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Subject: NUMISMATICS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANTIQUE COIN, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still etna bears the red wine and the gold
Last Line: The immortal beauty of sicilian girls.
Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Numismatics; Sicily; Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical


COINS OF MIST, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's the little old man selling matches?
Last Line: Where's the light in the sky -- and who watches?
Subject(s): Flowers; London; Numismatics; Thames (river); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical


MEDALS, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the mute parade of purple hearts
Last Line: Unlatch the narrow door
Subject(s): Memory; Nazis; Numismatics; Prisons And Prisoners


ON SEEING A LITTLE CHILD SPIN A COIN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the face of him, whose quick resource
Last Line: And spin the horns of ammon out of sight.
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Numismatics; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical


THE MUTINY YEAR, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the lumber-room I rummaged for some papers out of place
Last Line: His aunt jane had scored with butter at the local county show.
Subject(s): Numismatics; War; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical


TO A SILVER DOLLAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale coin, what various hands have you passed through
Last Line: "seem those fair, graven words: ""in god we trust."
Subject(s): Greed; Numismatics; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical; Riches; Fortunes


TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See the wild waste of all-devouring years!
Last Line: And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the muse he lov'd.'
Subject(s): Numismatics; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical


WROTE IN A VOLUME OF EVELYN ON COINS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: T-m w--d of ch-sw-c, deep divine
Last Line: That churchman e'er gave coin to lay.
Subject(s): Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Kent, William (1686-1748); Numismatics; Wood, Thomas. Vicar Of Chiswick; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical