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Subject: CARVING (ARTS)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ART MASTER, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He gathered cherry-stones, and carved them quietly
Last Line: While heaven gave him his cherry-stones and file!
Subject(s): Carving (arts)


CRAFTSMAN, by EDNA BENDIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm carving lilies on the cross
Last Line: I'm carving lilies on the cross.
Subject(s): Carving (arts)


INTAGLIOS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the chance turning of a spade
Last Line: That, for the pathos of its thought.
Subject(s): Carving (arts)


OPIFEX, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I was carving images from clouds
Last Line: "I bid thee carve them, knowing what I know."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Carving (arts)


THE CAMBODIAN BOX, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver betel box is formed by two geese
Last Line: Mated perfectly as these shining geese.
Subject(s): Cambodia; Carving (arts)


THE CARVER IN STONE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a man of his time
Last Line: And sang across the teeming meadows home
Subject(s): Carving (arts); Stone-cutting


THE CARVER'S LESSON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trust me, no mere skill of subtle tracery
Last Line: Left a message for his weary soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Carving (arts); Flowers; Life


THE WHITE HORSE OF WESTBURY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As from the dorset shore I travelled home
Last Line: He floated upwards, and regained the steep.
Subject(s): Animals; Carving (arts); Horses


THE WOOD WHITTLER, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whales and fish
Last Line: Witless earth.
Subject(s): Carving (arts); Nature