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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COINS, COMMEMORATIVE Matches Found: 7 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANTIQUE COIN, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still etna bears the red wine and the gold Last Line: The immortal beauty of sicilian girls. Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Numismatics; Sicily; Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical 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 ON SEEING A LITTLE CHILD SPIN A COIN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the face of him, whose quick resource Last Line: And spin the horns of ammon out of sight. Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Numismatics; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical THE MUTINY YEAR, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In the lumber-room I rummaged for some papers out of place Last Line: His aunt jane had scored with butter at the local county show. Subject(s): Numismatics; War; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical TO A SILVER DOLLAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale coin, what various hands have you passed through Last Line: "seem those fair, graven words: ""in god we trust." Subject(s): Greed; Numismatics; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical; Riches; Fortunes TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the wild waste of all-devouring years! Last Line: And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the muse he lov'd.' Subject(s): Numismatics; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical WROTE IN A VOLUME OF EVELYN ON COINS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: T-m w--d of ch-sw-c, deep divine Last Line: That churchman e'er gave coin to lay. Subject(s): Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Kent, William (1686-1748); Numismatics; Wood, Thomas. Vicar Of Chiswick; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical |
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