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"The King and the Beggar-maid" is a 16th-century broadside ballad [1] that tells of an African king, Cophetua, and his love for the beggar Penelophon (Shakespearean Zenelophon). Artists and writers have referenced the story, and King Cophetua has become a byword for "a man who falls in love with a woman instantly and proposes marriage immediately".
The poem takes the form of an intensely dramatic monologue delivered by the ghost of the murdered 12th Dynasty pharaoh Amenemhat I to his son Senusret I. It describes the conspiracy that killed Amenemhat, [1] and enjoins his son to trust no-one. The poem forms a kind of apologia of the deeds of the old king's reign. [2]
The front cover of a 1910 collection by T. Gwynn Jones that includes Ymadawiad Arthur as its title-poem. Ymadawiad Arthur ('The Passing of Arthur') [1] is a Welsh-language poem, some 350 lines in length, [2] by T. Gwynn Jones. It won its author the Chair at the National Eisteddfod in 1902 but was several times heavily revised by him in later years.
Although it was widely believed that Elizabeth the Queen Consort made her husband George VI aware of the poem, the book The Servant Queen and the King She Serves [2] published in 2016 for Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday, its foreword being by that monarch, says that it was the young Princess Elizabeth herself, aged 13, who handed the poem to her father.
The Thrissil and the Rois is a Scots poem composed by William Dunbar to mark the wedding, in August 1503, of King James IV of Scotland to Princess Margaret Tudor of England. The poem takes the form of a dream vision in which Margaret is represented by a rose and James is represented variously by a lion , an eagle and a thistle . [ 1 ]
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The poem is used by the German Gothic band Dracul in their song "Erlkönig". Norwegian experimental black metal-industrial band Sturmgeist uses shortened and slightly modified version of the poem as lyrics in a song with the same title. German industrial-EBM band Kash uses the poem in the song "Erlkönig".
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