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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COTTON Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONSOLATORY POEM DEDICATED TO MR. COTTON MATHER, by NICHOLAS NOYES Poem Text First Line: Sir, after you have wip'd the eyes Last Line: Heav'n, heav'n will make amends for all! Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) A LANCASHIRE DOXOLOGY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise god from whom all blessings flown' Last Line: For he who loveth knoweth god. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Cotton; Worship BLUE BUILDINGS IN THE SUMMER AIR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton mather died when I was a boy. The books Last Line: You are one of the not-numberale mice %searching all day, all night, for the honey-comb Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) CANE: NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold Last Line: Beauty so sudden for that time of year. Variant Title(s): November Cotton Flower Subject(s): Cotton; Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CONNECTICUT: 6, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: None knew - except a patient, precious few Last Line: The greek or welshman does not always lie Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut; Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) CONNECTICUT: 7, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know ye the venerable cotton? He Last Line: He wandered freely, like a bird or bear Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Connecticut; Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) COTTON, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day they strung the cable from american to europe Last Line: The laws of your flood, %the threat of your flood Subject(s): Atlantic Cable; Cotton COTTON, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day when they spanned the cable from america to Subject(s): Atlantic Cable; Cotton; Peace COTTON MATHER, MEET MISS DUVALL, by MILDRED J. NASH Poem Source First Line: Miss duvall, dark-skinned and scant Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) COTTON MILL FUNERAL, by STEWART ATKINS Poem Text First Line: Not without sorrow did she watch the sod Last Line: Later, like this sad one, they never weep. Subject(s): Cotton; Funerals; Mills & Millers; Burials EPITAPH ON MY DEAR COUSIN GERMAN MRS. OLIVE COTTON, by ASTON COCKAYNE Poem Text First Line: Passenger, stay, and notice take of her Last Line: (to guide thy life and death) her memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Cokayne, Aston; Cokain, Aston Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Cotton, Olive Stanhope (1612-1650) FUNERAL ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF ... JOHN COTTON ..., by JOHN+(1) NORTON Poem Source First Line: And after winthrop's, hooker's shepherd's hearse Last Line: Who will not leave his exiles comfortless Subject(s): Cotton, John (1585-1652); Death; Funerals GONDIBERT; AN HEROIC POEM: BOOK 3, CANTO 7; TO MR. COTTON, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlucky fire, which though from heaven deriv'd Last Line: As nature seem'd afraid of her disguise. Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Cotton, Charles, The Elder (d. 1658) JONES'S PRIVATE ARGYMENT, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That air same jones, which lived in jones Last Line: Macon, georgia, 1870. Subject(s): Cotton NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cotton; Autumn; Southern States; Fall; South (u.s.) ON SIR ROBERT COTTON, THE ANTIQUARY, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Posterity hath many fates bemoan'd Last Line: Who ne'er had vanquish'd all things but in thee. Subject(s): Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce (1561-1631) ON THE COMMENTARIES OF MESSIRE BLAIZE DE MONLUC; TO CHARLES COTTON, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that would aptly write of warlike men Last Line: Obliges all the world, can be oblig'd by me. Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Monluc, Blaise De Lasseran-massencome; Translating & Interpreting PICKANINNY, by ELLEN EARL Poem Text First Line: Black-eyed pickaninny Last Line: Mammy's little king. Subject(s): Cotton RIDDLE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am by nature soft as silk Last Line: And ah! Sometimes, I wipe her nose Subject(s): Cotton RIDDLE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, fair maidens, I address Last Line: Can tremble and adhere. Subject(s): Cotton RIDDLE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the dark caverns of the earth Last Line: And make each fair a happy wife. Subject(s): Cotton RIDDLE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a small volume, and frequently bound Last Line: Still vain is their boast if they flout me. Subject(s): Cotton THE BLUE BUILDINGS IN THE SUMMER AIR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton mather died when I was a boy. The books Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) THE COTTON BOLL, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I recline / at ease beneath Last Line: Shall one day mark the port which ruled the western seas. Subject(s): Cotton THE COTTON CLUB, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at duke! Last Line: And they can't even see him Subject(s): Cotton THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Thou that swingst upon the waving ear [or, hair] Last Line: That wants himself is poor indeed. Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Friendship; Grasshoppers THE LIVING, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After independence day / all our toys began to tear Subject(s): Cotton; Farm Life; African Americans - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Black Heritage THE PHANTOM SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mather's magnalia christi, / of the old colonial time Last Line: He had sent this ship of air. Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728); New Haven, Connecticut; Ships & Shipping TO A GROWER OF COTTON, A BELIEVER IN THE EVER-AFTER, by DAVID W. ELLIS Poem Source First Line: You take these grainy seeds by the dense ton Last Line: Bailing the cotton. I can't imagine. I cannot imagine Subject(s): Cotton TO HIS HONOURED AND MOST INGENIOUS FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For brave comportment, wit without offence Last Line: Be lesse anothers laurell, then thy praise. Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687) UPON THE TOMB OF JOHN COTTON, by BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Here lies magnanimous humility Subject(s): Cotton, John (1585-1652); Graves |
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