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Subject: COTTON
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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