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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BARDS Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLADE OF THE MEDIOCRE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Ambitious bards with song sublime Last Line: I beat the cymbals—that is all. Subject(s): Bards; Singing & Singers BARDS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aged friend, miss wilkinson Last Line: William was then aged sixty-four %and samuel sixty-two Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Bards I ASK, WHO WILL BUY A POEM?, by MATHGHAMHAIN O HIFEARNAIN Poem Source Last Line: It is all vain that I ask Subject(s): Bards O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O black and unknown bards of long ago Last Line: You sang a race from wood and stone to christ. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Bards; Jesus Christ; Slavery; Serfs OH! BLAME NOT THE BARD, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers Last Line: Shall pause at the song of their captive, and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Bards PAIR O' THEM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Old bard, young bird Last Line: In the end will be the word Subject(s): Bards; Birds; Language SONGS OF EXPERIENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the voice of the bard! / who present, past, & future sees Last Line: "is giv'n thee till the break of day." Variant Title(s): The Poet's Voice;the Voice Of The Bard;the Bard;the Ancient Trees;introduction Subject(s): Bards; Bible; Mythology; Religion; Theology 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) THE BARD OF BREFFNEY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Withered with years and broken by time's play Last Line: Upon the field where brave o'ruark did die. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Bards; Death; Harps; Musical Instruments; Dead, The; Lyres THE BARDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bards falter in shame, their running verse Last Line: To stir his black pots and to bed on straw. Subject(s): Bards; Poetry & Poets THE BARDS; TO THE SOLDIERS OF CARACTACUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Valiant sons of freedom's land Last Line: Free as the light, the wave, the wind! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bards; Caratacus (1st Century); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Patriotism; War THE LOWLY SONG OF A LOWLY BARD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are lowly, very lowly:' Last Line: Upward look, and onward go. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Bards THE MEETING OF THE BARDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where met our bards of old? - the glorious throng Last Line: In the sun's face, beneath the eye of light! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bards; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal bard! Thy graphic pen Last Line: As if you felt the red man's glory. Subject(s): Bards; Pride; Soldiers; Self-esteem; Self-respect |
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