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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GIPSY FUNERAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While seeking in a warwick lane
Last Line: Or in a gipsies' camp.
Subject(s): Funerals; Gypsies; Burials; Gipsies


A GYPSY SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can tute rakker romany?
Last Line: To my old sweetheart in her springtime gown
Subject(s): Fields;gypsies;singing & Singers;spring;towns; Pastures;meadows;leas;gipsies


A GYPSY SONG, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let art awhile a gypsy be
Last Line: And errant bards again.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


A ROMANY LAD PASSED BY, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a gypsy boy
Last Line: Till I am dead.
Subject(s): Children; Gypsies; Relationships; Childhood; Gipsies


AUTUMN'S GYPSIES, by LAUREL JANE SPITLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sipping of the autumn air / heady as the
Last Line: Gypsies vanish in the night.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


BALTA; GYPSY-SONG FO TRANSLYVANIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave balta clasped me to his breast
Last Line: And lo! 'twas balta brave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Gypsies; Love; Marriage; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BRAHMS' GIPSY DANCE, NUMBER TWO, by BEULAH MAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Half hesitant I turn the radio
Last Line: Of dusky wings, the tragic eyes of night!
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


COLERIDGE CROSSING THE PLAIN OF JARS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gypsies carry sacks of walnuts out of groves
Last Line: Was in her eyes like a widow's soul.
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Gypsies; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879); Snow; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


GIPSIES, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether from india's burning plains
Last Line: And both may laugh at fortune.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Gypsies; Life; Gipsies


GIPSIES (1), by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow falls deep; the forest lies alone
Last Line: A quiet, pilfering, unprotected race.
Variant Title(s): The Gipsy Camp;gypsies;the Gipsy Camp In Epping Forest
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GIPSIES (2), by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gipsies seek wide sheltering woods again
Last Line: Go with the winds and crack the rotted oak.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GIPSIES AT NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With brown arms wreathed about the fire
Last Line: Whom tears of things can touch no more?
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GIPSY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, the man with the red scarf
Last Line: Thou shalt shut doors on me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GIPSY CONFESSION, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a lad as cold ice
Last Line: Or take a drink, or change their mind. . . .)
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Love Affairs; Lust; Gipsies


GIPSY JANE, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She had cornflowers in her ears
Last Line: Kind to gipsy jane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Variant Title(s): Gypsy Jane
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GIPSY LOVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gipsy tents are on the down
Last Line: With a gipsy for my dear!
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GYPSIES IN THE WOOD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My mother said that I never should
Last Line: Sally tell my mother I shall never come back
Variant Title(s): My Mother Said
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GYPSY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The entire country is overrun with private property, the gypsy king said
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GYPSY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked a gypsy pal
Last Line: Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GYPSY CHEER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gypsy whose journeys and ventures had failed
Last Line: There's always the wind on the heath and the sun!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Gypsies; Pain; Gipsies; Suffering; Misery


GYPSY GHOST, by LUELLA STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tonight you heard wild birds in flight, then sent
Last Line: Swift silent ships like whispers in your eyes.
Subject(s): Birds; Gypsies; Gipsies


GYPSY HEART, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd love to be a gypsy
Last Line: Gay slippers with red heels!
Subject(s): Gypsies; Hearts; Love; Gipsies


GYPSY LOVE SONG, by NORA MCLEOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, a gypsy's love can never grow cold
Last Line: For a gypsy's love must never grow cold.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Singing & Singers; Gipsies


GYPSY MOTHER, by ISABEL NEILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hers never was the quiet way
Last Line: She calls her children still.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Mothers; Gipsies


GYPSY MOTHER, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a hole-in-the-wall on halsted street sits a gypsy woman
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


GYPSY'S VIOLIN, by IDA STEELE OSGOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tears in the gypsy's violin
Last Line: And traveled by caravan.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


HERE HE IS!, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jim's got back. An' who is jim?
Last Line: Jim's got back!
Subject(s): Gypsies; Travel; Gipsies; Journeys; Trips


I KNOW ALL THIS WHEN GIPSY FIDDLES CRY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, gipsies, proud and stiff-necked and perverse
Last Line: I know all this, when gipsy fiddles cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Gypsies; India; Gipsies


JACKIE FAA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gypsies they came to my lord cassilis' yett
Last Line: The earl of cassillis' ladie
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


KITTY CLOVER, by CARRIE W. THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Midget, gypsy, big-eyed elf, little kitty clover
Last Line: "so my brook won't wet its feet!"
Variant Title(s): Lulu
Subject(s): Children; Gypsies; Childhood; Gipsies


MEG MERRILEES, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old meg she was a gipsy
Last Line: She died full long agone!
Variant Title(s): Old Meg;meg Merrilies
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


MY GYPSY MAID, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a gypsy maiden and she travels in / a van
Last Line: That I'll make a better husband than a loafing gypsy man.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Love; Gipsies


MY HERITAGE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love a gown of crimson hue
Last Line: It is my gypsy heritage!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Gypsies; Gipsies


ROMANY ROAD, by MIRZA FRENCH MACKAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fair word, and a fond word, and a word spoke true
Last Line: And a gipsy pack by a gipsy track, at the end of a long day.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


SHUT OUT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death bars me from my garden, but by the dusty
Last Line: When the old wound starts a-throbbing and starlight brings no rest.
Subject(s): Death; Gypsies; Dead, The; Gipsies


THE ASSIMILATION OF THE GYPSIES, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the background, a few shacks & overturned carts
Subject(s): Assimilation; Gypsies; Gipsies


THE BALLAD OF ADAM'S FIRST, by LELAND DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some gypsies are like her
Last Line: Were raiment rare!
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


THE GHOST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: With eager search to dart the soul
Last Line: Were delivered at pewterers' hall, in lime street.
Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Gypsies; Magic; Quackery & Quacks; Supernatural; English; Gipsies


THE GIPSY AND THE CUCKOO, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, brother, what's a cuckoo, but a roguish chaffing bird?
Last Line: Were the sounds all organ pealing, psalm and song and prayer?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Gypsies; Gipsies


THE GIPSY PRAISES HIS HORSE, by ZMAI IOVAN IOVANOVICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You're admiring my horse, sir, I see
Last Line: Just a little bit damp on the tip of his tail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brankovichera, Vidosava
Subject(s): Animals; Gypsies; Horses; Gipsies


THE GYPSIES [OR, GIPSIES], by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where do the gypsies come from?
Last Line: Or look in a gypsy's eye.
Subject(s): Egypt; Gypsies; Gipsies


THE GYPSIES' ROAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall go on the gypsies' road
Last Line: The road that has no ending.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Gypsies; Roads; Gipsies; Paths; Trails


THE GYPSY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay! Tell us not of curtained walls!
Last Line: Follow our bidding, foul or fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Gypsies; Russia; Palmistry; Gipsies; Soviet Union; Russians


THE GYPSY, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fortnight before christmas gypsies were everywhere
Last Line: "over the hills and far away,"" and a crescent moon."
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


THE GYPSY AND THE TOWNSMAN, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pleasant enough in the seed time
Last Line: There than here in the saddest month of the weariest year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Gypsies; Towns; Weather; Gipsies


THE GYPSY CALL, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You wonder why I chose this gown
Last Line: Will roam the fields in gypsy gown.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies


THE GYPSY GIRL, by RALPH HODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen
Last Line: The darkness of her eyes!
Variant Title(s): The Gipsy Girl
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


THE GYPSY LADDIE (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gypsies came to our good lord's gate
Last Line: A fair young wanton lady
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


THE GYPSY LADDIE (7), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was late in the night when the squire came home
Last Line: But now I've come to an old straw pad / with the gipsies dancing round me
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


THE GYPSY'S EVENING BLAZE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To me how wildly pleasing is that scene
Last Line: "grant me this life, thou spirit of the shades!"
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


THE HILL WOMAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day a roving gypsy passed my door
Last Line: "soon you will go, too!"
Subject(s): Gypsies; Transience; Women; Gipsies; Impermanence


THE IDLERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew
Last Line: And not one of them all seemed to know the name of care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Gypsies; Landscape; English; Gipsies


THE MENDICANTS, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are as mendicants who wait
Last Line: That night, and slept beneath the stars.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Nature; Gipsies


THE ORCHARD AND THE HEATH, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I chanced upon an early walk to spy
Last Line: Far down with mellow orchards to endow.
Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Gypsies; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Gipsies


THE ROAD TO ROSLYN, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the road to roslyn town
Last Line: The bobbed hair hid my ears.
Subject(s): Deception; Fortune Tellers; Gypsies; Palmistry; Gipsies


THE ROMANY GIRL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun goes down, and with him takes
Last Line: But without glass we fathom you.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


THE SCHOLAR GIPSY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill
Last Line: And on the beach undid his corded bales.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Hope; Oxford University; Scholarship & Scholars; Gipsies; Optimism


THE SONG OF THE TRAMPS, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eager hands will never take us back
Last Line: Sure the world is ours to revel in and roam.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies


THE SPANISH GIPSY, by THOMAS MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roderigo!
Last Line: [exeunt omnes.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Spain; Gipsies


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands
Last Line: (exeunt.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills
Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology


THE THREE GIPSIES, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three gipsy men I saw one day
Last Line: Their loose hair black and curly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


THE VAGABOND, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard beauty in the woods
Last Line: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Well—perhaps!
Subject(s): Gypsies; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies


THE WRAGGLE TAGGLE GIPSIES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There were three gipsies a-come to my door
Last Line: "along with the wraggle taggle gipsies, o!"
Subject(s): Gypsies;love - Marital;marriage;wandering & Wanderers;; Gipsies;wedded Love;marriage - Love;weddings;husbands;wives


TO A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who taught this pleading to unpractis'd eyes?
Last Line: And wear their majesty of grief again.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Children; Gipsies; Childhood


TRAILS TO THE GREY EMPERORS, by IRIS LORA THORPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He is one in whom the gypsy gods delight
Last Line: Beyond an ivied wall.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


TRAVELLING GIPSIES, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The prophet tribe, with eyes of ardent glow
Last Line: Fate still unwinds the thread of things unseen.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies


TREK FEVER, by JULIA FIELD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gypsies are calling
Last Line: I'm on the high road.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies