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Subject: VINLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` THE SKELETON IN ARMOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak! Speak! Thou fearful guest!
Last Line: Thus the tale ended.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Newport, Rhode Island; Scandinavia & Scandinavians; Vikings; Vinland


THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 1. BIORN'S BECKONERS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now biorn, the sun of heriulf, had ill days
Last Line: "ourselves a dream, and dreamlike all we did."
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland


THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 2. THORWALD'S LAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So biorn went comfortless but for his thought
Last Line: The first rune in the saga of the west.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland


THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 3. GUDRIDA'S PROPHECY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four weeks they sailed, a speck in sky-shut seas
Last Line: Mighty of bone.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland


VINLAND, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Greenland's bold sons, by instinct, sallied forth
Last Line: Breathing awhile, -- relapsing into night.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Vinland