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Subject: JEWELRY & JEWELERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GIRL'S SONGS: 1, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have three rings on my hand
Last Line: Pretend I would not fear to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Death; Jewelry & Jewelers; Dead, The; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


A JET RING SENT, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not so black, as my heart
Last Line: She that, oh, broke her faith, would soon breake thee.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


A JEWELLED SELL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pale pearls / are best for girls
Last Line: A capetown garnet, is it? Oh, all right!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Women; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


A LOST TALISMAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Among the palms the thing was lost
Last Line: They're always swell and dressy.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


A MARRIAGE RING, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ring, so worn as you behold
Last Line: Worn with life's care, love yet was love.
Variant Title(s): His Mother's Wedding-ring;his Late Wife's Wedding Ring
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A RING PRESENTED TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Julia, I bring
Last Line: And pure as gold for ever.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


AN ETRUSCAN RING, by JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, girt with orchard and with olive-yard
Last Line: In utmost england let it find a home.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Etruscan Civilization; Jewelry & Jewelers


ANTIQUE JEWELER, by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within his shop he gathered silver, gold
Last Line: I loved among them, as of old, held high.
Subject(s): Antiques; Jewelry & Jewelers; Retail Trade; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


BABY'S RING, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother's quite distracted
Last Line: Ring and hand to keep.
Subject(s): Babies; Jewelry & Jewelers; Infants; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


GEMS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I decked with gems my person fat, they glittered
Last Line: Luck planet.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Sapphires; Stones; Granite; Rocks


GORIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In gorias are gems
Last Line: And pale gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Courts & Courtiers; Gold; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Treasures


I WEAR A JEWEL, by JAMES P. CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wear a jewel near my heart, for gold I wadna sell ye
Last Line: For many a love is bann'd on earth that's no a sin in heaven.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


JEWELS, by GEORGE CROLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You shall have all that ever sparkled yet
Last Line: With light the treasure-chambers of the sea.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


JEWELS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should see your eyes again
Last Line: And cannot wear in sober day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


MY JEWEL CASE, by BESSE BURNETT BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've the queerest, quaintest jewel case
Last Line: That wondrous love of mother!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Mothers; Privacy; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


MY LADY'S GLEAMING GEMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady's decked with gleaming stones
Last Line: To me, beside my lady's worth.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks


ON A CHINESE RING, by MARY R. LINEBACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: What secret, guarded by these silent / snakes
Last Line: The serpent heads upon thy bosom lie!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


ON RECEIVING FROM A LADY A PRESENT OF A RING, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A ring to me cecilia sends
Last Line: And make the parting moment blest!
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


RIDDLE: 3, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "round it is, round all over"
Last Line: "has no stopper, has no cover"
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Riddles


RINGLESS, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot stand the man who wears
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


RUSSIAN ART SHOP, by LOUISE HOVDE MORTENSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's jewelry from russia
Last Line: For every woman's glance.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


SELLING HER ENGAGEMENT RING, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You'd have thought her diamond was set in my flesh
Last Line: Wahpeton - mandan - medora - to vanishing point.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters


SONG: 5, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To seek each where where man doth live
Last Line: Dare I well give, I say, my heart to year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): France; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


THE ADMONITION, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seest thou those diamonds which she weares
Last Line: She that will weare thy teares, wo'd weare thine eyes.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE BRACELET, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rebellious fools that scorn to bow
Last Line: Secur'd from conquest by captivity.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


THE BRACELET, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days I bargained over this brass round
Last Line: "not at least the way we would mind, for sure."
Subject(s): Indonesia; Jewelry & Jewelers; Tourists; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips


THE BRACELET OF PEARLE: TO SILVIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I brake thy bracelet 'gainst my will
Last Line: Cleave thou my heart in two.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE BRACELET: TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why I tie [tye] about thy wrist
Last Line: If I could, I would not so.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE BROKEN RING, by JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in a cool, green valley
Last Line: Then it would stand quite still.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Unfaithfulness; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE BROKEN RING, by JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in yon cool valley
Last Line: Then all were calm and still.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Unfaithfulness; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE CAMEO BRACELET, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eva sits on the ottoman there
Last Line: With the dagger in your hand!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; War


