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Subject: THAMES (RIVER)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... THE RIVER THAMES FROZE AT MARLOW...', by SUSAN PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It turns up in idle sketches
Last Line: And I will breathe again %without you
Subject(s): Rivers; Thames (river)


A BALLAD OF THE UPPER THAMES, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! What a storm of wind and hail!
Last Line: Down to the brimming river.
Subject(s): Thames (river)


A DESCRIPTION OF LONDON, by JOHN BANCKS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Houses, churches, mixed together, / streets unpleasant in all weather
Last Line: This is london! How d'ye like it?
Subject(s): London; Thames (river); Travel; Journeys; Trips


A RIDDLE OF THE THAMES, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At windows that from westminster
Last Line: Into some visionary day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Thames (river)


A WEDDING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up the broad river, the thames, my dane
Last Line: As may suit with my mother's fame.
Subject(s): Danube (river); London; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Thames (river); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


AVON AND THE THAMES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If, in all albion's storied sweep
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Thames (river)


BAB-LOCK-HYTHE, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the time of wild roses
Last Line: Our hearts sang together.
Subject(s): Birds; Thames (river)


BY THE WATER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are rivers lapsing down
Last Line: And ah, where is my friend? --
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): River Thames
Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Lilies; Thames (river)


COINS OF MIST, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's the little old man selling matches?
Last Line: Where's the light in the sky -- and who watches?
Subject(s): Flowers; London; Numismatics; Thames (river); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical


CYGNET; A SONG OF THE THAMES, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sails alone, rocking on turbid water
Last Line: Until our spirit flowers, and we follow
Subject(s): Birds; Swans; Thames (river)


DOWN STREAM, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between holmscote and hurstcote
Last Line: The sweet school-children's road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Thames (river)


FOR THE PLAN OF A FOUNTAIN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye active streams, where'er your waters flow
Last Line: Anna quid imperiis potuit, quid marlburus armis.
Subject(s): Danube (river); Fountains; Thames (river); Water


FRESH WATER, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a long time ago. I am visiting my brother, who is living
Subject(s): Thames (river)


IMPRESSION DU MATIN, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thames nocturne of blue and gold
Last Line: With lips of flame and heart of stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Prostitution; Thames (river); Winter; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


LONDON SONG: 1967, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The city sifts the mist,
Last Line: In a shark-infested thames.
Subject(s): London; Thames (river)


OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 14. OLD SONG AND A RIVER, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the lip of murmuring thames along
Last Line: "sweet thames, run softly till I end my song."
Subject(s): Thames (river)


OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 15, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My spenser lay the dewy grass upon
Last Line: Low chanting his glad prothalamion.
Subject(s): Thames (river)


ON THE REPORT OF A WOODEN BRIDGE WAS TO BE BUILT AT WESTMINSTER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By rufus' hall, where thames polluted flows
Last Line: While o'er his head the circling waters foam.
Subject(s): Bridges; Thames (river)


PROJECTS AND COMPANIES, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A nation's wealth that overflows
Last Line: That close his fourth epistle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Thames (river); War


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 12, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A few more days in this unkind july
Last Line: But you -- but you will then be far away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): At The Season's End
Subject(s): July; Kisses; Moon; Thames (river)


SYMPHONY IN YELLOW, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: An omnibus across the bridge
Last Line: Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Rivers; Thames (river)


THE BURDEN OF ITYS, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This english thames is holier far than rome
Last Line: Hark! 'tis the curfew booming from the bell at christ church gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Thames (river)


THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: AUGUST. ON THE THAMES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river thames has many a dear delight
Subject(s): Thames (river)


THE LOVER TO THE THAMES OF LONDON TO FAVOUR HIS LADY ..., by GEORGE TURBERVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou steady stream that with the swelling tide
Last Line: Have power for aye in wonted gult to glide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George
Subject(s): Thames (river)


THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 2, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A muse (like this) of great and good desires
Last Line: Which now (till then) giues me like breath to pawse.
Subject(s): Friendship; Thames (river)


THE PAUPER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It dawned a morn to make a heart despair
Last Line: More swift, more kind, the flow of thames' dark wave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Dogs; Thames (river); Estrangement; Outcasts


THE THAMES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the rhine be blue and bright
Last Line: My own, my native thames!
Subject(s): Thames (river)


TO DELIA: 48, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: None other fame mine unambitious muse
Last Line: I'll sound her name the river all along.
Subject(s): Love; Thames (river)


TO THE THAMES AT WESTMINSTER, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With no cold admiration do I gaze
Last Line: A rock-throned city clad in heavenly light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant
Subject(s): Thames (river)


UNPOSSESSED POSSESSIONS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose are windsor and hampton, the pride of the land
Last Line: To be only a poor unpatrician bard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Pity; Thames (river)


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vvho dares vpbraid these open rimes of mine
Last Line: Rather than say I doted in my age.
Subject(s): Death; Thames (river); Theater & Theaters; Dead, The; Stage Life