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Subject: AVON (RIVER), ENGLAND
Matches Found: 10

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF STRATFORD, by DOROTHY GOLDSMITH HARTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where avon's slow and silver stream
Last Line: Remembered footsteps pass!
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Stratford-on-avon, England


AVON AND THE THAMES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If, in all albion's storied sweep
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Thames (river)


EBB TIDE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly thy flowing tide
Last Line: Then hasten to old age!
Subject(s): Aging; Avon (river), England; Rivers; Tides


EPISTOLA AD DAKYNS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dakyns, when I am dead
Last Line: Three places, dakyns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Death; Rivers; Dead, The


INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here
Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips


ON SWIFT JOINING AVON NEAR RUGBY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent and modest brook! Who dippest here
Last Line: Silent and modest brook!
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Rugby, England; Swift (river), England


THE AVON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Avon - a precious, an immortal name!
Last Line: Shrink from 'thy' name, pure rill, with unpleased ears.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers


THE PATRIOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce is my life more dear to me
Last Line: I have my own; I envy none.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Rivers; English


UPON ECKINGTON BRIDGE, RIVER AVON, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O pastoral heart of england! Like a psalm
Last Line: Turns in her sleep, and murmurs of the spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Variant Title(s): Ode
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Bridges; England; Rivers; English


VENUS IN ARDEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now love, her mantle thrown
Last Line: With youth whose days three thousand years are done.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rivers; Venus (goddess); English