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Subject: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WINDOW IN PRINCES STREET, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the crags that fade and gloom
Last Line: Bold bugles blowing points of war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland


ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Edina, scotia's darling seat!
Last Line: I shelter in thy honour'd shade.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland


BEAUTIFUL EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen
Last Line: Therefore I pronounce you to be the pride of fair scotland.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh!
Last Line: But that you are the grandest city in scotland at the present day!
Subject(s): Cities; Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


EDINBURGH, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: City of mist and rain and blown grey spaces
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland


EDINBURGH, by ALEXANDER SMITH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Edina, high in heaven wan
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland


EDINBURGH AFTER FLODDEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: News of battle! News of battle!
Last Line: Be our universal grave!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Scotland - Relations With England; War


EDINBURGH IN AUTUMN, by CHRISTINE ORR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The leaves are down in dreghorn woods
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland


GIACOMETTI IN EDINBURGH, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: To come here you walk along the water of leith
Last Line: Even you, fixed by light, unable to breathe
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Museums; Saint Kilda (scotland)


MARMION: CANTO 5. THE COURT, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The train has left the hills of braid
Last Line: For march against the dawning day.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys


THE WHITE ROSE OVER THE WATER; EDINBURGH, 1744, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old men sat with hats pull'd down
Last Line: That grew best over the water.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland


WRITTEN IN EDINBURGH, by ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even thus, methinks, a city reared should be
Last Line: Chainless alike, and teaching liberty.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland