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Subject: THOMSON, JAMES (1700-1748)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CENTO MADE BY WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Throned in the sun's descending car
Last Line: Favourite passages from different authors, seems uobjectionable.]
Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Beattie, James (1735-1803); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Doctors


ADDRESS TO THE SHADE OF THOMSON THE POET, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While virgin spring, by eden's flood
Last Line: Proclaims that thomson was her son.
Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748)


HOW TO CATCH A BLACK-FISH, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thomson, the poet of the year, has sung
Last Line: And feasts upon their folly.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Anglers


IMITATION OF THOMSON, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, matured by glad hesperian suns
Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748); Wit & Humor


JACK AND JILL, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, up the steep side of the rugged hill
Last Line: And shrieks of anguish chill the conscious pump.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748)


LINES ON JAMES THOMSON, THE POET OF NATURE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye who from london smoke and turmoil fly
Last Line: Bidding us prize the favourite scenes he trod, %and view in nature's beauties nature's god
Subject(s): Richmond Park, England; Thomson, James (1700-1748)


ODE OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MR. THOMSON, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In yonder grave a druid lies
Last Line: In yonder grave your druid lies!
Variant Title(s): On The Death Of Thomson;ode On The Death Of Mr. Thomason
Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748)


ON A CERTAIN COMMEMORATION OF THOMSON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou not rise, indignant shade
Last Line: Shall lose the mite he hath.
Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748)


THOMSON'S BIRTH-PLACE (EDNAM, ROXBURGHSHIRE), by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is ednam, then, so near us? I must gaze
Last Line: How oft our joys depend on ignorance!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Children; Memory; Scotland; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Thought; Childhood; Thinking