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Subject: BRACELETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GIRL'S SONGS: 1, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have three rings on my hand
Last Line: Pretend I would not fear to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Death; Jewelry & Jewelers; Dead, The; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


A JET RING SENT, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not so black, as my heart
Last Line: She that, oh, broke her faith, would soon breake thee.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


A JEWELLED SELL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pale pearls / are best for girls
Last Line: A capetown garnet, is it? Oh, all right!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Women; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


A MARRIAGE RING, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ring, so worn as you behold
Last Line: Worn with life's care, love yet was love.
Variant Title(s): His Mother's Wedding-ring;his Late Wife's Wedding Ring
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A RING PRESENTED TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Julia, I bring
Last Line: And pure as gold for ever.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


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


BABY'S RING, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother's quite distracted
Last Line: Ring and hand to keep.
Subject(s): Babies; Jewelry & Jewelers; Infants; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


I WEAR A JEWEL, by JAMES P. CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wear a jewel near my heart, for gold I wadna sell ye
Last Line: For many a love is bann'd on earth that's no a sin in heaven.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


JEWELS, by GEORGE CROLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You shall have all that ever sparkled yet
Last Line: With light the treasure-chambers of the sea.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


MY JEWEL CASE, by BESSE BURNETT BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've the queerest, quaintest jewel case
Last Line: That wondrous love of mother!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Mothers; Privacy; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


ON A CHINESE RING, by MARY R. LINEBACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: What secret, guarded by these silent / snakes
Last Line: The serpent heads upon thy bosom lie!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


ON RECEIVING FROM A LADY A PRESENT OF A RING, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A ring to me cecilia sends
Last Line: And make the parting moment blest!
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE ADMONITION, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seest thou those diamonds which she weares
Last Line: She that will weare thy teares, wo'd weare thine eyes.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE BRACELET OF PEARLE: TO SILVIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I brake thy bracelet 'gainst my will
Last Line: Cleave thou my heart in two.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE BRACELET: TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why I tie [tye] about thy wrist
Last Line: If I could, I would not so.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE BROKEN RING, by JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in a cool, green valley
Last Line: Then it would stand quite still.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Unfaithfulness; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE BROKEN RING, by JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in yon cool valley
Last Line: Then all were calm and still.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Unfaithfulness; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE CARKANET, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of orient pearls of jet
Last Line: My jet t'enthrall such ivorie.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE EMERALD RING; A SUPERSTITION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a gem which hath the power to show
Last Line: My heart is broken -- not estranged!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Complaints; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE FARE, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury me in my pink pantsuit, you said--and I did
Subject(s): Funerals; Jewelry & Jewelers; Burials; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE KING'S JEWEL, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a night to make the bravest
Last Line: "and he hath delivered thee!"
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Warsaw, Poland; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Soviet Union; Russians


THE LOST JEWEL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I held a jewel in my fingers / and went to sleep
Last Line: Is all I own.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE MAGICIAN, by LOUISE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here here here / immortal magic
Last Line: "refracted light! Gems gems gems . . ."
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Magic; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE POMANDER BRACELET, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To me my julia lately sent
Last Line: That did perfume the pomander.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE RAKI, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's dust upon the distant wind, and shadow on the skies
Last Line: Embalmed by poetry and love.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Chivalry; Gifts & Giving; India; Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE SPARROW AND DIAMOND; A SONG, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lately saw, what now I sing
Last Line: A venus kill her bird.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Sparrows; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


TO GERON, by HILDEBRAND JACOB    Poem Text                    
First Line: So prudent and so young a wife! / old geron, thou art blest for life
Last Line: That you may leave to her—or me.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; London; Money; Wealth; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Riches; Fortunes


TO HELENE ON A GIFT-RING CARELESSLY LOST, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent a ring - a little band
Last Line: And look on heaven to look on thee.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


WHAT JEWEL IS LEFT?, by SARAH M. HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: What shall my empty eyes behold
Last Line: When the very spark is dead?
Subject(s): Dreams; Jewelry & Jewelers; Night; Nightmares; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Bedtime


WITH A GOLDEN NECKLACE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Accept, dear maid, this little token
Last Line: For there are chains will not unbind.
Subject(s): Freedom; Jewelry & Jewelers; Liberty; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces