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Subject: INLAND WATERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAREWELL, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea
Last Line: For ever and for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks


AFTON WATER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flow gently, sweet afton, among thy green braes
Last Line: Flow gently, sweet afton, disturb not her dream.
Variant Title(s): Sweet Afton
Subject(s): Afton (river), Scotland; Inland Waters; Love; Rivers


MANY WATERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were live waters racing down
Last Line: My heart of music had her fill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks


MY RIVER, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: River! My river in the young sunshine!
Last Line: The holy stars of god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich
Subject(s): Inland Waters; Rivers


ON THE GREAT PLATEAU, by EDITH FRANKLIN WYATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the santa clara valley, far away and far away
Last Line: Far and far away—far away.
Subject(s): Inland Waters; Nature; Valleys


ON THE RHINE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas morn, and beautiful the mountain's brow
Last Line: Nor heeds how fast the prospect winds away.
Variant Title(s): The Rhine
Subject(s): Inland Waters; Rhine (river), Europe


THE BLUE-GREEN STREAM, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Every time I have started for the yellow flower river
Last Line: Dropping my fish-line forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Calm; China; Inland Waters; Nature; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree
Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness


THE SHADED WATER, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When that my mood is sad, and in the noise
Last Line: Upward, from earth to sky.
Subject(s): Inland Waters


THE SNOWS, by CHARLES SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the snows / buoyantly goes
Last Line: To sing of the raftsmen's cheer.
Subject(s): Canada; Inland Waters; Rivers; Canadians


THE VALLEY BROOK, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fresh from the fountains of the wood
Last Line: Press onward in the glorious strife.
Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks


TO SENECA LAKE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On thy fair bosom, silver lake
Last Line: And evening tells us toil is o'er!
Subject(s): Inland Waters; Nature; Seneca Lake