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Subject: BRITTANY, FRANCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MEMORY OF BRITTANY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Know you drowsy pont aven
Last Line: By remembering pont aven.)
Subject(s): Brittany, France


A SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAY IN BRITTANY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who counts the foolish years?
Last Line: Admiring still how sweetly you become them?
Subject(s): Birthdays; Brittany, France


BRYAN OF BRITTANY, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses are golden or white or red
Last Line: "must over the hill with me."
Subject(s): Brittany, France


CARNAC, by EUGENE GUILLEVIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sea on the edge of nothingness
Last Line: I who dreamt %of finding equilibrium
Subject(s): Brittany, France


THE MOBILIZATION IN BRITTANY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was silent in the street
Last Line: So this is the way of war ...
Subject(s): Brittany, France; World War I; First World War


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 3. TRISTRAM IN BRITTANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the dawn loves the sunlight I love thee;'
Last Line: So dawned the moonrise of their marriage night.
Subject(s): Brittany, France; Love; Marriage; Moon; Sea; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 7. THE WIFE'S VIGIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But all that year in brittany forlorn
Last Line: All round her not of darkness, but of death
Subject(s): Brittany, France; God; Hell; Love