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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: young, edward Matches Found: 55 Young, Edward Hilton Alternate Author Name(s): Kennet Of The Dene, 1st Baron 3 poems available by this author CHRISTMAS First Line: A boy was born at bethlehem Last Line: They saw with love most passionate %the village street at nazarene Subject(s): Christmas MEMORIES Poem Text First Line: Far up at glorian the wind is sighing Last Line: Nor pay the debt I owe. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War MINE-SWEEPING TRAWLERS First Line: Not ours the fighter's glow Subject(s): World War I Young (1683-1765), Edward Poet's Biography 51 poems available by this author BELLEROPHON'S LETTERS First Line: He whose blind thought futurity denies CROWNING DISAPPOINTMENT, NIGHT THOUGHTS First Line: So prone our hearts to whisper what we wish DAY OF JUDGEMENT First Line: Now the descending triumph stops its flight DIFFERENT SOURCES OF FUNERAL TEARS, FR, NIGHT THOUGHTS First Line: Our funeral tears from different causes rise EPISTLE TO MR. POPE: AUTHORS AND CRITICS Poem Text First Line: With fame in just proportion envy grows Last Line: The fairest fruit, so these the fairest fame. Variant Title(s): Fame And Envy Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Envy; Fame; Reputation EPISTLE TO MR. POPE: THE BLACK MILITIA OF THE PEN Poem Text First Line: These labouring wits, like paviours, mend our ways Last Line: Compose the black militia of the pen. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Writing & Writers EXTEMPORE TO VOLTAIRE CRITICISING MILTON Poem Text First Line: You are so witty, profligate and thin Last Line: At once we think you milton, death, and sin. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De FAVONIUS First Line: Ye delicate! Who nothing can support HOPE First Line: Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here Subject(s): Courage IMPERIUM PELAGI, OR THE MERCHANT, SELS. JOB'S CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: Thou canst accomplish all things, lord of might Last Line: Man is not made to question, but adore. Subject(s): Jews; Job (bible); Judaism LAMENT OF THE DAMNED IN HELL First Line: Who burst the barriers of my peaceful grave? LAST DAY: BOOK 1, SELS First Line: Sooner or later, in some future date Last Line: From the inmost heaven incessant thunders roll %and the strong echo bound from pole to pole LOVE OF FAME, THE UNIVERSAL PASSION, SELS. MAGIC, AT HIS PLANETARY HOUR Subject(s): Sleep MAN SLEEPS, AND MAN ALONE; AND MAN WHOSE FATE Subject(s): Sleep NARCISSA First Line: Young, gay, and fortunate!' NIGHT SABLE GODDESS! FROM HER EBON THRONE Subject(s): Sleep NIGHT THOUGHTS, SELS. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Friendship; Religion NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 1. LIFE, DEATH & IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! Last Line: How had it blest mankind, and rescued me! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Immortality; Life; Mankind; Night; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP Poem Text First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright. Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 3. NARCISSA Poem Text First Line: From dreams, where thought in fancy's maze runs mad Last Line: When shall I die? -- when shall I live for ever? Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Funerals; Life; Love; Mankind; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 4. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH Poem Text First Line: A much-indebted muse, o yorke! Intrudes Last Line: Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.' Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fear; God; Life; Night; Old Age; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE Poem Text First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 6. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (1) Poem Text First Line: She (for I know not yet her name in heav'n) Last Line: Stronger than death, and smiling at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Future Life; Immortality; Life; Love; Night; Wealth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime; Riches; Fortunes NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2) Poem Text First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY Poem Text First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9 Poem Text First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT VISIONS MAY BEFRIEND (AS SUNG ABOVE) Subject(s): Sleep OCEAN, AN ODE, SELS. ODE TO THE KING, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Old ocean's praise Last Line: When such resemblance shines in kings! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760) ON THE BEING OF GOD First Line: Retire; - the world shut out PARAPHRASE ON THE BOOK OF JOB, SELS. PENITENCE First Line: Great god! %greater that greatest! RESIGNATION: PART 1: SEASCAPE Poem Text First Line: But though full noble is my theme Last Line: Dead bards stench every coast. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean RESIGNATION: PART 2: A RUNCIBLE THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: O! How disorder'd our machine Last Line: And set your hand aright! Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De REVENGE First Line: Must I despise thee too, as well as hate thee? REVERE THYSELF, AND YET THYSELF DESPISE RICHES First Line: Much learning shows how little mortals know Subject(s): Courage SALAMANDER First Line: An undevout astronomer is mad! SENSE IS OUR HELMET, WIT IS BUT THE PLUME SIBYL First Line: If future fate she plans, 'tis all in leaves SOCRATES First Line: Night is fair virtue's immemorial Subject(s): Socrates (470-399 B.c.) THE CRIMINALITY OF WAR Poem Text First Line: One to destroy is murder by the law Last Line: War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fame; Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; War; Reputation THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: WITH A YO, HO, HO Poem Text First Line: O could I sing as you have fought Last Line: How to battle, to conquest, to glory, we dart! Subject(s): Battleships; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Sailing & Sailors; Victory THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: YE NATIONS, TREMBLE! PARLIAMENT HAS MET Poem Text First Line: Frown you? Frown on; your hour is past! Last Line: And not abash'd shrink back into their graves. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament THE LAST DAY: A SUBMARINE JAUNT Poem Text First Line: As yawns an earthquake, when imprison'd air Last Line: And sails secure within the dark retreat. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Submarines; Ocean; Submarine Warfare; U-boats TIME'S MIDNIGHT VOICE First Line: Creation sleeps. 'tis as the general pulse TIS PAST CONJECTURE; ALL THINGS RISE IN PROOF Subject(s): Sleep TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MR. DODINGTON First Line: Long, dodington, in debt, I long have sought VIRTUE, THE MEASURE OF YEARS First Line: What though short thy date Young (1818-), Edward 1 poems available by this author UNDER THE VIOLETS Poem Text First Line: Under the violets, blue and sweet Last Line: O grave! I would thy gates were wide. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies |
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