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Subject: ESSEX, ENGLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAP OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX IN ENGLAND, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathers
Subject(s): Essex, England; Landscape; Maps


A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I live here: 'wessex' is my name
Last Line: "yet, will this pass, and pass shall I?"
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wessex, England


ESSEX, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The vagrant visitor erstwhile
Variant Title(s): Out Into Esse
Subject(s): Essex, England


ESSEX, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I go through the fields of blue water
Last Line: Found to lose them all!
Subject(s): Essex, England


INSCRIPTION IN THE GEORGE INN, WANSTEAD, ESSEX, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In memory of %ye cheery pey
Last Line: I hope to see money a year
Subject(s): Essex, England


MEDITATIONS IN GREAT BEALINGS CHURCH-YARD, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not only while we look upon
Last Line: One more look ere I part! 'tis given, and now, farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Churchyards; Farewell; Gosfield Park, Essex, England; Parting


RHYMES USED FOR THE 'DUNMOW FLITCH' CONTEST, DUNMOW, ESSEX, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You shall swear by custom of confession
Last Line: For this is the custom of dunmow well known, %tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own
Subject(s): Essex, England


WESSEX HEIGHTS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some heights in wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand
Last Line: And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wessex, England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WILL OF JAMES BIGSBY OF MANNINGTREE, 1839, by JAMES BIGSBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I feel very queer, my will I now make
Last Line: And the rest of my goods sell to pay off my debts
Subject(s): Essex, England; Labor And Laborers; Law And Lawyers