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Subject: RUSKIN, JOHN (1819-1900)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1851: A MESSAGE TO DENMARK HILL, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dearest father, it is the year's first day
Last Line: Gone now as all must go. Your loving son, / john
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Italy; Loss; Italians


ASOLANDO: INAPPREHENSIVENESS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We two stood simply friend-like side by side
Last Line: "I said, ""vernon lee."
Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Lee, Vernon (violet Paget) (1856-1935); Weeds; Perception


DIRGE; JOHN RUSKIN, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourn, upward-stealing vapours, sunset-amber
Last Line: To silence and to dust.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900)


HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gladstone was still respected / when john ruskin produced
Last Line: Adulteries.
Subject(s): Buchanan, Robert William (1841-1901); Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Critics & Criticism; Dramatists; Novels & Novelists; Paintings & Painters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Dramatists


METAMORPHOSES: 16. PROSERPINA (JOHN RUSKIN), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I growled tell them to jump off a cliff
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900)


METAMORPHOSES: 16. PROSERPINA (JOHN RUSKIN), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I growled tell them to jump off a cliff
Last Line: Or wahtever new punishment I can devise
Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900)


THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still is north hinksey very much the same
Last Line: The toiling masses come to try their hand on thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Oxford University; Roads; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Paths; Trails


THOUGHTS AFTER RUSKIN, by ELMA MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women reminded him of lilies and roses
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900)


THOUGHTS AFTER RUSKIN, by ELMA MITCHELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women reminded him of lilies and roses
Last Line: Their essences of lilies and of roses
Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Ruskin, John (1819-1900)