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Subject: DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WELCOME TO 'BOZ', by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come as artist, come as guest
Last Line: Of the sympathetic west.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


BALLADE OF A DENATURED CHRISTMAS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mince pie goes without its sherry
Last Line: I'll spend my christmas day with dickens.
Subject(s): Christmas; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Nativity, The


CHARLES DICKENS, by LOUELLA C. POOLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O to have known him, looked into his eyes
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)


CHARLES DICKENS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When nature first designed
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)


CHARLES DICKENS; IN MEMORIAM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou master of thought and depicter of men
Last Line: Gives thee immortality.
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Praise; Writing & Writers


DICKENS, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One story more,' the whole world cried
Last Line: That dawned upon his waking eyes!
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)


DICKENS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chief in thy generation born of men
Last Line: Scarce one more loved or worthier than thine.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)


DICKENS IN CAMP, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting
Last Line: This spray of western pine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Books; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Pine Trees; West (u.s.); Writing & Writers; Reading; Southwest; Pacific States


IN MEMORIAM: DICKENS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks the air / throbs with the tolling of harmonious bells
Last Line: And woven on heavens beyond time's stormy breath.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)


LINES READ BY THE AUTHOR AT THE DICKENS CENTENARY CELEBRATION IN N.Y., by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, where was born the man
Last Line: Immortal laughter, and immortal tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)


READING DICKENS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not long after the war, my father
Last Line: Saving the ending for tomorrow
Subject(s): Books; Booksellers; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets


SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is an ancient england in the new
Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


SONG WRITTEN FOR THE DINNER GIVEN TO CHARLES DICKENS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars their early vigils keep
Last Line: Our western skies in flame!
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)


ST. LIRRIPER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dickens first dawned on
Last Line: But from the heart no reader may resist.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Writing & Writers


THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know why they turn the irrigation
Last Line: And I am of the enemy. And we are legion.
Subject(s): Death; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin


THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 7. THE LIBRARY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The library of
Last Line: Grimm and dickens.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)


THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 9. THE STAFF, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because as servants / for the palace
Last Line: "pickwick papers."
Subject(s): Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898); Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge


TO C. DICKENS, ESQ. ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pshaw, away with leaf and berry
Last Line: As the best among his works.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Farewell; Sea Voyages; Parting


TO CHARLES DICKENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go then to italy; but mind
Last Line: With little nelly nestling there.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting outside the small house near the orchard
Last Line: She cocks her head at the applesound
Subject(s): Books; Country Life; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Memory


TRIBUTE TO CHARLES DICKENS, by ELIZABETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love him so for all the good
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)