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Subject: WAKES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LYKE-WAKE CAROL, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grow old and die, rich day
Last Line: To us thy banished here!
Subject(s): Wakes


A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "this ae nighte [night], this ae nighte [night]"
Last Line: And christ receive thy saule [soul]
Variant Title(s): The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge
Subject(s): Death;judgment Day;wakes; "dead, The;end Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man;


A SOLDIER'S WAKE; 1856, by TIMOTHY DANIEL (DONILL) SULLIVAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And this is all she has to lay
Last Line: And then--shall deck another wake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, Timothy Daniel
Subject(s): Wakes


A WASTED VIGIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Couldst thou not watch with me one hour? Behold
Last Line: Thou couldst not watch with me.
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Moon; Night; Wakes; Sunrise; Paradise; Bedtime


FINNEGAN'S WAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tim finigan lived in walker street --
Last Line: Bad luck ter yer souls! / d'ye think I'm dead?
Variant Title(s): Finigan's Wake
Subject(s): Wakes


THE BLUE WAKE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the blood-red sun sank in the western sky
Last Line: To furnish her a home.
Subject(s): Absence; Blue (color); Sea; Wakes; Separation; Isolation; Ocean


THE WAKE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your absence distributed itself
Subject(s): Wakes


THE WAKE OF TIM O'HARA (SEVEN DIALS), by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the wake of o'hara
Last Line: At the wake of tim o'hara.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Wakes


VIGIL, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our talk was quiet as an autumn vesper
Last Line: And burning eyes the wax wane.
Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Wakes


WAKE, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three nights you lay in our house
Last Line: Of the abandoned world
Subject(s): Wakes


WAKE, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night long
Last Line: Felt so much %alive
Subject(s): Wakes


WILLIE'S LYKE-WAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "willie, willie, what makes you sae sad?"
Last Line: But I'll send you home with a merry convoy
Subject(s): Wakes


YOU COULD TELL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She looked at the corpse laid out in the bed
Last Line: He's just back from his holiday,' she said.
Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Wakes