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Subject: LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LUCERNE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shores of lucerne! Where many a winding bay
Last Line: "a deep, deep sigh, ""avenge, o god, their cause!"
Subject(s): Alps; Lucerne, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LUCERNE, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet there is / within an eagle's flight
Last Line: Why should it ever die?
Subject(s): Alps; Lucerne, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MONUMENT AT LUCERNE, by JOHN KENYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When maddened france shook her king's palace floor
Last Line: Of courage, faith, and honorable death.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Lucerne, Switzerland


THE LION OF LUCERNE, by A. JUDSON RICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: O'er foaming reuss with waters green
Last Line: Touching with grief the wide world round.
Subject(s): Lucerne, Switzerland