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Subject: PEARLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FIRST PEARLE. RELIGION, by DIANA PRIMROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The goodliest pearl in fair eliza's chain
Last Line: And against england never could prevaile.
Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nations; Pearls; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology


A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FOURTH PEARLE. TEMPERANCE, by DIANA PRIMROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The golden bridle of bellerophon
Last Line: In sacred concord, and sweete symphonie!
Subject(s): Love; Passion; Pearls; Temperance; Prohibition


A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE SIXTH PEARLE. JUSTICE, by DIANA PRIMROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her justice next appears, which did support
Last Line: Are the maine pillers of romes hierarchy.
Subject(s): Catholics; Fables; Justice; Pearls; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Allegories


A MOTHER'S SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little ships of whitest pearl
Last Line: Whales.
Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Pearls; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails


DIVING FOR PEARLS, by A. V. CHRISTIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is it, exactly where? Does it matter
Last Line: Again today, we are plying our way %with knives and wishes
Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Pearls


HIDDEN GEMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We know not what lies in us, till we seek
Last Line: Which, seeking, thou shalt find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Beauty; Gold; Pearls; Thought; Wealth; Thinking; Riches; Fortunes


JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some asked me where the rubies grew
Last Line: The quarelets of pearl.
Variant Title(s): The Rock Of Rubies, And The Quarries Of Pearls
Subject(s): Pearls; Rubies; Teeth; Toothaches


LOST JEWEL, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cast on the turbid current of the street
Last Line: Has pearls enough to recompense the right, %only not thee
Subject(s): Pearls


PEARL, by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a myth, a tale men tell
Subject(s): Pearls


PEARLS, by AL-MUSHAFI    Poem Text                    
First Line: When she spoke to me
Last Line: Another row of pearls revealing.
Subject(s): Pearls


PEARLS, by ROBERT WOOD CLACK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Embedded in the slime-incrusted shell we find
Last Line: Will sweeten my eternal dream!
Subject(s): Pearls


PEARLS, by DAVID E. GUYTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: If every girl / could claim a pearl
Last Line: A sea of pearls I'd send her.
Subject(s): Pearls


PILGRIMS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wears the decades like pearls round her neck
Last Line: To the ageless mountain air
Subject(s): Aging; Pearls; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Prayer


RED PEARLS, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That you should be here! Who could ever guess!
Last Line: For they must cling about your neck forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pearls


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 6. A PEARL SEPARATED FROM THE PALM, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glistening thing, bright and round
Last Line: In the owner's palm
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Pearls


THE LOAD OF PEARLS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Will no one stop that blackbird now
Last Line: Brings diamonds into every eye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Life; Pearls


THE PEARL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In mart and mine of many a long-leagued land
Last Line: One soft, sweet pearl; its name, serenity.
Subject(s): Pearls


THE PEARL DIVER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kanzo makame, the diver, sturdy and small japanee
Last Line: Plenty more japanee diver, plenty more little brown man!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Pearls; Sea; Ocean


THE PORTRAIT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "pearls and patches, powder and paint"
Subject(s): Pearls


THE PRECIOUS PEARL, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, the mighty waves of ocean
Last Line: Slight the pearl of greatest price.
Subject(s): Pearls


THE WONDROUS PEARL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wondrous pearl of greatest price
Last Line: Bought with a love so great?
Subject(s): Cavalry; Love; Pearls


WARMING HER PEARLS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Pearls


WARMING HER PEARLS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
Last Line: I feel their absence and I burn
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Pearls


WHEN THE ROSE HAS OPENED, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of dreams, in the midnight gloom
Last Line: For the rose and the pearl are mine, are mine!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Flowers; Pearls; Roses