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Subject: DEVONSHIRE, ENGLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHARM FOR A SPRAIN; DEVON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bone to bone, and vein to vein
Last Line: And so shall thine, in the name of the father, son and holy ghost
Subject(s): Devonshire, England


DEVON TO ME!, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where my fathers stood
Last Line: Devon to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Devonshire, England; Heritage; Heredity


DEVONSHIRE RHYME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walk fast in snow
Last Line: Sit by the fire and spare shoe leather
Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Winter


DEVONSHIRE SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou nere wilt riddle neighbour john
Subject(s): Devonshire, England


DISCONTENTS IN DEVON, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: More discontents I never had
Last Line: Then where I loath'd so much.
Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Discontent; Dissatisfaction


EPITAPH ON THE TOMB OF SIR EDWARD GILES AND HIS WIFE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No trust to metals nor to marbles, when
Last Line: And so to bed: pray wish us all good rest.
Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Sir Edward Giles And His Wife
Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


FOR RICHARD DOWNE, D. 1710; EXBOURNE, DEVON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In speechless %silence my youthful
Last Line: Left my cradle and %come here to bed
Subject(s): Devonshire, England


INSCRIPTION ON A SILVER CUP, COMBE MARTIN, DEVON, 1640 (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When water workes in broaken wharfe
Last Line: Till bulmer by his skill and charge %did frame me this to be
Subject(s): Bulmer, Sir Bevis; Devonshire, England; Silver Mining And Miners


INSCRIPTION ON A SILVER CUP, COMBE MARTIN, DEVON, 1640 (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In martyn's commbe long lay I hydd
Last Line: Coomeb martin gave the use alone, %bulmer the fining and fashion
Subject(s): Bulmer, Sir Bevis; Devonshire, England; Silver Mining And Miners


INSCRIPTION ON THE PALM HOUSE DOORS, BICTON HOUSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gardener at a hole looks out
Last Line: While those who come in open dsay %may look but carry nought away
Subject(s): Devonshire, England


IVY LANE (A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LOVE SONG), by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ivy lane in devon
Last Line: That's the place for me!
Subject(s): Cities; Devonshire, England; London; Love; Urban Life


LAND SONG OF THE WEST COUNTRY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lanes are long, and home is far
Last Line: As we go joggin' on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Devonshire, England


LENT CROCKING SONG; OKEHAMPTON, DEVON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lent crock, give a pancake
Last Line: Give me my mumps and I'll be go
Subject(s): Devonshire, England


THE CLIFF CHURCH: (WEMBURY), by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here stand I
Last Line: To eternity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Churches; Devonshire, England; Cathedrals


THE DEVONSHIRE YEOMAN'S HOME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years ago today our wedding bells were rung
Last Line: And home, our own dear home, is dearer now tenfold.
Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Home


THE ROADS TO DEVON, by NORA E. HUFFMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The roads that lead to devon
Last Line: To lay me by and by.
Subject(s): Devonshire, England


THE WEST COUNTREE, by GEOFFREY DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now england is a fine countree
Last Line: Of the blessed west countree.
Subject(s): Devonshire, England; England; Oxford University; English


TWELFTH NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here's to thee, old apple-tree"
Last Line: And our pockets full too
Variant Title(s): A Farmer's And Farm-worker's Toast;apple-howling Song: Devonshire
Subject(s): "apples;devonshire, England;fruit;


UPON PRUE, HIS MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this little urn is laid
Last Line: Spring the purple violet.
Variant Title(s): Upon Prew His Maid
Subject(s): Cremation; Devonshire, England; Grief; Household Employees; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids


WRITTEN IN DEVONSHIRE, NEAR THE DART, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail, devon! In thy bosom let me rest
Last Line: Writ in my heart amid each strain they flow.
Subject(s): Devonshire, England