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Subject: DORSET, ENGLAND
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I but lived a hundred years ago
Last Line: And bend with reverence where his ashes lie.'
Subject(s): Dorset, England; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


BY THE RECTOR OF MARHULL, DORSET, FOR HIS CLERK JOHN WARREN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here under this stone %lie ruth and old john
Last Line: Though you love to four score, %'tis a whiff and no more
Subject(s): Dorset, England


DORSET NURSE AND 'BONEY'; A DORSET LULLABY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Baby, baby, naughty baby
Last Line: And he limb from limb will tear you, %just as pussy tears a mouse
Subject(s): Dorset, England


ON A SIGNBOARD AT KINGSTAG, DORSET WITH PICTURE WHITE DEER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When julius caesar landed here
Last Line: Whoever shall me overtake %save my life for caesar's sake
Subject(s): Dorset, England


ON A WELL, CHAPEL OF ST. CATHERINE, MELTON ABBEY, ABBOTSBURY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A husband, saint catherine
Last Line: And soon, saint catherine
Subject(s): Dorset, England


ON THE TOMB OF THE COLE FAMILY, LILLINGTON, DORSET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reader you have within this grave
Last Line: The little spark, now in the dark, %will like the phoenix rise
Subject(s): Dorset, England


THE LIFE OF HUBERT: MEMORIES OF A DORSET BOYHOOD IN THE 1730S, by THOMAS COLE (1727-1796)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blue expanse of a hyacinthine bloom
Last Line: Their num'rous, ceaseless, varied cawings blend.
Subject(s): Children; Dorset, England; Memory; Childhood