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Subject: LEGENDS, ENGLISH
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` KYNG ALISAUNDER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a day sone after pan
Last Line: Forto he com to tolomew
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Legends, English


SAINT KENELM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pe kyng pat of pe march, ase ich telle bigan
Last Line: Pat we moten to pulke joie pare he is inne iwiende. Amen
Subject(s): Legends, English; Saints


THE FAIRY OF THE FOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did she love her mother's so?
Last Line: The fountain fairy -- melusine!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Fountains; Legends, English


THE PLEASANT COMEDY OF OLD FORTUNATUS, by THOMAS DEKKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you then travelling to the temple of eliza?
Last Line: All. Amen, amen, amen! [exeunt.
Subject(s): Comedy; Legends, English


YORKSHIRE LEGEND OF SEMERWATER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In ancient times, as story tells
Last Line: Until at good old age they died, %and slept in peace by semerside
Subject(s): Legends, English


YORKSHIRE SONG ABOUT MOTHER SHIPTON AND HER PROPHECIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the pretty pantomimes
Last Line: And little fairies tread the green, %call'd forth by mother shipton
Subject(s): Legends, English