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Subject: POTTERY AND POTTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AWAKENING, by KATE HASSELL REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The vase is broken and it lies in bits
Last Line: Of candles burning in a darkened room.
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


BALLERINA AT THE POTTER'S WHEEL, by LISA ORAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a fist, her long body
Last Line: As big as she was small, %a moment before
Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing And Dancers; Pottery And Potters


CREATION, by JULIA MAY COURTNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He took a lump of yellow clay and folded it
Last Line: From his deft hands.
Subject(s): Aztecs; Pottery And Potters


DISHES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the street where I grew up, there was a man whose mother went mad from
Last Line: Plates rattle on, and I peer through a slit to gaze at the obscene shape of the moon
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; China (porcelain); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Pottery And Potters


EPITAPH FOR A POTTER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in this grave lies catherine gray
Last Line: In some tall pitcher or brown pan, %she in her shop may be again
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


FACE JUGS: HOMAGE TO LANIER MEADERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the tailgate of a pickup on the shoulder of georgia 52
Last Line: The yellow, rock-toothed mouth grinning back in deep relief.
Subject(s): Faces; Meaders, Lanier (d. 1998); Pottery And Potters


FOR THE POTTER, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remembered in the pouring of milk
Last Line: In our remembrance, stay, %and in the serving of nourishment, share %each living day
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters; Sills, Esther (d. 1987)


IN EARTHEN VESSELS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though from a jar unseen the waiting bowl
Last Line: Nor heed the less that it must break at last!
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


KILN, by KEVIN MARZAHL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nights cary tended his salt-firings our rumpled
Last Line: Lodged in the narrow necks of empty bottles
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


KILN GEOMETRY: 2. KIVA, by NOELLE SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Controlled, fenced in, a society of fences
Last Line: I am the space they have created and let subside
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


MOMENT IN MARBLE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a figure on the grecian urn
Last Line: How fares my kettle and my unlocked door.
Subject(s): Greece; Pottery And Potters; Greeks


MOULD AND VASE; GREEK POTTERY OF AREZZO, by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the jealous hollow of the mould
Last Line: As here the written word the inner sound.
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


POTTERY MAKER, by MARGARET MARCHAND BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yellow the pueblo, sun!
Last Line: To a woman.
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Pottery And Potters; Women


TEMPERED VESSEL, by SARAH DELLA ULMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It marks the heart of greatness
Last Line: Defying smart of fire.
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


THE CONTRAST TO WATTS' HYMN 'THE POTTER AND THE CLAT', by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the potter and the clay
Last Line: And shew what he, in christ, has done.
Subject(s): Good; Love; Pottery And Potters; Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)


THE FIRE VASE, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Said the potter to the flower pots: 'it's a question of design
Last Line: He saw love's lost illusions safe within the potter's vase.
Subject(s): Flowers; Pottery And Potters; Vases


THE FURNANCE, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pay me my price, potters! And I will sing
Last Line: Observe, thenceforth, equity and good faith
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


THE MAD POTTER, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now at the turn of the year this coil of clay
Last Line: Or the prophetic sibilance of song
Subject(s): Pottery And Potters


THE POTTER AND HIS CLAY, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the potter and the clay
Last Line: The glory of his righteousness.
Subject(s): Evil; Justice; Pottery And Potters


THE POTTERY MAKER, by CAREY YATES BUSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crouching dumb in caverns deep
Last Line: The perfect song.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Artifacts; Clay; Pottery And Potters