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Subject: MATHER, COTTON (1663-1728)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONSOLATORY POEM DEDICATED TO MR. COTTON MATHER, by NICHOLAS NOYES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sir, after you have wip'd the eyes
Last Line: Heav'n, heav'n will make amends for all!
Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)


BLUE BUILDINGS IN THE SUMMER AIR, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cotton mather died when I was a boy. The books
Last Line: You are one of the not-numberale mice %searching all day, all night, for the honey-comb
Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)


CONNECTICUT: 6, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: None knew - except a patient, precious few
Last Line: The greek or welshman does not always lie
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Connecticut; Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)


CONNECTICUT: 7, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know ye the venerable cotton? He
Last Line: He wandered freely, like a bird or bear
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Connecticut; Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)


COTTON MATHER, MEET MISS DUVALL, by MILDRED J. NASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Miss duvall, dark-skinned and scant
Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)


THE BLUE BUILDINGS IN THE SUMMER AIR, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cotton mather died when I was a boy. The books
Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)


THE PHANTOM SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In mather's magnalia christi, / of the old colonial time
Last Line: He had sent this ship of air.
Subject(s): Mather, Cotton (1663-1728); New Haven, Connecticut; Ships & Shipping