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Subject: CARPENTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUSY CARPENTERS, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The song of the saw
Last Line: As we drive nails %in the wood
Subject(s): Carpenters


CARPENTER, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the kind, the tall carpenter
Last Line: The tree-souls whispered %music without words
Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth


CARPENTER, by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He scrutinizes the wood. The tough, tender look
Last Line: The moths of twilight fill the shed
Subject(s): Carpenters; Wood


CARPENTER, by JONATHAN MINTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the street, a wooden manger
Last Line: That the capstan and axe were made for
Subject(s): Carpenters


CARPENTER, by JACQUES REDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A carpenter's a witness as I write
Last Line: To go outside to breath a bit in nature
Subject(s): Carpenters


CARPENTER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder what he charged for chairs at nazareth
Last Line: Men cheat and lie to one another so; %it's hard to be a carpenter
Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine
Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth


CARPENTER OF ETERNITY, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I had been his apprentice
Last Line: And worked in the nazareth shop.
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Variant Title(s): In The Carpenter Shop
Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth


CARPENTER OF NAZARETH, by GEORGE BLAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: In nazareth, the narrow road
Last Line: Mould thou into the perfect part, %o carpenter of nazareth
Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth


CARPENTER'S COMPLAINT, by EDWARD BAUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now you think that is right, sah? Talk the truth
Last Line: Is university turn him fool. I tell you, %it burn me, burn me for true!
Subject(s): Carpenters


CARPENTER, CARPENTER, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Carpenter, carpenter, build us a house
Last Line: Carpenter, carpenter, build our house, please
Subject(s): Carpenters


EL GRECO: ESPOLIO, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The carpenter is intent on the pressure of his hand
Subject(s): El Greco (dom??nikos Theotok??poulos (1541-1614); Carpenters; Christianity


INTEGRITY, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He made honest doors
Last Line: And on a cross he died!
Subject(s): Carpenters; Honesty; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth


IVAN IVANOVITCH, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me, your carpenters,' quoth I to my friend the russ
Last Line: "as air to walk abroad. ""how otherwise?"" asked he."
Subject(s): Carpenters; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


MEDITATION ON SOME BOOKSHELVES SHORTLY TO BE BUILT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend carpenter, in re those shelves of mine
Last Line: And his good name will surely be included!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Books; Carpenters; Reading


OZARK ODES: FRED, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One of your more irascible poets from the hill country
Last Line: Drinking less, putting on a few pounds
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Carpenters; Retirement


PRICE OF STABILITY, by KJELL HJERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is with a wonderful sense of security
Last Line: Rest of my furniture to smithereens
Subject(s): Carpenters; Chairs; Climbing; Furniture


SCHOLAR AND CARPENTER, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While ripening corn grew thick and deep
Last Line: "but god go with the carpenter."
Subject(s): Carpenters; Grief; Love; Scholarship & Scholars; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BUILDER, by WILLARD WATTLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoothing a cypress beam
Last Line: "heaven,"" he said."
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Carpenters; Christmas; Heaven; Nativity, The; Paradise


THE CARPENTER, by AMY BRUNER ALMY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jesus was a carpenter. He gladly plied
Last Line: The light, the way of life, for all mankind.
Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry


THE CARPENTER LAD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph's son was a carpenter lad
Last Line: That led to calvary.
Subject(s): Carpenters; Jesus Christ; Love; Sons


THE CARPENTER'S SHOP, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a tool in the carpenter's hand
Last Line: May restore that shop again!
Subject(s): Carpenters


THE CARPENTER'S STORY, by ARCHIE BINNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well,' said chips, 'I was once in a barquentine'
Last Line: "you can't please a sailor no ways!'"
Subject(s): Carpenters; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


THE OPAL, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nailing up chicken wire on the frame house
Last Line: Adobe wall -- are facets of a cut opal.
Subject(s): Carpenters


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


WORKMEN, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: A carpenter lived quietly and died
Last Line: —christian century
Subject(s): Carpenters; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Labor & Laborers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Work; Workers