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Subject: MERLIN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAELICA: 23, by FULKE GREVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Merlin, they say, an english prophet born
Last Line: "yet you would laugh as heartily, as I."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord
Subject(s): Etiquette; Merlin; Manners; Courtesy


FRAGMENTS OF THE MASQUE OF GWENDOLEN, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gwendolen: what forms are these?
Last Line: (loud thunder)
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Fairies; Merlin; Arthur, King; Elves


IN THE COLD BRIGHT WIND, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Merlin, merlin's gone away
Last Line: And his laughter on the wind.
Subject(s): Merlin


LINES FROM A FAMOUS PREDICTION OF MERLIN, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven and ten added to nine
Last Line: Till hapsburge makyth them but twayne
Subject(s): Merlin


MERLIN, by JANE (HUGHES) BRERETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Illustrious queen! The loyal zeal excuse
Subject(s): Merlin


MERLIN, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Merlin, the great magician
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Merlin


MERLIN, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O merlin in your crystal cave
Subject(s): Merlin


MERLIN, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O merlin in your crystal cave
Last Line: The day wreathed in its mound of snow %and time locked in his tower?
Subject(s): Merlin


MERLIN & THE SNAKE'S EGG, by LESLIE NORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night the tall young man
Subject(s): Merlin; Supernatural


MERLIN AND THE GLEAM, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O young mariner / you from the haven
Last Line: Follow the gleam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Merlin


MERLIN ENTHRALLED, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a while they rose and went out aimlessly riding
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Merlin; Arthur, King


MERLIN ENTHRALLED, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a while they rose and went out aimlessly riding
Last Line: Their mail grew quainter as they clogged along. %the sky became a still and woven blue
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Merlin


PROPHECIA MERLINI DOCTORIS PERFECTI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whane lordes wol leefe theire olde lawes
Last Line: This is the lande of albyoun %nexst to his confusyoun
Subject(s): Merlin


THE LAST FAY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wandered where the cuckoo fills
Last Line: In the ancient stillness brooding there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Merlin; Rain; Rest; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue


THE SEVEN SAGES OF ROME: 11, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When all from out the hall had gone / the emperor sought his bower anon
Last Line: And none shall free him from his bale.' / here endeth the eleventh tale
Subject(s): Merlin


THE WIZARD IN WORDS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am dead'
Last Line: "merlin."
Variant Title(s): Reticence And Volubility
Subject(s): Merlin