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Subject: CAVALIERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAVALIER LYRIC, by JAMES SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sometimes sleep with other girls
Last Line: I could not love you half so well %without my practice shots
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657)


CAVALIER SONG: 1642, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: If this be my last hour with thee
Last Line: Without thee, I lose all.
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Courage; Death; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


CAVALIER TUNES: BOOT AND SADDLE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
Last Line: "cho. -- boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
Subject(s): Cavaliers


CAVALIER TUNES: GIVE A ROUSE THEN FOR THE CLINIC, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King charles, and who'll do him right now?
Last Line: King charles!
Subject(s): Cavaliers; War


CAVALIER TUNES: MARCHING ALONG, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kentish sir byng stood for his king
Last Line: Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song!
Subject(s): Cavaliers


HE WILL GIVE ME POWER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, I am weak; a man am I of clay
Last Line: As strong and firm as some great granite tower.
Subject(s): Cavaliers


I SING OF BATTLE, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cavalier on his steed
Last Line: Notre dame de la garde priez pour nous
Subject(s): Cavaliers; War


MELTING OF THE EARL'S PLATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's the gold cup all bossy with satyrs and saints
Last Line: With the shouts of the multitude bringing the king.
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Great Britain - History; English History


ON LOYALTY IN THE CAVALIERS, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He that is a clear / cavalier
Last Line: This is the life of an honest poor cavalier.
Subject(s): Cavaliers


RUPERTISMUS, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O that I could but vote myself a poet
Last Line: Kimbolton's but a rumbling wheelbarrow.
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Hay, Lucy. Countess Of Carlisle; Lunsford, Sir Thomas (1610-1653); Maynard, John (1602-1690); Serjeants, John Glyn (1607-166)


SIR GAWAIN, by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir gawain may be painted in a word
Last Line: And bore down shields, and pikes, and horse, and man.
Subject(s): Cavaliers


THE OLD CAVALIER, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For our martyr'd charles I pawn'd my plate
Last Line: "with my son on worcester plain."
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - History; English History


THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come listen to another song
Last Line: All of the olden time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Culloden, Battle Of (1746); Jacobites


YOUNG WINDEBANK, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They shot young windebank just here
Last Line: And loyal love as sure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Loyalty