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Subject: CHIVALRY
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First Line: Why does it pleasure me, isotta, why?
Last Line: Give me my plato. Pray, how stands the hour?
Subject(s): Chivalry; Love - Unrequited; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


CHIVALRY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I saw that ancient irish queen
Last Line: And I was weeping in the iron age.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Ireland; Irish


LAMENT FOR THE DECLINE OF CHIVALRY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well hast thou cried, departed burke
Last Line: As in a safety coffin!
Subject(s): Chivalry


LAY OF THE CID, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He turned and looked upon them, and he
Last Line: If not, take it from the coffers I leave here %in your hand
Subject(s): Chivalry; Cid, El (1043-1099); Knights And Knighthood


MODERN CHIVALRY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was, with sword and battle-axe
Last Line: Or the fee may tumble through.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Knights & Knighthood


SIR WALTER MANNY AT HIS FATHER'S TOMB; BALLAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, show me the grave where my father is laid
Last Line: I shall not mourn my task is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Chivalry


SONNET TO A SONNET, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rare composition of a poet-knight
Last Line: "thy phrase ""sweet enemy"" applied to france!"
Subject(s): Chivalry; Great Britain - Relations With France


SONNET: ON THE CHIVALRY OF THE PRESENT TIME, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Foolish souls and false! Who loudly cried
Last Line: Who had not shunned earth's haughtiest chivalry.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chivalry; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


SUPPLICES: CHIVALRY, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why weeping, mother? And why veil your eyes
Last Line: Your help, my son. Will you not give it them?
Subject(s): Chivalry


THE BOKE OF THE PURPLE FAUCON, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yt is a kynge both fyne and felle
Last Line: * * * *
Subject(s): Chivalry; Knights & Knighthood; Love


THE HILL OF STONES; A LEGEND OF FOUNTAINBLEU, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We two, my guide and I, through dusty ways
Last Line: About the statue of their stony queen.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Courtship; Fools; Love - Unrequited; Idiots


THE RAKI, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's dust upon the distant wind, and shadow on the skies
Last Line: Embalmed by poetry and love.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Chivalry; Gifts & Giving; India; Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE YEAR OF SHAME: THE KNELL OF CHIVALRY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O vanished morn of crimson and of gold
Last Line: Sleeps a dull sleep, beside his idle spear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Chivalry


THE YOUNG PRINCESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the south sang like a nightingale
Last Line: To the breeze and the orange-flower.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Love; Love - Nature Of