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Subject: STEEL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds
Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection
Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers


BORGER JORIS'S HAMMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A landholding freeman, a burgher of pith
Last Line: "the mortals who wield them with power and will."
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Gnomes; Iron & Steel Industry; New York City - Dutch Period


FLINT, by GAO FALIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am flint
Last Line: Silent star %hardened flower
Subject(s): Geology; Human Rights; Steel; Stones


GOLD AND STEEL; THE ANSWER, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have asked, and you have answered
Last Line: Steel, to meet your foes for you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Gold; Steel


HAIL TEESSIDE!, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old ironmasters and their iron men
Last Line: And earn fresh honours for our own teesside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Creation; Enterprise (ship); Iron & Steel Industry; Printing & Printers; Towns


LIFERS, by FRED VOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The new steelworker
Last Line: Let themselves become veterans
Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Steel


MESTA WORKER AND GEAR, 1913, by ROBERT GIBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sprocket and circumference, coin of the realm
Last Line: Of metals being cast, each half exis of the fallen world
Subject(s): Iron And Steel Industry


MUSHROOM CITY, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toward the end of 1911 a group of yankee financiers
Last Line: City, that was also looking for a name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; City Planning; Labor Unions; Machinery And Machinists; Steel


MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel
Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel; Similes


MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On his way to the open hearth where white-hot steel
Last Line: As if they were his ripe prize vegetables
Subject(s): Fathers; Junk And Junkyards; Metaphor; Mills And Millers; Steel


NEW CHINA: THE IRON WORKS, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The furnaces, the great steel furnaces, tremble and
Last Line: Tomorrow! Did they say?
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): China; Iron And Steel Industry


PASSING THROUGH THE CARRON IRON WORKS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cam na here to view your warks
Last Line: Your billy satan sair us!
Variant Title(s): Verses Written On A Window In Carron
Subject(s): Iron & Steel Industry


PRAYERS OF STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay me on an anvil, o god
Last Line: White stars.
Subject(s): Cities; Skyscrapers; Steel; Urban Life


ROSES IN THE SUBWAY, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wan-cheeked girl with faded eyes
Last Line: My mother ... Stooping down.
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SAN FRANCISCO BRIDGE, by HENRY MAY JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Slung from the stalwart necks of four ... Towers
Last Line: Graceful and confident over infinity.
Subject(s): Steel


SINGING STEEL, by ELISABETH KUSKULIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the gossamer threads of a dream
Last Line: And welded the world with song.
Subject(s): Steel


SMOKE AND STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one
Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel; Valor; Bravery


SMOKE AND STEEL, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoke of the fields in spring is one
Subject(s): Courage; Justice; Steel


STEEL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This man is dead
Last Line: Is now quite definitely said.
Subject(s): Death; Steel; Suicide; Dead, The


STEEL MILL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The core of him is hate
Last Line: War! War!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Hate; Mills & Millers; Steel


STEEL MILL MEN, by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rails are shipped to peru, africa
Last Line: Of steel mill smoke.
Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Railroads; Steel; Railways; Trains


STEEL OR GOLD?; THE QUESTION, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will you have me gold or steel
Last Line: Fine steel, or gold?
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Gold; Steel


STONE MEETS IRON AT THE SPANISH MONASTERY, NORTH MIAMI BEACH, by NATHANIEL B. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stone and iron are earth made apparent; all we ever saw of earth
Last Line: Crates, earth riding the waves, how it grew anew, how it lives and %flowers, how we flower in its ho
Subject(s): Iron And Steel Industry; Monasteries; Stones


SUBWAY TRACK-WALKERS, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are ye hopeless who go with dull faces
Last Line: That I may ride to my true love to-day?
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Railroads; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains


THE AGE OF STEEL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the age of iron
Last Line: Welcome, the age of steel!
Subject(s): Industrial Revolution; Steel


THE NEWPORT RAILWAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Success to the newport railway
Last Line: On the bonnie braes o' the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE RAILWAY BRIDGE OF THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery tay!
Last Line: Near by dundee and the magdalen green.
Subject(s): Bridges; Buildings & Builders; Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE WORD OF AN ENGINEER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She's built of steel
Last Line: That he has in an engineer!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Engineering & Engineers; Steel


WASTE, by FRED VOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are c .. And b .. And a .. Holes
Last Line: But they are not worthy
Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Machinery And Machinists; Steel


WRESTLING ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With crowbars and drag chains
Last Line: Leaning over graves like old men lamenting their age.
Subject(s): Iron & Steel Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers