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Subject: FLODDEN FIELD, ENGLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT FLODDEN; A FRAGMENT, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go sit old cheviot's crest below
Last Line: Earth's mountain billows come.
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England


LAMENT FOR FLODDEN [FIELD], by JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking
Last Line: The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Jane
Variant Title(s): The Flowers Of The Forest
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Flowers; Love; Mourning; Bereavement


MARMION: CANTO 1. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: November's sky is chill and drear
Last Line: A knightly tale of albion's elder day.
Variant Title(s): The Castle Of Norham;norham Castle
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England


MARMION: CANTO 1. THE CASTLE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day set on norham's castled steep
Last Line: Which gave again the prospect fair.
Subject(s): Castles; Christmas; Courage; Faith; Flodden Field, England; Love; Nativity, The; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed


MARMION: CANTO 2. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scenes are desert now, and bare
Last Line: Of this mysterious man of woe.
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England


MARMION: CANTO 2. THE CONVENT, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The breeze, which swept away the smoke
Last Line: To hear that sound so dull and stern.
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys


MARMION: CANTO 3. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like april morning clouds, that pass
Last Line: Flow forth, flow unrestrained, my tale!
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England


MARMION: CANTO 3. THE HOSTEL, OR INN, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The livelong day lord marmion rode
Last Line: The first notes of the morning lark.
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MARMION: CANTO 4. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ancient minstrel sagely said
Last Line: Lord marmion's march I thus renew.
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England


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


MARMION: CANTO 6. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill
Last Line: And store of literary wealth.
Subject(s): Christmas; Flodden Field, England; Heber, Richard; Leyden, John (1775-1811); Vikings; Nativity, The


O FLODDEN FIELD' (IN MEMORY OF EDWIN MUIR), by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The learned king fought
Last Line: Picks up from the heather / a whole sword
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Muir, Edwin (1887-1959); War


O FLODDEN FIELD' (IN MEMORY OF EDWIN MUIR), by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The learned king fought
Last Line: Picks up from the heather %a whole sword
Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Muir, Edwin (1887-1959); War