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Subject: WALLACE, SIR WILLIAM (1270-1305)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DESCRIPTION OF WALLACE, by HENRY THE MINSTREL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wallace stature of greatness, and of hicht
Last Line: Bot knawin enemies they couth him nocht dissave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Harry; Harry The Minstre
Variant Title(s): Schir William Wallace
Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305)


A SUMMARY HISTORY OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir william wallace of ellerslie
Last Line: Who had fought for scotland so well.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; History; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Historians


BEAUTIES OF SCOTLAND, SELECTION, by KENNETH MCLACHLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great-hearted wallace, still unmov'd, unbent
Last Line: Thou patriot martyr! Monarch of the free!
Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305)


GUDE WALLACE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had we a king,' said wallace then
Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305)


LAMENT FOR THE GRAHAM, by HENRY THE MINSTREL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they him fand, and gude wallace him saw
Last Line: I sall thee venge, or ellis therefore to die.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Harry; Harry The Minstre
Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305)


LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE WALLACE MONUMENT, STIRLING: 1861, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Auld scotlan's hert an' baith her lugs war dirlin'
Last Line: For ever—wallace, bruce, an' bannockburn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Monuments; Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305)


ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scots wha hae wi' wallace bled
Last Line: Let us do, or die!
Variant Title(s): Bannockburn;the Battle Of Bannockburn;bruce To His Men At Bannockburn;bruce's Address To His Army At Bannockburn;national Air: Scotland;scots Wha Hae;robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Freedom; National Song - Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); War; Liberty; Scottish National Anthem; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


SCOTLAND'S TRIBUTE TO WALLACE, by JAMES MACFARLAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ours is no venal pomp to-day - we seek no vain parade
Last Line: When she forgets her liberty, her patriot, and her god!
Subject(s): Freedom; Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305)


THE BRAVE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For whom are your gyves? For the cowardly one
Last Line: But never, in mercy, place chains on the brave!
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Presidents, United States; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Washington, George (1732-1799); Valor; Bravery; Liberty


THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy, joy in london now!
Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight


THE DIRGE OF WALLACE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They lighted a taper at the dead of night
Last Line: A nobler was never embalmed!
Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305)


THE SONG OF MARION, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet, not yet! I thought I saw
Last Line: A grave in ellerslie!
Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305)


WALLACE AND BRUCE, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I will sing of bruce and wallace
Subject(s): Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


WALLACE'S INVOCATION TO BRUCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morn rose bright on scenes renowned
Last Line: In him, for thee who lived and died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce