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Subject: QUARRIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABANDONED MARBLE QUARRY, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The derricks and the drills had turned to rust
Last Line: Above the vanished drills' arpeggios.
Subject(s): Quarries


BIXBY'S LANDING, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They burned lime on the hill and dropped it down
Last Line: Are even more precious than your first presence
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Quarries; Work; Workers


GREEN SLATES (PENPETHY), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It happened once, before the duller
Last Line: "standing in the quarry!"
Subject(s): Memory; Quarries


IN THE MARBLE QUARRY, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Full 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


SAND-QUARRY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the wined marshlands
Subject(s): Quarries; Fathers & Daughters; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation