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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: robert southey Matches Found: 260 A BALLAD, SHEWING HOW AN OLD WOMAN RODE DOUBLE AND WHO RODE BEFORE HER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The raven croak'd as she sat at her meal Last Line: Started and screamed with fear. Variant Title(s): The Old Woman Of Berkeley Subject(s): Devil; Exorcism; Old Age; Prayer; Sin; Singing & Singers; Women; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A PORTRAIT IN DELIA'S PARLOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were that portly gentleman Last Line: With gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4. .. Feelings Respecting A Portrait... Subject(s): Desire; Envy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Male-female Relations A REBUKE TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "yes, southey, yes, I to the house of prayer" Last Line: "to meet, with kindred man, the parent god" Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): "churches;public Worship;southey, Robert (1774-1843);" Cathedrals;church Attendance A SUB-MARINE CITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their golden summits in the noonday light Last Line: Accordant to the melancholy waves. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ALAODIN'S PARADISE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And oh! What odours the voluptuous vale Last Line: Of man, for once, partook a common joy. Subject(s): Heaven; Islam; Paradise AMATORY SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography AN EASTERN EVENING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening comes on: arising from the stream Last Line: Like thunder far away. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AT CORUNA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from these shores the british army first Subject(s): Great Britain - History AUTUMN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay william, nay, not so; the changeful year Last Line: God, always, everywhere, and all in all. Subject(s): Autumn; Comfort; Death; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The BABYLON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The many-colored domes BALLAD OF YOUNG MAN THAT WOULD READ UNLAWFUL BOOKS & HOW HE WAS PUNISH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelius agrippa went out one day Last Line: How in a conjurer's books they read. Subject(s): Books; Devil; Magic; Punishment; Reading; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub BISHOP BRUNO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bishop bruno awoke in the dead midnight Last Line: Bishop bruno fell dead in the palace hall. Subject(s): Danube (river) BISHOP HATTO [AND THE RATS], by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer and autumn had been so wet Last Line: For they were sent to do judgment on him! Variant Title(s): God's Judgment On A Wicked Bishop;the Legend Of Bishop Hatto;god's Judgment On A Bishop Subject(s): Hatto I, Archbishop Of Mentz (850-913); Legends, German; Rats; Tragedy BROUGH BELLS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On stanemore's side, one summer eve CALM SEA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright shine the golden summits in the light Subject(s): Sea CARMEN TRIUMPHALE, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In happy hour doth he receive CATS (WITH APOLOGIES TO ROBERT SOUTHEY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hear the warbling of the cats CHILDHOOD OF JOAN OF ARC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in solitude / my soul was nurst Last Line: The voice of kindness bid me welcome home. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431) CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children Last Line: Perform your office! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance COCK AND HEN STORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time three pilgrims true COOL REFLECTIONS DURING A MIDSUMMER WALK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O spare me -- spare me, phoebus! If, indeed Last Line: Nymph of the stream, now take a grateful prayer. Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Mythology - Classical; Nature - Religious Aspects; Paganism & Pagans; Prayer; Summer; Joy; Delight CURSE OF KEHAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I charm thy life Variant Title(s): Malic Subject(s): Mothers DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips DEVIL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From his brimstone bed at the break of day Last Line: And there was a hole where the tail came through DONICA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on a rock, whose castled shade Last Line: The livid corpse fell dead. Subject(s): Arlinkow, Finland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians EBB TIDE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly thy flowing tide Last Line: Then hasten to old age! Subject(s): Aging; Avon (river), England; Rivers; Tides ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lay before me on the close-grazed grass Last Line: Thou didst thy duty, man can do no more. Subject(s): Duty; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Substance Abuse; Temptation; Addictive Behavior ELEGY: THE POET INVOKES THE SPIRITS OF THE ELEMENTS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sylphs, who banquet on my delia's blush Last Line: And burst my feeble body's frail control. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Obsessions; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women EMMETT'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no man write my epitaph; let my grave Last Line: Yea, in all ages by the wise and good %to be remember'd, mourn'd, and honor'd still Variant Title(s): On The Speech Of Robert Emmet; Written Immediately After Reading The Speech Of Robert Emmet On His Trial .. Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Treason And Traitors EPITAPH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This to a mother's sacred memory Last Line: Whom death hath sunder'd did not meet again! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mothers EPITAPH ON A WELL-KNOWN POET (ROBERT SOUTHEY), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath these poppies buried deep Last Line: Than did his quartos upon us! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843) EVENING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus having said, the pious sufferer sate Last Line: Falling on vernal herbs which thirst for rain. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight FIRST LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days pass, winds veer, and favoring skies Last Line: Where, on the fatal shoals, the wreck lies whelmed below. Subject(s): Cape Cod; Pilgrim Fathers FOREST IN WINTER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the harmonies of spring FREEDOM OF THE WILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idly, rajah, dost thou reason thus FUNERAL SONG FOR THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In its summer pride arrayed Last Line: Lays a garland on thy herse. Subject(s): Blessings; Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Epitaphs; Funerals; Grief; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Honor; Wales; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Welshmen; Welshwomen GOOSEBERRY-PIE; A PINDARIC ODE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gooseberry-pie is best Last Line: Praise my pindaric ode? Subject(s): Food & Eating; Odes (as Poetic Form); Pies; Pindar (522-440 B.c.) GRAVE OF ORPHEUS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then on his ear what sounds HENRY THE HERMIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little island where he dwelt Last Line: The lamp that stream'd a long unsteady light. Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Death; Hermits; Islands; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou chronicle of crimes! I read no Last Line: As sidney in his hall of bliss may love. Subject(s): Greece; History; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Greeks; Historians HOMEWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She comes, majestic with her swelling sails Subject(s): Sea HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay low yon impious trappings on the ground Last Line: And deems of other bosoms by her own. Subject(s): Hospitality; Native Americans; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pioneers; U.s. - Colonial Period; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America HYMN TO THE PENATES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet one song more! One high and solemn strain Last Line: Lives the pure song of liberty and truth. Subject(s): Comfort; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Teaching & Teachers; Inspiration; Creativity IMITATED FROM THE PERSIAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord! Who art merciful as well as just Last Line: My sins, and my contrition Subject(s): Prayer IMPULSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And happy they who thus in faith obey INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures. Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou a patriot, traveller? On this field Last Line: And quell each angry and injurious thought. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Honor; Travel; English History; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT OLD SARUM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, if thou canst boast the noble name Last Line: An individual's rights, how happy all! Subject(s): England; History; Law & Lawyers; Legislation; Patriotism; English; Historians INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TAUNTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They perish'd here whom jefferies doom'd to death Last Line: La hogue, the purple ocean dash'd the dead! Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Innocence; Jeffries, Richard (1848-1887); Persecution; Revolutions; Dead, The INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TORDESILLAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spaniard! If thou art one who bows the knee Last Line: Thoughts valueless and cold compared with these. Subject(s): Martyrs; Spain; Spain - History INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE NEW FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where william's kingly power Last Line: Pray for the wicked rulers of mankind. Subject(s): Canada; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Forests; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Prayer; Canadians; Woods INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE VALE OF EWIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was it, stranger, that the patron saint Last Line: Of david and the deeds of other days. Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Hermits; Saints; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT OPPOSITE BALLIOL GATEWAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here latimer and ridley in the flames Last Line: And let the future expiate the past. Subject(s): Innocence; Latimer, Hugh (1485-1555); Oxford University; Ridley, Nicholas (1503-1555); Truth INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind! Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT PENSHURST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are days of old familiar to thy mind Last Line: Lives and shall live, immortalized in song. Subject(s): History; Honor; Immortality; Penshurst, England; Presence; Singing & Singers; Historians INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET ON THE BANKS OF A STREAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Awhile upon this mossy bank Last Line: Of innocence, and thou shalt find her there. Subject(s): Comfort; Graves; Happiness; Innocence; Rivers; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight INSCRIPTION FOR THE APARTMENT [OR PRISON] IN CHEPSTOW CASTLE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thirty years, secluded from mankind / here marten lingered Last Line: When christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd! Subject(s): Marten, Henry; Prisons & Prisoners; Regicide INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR THE CENOTAPH AT ERMENONVILLE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! The man of nature lies not here Last Line: From hence returning purified of heart. Subject(s): Introspection; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Strangers; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De INSCRIPTION: EPITAPH ON KING JOHN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John rests below. A man more infamous Last Line: For they must bear the burthen of thy crime. Subject(s): Epitaphs; John, King Of England (1167-1216); Lackland, John INSCRIPTION: IN A FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Whose steps have reached this solitude Last Line: The weeds and mosses from this letter'd stone. Subject(s): Advice; Forests; Holidays; Solitude; Strangers; Trees; Woods; Loneliness INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued. Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips JASPAR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jaspar was poor, and vice and want Last Line: Upon the maniac's soul. Subject(s): Guilt; Murder; Poverty; Sin; Story-telling JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was high feasting held at vaucouleur Last Line: "his wrath, and they shall perish who oppress." Subject(s): Faith; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to the martyrs in their country's cause Last Line: Give to the arms of freedom such success. Variant Title(s): The Crowning Of The King Subject(s): Coronations; Creative Ability; England; Faith; France; Freedom; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Inspiration; Creativity; English; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now, beneath the horizon westering slow Last Line: And they betook them to their homely rest. Subject(s): France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Travel; War; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair dawn'd the morning, and the early sun Last Line: "we ratify thy mission. Go in peace." Subject(s): Duty; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast was spread, the sparkling bowl went round Last Line: "we march to rescue orleans from the foe." Subject(s): Duty; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Love; Man-woman Relationships; Missions & Missionaries; Obedience; War; Heroes; Heroines; Male-female Relations JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had the earliest ray from chinon's towers Last Line: So saying, conrade from the tent went forth. Variant Title(s): The Maid Of Orleans Girding For Battle Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 6, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was calm, and many a moving cloud Last Line: Renewing the remembrance of the storm. Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 7, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong were the english forts, by daily toil Last Line: Betaking them, for now the night drew on. Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Historians; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now was the noon of night; and all was still Last Line: The shattered fragments of the midnight wreck. Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the shadowy sky the ascending flames Last Line: "the thundershe shall blast her despot foes." Subject(s): Death; England; Faith; France; Funerals; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Burials; Heroes; Heroines KING CHARLEMAGNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas strange that he loved her, for youth was gone by Last Line: Of the spell that possess'd charlemagne. Subject(s): Beauty; Charlemagne (742-814); Curses; Festivals; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For aye be hynce ye vayne delyghts Last Line: Forlettying erthlie loste. Subject(s): England; Mexico; Poetry & Poets; Religion; English; Theology LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY PARODIED IN THE 18TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hither frolics and delights Last Line: Let angels have the rest. Subject(s): England; Parties; Poetry & Poets; English LINES WRITTEN UPON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the public loss which hath imprest LISTENING TO STORMS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Last Line: And thinks upon the suffering mariner! Subject(s): Storms LLEWELLYN AND HIS DOG, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spearmen heard the bugle sound LORD WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No eye beheld when william plunged Last Line: Heard william's drowning scream. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning; Ghosts; Murder; Secrets; Supernatural; Vengeance LOVE ELEGIES OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LUCRETIA; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, my father! Good valerius Last Line: (stabs herself.) Subject(s): Honor; Rape; Rome, Italy; Sacrifices; Suicide; Women MADOC, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though in blue ocean seen MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations METRICAL LETTER; WRITTEN FROM LONDON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret! My cousin, -- nay you must not smile Last Line: To find in heaven the things I loved on earth. Subject(s): Courtship; Cousins; Desire; Freedom; Hope; Letters; Liberty; Optimism MOMENTS THERE ARE IN LIFE-ALAS, HOW FEW!, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability. Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces NATURE'S QUESTION AND FAITH'S ANSWER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The setting sun ODE FOR ST. GEORGE'S DAY, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But thou, o england! To that sainted name ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die? Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs ODE WRITTEN DURING THE WAR WITH AMERICA, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): War Of 1812 ODE, WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BONAPARTE, IN JANUARY, 1814, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who counsels peace at this momentous hour Last Line: Take vengeance for thyself, and for mankind! