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Subject: REGICIDE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGESILAO MILANO; NAPLES, 1856, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the glory and the passion of this midnight
Last Line: The passion of this hour, for evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor
Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Milano, Agesilao; Regicide


ANARCHY, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red hand, black heart, beast with the dragon's face
Last Line: The outraged nations' deep anathema!
Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Elizabeth. Empress Of Austria (1837-98); Regicide


INSCRIPTION FOR THE APARTMENT [OR PRISON] IN CHEPSTOW CASTLE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For thirty years, secluded from mankind / here marten lingered
Last Line: When christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd!
Subject(s): Marten, Henry; Prisons & Prisoners; Regicide


SINGING OF ANCIENT TIMES, by WU XIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sublime was a certain prince of old, far beyond compare
Last Line: He aimed at the wrong lookout and murdered the beautiful maids
Subject(s): Accidents; Regicide


THE FATE OF MAXIMILIAN OF MEXICO AND HIS EMPRESS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take physic, pomp!' look on that noble brow
Last Line: Ye followed, fell, and perished in the way!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Maximilian, Emperor Of Mexico (1832-67); Mexico; Regicide


THE MAID'S TRAGEDY, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rest are making ready, sir
Last Line: But cursed is he that is their instrument. [exeunt.
Subject(s): Dishonor; Regicide; Vengeance


THE TOMBS OF THE REGICIDES: LUDLOW AND BROUGHTON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone on the vine-covered hillside
Last Line: Bowed low in the dust of dishonor.
Subject(s): Broughton, Andrew (1617-1685); Ludlow, Edmund (1617-1692); Phelps, John (1619-1666); Regicide; St. Martin Church, Vevey, Switzerland


THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers
Last Line: No guilty fear in death.
Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives