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Subject: DENMARK
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CARRIAGE FROM SWEDEN, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say there is a sweeter air / where it was made, than we have here
Subject(s): Denmark; Sweden; Danes


ABROAD, by SOPHUS CLAUSSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was asked to tell my station and name
Subject(s): Denmark


APPROACHING ELSINORE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-morrow I shall be at elsinore
Last Line: Hourly the play begins at elsinore.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Elsinore, Denmark; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists


BEING DANISH, by KAJ MUNK    Poem Source                    
First Line: They've started a discussion
Subject(s): Denmark


CARRIAGE FROM SWEDEN, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say there is a sweeter air %where it was made, than we have here
Last Line: Skill, and a surface that says %made in sweden: carts are my trade
Subject(s): Denmark; Sweden


DANNEBROG (THE DANISH FLAG), by BERNHARD SEVERIN INGEMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wave high in glory over
Subject(s): Flags - Denmark


DENMARK SONG, by JOHANNES V. JENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How fair the smile of the danish coast
Subject(s): Denmark


DENMARK SPEAKS, by SOREN HALLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have dark-blooming heather and white-gleaming sands
Subject(s): Denmark


HIS PETITION TO QUEEN ANNE OF DENMARK (1618), by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O had truth power, the guiltless could not fall
Last Line: Who brings us equal, if not greater, bliss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England


JOHANNA PEDERSEN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mouth prickled by crumbs of flatbrod
Last Line: Rocked in the swell of the old.
Subject(s): Denmark; Immigrants; Danes; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


KING CHRISTIAN; A NATIONAL SONG OF DENMARK, by JOHANNES EWALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: King christian stood by the lofty mast
Last Line: My grave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Evald, Johannes
Subject(s): Denmark; Danes


LANGELANDS REJSEN, SELS., by ADAM GOTTLOB OEHLENSCHLAGER                       
Subject(s): Korsor, Denmark


MY HOME, by CHRISTIAN WINTHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know it, too, the little beauteous land?
Subject(s): Denmark


NIELS EBBESEN, by NICOLAI F. S. GRUNDTVIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: There rose a song out of denmark's grief
Subject(s): Denmark


NINTH OF APRIL, by OTTO GELSTED    Poem Source                    
First Line: We saw the dark birds fly
Subject(s): Denmark


THE KING OF DENMARK'S RIDE, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Word was brought to the danish king
Last Line: "to the halls where my love lay dying!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Death; Denmark; Dead, The; Danes


THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE QUEENES MAJESTYE, by ARTHUR GORGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If sorrow comment on a text of woe
Last Line: In that your sonne lives with the king of kings?
Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612)


THERE IS A CHARMING LAND, by ADAM GOTTLOB OEHLENSCHLAGER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In denmark's island glades
Subject(s): Denmark


TO THE KING, by KAJ MUNK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once more today you ride your city round
Subject(s): Christian X, King Of Denmark (1870-1947)


TO THE MOST SCARED QUEEN ANNE, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis now dead night, and not a light on earth
Last Line: Since fate in taking one hath thus disordered all.
Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Mourning; Bereavement


TO THE QUEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Renowned empresse, and great britaines queene
Last Line: Were but t'ecclipse your fame, and make it lesse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia
Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England


VANDALS SACK DENMARK, by BOB MCKENTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A melancholy dane is she
Last Line: Whose heads are hollower than hers
Subject(s): Denmark; Statues


VERSES OF THE QUEENES ARMES BEINGE THE THREE LYONS, by ARTHUR GORGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perfections queene, these lyons three
Last Line: And triple thryce your joye.
Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England


VERSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES & AKEXANDRA OF DENMARK, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would sing a song of gladness
Last Line: Britain's daughter, albert's wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Denmark; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Marriage; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Danes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Welshmen; Welshwomen


VISITOR, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fine rain falls, greening their garden
Subject(s): Denmark; Travel