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Subject: OXFORD, ENGLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOVE THE HIGH, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Cold oxford unfamiliar now, around
Last Line: So ancient town
Subject(s): Love; Oxford, England


AT LAST, DEAR WARD, I TAKE A RHYMING QUILL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On thine own regal cornerstone: I will!
Subject(s): Oxford, England; Creative Ability; Imagination


BRUSSELS AND OXFORD, by WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: How first we met do you still remember?
Last Line: And are meshed again in your golden hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H.
Subject(s): Love; Oxford, England


CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD; NIGHT, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint from the bell the ghastly echoes fall
Last Line: To spirits such as these, than unto common dead.
Subject(s): Christ Church, Oxford, England; Night; Bedtime


DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Towery city and branchy between towers
Last Line: Who fired france for mary without spot.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; England; Oxford, England; Poetry & Poets; English


ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: PREFACE, SELS., by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city! So venerable, so lovely, so unraveged
Subject(s): Oxford, England


EVENING IN OXFORD, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dim pinnacles against the amber sky
Last Line: "o love, do you remember, or forget?"
Subject(s): Oxford, England; Wellesley College


INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers
Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind!
Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones


OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 1. WADHAM, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is like a sabbath in a swoon
Last Line: The old quadrangle paved with afternoon.
Subject(s): Oxford, England; Sabbath; Sunday


OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 13. VICISSITUDE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange that a sod for just a thrill or two
Last Line: Exchange for burning tears its peaceful dew!
Variant Title(s): Strange
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England


OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 4, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one whose road winds upward turns his face
Last Line: From the assembly of my thoughts and days.
Variant Title(s): In An Oxford Garden
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 10, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Primrose, and phlox, and clytie (as I call
Last Line: And discord dreamwise vanish from it all.
Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England; Sunflowers


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 17. CONSTANCY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the same sky over sea and land
Last Line: Good is within all, having all things planned.
Subject(s): Oxford, England


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 2, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No footfall sounds within the empty hall
Last Line: A comfortable and a holy spot withal.
Subject(s): Oxford, England; Sabbath; Sunday


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 24. RESTORATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To one tired heart I said: if it be true
Last Line: That once in many a labyrinth was your clew.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 33, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A great nelumbo heavy on the breast
Last Line: Of the dear face that waits me down the west.
Subject(s): Absence; Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England; Separation; Isolation


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 5, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As here among the well-remembering boughs
Last Line: Glowing, the light of memory on her brows.
Subject(s): Memory; Oxford, England


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 6, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What hath she uttered that should make me dread
Last Line: And smileth on the glory of the dead.
Subject(s): Death; Oxford, England; Dead, The


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 8, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blake hither brought his book-to con the sky
Last Line: And they are patient still and standing by.
Subject(s): History; Oxford, England; Historians


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 9. NATURE'S CALMNESS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things seem ordered sweetly in the calm
Last Line: A nostril to the breeze-bestowèd balm.
Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England


ODE TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR, ON PUBLICATION OF HIS 'VISIT TO OXFORD', by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O worthy mayor! - I mean to say ex-mayor
Last Line: And every lord mayor his own recorder!
Subject(s): Oxford, England; Politics & Government


ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imperial iffley, cumnor bowered in green
Last Line: "even here remember me when thou shalt reign."
Subject(s): Churches; Oxford, England; Cathedrals


OXFORD, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Homeless and never sadder,
Last Line: The book is out of print
Subject(s): Oxford, England; Books & Reading


OXFORD BELLS, by SISTER MARIS STELLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always the ghost of these will wake again
Last Line: The bell of christ's, tolling its hundred times.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava
Subject(s): Bells; Oxford, England


OXFORD BELLS: PART 1, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The watchers in the everlasting towers
Last Line: Till in the young dawn oxford towers are bright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Bells; Oxford, England


OXFORD BELLS: PART 2; TO RHODA BROUGHTON, IN MEMORY OF HER SISTER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells their loud unchanging task fulfil
Last Line: The coronal of this autumnal verse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Bells; Memory; Oxford, England


OXFORD CANAL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you have wearied of the valiant spires of this county town
Last Line: Forgotten they live, and forgotten die.
Subject(s): Canals; Oxford, England


OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What alters you, familiar lawn and tower
Last Line: To mask the riches of her bleeding heart.
Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain


RUNNING IN OXFORD, by CHRISTIAN KARLSON STEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Might you have done this
Last Line: An elderly visitor %is running in oxford
Subject(s): Aging; Oxford, England; Track Athletics


SCENE FROM A PLAY CALLED 'MATRICULATION', by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There, my lad, lie the articles
Last Line: Were made, not for men to believe, but to sign.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Oxford, England; Plays & Playwrights


THE GHOSTS OF OXFORD, by WILBERT SNOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went walking up and down
Last Line: The darkened streets of oxford town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber
Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain


VERSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam, / since anna visited the muses' seat
Last Line: What margaret tudor was, is harriet harley now.
Subject(s): Muses; Oxford, England; Women; Writing & Writers