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Subject: STONE-CUTTING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` STONE WORK, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hunched over another piece
Last Line: Sheets of paper which have me beginning again
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Stone-cutting


THE BUILDER, by MARGARET GROSVENOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though you have lost the faith that urged your hand
Last Line: A shrine, though consecrated to a simpler use.
Subject(s): Faith; God; Stone-cutting; Belief; Creed


THE CARVER IN STONE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a man of his time
Last Line: And sang across the teeming meadows home
Subject(s): Carving (arts); Stone-cutting


THE STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And will you cut a stone for him
Last Line: To cut her name upon the stone.
Subject(s): Graves; Stone-cutting; Tombs; Tombstones


THE STONE-CUTTER, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: We hammer, hammer, hammer on and on
Last Line: Whom no one looks upon?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Stone-cutting


THE STONE-CUTTER, by RICHARD RAY KIRK    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are like this dust that falls away
Last Line: Above the dust that mingles with the clay.
Subject(s): Stone-cutting


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE STONE-CUTTER, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And men to-day - are they not always running about to do something
Last Line: Emerge time after time from the heart of the people.
Subject(s): Carpenters; Labor & Laborers; Stone-cutting; Work; Workers


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN THE STONE-FLOORED WORKSHOP, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There in the stone-floored workshop in the middle of a great dirty city
Last Line: And my dear comrade.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Stone-cutting; Work; Workers