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Subject: CRAFTSMANSHIP
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CRAFTSMAN'S AMBITION, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of craftsmen I would rather be
Last Line: To give folk pleasure when they dine.
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Silversmiths


A SONG OF HANDICRAFTS, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunlight from the sky's own heart
Last Line: Sons, and heirs of all thy lands!
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Weavers And Weaving


CARRYING MY TOOLS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Any good craftsman carries his tools
Last Line: So there may not be any work today, %but when there is, I'll be ready. %I got my tools
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Politics; Tools


CARVED SANDAL-WOOD, by MATTIE HALLAM LACY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O jewel-casket, sandal-wood
Last Line: To voice your scented mysteries.
Subject(s): Craftsmanship


CORRECT COMPASSION; TO MR. PHILIP ALLISON, by JAMES KIRKUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cleanly, sir, you went to the core of the matter
Last Line: Informing a correct compassion, that performs its love, and makes it live
Subject(s): Compassion; Craftsmanship; Surgery


CRAFTSMEN OF THE LITTLE BOX, by VASKO POPA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't open the little box
Last Line: Don't let her get out of your sight
Alternate Author Name(s): Popa, Vasco
Subject(s): Craftsmanship


CROCHETING, by TARA BRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first in twitches too quick for hope
Last Line: One stitch, one stitch, one concentrated stitch
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Craftsmanship


DRAWN BY STONES, BY EARTH, BY THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN IN FIRE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can tell you about this because I have held in my hand
Last Line: Like inky sponges that walk away in the deep water.
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Elephants


POTTERY MAKER, by MARGARET MARCHAND BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yellow the pueblo, sun!
Last Line: To a woman.
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Pottery And Potters; Women


THE OLD RAIL FENCE, by MARTHA GRASSHAM PURCELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never see a gray rail fence
Last Line: Whatever fate befall.
Subject(s): Craftsmanship


THE STATUARY, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mong purple deeps and foam-engirdled shallows
Last Line: Till now his fame to the four winds is blown.
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers


THE STORY RETOLD, by MRS. R. B. HALSTEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little boat, I made you, you're mine
Last Line: "with love divine on calvary."
Subject(s): Boats; Craftsmanship


THE YELLOW HAMMER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spruce and limber yellow-hammer
Last Line: With notes as of one who brass is filing.
Subject(s): Birds; Craftsmanship


ZENITH, by HAROLD CALEB DALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Urns of carrara marble I have seen
Last Line: A bowl as lovely as the blinding sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, Power
Subject(s): Craftsmanship