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Subject: SOMERSET, ENGLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EAST COKER, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid
Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S.


INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED AT SOWING OF A GROVE OF OAKS, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Other stones the era tell
Last Line: Stone at heart, and cannot grow,
Subject(s): Somerset, England


LEGEND OF GLASTONBURY, VERSIFIED IN THE SOMERSET DIALECT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who hath not hir'd of avalon?
Last Line: Let tell pumparles or lazy brue %that what is told is vor sartain true!
Subject(s): Somerset, England


TABLET AT THE BISHOP OF CHESTER'S RETREAT AT BANWELL CAVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here let time's creeping winter shed
Last Line: Till life dissolving at the view, %I wake, and find the vision true
Subject(s): Somerset, England


THE PLACE OF FAME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: The marriage registers of somerset
Last Line: Say from your heart:—god rest each simple soul!
Subject(s): Marriage; Somerset, England; Weddings; Husbands; Wives