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Subject: MILLS & MILLERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WATER MILL, by ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease from grinding, o ye toilers; women, slumber still
Last Line: Taught to eat the fruits of mother earth in idle ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Thessalonika
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


COTTON MILL FUNERAL, by STEWART ATKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not without sorrow did she watch the sod
Last Line: Later, like this sad one, they never weep.
Subject(s): Cotton; Funerals; Mills & Millers; Burials


DOVECOTT MILL: 3. THE MILL, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With cobwebs and dust on the windows spread
Last Line: And grew till their heads o'ertopped the flowers.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


FAREWELL, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river
Last Line: To the miller himsel', and his three bonny daughters.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


HAGEN WALDER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day, with a cold, dead color
Last Line: Sitting in a row!
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


HUSBANDMAN'S SONG, FR. KING RENE'S HONEYMOON, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last heavy days ere the mowing-grass seeded
Last Line: And the corn-crake creaked ever and over and o'er.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


LATE, O MILLER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Clothe the land
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


LITTLE JERRY, THE MILLER, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the hill you may see the mill
Last Line: But jerry, the miller, is dead and gone.
Subject(s): Highgate, Vermont; Mills & Millers


MELODY OF MAY, by HELEN M. KNOSKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us go out to the old red mill
Last Line: Hears the requiem-roll of the old red mill.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


MILLS OF DESTINY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: In all the granaries throughout the land
Last Line: By which the prairie winnows out its own.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


OLD SAUGATUCK MILL, by GRACE JEWETT AUSTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who gathers the grist of ghostly grain
Last Line: Who labor there, somber and still.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Mills & Millers; Supernatural


SONG OF THE FLOUR-MILL, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn the merry millstone, gunga
Last Line: Than idleness and none.
Subject(s): India; Mills & Millers


SONGS OF WORK: AT THE MILL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "grind, mill, grind"
Last Line: Master of great mytilene
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


STEEL MILL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The core of him is hate
Last Line: War! War!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Hate; Mills & Millers; Steel


SUPPER AT THE MILL, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, frances / well, good mother, how are you?
Last Line: The supper's ready.
Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Food & Eating; Mills & Millers; Plays & Playwrights ; Childhood; Relatives; Dramatists


SWANS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: December, nightfall at three-thirty
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


THE FARMER'S INGLE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whan gloaming grey out owr the welkin keeks
Last Line: And a lang lasting train o' peaceful hours succeed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers


THE MACHINE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in a dreary place where women die
Last Line: Find only this, a respite from the loom?
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Mills & Millers; Women; Dead, The; Work; Workers


THE MILL, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two leaps the water from its race
Last Line: The second bounding snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Water


THE MILL, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winding and grinding
Last Line: Winding and grinding should never stand still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


THE MILL, by RICHARD HARRY HART    Poem Text                    
First Line: The eyes of my upper windows
Last Line: Or stilled in the silence of centuries.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


THE MILL, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The miller's wife had waited long
Last Line: The same as ever to the sight.
Variant Title(s): The Miller's Wife
Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Suicide


THE MILL CITY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was in a drear city by a stream
Last Line: Less to the sound of voices than of feet.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


THE MILL STREAM, by ELIZA KEARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mother slept beside the fire
Last Line: In the opening of the door.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


THE MILLER, by JOHN CLERK    Poem Text                    
First Line: O merry may the maid be
Last Line: When a miller lives so happy?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clerk Of Penicuik, John
Subject(s): Marriage; Mills & Millers; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes


THE OLD MILL, by FORREST BENJAMIN ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A groaning din of broken-down machines
Last Line: A tombstone landmark is the brief remain.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Ruins


THE OLD MILL, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here from the brow of the hill I look
Last Line: And the wheel moves slowly round.
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


THE SILVER BIRD OF HERNDYKE MILL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By herndyke mill there haunts, folks tell
Last Line: To hear her makes a man's blood chill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Birds; Mills & Millers


THE TREACHEROUS MAID OF THE MILL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! Here is our comrade - he's racing along
Last Line: And at night sallies forth caterwauling!
Subject(s): Love; Mills & Millers; Women


THE WATER MILL, by SARAH DOUDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen to the water mill
Last Line: "with the water that has passed."
Variant Title(s): The Lesson Of The Water Mill
Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Religion; Theology


THE WATER MILL, by ANN HAWKSHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Any grist for the mill?
Last Line: "when snow-flakes are the meal."
Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


THE WATERMILL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll rise at midnight and I'll rove
Last Line: And still love's moment sees them there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


THE WINDMILL, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green corn waving in the dale
Last Line: The figures in his dusty book.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Mills & Millers


TO A WALL OF FLAME IN A STEEL MILL, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, 1969, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Except under the cool shadows of the pines
Subject(s): Fathers; Solitude; Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Agriculture; Farmers