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Subject: STONEHENGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GUILT AND SORROW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A traveller on the skirt of sarum's plain
Last Line: And drop, as he once dropped, in miserable trance.
Variant Title(s): Salisbury Plain And Stonehenge
Subject(s): Landscape; Salisbury, England; Stonehenge


HEART'S JOURNEY, SELS., by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is stonehenge? It is the roofless past
Subject(s): England; Stonehenge


SONNET: 4: WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou noblest monument of albion's isle!
Last Line: Studious to trace thy wondrous origin, %we muse on many an ancient tale renowned
Subject(s): Stonehenge


STONEHENGE, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near wilton sweet huge heaps of stone are found
Last Line: She is the cause that all the rest I am.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 22. The Seven Wonders Of England
Subject(s): England; Stonehenge; English


THE BROKEN CIRCLE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on sarum's treeless plain
Last Line: Still lives to feed its altar-flame!
Subject(s): Stonehenge


THE FESTAL HOUR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When are the lessons given
Last Line: So darkly pressed and girdled in by death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Dryads; Rome, Italy; Stonehenge; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark


TO MY HONOURED FRIEND DR. CHARLETON, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The longest tyranny that ever swayed
Last Line: But, he restor'd, 't is now become a throne.
Variant Title(s): To My Honoured Friend, Dr. Charleton, On His Learned And Useful Works
Subject(s): Archeology; Boyle, Robert (1627-1691); Harvey, William (1578-1657); Science; Stonehenge; Scientists