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Subject: ADMIRALS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADMIRAL, by JOHN ALEXANDER ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Admiral, the prisoner of your giant's
Last Line: My reckoning through each oblivious night %shoulders aloft your golden epaulets
Subject(s): Admirals


ADMIRAL BENBOW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, we sail'd to virginia, and thence to fyal
Subject(s): Admirals; Benbow, John (1653-1702); Sea


ADMIRAL DUGOUT, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He had done with fleets and squadrons, with
Last Line: That he has as captain dugout, r.N.R.
Subject(s): Admirals; World War I; First World War


ARMS AND THE MAN, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail the great admiral! Hail him who came
Last Line: And homeward now departs! Hail and farewell!
Subject(s): Admirals; Hero And Leander


BABY PICTURE, by AMY ATWATER    Poem Text                    
First Line: So you were I
Last Line: You've grown?
Subject(s): Admirals


CERVERA, by BERTRAND SHADWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail to thee, gallant foe!
Last Line: Honor above them.
Subject(s): Admirals; Cervera, Pasquale De (1839-1909); Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare


EPITAPH ACROSTICK ON ROBERT BLAKE, by GEORGE HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: R est here in peace the sacred dust
Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Epitaphs; Sea


LINES ERECTED ON THE MONUMENT OF ADMIRAL SIR G. CAMPBELL LATELY FINISHED BY MR. CHANTREY, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To him, whose loyal, brave, and gentle heart
Last Line: Whilst placing their memorial o'er his dust.
Subject(s): Admirals; Monuments


ON ROBERT BLAKE; ENGRAVED ON THE BRASS IN ST, MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kingdom or commonwealth were less to thee
Last Line: Rest here! Our abbey keeps no worthier dust!
Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Westminster Abbey


ON THE VICTORY OBTAINED BY ADMIRAL BLAKE, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now does spain's fleet her spacious wings unfold
Last Line: And tells the world, how much to you it owes.
Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Sea Battles; Naval Warfare


SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For I, my mother, I
Last Line: The flower of the town %it was I
Subject(s): Admirals; Self-gratification


THE DEATH OF ADMIRAL BLAKE: AUGUST 7TH, 1657, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Laden with spoil of the south, fulfilled with the glory of achievement
Last Line: And darkness took the land his soul desired.
Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657)


THE NIGHT OF THE LION, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their day was at twelve of the night
Last Line: His freedom shall not end.
Subject(s): Admirals; Animals; Eyes; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lions; Night; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime


THE RETURN OF THE ADMIRAL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How gallantly, how merrily
Last Line: That had follow'd in our lee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Admirals


TO A MIDSHIPMAN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Off on the daring curacoa
Last Line: With an interrogation --
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Admirals; Chocolates; Sea; Ocean