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Subject: AXES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AXE HANDLES, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One afternoon the last week in april
Subject(s): Axes; Hatchets


AXE HANDLES, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One afternoon the last week in april
Last Line: How we go on
Subject(s): Axes


FIREWOOD, by RAYMOND HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The glittering crescent of my blade
Last Line: Of fox's foot or bird's wing?
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham
Subject(s): Axes; Wood; Hatchets


HATCHET, by WILLIAM THOMAS CALLAWAY JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: An instrument, which in the hands of a little man
Last Line: Can.
Subject(s): Axes; Hatchets


MAKING GOOD, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought an ax of ezra wax, who said to
Last Line: Promise under, so I make tracks to ezra wax for every kind of plunder.
Subject(s): Axes; Lumber And Lumbering; Tools; Hatchets


RIDDLE: 12, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "chito, chito when it could"
Last Line: What was it?
Subject(s): Axes;riddles; Hatchets


SONG OF THE AXE, by ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: High grew the snow beneath the low-hung sky
Last Line: "we build up nations -- this my axe and I!"
Variant Title(s): The Axe
Subject(s): Axes; Hatchets


SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weapon shapely, naked, wan
Last Line: Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth.
Subject(s): Axes; Earth; Hatchets; World


THE AX-HELVE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've known ere now an interfering branch
Last Line: "see how she's cock her head!"
Subject(s): Axes; Hatchets


THE AXE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the soul there is no sound that chimes more dolorously, no sound
Last Line: To the old chopper of oaks the robin blithely sings.
Subject(s): Axes; Forests; Soul; Hatchets; Woods


THE CLICK OF THE WIELDED PICK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, I like to list to the wielded pick
Last Line: And sweet is its metal tone.
Subject(s): Axes; Knives; Labor & Laborers; Hatchets; Daggers; Work; Workers


WOODCUTTER'S AX, by P'I JIH-HSIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a large ax handle tucked in at his waist
Last Line: Who can do away with evils like this
Subject(s): Axes