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Subject: LORELEI
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LORELEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why am I sad I cannot tell
Subject(s): Lorelei


LORELEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot explain the sadness
Subject(s): Lorelei; Supernatural


SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not what spell is o'er me
Last Line: The lorelei hath done
Subject(s): Lorelei


SONNET: THE LORELEI, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yonder we see it from the steamer's deck
Last Line: Then drag him down to no man knoweth where.
Subject(s): Lorelei; Sirens (mythology)


THE FOUNTAIN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That was the lorelei, tall within the jet
Last Line: Caught in the fountain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Fountains; Lorelei


THE LORELEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not what evermore grieves me
Last Line: The lay of the loreley!
Subject(s): Lorelei


THE LORELY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, where are the echoes of gladness
Last Line: Hath the sprite of the lorely done.
Subject(s): Lorelei