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Subject: SILVER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` INSCRIPTION ON A SILVER CUP, COMBE MARTIN, DEVON, 1640 (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When water workes in broaken wharfe
Last Line: Till bulmer by his skill and charge %did frame me this to be
Subject(s): Bulmer, Sir Bevis; Devonshire, England; Silver Mining And Miners


INSCRIPTION ON A SILVER CUP, COMBE MARTIN, DEVON, 1640 (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In martyn's commbe long lay I hydd
Last Line: Coomeb martin gave the use alone, %bulmer the fining and fashion
Subject(s): Bulmer, Sir Bevis; Devonshire, England; Silver Mining And Miners


SEMPITERNAL, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out at sea the sun / was shining
Last Line: North each time .
Subject(s): Sea; Silver; Sun; Water; Whales; Ocean


SILVER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly, silently, now the moon
Last Line: By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Silver; Bedtime


SILVER AND LAVENDER, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The asters now put on the lavender
Last Line: Silver and lavender clothes earth and sky.
Subject(s): Asters; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Grief; Lavender; Silver; Sorrow; Sadness


SIMILE; ON OUR WANT OF SILVER, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when of old, some sorceress threw
Last Line: Our silver will appear again
Subject(s): Metaphor; Silver


THE SILVER WAIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When russet wagons left the lammas field
Last Line: An angel walking by a silver wain.
Subject(s): Fields; Knights & Knighthood; Plowing & Plowmen; Silver; Wagons; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE TRAITOR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Judas am I, or peter
Last Line: And my love looking at me!
Subject(s): Betrayal; Faces; Fate; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Love; Night; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Silver; Destiny; Bedtime


WASHED IN SILVER, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gleaming in silver are the hills!
Last Line: March magnificently by!
Subject(s): Silver