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Subject: BALDER (NORSE GOD OF LIGHT)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALDER DEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So on the floor lay balder dead; and round
Last Line: At last he sigh'd, and set forth back to heaven.
Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Mythology - Norse


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: LOKI'S INSULTING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bard in unforgotten verse has told
Last Line: Their guileful trapper in a foaming pool.
Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Loki (norse God); Mythology - Norse; Odin (norse God)


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BIRTH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As to a watcher on a pier at night
Last Line: A deeper gloaming and I slept in night.'
Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Goddesses & Gods; Hodur (norse God); Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature; Sea; Ocean