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Subject: MARRIAGE - ARRANGED
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LLEWELLYN, PRINCE OF CAMBRIA; A WELSH BALLAD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Llewellyn stood as his palace door
Last Line: "and I will yield to you."
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hearts; Love; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged


THE BROKEN HEART, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our scene is sparta. He whose best of art
Last Line: The broken heart may be pieced-up again.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged


THE COUNTESS LAMBERTI, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She still was young; but guilt and tears
Last Line: "to one long penitence."
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Marriage - Forced; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Marriage - Arranged


VILIKINS AND HIS DINAH, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: In london's fair city a merchant did dwell
Last Line: And vilikins and his dinah lie buried in one grave.
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage - Forced; Suicide; Marriage - Arranged