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Subject: MASQUES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS MASQUE, by BARRETT WENDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good friends, you must be good friends indeed tonight
Last Line: Finished, the company part, however they will. And so all ends.
Subject(s): Christmas; Masques; Nativity, The


DICTUM: FOR A MASQUE OF DELUGE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There will be the cough before the silence, then
Last Line: Heavy, the wind a low portent of rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Masques


MASQUE TO COMMEMORATE THE SPIRIT OF THE WARS OF LIBERATION, by GERHART HAUPTMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But rarely I appear before the curtain
Last Line: [the old marshal, touched by the director's wand, drops lifeless.
Subject(s): Masques; Napoleonic Wars; Nationalism - Germany


RHOECUS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the spot. Aye, this the very tree
Last Line: Curtain
Subject(s): Masques


SCHLUCK AND JAU, by GERHART HAUPTMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bow me to the master of the hunt
Last Line: Well, well, well, well, you are a devil of a fellow!
Subject(s): Irony; Masques


THE HOMAGE OF THE ARTS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossom, blossom, a bountiful tree
Last Line: Beauty to life and life to forms of art.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Masques


THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most grave opinion!
Last Line: Yet with your smiles shall be restored again.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Masques; Peace; English History