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Subject: ROPE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RONDEL, by J. J. MACK JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd draw the knot as tight as man can draw
Last Line: "I'd rather not."
Subject(s): Rope


FLOSS WON'T SAVE YOU FROM AN ABYSS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Prices reasonable
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1322; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Rope


ROPE, by ADEL KARASHOLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus spake abdulla to me
Last Line: As you dance upon a rope
Subject(s): Rope


ROPE FOR HARRY FAT, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh some have killed in angry love
Last Line: We will not change our policy,' %says harry fat the proud
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Human Rights; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Rope


ROPEWALK, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The building is a telscope of wood
Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Rope


SKIPPING SONG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Skippety skip, skippety skip!
Last Line: And isn't skipping easy?
Subject(s): Children; Games; Play; Rope; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


THE ROPEWALK, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that building, long and low
Last Line: And the spinners backward go.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Rope


THE SKIPPING-ROPE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sure never yet was antelope
Last Line: And hang yourself thereby.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Rope