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Subject: LEAR, KING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will try to remember. It was light
Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never.
Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists


KING LEAR, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): England; Hate; Lear, King; Mothers; Social Protest


KING LEIR AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: King leir once ruled in this land
Last Line: And disobedient of sin
Variant Title(s): King Leir
Subject(s): "lear, King;


LEAR, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A poor old king, with sorrow for my crown
Last Line: Foolish -- and blind -- and overcome with years!
Subject(s): Fathers; Lear, King