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Subject: HENRY II, KING OF ENGLAND (1133-1189)
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BERNARDINE DU BORN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King henry sat upon his throne
Last Line: "go forth -- unscathed and free."
Subject(s): Bertran De Born (1202-1215); Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Revolutions


COEUR DE LION AT THE BIER OF HIS FATHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Torches were blazing clear
Last Line: "look on me till I die!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Remorse; Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199)


HENRY II, WITH THE DEATH OF ROSAMOND: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen
Last Line: But I was drenched today for loving well, %and fear the prison that would make me swell
Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189)


OWL AND NIGHTINGALE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ich was in one sumere dale
Last Line: Her nis namore of pis spelle
Subject(s): Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Nicholas Of Guilford, Master


THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps
Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen.
Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The


VORTIGERN, by WILLIAM HENRY IRELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good vortigern! As peace doth bless our isle
Last Line: Finis.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Samuel, Jr.
Subject(s): Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Shakespeare - Forgeries