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Subject: CULLODEN, BATTLE OF (1746)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take away that star and garter
Last Line: That have died in vain for me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Courts & Courtiers; Culloden, Battle Of (1746); Death; Love; Scotland - Relations With England; Versailles, Frances; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dea


CULLODEN, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark, dark was the day when we looked on culloden
Last Line: "but to bring back the old life that comes not again."
Subject(s): Culloden, Battle Of (1746)


LAMENT FOR CULLODEN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lovely lass o' inverness
Last Line: That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee.'
Subject(s): Culloden, Battle Of (1746)


LOCHIEL'S WARNING, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lochiel, lochiel! Beware of the day
Last Line: Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Subject(s): Cameron, Donald (1695-1719); Culloden, Battle Of (1746)


THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN: A HISTORICAL POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1746, and in april the 14th day
Last Line: Looking to the trials and struggles you passed through.
Subject(s): Culloden, Battle Of (1746); History; Historians


THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come listen to another song
Last Line: All of the olden time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Culloden, Battle Of (1746); Jacobites