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Subject: DELAWARE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACROSS THE DELAWARE, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winter night is cold and drear
Last Line: And god has crossed the delaware!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): American Revolution; Delaware (river); Trenton, Battle Of (1776)


OUR HERITAGE, by HERMAN H. HANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A virgin land in the unknown west
Last Line: For dear old delaware!
Subject(s): Delaware


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 4. THE LADY ARMAGOT, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her garden, where the river / round the isle of tinicum
Last Line: Fold her closely to his breast!
Subject(s): Delaware; History; Historians


SONGS OF NEW-SWEDEN: PROLOGUE, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing a time when o'er this region waved
Last Line: From books scarce-known, take, you who care to read.
Subject(s): Delaware; Sweden


THE BALLAD OF DANIEL BRAY, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The delaware, with stately sweep
Last Line: "he brought the boats to washington."
Subject(s): American Revolution; Delaware (river); Trenton, Battle Of (1776)


THE CANAL-BOAT PILOT, RETIRED, by HARRINGTON GREEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lazily floating between the green hills
Last Line: Then under the bridges of brunswick town!
Subject(s): Boats; Delaware (river)


THE DELAWARE, by OLIVER CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail! Thou prince of noble rivers
Last Line: Ever safely on thy tide.
Subject(s): Delaware (river)


THE DELAWARE, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother, the cloud, cast me down to the ground
Last Line: Yet flowing and flowing.
Subject(s): Delaware (river)


THE DELAWARE WATER-GAP, by ELIZABETH LUMMIS FRIES ELLETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Our western land can boast no lovelier spot
Last Line: Fertility renewed and fresh delights.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ellet, Elizabth F.
Subject(s): Delaware (river)


THE FRESHET: A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARE, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: March hath unlocked stern winter's chain
Last Line: And every heart in prayer of grateful love is blent.
Subject(s): Delaware; Legends


TO DELAWARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice welcome to thy sisters of the east
Last Line: Glory and praise to god! Another state is free!
Subject(s): Delaware; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States


TO THE HONOURABLE W. R. SPENCER; FROM BUFFALO, UPON LAKE ERIE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou oft hast told me of the fairy hours
Last Line: Have many a mile to journey, ere we meet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Delaware (river); Homesickness; Lake Erie; Mississippi River; Missouri River; Rivers; Schuylkill River


WASHINGTON BY THE DELAWARE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow was red with patriot blood
Last Line: Think, think of washington!
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Delaware (river); Trenton, Battle Of (1776); Valor; Bravery