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Subject: KENT, ENGLAND
Matches Found: 11

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRAYFORD, KENT; EPITAPH FOR PETER SNELL, PARISH CLERK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The life of this clerk was just threescore and ten
Last Line: And here with three wives he waits till again %the trumpet shall rouse him to sing out amen
Subject(s): Kent, England


EPITAPH FORMERLY IN SNODLAND CHURCH, KENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Palmers al our faders were
Last Line: A thousand wyth four hundred seven, %and took my journey hence to heaven
Subject(s): Kent, England


INSCRIPTION ON A STONE FOR ANN WEST, 1811, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The reverend rector being a hard %austerly rigid man
Last Line: So to the memory of a friend %I, here am now set down
Subject(s): Kent, England


INSCRIPTION ON THE PENDULUM OF THE TOWER CLOCK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept
Last Line: Will christ have saved my soul by then? Amen
Subject(s): Kent, England


INSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF ALDERMAN NYNN, by FRANCES WEBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Full forty years was the alderman seen
Last Line: For the great bowler death, at one critical cast, %has ended his length, and close rubbed him at las
Subject(s): Kent, England


MEMORY OF KENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kentish hamlets grey and old
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Kent, England


PETITION TO THE HONOURABLE BOARD OF ORDNANCE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye mun na think me se'l-sufficient
Last Line: And aye get that for which ye wist: sae ends my prayer
Subject(s): Kent, England


ST AETHELBURGA; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen, saint, evangelist; sweet, patient, fain to wait
Last Line: She enters through that gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Aethelburga Of Kent (d. 647); Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Kent, England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE NUN OF KENT; A HISTORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A goodly saint, a goodly saint now
Last Line: (curtain falls.)
Subject(s): Clergy; Convents; Kent, England; Monasteries; Nuns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys


VERSES FOR THE NEW SPIRE, WINGHAM CHURCH, KENT, 1793, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In seventeen hundred and ninety three, %richard hodgman, of folkstone
Last Line: If you finish me well, for to make me secure, %so that a hundred of years may endure
Subject(s): Churches; Kent, England; Spires


VERSES FOUND ON THE MINISTER'S PORCH AT WYE, KENT, 1630, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The corne is so deare
Last Line: Well you know my name, %you must be wise in the same
Subject(s): Kent, England