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Subject: BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTERNOON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ladies who are interested in assyrian art
Last Line: Towards the unconscous, the ineffable, the absolute
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums


AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I turn the page and read
Last Line: About the cleft battlements of can grande's castle....
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys


BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers
Last Line: The guttural sorrow of the refugees
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War


CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY; BRITISH MUSEUM, CASE NO. 6807, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A heap of crumbling bones
Last Line: More fair than she.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mummies; Museums; Art Gallerys


GREAT FETISHES, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hardwood sheathing
Last Line: And the gaze shining like a bugle
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums


HOMAGE TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a supreme god in the ethnological section
Last Line: And grant his reign over the entire building.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Homage & Respect


IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you see in that time-touched stone
Last Line: The voice of paul.'
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Art Gallerys; Saul Of Tarsus


IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praised be the moon of books! That doth above
Last Line: While in this liberal house thy face is bright.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Librarians & Libraries; Museums; Library; Librarians; Art Gallerys


SPARROW SHELTERING UNDER A COLUMN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Conceived first by whom? By the greeks perfected
Last Line: And that, though perhaps cold, he is at home there
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Scholarship And Scholars; Statues


THE BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War; Art Gallerys


TO AN UNKNOWN BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who were you once? Could we but guess
Last Line: Forgotten more profoundly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Statues; Art Gallerys


TO LALLIE (OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM), by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up those museum steps you came
Last Line: What does it matter ?
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Love; Museums; Art Gallerys


TO THE CARYATID (IN THE ELGIN ROOM, BRITISH MUSEUM), by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long ago, and day by day
Last Line: They are as sweet as long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Caryatids; Museums; Women; Art Gallerys


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How lovely
Last Line: Be still, o soul, and know that thou art god.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys