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Subject: AARON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AARON, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holiness on the head
Last Line: Come, people: aaron's drest.
Subject(s): Aaron


AARON BURR'S WOOING, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the commander's quarters on westchester
Last Line: "he'll forgive this night's tryst with the widow prevost!"
Subject(s): American Revolution; Burr, Aaron (1756-1836); Courtship


AARON'S BREASTPLATE, by ANNA SHIPTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the wondrous breastplate golden
Last Line: Ever in our father's sight.
Subject(s): Aaron; Bible; God; Jews; Judaism


AN EVENING WALK, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the clash and clang of cars
Last Line: The wraith of aaron burr!
Subject(s): Burr, Aaron (1756-1836); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


BLENNERHASSET'S ISLAND, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once came an exile, longing to be free
Last Line: Proclaims how ruin rules with full contentment here.
Subject(s): Blennerhasset Island, West Virginia; Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)


LIGHTS IN THE TEMPLE, by JOHN KEBLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the stars are lit in heaven
Last Line: Mingling with his incense cloud!
Subject(s): Aaron; Bible; God; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Jews; Paradise; Holy Spirit; Judaism


ON THE WAY (PHILADELPHIA, 1794), by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hamilton, if he rides you down, remember
Last Line: Quite so. Farewell.
Subject(s): Burr, Aaron (1756-1836); Hamilton, Alexander (1755-1804)


SONG OF AARON BURR, by THOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the marshes of lispenard
Subject(s): Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)


THE BATTLE OF MUSKINGUM; OR, THE DEFEAT OF THE BURRITES, by WILLIAM HARRISON SAFFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye jovial throng, come join the song
Last Line: To breakfast on cold porridge.
Subject(s): Blennerhasset Island, West Virginia; Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)


TO AARON BURR, UNDER TRIAL FOR HIGH TREASON, by SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Thou wonder of the atlantic shore
Last Line: Here gives a prison, there a throne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Philenia
Subject(s): Burr, Aaron (1756-1836); Treason And Traitors


TO AARON HILL, ESQ., ON HIS POEM CALLED GIDEON, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, wondrous friend, where were you
Last Line: While every word's a beauty in his song!
Subject(s): Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)