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Subject: ROLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLIND SAXOPHONIST DIES, by DAVID HILTON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Bright moments %everyone
Subject(s): Jazz; Kirk, Rahsaan Roland (1936-1977); Music And Musicians


CAPTAIN COOK'S LAST VOYAGE; ROLAND PENROSE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful because %she is without an arm
Last Line: Out in the emptiness at the poles
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Cook, James (1728-1779); Penrose, Sir Roland Algernon (1900-1984)


ROLAND, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When she whose glory casts in shade
Last Line: Then sprang she up and met the reeking sword.
Subject(s): Roland, Jeanne-marie (1754-1793)


ROLAND'S TOWER: A LEGEND OF THE RHINE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, like a courser starting from the spur
Last Line: Was roland's death-bed!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Roland


SONG OF ROLAND (COMPLETE), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War


SONG OF ROLAND, SELS., by UNKNOWN                       
Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War


SONG OF ROLAND, SELS., by UNKNOWN                       
Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War


SONG OF ROLAND, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In wrath and grief away the paynims fly
Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War


SONG OF ROLAND, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Charles the king, our emperor, the great
Last Line: They bear count roland's soul to paradise
Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Roland; War


SPIDER AT AN EXHIBITION: 4. DAVID SMITH (AMERICAN) ....., by CARL DJERASSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oily rods weldes to oily blocks
Last Line: Too slippery! %the spider passes
Subject(s): Smith, David Roland (1906-1965)


THE BRAVE ROLAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brave roland! - the brave roland
Last Line: Expired at roncevall.
Subject(s): Roland


THE DEATH OF MADAME ROLAND, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genius and virtue! Dismal was the dearth
Last Line: There was but one great soul, and that had flown.
Subject(s): Roland, Jeanne-marie (1754-1793)


THE DEATH OF ROLAND, by LOUIS XAVIER DE RICARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was young -- ah, france was paradise
Last Line: But, sooth, this race of aquitaine is worse!
Subject(s): Death; France; Grief; Hugh Capet (938-996); Roland; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TOO-LATE BORN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We too, we too, descending once again
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Toward A Romantic Revival;the Silent Slain
Subject(s): Roland; War


TOO-LATE BORN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We too, we too, descending once again
Last Line: The dead against the dead and on the silent ground %the silent slain
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Toward A Romantic Revival; The Silent Slai
Subject(s): Roland; War