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Subject: BANSHEES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALULVAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is clear of bird and cloud
Last Line: The doom of lone alulvan!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Banshees


BANSHEE, by DANIEL TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The long, drawn-out howling of a dog
Last Line: And rest my hand on your scarred breast
Subject(s): Banshees


THE BANSHEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sat beside the haunted stream
Last Line: But mac caura's boast and mac caura's pride / is faded and lost forever
Subject(s): Banshees;ireland; Irish


THE BANSHEE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The banshee cries on the rising wind
Last Line: "ochone! Ochone! Ochone!"
Subject(s): Banshees


THE BANSHEE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Now god between us and all harm
Last Line: Along the dark boreen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Banshees


THE BANSHEE, by JOHN TODHUNTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Green, in the wizard arms
Last Line: Thy wrongs, the world's.
Subject(s): Banshees


THE BANSHEE'S WAIL, by MARY DOWNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy life was like the mountain stream
Last Line: Is faded and lost for ever.
Subject(s): Banshees


THE SORROW OF FINDEBAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you sorrow, child? There is loud cheer
Last Line: "and that is why it pines and will not break."
Subject(s): Banshees; Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness