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Subject: NORWAY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EDVARD GRIEG, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The light across the fjord is very cool
Last Line: The very scene I look on here tonight.
Subject(s): Light; Love; Norway; Sea; Summer; Ocean


GREETINGS TO NORWAY, by JOHANN SIGURJONSSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into norway's / open coastline
Last Line: Break their icy bonds.
Subject(s): Norway


HAMMERFEST, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For over forty years I'd paid it atlas homage
Last Line: Bring that up now? My intrusion had not profaned it: %if innocence is holy, it was holy
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Norway; World War Ii


KING OLAF'S LILIES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five lilies pulled king olaf
Last Line: Upon the chamber floor.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Norway


KING SVERRIR, by GRIMUR THORGRIMSSON THOMSEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pope and prelate notwithstanding
Last Line: Wakeful was the life I led.
Subject(s): Sverrir, King Of Norway (1149-1202); Sverrir Sigurdsson


LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: BOOK 1, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On curtained eyes, and bosoms warm with rest
Last Line: Not shameful straw-death of the sick and old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bells; Death; Love; Norway; Dead, The


LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: BOOK 2., by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lars lived, because the life within his frame
Last Line: The same sweet words; and so the twain were one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bells; Death; Love; Norway; Dead, The


LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: BOOK 3., by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love's history, as life's, is ended not
Last Line: Break up the night, and make it beautiful.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bells; Death; Love; Norway; Dead, The


LITTLE PUCKEN SINGER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ae tank ae gal bae 'ote a sate'
Last Line: Ven ae lave dae teeter hus.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Norway


MAIZE IN NORWAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By an inn of wildest norway
Last Line: As that cluster of waving corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Americans; Corn; Farm Life; Norway; Agriculture; Farmers


NATIONAL AIR: NORWEGIAN, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of sires who fought and bled
Subject(s): National Song - Norway


ODE TO THE LAST POT OF MARMALADE, by UNKNOWN+160    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the fishers of gjendin the bold skipper spoke
Last Line: Take my baccy, take all that is dearest to me, %but leave me only one spoonful of bonnie dundee
Subject(s): Norway


OLD NORWAY; A MOUNTAIN WAR-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arise! Old norway sends the word
Last Line: Give burial to his dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Norway; War


POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 1. THE PENINSULA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilac ling my bed, I lay
Last Line: And turn the quavering birch-leaves cold.
Subject(s): Norway


POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 2. THE CATARACT, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From slippery slab to slab I crawl
Last Line: The sorrows of the unsuccoured world.
Subject(s): Norway


POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 3. THE LAKE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nevermore sail or oar
Last Line: To some darker shore to-morrow.
Subject(s): Lakes; Norway; Pools; Ponds


POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 4. VERSES, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where below the bastion of the hills
Last Line: And sisters were our ancient muses' mothers.
Subject(s): Norway; Poetry & Poets


THE DEAD HORSEMAN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's riding o'er the giel so fast
Last Line: How that fearful horseman rode.
Subject(s): Funerals; Norway; Burials


THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH CAPE; FROM KING ALFRED'S OROSIUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Othere, the old sea captain, / who dwelt in helgoland
Last Line: "behold this walrus-tooth!"
Subject(s): Alfred, King Of Saxons (871-901); Explorers; Norway; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean


THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN FINGERS', by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight
Subject(s): Torture; World War Ii; Norway; Nazis


THE YOUTH AND THE NORTH WIND; A TALE OF NORWAY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time - 'twas long ago
Last Line: And money for his friends.
Subject(s): North Wind; Norway


VIKING SHIP; BYGDO, NORWAY, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our boat thrusts steadily through the blue water
Last Line: And we at last about to be counfounded
Subject(s): Bygdo, Norway; World War Ii