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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA Matches Found: 6 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF THE MELBOURNE CUP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me a quart of colonial beer Last Line: And I woke with 'the indigestion'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Hearts; Melbourne, Australia; Nightmares MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: MEMORY, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts flutter like butterfly wings Last Line: With cooling fingers. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Melbourne, Australia; Memory MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: PAST AND PRESENT, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Change is a sweet and lovely sprite who brushes with a velvet pall Last Line: Beauty of decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Change; Melbourne, Australia; Time MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: THE GARDENS, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wealth of the city hardens Last Line: Of breathing spirit! Surely, these will abide! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melbourne, Australia MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: THE TOWERS AT EVENING, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The juggernauting trams and the prolonged Last Line: A pearly lighthouse over its own hull-tearing crags! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Melbourne, Australia THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen Last Line: To seek the happy isles! Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si |
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