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Subject: DRUIDISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 10. OLD MAGIC, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: As light swings wide the mighty eastern door
Last Line: And vanish up the flaming slopes of morn.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Magic; Druidism; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 3. A DRUID TOWN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sunless maze of tangled lanes enfold
Last Line: The golden caer upon the ninth wave's foam.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 9. THE FOREST, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In lonely thickets where the wood is deep
Last Line: The light of dawn on his uplifted face.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History


DRUID CHORUS ON THE LANDING OF THE ROMANS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the dread and viewless powers
Last Line: Gods are gathering -- romans, fly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Anglesey (island), Wales; Druids; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Druidism


ST. CHRISTOPHER OF THE GAEL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the wattle-woven house
Last Line: The peace of perfect peace he knew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Christianity; Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Druids; Faith; Legends; Monks; Peace; Salvation; Druidism; Belief; Creed


THE DRUID, by DOUGLAS HYDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Our colum's bark was in the bay
Last Line: And colum was his seer.
Subject(s): Druids; Druidism


THE DRUID, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Godlike beneath his grave divinities
Last Line: As in their fate foreshadowing his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Druids; Druidism


THE GREEN ISLES OF OCEAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are they, those green fairy islands
Last Line: For the guide to those realms of the blessed is death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Druids; Superstition; Wales; Druidism; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE LAST DRUID, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Despairing and alone
Last Line: And yet I live.
Subject(s): Druids; Druidism