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Subject: DIAMONDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIAMOND, by ROBERT LOVEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look how it sparkles, see it greet
Last Line: Held in eternal bondage there.
Subject(s): Dew; Diamonds


A LADY AT THE OPERA, by EMMA GRAY TRIGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: In your pale hair is a coronet of diamonds
Last Line: Alive and free!
Subject(s): Diamonds; Love - Unrequited; Passion


A PARTERRE OF KINGS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With diamonds the boxes flashed and blazed
Last Line: And nothing lacked that night save only art!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Diamonds; Praise; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


AFTERNOON OF A PAWNBROKER, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still they bring me diamonds, diamonds, always diamonds
Last Line: And here comes mrs. Case, to redeem her diamond ring
Subject(s): Diamonds; Pawnshops; Pawnbrokers


AFTERNOON OF A PAWNBROKER, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still they bring me diamonds, diamonds, always diamonds
Last Line: And here comes mrs. Case to redeem her diamond rings
Subject(s): Diamonds; Pawnshops


BIANCA: 3. DIAMONDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your diamonds on my finger glisten
Last Line: In the white hollow of your breasts?
Subject(s): Diamonds; Love


DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER: HALE, by CHRISTOPHER PATTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: As diamond
Last Line: All day made animate the dust
Subject(s): Diamonds


DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A firm there is, of civic fame
Last Line: And spent their forty pounds at leisure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Diamonds; Money; Police


DIAMOND CUTTERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However legendary %the stone is still a stone
Last Line: And know that africa %will yield you no more
Subject(s): Diamonds; South Africa


DIAMONDS, by CHRISTIAN BOK            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Diamonds; Fathers


DIAMONDS IN THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our guide was blind and kind, chatting about diamonds
Last Line: In the heart of earth too radiant to see
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Diamonds; Tourists


FAINT HEART NE'ER WON FAIR LADY, by CHARLES POTTER HINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The burn runs swiftly, my dainty lass
Last Line: "but muckle waur to ask it."
Subject(s): Diamonds; Scotland


FERN, COAL, DIAMOND, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The intense pressure of the earth
Last Line: Clear molten light.
Subject(s): Diamonds; Growth


GENTLEMAN JIM, by DANIEL O'CONNELL (1849-1899)    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the diamond shaft worked gentleman jim
Last Line: In the glory that hallows the martyr's grave.
Subject(s): Death; Diamonds; Graves; Martyrs; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


GIRL'S BEST FRIEND, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Diamonds cost so much because they contain galaxies
Last Line: The diamond to a woman, mumbling, %with his unpracticed tongue, my love is like this stone
Subject(s): Diamonds; Jewelry And Jewelers; Love


HOPE DIAMONDS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hundred fifty miles down, these uncut
Last Line: Wage. The burning faces near as the constant desert.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Diamonds; Mines & Miners


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 93, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A diamond or a coal
Last Line: What time the waters freeze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Diamonds


THE DIAMOND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister said she knew
Last Line: Well—she'll be sorry when I'm dead!
Subject(s): Children; Diamonds; Childhood


THE LANDLADY OF THE WHINTON INN TELLS A STORY, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, indeed, sir
Subject(s): Diamonds; Crime & Criminals; Guilt; Innocence; Misfortune


THOUGHTS OF A RETIRED DIAMOND CUTTER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Care, carefully chosen, even
Last Line: To design?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Diamonds; Retirement


TO HIS MISTRESS, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sent'st to me a heart was crowned
Subject(s): Diamonds


TO MY HUSBAND, by ELIZA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "when from the world, I shall be tane"
Last Line: For I'me a parting now from you
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1
Subject(s): Diamonds;farewell;marriage; Parting;weddings;husbands;wives


UPON A DIAMOND CUT IN FORME OF A HEART SET WITH A CROWN, by ROBERT AYTON    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sent to mee a heart was crown'd
Alternate Author Name(s): Aytoun, Robert
Subject(s): Diamonds


WITH A DIAMOND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While time a grim old lion gnawing lay
Last Line: Signing the will that leaves it to an heir.
Subject(s): Diamonds; Inheritance & Succession; Tears; Time; Heirs


WITH A DIAMOND FEDE RING ON AN OLD VENETIAN MIRROR, by WILLIAM THEODORE PETERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time in front of this dim glass the princess fair
Last Line: The mirror took the whole scene in and made a sweet reflection.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Diamonds; Love; Mirrors