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) OLD CHRISTOVAL'S ADVICE; AND THE REASON HE GAVE IT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thy debtor be poor, old christoval cried Last Line: And remember'd what I might have been. Subject(s): Advice; Christianity; Debt; Humility; Morality; Ethics ON A LANDSCAPE OF GASPAR POUSSIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poussin! How pleasantly thy pictured scenes Last Line: Beats hard and heavy through his dungeon bars. Subject(s): Comfort; Imagination; Paintings And Painters; Poussin, Gaspar (1613-1675); Fancy ON A PICTURE BY J.M. WRIGHT, ESQ, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-lark hath perceived his prison-door Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Larks ON DONNE'S POEM TO A FLEA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be proud as spaniards! Leap for pride ye fleas Subject(s): Animals; Poetry And Poets ON MY OWN MINIATURE PICTURE, TAKEN AT TWO YEARS OF AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was once like this! That glowing cheek Last Line: Spirit of spenser! Was the wanderer wrong? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Maturity; Nations; Portraits; Self; Youth ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE 1818, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death has gone up into our palaces Last Line: May best deserve our love. Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Epitaphs; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Grief; Marriage; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ONCE I HAD FRIENDS, THOUGH BY ALL FORSAKEN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography PILGRIMAGE TO WATERLOO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ill had we done if we had hurried by Subject(s): Waterloo POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold your mad hands! For ever on your plain Last Line: And calls, to share the prey, his kindred demon war. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair Last Line: And bless with liberty and death the slave! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh he is worn with toil! The big drops run Last Line: A sable brother writhes in silent woe. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night the mercenary tyrants sleep Last Line: And weeps for him who will return no more. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did then the bold slave rear at last the sword Last Line: But sweetens with revenge, the draught of death. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs POEMS ON THE SLAVE TRADE: 6, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the air exposed the slave is hung Last Line: "against the deep damnation of your deed." Variant Title(s): "high In The Air Exposed The Slave Is Hung""; Subject(s): Abolitionists; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs POET PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF A SOUL FROM HIS LOVE FOR DELIA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have denied a soul! They never loved Last Line: But sure with delia I exist a soul! Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Male-female Relations PRELUDE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell us a story, old robin gray! Last Line: A tale of a cock and a hen QUEEN OF THE VALLEY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art beautiful, queen of the valley Last Line: Queen of the valley. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers RECOLLECTIONS OF A DAY'S JOURNEY IN SPAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not less delighted do I call to mind Subject(s): Travel REMEMBRANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man hath a weary pilgrimage Last Line: The days that are no more. Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Youth RODERICK, THE LAST OF THE GOTHS, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wildly-beauteous form Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips ROPRECHT THE ROBBER IS TAKEN AT LAST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD TO KING HENRY III, AFTER SHE HAD TAKEN THE VEIL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry, 'its past! Each painful effort o'er Last Line: That even death was weak to end our love. Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Farewell; Henry Iii, King Of England (1207-1272); Love; Nuns; Redemption; Regret; Salvation; Parting RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope Last Line: Adown the dark profound. Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SAPPHO; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the spot: -- 'tis here tradition says Last Line: [she throws herself from the precipice. Subject(s): Lesbos (island), Greece; Mythology - Classical; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide SEA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful beneath the bright blue sky SELDOM HATH MY TONGUE PRONOUNCED THAT NAME, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SELF-PLEASING SOULS THAT PLAY WITH BEAUTY'S BAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love SNUFF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate pinch! Oh how it tingles up Last Line: And jokes that must be laugh'd at shall proceed. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Noses; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF THE ARAUCANS DURING A THUNDER STORM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm cloud grows deeper above Last Line: Waft thither the song of your praise. Subject(s): Chile; Messengers; Reunions; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Storms SONG OF THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge. Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SONNET, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lingerest, spring! Still wintry is SONNET TO A PAINTER ATTEMPTING DELIA'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rash painter! Canst thou give the orb of day Last Line: Fairer than venus, daughter of the sea. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Disdain; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Women; Scorn SONNET TO ARISTE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariste! Soon to sojourn with the crowd Last Line: Who only names to praise, who only speaks to please. Subject(s): Comfort; Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Parting; Male-female Relations SONNET TO ARISTE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be his to court the muse, whose humble breast Last Line: The warbling lute to sound the soul of love? Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul SONNET TO ARISTE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let ancient stories sound the painter's art Last Line: The charms that blossom on ariste's cheek! