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Subject: COUSINS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEMORY: BANKS OF CALDER AND COUSIN DORA, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straying, musing, singing, dreaming
Last Line: She has passed away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Death; Nature; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The


ABOUT MY COUSIN, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always pretended that jan gratowski
Last Line: Porkchops and potatoes
Subject(s): Cousins; Lies; Poland


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 1, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of writing many books there is no end
Last Line: Deliver us from evil, let us pray.
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 2, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Times followed one another. Came a morn
Last Line: Except through swirl of spray and all that roar.
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day thou girdest up thy loins thyself
Last Line: When they two had their meeting after death.
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 4, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They met still sooner. 'twas a year from thence
Last Line: If that's your way, poor insect.' that's your way!
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 5, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aurora leigh, be humble. Shall I hope
Last Line: And would not interrupt your life with ours.
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 6, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The english have a scornful insular way
Last Line: Which angels were too weak to roll away.
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 7, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman's motive? Shall we daub ourselves
Last Line: Dissolving slowly, slowly, until lost.
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 8, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One eve it happened, when I sat alone
Last Line: Much rather than I read it. Thus it ran.
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 9, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even thus. I pause to write it out at length
Last Line: The rest in order: -- last, an amethyst.'
Subject(s): Marriage; Cousins; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


COUSIN, by REGINA WEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summers, your family came from slave lake
Last Line: Feathers, sand, these tiny white roots
Subject(s): Cousins; Summer


COUSIN AGGIE: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The seal of sixty summers now
Last Line: If gone before, we soon shall meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cousins; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


COUSIN ALEX, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My cousin alex, tall and sinewy
Last Line: At alex's absence
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Cousins


COUSIN BELL; AN INCIDENT IN REAL LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dark fir-wud hings ower the burn
Last Line: The brithers' hearts for sister bell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cousins; Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness


COUSIN RUFUS' STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little story, cousin rufus said
Last Line: "and said: ""I see you've got the same old cat!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cousins


COUSINS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We meet at funerals
Subject(s): Cousins


GIRL COUSIN, by SCOTT TRAVIS HUTCHISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mom's one of twelve kids, making me
Last Line: Beside her, as the dust danced away behind us all
Subject(s): Cousins; Family Life; Girls


HOME AGAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm bin a-visitun 'bout a week
Last Line: An' I'm come back home where my beau lives at.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): A Very Youthful Affair
Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Home; Streams; Creeks


LEAST WE FORGET OUR UNSUNG HEROES, by MAXINE LANDIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My postmodern heroic cousin
Last Line: Standing up for change %in an unjust world
Subject(s): Cousins


LOGIC (3), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have a copper penny and another copper penny
Subject(s): Cousins;money


MARI MAGNO; OR TALES ON BOARD: THE LAWYER'S FIRST TALE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest of boys, please come to-day
Last Line: His promise thus the clergyman fulfilled
Subject(s): Cousins


MAY AND DEATH, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish that when you died last may
Last Line: Its drop comes from my heart, that's all.
Subject(s): Cousins; Friendship


METRICAL LETTER; WRITTEN FROM LONDON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Margaret! My cousin, -- nay you must not smile
Last Line: To find in heaven the things I loved on earth.
Subject(s): Courtship; Cousins; Desire; Freedom; Hope; Letters; Liberty; Optimism


MY APISH COUSINS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winked too much and were afraid of snakes
Subject(s): Cousins


ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush'd are the winds, and still the evening gloom
Last Line: Still in my heart retain their wonted place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Cousins; Death; Dead, The


POEMS FOR MY COUSIN: 1, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I took my cousin to prettyboy dam
Last Line: "nor the other ""come. . ."
Subject(s): Cousins


SHEEPIEKNOWE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aul' sheepieknowe! How dear the name!
Last Line: Rest, weary heart! Peace, peace to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cousins; Grief; Scotland; Sorrow; Sadness


SUNBEAM AND SHADOW, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunbeam was a lovely child
Last Line: Like two fair flowers together, and so the story ends.
Subject(s): Change; Children; Cousins; Forgiveness; Good; Rudeness; Childhood; Clemency; Bad Manners


THE COUSINS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twa bonny young lassies, fair cousins, I ween
Last Line: "again I s'all meet her an' nevermair part."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cousins


TO A COUNTRY COUSIN, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cruel cousin kate, you ask me
Last Line: In an album out of town.
Subject(s): Country Life; Cousins; Poetry & Poets


UGLINESS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The windows I see into
Last Line: What tear shall I ever / be some of a man to?
Subject(s): Cousins; Youth; Juvenile Delinquency


VISITING SUNDAY: CONVENT NOVITIATE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The parlor doors shall be glazed, the custom book
Last Line: To write the lyric.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Convents; Cousins; Musical Instruments; Pianos


WRITING A SYMPATHY CARD TO MY COUSIN'S WIFE, by CARMEN GERMAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deer season and the first snow
Last Line: The foot joint, feel motion fleeing
Subject(s): Cousins; Hunting