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Subject: WOODSMEN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FORESTER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He took the color of his vest
Last Line: So walks the woodman, unespied.
Subject(s): Lumber & Lumbering; Woodsmen


GETTING UP THE WINTER WOOD IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard a dozen farmers say
Last Line: You wish you owned another stove!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Forests; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods; Woodsmen


INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver
Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us.
Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


LACHLAN JACK, by R. HOLT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Axemen? Gippslanders and tassies?
Last Line: That they kept him snug and dry!
Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Lumber & Lumbering; Work; Workers; Woodsmen


ME AN' BILL, by F. KENNA    Poem Text                    
First Line: We were sawin' a log was bill an' me
Last Line: "have you got a match in your pocket, jim?"
Subject(s): Accidents; Lumber & Lumbering; Trees; Woodsmen


OUR OLD VERMONT LUMBER WAGON, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thing that often 'pears to me
Last Line: Our old blue lumber wagon.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Woodsmen


TAKING TO THE WOODS, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clearing brush away
Subject(s): Lumber & Lumbering; Woodsmen


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 17, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hundred-foot trees produced by heaven
Last Line: It still could prop up a stable
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Lumber & Lumbering; Trees; Woodsmen


TIMBER, by MURIEL THURSTON LANCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The vast green-sworded army of the firs
Last Line: A great tree crashes downward to its death.
Subject(s): Lumber & Lumbering; Woodsmen


VELLEN THE TREE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aye, the girt elem tree out in little hwome groun
Last Line: Wer a-stannèn this mornèn, an' now's a-cut down.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Farm Life; Lumber & Lumbering; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodsmen