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Subject: MELROSE MONASTERY, SCOTLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 3. MELROSE ABBEY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer was on thee - the meridian light
Last Line: And douglas sleeps with evers, side by side!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland


THE HEART OF BRUCE IN MELROSE ABBEY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart! That didst press forward still
Last Line: Call the faith in relics vain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO SECOND, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou would'st view fair melrose aright
Last Line: Ere thus his tale again began.
Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England


TO WALTER SCOTT; MELROSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: How often has he lingered here alone
Last Line: While the green slopes flush slowly to the plow.
Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)