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Subject: GABRIEL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DRAMA OF EXILE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice in the clefts of gehenna
Last Line: Falling tears of angel.]
Subject(s): Eden; Gabriel; Heaven; Devil; Paradise; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


AD MIRO, by PIERRE ALECHINSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Choose the colour that hits the mark
Last Line: Earth for the planting of paintings
Subject(s): Cobra Artists; Miro, Gabriel (1879-1930); Paintings And Painters


AH GABRIEL, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: If it should happen now, if a woman named mary
Last Line: Or believe that golden gabriel was not a grey tramp.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Gabriel


ANNUNCIATIO B.V., by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come every eare / that longs to heare
Last Line: Eve's gall in maries sweets are drownd.
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Gabriel; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


AT THE GRAVE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here of a truth the world's extremes are
Last Line: Fond love's regret that ne'er they saw his face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Graves; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Tombs; Tombstones


BEGINNINGS; FOR ROSSETTI'S FIRST PAINTING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether the beginnings of things notable
Last Line: And yet—it's just a question.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


BIRCHINGTON CHURCH-YARD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lowly hill which overlooks a flat
Last Line: Silent and neither swift nor slow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Churchyards; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


BREBEUF AND LALEMANT, by ALAN SULLIVAN (1867-)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Came jean brefeuf from rennes, in normandy
Subject(s): Brebeuf, Jean De. Saint (1593-1649); Lalemant, Gabriel; Missionaries And Missions


DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All pomps and gorgeous rites, all visions old
Last Line: Nor the world vex him with her wasting care.
Subject(s): Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, vain, deluding cows
Last Line: Than to be one, anyhow.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Cows; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keats, John (1795-1821); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


EASTER LILY RAG, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blossoms stare in all directions of the compass
Last Line: You'd almost think they were present at the annunciation
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Paintings And Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


EXILE, by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: The white stars cast their silver nets across eternal snows
Last Line: Still the bells of old san gabriel call me home.
Subject(s): Homecoming; San Gabriel Mission


GABRIEL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know thou art a man, thou hast his mould
Last Line: Thine ave, she conceived her holy child.
Subject(s): Gabriel


GABRIEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once let the angel blow!
Last Line: And take reproach from the fallen time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Gabriel; Heaven; Trumpets; World; Paradise


IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One face looks out from all his canvasses
Last Line: Not as she is, but as fills his dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)


MARY, by ROBERT NORWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fairest of women must have been that maid
Last Line: When all the morning stars hosannaed earth!
Subject(s): Christmas; Gabriel; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 12. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE EIGHTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Barnzy stiffly vows that he's no cuckold
Last Line: Harvy bears the wrong, he proves the cuckold.
Subject(s): Barnes, Barnabe (1569-1609); Harvey, Gabriel (1545-1630)


PERE LALEMANT, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lift the lord on high
Last Line: Thy everlasting arms.
Subject(s): Lalemant, Gabriel; Missions & Missionaries


ROSSETTI'S WIFE, by GAIL WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He wants his poems, now: the ones he buried
Last Line: He digs you up and grabs his verses back
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Women's Rights


SAN GABRIEL, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: San gabriel! / I stand and wonder at thy walls
Last Line: I own thy sweet and mystic spell.
Subject(s): California; San Gabriel Mission


SONNET FOR A PICTURE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That nose is out of drawing. With a gasp
Last Line: But may be ravenously unripped in hell?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


SONNET TO MASTER GABRIELL HARVEY, DOCTOR OF LAWES, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harvey, the happy above happiest men
Last Line: Your devoted friend, during life,
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Harvey, Gabriel (1545-1630)


TECHNIQUES OF THE MASTERS, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this painting with their flushed cheeks
Last Line: They typeset, bound and shut
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Gabriel; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible


THE HONOUR OF THE GARTER: PROLOGUE, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plain is my coat, and humble is my gait
Last Line: Nor herbs nor time such remedy affords.
Subject(s): Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619); Harington, Sir John (1561-1612); Harvey, Gabriel (1545-1630); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)


THE LAST JUDGMENT, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To his angel company drowsing on their strings
Last Line: And showed her small round bosom kissed by the asp.
Subject(s): Angels; Gabriel; God


THE MESSED DAMOZEL AT THE CUBIST EXHIBITION, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The messed damozel leaned out
Last Line: She simply wasn't there!
Subject(s): Heaven; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Paradise


THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn
Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house.
Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE P.R.B.: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The two rossettis (brothers they)
Last Line: * * * * * * *
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919); Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892)


THE P.R.B.: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The p.R.B. Is in its decadence: / for woolner in australia cooks his chops
Last Line: And so the consummated p.R.B.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Hunt, Holman (1827-1910); Language; Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rivers; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Smoking; Words; Vocabulary; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


THE POETS AT TEA: 8. ROSSETTI, WHO TOOK SIX CUPS OF IT, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilies lie in my lady's bower
Last Line: (o weary mother, drive the cows to roost.)
Variant Title(s): Oh! Weary Mother
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Tea


THE VOICE OF D.G.R., by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this carved chair wherein I sit to-night
Last Line: Murmurs with waves, and sings beneath the wind.
Subject(s): Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


TO D. G. ROSSETTI, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From out the darkness cometh never a sound
Last Line: And we inherit now its deathless pride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Pride; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect


TO DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, whose very names have godlike power
Last Line: Surely my heart may speak, nor do you wrong!
Subject(s): Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


VALLEY OF SAN GABRIEL, by ANNE ZUKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Full tide of summer, through the waxing year
Last Line: Into mutation on the knees of death?
Subject(s): San Gabriel Valley, California