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Subject: TELL, WILLIAM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FREEDOM, by CHARLES L. REASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O freedom! Freedom! O! How oft
Last Line: Of britain, blew thy trumpet blast.
Subject(s): Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846); Freedom; Switzerland - Wars; Tell, William; Liberty


ODE TO GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE ON 'PASSAGE OVER MT. GOTHARD', by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Splendour's folly fostered child!
Last Line: Thence learn'd you that heroic measure.
Subject(s): Cavendish, Georgiana (1757-1806); Poetry & Poets; Tell, William


TELL AS A MARKSMAN - WERE FORGOTTEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When the cry is meant
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1152; Poem: 114
Subject(s): Tell, William


TELL'S BIRTHPLACE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark this holy chapel well
Last Line: Of slavery, -- the which he broke!
Subject(s): Burglen, Switzerland; Tell, William


THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, SEEN FROM THE LAKE OF LUGANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sacred pile! Whose turrets rise
Last Line: Of fatal austrian spears.
Subject(s): Alps; Churches; Lugano (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Tell, William; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Cathedrals; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DEATH OF TELL, by HENRY MORFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are, with forms celestial
Last Line: That closed the life of tell!
Subject(s): Schachen (river), Switzerland; Tell, William


WILLIAM TELL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chains may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee
Last Line: For the great work to set thy country free.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


WILLIAM TELL, by J. H. GURNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, list to me and you shall hear
Subject(s): Tell, William


WILLIAM TELL, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smile-dimpled lake woo'd to bathe in its deep
Last Line: [music, and the curtain falls.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Alps; Freedom; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


WILLIAM TELL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Place there the boy,' the tyrant said
Subject(s): Tell, William


WILLIAM TELL AND THE GENIUS OF SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You have no fears
Last Line: Draw the sword, lift the flag, and away!
Subject(s): Switzerland; Tell, William; Swiss