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Subject: JACOBITES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A JACOBITE'S EXILE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The weary day rins down and dies
Last Line: The graves wherein we lie.
Subject(s): Exiles; Jacobites; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean


A JACOBITE'S FAREWELL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nae mair lands to tyne, my dear
Last Line: And ye'll see me nae mair.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jacobites; Kisses


JACOBITE SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now who will speak, and lie not
Last Line: And if we die, we live.
Subject(s): Faith; God; Jacobites; Belief; Creed


SONG, FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, 28 MAY 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay thy flowery garlands by
Last Line: Than the bloom of all thy roses.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Parliament; Jacobites; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


THE JACOBITE ON TOWER HILL, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He tripped up the steps with a bow and a smile
Last Line: With the life of the bravest of any that bled.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Jacobites; Patriotism; English History


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