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Subject: SKATING & SKATERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SKATER, by MARION STROBEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who wear battle grey
Last Line: Only lovliness! Only lovliness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mitchell, James Herbert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports


A SKATING LESSON, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her mother brought her halfway
Last Line: Upright, devoted pupil
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Fathers & Daughters


A SKATING SONG, by EPHRAIM PEABODY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away! Away! Our fires stream bright
Last Line: There is the place for me.
Variant Title(s): The Skater's Song
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports


AN IMPROMPTU ON ROLLER SKATES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rumble, tumble, growl and grate!
Last Line: On your glittering vertebrae!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports


ON THE ICE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O the joy to ride on the sharpened
Last Line: But it cannot go as I go—so high, so high!
Subject(s): Children; December; Happiness; Skating & Skaters; Childhood; Joy; Delight


OUR SKATER BELLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along the frozen lake she comes
Last Line: "from grace to grace successive led, / a noble maiden, nobler wife!"
Subject(s): Nature;skating & Skaters;sports


SKATER, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was all in black but for a yellow pony tail
Subject(s): Memory; Skating & Skaters; Sports


SKATERS, by MARY HEILING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silver flashes / across the ice in rhythm swinging
Last Line: Across the ice, raising silvered dust at turn of heel.
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports


SKATING POND, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, a fire. Father would bring the wood and stack it
Last Line: And seen the story of a joy no cbild, n o man, could ever repeat
Subject(s): Farm Life; Skating & Skaters


SKATING SONG, by CORA ISABEL WARBURTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Moon so bright / stars alight
Last Line: Over the ice away.
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports


STARLIGHT, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I skate on adult ankles across the blue pond
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters


THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hop-poles stand in cones
Last Line: And let him hate you through the glass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Death; England; Landscape; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Dead, The; English


THE SIDEWALK RACER, OR ON THE SKATEBOARD, by LILLIAN MORRISON    Poem Full Text                    
First Line: Skimming / an asphalt sea
Subject(s): Imagination; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Fancy


THE SKATERS, by GRACE W. LEACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above the frozen floods
Last Line: Silently by.
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports


WE'RE RACING, RACING DOWN THE WALK, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On our roller skates
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Children


WINTER FIELD, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winter field is not
Subject(s): Winter; Skating & Skaters; Ice


WOMAN SKATING, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lake sunken among
Last Line: Over all I place / a glass bell
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports