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Subject: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FACTORY CHIMNEYS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Motionless blood-hued styluses that scrawl on the infinite
Last Line: In hieroglyphs rolling and tumbling, red, black, purple and gold.
Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; London; Smoke


SONNET. TO COLEBROOKE DALE, by ANNA SEWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy genius, colebrooke, faithless to his charge
Last Line: Drowns the wild woodland song, and breaks the poet's spell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Industrial Revolution


THE AGE OF STEEL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the age of iron
Last Line: Welcome, the age of steel!
Subject(s): Industrial Revolution; Steel


THE CHESTNUT TREE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Misshapen seed! Thy uncouth form
Last Line: Bloom in immortal verdure there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Brattleboro, Vermont; Chestnut Trees; Industrial Revolution; Kennicott, Benjamin (1718-1783)


THE FACTORY TOWN, by ERNEST CHARLES JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night had sunk along the city
Last Line: And the generations die.
Subject(s): Industrial Revolution


THE FACTORY; 'TIS AN ACCURSED THING!, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There rests a shade above yon town
Last Line: There is a curse on thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; Pollution


TO IRON-FOUNDERS AND OTHERS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you destroy a blade of grass
Last Line: Chisels men's hands to magnify.
Subject(s): Environment; Industrial Revolution; Labor & Laborers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers


VERSES ON HEARING THAT AN AIRY AND PLEASANT SITUATION .. NEW BUILDINGS, by MARIA LOGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a time! That time the muse bewails
Last Line: And give youth, ease and health to thy enfeebling arms.
Subject(s): Industrial Revolution; Leeds, England; Nature