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Subject: ISLE OF MAN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT BALA-SALA, ISLE OF MAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Broken in fortune, but in mind entire
Last Line: "shine so, my aged brow, at all hours of the day!"
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


AT SEA OFF THE ISLE OF MAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bold words affirmed, in days when faith was strong
Last Line: With will, and to their work by passion linked.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


BELLA GORRY; THE PAZON'S STORY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward to jurby, eastward if you look
Last Line: The coast runs level to the point of ayre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


BY THE SEA-SHORE, ISLE OF MAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why stand we gazing on the sparkling brine
Last Line: And revelling in long embrace with thee.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 1ST SERIES. SPIES ALTERA; TO THE FUTURE MANX POET, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O poet, somewhere to be born
Last Line: Cain, karran, kewish supreme, supremest skillicorn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


FO'C'S'LE YARNS: ENVOY. GO BACK!, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But now
Last Line: Go back, go back, into your golden west!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


IN MEMORIAM: J. MACMEIKIN; DIED APRIL 1883, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Excellent manxman, scotia gave you birth
Last Line: Go up to god, and joys unspeakable!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Gell, Charles (chalse Y Killey) (d. 1870); Isle Of Man


ISLE OF MAN (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A youth too certain of his power to wade
Last Line: The power that saved him in his strange distress.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


ISLE OF MAN (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did pangs of grief for lenient time too keen
Last Line: Shrink from the daily sight of earth and sky!
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


JOB THE WHITE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women, wutches! No, I'm not
Last Line: "and they're for ever ""with the lord."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


KITTY OF THE SHERRAGH VANE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sherragh vane
Last Line: And I stayed to the weddin', bein' invited.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Courtship; Isle Of Man


MARY QUAYLE; THE CURATE'S STORY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We went to climb barrule
Last Line: Walked silently----- o love! O death! O hope!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


ON ENTERING DOUGLAS BAY, ISLE OF MAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The feudal keep, the bastions of cohorn
Last Line: And they are led by noble hillary.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


THE INDIAMAN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aye! Exactly - that's the name
Last Line: "yes of course."" -- ""aw dear!"" I said."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man; Ships & Shipping


THE MANX WITCH; A STORY OF THE LAXDALE MINES, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pazon that overtook her there
Last Line: And nessy brew -- just douse that glim!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man


THE SCHOOLMASTERS, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What's he sayin'? God bless the falla!
Last Line: Good-night!
Subject(s): Isle Of Man; Teaching & Teachers


TO G. TRUSTRUM, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: George trustrum, ere the day be done
Last Line: Give you the primrose and the rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Trustrum, George Lyon (b. 1855); Isle Of Man


TOMMY BIG-EYES, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never knew a man in my life
Last Line: And nelly as happy as the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Isle Of Man