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Subject: SCOTT, SIR WALTER (1771-1832)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAREWELL TO ABBOTSFORD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home of the gifted! Fare thee well
Last Line: A blessing on thee rest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Farewell; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Parting


ABBOTSFORD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: This dream come true in quaintly towered stone
Last Line: And of earth's wordy praise there is no need.
Subject(s): Abbotsford (mansion, Roxburgh, U.k.); Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY C.R. LESLIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pride of my country! I delight
Last Line: Till ends his reign, a third like thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859); Museums; Paintings And Painters; Picture Books; Portraits; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Leslie, C. R.; Art Gallerys


ON SCOTT'S 'THE FIELD OF WATERLOO', by THOMAS ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On waterloo's ensanguined plain
Last Line: Fell half so flat as walter scott.
Alternate Author Name(s): Erskine Of Restormel, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


REJECTED ADDRESSES: A TALE OF DRURY LANE, BY W. S., by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Survey this shield, all bossy bright
Last Line: So high she soars, so vast, so quick!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


SIR WALTER SCOTT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead! - it was like a thunderbolt
Last Line: We can but weep above thy grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


SIR WALTER SCOTT AT THE TOMB OF THE STUARTS IN ST. PETER'S, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eve's tinted shadows slowly fill the fane
Last Line: Ever should pass those holy walls beyond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Graves; Saint Peter's Church, Rome; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Journeys; Trips


SIR WALTER SCOTT'S FAREWELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain
Last Line: Wafting your charge to soft parthenope!
Variant Title(s): On Departure Of Sir Walter Scott From Abbotsford, For Naples
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


SONNET: 23. TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since last I saw that countenance so mild
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


THANKS TO SIR WALTER, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nine weeks in a nursing home
Last Line: Keep him and sleep well.
Subject(s): Death; Nursing Homes; Peace; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Dead, The; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living


THE FUNERAL DAY OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glorious voice hath ceased!
Last Line: Thine, only thine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Funerals; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Burials


TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, by THOMAS PRINGLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From deserts wild and many a pathless wood
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O great and gallant scott
Last Line: To have seen thee, and heard thee, and known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


TO WALTER SCOTT; MELROSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: How often has he lingered here alone
Last Line: While the green slopes flush slowly to the plow.
Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


TRIBUTE TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas morn - but not the ray which falls the summer boughs among
Variant Title(s): Dryburgh Abbe
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


WAVERLEY, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When on a novel's newly printed page
Last Line: Rides waverley, triumphant o'er the years!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


WITH APOLOGIES TO SCOTT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stag at eve had drunk his fill
Subject(s): Hunting; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)


YOUNG LOCHINVAR; THE TRUE STORY IN BLANK VERSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Young lochinvar has come out of the west
Last Line: Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young lochinvar?
Subject(s): "scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832);