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Subject: BOTANY BAY, AUSTRALIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOTANY BAY, by JOHN FREETH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away with all whimsical bubbles of air
Last Line: Be sent to the bottom of botany bay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Fortune


FORBY SUTHERLAND; A STORY OF BOTANY BAY, A.D. 1770, by GEORGE GORDON MCCRAE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lane of elms in june; the air
Last Line: "the meek, blue-eyed ""forget-me-not!"
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Sutherland, Forby (d. 1770)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 1, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the painter who shall paint for you
Last Line: "turned seaward, ""after many a wistful look!"
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 2, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were but two, and we were forty! Yet
Last Line: With faithful blood, as pure as any ever shed.
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 3, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chaotic crags are huddled east and west
Last Line: By all the sacred past 'tis sacred ground.
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)