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Subject: WATCHES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GIRL'S SONGS: 2, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My watch beneath my pillow white
Last Line: And there are stars past the window-sill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Night; Watches; Bedtime


FIRST WATCH, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father gave a watch to me
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Watches


INSCRIPTION FOR A WATCH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Could but our tempers move like this machine
Last Line: Sweet health to pass the present moments o'er, %and everlasting joy, when time shall be no more
Subject(s): Watches


JOHN CURZON'S WATCH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you heard of john curzon, of poland?
Last Line: And conquer -- from things as they are!
Subject(s): Watches


MR. COGGS, WATCHMAKER, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A watch will tell the time of day
Last Line: He'll make his gold repeater chime.
Subject(s): Repairing; Watches; Mending


MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night I dreamed I was locked in my father's watch
Last Line: I saw my father's face frown through the glass
Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Watches; Nightmares


MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night I dreamed I was locked in my father's watch
Last Line: I saw my father's face frown through the glass
Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Watches


NO TIME, by EVA RIEHLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no time to say the things
Last Line: But probably it's needed in the land.
Subject(s): Watches


OBSOLESCENCE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My wife, because she day-dreams catalogues
Subject(s): Watches; Gifts & Giving


OMEGA, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This little lightweight manacle whereby
Last Line: And add me to the unseen trapper’s kill
Subject(s): Watches


OMEGA, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This little lightweight manacle whereby
Last Line: And add me to the unseen trapper's kill
Subject(s): Watches


ON AN 18TH CENTURY WATCH-PAPER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time is - the present moment well employ
Last Line: Time present is the only time for thee
Subject(s): Watches


RIDDLE (2), by JAMES LEIGH PERROT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In confinement I'm chained every day
Last Line: If you have but your eyes on the watch
Subject(s): Riddles; Watches


THE POACHER'S TIME-PIECE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the viewless belfry-top reared by the shades of night the round
Last Line: In the birds he finds the hour.
Subject(s): Poaching; Time; Watches


THE WATCH, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wakened on my hot, hard bed
Subject(s): Watches


THE WATCH, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man is a watch, wound up at first, but never
Last Line: And mans pulse stopt, all passions sleep in peace.
Subject(s): Mortality; Watches


THE WATCH, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My watch wouldn't work worth a dime, it
Last Line: The thing I should tackle at first.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Repairing; Watches; Mending


TO A WATCH LEFT IN A HOTEL ROOM, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not long ago the sun was shining
Subject(s): Hotels; Loss; Watches; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Uncessant minutes, whilst you move you tell
Last Line: You die in time, time in eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Insomnia; Watches; Sleeplessness


VERSES DESIGNED FOR A WATCH CASE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could but our tempers move like this machine
Last Line: And everlasting joy, when time shall be no more.
Subject(s): Watches


VERSES IN A WATCH, by WILLIAM CZAR BRADLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little monitor, by thee
Last Line: Till all be regular and true.
Subject(s): Watches


VERSES ON WATCH-PAPERS (1). 1730, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With me while present may thy lovely eyes
Last Line: Then oft with kind impatience look on this, %then every minute count, as I do now
Subject(s): Watches


VERSES ON WATCH-PAPERS (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little monitor, impart
Last Line: Happy those who wisely learn %truth from error to discern
Subject(s): Watches


VERSES ON WATCH-PAPERS (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little monitor! By thee
Last Line: Latent errors rise to view, %till all be regular and true
Subject(s): Watches


WATCH, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wakened on my hot, hard bed
Last Line: Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick
Subject(s): Watches


WATCH REPAIR, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A small wheel
Subject(s): Watches


WATCH REPAIR, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A small wheel
Last Line: We raise it %to the lips %of the nearest %ear
Subject(s): Watches


WATCH-PAPER VERSE; PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Onward %perpetually moving
Last Line: Life's spring is snapt. %you die!
Subject(s): Watches


WATCHES, by ROBERT MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh a new watch has the cleanest hands of all
Last Line: Most of the time, this makes absolutely no sense to me at all. %bulova
Subject(s): Watches


WRITTEN IN A LADY'S WATCH-CASE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauteous machine! Let love thy movements
Last Line: That cupid nicks with nicer art than zuare.
Subject(s): Love; Nymphs; Watches