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Subject: BRUCE, ROBERT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRUCE AND THE SPIDER, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For scotland's and for freedom's right
Last Line: And patience wins the race.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): History; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); War; Historians; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


BRUCE CONSULTS HIS MEN, by JOHN BARBOUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I trow that gude ending
Last Line: "till we have made our country free."
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


BRUCE: HOW AYMER DE VALENCE, AND JOHN OF LORN CHASED THE BRUCE ..., by JOHN BARBOUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir aymer had great companie
Last Line: God save them for his great mercie!
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


BRUCE: HOW KING ROBERT WAS HUNTED BY THE SLEUTH-HOUND, by JOHN BARBOUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The king hath sought the wood withal
Last Line: At that stream he escaped, the king.
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


BRUCE: HOW THE BRUCE CROSSED LOCH LOMOND, by JOHN BARBOUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The king, he would no longer stay
Last Line: Till all had safely passed the flood.
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


BRUCE: INTRODUCTION, by JOHN BARBOUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stories we read right willingly / altho' they naught but fables be
Last Line: Aught but the truth therein shall be.
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


DOUGLAS OF THE BLEEDING HEART, by MORITZ GRAF VON STRACHWITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Earl douglas, don thy helm so bright
Last Line: King robert bruce's heart.
Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


IN EQUAL SACRIFICE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus of old the douglas did
Last Line: The heart he bore to the holy land.
Subject(s): Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


LORD ROBERTS' TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO PRETORIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of june
Last Line: And beat all foreign foes from our shores.
Subject(s): Courage; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Victory; Valor; Bravery; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scots wha hae wi' wallace bled
Last Line: Let us do, or die!
Variant Title(s): Bannockburn;the Battle Of Bannockburn;bruce To His Men At Bannockburn;bruce's Address To His Army At Bannockburn;national Air: Scotland;scots Wha Hae;robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Freedom; National Song - Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); War; Liberty; Scottish National Anthem; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


ROBERT THE BRUCE (TO DOUGLAS IN DYING), by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Death; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce; Dead, The


THE HEART OF BRUCE IN MELROSE ABBEY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart! That didst press forward still
Last Line: Call the faith in relics vain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


THE HEART OF THE BRUCE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was upon an april morn
Last Line: God grant their souls repose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


THE HEART OF THE BRUCE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King robert bore with gasping breath
Last Line: Deplore the douglas' fall.
Subject(s): Douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Douglas The Good; Black Douglas, The; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


THE TOMB OF DE BRUCE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And liest thou, great monarch, this pavement below?
Last Line: By the chisel of fame on the tablet of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Graves; Honor; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


WALLACE AND BRUCE, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I will sing of bruce and wallace
Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


WALLACE'S INVOCATION TO BRUCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morn rose bright on scenes renowned
Last Line: In him, for thee who lived and died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce