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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CORNWALL, ENGLAND Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AS TOM WAS A-WALKING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I'll swear to thee now, thee shu'st marry me here Subject(s): Cornwall, England CHARM AGAIN 'UDERN ILL'; EAST CORNWALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Might comes from the sun Last Line: And holy ghost. %amen Subject(s): Cornwall, England COCKLE WOMAN; VERSES ON MRS. MARY BLAKE, D. 1841, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where tamar's waters roll along Last Line: No more on kinterbury's back %rake up the pickle cocks Subject(s): Cornwall, England CORNISH CLIFFS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those moments, tasted once and never done Last Line: With, as the everlasting ocean rolls %two chapels built for half a hundred souls Subject(s): Cornwall, England CORNISH HEROIC SONG FOR VALDA TREVLYN, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Cornwall, England CORNISH MAGIC, by ANN DURELL Poem Source First Line: Pixies, slipping, dipping, stealing Last Line: The cornish coast, enchanted land Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Fairies CORNISH VILLAGES, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are nothing but sifted Last Line: Keeping them keen! Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Villages CORNISH WIND, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wind in cornwall that I know Last Line: A wind in england like my cornish wind. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Wind CORNISHMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: By tre, pol, and pen Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Mnemonics ELEGY, WRITTEN AMONG THE RUINS OF A NOBLEMAN'S SEAT IN CORNWALL, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these venerable drear remains Last Line: A superstructure time can ne'er decay. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Mansions; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes EPITAPH FOR DOLLY PENTREATH, LAST NATIVE SPEAKER OF CORNISH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old doll pentreath, one hundred aged and two Last Line: Not in the church, with people great and high, %but in the church-yard doth old dolly lie Subject(s): Cornwall, England EPITAPH FOR ISABELL CHIVERTON, D. 1631; QUETHIOCK, CORNWALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My birth was the moneth of may Last Line: But heere forebeare, for why? 'tis sayd, %teares fit the living, not the dead Subject(s): Cornwall, England EPITAPH FOR MARY, DAUGHTER OF SIR PETER COURTNEY, D. 1655, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Neer this a rare jewell's set Last Line: I'll require it safe and sound %both above and under ground Subject(s): Cornwall, England INSCRIPTION ON A STONE OVER PORCH DOOR OF VICERAGE, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A house, a glebe a pound a day Last Line: Be true to church - be kind to poor, %o minister! For evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Cornwall, England INSCRIPTION ON THE BASSET CUP, ST. IVES, CORNWALL, 1640, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Iff any discord 'twixt my friends arise Last Line: Then am I blest to have given a legacie %so like my hartt unto posteritie Subject(s): Cornwall, England LAMORNA COVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I see at last our great lamorna cove Last Line: Screams in its fresh young wonder and delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Coves LYONNESSE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No use whistling for lyonnesse ! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cornwall, England OBSERVATIONS IN A CORNISH TEASHOP, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can they write or paint Last Line: Fed intravenously? Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Social Protest; Speculation OBSERVATIONS IN A CORNISH TEASHOP, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can they write or paint Last Line: Would it be nicer to be %fed intravenously? Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Social Protest; Speculation OLD CORNISH SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I trudged on at ten at night Last Line: Faith! She was right; here, tied up tight, %I could not have fared better Subject(s): Cornwall, England OLD FRIENDS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky widens to cornwall. A sense of sea Last Line: And the silver snake of the estuary curls to sleep %in daymer bay Variant Title(s): In Memoriam: A.c., R.j.o, K.s Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Death; Friendship SONG OF THE CORNISH MEN, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A good sword and a trusty hand! Last Line: "will know the reason why." Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Variant Title(s): And Shall Trelawny Die?;the Song Of The Western Men;trelawny Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Courage; Freedom; Trelawney, Sir Jonathan (1650-1721); Valor; Bravery; Liberty ST. COLUMB, CORNWALL; INSCRIPTION ON A SILVER-COATED BELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: St. Columb major and minor %do your best Last Line: In one of your parishes %I must rest Subject(s): Cornwall, England SUMMONDED BY BELLS, SELS., by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear dead father, how I loved him then Last Line: I know that I must light mine up again Subject(s): Cornwall, England THE CORNISH EMIGRANT'S SONG, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The eastern winds are blowing Last Line: In north americay.' Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration TREBETHERICK, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We used to picnic where the thrift Last Line: Ask for our children all the happy days you gave %to ralph, vasey, alastair, biddy, john and me Subject(s): Cornwall, England TREGARDOCK, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mist that from the moor arose Subject(s): Cornwall, England; October TRESCO, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A low-set island this september Subject(s): Cornwall, England VERSE UNDER A PICTURE AT PENGERSWICK CASTLE: PERSEVERANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What thing is harder than the rock? Last Line: Even so, nothing so hard to attayne, %but may be hadd with labour and payne Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Perseverance VERSE UNDER A PICTURES AT PENGERSWICK CASTLE: ONE NEDITH..., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The lame wyche lacketh for to goe Last Line: The layme to blynde doth yeld his sight Subject(s): Cornwall, England VISITORS' VERSES IN PRAISE OF THE OLD INN & MRS. MARY MUNDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Full many bright things on this earth there be Last Line: That the brightest thing in the cornish land %is the face of miss mary mundy Subject(s): Cornwall, England |
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