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Subject: MIDLANDS, ENGLAND
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CATTIN AND CLEMENTING SONG (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Catherine and clement come year by year
Last Line: Then down to old arley, astley and shrawley go nimbly, %and finish we up at holt, hallow, and grimle
Subject(s): Midlands, England


CATTLIN AND CLEMENTING SONG (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: St. Clement's! St. Clement's a cat by the ear!
Last Line: But if you fill it of the small, %the devil take butler, bowl, and all
Subject(s): Midlands, England


THE MIDLANDS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black in the summer night my cotswold hill
Last Line: I draw the blood of england's midmost shires.
Subject(s): England; Gloucestershire, England; Midlands, England; Sex; English


TRUE LOVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother's gone awandering
Last Line: All for you love, all for true love %all for luck my dear
Subject(s): Gypsies; Love; Midlands, England


VERSES ON THE TRADES IN BROMSGROVE, 1851, by JOHN HARRIS SCROXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have makers of buttons and makers of nails
Last Line: We have those who are honest, and upright, and true, %and those in gaol ought long penance to
Subject(s): Midlands, England