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Subject: FONTENOY, BATTLE OF (1745)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FONTENOY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice, at the huts of fontenoy, the english column failed
Last Line: Fought and won!
Variant Title(s): Battle Of Fontenoy
Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745) (1745); Ireland - Rebellions


FONTENOY, 1745: 1. BEFORE THE BATTLE: NIGHT, by EMILY LAWLESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, bad the march, the weary march, beneath these alien skies
Last Line: For faith, and fame, and honour, and the ruined hearthes of clare.
Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty


FONTENOY, 1745: 2. AFTER THE BATTLE, EARLY DAWN, CLARE COAST, by EMILY LAWLESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary mother, shield us! Say, what men are ye
Last Line: "home to corca bascinn, in the morning light."
Subject(s): Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Freedom; Ireland - Rebellions; Liberty


ODE, TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL ROSS [AT] FONTENOY, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While, lost to all his former mirth
Last Line: And bid her shepherds weep.
Subject(s): Death; Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Dead, The