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Subject: FENCES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FENCE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the stone house on the lake front is finished
Last Line: Except death and the rain and to-morrow.
Subject(s): Fences; Houses


A FENCECROW IN EARLY MARCH, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last snowdrifts
Subject(s): Winter; Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers


ECLOGUE: THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morn t'ye, john. How b'ye? How b'ye?
Last Line: Or I must goo to workhouse, I do fear.
Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Fences; Poverty; Property; Seasons; Social Protest; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions


FENCE WIRE, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too tight, it is running over
Last Line: Whether outside around, or in
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers


REAL WONDER, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the stunned little interval
Last Line: Preceding real wonder .
Subject(s): Fences; Houses; Spring; Winter


SECLUDED PLACE, by ELSIE ROSE GIVENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The remnant of an old fence
Last Line: Bordered by stone and cedar lace.
Subject(s): Fences; Nature


SNOW FENCE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The red fence
Last Line: Much to carry
Subject(s): Fences; Roads


THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! No, poll, no! Since they've a-took
Last Line: Vrom all the housen round.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Memory; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions


THE GEATE A-VALLEN TO, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the zunsheen ov our zummers
Last Line: The geäte a-vallèn to.
Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Family Life; Fences; Childhood; Relatives


THE OLD COW MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rode across a valley range
Last Line: No later than I was!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Aging; Cowboys; Fences; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE OLD LINE FENCE, by AMERICUS WELLINGTON BELLAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Zig-zagging it went
Last Line: And no line fence.
Subject(s): Fences