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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