Wood


THE WAIT, by MILDRED D. SHACKLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two old men, invariably together
Last Line: Disowning that they wait!
Subject(s): Old Age; Wood Carving; Whittling


THE WHISPERING WOOD, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I find within the whispering wood
Last Line: Within himself god broods and talks.
Subject(s): God; Wood


THE WOOD-PILE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day
Last Line: With the slow smokeless burning of decay.
Subject(s): Decay; Wood; Rot; Decadence


THE WORKBOX, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See, here's the workbox, little wife
Last Line: But known of what he died.
Subject(s): Death; Wood; Dead, The


THERE LET THY BLEEDING BRANCH ATONE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Trees; Wood Carving; Whittling


TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When horace, as the snows descended
Last Line: To realms celestial.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fire; Life; Wood; Dead, The; World


WALKING THROUGH A NARROW STRIP OF WOODS, by TOM HENNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pines, as always, pried at the sky with their tips, ignoring the wind mak
Last Line: Are allowed to pity everything, except ourselves
Subject(s): Grass; Nature; Pine Trees; Trees; Wood


WOOD AND STONES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent trees above my head
Last Line: May well give speech to stones and wood!
Subject(s): Fate; Nature; Stones; Trees; Wood; Destiny; Granite; Rocks


WOOD BLOCK, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I often see loss in wooden things, walled rooms
Last Line: The roots installed, screwed like mollies in the dirt
Subject(s): Wood


WOODSHED, by STEVEN REESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only a frame now, a sketch in thick
Last Line: The creek running under the roof it's raised
Subject(s): Wood


WOODWORKERS' BALLAD, by HERBERT EDWARD PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that is moulded of iron
Subject(s): Wood


WORD ABOUT WOODPILES, by NANCY BYRD TURNER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life isn't dreary, %nor altogether hard
Subject(s): Home; Wood


WROTE IN A VOLUME OF EVELYN ON COINS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: T-m w--d of ch-sw-c, deep divine
Last Line: That churchman e'er gave coin to lay.
Subject(s): Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Kent, William (1686-1748); Numismatics; Wood, Thomas. Vicar Of Chiswick; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical