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Subject: MARBLE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A STUDY IN CLAY, by NELLIE MACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The human face is a study to me
Last Line: Which the soul of the miser daily feed.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues


BERKLEY CHURCHYARD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How still are all the dead
Last Line: Our gift of love for men.
Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Marble; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


FROM MY ANCIENT ROCK, by FILIPPO BALDINUCCI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And I remained, as ever, a stone
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Marble; Sculpture And Sculptors


IN MARBLE, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because there's no thyme or fenugreek in marble
Last Line: Is yet another heartbreaking greek in marble
Subject(s): Marble


IN THE MARBLE QUARRY, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beginning to dangle beneath
Subject(s): Marble; Quarries


IN THE MARBLE QUARRY, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beginning to dangle beneath
Last Line: Felt here as joy
Subject(s): Marble; Quarries


ISLAND QUARRY, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Square sheets - they saw the marble only into
Last Line: But went on into marble that does not weep
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Marble; Quarries


MARBLE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A blank unshapely mass but yesterday
Last Line: A form to haunt the midnight of our dreams!
Subject(s): Creation; Marble


TEMPIO DI VENERE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A marble ruin nigh forgotten
Last Line: So sturdy, arch, and gay!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Marble; Naples, Italy; Ruins


THE COLLEGE ATHLETE, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Statue-like standeth he forth, quick, elate
Last Line: Such as hath given martyrs mortal birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Athletes; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues


TO VENUS IN A SCHOOLHOUSE, by KATHARINE SHATTUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rising once more out of the sea
Last Line: Cool dark of the unconscious.
Subject(s): Marble


VISION, by CHRISTIAN ERNST SCHNEIDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chisel's deft twist and the mallet's tap, tap
Last Line: "with ""vision"" that effort inspires."
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Vision; Work; Workers