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Subject: PHILIP, KING (NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEF)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` KING PHILIP, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On pokanoket's height / all life is hushed beneath the summer heat
Last Line: And told his wrongs in words that still we see / recorded on the page of history
Subject(s): "mount Hope, Rhode Island;philip, King (native American Chief);" Metacomet;king Philip's War (1675-76)


KING PHILIP'S GHOST, by HENRY WALKER HART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where I go now, it is gray snow on the berkshires
Subject(s): Philip, King (native American Chief)


KING PHILIP'S LAST STAND, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas captain church, bescarred and brown
Last Line: Do battle for his own!
Subject(s): Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


KING PHILIP'S MEN, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: At dusk they heard the roar
Last Line: "dauntless in death!"
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Faith; God; Philip, King (native American Chief); Shipwrecks; Spain; Spanish Armada; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


METACOM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red as the banner which enshrouds
Last Line: Told when the hunter-monarch fell!
Subject(s): Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


MOUNT HOPE, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stroll through verdant fields to-day
Last Line: O, that this blossom had a tongue to tell its woe!
Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A.
Subject(s): Mount Hope, Rhode Island; Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


ON A FORTIFICATION AT BOSTON BEGUN BY WOMEN, by BENJAMIN TOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A grand attempt some amazonian dames
Last Line: But the beginners well deserve the praise.
Subject(s): Boston; Philip, King (native American Chief); Women; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


THE GREAT SWAMP FIGHT, by CAROLINE HAZARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, rouse you, rouse you, men at arms
Last Line: The land so hardly won!
Subject(s): Narragansett, Battle Of (1675); Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF BLOODY BROOK, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come listen to the story of brave lathrop
Last Line: From that dark and cruel day, -- cruel day!
Subject(s): Deerfield, Battle Of (1675); Deerfield, Massachusetts; Lathrop, Thomas; New England; Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


THE SUDBURY FIGHT, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of massachusetts, all who love
Last Line: That, fearing god's wrath only, firm may stand the state they made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Philip, King (native American Chief); Sudbury, Battle Of (1676); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)