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Subject: JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BACON'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIS MAN, by JOHN COTTON (1640-1699)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death, why so cruel? What! No other way
Last Line: Whether to caesar he was friend or foe.
Subject(s): Bacon, Nathaniel (1647-1676); Jamestown, Virginia


JOHN SMITH'S APPROACH TO JAMESTOWN [MAY 13, 1607], by JAMES BARRON HOPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I pause not to speak of raleigh's dreams
Last Line: And breathed her fragrance on the lofty pines.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; George, Saint (3rd Century); Jamestown, Virginia; Smith, John (1580-1631)


ODE TO JAMESTOWN, by JAMES KIRKE PAULDING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old cradle of an infant world
Last Line: Old jamestown's shrine or plymouth's famous rock.
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia


STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c.
Variant Title(s): Enough
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c.
Last Line: It was enough; it is enough %if present faith mend partial proof
Variant Title(s): Enoug
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617)


THE BURNING OF JAMESTOWN, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mad berkeley believed, with his gay cavaliers
Last Line: The rogues rule and ruin, while honest men swing.
Subject(s): Bacon, Nathaniel (1647-1676); Jamestown, Virginia


THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS [APRIL 5, 1614], by MRS. M. M. WEBSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: That balmy eve, within a trellised bower
Last Line: Shall raise the choral hymn from eve till morn.
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Rolfe, John (1585-1622); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America