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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LEGENDS, GERMAN Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND OF COLOGNE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the bones / st. Ursula owns Last Line: That these are but shadows -- the woman was real! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Legends, German BISHOP HATTO [AND THE RATS], by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer and autumn had been so wet Last Line: For they were sent to do judgment on him! Variant Title(s): God's Judgment On A Wicked Bishop;the Legend Of Bishop Hatto;god's Judgment On A Bishop Subject(s): Hatto I, Archbishop Of Mentz (850-913); Legends, German; Rats; Tragedy CHARLEMAGNE'S HOSTAGE, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A clean shift! Pure and shining -- clearly bleached Last Line: He raised his sword! Hail! He has raised his sword! Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Legends, German NIBELUNGENLIED, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Legends, German NIBELUNGENLIED, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Legends, German NOBLE MORINGER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O will you hear a knightly tale of old bohemian day? Last Line: For had I come at morrow tide, I came a day too late Subject(s): Legends, German SIEGFRIED'S DEATH, by FRIEDRICH HEBBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From whence so early? Dewy is thy hair Last Line: "darkness"" and heath's dictionary@" Alternate Author Name(s): Hebbel, Christian Friedrich Subject(s): Death; Legends, German; Tragedy; Dead, The THE CHILD AND HIND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, maids and matrons, to caress Last Line: Wiesbaden's gentle hind. Subject(s): Children; Deer; Legends, German; Wiesbaden, Germany; Childhood THE ORIGIN OF WINE; A GERMAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye friends of good cheer, I pray you give ear Last Line: To the angel who gave him the seed of the vine! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Legends, German THE TANNHAUSER; A LEGEND, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O all good christians, be on your guard Last Line: "I'll tell on another occasion." Subject(s): Gans, Eduard (1798-1839); Legends, German THE WILD HUNSTMAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy rest was deep at the slumberer's hour Last Line: For the huntsman hath gone by! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Hunting; Legends, German; War; Hunters |
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