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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Matches Found: 8 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 |
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