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Subject: BLACKSMITHS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here he, your law, vociferous wits
Last Line: Safe in their innocence and in their charms.
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


A WORKING SMITH ALL OTHER TRADES EXCELS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "honest, and just, and loyal to the crown"
Subject(s): Blacksmiths;country Life


BLACKSMITH, by GUSTAVE LEMOINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cling clang, cling clang!
Variant Title(s): Blacksmith's Son
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


BLACKSMITH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is master smith within?
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


BLACKSMITH SHOP, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I liked the bellows operated by rope
Last Line: To glorify things just because they are
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


BLACKSMITHS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sooty, swart smiths, smattered with smoke
Last Line: May none of these waterburners %by night have his rest
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Hate


BORGER JORIS'S HAMMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A landholding freeman, a burgher of pith
Last Line: "the mortals who wield them with power and will."
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Gnomes; Iron & Steel Industry; New York City - Dutch Period


CYCLOPS' SONG, by THOMAS DEKKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brave iron! Brave hammer! From your sound
Last Line: Else she scratches all our faces.
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


EPITAPH ON BLACKSMITH WILLIAM STRANGE, IN NETTLEBED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sledge and anvil lie declined
Last Line: My nails are drove, my work is done
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


FELIX RANDAL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Felix randal the farrier, o is he dead then? My duty all ended
Last Line: Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Clergy; Death; Mourning; Sickness; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness


SMITH'S SONG, by GEORGE SIGERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ding dong didero, %blow big bellows
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


THE BLACKSMITH, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the tamer of iron
Last Line: Whence issued the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Fire; Furnaces; Sin; Kilns


THE BLACKSMITH OF LIMERICK, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He grasped his ponderous hammer; he could not stand it more
Last Line: "foreign gore!"
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Limerick, Ireland


THE BLACKSMITH OF SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Search not the map, o curious man
Last Line: Can touch the record dandy made?
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


THE BLACKSMITHS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "swarte-smekyd smethes, smatyred wyth smoke"
Last Line: May no man for bren-wateres on night han his rest
Variant Title(s): Smoke-blackened Smiths
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


THE GRETNA GREEN BLACKSMITH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though my face is all smutty not fit to be seen
Last Line: With his rang, tang, hammer and nail.
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Life; Tears


THE HOUSE OF BLAZES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where spuyten duyvil's waves environ
Last Line: "and right forninst the spittin' divil!'"
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Home; Legends; New York City - Colonial Period


THE LITTLE BLACKSMITH, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We heard his hammer all day long
Last Line: He came to the gate to sing.
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


THE MASTER BLACKSMITH, by ARNOLD ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He beats us out upon the anvil of the days
Last Line: To temper in some surer, sterner way.
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; God


THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a spreading chestnut-tree
Last Line: Each burning deed and thought!
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Home; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


WORCESTERSHIRE VERSION OF BLACKSMITH EPITAPH: MARK TYZACK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: His sledge and hammer he has declin'd
Last Line: His nails are drove, his work is done
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


WORCESTERSHIRE VERSION OF BLACKSMITH EPITAPH: MARK TYZACK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sledge and hammer lie reclin'd
Last Line: My last nail drove, my work is done
Subject(s): Blacksmiths


WORCESTERSHIRE VERSION OF BLACKSMITH EPITAPH: MARK TYZACK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My scythe and hammer lies reclin'd
Last Line: My body in the dust is laid
Subject(s): Blacksmiths