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Subject: CRADLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS CRADLE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let my heart the cradle be
Last Line: Greater peace shall reign within.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Cradles; Nativity, The


CHILD, by LEON LEIVA GALLARDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the smile of a child
Last Line: Little white cradle %subterranean
Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Death - Children; Heaven


CRADLE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandfather was born in scituate
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Subject(s): Cradles


CRADLE, by DAWN O'LEARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moored beside our bed, how still it floated
Subject(s): Cradles


CRADLE, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The barn was low and dim and old
Subject(s): Cradles


EMPTY CRADLE, by JOSE SELGAS Y CARRASO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The angels bending
Last Line: They flew away
Subject(s): Angels; Children; Cradles


SONG OF CRADLE-MAKING, by CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast stirred!
Last Line: Through thy father's doorway!
Subject(s): Cradles; Pregnancy


THE CRADLE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How steadfastly she'd worked at it!
Last Line: Her coffin was his bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Cradles; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth


THE CRADLE, by EUGENE MANUEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: For nine long months she made her mother's vows
Last Line: Is made of oak, and to god's acre borne.
Subject(s): Coffins; Cradles; Death - Children; Mothers; Pregnancy; Death - Babies


THE IVORY CRADLE, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cradle I have made for thee
Last Line: Undone, and broken, and bereft.
Subject(s): Cradles


THE MOURNERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When they had made the cradle
Last Line: On the wide green earth
Subject(s): Cradles;death;memory;mourning;nostalgia; "dead, The;bereavement;


THE OLD WALNUT CRADLE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the attic I found it
Last Line: Like a careless babe again.
Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Memory; Infants


THE OLD WOODEN CRADLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-bye to the cradle, the dear wooden cradle
Last Line: The old wooden cradle, is ruthlessly cast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cradles


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. CRADLED IN FLAME, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cradled in flame
Last Line: Thy form, thy form, indelible remains.
Subject(s): Babies; Cradles; Love; Infants