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Subject: COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721-1759)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ELEGIAC SONNET: 30. TO THE RIVER ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be the proud thames of trade the busy mart!
Last Line: Bright as its waves, and various as its way!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Arun (river), England; Collins, William (1721-1759); Rivers


NATURE DISPLAYED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved her in my innocent contemplation
Last Line: I hailed, and listening loved and loved again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Collins, William (1721-1759); Country Life; Green, Matthew (1696-1737); Nature; Poetry & Poets


TIME TRAVELER'S POTLATCH, by PHILIP LAMANTIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: For simon rodia: the sudden appearance, at once, of
Last Line: Mutation through a circle of blazing rum
Subject(s): Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Collins, William (1721-1759); Lugosi, Bela (1882-1956); Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)