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Subject: COPHETUA, KING (LEGEND)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUCOLIC COMEDY: KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The five-pointed crude pink tinsel star
Last Line: "that shall drop down their dew on her sleeping eyes."
Subject(s): Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Cophetua, King (legend); Paintings And Painters


KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cophetua was a merry king
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Cophetua, King (legend)


KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR-MAID, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I read that once in africa
Subject(s): Cophetua, King (legend)


KING COPHETUA THE FIRST, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said jove within himself one day
Last Line: She would have been a carmelite.
Subject(s): Cophetua, King (legend)


ON A FAIR BEGGAR, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Barefoot and ragged, with neglected hair
Last Line: And those fair locks shall pour down showers of gold.
Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Cophetua, King (legend); Love