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Subject: BOTHWELL, SCOTLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOTHWELL BANK, by JOHN PINKERTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the blithe beltane, as I went
Last Line: But ah! Thou mak'st my heart fu' sair.'
Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Love - Loss Of


BOTHWELL BRIDGE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o billie, billie, bonny billie"
Last Line: The bloody battle of bothwell bridge
Subject(s): "bothwell, Scotland;scotland - Relations With England;war;


BOTHWELL: PART 1, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold - cold! The wind howls fierce without
Last Line: That rise to madden me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts


BOTHWELL: PART 2, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is bright, the day is warm
Last Line: Above the kirk-of-field.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts


BOTHWELL: PART 3, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That gaoler hath a savage look
Last Line: The felon now for evermore!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts


BOTHWELL: PART 4, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a woman's weakest mood?
Last Line: Wilt thou do this?' 'your hand -- I will!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts


BOTHWELL: PART 5, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ascension morn! I hear the bells
Last Line: The sword that darnley wore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts


BOTHWELL: PART 6, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O that I were a mountaineer
Last Line: Come, death; and I will welcome thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts


COVENANTER'S LAMENT, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men of sin prevail!
Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; History