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Subject: LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY MARCH OF HIGHLANDERS INTO LANCASHIRE, 1745, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you not sadly frighten'd, honest harry
Last Line: Harry. Yoi, sur, as lung as ere I con, I will.
Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Lancashire, England; Scotland - Relations With England


A LANCASHIRE DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY A PREACHER WITHOUT NOTES, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wus yo at church o' sunday morning, john?
Last Line: James. If onny comes, I'll tak it; john,—good bye!
Subject(s): Clergy; Lancashire, England; Language; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Words; Vocabulary; Oratory; Orators


FURNESS ABBEY; IN THE VALE OF NIGHTSHADE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish for the days of the olden time
Last Line: And I sigh for the days of the veil and the vow.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Furness Abbey; Lancashire, England; Past; Abbey Of St. Mary


ON STONES HOUSE, TODMORDEN, NEAR ROCHDALE, LANCASHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friend I dwell here
Last Line: Disdain thou not %for wanting of the rest
Subject(s): Lancashire, England


THE VALE OF LONSDALE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could no tdwell here, it is all too fair
Last Line: Between the placid scene, and its unrest.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Country Life; Lancashire, England


TOMB OF THOMAS MORLEY, D. 1566; STAINING, LANCASHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man by lying downe in his bedde to reste
Last Line: To the blessed, joifull, and to the cursed ach and woe. %andto the electe, heaven, and to the reprob
Subject(s): Lancashire, England


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A LANCASHIRE MILL-HAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She died at the age of sixty-three
Last Line: For she lay in her chamber, dead.
Subject(s): Lancashire, England