THE CARKANET, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of orient pearls of jet
Last Line: My jet t'enthrall such ivorie.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE CHAIN I GAVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chain I gave was fair to view
Last Line: "tis past - to them and thee adieu - / false heart, frail chain, and silent lute"
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


THE EMERALD RING; A SUPERSTITION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a gem which hath the power to show
Last Line: My heart is broken -- not estranged!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Complaints; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE FAMILY: 9, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These rings, o my beloved pair
Last Line: It I have kissed and blessed you both.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Family Life; Jewelry & Jewelers; Relatives


THE FARE, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury me in my pink pantsuit, you said--and I did
Subject(s): Funerals; Jewelry & Jewelers; Burials; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE GEMLESS RING, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, hoop of gold that binds the maid
Last Line: Farewell! Thou art too plain and pure!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


THE KING'S JEWEL, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a night to make the bravest
Last Line: "and he hath delivered thee!"
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Warsaw, Poland; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Soviet Union; Russians


THE LOST JEWEL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I held a jewel in my fingers / and went to sleep
Last Line: Is all I own.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE MAGICIAN, by LOUISE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here here here / immortal magic
Last Line: "refracted light! Gems gems gems . . ."
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Magic; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE POMANDER BRACELET, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To me my julia lately sent
Last Line: That did perfume the pomander.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE RAKI, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's dust upon the distant wind, and shadow on the skies
Last Line: Embalmed by poetry and love.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Chivalry; Gifts & Giving; India; Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE RING, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: No -- lady! Lady! Keep the ring
Last Line: Give me the ring, and now -- o heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


THE RING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hold the trinket near thine eye
Last Line: Measures but a falling tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love


THE RING AND THE HEART, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This ring I give to you, my dear
Last Line: That deep, seductive heart of thine.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love


THE RING'S MOTTO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lover gave the wedding-ring
Last Line: Till death us join
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 40, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And she hath sent a ruby ring, thrice kiss'd
Last Line: How limitless thy vast estranging seas!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Confessions; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Passion


THE SPARROW AND DIAMOND; A SONG, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lately saw, what now I sing
Last Line: A venus kill her bird.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Sparrows; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE TWO BRACELETS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A farmer general, one monsieur b --
Last Line: "but both your bracelets now are fairly gone!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


THE WATCH, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My watch wouldn't work worth a dime, it
Last Line: The thing I should tackle at first.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Repairing; Watches; Mending


TO A GREEK GEM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it the signet of an antonine
Last Line: Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon.
Subject(s): Beauty; Greece; Jewelry & Jewelers; Time; Greeks


TO A STOLEN RING, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh for thy history now! Hadst thou a tongue
Last Line: Amid thy shining jewels like a star.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


TO GERON, by HILDEBRAND JACOB    Poem Text                    
First Line: So prudent and so young a wife! / old geron, thou art blest for life
Last Line: That you may leave to her—or me.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; London; Money; Wealth; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Riches; Fortunes


TO HELENE ON A GIFT-RING CARELESSLY LOST, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent a ring - a little band
Last Line: And look on heaven to look on thee.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


TWO BRILLIANTS, by JANE BLAKESLEE RICHARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two trod by - ways of poesy one day
Last Line: Of worth and wisdom from the realm of thought.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


WE PLAY AT PASTE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Practicing sands
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


WHAT JEWEL IS LEFT?, by SARAH M. HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: What shall my empty eyes behold
Last Line: When the very spark is dead?
Subject(s): Dreams; Jewelry & Jewelers; Night; Nightmares; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Bedtime


WITH A GOLDEN NECKLACE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Accept, dear maid, this little token
Last Line: For there are chains will not unbind.
Subject(s): Freedom; Jewelry & Jewelers; Liberty; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces