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Subject: CLIFFS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FINISTERRE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the land's end: the last fingers, knuckled and rheumatic,
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cliffs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


GORDALE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At early dawn, or rather when the air
Last Line: And force their passage to the salt-see tides!
Subject(s): Cliffs


ST. BEE'S HEAD, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen cliffs that met the ocean foe
Last Line: And writhe and sob their puny lives away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): St. Bee's Head, England; Cliffs