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Subject: MARY STUART
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADIEUX A MARIE STUART, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen, for whose house my fathers fought
Last Line: Farewell.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Dead, The; Mary Stuart


ALAS! POOR QUEEN, by MARION ANGUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was skilled in music and the dance
Last Line: She had from monsieur d'elboeuf.
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


CAPTIVITY. - MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the cold aspect of a sunless way ...'
Last Line: "and, like mine eyes that stream with sorrow, blind!"
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


EPILOGUE TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS; SPOKEN BY MRS. OLDFIELD, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What could luxurious woman wish for more
Last Line: Secure your hearts -- then fool with whom you will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Oldfield, Anne (1683-1730); Mary Stuart


FAREWELL TO FRANCE, by SARAH HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O land of elegance, where every grace
Last Line: Where hate and furious zeal my native shores deform.
Subject(s): Farewell; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Parting; Mary Stuart


FOR MARY STUART, IN CAPTIVITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though by wide seas and time we sundered are
Last Line: To free from slavery a queen so fair!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Slavery; Time; Mary Stuart; Serfs


LAMENT OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Smile of the moon! - for so I name
Last Line: Reposed upon the block!
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


LAMENT OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now nature hangs her mantle green
Last Line: Bloom on my peaceful grave!
Subject(s): Courage; Lament; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Valor; Bravery; Mary Stuart


MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear to the loves, and to the graces vowed
Last Line: Stilled by the ensanguined block of fotheringay!
Subject(s): Cumbria, England; Derwent (river) Great Britain; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, ACCORDING TO HER ADVOCATES (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou pleadest well, yet some will say, and weep
Last Line: The lost truth to the light; it is a work of love!
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Rizzio, David (1533-1566); Mary Stuart; Riccio, David


MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, ACCORDING TO HER ADVOCATES (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the young hand of darnley locked in hers
Last Line: Over this saddest story of the isles.
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Stewart, Henry. Lord Darnley (1545-1565); Mary Stuart


MARY STUART, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother jamie lost me all
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Stuart, James, Earl Of Mar & Moray; Mary Stuart


MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked far back into other years, an lo, in bright array
Last Line: Then weigh against a grain of sand the glories of a throne.
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


ON LOCH LEVEN, by CHRISTIAN CARSTAIRS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Scarce a breeze on the lake, with four oars to our boat
Last Line: Came quickly, and brought us to shore.
Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


ON THE EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Touch not the heart, for sorrow's voice
Last Line: Around the brow of carberry.
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


QUEEN MARY AT FOTHERINGAY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: What have I gained who gave so much?
Last Line: Show me now what it means to die!
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


QUEEN MARY'S RETURN TO SCOTLAND, by JAMES HOGG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a youth by woes o'ercast
Last Line: The sweetest, wildest land on earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Scotland; Mary Stuart


REGRET, FOR MARY STUART'S DEPARTURE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If spangled fields should lose their every flower
Last Line: To end my days.
Subject(s): France; Loss; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Singing & Singers; Mary Stuart


SONNET TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thing that dragged from english mouths a shout
Last Line: It brought your enemies to their cold feet
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Scottish Translations; Mary Stuart


THE DAUGHTER OF DEBATE, by ELIZABETH I    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The doubt of future foes / exiles my present joy
Last Line: Such change, and gape for joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth
Variant Title(s): The Doubt;the Doubt Of Future Foes
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


THE TRAGIC MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: 1, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me, if I grew sweet to man
Last Line: To bring the honey to the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Love; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


TO MARY STUART, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All beauty, granted as a boon to earth
Last Line: Her majesty should quite eclipse his own.
Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Nature; Mary Stuart


TO MARY STUART, QUEEN OF FRANCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England and scotland and the land of france
Last Line: And then be queen six months of the french land.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Nations; Mary Stuart


TO THE GHOST OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair, ruthless ghost, I know you well!
Last Line: Hearts still are playthings: fare you well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Ghosts; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Supernatural; Mary Stuart