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Subject: SIMPLON (MOUNTAIN), SWITZERLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` IN THE SIMPLON PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood
Last Line: Of love in the heart made more happy by tears?
Variant Title(s): Stanzas Composed In The Simplon Pass
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the bleak pass huge alps their shadows throw
Last Line: Pure as yon snow that cleaves the vault of heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SIMPLON PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ambition, following down this far-famed slope
Last Line: What groans! What shrieks! What quietness in death!
Subject(s): Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Soldiers