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Subject: SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 31, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On wenlock edge the wood's in trouble
Last Line: Are ashes under uricon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): On Wenlock Edge;wenlock Edge
Subject(s): England; Shropshire, England; Time; Wind; English


EPITAPH FOR ELIZABETH BARKHAM (D.1797); SHROPSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When terrestrial all in chaos shall exhinbit effervescence
Last Line: Where honest phlebeians ever shall have presidence o'er ambiguous great monarchs
Subject(s): Shropshire, England


GREEN GRASS SONG; KNOWN AT BERRINGTON, SHROPSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking up the green grass
Last Line: The bells would ring and we should sing, %and all clap handstogether!
Subject(s): Shropshire, England


PART OF AN EPITAPH FOR SIR THOMAS STANLEY IN TONG CHURCH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not monumental stone preserves our fame
Last Line: When all to tyme's consumption shall be given, %stanley for whom this stands shall stand in heaven
Subject(s): Shropshire, England


SALOPIA INHOSPITALIS, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch not that maid
Last Line: For adamant can neither waste nor melt.
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Shropshire, England


SHROPSHIRE CHARM FOR A GIRL TO SEE HER FUTURE HUSBAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the blessed friday night
Last Line: To dream of the young man I am to wed
Subject(s): Shropshire, England


STORY OF THE LIPPI'TON BAR, COMMUNALLY COMPOSED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In loppington town there now doth dwell
Last Line: To ha' heard the growls of a chump o' wood?
Subject(s): Shropshire, England


VERSE FOR A GRANT OF LAND TO THE HOPTON FAMILY; SHROPSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To me and to myne, to thee and to thine
Last Line: For one bow and one broad arrow, %when I come to hunt upon yarrow
Subject(s): Shropshire, England