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Subject: COOK, JAMES (1728-1779)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAPTAIN COOK'S LAST VOYAGE; ROLAND PENROSE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful because %she is without an arm
Last Line: Out in the emptiness at the poles
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Cook, James (1728-1779); Penrose, Sir Roland Algernon (1900-1984)


FIVE VISIONS OF CAPTAIN COOK, by KENNETH SLESSOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cook was a captain of the admiralty
Subject(s): Cook, James (1728-1779)


FIVE VISIONS OF CAPTAIN COOK, SELS., by KENNETH SLESSOR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Cook, James (1728-1779)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 1, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the painter who shall paint for you
Last Line: "turned seaward, ""after many a wistful look!"
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 2, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were but two, and we were forty! Yet
Last Line: With faithful blood, as pure as any ever shed.
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 3, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chaotic crags are huddled east and west
Last Line: By all the sacred past 'tis sacred ground.
Subject(s): Botany Bay, Australia; Cook, James (1728-1779)


SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 4, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis holy ground! The silent silver lights
Last Line: Shall gather round it deep eternal bloom!
Subject(s): Cook, James (1728-1779); Graves; Sutherland, Forby (d. 1770); Tombs; Tombstones