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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SUSSEX, ENGLAND Matches Found: 17 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEACHY HEAD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thy stupendous summit, rock sublime! Last Line: Had to some better region fled for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - History; Sussex, England; English History ELEGIAC SONNET: 31. WRITTEN IN FARM WOOD, SOUTH DOWNS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's dewy hand on this fair summit weaves Last Line: When scenes could charm that now I taste no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sussex, England ELEGIAC SONNET: 33. TO THE NAIAD OF THE ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, rural naiad! Wind thy stream along Last Line: Adds the cool head, and the unblemish'd heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Arun (river), England; Rivers; Sussex, England ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pressed by the moon, mute arbitress of tides Last Line: To gaze with envy on their gloomy rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Churchyards; Moon; Sussex, England ELEGIAC SONNET: 45. ON LEAVING A PART OF SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewel, aruna! - on whose varied shore Last Line: Or wake wild phrenzy -- from her hideous cell! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sussex, England INSCRIPTIONS ON THE BELLS OF THE PARISH CHURCH, RYE, SUSSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To honour both of god and king Last Line: Be sober, merry, wise, %and you'll be the same posssess Subject(s): Sussex, England ON AN OLD SUSSEX MILL-POST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The windmill is a couris thing Last Line: To jump about and get things ready, %or else the mill will soon run empty Subject(s): Sussex, England; Windmills OUR SUSSEX DOWNS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My youth is gone -- my youth that laughed and yawned Last Line: "and youth that laughs and yawns in one short breath." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sussex, England SUSSEX, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chiddingly, pronounced %chiddinglye: the oast-house Last Line: Another emigration: %draining away of love Subject(s): Sussex, England SUSSEX, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God gave all men all earth to love Last Line: Yea, sussex by the sea! Subject(s): Sussex, England SUSSEX CUCKOO-RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In april, come he will Last Line: Tis as much as the oldest man can remember Subject(s): Sussex, England THE GUNS IN SUSSEX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light green of grass and richer green of bush Last Line: But still I hear the mutter of the guns. Subject(s): Desolation; England; Guns; Patriotism; Sussex, England; War; World War I; English; First World War THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 88. A DAY IN SUSSEX, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dove did lend me wings. I fled away Last Line: It glimmers yet across whole years like these. Subject(s): Sussex, England THE OLD SQUIRE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like the hunting of the hare Last Line: In the days ere I was born. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Nature; Rabbits; Sussex, England; Hunters; Hares THE RUN OF THE DOWNS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weald is good, the downs are best Last Line: You be glad you are sussex born! Subject(s): Sussex, England VERSES FORMERLY INSCRIBED ON A TABLET IN PARISH CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This place of war is called battle, because in battle here Last Line: This slaughter happened to them upon st. Celict's day, %the year thereof (1066) this number doth arr Subject(s): Sussex, England WORTH FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, prudence, you have done enough to-day Last Line: "sir, the child is dead!" Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Pilgrim Fathers; Rivers; Sussex, England; Worth Forest, England; Streams; Creeks |
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