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Subject: ETCHING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ETCHING, by ULYSSES GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far away over the river
Last Line: Shivering. ...
Subject(s): Etching; Nature; Trees


ETCHING MORALISED; TO A NOBLE LADY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest lady and noble, for once on a time
Last Line: With a fine india proof of your metal.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Etching; Morality; Ethics


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 1. PADDINGTON STATION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A boy (scarce seventeen
Last Line: Burnt offering of a fool's impetuosity.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Etching; Childhood


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 2. VICTIM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of a blowsy, bare, back room
Last Line: Through leicester town, along the london road.
Subject(s): Boys; Etching


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 3. LEICESTER POST OFFICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twin doors swing wide. They close on me, revealing
Last Line: "whisp'ring: ""they'll put you right!"
Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 4. INITIATION, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They'll put you right!''
Last Line: I have but one thought ... Drink!
Subject(s): Etching


POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 9. POSTAL INVESTIGATOR (C), by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Plaints about postal packets, gone
Last Line: She looks at me, reproachful, like some hunted fawn.
Subject(s): Etching; Letters; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


REMBRANDT'S ETCHING OF A WOMAN PISSING, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We know the squat
Last Line: Life loves life
Subject(s): Etching; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669)


REMBRANDT'S ETCHING OF A WOMAN PISSING, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We know the squat
Last Line: Life loves life
Subject(s): Etching


SCRATCHWORD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The word is scratched on a small stone
Last Line: In the shadow of a rock: %epic
Subject(s): Etching; Language; Stones