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Subject: REPAIRING
Matches Found: 13

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A YARD-FENCE AND FLOWER-BEDS, by DELLA MCDANIEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old, junked machinery
Last Line: With a yard-fence and flower-beds.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Repairing; Agriculture; Farmers; Mending


BILLY, by LYN FERLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Billy came through the office today
Last Line: It's a lot cooler now
Subject(s): Air Conditioning - Repairing; Sex


HUNTING FOR A '55 CHEVY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My son wants a car with dents, rusted
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Automobiles; Fathers And Sons; Repairing


IRON FEVER: AFTER FIRE, by STEPHAN TORRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our towers of gears and hydraulics, chain sprockets
Last Line: And black stone blade in a man's nervous hand %doing this?
Subject(s): Automobiles; Repairing


MR. COGGS, WATCHMAKER, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A watch will tell the time of day
Last Line: He'll make his gold repeater chime.
Subject(s): Repairing; Watches; Mending


MY MOTHER'S NEEDLES, by HARRY HUMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting in her chair that faced away
Last Line: Voice still sharp, stitching it all together
Subject(s): Repairing; Sewing


NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, wife,' said will, 'I pray you devote
Last Line: "but 't is 'never too late to mend'!"
Subject(s): Repairing; Time; Mending


PATENT APPLIED FOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear mr. Carpenter
Last Line: J. Addle pate.
Subject(s): Patents And Trademarks; Repairing; Mending


SANDING THE CHAIRS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the way down to clean wood where the grain
Last Line: The curve of wood stays firm in the muscles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Furniture; Past; Repairing; Mending


THE WATCH, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My watch wouldn't work worth a dime, it
Last Line: The thing I should tackle at first.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Repairing; Watches; Mending


TIME MENDS, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time mends a ruined wall as well
Last Line: Are singing vernal orisions.
Subject(s): Healing; Nature; Repairing; Time; Cures; Mending


TINKER, COME BRING YOUR SOLDER, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And an hour before one in the morning
Subject(s): Repairing


WHY THE PHONE DOESN'T WORK, by JAMES CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never thought I would have to tell her %to go away
Last Line: To correct the problem %by canceling what did not exist
Subject(s): Repairing; Talk; Telephones