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Subject: WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOR SUSANNA TESDALE; A BRASS OF 1656, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lillie of vallies by his spirit
Last Line: By virtue of the roote of david shall %with orient colours, like a red rose rise
Subject(s): Wiltshire, England


HARNET AND THE BITTLE, by JOHN YONGE AKERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A harnet zet in a hollur [hollow] tree
Last Line: You'll meet the vate o' these 'ere two: they'll take your coat and carcass too!
Variant Title(s): A North Wiltshire Dialect Son
Subject(s): Wiltshire, England


IN WILTSHIRE; SUGGESTED BY POINTS OF SIMILARITY WITH THE SOMME COUNTRY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest of valleys, in this full-bloomed night
Last Line: Among old valley-tombs of flesh and blood and years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Wiltshire, England


ON A SAMPLER 'IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF CHARLES S.', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now no more fatigued no more distressed
Last Line: Now he sings of sovereign grace %christ is made his holiness
Subject(s): Wiltshire, England


PRAISES OF WILTSHIRE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: But let not the forests of scotland, harbour of horned deer
Last Line: If those ancestral habitations know me a grandson.
Subject(s): Wiltshire, England


SONNET: 5: WRITTEN AFTER SEEING COLLECTION OF PICTURES AT WILTON HOUSE, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From pembroke's princely dome, where mimic art
Last Line: And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall.
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Wilton House, Wiltshire, England


WALLFLOWERS' SONG'; OGBOURNE, WILTSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water, water, wild flowers
Last Line: The bells shall ring
Subject(s): Wiltshire, England