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Subject: MOORS (LAND)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GAULZERY (GALSWORTHY) MOOR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moor of my name [or, fathers]- [where] the road leads high
Last Line: And homed him here, and gave me name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Moors (land); Heritage; Heredity


ON MARTOCK MOOR, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My deep-dyed husband trusts me
Last Line: Meets me upon the moor.
Subject(s): Moors (land)


ON THE HEATH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her face's wilful flash and glow
Last Line: And flames before the feet of night.
Subject(s): Moors (land)


SOME DIFFERENCES: ROOM AND MOOR, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is a room unlike a moor?
Last Line: You wouldn't have one in the house
Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: 4
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Moors (land); Rooms


THE BOY ON THE MOOR, by ANNETTE ELISABETH VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis an eerie thing o'er the moor to fare
Last Line: Ah, that was a place to dread, o!
Alternate Author Name(s): Droste-hulshoff, Annette Von
Subject(s): Moors (land)


THE LOVER'S ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maiden through the favouring night
Last Line: Says for manuel's soul a prayer.
Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Escapes; Granada, Spain; Love; Moors (land); Dead, The; Fugitives


THE MOOR, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where yonder leaning hill-side roves
Last Line: But pass no door of man's abode.
Subject(s): Country Life; Moors (land)


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream
Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills
Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology


TO MY CHILDREN: 5. ON THE MOOR, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out on the moor the sun is bright
Last Line: Of a thousand things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Moors (land)