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Subject: ALFRED THE GREAT (849-1899)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DANISH BARROW; ON THE EAST DEVON COAST, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lie still, old dane, below thy heap!
Last Line: As thou within the mother's breast.
Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Great Britain - Danish Invasions; War; Alfred, King Of Wessex


ALFRED THE GREAT TO HIS MEN, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My friends, this country must be free! That land
Last Line: Is in an arm! Strike till you're free, or fall!
Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Alfred, King Of Wessex


ALFRED THE HARPER, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark fell the night, the watch was set
Last Line: And slew ten thousand foes.
Variant Title(s): King Alfred The Harper
Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Great Britain - Danish Invasions; War; Alfred, King Of Wessex


BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up over windy wastes and up
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Great Britain - Danish Invasions


SONNET ON ALFRED OF ENGLAND, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There rose, from out a most discordant age
Last Line: Brings on himself like shame and misery on the land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Courts & Courtiers; Law & Lawyers; Alfred, King Of Wessex