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Subject: STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (1850-1894)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE ROADHOUSE: IN MEMORY OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You hearken, fellows? Turned aside
Last Line: The velvet jacket at the door.
Subject(s): Hotels; Poetry & Poets; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


BED DURING EXAMS, by CLARA WARREN VAIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I used to go to bed at night
Last Line: I cannot get to bed till day?
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


DERELICT; A REMINISCENCE OF R.L.S.'S TREASURE ISLAND, by YOUNG EWING ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
Last Line: Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Variant Title(s): The Dead Man's Song
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


ECHOES: 29, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A child / curious and innocent
Last Line: Of the old nurse, death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Death; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Dead, The


HEALTH'S EXILES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O diamond isle upon a diamond sea
Last Line: Back in the home-land where their heart remains!
Subject(s): Exiles; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


MY SHADOW, by W. HODGSON BURNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have a sort of shadow that goes out sometimes with me
Last Line: Had forgotten all about me and had gone to vote instead!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Shadows; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 7. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Or, where grey and cold the bent lands
Last Line: Wet with scottish rain.
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


PRO FEMINA: FOUR. FANNY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At samoa, hardly unpacked, I commenced planting
Last Line: Never again succumb to the fever of planting.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Mothers; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


R. L. S., by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest, oh thou restless angel, rest at last
Last Line: Or lictors shouldering high their sheaves of rods.
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


R.L.S., by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home is the sailor, home from the sea
Last Line: The hunter from the hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


R.L.S. IN MEMORIAM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These to his memory. May the age arriving
Last Line: His golden keys!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 19. R. L. S. (1850-1894), by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, time and change, they range and range
Last Line: As once in the grass together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


STEVENSON'S BIRTHDAY, by KATHERINE WISE MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How I should like a birthday!' said the child?'
Last Line: Not part of time, but immortality.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


THE LOST FRIEND, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All underneath the restless sea
Last Line: Dear robert louis stevenson.
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


THOUGHT OF STEVENSON, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High and alone I stood on calton hill
Last Line: But the brave soul is free, is home again!
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


TO MY SISTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These books you find three weeks
Last Line: "ere we be young again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Sisters; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robert louis stevenson! / blue the lift and braw the dawn
Last Line: Robert louis stevenson.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Strangers; United States; Writing & Writers; America


TO TUSITALA IN VAILIMA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cleartest voice in britain's chorus, tusitala!
Last Line: Than the rifted cloud-land closes.
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


TUSITALA, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tusitala, you can tell
Last Line: Teller, you shall never die!
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 21. REQUIEM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the wide and starry sky
Last Line: And the hunter home from the hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): Underwoods: Book One: 21. Requiem
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Immortality; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones