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Subject: APPRENTICES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APPRENTICE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His whole life had been movement
Last Line: And his true love came to him in the luminous dark
Subject(s): Apprentices


APPRENTICE, by JOHN STERLING HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: While yet a boy he learned his father's trade
Last Line: He hung upon the nails %and showed he knew his father's trade
Subject(s): Apprentices; Mormons


APPRENTICE, by TAJ JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The easter gift, little cloth-pillow woman
Last Line: Of her painted ichor lenses %how to stare
Subject(s): Apprentices


APPRENTICE, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When she was five
Last Line: And inadvertently, she learned words' brute magic
Subject(s): Apprentices


APPRENTICE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I studied the lives of the great
Last Line: Could restore old women to their girlhood
Subject(s): Apprentices


APPRENTICE, by GORAN SIMIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have spent half of my life looking for a vocabulary of beauty
Last Line: Supposed to be more beautiful than a rose
Subject(s): Apprentices; Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Serbo-bosnian Conflict


APPRENTICE, by DAVID JAMES SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this country whole families will arrive
Last Line: Where they swim out of focus, blurred, gone
Subject(s): Apprentices


APPRENTICE BOY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas near bridgewater a rich man lived
Subject(s): Apprentices


APPRENTICE DREAMS OF PROMOTION, by SHARAN STRANGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to escape sin
Last Line: Families of crows with cloud-stuffed %mouths remove the gauzy wrapping %from the healing sky
Subject(s): Apprentices


APPRENTICE'S LAST TOUCH, by ANCA HARITON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Master, don't sleep
Last Line: Near your future glory for my humble thirst %to thrive
Subject(s): Apprentices; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


APPRENTICES, by RITA ANN HIGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daily they perch
Last Line: Right now you are an apprentice's echo, %know your station
Subject(s): Apprentices


DEAR THOMAS, by EDWARD BARATTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The apprenticeship was long and varied
Last Line: To lead you to a sweetheart's window
Subject(s): Apprentices


SHORT WINTER TALE, by NATAN ZACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The apprentice in the shop across from me
Last Line: And to do this, time is very short %and the task is great
Subject(s): Apprentices


THE APPRENTICE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I studied the lives of the great
Last Line: Could restore old women to their girlhood
Subject(s): Apprentices


THE CEREMONY OF THE PRINTER'S APPRENTICE; A GERMAN MORALITY PLAY, by WILLAM BLADES    Poem Text                    
First Line: My worthy masters all, whom we are glad to see
Last Line: So long as worthy books find readers in our land.
Subject(s): Apprentices; Books; Farce; Reading


THE ENTERED APPRENTICES' SONG, by MATTHEW BIRKHEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, let us prepare
Last Line: As a free and an accepted mason.
Subject(s): Apprentices