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Subject: ANTIQUES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A ROMAN MIRROR, by JAMES RENNELL RODD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They found it in her hollow marble bed
Last Line: And sets the dead land lilies in her breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Antiques; Mirrors


ALADDIN LAMP, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With luck and the slow hand of the lover
Last Line: In the window blazes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Antiques; Fire; Lamps


ANTIQUARY, by ALAN+(2) SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pity the flitting fritillary
Last Line: Frayed and solitary %literary fritillary
Subject(s): Antiques


ANTIQUE, by FRANZ K. BASKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bound feet of the chinese girl
Last Line: A terrible accomplishment. %and we must look away
Variant Title(s): In An Antique Sho
Subject(s): Antiques


ANTIQUE, by JOY T. DAYRIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Newly carved %of wood and ivory
Last Line: Of aged lace, I listen %to relics %of chanted music
Subject(s): Antiques


ANTIQUE CONVENT PARLOR, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers would only die in the fluted bowl,
Last Line: Outwits the pilfering dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Antiques; Convents


ANTIQUE JEWELER, by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within his shop he gathered silver, gold
Last Line: I loved among them, as of old, held high.
Subject(s): Antiques; Jewelry & Jewelers; Retail Trade; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


ANTIQUE SHOP, by TINA BARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk the blacktop towards center harbor
Last Line: Had brought me only to that summer, %unable to understand %what you risked
Subject(s): Antiques


ANTIQUE SHOP, by MARGUERITE STEEDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Portraits, time-dimmed - a tarnished sword
Subject(s): Antiques


ANTIQUE SHOP IN NEW YORK, by KARL WAWRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among the things
Subject(s): Antiques


ANTIQUE STORE, by GREGORY BYRD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are not here to see the ticket to john kennedy's last dinner
Last Line: Where his car and the black smooth highway %are brand new
Subject(s): Antiques


CANONICAL, by RODNEY JONES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first chandler & price letterpress must anchor a tug now
Last Line: That stand for silence, nothing so filthy as a word
Subject(s): Antiques; Typesetting


CHAIR, DOG, AND CLOCK, by HILARY CORKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: That's the queer life, said the chair
Last Line: One two three you're dead
Subject(s): Antiques


EGGSTRACTS FROM THE ROEHAMPTON CHRONICLE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This remarkable instance of snumphus, or peppi
Last Line: Or donkies. %q.E.D.
Subject(s): Antiques; Artifacts; History


EPIGRAM ON A CAPTAIN GROSE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The devil got notice that grose was a-dying
Last Line: "I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load!"
Subject(s): Antiques; Grose, Francis (1731-1791)


EPIGRAM: 8, 6. THE ANTIQUARY, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The antiques of old auctus will bore me to death
Last Line: He pours wine that you'd hate to give to fido
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Antiques


EPIGRAM: ANTIQUARY, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If in his studie he hath so much care
Last Line: To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
Subject(s): Antiques


HISTORY, by EVELYN R. SHERWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We went antiquing, %to glide, finer, with care
Last Line: How much history do I expect %for a dollar fity? I bought it
Subject(s): Antiques; History; Shopping


MY ANTIQUE LAMP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My antique lamp from old japan
Last Line: And take myself to bed.
Subject(s): Antiques; Lamps; Light; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Bedtime


OLD THINGS, by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a charm and beauty in old things
Last Line: Of winds that are more ancient than the world.
Subject(s): Antiques


ON THE LATE CAPT. GROSE'S PEREGRINATIONS THRO' SCOTLAND, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear, land o' cakes, and brither scots
Last Line: "wad say, ""shame fa' thee!"
Subject(s): Antiques; Grose, Francis (1731-1791); Scotland


RELICS, by EUGENIA BRAGG SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down narrow streets through dim lights may be seen
Last Line: And he, the master relic, reigns supreme.
Subject(s): Antiques


SILVER AND PEWTER, by JOY HOUSTON MICHAUX    Poem Text                    
First Line: In shemikinka market-place in old baku
Last Line: Of sleeplessness.
Subject(s): Antiques


THE ANTIQUE DESK, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: This maimed antique still holds
Last Line: By time and scars and truth.
Subject(s): Antiques; Furniture; Nostalgia; Past; Youth


VERSES ON SEEING IN AN ALBUM A SKETCH OF AN OLD GATEWAY, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Relique of hoar antiquity
Last Line: "we feel ""they were, and they are not!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Antiques