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Subject: ALCHEMY & ALCHEMISTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF A WORKMAN, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day beneath polluted skies
Last Line: And forge and mould the world anew.'
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Death; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Temptation; Dead, The; Optimism; Work; Workers


A MAN OF MANY PARTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a man of many parts
Last Line: A man of many parts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Art & Artists; Stars; Wisdom


ALCHEMY, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because of the light of the moon
Last Line: There is love in the depths of my dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


ALCHEMY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn lead to gold? Some can. We'd all allow
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


FRAGMENT ON ALCHEMY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So fares the sage, whose mystic labours try
Last Line: The bright-wing'd radiance bursts of infant gold.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


GOLD LEAVES, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone ought to write about (I thought
Subject(s): Gold; Alchemy & Alchemists


MAY MORNING, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fancy, the rapture
Last Line: God.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Creation; Earth; God; Life; World


MODERN ALCHEMY, by CHESTER ANDERS FEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: All ancient chemists studied alchemy
Last Line: In leaden lustre-lack, to gold, fine wrought.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


MORAL ALCHEMY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The toils of alchemists, whose vain pursuit
Last Line: And man's most welcome hymn is grateful cheerfulness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Grief; Morality; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Ethics


THE ALCHEMIST, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There lives an old man at the top of a street
Last Line: So dry agents never can raid it.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


THE ALCHEMIST, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lonely toil my manhood has been spent
Last Line: And feel at last the fresh delight of youth.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


THE ALCHEMIST, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sail of claustra, aelis, azalais
Last Line: Quiet this metal.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Supernatural


THE ALCHEMY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, we are strangers yet
Last Line: Of the proud alchemist.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


THE DYING ALCHEMIST, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night wind with a desolate moan swept by
Last Line: Brooding in quiet on her lowly nest!
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


THE ELIXIR, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Teach me, my god and king
Last Line: Cannot for less be told.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; God; Prayer


THE FLOWERY ALCHEMIST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hist, oh hist!
Last Line: Thou wildest bee in black and yellow!
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Flowers; Love; Story-telling


THE NUMBERS, by MARIA HEBREA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: 2 are 1
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Jews; Mary The Jewess (1st Century); Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


THE POET AND THE ALCHEMIST, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Authors of modern date are wealthy fellows
Last Line: "simply by liking what we have!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets


THIS SUPPOSED ALCHEMY, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What you took was: an arm, a hand, a face
Last Line: It no longer meets
Subject(s): Absence; Alchemy & Alchemists; Love; Separation; Isolation


TO ALCHEMISTS, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If all you boast of your great art be true
Last Line: Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists


TO LADY NOEL BYRON, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men sought ambition's thirst to slake
Last Line: Grows truth and tenderness.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Love; Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery