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Subject: DOORS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DOORS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a young child who to his mother's door
Last Line: The quiet shutting, one by one, of doors.
Subject(s): Doors


DOORS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Doors; Conduct Of Life


ESCAPE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We raised our hands for the honor of leaving the class -- to carry a
Last Line: We had what we wanted
Subject(s): School; Locks; Doors; Solitude


I AM RUNNING IN A CIRCLE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Revolving Doors


REBECCA; WHO SLAMMED DOORS FOR FUN AND PERISHED MISERABLY, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A trick that everyone abhors
Last Line: -- as often they had done before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Variant Title(s): Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably
Subject(s): Children; Doors; Wit & Humor; Childhood


THE DOOR, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifteen years in each other's heat
Subject(s): Doors; Perception


THE DOORS, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doors were oak, massive
Subject(s): Doors; Churches; Salome (1st Century A.d.); John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Cathedrals


THE HINGE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On it the whole world turns
Subject(s): Doors


THE WRONG WAY HOME, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night a door floated down the river
Subject(s): Doors