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Subject: ORKNEY ISLANDS (SCOTLAND)
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLIFF HOUSE, ORKNEY ISLES, by GILLIAN FERGUSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stone hs rounded
Last Line: Under landless stars
Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland)


IN ORKNAY, by WILLIAM FOWLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Upon the utmost corners of the warld
Last Line: I change bot seas, bot cannot change my love.
Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland)


RENOIR IN ORKNEY, by JOHN STEWART CONN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monet might have made himself at home
Last Line: And will distribute at the solstice %canvases of wild flowers, like mottled flame
Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland); Paintings And Painters


THE VIKINGS' DAUGHTERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The outrage of these poor each day
Last Line: Wronged thule's daughters shall be heard.
Subject(s): England; Orkney Islands (scotland); Praise; Shetland Islands; Vikings; English


TO ORKNEY, by DAVID VEDDER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Land of the whirlpool - torrent - foam
Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland)


TRAVELER, ORKNEY ISLES, SCOTLAND, by ANNE PITKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky, for example, flat and white
Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland); Travel