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Subject: ELIOT, GEORGE (1819-1880)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FROM THE THIRD STOREY, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aunt jane scribbles in the living-room
Last Line: Why was I brought here %and what I have to do
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Eliot, George (1819-1880); Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865); Novels And Novelists; Rhys, Jean (1894-1979); Women - Writers


GEORGE ELIOT, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead! Is she dead? / and all that light extinguished!
Last Line: Mingled of honey and hyssop, on thy grave!
Subject(s): Death; Eliot, George (1819-1880); Dead, The; Evans, Mary Ann


GEORGE ELIOT, by JOHN E. BARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amid the silver music of the bells
Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880)


GEORGE ELIOT, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lily rooted in a sacred soil
Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray
Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880)


GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS CROSS), by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lost in her stories' complex flow, I drowned
Last Line: Listening in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880); Idols; Evans, Mary Ann


GEORGE ELIOT (SUGGESTED BY UNVEILING OF A STATUE TO GEORGE SAND), by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For thee we carve no statue: thou hast willed
Last Line: Still pass the 'cup of strength' from hand to hand.
Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880); Sand, George (1804-1876); Statues; Evans, Mary Ann; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant


HIS [OR, HER] LOSSES MADE OUR GAINS ASHAMED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It only sweeter grows
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1562; Poem: 160
Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880)


ON THE DEATHS OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND GEORGE ELIOT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two souls diverse out of our human sight
Last Line: The light of little children, and their love.
Subject(s): Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881); Eliot, George (1819-1880); Writing & Writers; Evans, Mary Ann