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Subject: YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 17TH CENTURY EPITAPH, FOR JOSIAS SHUTE, GIGGLESWICK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heer's yt wise charmer whose sweet ayres to hear
Last Line: Ev'bn blessed visions doth his boooke unfoulde
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


DEEIN BE INCHES; A DIALECT POEM, by JOSEPH B. ECCLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: A'm deein be inches tha knaws weel enuf
Last Line: Wal hear a'm hauf pined, an get nowt but crusts, %it's noan her at's deein, it's me
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


DRUNKEN BARNABY, by RICHARD BRATHWAITE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Then to rippon, I appear there
Last Line: When to quicken 'em I tell ye, %I put quick eels into their belly
Alternate Author Name(s): Braithwaite, Richard; Brathwait, Richard
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


EPITAPH IN A YORKSHIRE CHURCHYARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Underneath this stone doth lie
Last Line: When the last trump sounds so shrill, %if she gets up I'll life still
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


FOR JEREMIAH FOUND; THE CHURCH AT WELTON, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Has eight times married been
Last Line: But now old age has caught him in his cage, %and he lies under grass so green
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


GRASS AND THE SUDDEN RAIN, by PAULS TOUTONGHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near-vertical road, yorkshire dales, landscape
Last Line: Drunk again, wet
Subject(s): Rain; Yorkshire, England


IN PRAISE OF LIMESTONE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Limestone; Yorkshire, England


IN PRAISE OF LIMESTONE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones
Last Line: Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Limestone; Yorkshire, England


INSCRIPTION OVER THE DOORWAY OF POST OFFICE AT LANSTINGHAM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hap of a good life
Last Line: The choyce of a wife
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


JEREMY JOY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red winter, with a sigh and shrug
Last Line: When jeremy joy was singing!
Subject(s): Winter; Yorkshire, England


ON THE LINTEL OF A TOWER DOOR AT BYLAND ABBEY, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here hills and waving groves a scene display
Last Line: To observe a mena, be to himself a friend, %to follow nature, and regard his end
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


ON THE SIGN OF THE ANGEL INN, SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faith and grace this hous doth keep
Last Line: Faith is dead, the angel fled, %and grace is now no more
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


ON THE VILLAGE CROSS AT SPROTBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whoso is hungry and list well eate
Last Line: His horse shall have both corne and hay, %and no man shall aske him when he goeth away
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


SIGN ON A WAYSIDE INN NEAR RIPON, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The maltster doth crave
Last Line: How the case stands with me, %so I pray you, don't ask me to trust
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


SONG OF THE CUALD LAD OF HILTON; YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wae's me! Wae's me!
Last Line: That's to lay me
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


STANG-RIDING SONG, NORTHALLERTON, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hey derry! Hey derry! Hey derry dan!
Last Line: And if your husbands you wives do bang, %come to me and my congregation, and we'll ride the stang
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


THE CONISTON CURSE: A YORKSHIRE LEGEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They knelt upon the altar steps, but other looks were there
Last Line: And touches all, -- no master yet has ever left an heir.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Curses; Yorkshire, England


UNDER A PORTRAIT OF JOHN KAYE'S WIFE, WOODSOME HALL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To live at home in housewyverie
Last Line: This is my care with modestye, %to live my lyfe in honestye
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


VERSES INSCRIBED IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY, BY A PARSON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in my wicker chair I sitt
Last Line: Though few my tyhes, and light my purse, %I thank my god it is no worse
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England


VERSES ON THE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, LOFTHOUSE, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you want to be healthy, wealthy and stout
Last Line: Whoso thirsteth let him come hither and drink
Subject(s): Yorkshire, England