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Subject: HEBRIDES (ISLANDS), SCOTLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CANADIAN BOAT SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair these broad meads - these hoary woods are grand
Last Line: Beat heavily beyond the atlantic roar
Subject(s): "hebrides (islands), Scotland;


ELEGIAC SONNET: 51. SUPPOSED ... WRITTEN IN THE HEBRIDES, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this lone island, whose unfruitful breast
Last Line: Thy mind my empire -- and my throne thy heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland


ELEGIAC SONNET: 52. THE PILGRIM, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faltering and sad the unhappy pilgrim roves
Last Line: That, trembling at the past -- recoils from future woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland


ELEGIAC SONNET: 53. THE LAPLANDER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shivering native who, by tenglio's side
Last Line: For him those beams of heaven shall never shine again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland


ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere!
Last Line: For a robin's song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks