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Subject: LINNETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLIND LINNET, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sempstress's linnet sings
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Linnets


GREY LINNET, by JAMES MCCARROLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a little gray friar in yonder green bush
Subject(s): Linnets


ON THE DEATH OF A LINNET, by GEORGE KEATE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath this fragrant, woodbine's shade
Last Line: Enjoying still sweet liberty.
Subject(s): Linnets


PSYCHOMETRIST, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I listened to a man, and he
Last Line: Stones shall sing in ecstasy!
Subject(s): Linnets; Stones; Granite; Rocks


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear what the mournful linnets say
Last Line: Too late to build, too sad to sing.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Desolation; Linnets


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 21, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A linnet in a gilded cage
Last Line: Oh who could doubt it now?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Linnets


SIR WALTER RALEIGH TO A CAGED LINNET, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou tiny solace of these prison days
Last Line: Not to a captive who can answer nought.
Subject(s): Linnets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)


SONG: HEATHER LINTIE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heather lintie, tell me, pray
Last Line: Loving and rejoicing.
Subject(s): Linnets


THE BURIAL OF THE LINNET, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Found in the garden dead in his beauty
Last Line: Muffle the dinner-bell, mournfully ring.
Subject(s): Death - Animals; Linnets


THE CAPTIVE LINNET, by ANN YEARSLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mycias, behold this bird! See how she tires
Last Line: Death is the field of victory for the soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann
Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Linnets; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government


THE LINNET, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a linnet courting
Last Line: To tender love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Linnets


THE LINNET, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon this leafy bush
Last Line: Might vanish in song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Linnets


THE LINNET, by JAMES HEDDERWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tuck, tuck, feer - from the green and growing leaves
Last Line: With her little household nestled 'mong the boughs!
Subject(s): Linnets; Summer


THE LINNET'S PETITION, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As stella sat the other day
Last Line: As when she set him free.
Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Linnets; Liberty


THE LINNET; A FABLE, by HELEN LEIGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Young celia was beauteous, and blithe as the morn
Last Line: By false notions of freedom betray'd!
Subject(s): Linnets; Pets


TO A LINNET, by ROBERT ALLAN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Chaunt no more thy roundelay
Subject(s): Linnets


TO A LINNET IN A CAGE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When spring is in the fields that stained your wing
Last Line: From worlds of sleeping pain.
Subject(s): Cages; Linnets


WITH THE LINNETS, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am lying in the grasses
Last Line: That this peace will never pass.
Subject(s): Linnets