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Subject: KING, EDWARD (1612-1637)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GODDARD AND LYCIDAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two dirges by two poets have I read
Last Line: And gained, by lowlier means, a sweeter end.
Subject(s): Goddard, Frederick William (d. 1820); King, Edward (1612-1637); Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more
Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology


ON THE MEMORY OF MR. EDWARD KING, DROWNED IN THE IRISH SEAS, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like not tears in tune, nor will I prize
Last Line: We floating islands, living hebrides.
Subject(s): Drowning; King, Edward (1612-1637)