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Subject: ERNE (RIVER), IRELAND
Matches Found: 2

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Where those green mounds o'erlook the mingling erne
Last Line: What happy soul might choose that thought to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Variant Title(s): Under The Grass
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Erne (river), Ireland; Graveyards


THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE; OR, THE EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO HIS BIRTHPLACE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu to ballyshannon [belashanny]! Where I was bred and born
Last Line: And I must quit my native shore, and the winding banks of erne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Variant Title(s): The Emigrant's Farewell To Ballyshannon
Subject(s): Ballyshannon, Ireland; Erne (river), Ireland; Farewell; Parting