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Subject: ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, LONDON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POEM, BEING AN ESSAY ON THE RUINS IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was it a vain curiosity or no?
Last Line: A beauty grow out of deformity?
Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666


AMERICA AT ST. PAUL'S, by MARGARETTA BYRDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Destiny knocked at the door
Last Line: "and this is our war!"
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I - United States


AT ST. PAUL'S, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not since wren's dome has whispered with man's prayer
Last Line: And christ, not odin, is acclaimed the lord.
Subject(s): Prayer; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I; First World War


ECCLESIA RESTAURTA; .. REBUILDING OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713)    Poem Text                    
First Line: What beauteous tumor's this, with royal grace
Last Line: And beauty, equals their magnificence.
Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666


EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ..., by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within this church sir philip sidney lies
Last Line: Souldiers, their martyr; lovers, their saint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); St. Paul's Cathedral, London


HOMAGE TO WREN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At sea in the dome of st. Paul's
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Wren, Christopher (1632-1723)


IN ST. PAUL'S A WHILE AGO, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer and winter close commune
Last Line: An epilept enthusiast.
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London


MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CROSS OF ST. PAUL'S, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man that pays his pence, and goes
Last Line: Though I should stand upon the cross, and ball!
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London


OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 21. ST. PAUL'S, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One time from that grey close I did emerge
Last Line: Of healing virtue, round the minster's verge.
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London


PHOENIX PAULINA, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I, he whose infant-muse did heretofore
Last Line: Down to whose soul even heaven itself descends.
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London


SEASONABLE THOUGHTS IN SAD TIMES, by JOHN TABOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The war still slaughters, & the plague destroys
Last Line: The cause, the cure we shall the better know.
Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666


ST. PAUL'S CHRISTMAS BELLS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye paltry petty tocsins of the town
Last Line: Heard not in dread, but joy of christmastide.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Nativity, The


ST. PAUL'S CHURCH; OR, THE PROTESTANT AMBULATORS, SELS., by EDWARD WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: That crown saint paul's without a grain
Last Line: May follow your devout example
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London


ST. PAUL'S DAY, 1925, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Londoners all and citizens of empire
Last Line: Sworn to uphold him.
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London


ST. PAUL'S RENOVATED, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shine, june on paul's
Last Line: For work well done.
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London


THE CHOIRE, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Th' almighty architect forms in mankind
Last Line: Twas fiction then, but now we see it, here.
Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666


THE CUPULO, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Westward from fair augusta's city, lies
Last Line: And many copper-smiths will do thee right.
Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London


THE MISFORTUNES OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Could we consult th' eternal mighty fates
Last Line: "till then, we'll not disgrace the name of paul; / but thee misfortunes hieroglyphic call"
Subject(s): "london Fire (1666);st. Paul's Cathedral, London;" Great Fire Of 1666