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO ARISTE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praise thee not, ariste, that thine eye Last Line: The fading orbit smiles serenely bright. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Praise; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ruin'd relique of the ancient pile Last Line: As fancy paints the pomp that once adorn'd thy wall. Subject(s): Bards; Castles; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As slow and solemn yonder deepening knell Last Line: Heeds how the faithless bauble melts away. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Mortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed SONNET TO REFLECTION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye Last Line: In darkness glimmering to disclose a tomb. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Regret; Self-pity; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET TO THE FIRE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friendly fire, thou blazest clear and bright Last Line: And o'er my ashes muse, as I will muse o'er thine. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fire; Legacies; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad songstress of the night, no more I hear Last Line: No more responsive to the lay of love. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Nightingales; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, valentine, and tell that lovely maid Last Line: And heave the sigh of memory and of love. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Longing; Love; Memory; Messengers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNET: 11. OUTWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide Last Line: Go gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! Subject(s): Blessings; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 12. THE SPEEDY FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware a speedy friend, the arabian said Last Line: Is swept, still lingering on the boughs the last. Subject(s): Advice; Arabs; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 13, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee Last Line: Or taste the old october brown and bright. Variant Title(s): Winter Subject(s): Christmas; Old Age; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter; Nativity, The SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to thee, bedford! Mournful is the tale Last Line: With rarely-sprinkled leaves, casting a trembling shade. Subject(s): Aging; Blessings; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze. Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks SONNET: 7. TO THE EVENING RAINBOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mild arch of promise! On the evening sky Last Line: Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease. Subject(s): Hope; Rainbows; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before. Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue SONNET: 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky Last Line: Pour out the feelings of my burthened heart. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dawn; Happiness; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Sunrise; Joy; Delight SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 10. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Southey! They melodies steal o'er mine ear Last Line: The imag'd rainbow on a willowy stream. Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843) SOURCE OF THE GANGES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: None hath seen its secret fountain SOUTHEY LOOKS OUT OF THE WINDOW AT GRETA HALL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at that sober hour when the light of day is receding SOUTHEY'S CATS WRITE THEIR MASTER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear master: let our boldness not offend SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ROBERT SOUTHEY BURKE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spent my money trying to elect you mayor Last Line: To any man alive. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is come, no fears disturb Last Line: And ye had joy in heaven. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Despair; France; Freedom; Future Life; Guilt; Saints; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ST. JUAN GUALBERTO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The work is done, the fabric is complete Last Line: And still the good man's name adorns the sainted roll. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Labor & Laborers; Monks; Piety; Work; Workers ST. MICHAEL'S CHAIR, AND WHO SAT THERE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily, merrily rung the bells Last Line: "in compliment to me." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Death; Freedom; Marriage; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it matters not to know Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night. Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips STANZAS TO W.R. TURNER, ON HIS VIEW OF LACO MAGGIORE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turner, thy pencil brings to mind a day Subject(s): Italy STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF DECEMBER, 1793, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though now no more the musing ear Last Line: And bid the flowret bloom. Subject(s): Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Winter STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come Last Line: The grave the inn of rest. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics THALABA THE DESTROYER, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Troy THE ALDERMAN'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom are they ushering from the world, with all Last Line: Dropping upon his urn their marble tears. Subject(s): Christianity; Funerals; Generosity; Sin; Strangers; Towns; Wealth; Burials; Riches; Fortunes THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a summer evening Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory." Variant Title(s): After Blenheim Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology THE BATTLE OF PULTOWA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vorska's glittering waves Last Line: Now, patkul, may thine injured spirit rest! Subject(s): Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Russia; Pultowa, Battle Of (179); Soviet Union; Russians THE CATARACT OF LODORE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How does the water / come down at lodore? Last Line: And this way the water comes down at lodore. Subject(s): Lodore, England; Waterfalls THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I, the man who erst the muse did ask Last Line: And roman rites retained, though roman faith be flown. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Monks; Rome, Italy; Cathedrals THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wherefore do the poor complain? Last Line: And these have answer'd thee! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Experience; Pain; Poverty; Reason; Wealth; Suffering; Misery; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Riches; Fortunes THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven. Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: FREDERIC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I turn me? Whither shall I bend Last Line: Shall heal my soul, and my last days be peace. Subject(s): Fear; New South Wales, Australia; Pain; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Salvation; Suffering; Misery THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory. Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together. Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man breaking stones Last Line: And a stone is on her face. Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE DANCING BEAR; RECOMMENDED TO THE ADVOCATES OF THE SLAVE TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rare music! I would rather hear cat-courtship Last Line: Hath baffled justice and humanity! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Slavery; Serfs THE DEAD FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul Last Line: There will be joy in grief. Variant Title(s): Communings Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MATTAHIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of my age, attend Last Line: Hope lifts my soul to thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Death; Fathers & Sons; Legacies; Mysticism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MOSES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Israel, my hour is come Last Line: And triumphantly fight for the lord. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Faith; God; Moses; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE DEATH OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of my much-lov'd freya! Yes, I come Last Line: Then rush'd to seize the seat of endless rest. Subject(s): Death; Love; Mythology - Celtic; Rome, Italy; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy, joy in london now! Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god! Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rage of babylon is roused Last Line: Alas, more dreadful thy remember'd guilt! Subject(s): Babylon; Christianity; Guilt; Prophecy & Prophets; Punishment; Repentance; Penitence THE FILBERT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, gather not that filbert, nicholas Last Line: And stoic independence of mankind. Subject(s): Animals THE FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coffin, as I past across the lane Last Line: For it pleased god to take her to his mercy. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Faith; Mothers; Selflessness; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round Last Line: From guilt, though not without a hope in christ. Subject(s): England; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Guilt; Murder; Story-telling; English; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE GREENWOOD SHRIFT; GEORGE III AND A DYING WOMAN IN WINDSOR FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outstretched beneath the leafy shade Last Line: Knelt their anointed king. Subject(s): England; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Religion; Windsor Forest, England; English; Theology THE HARBOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scattered within the peaceful bay Last Line: Without a calm delight. Subject(s): Boston THE HOLLY TREE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O reader! Hast thou ever stood to see Last Line: As the green winter of the holly-tree. Subject(s): Holly; Trees THE HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight! Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE IDIOT BOY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had pleased god to form poor ned Last Line: For death restored him all. Subject(s): Mental Retardation THE IMMORTALITY OF LOVE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! When a mother meets on high Last Line: An over-payment of delight? Subject(s): Mothers THE INCHCAPE ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No stir in the air, no stir in the sea Last Line: The devil below was ringing his knell. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE KILLCROP, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You squalling imp, lie still! Isn't it enough Last Line: I'll rocket him. (exit.) Subject(s): Children; Devil; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Murder; Superstition; Childhood; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE KING OF THE CROCODILES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, woman, why without your veil? Last Line: And I will make a meal of thee. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Courts & Courtiers; Crocodiles; Egypt; Grief; Mothers; Trust; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAST OF THE FAMILY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, gregory! You are come, I see, to join us Last Line: God make us ready, gregory, when it comes. Subject(s): Aging; Faith; Family Life; Funerals; God; Belief; Creed; Relatives; Burials THE LIBRARY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My days among the dead are past Last Line: That will not perish in the dust. Variant Title(s): Among His Books;the Scholar In His Library;his Books;the Scholar;stanzas Written In His Library Subject(s): Books; Heaven; Reading; Paradise THE LOCUST CLOUD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Last Line: "sole mover he, and only spring of all." THE LOVER'S ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden through the favouring night Last Line: Says for manuel's soul a prayer. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Escapes; Granada, Spain; Love; Moors (land); Dead, The; Fugitives THE MARCH TO MOSCOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor nap he would set off Last Line: As there was on the road from moscow. Subject(s): Moscow; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean THE MISER'S MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mouldering mansion, whose embattled side Last Line: And angels hymn'd the rich man's soul to heaven. Subject(s): Future Life; Generosity; Hospitality; Misers; Wealth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Riches; Fortunes THE MORNING MIST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, william, how the morning mists Last Line: Shall beam eternal day. Subject(s): Immortality; Light; Mist; Morality; Morning; Vision; Ethics THE OAK OF OUR FATHERS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for the oak of our fathers, that stood Last Line: In its beauty, the glory and pride of the wood! Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Lament; Oak Trees; Parasites; Dead, The THE OLD CHICKASAH TO HIS GRANDSON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now go to the battle, my boy Last Line: Till the steps of thy coming I see. Subject(s): Duty; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Native Americans; War; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS AND HOW HE GAINED THEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are old, father william,' the young man cried Last Line: And he hath not forgotten my age. Variant Title(s): Father William Subject(s): Clergy; Comfort; Faith; God; Men; Old Age; Prayer; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Belief; Creed THE OLD MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend! Why, you seem bent on parish duty Last Line: The same old bounty and old welcome there. Subject(s): Facades; Hospitality; Strangers; Travel; Appearances; Journeys; Trips THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh? Last Line: I pauseand ponder on the days to come. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE PIG; A COLLOQUIAL POEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jacob! I do not like to see thy nose Last Line: Of beans it came, and thoughts of bacon rise. Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs THE PIOUS PAINTER; THE STORY AS RELATED IN FABLIAUX OF LE GRAND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a painter in catholic days Last Line: And I must give the devil his due. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Devil; Paintings And Painters; Prisoners Of War; Temptation; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations THE POET PERPLEXT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brain! You must work! Begin, or we shall lose Last Line: So gentle brain! I thank you and conclude. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reason; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POET RELATES HOW HE OBTAINED DELIA'S POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mine! What accents can my joy declare? Last Line: And I will kiss thee o'er and o'er again. Variant Title(s): Delia's Pocket-handkerchief;love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Food & Eating; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE POET RELATES HOW HE STOLE A LOCK OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be the day accurst that gave me birth! Last Line: "you stupid puppyyou have spoil'd my wig!" Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4 Subject(s): Anger; Crime & Criminals; Despair; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Wigs; Male-female Relations; Toupees; Hairpieces THE RACE OF BANQUO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly, son of banquo! Fleance, fly Last Line: Pour we now the dirge of death! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Legacies; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Dead, The THE RACE OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud was the hostile clang of arms Last Line: "she fallsand lo, the world again is free!" Subject(s): Freedom; Mythology - Celtic; War; Liberty THE RETROSPECT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on I journey through the vale of years Last Line: Onward in faithand leave the rest to heaven. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Maturity; Memory; Travel; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips THE ROSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, edith! Spare the rose; it lives, it lives Last Line: And fill with eden odours all the air. Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; God; Grace; Innocence; Prayer; Punishment; Roses; Salvation THE RUINED COTTAGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye Last Line: I trust in god they will not pass away. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Home; Life Change Events; Memory; Men; Nostalgia; Widows & Widowers; Childhood THE SAILOR WHO SERVED IN THE SLAVE-TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stopt, -- it surely was a groan Last Line: O god, deliver me! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Murder; Prayer; Regret; Sailing & Sailors; Shame; Slavery; Violence; Clemency; Serfs THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the funeral march. I did not think Last Line: A mere machine of murder. Subject(s): Fate; Funerals; God; Mortality; Murder; Religion; Soldiers; Destiny; Burials; Theology THE SOLDIER'S WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart Last Line: Cold are thy famished babes, god help thee, widowed one! THE SPANISH ARMADA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear shone the morn, the gale was fair Last Line: Shall bear good tidings home. Subject(s): Ambition; England; Failure; Spanish Armada; English THE SPIRIT; FOUNDED ON FACT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now which is the road across the common Last Line: "tis only old gaffer's grey mare!" Subject(s): Animals; Facades; Fear; Ghosts; Horses; Night; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Appearances; Bedtime THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet to the morning traveller Last Line: That welcomes his return. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Reunions; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad as the weary traveller, tempest-tost Last Line: And freed the nation best beloved of god. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Sex Role; Victory; Women THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English THE WEDDING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, wherefore are the village bells Last Line: To give sad meaning to the village bells! Subject(s): Bells; Idleness; Marriage; Poverty; Strangers; Travel; Villages; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A well there is in the west country Last Line: "for she took a bottle to church." Subject(s): Wells; Women THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snow fell Last Line: God had released her. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cold; Death; God; Salvation; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The THE WITCH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Here, father! I have found a horse-shoe Last Line: She may recover; so drive t'other nail in! Subject(s): Christianity; Curses; Fathers & Sons; Horseshoes; Witchcraft & Witches TO A BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wert out betimes, thou busy busy bee Last Line: Woe then for thee, thou busy busy bee! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Labor & Laborers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Teaching & Teachers; Beekeeping; Bugs; Work; Workers TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND INQUIRING IF WOULD LIVE OVER MY YOUTH AGAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I regret the past? Last Line: Again to wake in light. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Past; Regret; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A FRIEND SETTLED IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lot which fate to thee has given Last Line: Sweet solace to the wearied soul can yield. Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; Country Life; Fate; Soldiers; Urban Life; Destiny TO A GOOSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou didst feed on western plains of yore Last Line: Seasoned with sage and onions, and port wine. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To A Goose Subject(s): Geese TO A SPIDER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spider! Thou need'st not run in fear about Last Line: I spin my brains. Subject(s): Insects; Poetry & Poets; Spiders; Bugs TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief. Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO EDITH SOUTHEY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edith! I brought thee late a humble gift Last Line: Robert southey. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Marital; Maturity; Poetry & Poets; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO HORROR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark horror, hear my call! Last Line: I will behold and smile by mercy's side. Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Injustice; Missions & Missionaries; Racism; Slavery; Terror; Vengeance; English; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs TO HYMEN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of the torch, whose soul-illuming flame Last Line: Nor knows the dread of death. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Faith; Friendship; God; Humanity; Life; Love; Maturity; Inspiration; Creativity; Belief; Creed TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips TO MARY WOLSTONECRAFT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily cheek, the 'purple light of love' Last Line: To offer, nor unworthy thy regard. Subject(s): Godwin, Mary Wollenstonecraft (1759-79); Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Poetry & Poets; Strength; Victory; Women's Rights; Wollenstone, Mary (1759-79); Feminism TO RECOVERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Recovery, where art thou? Last Line: Watches the dawn of day. Subject(s): Blessings; Depression, Mental; Healing; Hope; Prayer; Waiting; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Cures; Optimism TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Laurel'd bard, how can I part Last Line: Or life's warm quivering pulse is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843) TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE GENIUS OF AFRICA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who from the mountain's height Last Line: There, genius, thou hast breathed the gales of death. Subject(s): Africa; Genius; Revolutions; Slavery; U.s. - Race Relations; Serfs TO URBAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the livid lightning flies Last Line: To slumber in the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Health; Life; Maturity; Passion; Dead, The VISION OF JUDGMENT: PART 6. THE ABSOLVERS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! He exclaimed, king george of england standeth in judgment Last Line: Evil they sow, and sorrow they will reap for their harvest Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) VISION OF JUDGMENT: PART 8. GEORGE III ENTERS PARADISE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your heads, ye gates; and ye everlasting portals Last Line: While of the georgian age they thought, and the glory of england Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) VOYAGE OF THALABA AND THE DAMSEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then did the damsel speak again WASHINGTON HATH LEFT / HIS AWFUL MEMORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WAT TYLER'S ADDRESS TO THE KING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King of england %petitioning for pity is most weak Subject(s): Great Britain - History WAT TYLER, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WRITTEN ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou and seek the house of prayer! Last Line: And ponders on the world to come. Subject(s): Churches; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With cheerful step the traveller Last Line: The fears of wary age! Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips |
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