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Subject: IONA, SCOTLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou pleasant island, whose rich garden-shores
Last Line: Bright in the dubious track of after years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece; Iona, Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips


IONA, by FREDERICK TENNYSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I landed on iona's holy isle
Last Line: In whom all saints are one for evermore!
Subject(s): Catholics; Iona, Scotland; Roman Catholics; Catholicism


IONA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On to iona! - what can she afford
Last Line: While heaven's vast sea of voices chants their praise.
Subject(s): Iona, Scotland


IONA. UPON LANDING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sad a welcome! To each voyager
Last Line: "shall gild their passage to eternal rest."
Subject(s): Iona, Scotland


IONA: THE GRAVES OF THE KINGS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish not to lie here
Subject(s): Graves; Iona, Scotland; Tombs; Tombstones


IONA: THE GRAVES OF THE KINGS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish not to lie here
Last Line: This earth has absorbed
Subject(s): Graves; Iona, Scotland


IONA; A MEMORIAL OF ST. COLUMBA, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We gazed on corryvrekin's whirl
Last Line: Shall brighten evermore.
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Iona, Scotland; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint


ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere!
Last Line: For a robin's song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks


ST. COLUMBA IN IONA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Delightful would it be to me
Last Line: No evil shall undo me
Subject(s): "iona, Scotland;nature;


THE CROSS OF THE DUMB; A CHRISTMAS ON IONA, LONG, LONG AGO, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One eve, when st. Columba strode
Last Line: Who on that day was glad and proud!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Columba, Saint (521-597); Generosity; Guests; Iona, Scotland; Miracles; Salvation; Strangers; Nativity, The; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Visiting