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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LATHES Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE STORM, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The professor's books lie scattered Last Line: Ripped shingles from the homes of the living Subject(s): Lathes AIRLIFTING HORSES, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boy soldiers gawk and babble, eyes rapt Last Line: And we will never be ourselves till they return Subject(s): Lathes ALL THE PEOPLE IN HOPPER'S PAINTINGS, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the people in hopper's paintings walk by me Last Line: Looked out, strangely, as if they had been painted there Subject(s): Lathes ART OF THE LATHE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leonardo imagined the first one Last Line: A lathe: the spindle, bit, and treadle, the gleam of brass Subject(s): Lathes ASCENSION OF IRA CAMPBELL, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So there was campbell rising in a scream Last Line: Into the cloud-strewn facts of the sky, %blue or not blue, a sky amazingly itself Subject(s): Lathes AT THE EXCAVATION OF LIBERAL, KANSAS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The plains: the held breath of the earth Last Line: Knowing that it was his life, his future Subject(s): Lathes BEAUTY, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are at the bargello in florence, and she says Last Line: Would break into flame late on an autumn day, with such beauty Subject(s): Lathes BOOK OF HOURS, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the blue angels of the nativity, the museum patrons Last Line: As if they were the weightless gold leaf of the spirit Subject(s): Lathes CHILDREN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More than children: frail, disheveled angels Last Line: And misty images rise/from the earth Subject(s): Lathes CIGARETTES, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gross, loathsome. Trays and plates loaded Last Line: And whispers the way trees whisper, yes, yes, oh yes Subject(s): Lathes DEATH OF A SMALL TOWN, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's rather like snow: in the beginning Last Line: An absence, to come upon a death, to come upon %what is left when everything is gone Subject(s): Lathes DUMKA, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His parents would sit alone together Last Line: Together in the room in the house in kansas Subject(s): Lathes HIMALAYAS, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stewardess' dream of the himalayas Last Line: She sat patiently now, looking out, waiting Subject(s): Lathes IN THE HOUSE OF THE LATIN PROFESSOR, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All things fall away: store fronts on the west Last Line: Hexameters of dido pulsing in an empty house Subject(s): Lathes INVISIBLE MAN, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are kids with orange jujubes stuck to our chins Last Line: Stumble blind into daylight and the body of the world Subject(s): Lathes KANSAS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning against my car after changing the oil Last Line: Of my hands along her hips and thighs Subject(s): Lathes KEATS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I knew him. He ran the lathe next to mine Last Line: Lying there, his hands are what I can't forget Subject(s): Lathes LITTLE BOY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun lowers on our backyard in kansas Last Line: And waste, and he can do nothing and neither can I Subject(s): Lathes MACHINIST, TEACHING HIS DAUGHTER TO PLAY THE PIANO, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The brown wrist and hand with its raw knuckles and blue nails Last Line: A master of lathes, a student of music Subject(s): Lathes; Music And Musicians MODEL OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, 1940, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The oldest mercedes in california adorns Last Line: Twin suns above the department of water and power Subject(s): Lathes OLD MEN PLAYING BASKETBALL, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language Subject(s): Lathes; Sports OLD MEN PLAYING BASKETBALL, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language Last Line: At their backs. The ball turns in the darkening air Subject(s): Lathes; Sports OLD WOMEN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They of the trembling hands and liver spots Last Line: My shoulder. Russia, adventure, the mystery of flight Subject(s): Lathes SONG, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A small thing done well, the steel bit paring Last Line: Of things done well that I would carry into sleep %and dreams of men with wings of fire and steel Subject(s): Lathes SPEAKING THE NAMES, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When frost first enters the air Subject(s): Lathes THERMOREGULATION IN WINTER MOTHS: 1. THE HIMALAYAS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The room lies there, immaculate, bone light Last Line: And steam begins to rise from their shoulders Subject(s): Lathes THERMOREGULATION IN WINTER MOTHS: 2. BURN WARD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friend speaks haltingly, the syllables freezing Last Line: A winter fire, or lost and searching in the frozen dark Subject(s): Lathes TWO PHOTOGRAPHS, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter light, %a white frame house filling the background Last Line: And a car approaches the horizon Subject(s): Lathes WELDER, VISITED BY THE ANGEL OF MERCY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spilled melons rotting on the highway's shoulder sweeten Last Line: Standing like silent children along the western wall Subject(s): Lathes WORK: 1. WORK, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drill collars lie on racks and howl Last Line: Outward. He bends down. A day begins Subject(s): Lathes WORK: 2. THE BODY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looping the chain through the block's eyes Last Line: Tin side. The block hangs, black in the red air Subject(s): Lathes WORK: 3. THE BODY AND THE EARTH, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the rotary table the man reaches up Last Line: Soak up the brown pools of oil and sweat Subject(s): Lathes WORK: 4. THE SYSTEM OF WHICH THE BODY IS ONE PART, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the down side of the work day Last Line: In the system of which the body is one part Subject(s): Lathes |
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