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Subject: MACHINERY & MACHINISTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRIAL RUN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said to myself almost in prayer,
Last Line: And when to stop it rests with you
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists


A TUNE FOR THE TELETYPE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O teletype, tell us of time-clocks and trouble
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Office Work; Life, Modern


GHOSTS, by IMOGEN D. BRENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: In musty corners where the shadows cling
Last Line: Find only deeper shadows to encrust.
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists


IN THE MACHINE AGE, by SIBYL CROLY HANCHETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The crystal wash of rain has overlaid
Last Line: The journey's end lies blissfully remote.
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists


PARKING LOT FULL, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A much of motors
Last Line: A total of exhausts
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Automobiles


REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 51, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know this wind as
Last Line: Consume, whatever naem you call it
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists


SONG OF THE TRAIN, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clickety-clack, / wheels on the track
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists


THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gallants, attend and hear a friend
Last Line: They'll make their boasts and brags, sir.
Variant Title(s): British Valor Displayed
Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Great Britain - Civil War; Machinery & Machinists; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; English Civil War; American Navy


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: POWER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The quick sun brings, exciting mountains warm,
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Death; Dead, The


THE MACHINE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since thursday he'd been working overtime
Last Line: As, hand in hand, they wandered through the night.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Machinery & Machinists; Work; Workers


THE SUPERIORITY OF MACHINERY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mechanic his labor will often discard
Last Line: Will continue to work though it strikes.
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists


THINK TANK, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think thinktank think
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Computers; Machinery & Machinists


UMBILICAL, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You can take away my mother
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Radio


VERMONT FARMING TOOLS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leakiest roof in all vermont
Last Line: As dry as our insides.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Machinery & Machinists; Mowing & Mowers; Tools; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers


WAR SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In anguish we uplift / a new unhallowed song
Last Line: The battle to the strong.
Subject(s): Army Life; Machinery & Machinists; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics