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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COURTS & COURTIERS Matches Found: 653 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a princely chamber sat Last Line: For him is set for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen elizabeth sat on her threshold Last Line: I think they never knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 A BALLAD OF TANNHAUSER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hardy, tattered wretch is that Last Line: Tannhäuser and the queen of love. Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Paganism & Pagans; Redemption; Rome, Italy; Shame; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three damsels in the queen's chamber Last Line: Bring us to thy son's eyes. Amen. Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs A DEAD YEAR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took a year out of my life and story Last Line: "and so dost thou." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hearts; Life; Nations; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The A DIRGE CONCERNING THE LATE ... KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT Poem Text First Line: And so our royal relative is dead? Last Line: To write of one who loved his fellow men! Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A. Subject(s): Cannibals; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fame; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Reputation A HYMN FOR ST. DAVID'S DAY (TO THE MEMORY OF SIR OWEN M. EDWARDS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again in unison we stand Last Line: A nation's prayer, a nation's praise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edwards, Sir Owen M. (1858-1920); Memory; Prayer; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen A JACOBITE'S FAREWELL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nae mair lands to tyne, my dear Last Line: And ye'll see me nae mair. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jacobites; Kisses A KING AND NO KING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That prince, who may doe nothing but what's just Last Line: Rules but by leave, and takes his crowne on trust. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A LADY TO A YOUNG COURTIER, by HENRY HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Love thee! Good sooth, not I Last Line: Who can deny such blades a bit! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A LETTER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since hired for life thy servile muse must sing Last Line: And where old spenser sung, a new eliza reigns. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Danube (river); Goddesses & Gods; Letters; Mythology; Poetry & Poets A MARRIAGE BETWIXT SCRAPE ... AND BLOBBERLIPS ..., SELS, by ALEXANDER PENNECUIK Poem Text First Line: Below fair peebles, on the river's side Last Line: There they lie.' Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Brides; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MASQUE OF DEAD QUEENS, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Queens parade down avenues of memory Last Line: Remains to be said -- ! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Ghosts; Helen Of Troy; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Supernatural; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A MORNING AFTER MOURNING, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me no longer presse your gentle eies Last Line: Saints triumph, princes wed; and court and country feaste's. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE QUEEN, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou great commandress, that dost move Last Line: The water, earth, and air inspire. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE KING, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look back, old janus, and survey Last Line: In his blest reign the temple door. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A PARTERRE OF KINGS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With diamonds the boxes flashed and blazed Last Line: And nothing lacked that night save only art! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Diamonds; Praise; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes A PIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I know a certain woman who is reckoned with the good Last Line: To tidy up the world for me, by picking up this pin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Deception; Pins; Wit & Humor; Women A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips A PRAYER FOR A BEGINNING REIGN, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who is order, beauty, power and glory Last Line: Over a kingdom worthy, the world's wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Beauty; Coronations; Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Prayer A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S MAJESTY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, whose mercy is our state Last Line: With wisdom that can never end. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Depressions, Economic; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Prayer; Religion; Recessions; Theology A PURIM POEM, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: You know the tale of queen esther Last Line: "the story of esther the ""star." Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; Judaism A QUEEN IN THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous flood Last Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A QUEEN'S LAMENT, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: What shall I do with my elaine, edith, alys Last Line: I who dare not tell them how I walked the same way! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Independence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A REQUISITION TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most august! Empress of india, and of great britain the queen Last Line: That lives in dundee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; India; Leadership; Lectures; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking A RIBBON TWO YARDS WIDE....., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wind a thousand soldiers round the king Last Line: To feed the faithful eye with superstition. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A ROMAN SENATOR, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caesar, on the stones of the deserted hall Last Line: "I vote to give the imperial crown to cæsar!" Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Roman Empire A RUNIC ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes - 'tis decreed my sword no more Last Line: As e'er in battle bar'd my breast. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The A SONG OF ITALY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a windy night of stars that fell Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Italy; Love; Nations; Dead, The; Liberty; Italians A STORY OF KING DAVID, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas the harvest-time, and the warrior king Last Line: Could a king do more, or a hero less? Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Enemies; Sickness; Illness A VISION OF THE GODS: HALOES, NOT HATS, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: Around the gods, each seated on a throne Last Line: And sparkled in their grand majestic heads. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A VOTE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the misconst'ring world should chance to say Last Line: Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day. Variant Title(s): A Wish;of Myself Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening; Law & Lawyers; Nature; Teaching & Teachers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Attorneys; Educators; Professors A WORD FOR THE NATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A word across the water Last Line: Kings, princes, and slaves. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Nations; Sea; Ocean AD ASTRA: 18, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: While she looks on with cold indifference Last Line: Ah, bold his heart who crowns her deathless queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love AD ASTRA: 7, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So thro' the change of days, when winter hoar Last Line: The mocking winds that desolate the earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fights; Hearts AD PISCATOREM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For these are sacred fishes all Last Line: And in the waters empty all thy bait. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fish & Fishing; Rome, Italy ADDRESS TO THE ALABASTER SARCOPHAGUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou alabaster relic! While I hold Last Line: But build a lasting mansion for thy soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Death; God; Soul; Dead, The AGLAE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Atrium of aglae's house in rome. A fountain Last Line: O christ, accept me! I believe! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Roman Empire; Theology ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark Last Line: Down to the lord of hell. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet once the spartan's led to fight Last Line: Let caesar live, and carthage be subdu'd! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists AMY ROBSART, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The hour is late, yet streaks of light appear Last Line: Dudley, I do absolve thee through my tears!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love AN ADDRESS TO THE PLEBIANS, SELECTION, by JOHN LEARMONT Poem Text First Line: Poor crawlin' bodies, sair neglectit Last Line: An' safest shield. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Graves; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones AN ADVENTURE IN THE LIFE OF KING JAMES V. OF SCOTLAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On one occasion king james the fifth of scotland, when alone, in disguise Last Line: "then john said, ""thanks to your majesty, I'll willingly obey." Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; James V, King Of Scotland (1512-1542); Leadership AN ANCIENT CHESS KING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haply some rajah first in the ages gone Last Line: And murmurs of the dark majestic town. Subject(s): Chess; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN APPEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou indeed among these Last Line: 11/20/67 Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Freedom; Slavery; English; Liberty; Serfs AN ARGUMENT FOR DAVID'S BELIEF OF A FUTURE STATE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If david knew not of a future life Last Line: Now give as plain an answer thereupon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Future Life; Salvation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When crowding folks with strange ill faces Last Line: That one mouse eats, while t'other's starved. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Paris, France; Portraits; Time; English AN EPISTLE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHERD, ESQ, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, / as once a twelvemonth to the priest Last Line: And wreaths round william's glorious head. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Rome, Italy AN IMPROMPUT FAIRY-TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst upon a time wunst Last Line: "guess I'll marry you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fairy Tales; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ODE (2), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At mary's tomb, (sad sacred place! Last Line: And thou sustain'st the orb below. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Heaven; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement AN ODE (3), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When great augustus governed ancient rome Last Line: Hangs up her grateful harp to conquest, and to peace. Subject(s): Augustus. Roman Emperor; 63 B.c.-12 A.d.; Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Rome, Italy AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR AS IT WAS SUNG BEFORE HIS MAJESTY, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lift up thy hoary head, and rise Last Line: Britannia is a brunswick's care. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Government; Politics & Government; South Sea Islands; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN ODE TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to the empress of india, great britain's queen! Last Line: God save the queen. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Prayer; Worship AN ODE TO THE QUEEN; ON HER JUBILEE YEAR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound drums and trumpets, far and near Last Line: And let her live and die in peace—is the end of my song. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Leadership; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) AN OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AND IT PASSED BY THE SEA-SHORE; POEZA MIGNONETTE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And it passed by the sea-shore, where the foam-laces flower Last Line: Where sonatas are singing and where foam frets the wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Literature; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ANOTHER RUNIC ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length appears the wish'd-for night Last Line: I smile in the embrace of death! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave o my soul this baser world below Last Line: Allelujahs to heavens king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heaven; Life; Soul; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Paradise ARABIAN NIGHTS: INSCRIPTIONS AT THE CITY OF BRASS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Enter and learn the story of the rulers Last Line: And now inhabit a palace Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;death;legends, Arabic;materialism;" "dead, The; ARTHURIAN SONGS: 1. AVALON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King arthur lies alone Last Line: Is loyal quite? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Loneliness ARTHURIAN SONGS: 2. THE END, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen guenevere a-maying rode Last Line: In white clothes and in black. Subject(s): Convents; Courts & Courtiers; Nuns ARTHURIAN SONGS: 3. SARRAS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the town of sarras Last Line: Oh! Home to guenevere. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love ARTHURIAN SONGS: 4. GUENEVERE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God rest the lady guenevere Last Line: And for her soul pray we. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love Affairs; Prayer; Dead, The AT TINTAGIL, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iseult, iseult, by the long waterways Last Line: Though there were greater queens who had been gay. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Arthur, King ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God prosper long our noble queen Last Line: Is the end of my song. Subject(s): Assassination; Courts & Courtiers; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) AUGUSTA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Handsome and haughty!' - a comment that came Last Line: Might surely be pardoned for wishing to share it! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers AUTUMN IN WALES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never was a paradise with such a glory spread Last Line: For the gateways of the towy are the gates of paradise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen AWAKE! (TO MOHAMED ALI JINNAH), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, o mother! Thy children implore thee Last Line: Hearken! O queen and o goddess, we hail thee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Worship; Dead, The BABYLON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou glory of a thousand kings Last Line: Hurled headlong from thy lofty throne- / forgotten and forlorn! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;jews;war; Judaism BAD PRINCES PILL THEIR PEOPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like those infernall deities which eate Last Line: And leave their subjects but the starved ware. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BALLAD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, captain of the moorish hold Last Line: The noblest knight of spain! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Moors (people); Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BALLAD OF THE LORDS OF OLD TIME, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What more? Where is the third calixt Last Line: Even with the good knight charlemain. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dead, The BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: THE QUEEN AND THE KING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: My master dear, my king, dost thou know how much they love, my Last Line: Weathercocks where the wind pipes all day! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BALLADS OF THE NIGHT: THE LAMENT OF THE KING AND QUEEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: All in the woodland green, sombrely dight, wandered a king and Last Line: "mundane. . . ." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Lament; Love; Night; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime BBC, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Here is the news, and someone is reading it Last Line: Here is grump's grievance, and grump himself growling it. Subject(s): British Broadcasting Company; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; B.b.c.; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness BEAUTIES ECLIPSED, by FRANCIS LENTON Poem Text First Line: Ladies who gild the glittering moon Last Line: Since charles and mary lost their beams. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BEING RETIRED, COMPLAINS AGAINST THE COURT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from court, where after toil we get Last Line: Vanquish'd, I triumph; fighting, peace I find. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Retirement; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BELSHAZZAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight hour was coming on Last Line: Was slain by his servants, -- a ghastly sight. Subject(s): Babylon; Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The BELSHAZZAR, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belshazzar is king! Belshazzar is lord! Last Line: And a mede's on the throne of belshazzar the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Praise; Judaism BLAME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In battailes what disasters fall Last Line: The king he beares the blame of all. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BLAME THE REWARD OF PRINCES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among disasters that discention brings Last Line: If ill, then kings, not souldiers beare the blame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BONNIE DUNDEE IN 1878, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bonnie dundee! I will sing in thy praise Last Line: And in conclusion, I will call thee bonnie dundee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BOOK OF VISIONS: HENRY III, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The chairs and tables sleep. The tapestries are drawn. At times the Last Line: Saint-germain-l'auxerrois sonorous midnight beats. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Henry Iii, King Of France (1551-1589); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BOTHWELL: PART 1, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold - cold! The wind howls fierce without Last Line: That rise to madden me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 2, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is bright, the day is warm Last Line: Above the kirk-of-field. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 3, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That gaoler hath a savage look Last Line: The felon now for evermore!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 4, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a woman's weakest mood? Last Line: Wilt thou do this?' 'your hand -- I will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 5, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascension morn! I hear the bells Last Line: The sword that darnley wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 6, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that I were a mountaineer Last Line: Come, death; and I will welcome thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BRAVADO, by MARIE M. MOTT Poem Text First Line: King winter's last carousal came as march Last Line: Spring-beauty raised her dainty striped cup. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers CARMEN SECULARE, FOR THE YEAR MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy elder look, great janus, cast Last Line: With everlasting beams of friendly light. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Heroism; Mythology; Nations; Peace; War; Heroes; Heroines CARMEN SYLVA, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not even once have I looked on thy face Last Line: Because the earth and heaven in thee tryst keep. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CASTLES, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: A lonely soul in every breast Last Line: As though they still might thrive by war. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers CASTLES AND DISTANCES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From blackhearted water colder Subject(s): Walruses; Hunting; Courts & Courtiers; Hunters; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CAUTION IN COUNCELL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know when to speake; for many times it brings Last Line: Danger to give the best advice to kings. Subject(s): Advice; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doe not repyine fayre sun to see these eyne Last Line: An eden both indeede and name Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Faces; Scotland; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ioye that alone with better bayes Last Line: And vse to loue the best. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dancing & Dancers; Home; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs CEYX AND ALCYONE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These prodigies affect the pious prince Last Line: And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHANSON D'OR, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: I shall have a gold room Last Line: With a gold sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Slavery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs CHANT OF PRESTER JOHN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the golden heart of the dawn Last Line: This was the chant of prester john! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take away that star and garter Last Line: That have died in vain for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Courts & Courtiers; Culloden, Battle Of (1746); Death; Love; Scotland - Relations With England; Versailles, Frances; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dea 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 CHRISTENING THE PRINCE: A STATE OCCASION, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: One circle round our sun - and o'er Last Line: Edward beheld his bride, happy and free. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Togetherness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight CLASSICAL PROPORTIONS OF THE HEART; FOR FONTAINE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone here knows how it ends, in the stone Last Line: With ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy CLEAR THE WAY!, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear the way, my lords and lackeys! You have had your day Last Line: Spread no more of sail for shipwreck: out, and clear the way! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; English CLEMENCY IN KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kings must not only cherish up the good Last Line: But must be niggards of the meanest bloud. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CLOWN AND KING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoop-la, hey! Cried the clown in the ring Last Line: Life's woven good-and-ill. Subject(s): Clowns; Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepheards boy (best knowen by that name) Last Line: Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Homecoming; London; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COLUMBUS AT SEVILLE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear son, diego, I am old and deaf Last Line: The date, 1571 Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Explorers; Spain; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COME O'ER THE BOURN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Until death us two do depart Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; COMING TO THE KING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came from very far away to see Last Line: Within the fair pavilion of thy presence blest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COMPLAINS OF THE COURT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a great court, near a fam'd river's side Last Line: Grieve for one loss, and straight another spy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CONCERNING EMPERORS: 1. GOD SENT THE REGICIDE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the lying rulers of the world Last Line: God send the regicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERNING EMPERORS: 2. A COLLOQUIAL REPLY - TO ANY NEWSBOY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you lay for iago at the stage door with a brick Last Line: Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CORONATION, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the king's gate the subtle noon Last Line: Slave in his father's stead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The CORONATION HYMN, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of old our city hath renown Last Line: O subject men, adore him! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Coronations; Courts & Courtiers; Praise COUNSEL FOR KINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be, like a noble prince, in love with fame! Last Line: God's justice, higher than thou, should punish thee. . . . Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fame; Love; Punishment; Virtue; Reputation CRIMSON SUNSET, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: A slim and tipsy moon / is dangling in the west Last Line: O'er a mad, topsy-turvy, gaping world. Subject(s): Anger; Courts & Courtiers CRISTINA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She should never have looked at me Last Line: This world's use will have been ended. Subject(s): Infatuation; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CROSSROADS, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: I thought then of cophetua, the king Last Line: But lacked the wisdom to be brave. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kindness; Love CRUELT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a dog-like madnesse in bad kings Last Line: So kings by killing doe encrease their foes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens DAGONET MAKES A SONG FOR THE KING, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Ay, ay, o ay, if love be lean in the halls of the jewelled Last Line: Ay, ay o ay, for a morsel of truth, and the lord-god pity me! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Singing & Singers DANGERS WAIT ON KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As oft as night is banish'd by the morne Last Line: So oft, we'll think, we see a king new born. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DESERTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was awalking along the highway Last Line: For he will make a soldier for his queen and country Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;cruelty;desertion, Military;soldiers; DIRE: 1. A DEAD KING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go down to hell. This end is good to see Last Line: Here is no room for thee; go down to hell.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hell; Nations; Dead, The DIRE: 7. CELENO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head Last Line: That triple-headed hound of hell their god. Subject(s): Blindness; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Hell; Nations; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness DIZAIN IN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dunnes that untoe dizains give small care Last Line: While I did sweare to borrowe—as before. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Money DONNA MARINA: DONNA MARINA, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Dark her eyes as the forest pines Last Line: Donna marina! Donna marina! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here's a health to the queen and a lasting peace Last Line: "and they that won't with us comply, / down among the dead men let them lie" Subject(s): Bacchus;blessings;courts & Courtiers;drinks & Drinking;mythology - Classical DREAM SONG, by GABRIEL VICAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me whom in dream I see? Last Line: Away, sweetheart, the moon is high. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love DURHAM FIELD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lordings, listen, and hold you still" Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;durham, England;england;fields;" English;pastures;meadows;leas DUTY TO TYRANTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good princes must be pray'd for: for the bad Last Line: To strike him dead, that but usurps a throne. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens DYSTHANATOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By no dry death another king goes down Last Line: Few tyrants perish by no violent death.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers EL CAMINO REAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's highway is thronged with folk Last Line: But, oh, the by-roads and their song! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism; Songs EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark inheritor of woe Last Line: Of saints, with fairies in loud antiphon. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark, the widowed, the disconsolate Last Line: Melusine's cries against the moaning of the saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jackals prowl, the serpents hiss Last Line: Think what a lovely time they had! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "said bassompierre, 'when I in spain abode" Last Line: When at madrid I represented you' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;rudeness;spain; Bad Manners EPIGRAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When other ladies to the groves go down Last Line: And haunt the places where their honour dy'd. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers EPIGRAM EXTEMPORE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood, sir, patient at your feet Last Line: Pay homage to the queen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soul EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 3, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bellendene, griffin, and little la pell Last Line: And send what argyle, would he write, might have writ. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers EPIGRAM, IN A MAID OF HONOUR'S PRAYER-BOOK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When israel's daughters mourn'd their past offences Last Line: As decent to repent in, as to sin in. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers EPIGRAM: 33, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In court to serve decked with fresh array Last Line: In prison joys, fetter'd with chains of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPILOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Graves they say are warm'd by glory Last Line: Such as homer sang is zero. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Graves; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones EPILOGUE TO MITHRIDATES, KING OF PONTIUS, BY MR. N. LEE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a pair of faithful lovers die Last Line: And women fight, like swizzers, for their pay. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Dramatists EPIPHANY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The kings have brought him ambergris Last Line: Falls like a full-fed lamb, asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Epiphany; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Twelfth Night EPISTLE TO THE LORD HENRY HOWARD, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise, if it be not choice, and laid aright Last Line: And though it hath not hap, it shall have fame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Howard, Henry (1540-1614); Praise; Truth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPITAPH ON SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasing form; a firm, yet cautious mind Last Line: At length enjoys that liberty he lov'd. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Sir William Trumbal Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers ESSAY: CANTUS INFIRMUS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way to rise to god is to dissipate into particles of light like Last Line: Giant ys inscribed in strings of light on the face of the earth Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Essays; Philip I, King Of Spain (1478-1506) ESTHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face more vivid than he dreamed who drew Last Line: Honor no second place for truth can keep. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fear; Hearts; Jews; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism ETAIN THE QUEEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see with the eye of my mind where a lady sitteth Last Line: For poets had honour and praise of kings when the world was young. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Marital; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EVENTS, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of egypt yawned and frowned Last Line: Still as a sea-rock, sat a toad. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Tristram And Isolde EVERY MAN TAKE A GLASS IN HIS HAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Here's a health to all honest men Subject(s): Blessings;courts & Courtiers EXAMPLES, OR LIKE PRINCE, LIKE PEOPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Examples lead us, and wee likely see Last Line: Such as the prince is, will his people be. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EXPECTATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's three daughters stood on ... Terrace Last Line: "is the loneliest depth of human pain." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Life; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery FABLES: 1ST SER. 33. THE COURTIER AND PROTEUS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er a courtier's out of place Last Line: And never forc'd to leave his lyes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FIGHTING SOUTH OF THE CASTLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They fought south of the castle Last Line: And at night you did not return Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);courts & Courtiers;fights;soldiers FIRMILIAN; A TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours of study - and what gain thereby? Last Line: Curtain descends. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Churches; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Magic; Plays & Playwrights ; Cathedrals; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: 20. A HAPPY MARRIAGE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and joan [or, jacke and jone], they think no ill Last Line: Securer lives the silly swain. Variant Title(s): Fortunati Nimium;rustic Joys Subject(s): Class Struggle; Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Simplicity; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A MERCY RECEIVED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god who spared me what I feared Last Line: To do, and make me love thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Mercy; Dead, The FOR BERENICE, by PIERRE BENOIT Poem Text First Line: Berenice, your sister, the edomite queen Last Line: Resembles the marshes of tyre and of sidon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sisters; Twins; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR MARY STUART, IN CAPTIVITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though by wide seas and time we sundered are Last Line: To free from slavery a queen so fair! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Slavery; Time; Mary Stuart; Serfs FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1703, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, how the muses call aloud Last Line: England's protecting george, and guardian of the main. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Wars With France; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Queen Anne's Lace; Joy; Delight FOR QUEEN MARY'S BIRTHDAY 1691, by THOMAS SHADWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, welcome, glorious morn Last Line: And long preserve the blessings thou hast giv'n. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Hymns (as Literary Form); Mary Ii, Queen Of England (1662-1694); British Empire; England - Empire FOR THE INVESTITURE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today bells ring, bands play, flags are unfurled Last Line: One song, one prayer—god bless the prince of wales. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Castles; Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Songs; Welshmen; Welshwomen FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1697, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summon to the cheerful plain Last Line: Who fights to give freedom, and conquers to save. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1715, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise harmonious pow'rs Last Line: Only know to prize the blessing. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Happiness; Odes (as Poetic Form); Joy; Delight FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1723, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hail to the lov'd, returning, glorious day! Last Line: Britannia! Ever blest, if they. Subject(s): Birthdays; Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When charles, from anarchy's retreat Last Line: Fame shall preserve the great, and just. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Happiness; Obedience; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1787, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The noblest bards of albion's choir Last Line: His lyre had blameless been, his tribute all sincere. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Exiles; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Muses FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1789, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the demon of the summer storm Last Line: Albion the garland gives on this distinguish'd day. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Health FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1790, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within what fountain's craggy cell Last Line: And wafts their pomp of war, and spreads their thunder wide! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Health FOR THE NEW YEAR 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, glorious rising year Last Line: For thee thy people all, for thee the year is blest.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Wars With France; Holidays; New Year; Odes (as Poetic Form) FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR THE QUEEN MOTHER, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are your people Last Line: Who chose you as his bride. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bowes-lyons, Elizabeth FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO THOMAS MOORE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What say I? - not a syllable further in prose Last Line: With majesty's presence as those she invited. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FRANCISCA REINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A stricken queen, but still a queen of queens Last Line: "with orisons unto the rising sun." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Drought; Sacrifices; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke FREDERICK III OF GERMANY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not the bold brandenburg, at prussia's birth Last Line: The manliest emperor, the imperial man! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Heroism; Prussia; Germans; Heroes; Heroines GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind was humid, and barren the land Last Line: "o sun, thou accusing fire!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Murder; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Germans; Songs GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrangled in dream with the emperor thus Last Line: "o emperor, come thou quickly!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Germany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas late at night when I reach'd cologne Last Line: His foolish fond subjects, the poor men! Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Courts & Courtiers; Legends; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GHOST OF THE BEAUTIFUL PAST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ghost of the beautiful past, of the days long gone, of a Last Line: In glory! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GLASGERION (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Glasgerion was a king's own son Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;love;man-woman Relationships;murder; Male-female Relations GLORIOUS BRUCE OF ANNANDALE!, by WILLIAM MCDOWALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! The lord of annandale! / howe! The lord of annandale! Last Line: Hey! The lord of annandale! &c. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hero And Leander GOD, AND THE KING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How am I bound to two! God who doth give Last Line: The mind; the king, the meanes whereby I live. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GORIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In gorias are gems Last Line: And pale gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Courts & Courtiers; Gold; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Treasures GREAT BRITTAINES SUNNES-SET, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soule ore-laden with a greater summe Last Line: My phœbus in his rest hath hid his heav'nly brow. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain; Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GUERDON, by LENA L. JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: I sat on the doorstone of heart's desire Last Line: My heart's desire is there. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens HAVE YOU SEEN THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Have you seen how the people did prance Last Line: And they had a jolly blow out Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;france HEROES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I read of heroes, kings Last Line: "nor heroes, when they drew so near." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Saints; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heroes; Heroines HIS MODEST WISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know, alas, fair dame, that you Last Line: Oh, let me be your scepter-bearer! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Wishes; Male-female Relations HO-HO OF THE GOLDEN BELT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful maiden was little min-ne Last Line: With wicked ho-ho of the golden belt! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Justice; Murder HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six hundred years ago, in dante's time Last Line: Let us not fail to pay the grateful thanks we owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Household Employees; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids HOW THE POET FOR AN HOUR WAS KING, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a garden space, saadi saith Last Line: "time is his prophet for the souls who wait." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Loss; Prisons & Prisoners HYND ETIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: May margaret sits in her bower door Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;forests; Woods IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the melancholy that is made Last Line: And something more. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Forgetfulness; Jerusalem; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IF I WERE QUEEN, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, boy, I wish I were a queen Last Line: You only have to ask me, eddie. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IMPERIAL DELHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial city! Dowered with sovereign grace Last Line: Before whose shrine the spells of death are vain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Memory; Mourning; Rest; Dead, The; Bereavement IMPROMPTU ON THE ENGLISH COURT, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's monmouth the witty Last Line: And the king for a grand politician. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers IN A BALCONY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now! / not now! Last Line: Con. Kiss! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN AN AUSTRAL GULLY, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sauntering down the gully, near the meeting waters Last Line: Who won to me the lover that shall be my bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Courtship; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Cultural Differences IN HAITI: 4. THE PALACE OF SANS SOUCI, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mapou's massive trunk Last Line: I call and call. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Haiti IN OLD SIAM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the wonder! O the glory! Last Line: The white elephant, a buddha! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Buddhism; Courts & Courtiers; Buddha; Buddhists IN PHARAOH'S TOMB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In pharaoh's tomb the darkness reigns Last Line: "vision's not what you wanted." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones IN PRAISE OF GULMOHUR BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can rival your lovely hue Last Line: From a true wife's funeral pyre? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Spring IN PRAISE OF THE KING, by IBN AMMAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pass round the bowl; the breeze of morn Last Line: The brazier of my thought? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN SHUSHAN, by E. YANCEY COHEN Poem Text First Line: O'er lordly shushan's terrac'd walls Last Line: "of the deep-bosom'd, endless blue!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Israel; Jews; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism IN THE HILL-COUNTRY, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this massy keep Last Line: Saw where his great soul slept. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Disappeared Persons; Wales; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN THE KING'S PRAISE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When louis the king is louis the man Last Line: Is louis the man, is louis the man! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens 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 INSTRUCTIONS TO CELEBRATED LAUREAT: GEORGE III VISITS BREWERY, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, sing the stir that happy whitbread made Last Line: Rattled his chain, and wagged his tail for wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Beer; Courts & Courtiers; Drinks & Drinking; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Guests; Ale; Wine; Visiting INVISIBLE KINGS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched all day the sway of invisible kings Last Line: As with wind in the waters, or sceptre of light on the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers IRENE, by JOHN MARTIN SMITH Poem Text First Line: Life's charmed, restricted avenue Last Line: From such a kind and loving soul. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Figurines; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers JACK O' THE CUDGEL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the famous town of windsor on a fine summer morn Last Line: And they lived happy together, and free from all care. Subject(s): Courage; Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines JAPONICA BUSH, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: Tranced in utter dreams she stands Last Line: This is iseult of the white hands. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Women JESUS WEPT, by FRANCIS BROOKS Poem Text First Line: At eve he rested there amidst the grass Last Line: And was consoled — then to his shelter crept. Subject(s): Consolation; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Jesus Christ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Destiny JEZEBEL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the song thy made for jezebel Last Line: By the wall of jezreel. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOHN LACKLAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wicked man is bad enough on earth Last Line: Who dared to steal and stain the symbols of the lord! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; John, King Of England (1167-1216); Lackland, John JOSEPH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joseph saw no trouble ahead Last Line: "he made his brothers tremble Subject(s): Manipulation; Courts & Courtiers; Brothers JOSEPHINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Hark, the very birds are singing, 'josephine!' Last Line: Josephine? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poverty; Wealth; Male-female Relations; Riches; Fortunes JOSEPHINE'S HAT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: What a gay array of hats! Last Line: Such a flower! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hats; Women JUBILEE HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of disillusion Last Line: Ring out loud the jubilee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Music & Musicians; Performing Arts - Spain; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: June in the grass! Last Line: Summer is here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight / pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: Indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Courts & Courtiers; Disasters; Beauty K IS FOR KINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Love's touch is soft, and death Last Line: David and solomon. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Variant Title(s): Crowns Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KILIMANDJARO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, monarch of african mountains Last Line: Father of nile and creator of egypt! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Kilimanjaro, Mount (africa); Mountains; Nile (river); Hills; Downs (great Britain) KINCHINJUNGA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O white priest of eternity, around Last Line: On any shrine is left to tell life's sting. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Future Life; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) KING COPHETUA'S WOOING; A SONG DRAMA IN ONE ACT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I but keep my beggar's staff Last Line: Blue and low. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists KING EDWARD VII, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: He died in harness': the impending stroke Last Line: Makes time obey him while he holds command. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KING HARALD'S TRANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sword in length a reaping-hook amain Last Line: Doubled at their feet. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Treason And Traitors; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy KING HAROLD HARFAGAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great king harold harfagar Last Line: With loving kisses replying. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares KING ROBERT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: There's a king in our house, and we bow to his crown Last Line: And added a world to our family domain. Subject(s): Babies; Courts & Courtiers; Infants KING SOLOMON SINGS OF WOMEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been lord and spouse to many women Last Line: Instead comes night -- and pharaoh's daughter. Selah. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KING'S GARDEN, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who was the royal ming Last Line: As are the hands of gods. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening KINGDOM, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As far as the color red Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Property; Possessions KINGS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, covet not the throne and crown Last Line: Outweigh the pomp of kings. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men are not born kings, but are men renown'd Last Line: Chose first, confirm'd next, & at last are crown'd. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KINGS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mehtinks / there's something lonely in the state of kings Last Line: Yet touch'd by terrors -- what can soothe a king! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers KYNGE DAVID, HYS LAMENTE OVER THE BODYES OF KYNGE SAUL OF ISRAEL, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now lette us shede the brinie teare Last Line: How still the weapons of the war. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; War; Judaism L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Revolutions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LEDA AND THE SCARECROW, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM Poem Text First Line: Come as a friend, tyndareus, come in the firelight Last Line: And crumbling arms beseech the gusty air. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scarecrows LELLOINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny queen / lelloine! Last Line: All your meaning, lelloine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Laughter; Smiles LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trembling old men are stamm'ring Last Line: An ode to humanity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Humanity; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism LITTLE GREGORY, by THEODORE BOTREL Poem Text First Line: Gregory,' his dam would chide Last Line: "jesu domine!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Versailles, Frances; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LLEWELLYN, PRINCE OF CAMBRIA; A WELSH BALLAD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Llewellyn stood as his palace door Last Line: "and I will yield to you." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hearts; Love; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged LOVE POEM OF THE ROMAN DAYS: 7. ISABELLA'S TREE, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the courtyard, isabella's apricot Last Line: Dauphin into king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; Hearts; Isabella, Infanta Of Parma; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros MADONNA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bare was the breast that cradled christ Last Line: Like starlight on the dead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns MAID OF PERSIA, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: Maid of persia, myrtle named Last Line: Be thy spirit ever near. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Israel; Jews; Women; Judaism MAJESTY IN MISERY; OR, AN IMPLORATION TO THE KING OF KINGS, by CHARLES I Poem Text First Line: Great monarch of the world, from whose power springs Last Line: Yet, though we perish, bless this church and state. Subject(s): Adversity; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MALZAH SPEAKS, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, weary! I am called the laughing devil Last Line: More gloomy than a trinity of ravens. Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Grief; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS, by JAMES SHAW Poem Text First Line: Firm, tender, just - sad in his very smile Last Line: No riot! Harvest must be home ere night! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers MARIA IMMACULATA, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How may I sing, unworthy I Last Line: Who found thee without spot and full of grace! Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MAROZIE, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the shady terrace where her beauty wells Last Line: For a friendly look from her eyes of sprinkled gold. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muslims; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Moslems MCGONAGALL'S ODE TO THE KING, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! God, I thank thee for restoring king edward the seventh's health again Last Line: As emperor of india and king edward the vii.—amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Prayer MEDICI FOUNTAIN, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Citizens of democracy are gathered here Last Line: Or for the memory of what is gone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Memory MEJNUN AND LAILI (AFTER THE PERSIC), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drugged at the breast of anguish, nursed Last Line: And toward the desert ran. Subject(s): Arabia; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MEMOIR OF A QUEEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her name, before she was a queen, boots not Last Line: Whose reign was greater or more blest than hers. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MEMORIAL VERSES: 1. YA MAHBUB!, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the streets that I used to know Last Line: And the dreams I cherished ... When you were king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The MINOR EPIC, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rock where the sword was stuck Last Line: Beneath the sovereign english rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Youth MODERATION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In things a moderation keepe Last Line: Kings ought to sheare, not skin their sheepe. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Moderation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MOLLY MOOR, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Tully, the queen of beauty's boast Last Line: When she is up to ceres gone. Subject(s): African Americans; Courts & Courtiers; Negroes; American Blacks; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MONOTONES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there is but one truth Last Line: For a single, a sevenfold song. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Politics & Government MORDECAI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'now say, my queen,' the monarch cries" Last Line: While thou hast bread to spare! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;israel;jews;jews - Women; Judaism MORDECAI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make friends with him! He is of royal line Last Line: Not his, comes from the gallows cubits high. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism MY CASTLE, by ALMA G. WALLACE Poem Text First Line: Last night I stood in the castle hall Last Line: My cot in the garret was flooded with sun. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers MY PIPE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fig for your flagons of sour old wine Last Line: I'm content with this old pipe of mine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Loneliness MY SISTER, THE QUEEN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking the broad allee past kensington palace Last Line: Through the unearthly gardens Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): England; Courts & Courtiers; Sisters MY SWEET LITTLE LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: By easy stages, my sweet little louis xi from nantes to his little Last Line: To tickle the dame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MYCENAEAN REVENGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-kings of crete, phoenicia, and sicily Last Line: And vow to refrain from raping-quests. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Rape NAPOLEON AT SAINT HELENA, by M. G. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Quicksilver courage had escaped his hand Last Line: The drum grew silent in his craven breast. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 5TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour the king, as sons their parents do Last Line: For he's thy father, and thy country's too. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers NELL GWYN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, that no taint of the throne or the stage Last Line: That thy name was the last on the lips of king charles. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Women; English NEW KINGS FOR OLD, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Suffer not the old kings Last Line: On the battlefields of god. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers NOBLESSE OBLIGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it the duty of one who is gifted Last Line: Which lifts up the king to the crown's demands. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOUREDDIN, THE SON OF THE SHAH, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a shah had a second son Last Line: Noureddin, the son of the shah. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sons NUPTIAL ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass from the earth,deep shadows of the night Last Line: And holiest silence seal the marriage night! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); England; Wedding Song; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Epithalamium ODE II, 16, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, heavenly quiet, propitious nymph of light Last Line: And heaven's bright masterpiece shall crown the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers ODE TO THE GERMAN DRAMA, by S. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "daughter of night, chaotic queen!" Last Line: "established order spurn, and call each outcast friend" Alternate Author Name(s): S. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;odes (as Poetic Form) ODE TO THE KING, SELECTION, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ocean's praise Last Line: When such resemblance shines in kings! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760) OLD ENGLAND FOREVER AND DO IT NO MORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "as the queen and prince albert, so buxom and all pert" Last Line: "the queen and prince albert, and do it no more" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;england; English OLD HEC'S IDOLATRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-o! Our jolly tilts at new Last Line: Nor heard of him again, nor cared to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Knights & Knighthood; Singing & Singers OLYMPIA, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Paintings & Painters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the thing that's most uncommon / (envy be silent and attend!) Last Line: The woman 's deaf, and does not hear! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Modesty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A NEW-CREATED NOBLE, by JOHN OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of a long line, my lord, you well may brag Last Line: ['well may' is corrected from 'justly'] Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers ON A PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR IN PRADO, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen / a portrait of this mary Last Line: Of tudor blood turned acid in the veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mary I, Queen Of England (1516-1568); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON HIMALAY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away on himalay Last Line: Keeping flocks on himalay. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers ON SEEING A BUTTERFLY IN THE STREET, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daft gowk, in macaroni dress, / are ye come here to shew your face Last Line: That dip their spoons in ither's kail. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fools; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Idiots ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON THE CYDNUS, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the glorious sky, where the sun low rings Last Line: The divine and infant twain, desire and death. Subject(s): Babies; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Infants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON THE DEATH OF OLD BENNET THE NEWS-CRIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one evening, when the sun was just gone down" Last Line: "homer and bennet were in this agreed, / homer was blind, and bennet could not read" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;death;grief;news;silence; "dead, The;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 ON THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the most do with officious heat Last Line: And after all her wrongs, may do her right. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia; Life; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF THULENE THE KYNGE'S JESTER, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sire, thulene is dead. I have seen his grave Last Line: But unto poets brynges but emptye coffers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jesters; Dead, The ON THE MARIAGE OF THE KING: OF GEORGE, AND PROPERTY, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! This the land, where freedom's sacred rage Last Line: And guards, while plenty gives, the golden grain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Property; Possessions ON THE MONUMENT OF THE MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who in impious times untainted stood Last Line: To earth were meant for ornaments to heav'n. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Monuments; Paulet, John. 5th Marquis Of Winchester; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Pawlett, John; Poulett, John; Powlett, John ON THE NUMEROUS ACCESSE OF THE ENGLISH TO WAITE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten (great prince) unto thy british isles Last Line: Will go, and see him once before I dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Islands; English ON THE PICTURE OF THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE; CUT AND SOLEN, MAY, 1867, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By none could her charms be surpass'd in their day Last Line: Her charms are cut out, and her canvass is lost! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Portraits; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON THE SETTING FORTH OF ... PRICESS ELIZABETH & THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can we wish you that you have not won Last Line: And safe returning crown your journey done. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh (b. 1921); Travel; British Empire; England - Empire; Mountbatten, Philip; Journeys; Trips OUR TITLES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are we not nobles? We who trace Last Line: The glory of our name? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Courts & Courtiers; God; Names OUTSIDE THE CROWD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sit on history in an easy chair Last Line: That chapter for the historic word on wrecks. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Travel; Journeys; Trips PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 2, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While arcite lives in bliss, the story turns Last Line: The knights to combate; and their arms to sing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories PALESTINE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn Last Line: "who died, who lives, triumphant o'er the grave!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Messiah; Palestine; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PANORAMA OF A HAPPY EVENING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the frogs clear their throats Last Line: Has fallen into the canal. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Evening; Sunset; Twilight PASSING BY, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day is dying! Day is dying Last Line: Day is dying—day is dead! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The PASTORAL: DISPRAISE OF A COURTLY LIFE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking in bright phoebus' blaze Last Line: Void of wishing and repenting. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dyer, Sir Edward (1540-1607); Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke PEEP AT THE CORONATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "at home in our village, when we'd done our daily labour" Last Line: I'd lose another sovereign to see another coronation Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;crimes & Criminals;london PENELOPE'S WEB: BARMENISSA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stately state that wise men count their good Last Line: With patience lows thee quiet and delight. Variant Title(s): Content Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; Happiness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight PERINDE AC CADAVER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision liberty stood Last Line: "ashes, and iron, and gold." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); England; Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); English; Liberty PERSEVERANCE D'AMOUR; A LITTLE PLAY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty pass Last Line: From the window-sill. Its wings clatter in the stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists PHILIP VERNON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When bess was queen, and the bishop of rome and Last Line: Ring in their new lord, and these gladder times. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Spain; English PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 5. HOMAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye songs! O my trusty numbers! Last Line: By her who last govern'd thy kingdom. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PISIDICE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of the lesbian king Last Line: To dreamless rest, pisidicê! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations POEM: 1, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Trew king, pat sittes in trone Last Line: In ingland help vs to haue þese. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Scotland; War; English POEM: 10, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: I wald noght spare for to speke, wist I to spede Last Line: For when þe stode in powre strenkith -- þe war all to stout. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; War POEM: 11, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: War pis winter oway wele wald I wene Last Line: þat he may at his ending -- haue heuin till his mede. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Nations; War POEM: 2, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Skottes out of berwik and of abirdene Last Line: Skottes broght him þe kayes, bot get for þaire gile. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scotland; War POEM: 3, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: God pat schope both se and sand Last Line: And blis it with his haly hand. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; God; Ships & Shipping; War; English POEM: 4, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Edward our comely king Last Line: And keþed him in þe berde. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; France; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness POEM: 5, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Minot with mowth had menid to make Last Line: God assoyle þaire sawls, sais all, amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; War; Sorrow; Sadness POEM: 6, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Towrenay, pow has tight Last Line: And fro all sins vs saue. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Sin; War POEM: 7, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Men may rede in romance right Last Line: With his men bifor calays toune. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Religion; War; Theology POEM: 8, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Calays men, now mai ge care Last Line: Edward wan it at his will. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; War POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen? Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime POLLICIE IN PRINCES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That princes may possess a surer seat Last Line: Tis fit they make no one with them too great. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens POLYHYMNIA: DEDICATION TO THE COUNTESS OF LINDSEY, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This laureat nymph, one of the daughters nine Last Line: While fame has breath her ivory trump to sound. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Family Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives POLYHYMNIA: VERSES TO LORD NORREYS, SELECTION, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O true nobilitie, and rightly grac'd Last Line: Appearance. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Norreys, Francis. 3d Lord (1574-1603); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PORPHYROGENITUS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the purple! Born in the purple! Last Line: Crown me with regal acclaim! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery POWER AND PEACE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis never, or but seldom knowne Last Line: Power and peace to keep one throne. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PRESENTED TO THE KING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye careful angels, whom eternal fate Last Line: Averted darts of rage, and pointless arms of death. Subject(s): Angels; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Night; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Destiny; Bedtime PRINCE ARTHUR: THE CRYSTAL PALACES, by RICHARD BLACKMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious illuminations, made on high Last Line: Which from th' eternal battlements were flung. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Crystallization; Physics; Sky; Universe; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PRINCES AND FAVOURITES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Princes and fav'rites are most deere, while they Last Line: When these can aske, and kings can give no more. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (1), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The famed italian muse, whose rhymes advance Last Line: Is forced to turn his satire into praise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muses; Oxford University; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROSE POEM, by JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay in the hall of mirrors Last Line: Processional sadness. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Mirrors; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROSOPOPOIA, OR MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the month, in which the righteous maide Last Line: And bad her tongue, that it so bluntly tolde. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PURIM, by LABEL Poem Text First Line: Queen esther-so the scriptures say Last Line: On purim. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism PURIM, by CALMAN DAVID MATT Poem Text First Line: Come, quaff the brimming festal glass! Last Line: Upon his flock from high. Alternate Author Name(s): Matt, C. David Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish - Liberation; Jews; Judaism PURIM, by MYRTILLA E. MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: From shushan's royal palace came the edict dread / and dark Last Line: Illumined shine in israel's heart with faith's undying fame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Judaism QUEEN BATH, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Shrine of the healing waters, peerless bath Last Line: To be the beauteous city of a dream. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The QUEEN CATHARINE, OR THE RUINS OF LOVE: EPILOGUE, by CATHARINE TROTTER Poem Text First Line: What epilogues are made, for who can tell Last Line: Who knows but I may come to act queen kate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy QUEEN CATHARINE: ACT 1, SCENE 1, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: Work on my brain, help every faculty Last Line: Cruel and bold I'll wade the kindred tide. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights QUEEN MARY'S LETTER TO BOTHWELL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful gods! Have pity on my passion Last Line: And his the victory who most shall venture. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations QUEEN OF HER HEART, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: The little rag doll is queen Last Line: It stands in her heart alone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dolls; Household Employees; Solitude; Toys; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness 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 QUEEN VICTORIA'S BABY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, yes, I'll sing with all my heart" Last Line: Queen victoria's baby Subject(s): "babies;birth;courts & Courtiers;victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901);" Infants;child Birth;midwifery QUEENS, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven dog-days we let pass Last Line: Of all are living, or have been. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Women REGINA MENDOSENA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I'm regina mendosena, queen of all of shanty town Last Line: For I lay aside me titles and me very ancient name. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Ireland; Nationalism - Ireland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Irish REMARKS ABOUT KINGS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God said, 'I am tired of kings' Last Line: Smiled in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Government; Mankind; Social Protest; War; Human Race REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: ODE TO PISSEFONTAINE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Muses, I dub myself, despite each rival claim, with haughty heraldry Last Line: Stentorian tread the rhythm of my lay? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens RIDDLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From belsen a crate of gold teeth Subject(s): Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: CHARLES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the charcoal-burner's hut in the wood Last Line: "my dear little headsman, sleep proudly!" Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Courts & Courtiers; Death; God; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: RHAMPSENITUS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the king rhampsenitus Last Line: In his reign was quite surprising. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Laughter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile Last Line: In the land of andalusia. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE POET FERDUSI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of gold, and men of silver Last Line: That the dead ferdusi bore to his tomb. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heroism; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE WHITE ELEPHANT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mahawasant, of siam the king Last Line: Was by way of suez, and overland. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elephants; India; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: SPANISH LYRICS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on hubert's day - the year was Last Line: Ask'd: had we enjoy'd our dinner? -- Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The ROSAMOND: KING HENRY'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish Last Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; King, Henry (1592-1669); Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs ROSAMUND: ROSAMOND'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From walk to walk, from shade to shade Last Line: Fly to my arms, my monarch, fly! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Why should we now boast of arthur and his knights? Last Line: Sing honi soit qui mal y pense! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;knights & Knighthood SAN FERNANDO REY DE ESPANA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Here the mountains burn at sunset, with that light / drawn from the skies Last Line: Is the fierce, hot wind of summer sweeping down this lonely vale. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Missions & Missionaries SAN LUIS REY DE FRANCIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Wide these margarita mountains open canons wild and / deep Last Line: " 'tis the spirits doomed to penance—look not on their curséd forms." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desolation; Missions & Missionaries SCARLET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow Last Line: Bethink thee: today must end; there is no end of tomorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness SCOTLAND, by BERNICE HOWELLA WOOD Poem Text First Line: Scotch cheer greets you / colorful and warm Last Line: A scotland and ireland cruise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scotland SECOND PROLOGUE AT COURT TO 'THE EMPRESS OF MOROCCO', BY LADY HOWARD, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wit has of late took up a trick t' appear Last Line: For love will ever make the triumph yours. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Courts & Courtiers; Howard, Lady Betty (d. 1683); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724) SECRET LOVE, OR THE MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who writ this, not without pains and thought Last Line: Are bankrupt gamesters, for they damn on tick. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists SELIMUS: KINGS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, my lords, until I call you / forth Last Line: That thinks a sceptre is a pleasant thing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Leadership; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes SELIMUS: SOLILOQUY OF SELIMUS, USURPER AND TYRANT, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, selimus, consider who thou art Last Line: Unless old bajazet do die the death. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dictators SEMITIC INTERLUDE; A SONNET SEQUENCE, by MARTIN FEINSTEIN Poem Text First Line: Pharaoh is mighty on his throne Last Line: But hears the bright voice of the blinded bird. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Jews; Moses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism SEVIRE DEO REGNARE EST, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the things I sigh'd for so, before? Last Line: But those who serve our common sovereign. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While norman tancred in salerno reigned Last Line: And on their monument inscrib'd their fate. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Tyranny & Tyrants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Allegories; Dictators SILVER SLEEVES, by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: She was a queen with silver sleeves and ermine Last Line: -- she is content! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Peasantry; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes SIR ALDINGAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our king he kept a false steward Last Line: Was made steward in king henerys hall Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers SIR CAWLINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;england; English SOCOBIE'S PASSING, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Socobie, aged and bent with pain Last Line: "what voice cries ""farewell"" to our mother saint john?" Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting SOLOMON, A SERENATA, IN THREE PARTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, jerusalem! Thy king Last Line: Too poor a bribe to purchase love. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Virginity; Vestals SONG FOR THE CROWNING OF POMARE, by MARAU Poem Text First Line: The sky flashes like a torch that is thrown Last Line: Courage, pare, it is the crowning of thy king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers SONG OF AGINCOURT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our king went forth to normandy Last Line: That we with mirth may safely sing: deo gratias Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers SONG OF THREE KINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three kings went forth to greet a king Last Line: (o long ago and far!) Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Gifts & Giving; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The SONG, FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, 28 MAY 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy flowery garlands by Last Line: Than the bloom of all thy roses. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Parliament; Jacobites; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue? Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.' Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs SONNET DEDICATORY, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like royal galleys be my verse here written Last Line: It bears thy dear name on, o royal-hearted! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET ON ALFRED OF ENGLAND, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There rose, from out a most discordant age Last Line: Brings on himself like shame and misery on the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Courts & Courtiers; Law & Lawyers; Alfred, King Of Wessex SONNET TO THE KYNGE, by THEODORE AGRIPPA D' AUBIGNE Poem Text First Line: Sire, your dogge lemon, once your bed-fellowe Last Line: On your devotion waits a like rewarde. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Dogs; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET TO ZOE KING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: 02/29/24 Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 3, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dare but sing of you in such a strain Last Line: His soul to the winds that whirl his songs away. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Singing & Singers; Soul SPERANZA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England puts on her purple, and pale, pale Last Line: And every soul of man be satisfied.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hope; Life; Sleep; Wind; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Optimism ST AETHELBURGA; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen, saint, evangelist; sweet, patient, fain to wait Last Line: She enters through that gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Aethelburga Of Kent (d. 647); Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Kent, England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens 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 STAND ROUND, MY BRAVE BOYS!, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand round, my brave boys! With heart and with Last Line: And chorus it, long live the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Victory; War SUITE TO FATHERS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that night's our balance Last Line: Finding him as the bones of a fish in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Fathers; Ghosts; Levertov, Denise (1923-1997); Love; Night; Supernatural; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories; Bedtime SYMBOLS (2), by VANCE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My palace is of smoke and rain Last Line: Men mad with dreams, shout to the night. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Stars; Dead, The; Bedtime TARQUIN AND THE AUGUR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gingerly is good king tarquin shaving Last Line: Rodgers' name engraved upon the blade. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Shaving; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ABSOLUTE MONARCH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty king, long, long ago Last Line: Transformed the king into a baby! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE ACCOLADE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lamp in the tavern yard Last Line: "thou hast made me more of a king!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Tears THE AFRICAN PRINCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a king in africa Last Line: One hope within his heart. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Africa; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ALBION QUEENS, ACT 1: THE WONDER, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Your grace is welcome from the queen of scotland Last Line: Cecil. My lord, you make me blush. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Pity; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ATONEMENT OF FERODACH THE KING; FOR LLOYD R. MORRIS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: High in his crystal-lighted grianan Last Line: Clan connla's henchmen, and hacked off his head. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Murder; Dead, The THE AUDIENCE (AN OLD FABLE), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll let not my children, like pharaoh, be drown'd Last Line: No more of his children's intrusion. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Drowning; Herwegh, Georg (1817-1875); Nature; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BALLAD OF KING HJORWARD'S DEATH, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The norns decreed in their high home Last Line: Gather the twilight of the gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE BALLAD OF KING RAMESES, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King rameses marched to the northward, to the Last Line: It lighted the field, and in kadesh was nowhere to tread for the slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt THE BANISHED KINGS, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a fair ship, borne swiftly o'er the Last Line: Than all his proudest state had known before. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE BATTLE OF LANGSIDE, by JOHN BROWN (1810-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds sit on leafy bowers in langside wood Last Line: Are felt on hill and grove near langside wood. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE BIRTHDAY ODE, 1743, SELECTION, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of fields, of forts, and floods, unknown to fame Last Line: Sing, britons, tho' uncouth the sound. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BLUECOAT BOY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met an angel in the strand Last Line: "charles lamb." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; English THE BREED OF WOE, by LUIS MONTOTO Y RAUTENSTRAUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now whither go ye? - would that we did know Last Line: Refuse us not an alms, for love of god. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fathers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE CALIFORNIA ESCHSCHOLTZIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The orange hue of the rainbow Last Line: In a tent of the cloth of gold. Subject(s): California; Courts & Courtiers; Gold THE CHALLENGE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To one fair lady out of court Last Line: With a fa. Variant Title(s): The Court Ballad Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Townshend, Charles, 2d Viscount; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I may not lift him in my arms. His face Last Line: O, we are both bereft, bereft—the mother and the child! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Birth; Children; Courts & Courtiers; Mothers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood THE CHILD OF FRANCE; ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exhausted, faint, and pale Last Line: Our country, and our god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; France; Inheritance & Succession; Child Birth; Midwifery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heirs THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day. Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE COUNT OF MIRANDEL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the count of mirandel Last Line: "I have filched somewhat of heaven!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elopements; Love Affairs THE COUNTRY LIFE, TO THE HONOURED M. END. PORTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet country life, to such unknown Last Line: Caetera desunt-- Subject(s): Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Porter, Endymion (1587-1649); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE COURT OF BERLIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "king frederick, of prussia, grew nervous and ill" Last Line: Though even the palace come down Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;prussia THE CZAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now who is he with lofty mien Last Line: The czar! God save the czar! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CZAR PASSES, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: One july noon when I was twelve Last Line: After the czar had passed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Russia; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Soviet Union; Russians THE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING OF SPAIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Earth and horizons round Last Line: Alas! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Love; Singing & Singers; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DEATH OF LORD AND LADY DALHOUSIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Lord and lady dalhousie are dead, and buried at last Last Line: Then the people retired with sad hearts at a quick pace. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE DEATH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Noble prince leopold, he is dead! Last Line: For the loss of the virtuous prince leopold they loved so dear Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Funerals; Leopold I, King Of The Belgians; Memory; Dead, The; Burials THE DESIRE AND THE LAMENTATION OF COEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, 'tis a good house, and a palace fair, the dun of macha Last Line: And the eyes of fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Lament; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT KINGS AND SUBJECTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt kings and subjects ther's this mighty odds Last Line: Subjects are taught by men; kings by the gods. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE DOUBLE CROWNING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Lavish roses carpeted the ways for him Last Line: The shouting of the people -- the silence of the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM OF A DREAMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamed that I Last Line: Of one whose soul is dead Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;dreams;night; Nightmares;bedtime THE DUKE OF ALVA'S OBSERVATIONS ON KINGS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kings, when to private audience they descend Last Line: Like some old book which he has read all over. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our play's a parallel; the holy league Last Line: Pull down the master, and set up the man. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Nations; Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists THE EAGLE AND THE KINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eagle sought the desert's spring beside / a lion's cave Last Line: "and keep the sky." Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eagles; Murder; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EAGLE AND THE LION, by GEORGE FREDERICK Poem Text First Line: Alone on his rock nigh a hundred years Last Line: Of earth, and of sea, and of air. Subject(s): Animals; Blood; Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EMPEROR OF CHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a dreadful bore Last Line: And join in shouting hosanna! Subject(s): China; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EMPEROR'S FUNERAL, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And rolled in light the silver seine Last Line: Nor man, nor fiend had mocked his bier! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Funerals; Burials THE ENTRANCE INTO ROUEN OF CHARLES THE BOLD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Counts, barons, captains, chevaliers, all gentlemen of lineage high Last Line: Flattering buzz of hushed applause through all the galleries. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Upper Classes; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EPIPHANY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three kings went upon their way Last Line: Unto thee our hearts we bring! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Epiphany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Twelfth Night THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET TO.. LADIES IN COURT, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chian peincter, when he was requirde Last Line: Forgive it me, faire dames, sith lesse ye have not lefte. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE FAIRY'S GIFT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the little one's cradle Last Line: She found the heart of a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Friendship; Love; Childhood THE FALLING OF THRONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the din of commerce, above the clamor and rattle Last Line: Lights, with a dying splendour, the humblest toiler's way. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Social Classes; Caste THE FATAL PRAYER, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I vanquish,' said the youthful king Last Line: Worn by the blind alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Prayer THE FEAST OF THALARCHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is all prepared, xeanres? Last Line: My lord, my lord! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Festivals; Guests; Fairs; Pageants; Visiting THE FIELD OF GILBOA, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the morning looked forth from his throne Last Line: Thy flocks to decay and thy forests to wither. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While we to jove select the holy victim Last Line: Virtue and wealth; for both are of thy gift. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers THE FIRST KING WHO FOUND OUT, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The first king who found out he was not god Last Line: He learned he was not god, and then—he prayed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Prayer THE FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who hath known her - like as I Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Bedtime THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FROG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I but the frog -- the frog Last Line: And grace to his royal whim! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Frogs; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE FUNERAL OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of germany, your noble emperor william now is dead Last Line: The founder of the fatherland germany, that he did revere. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Leadership; William I, Kaiser Of Germany (1797-1888); Dead, The THE GRAND DUKE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me flowers in the crimson eves Last Line: When I am far away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dead, The THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE GROTTO; WRITTEN UNDER THE NAME OF PETER DRAKE, A FISHERMAN, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu awhile, forsaken flood Last Line: A woman wise men canonize. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Houses; Richmond Park, England; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE HARP OF DAVID, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: When the night her vision is weaving Last Line: Is a youthful poet again! Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE HERETIC IN THE TEMPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lone did I go within the ancient place Last Line: Across the world, in its death-seeking quest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; History; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Temples; Historians; Mosques THE HEROIC RESISTANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUVAIS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: It seemed that master tristan l'ermite was not deceived. Burgundy Last Line: And performers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; France; Heroism; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE HERON'S NEST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world-mother sits on her sky-blue eggs Last Line: And a radiant voice that was like the king's! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eggs; Herons; Minstrels THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards Last Line: Schooner equator, at sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Islands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips THE HYMN OF KING OLAF THE SAINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "swend, king of all" Last Line: On saints who with god are staying Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;heaven;saints; Paradise THE ILIAD: PARIS AND DIOMEDES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, uttering thiswise Last Line: Rotting, round him the birds, more numerous they than the women.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE FIRST FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dank is the air and dusk the sky Last Line: Amid the mazy paths of song. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE JIM-JAM KING OF THE JOU-JOUS; AN ARABIAN LEGEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far off in the waste of desert sand Last Line: Allah il allah! Oo-aye! Amen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;legends;nonsense;translating & Interpreting THE KEYSTONE, by MARGARET CLYDE ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: The singing wire has spanned its perilous way Last Line: "to egypt's straining peasant. Kings forget." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Nile (river) THE KING, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: O sham, who sittest boldly on the throne Last Line: "its tardy homage and all cry, ""the king!" Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Mansions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They rode right out of the morning sun Last Line: And autumn is here again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Seasons; Fall THE KING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the king of a wide domain, and you deem it a wonderful thing Last Line: But the kingly height is a terrible height -- god pity the lonely king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Loneliness THE KING AND THE COTTAGER; A PERSIAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray list me unto a legend Last Line: "has propped a monarch's throne!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Iran; Persia THE KING AND THE MILLER OF MANSFIELD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "henry, our royal king, would ride a-hunting" Last Line: "gave him great living, and dubbed him a / knight" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;hospitality THE KING AND THE PEASANT, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once, at the self-same point of time Last Line: "once only in a hundred years!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Peasantry; Sin; Paradise THE KING DETHRONED; QUATRAIN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wore the purple a year and a day Last Line: He reigneth gently who reigneth long. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE KING OF NORMANDY, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: In normandy there reigned a king Last Line: Oh was n't he a noble king?' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Normandy, France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens 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 KING'S CONSORT, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone Last Line: When you were king of egypt—dear, and I was egypt's queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Love; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No rich and costly gown Last Line: Are the garments of her soul. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Courts & Courtiers; Daughters THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were ten maidens in the green corn Last Line: The pains of hell for the king's daughter. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KING'S SHIPS, by CAROLINE S. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: God hath so many ships upon the sea! Last Line: This deep is but the hollow of his hand. Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; God; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; War THE KINGS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man said unto his angel Last Line: "die, driven against the wall!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KINGS, by HENRY WILLIAM HOYNE Poem Text First Line: Three kings riding forth of old Last Line: You have wandered from your star! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Social Protest; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology THE KINGS ARE PASSING DEATHWARD, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The kings are passing deathward in the dark Last Line: The kings are passing deathward: let them be. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Progress THE KINGS PROPHECY, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stoick could his steely brest containe Last Line: Sawe too fewe dayes, to see too many yeares. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; Treason & Traitors; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism THE KNIGHTS AND THE KING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knights rode up with gifts for the king Last Line: To vanquish and to reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 2. THE KNIGHTS TO CHRYSOLA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crazed for you, aspired and fell for you Last Line: Chrysola! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Love Affairs; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 4. THE KNIGHT BEAUCLERC TO THE LADY GLORIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that the queen with all her maids came / singing Last Line: Farewell! Farewell! But I have loved you best. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Dreams; Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Roses; Nightmares THE LADS OF LIEGE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lads of liege, beyond our eyes Last Line: Fortissimi sunt belgæ! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Liege, Battle Of (1914); War THE LAST MAN: LIFE'S UNCERTAINTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king looks well, red in its proper place Last Line: B. Nought: let her hatch. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE LAST ORACLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years have risen and fallen in darkness or in twilight Last Line: Destroyer and healer, hear! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Julian The Apostate (331-363); Prophecy & Prophets THE LEISURE CLASSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a little beggar maid Last Line: "and, pleasing heaven, never will" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;household Employees;marriage;social Classes; Servants;domestics;maids;weddings;husbands;wives;caste THE LITTLE QUEEN'S SLEEP, by IRENE STEWART Poem Text First Line: Where is the little queen amaranthene Last Line: Deep and deep. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sleep THE LOGGER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight Last Line: And who went the pace in england long ago. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Logue, Christopher (b. 1926); English THE LOST CROWN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why I sometimes drop Last Line: And I again am serf with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soul; Time THE MAIDENS OF ENGLAND; ON PRESENTATION OF A BIBLE TO PRINCESS ROYAL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the pathless ocean waters Last Line: Joy-imparting holy dove! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE MASQUE OF QUEEN BERSABE; A MIRACLE PLAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knights mine, all that be in hall Last Line: Et tunc dicant laudamus. Variant Title(s): The Masque Of Queen Bersabe Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Knights & Knighthood; Plays & Playwrights THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good servant! Up, and saddle quick Last Line: And mute and silent be. Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up, boy! Arise, and saddle quick Last Line: But never speak a word. Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE MIRACULOUS CATCH, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The tidings seemed so heaven-sent, - an uncle dead so a propos Last Line: And about their floats the little fish waltzed as sweetly as heart could wish. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE MOURNFUL TOURNAMENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shield and spear apace they ride Last Line: To slumber side by side. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Tournaments; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE MOURNING-GARMENT: THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What is love! It is a pretty thing Last Line: What lady would not love a shepherd swain? Variant Title(s): Love In Arcady;the Shepherd And The King;happy As A Shepherd Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NEW WORLD'S QUEEN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift to the queen, saint angel came Last Line: Dowered isabella — the new world's queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Explorers; Spain; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE NEWS FROM THE FIELD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king to the battle, the queen to her bower Last Line: A riderless charger, that neighs at the gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE NIGHT COURT, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call rose costara!' / insolent, she comes Last Line: Call each and all! Call us! And then call her! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Novels & Novelists; Social Protest; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE NIGHT OF THE KINGS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The chieftains and druids of uladh would Last Line: Never shall chieftains and druids sit round at such feasting again! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE NO-LONGER-MERRY ANCIENT MONARCH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old king cole was a merry old soul Last Line: And called for his fiddlers three. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Old Age; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE OLD COUPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of oldsters, humble folk, come straying Last Line: Behold them -- king and queen! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eyes; Faith; Flowers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Belief; Creed THE OLD KINGS, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of the old kings Last Line: Lie the shattered world! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the old man of the sea - I Last Line: I'm the old man of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the golden city and the sea Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE PARK, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a park where oaks of atlas girth Last Line: Lest on time's pitiless road I fall and faint! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Parks; Time; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PEARL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall it suffice Last Line: Return unblest into the primal sea? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Rebirth THE PITEOUS BATTLE OF MONT-L'HERY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: After many a round-about they encountered man to man Last Line: Beads beguiled he blessed the holy name, most happy and most mild. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Nations; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE POOR LITTLE RICH FLOWER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: It's better to be a buttercup out in the / grass Last Line: Flower, in a lady's bower. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Summer; Wealth; Childhood; Riches; Fortunes THE PRAISE OF ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour we roses into wine! Last Line: Drinking mid the summer's heat. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Praise; Roses THE PRESENTATION AT COURT, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: The king asked / the queen, and Last Line: "I do like a little bit of beauty in my debs!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PRIDE OF THE KINGS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Two monarchs of the cymry on a hill Last Line: And cleft his skull, and bore the cloak away. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fights; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PRINCE AND THE CZAR, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prince and the czar ride into the streets Last Line: Let the wild wars cease and the nations rest!' Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Freedom; History; Leadership; London; Liberty; Historians THE PRINCE IS DEAD, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A room in the palace is shut. The king Last Line: The prince is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Nations; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE PRINCE OF PEACE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Death sent his messengers before Last Line: Through tasks fulfilled to reach my own Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;labor & Laborers;peace THE PRINCESS OF HANOVER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed are the houses, the lamps are all sleeping Last Line: Princess. Blood!—whose blood? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Poetry & Poets THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S DOWRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now is not this a piece of work Last Line: "the marrow from our bones, sir" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;taxes THE PROLOGUE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! How they push! The pit is crowded now Last Line: (they go forth.) Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Tragedy; Actresses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Stage Life THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love." Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny THE QUEEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen sinned in a dream Last Line: The great gold curls of the queen.) Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE QUEEN FORGETS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What came before and afterward Last Line: On the chill blade. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN IN FRANCE; AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH BALLAD, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It fell upon the august month Last Line: And no thae puddock-pies!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF CLOUDS, by KIANG KANG-HU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of clouds riding down from her jade city Last Line: O queen of clouds! Alternate Author Name(s): Jiang Kangh Subject(s): Clouds; Courts & Courtiers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My charlotte is a peerless gem Last Line: Than others' smiles, I ween! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF THE SEA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea, calm, sleeping sea! Awake and tell Last Line: Till her face again be seen.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of june Last Line: And may she wear a crown of glory hereafter when dead. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Crows; National Songs; National Anthems THE RECENT MURDERS; A NEW SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: God prosper long our noble king Last Line: May never more be done Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;crimes & Criminals;murder;singing & Singers THE REGENT; A DRAMA IN ONE ACT, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Way there! Give room! The regent comes from mass Last Line: Touching his shoulder gently. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE RETURN OF JEANNE D'ARC, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the vales of paradise Last Line: It is her voice! Jeanne d'arc! Jeanne d'arc! Variant Title(s): The Return Of Joan D'arc Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Paris, France; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 3. THE QUEEN'S DECISION TO BANISH HER ...., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And the queen, though she loved her / not least for the child Last Line: Actual second. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 4. THE CONDITION OF HER RESIDENCE THERE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was therefore proclaimed / that the sprite n or m Last Line: And dissolve on the air. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE RICHEST PRINCE, by ANDREAS KERNER Poem Text First Line: All their wealth and vast possessions Last Line: "thou art wealthier far than we!" Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ROBING OF THE KING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the bird of air blue-breasted glint the rays Last Line: Far beyond the light enfolded in the dark divine. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE ROMAUNT OF KING MORDAMEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Did ye hear of mordameer Last Line: And met him face to face. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Fantasy; Sleep; Nightmares THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares THE ROYAL CROWN, by ISRAEL ABRAHAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I know that those who plead Last Line: Israel abrahams. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE ROYAL REVIEW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to the empress of india, great britain's queen Last Line: For enduring such hardships at the royal review. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE RUINED HEART, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: My heart was as a roman palace fair Last Line: An humble hut from ruins of my pride. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Rome, Italy; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SAUCCESSION OF KINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William the norman was brave in the field Last Line: Reigns over england beloved and at peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); England; Peace; English THE SCARECROW, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY Poem Text First Line: Under her tilted hat of tuscan rushes Last Line: And evening finds the bushes all stript bare. Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Food & Eating; Scarecrows THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 1, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's coming through this street Last Line: Tis bacchus' son who walks below. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 2, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you sleep these dark hours, maiden Last Line: And ends in those two eyes of blue. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 2, SCENE 1, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocently thought, / and worthy of thy youth! I should not say Last Line: Was but a drop in the world-melting flood. - Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SIX MAIDENS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tower there is, where six maidens do dwell Last Line: Prepard for the devil and his angells also? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 14, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: At excester, a few short leagues removed Last Line: Who, loveward foil'd, by force would her convince. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 15, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Her beauty deepen'd, like a cobalt sky Last Line: Show'd her pale face more delicately fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 28, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And maiden pique and womanly constraint Last Line: Who had relieved her from that ruthless hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Knights & Knighthood; Heroes; Heroines THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 30, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And she hath placed a red rose in her hair Last Line: The freshest, fairest flower the dews begem. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Love; Roses THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The knight hath ta'en her stilly hand in his Last Line: On silken couch she stays her trembling knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Alas,' quoth she, 'what hapless woe is mine Last Line: And my life's crown will be a crown of sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 5, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Look not for gratitude from mortal prince Last Line: Suspicion never slumbers, never spares! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Loyalty THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 6, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In bitterness of soul, sir eliduc Last Line: That they who loved him reverenced him the more. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Ambition; Courts & Courtiers THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SONG OF COURTESY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sir gawain was led to his bridal-bed Last Line: Beautiful by courtesy! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Mythology; Arthur, King THE SONG OF THE MANY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We broke the yoke of the aryan kings Last Line: We are the many and wear not the chain. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SONG OF THE STANDARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands Last Line: Take to thy bosom the nations, and there shall the world come to rest. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Italy; Women; Italians THE SORCERESS OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its gates are griffin-guarded gates Last Line: The sorceress of the moon! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Guard Duty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH WAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all young men and maidens of high and low degree Last Line: Their precious lives to venture all for the queen of spain Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;grief;spanish-american War (1898); Sorrow;sadness THE SPEEDING OF THE KING'S SPITE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A king - estranged from his loving queen Last Line: "could have ended so happily!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Love; Separation; Isolation THE SQUIRE'S PEW, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A slanting ray of evening light Last Line: Shall occupy the squire's pew. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE STORM-KING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back! Stand back / from my giant track! Last Line: I am monarch, and earth must obey! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Earth; Storms; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; World THE STORY OF LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Louis xi, for trifles fain, I love you, curious man. Dear chafferer in Last Line: About his tattered hood ran a silver hem of moonlight fair. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TASK: BOOK 5. THE WINTER MORNING WALK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning; and the sun with ruddy orb Last Line: And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Morning; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TEMPLES, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: That solomon the wise king might behold Last Line: Swept the dead leaves in scorn against his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Disdain; Shrines; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Scorn THE THIEF AND THE CORDELIER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who has e'er been at paris must needs know the greve Last Line: Derry down, etc. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The THE THREE RULERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a ruler take his stand Last Line: Rose up, and drove him from the land! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery THE THREE SONGS, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King siegfried sat in his lofty hall Last Line: "siegfried lies in his red, red blood!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Singing & Singers THE TINY HAT UPON THE BROW, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That elfin crown, so light and neat Last Line: Not diadem upon the brow. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TOMB OF DE BRUCE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And liest thou, great monarch, this pavement below? Last Line: By the chisel of fame on the tablet of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Graves; Honor; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the mummied kings of egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold Last Line: To fulfil thought's yearning tension upward through eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Graves; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones THE TRYST OF QUEEN HYNDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen hynde was in the rowan-wood with scarlet fruit aflame Last Line: "the old king's son, they say; mayhap; he has gillander's eyes." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Love; Murder; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE TWILIGHT OF THE LORDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the sound a trumpet blown, or a bell for burial tolled Last Line: And the lordship of your godhead is gone, o lords our gods. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; English THE TWO OLD KINGS, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In ruling well what guerdon? Life runs low Last Line: Heroic hearts, upon our lonely way. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE VAIN KING, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In robes of tyrian blue the king was drest Last Line: And scolds the angler with a mocking scream. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fish & Fishing; Kingfishers THE VICEROY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of nero, tyrant, petty king Last Line: Thou ne'er wilt be de-witted. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Guilt; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants THE VOYAGE OF THE 'OPHIR', by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of our race, we send you one Last Line: And strength to service vowed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE YOUTHFUL QUEST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His lady queen of woods to meet Last Line: To ash at look of eyes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Forests; Woods THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter nights enlarge / the number of their hours Last Line: They shorten tedious nights. Variant Title(s): Winter Nights Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Night; Parties; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime THOUGHTS AFTER VIRGIL, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Strength by strength this nation of ours grew surely to greatness Last Line: But build fraternal charities on righteous enactment. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 3, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunne that had himselfe a courtier beene Last Line: How much you fauour vs, wee honour you. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TIME'S CHANGES, FR. THE ART OF POLITICS, by JAMES BRAMSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like south-sea stock, expressions rise and fall Last Line: Can there be any trusting to our words? Subject(s): Comedy; Courts & Courtiers; London; Politics & Government; Towns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TIMOUR'S COUNCILS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emirs and khans in long array Last Line: "on wild chabanga's frozen plain!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Middle East; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Near East; Levant; Dictators TO 'MY LADY DUCHESS' WINDOW' IN THE PALACE OF URBINO, by ANNIE BEECHER SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Closed the window, / closed and dead Last Line: While a new world goes its way. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wellesley College; Windows TO A CHILD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: O bright-eyed child whose laughter Last Line: The intense immense soft dense sweet mist that round her strays.— Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Life; Love; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO A FALLEN TREE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: O thou grand monarch of the spacious wood Last Line: For her dead kings; it is indeed thy due. Subject(s): Autumn; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Seasons; Trees; Fall TO A MAID OF THIRTEEN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: How blithe you are, and tall Last Line: So tall, and unafraid! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Envy; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids TO A YOUNG LADY DESIRED A VERSE ... SERVANT ONE DAY, MISTRESS ANOTHER, by ELIZABETH TIPPER Poem Text First Line: More than a king's my word does rule to day Last Line: When all the world's a riddle, why not I? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Riddles; Liberty TO BEARERS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maids, carry her forth - your dead Last Line: Fall for her coverlet. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dead, The TO BESSIE HAWES, MAY QUEEN, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Now wouldn't I like to be there to see Last Line: And it's maytime always to think of you. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA), by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that the golden lyre divine Last Line: Still unredeemed? Subject(s): Compassion; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism TO HER MAJESTY CAROLINE ON HER ACCESSION TO THE THRONE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An english muse shall close the solemn scene Last Line: And rocks, and clouds, and trees, in little landskips rise. Subject(s): Colonialism; Courts & Courtiers; Creative Ability; Great Britain; Love; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity TO HIS FAITHFULL FRIEND, MASTER JOHN CROFTS, CUP-BEARER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all thy many courtesies to me Last Line: Here to be paid; ile pay't I'th'world to come. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY; A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORNONATION, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that wild deluge where the world was drowned Last Line: With their own peace their childrens happinesse. Variant Title(s): To His Sacred Majesty Charles The Second;to His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyric On His Coronation Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TO MARY STUART, QUEEN OF FRANCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England and scotland and the land of france Last Line: And then be queen six months of the french land. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Nations; Mary Stuart TO SARAH, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In these drab days, alone there never cloys Last Line: The lips of shakspere on your jeweled fingers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Soul; Dead, The TO SARAH BERNHARDT, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In this scarred age thine own is beauty's bust Last Line: The lips of shakespeare on thy fingers press. Subject(s): Beauty; Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923); Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send to you, commissioners Last Line: O' you mysel'. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers TO THE CONTESS OF S. WITH THE HOLY COURT, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since every place you bless, the name Last Line: As well to entertain, as represent. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers TO THE DUKE OF YORK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May his pretty duke-ship grow Last Line: Through the world, but writ in gold. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE KING OF THULE, by HENRI ALLORGE Poem Text First Line: O thou, whose name is as a sigh exhaled Last Line: O king of thule, it is thine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tears; Thule (island); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE KING, TO CURE THE EVIL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To find that tree of life, whose fruits did feed Last Line: Mine is the evill, but the cure, the kings. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE KINGS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you've fulfilled the measure of your pride Last Line: And shake your kingdoms with its irony! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Irony; Skulls; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIAH, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "long since, it was by me desir'd" Last Line: And with bright angels compasy round Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;earth;elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia;freedom;heaven;" World;liberty;paradise TO THE QUEENE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goddesse of youth, and lady of the spring Last Line: And be both princesse here, and poetresse. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE QUEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE, by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not your faire out-side though famous greece Last Line: And comes to england, though in france he tarrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hearts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TOURNIQUET, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: He danced for the king; for his courtiers; the clown Last Line: Over his heart ... To stifle its cry. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TRANSIT MUNDUS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another winter comes. The last comes soon, I know Last Line: Though after me one come, and take the abandoned place. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; France; Life; Moon; Winter TRISTRAM, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isolt of the white hands, in brittany Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tristram And Isolde TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 2. THE QUEEN'S PLEASANCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night arose the second day Last Line: And all the sea lay subject to the sun. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Morning; Sea; Sun; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 5. ISEULT AT TINTAGEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that same night in cornwall oversea Last Line: Woke with glad eyes iseult of brittany. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Love; Sea; Ocean TRUE LOVE'S REWARD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Love, walking in the garden of the king Last Line: And lo! The king made him an honored guest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Love; Love - Nature Of TRUE ROYALTY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was never a queen like balkis Last Line: Rudyard kipling. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWELFE NIGHT, OR KING AND QUEENE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, now the mirth comes Last Line: As when ye innocent met here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO CROWNS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The king of glory Last Line: Is king of kings. Subject(s): Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO FRESCOES, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down there where europe's arms Last Line: Rose over africa. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Africa; Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO GENERATIONS, by ZENOBIA CRUTCHER FEINEMAN Poem Text First Line: Crowned with silver braids - her evening Last Line: And rock it to a military beat. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 1, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king of china's daughter, / she never would love me Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 2, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king of china's daughter / so beautiful to see Last Line: Has yet caught me. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens UNCROWNED, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: The ogre leaps with massing hands Last Line: And no blood-basted armies fish it back. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens UNDER THE MOON, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the moon to her silver sands Last Line: For a twelve-month and a day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen UPON HONOUR, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Honour, I say, or honest fame Last Line: And kings can neither take nor give. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fame; Honor; Reputation UPON THE KING'S SICKNESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness, the minister of death, doth lay Last Line: Shows a good king is sick, and good men mourn. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sickness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Illness URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO LADY PENELOPE DYNHAM, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This muses story, that a princes cares Last Line: William basse. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Kindness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VALDEMAR THE HAPPY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Favored in love, and first in war Last Line: While the poor, proud king is desolate. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Leadership VASHTI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all great shushan's palaces was there Last Line: "he will but bless me when he doth repent!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Love; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism VASHTI, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far- / off land I used to know Last Line: Served low at her feet. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Memory; Slavery; Separation; Isolation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs VERSAILLES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day at versailles the great louis survey'd Last Line: "is remov'd, as we see, but the wind is there still." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Windmills; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VERSES ON HENRY THE EIGHTH'S SEIZING THE ABBEY-LANDS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There liv'd a race to good charissa dear Last Line: Forgetful of the blood that stain'd his fearful stream. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Greed; Grief; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES & AKEXANDRA OF DENMARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would sing a song of gladness Last Line: Britain's daughter, albert's wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Denmark; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Marriage; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Danes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Welshmen; Welshwomen VERSES TO BEE SETT OVER THE ROSE AND THISLE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Devynelie did your royall moate presage Last Line: The goulden senten fostred in your brest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VERSES WRITTEN AFTER FACING WINDSOR CASTLE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From beauteous windsor's high and story'd halls Last Line: Prefers to all his little straw-built home. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Home; Windsor Castle VERSIFICATION OF THE SPEECH OF GEOORGIN TO BEYUN, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seest thou yon shelter'd vale of various dye Last Line: To great khi-kusroo's court a turkish fair! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes VIGIL, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To muse. In the void of night to thrill like the rushes! Last Line: To greet us set like kings on our royal thrones! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, and that was term'd the time of gold Last Line: Thriuing in ill, as it in age decayes. Variant Title(s): The Golden Age Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Sea; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old driueling lolio drudges all he can Last Line: Brasse gentlemen, and caesars laureate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Prisons & Prisoners; Schools; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Convicts; Students VISIONS IN VERSE: 4. CONTENT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man is deceiv'd by outward show Last Line: And inconsistent dreams of day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Friendship - False Friends; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Fair Weather Friends VISIONS OF JESUS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In bethlehem a babe I see Last Line: Before that throne on judgment day. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology VITA; AN ALLEGORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O most mighty, most glorious Last Line: With their arms entwined.) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists WHICH KING?, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: We have no king but caesar,' answered they Last Line: That christ is king, that he alone shall reign? Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools WHO SITS WITH THE KING IN HIS THRONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who sits with the king in his bride Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Courts & Courtiers WHOM THE GODS LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom the gods love die young . Ah, do not doubt of it Last Line: Laughing her gay girl's laughter, glad through eternity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens WINE FOR THE KING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the word of the wind? The word of the wind is war! Last Line: Naught, for there must be wine—red, red wine for the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Government; Social Protest; War WINTER SUNSET, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Not in a cringing way Last Line: Goes down to die. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The WITH A DIAMOND FEDE RING ON AN OLD VENETIAN MIRROR, by WILLIAM THEODORE PETERS Poem Text First Line: What time in front of this dim glass the princess fair Last Line: The mirror took the whole scene in and made a sweet reflection. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Diamonds; Love; Mirrors WITH ETERNITY STANDING BY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I bid you good-bye Last Line: With eternity standing by. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Future Life; Love; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ZINNIAS, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Stiff ladies in ruff and fardingale Last Line: Sooth, his grace the earl of liecester. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 2. DEATH OF ALTHEETOR, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon over meles' grave the wild flower dropt Last Line: With all her house; and seeks her own acacia grove. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jews; Love; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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