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Subject: YARROW (WATER), SCOTLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "willy's rare, and willy's fair"
Last Line: She found him drown'd in yarrow
Subject(s): "drowning;yarrow (water), Scotland;


EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first, descending from the moorlands
Last Line: And ettrick mourns with her their poet dead.
Variant Title(s): Memories Of Departed Friends;on The Death Of James Of James Hogg
Subject(s): Hogg, James (1770-1835); Yarrow (water), Scotland


THE BRAES OF YARROW, by JOHN LOGAN (1748-1788)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy braes were bonny, yarrow stream
Last Line: And then with thee I'll sleep in yarrow.
Variant Title(s): Yarrow Stream
Subject(s): Death; Yarrow (water), Scotland; Dead, The


WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down in yon garden sweet and gay
Last Line: Syne, in the cleaving of a craig, %she found him dorwn'd in yarrow!
Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland


YARROW REVISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gallant youth, who may have gained
Last Line: To memory's shadowy moonshine!
Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland


YARROW UNVISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From stirling castle we had seen
Last Line: "the bonny holms of yarrow!"
Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland


YARROW VISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And is this -- yarrow? -- tis the stream
Last Line: And cheer my mind in sorrow.
Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland