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Subject: CRUSADES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRUSADE, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bound for holy palestine
Last Line: Ye barons, to the sun unfold %our cross with crimson wove and gold!
Subject(s): Crusades; Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199)


CRUSADER, FR. IVANHOE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High deeds achieved of knightly fame
Last Line: And grant him bliss who brings thee fame
Subject(s): Crusades; Fame


CRUSADERS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They who have seen the vision
Last Line: A light upon his face.
Subject(s): Crusades; Soldiers


CRUSADERS, by ELIZABETH WADDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: They have taken the tomb of our comrade christ
Last Line: To give our comrade back to his own.
Subject(s): Crusades; Jesus Christ


DE QUINCEY'S REVENGE; A BALLAD IN THREE FITTES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: De quincey, lord of travernent
Last Line: "who hither return no more!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Crusades; De Quincey, Robert (1127-1197); De Quincey, Seyer (1125-1190); Revenge


DURING THE CRUSADES, by RABBI ELEAZAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy faithful sons, whom thou in love hast owned
Last Line: Crushed, drowned, or with harsh saws asunder sawn.
Subject(s): Crusades; Jews; Judaism


FAIREST LORD JESUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "fairest lord jesus, / ruler of all nature"
Last Line: Then all the angels heaven can boast
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Crusaders;crusader's Hymn
Subject(s): Crusades;jesus Christ


FOR SERVICE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, it isn't for the money and it isn't for the fame
Last Line: You had better never join the engineers!
Subject(s): Crusades; Engineering & Engineers; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


LEPANTO, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White founts falling in the courts of the sun
Last Line: (but don john of austria rides home from the crusade.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Crusades; John Of Austria (1629-1679); Lepanto, Battle Of; Sea; Don Juan The Younger; Ocean


SIR GUY THE CRUSADER, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir guy was a doughty crusader
Last Line: Grew bulky and quitted the stage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Crusades; Family Life; Knights & Knighthood; Relatives


SPEECH OF THE BISHOP OF PUY TO THE CRUSADERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "at day's approach, dawn doth the darkness break"
Last Line: The battle thus commenced with victory
Subject(s): Crusades


SQUIRE OF ALSATIA, SELS., by THOMAS SHADWELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Crusades


THE ASPIRATION, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days he rode: the sun at morn
Last Line: From sky to sky the same
Subject(s): Ambition; Crusades; Death; War; Dead, The


THE BLACK DESTRIER; A BALLAD OF THE THIRD CRUSADE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First 'mid the lion richard's host
Last Line: On the steps of the sudden dark.
Subject(s): Crusades


THE CHAINED CRUSADER, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Between the joustings and the wine
Last Line: Dear seed-plots of the rose of heaven.
Subject(s): Crusades; Oxford University


THE CRUSADE, by KARL GOTTFRIED VON LEITNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A monk in lonely convent cell
Last Line: "into the holy land."
Subject(s): Crusades; Death; War; Dead, The


THE CRUSADER'S FAREWELL, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The banners rustle in the breeze
Last Line: Shall be the thought of thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Crusades


THE CRUSADER'S RETURN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest, pilgrim, rest! Thou'rt from the syrian
Last Line: Is it -- alas! Yet joy! -- my son, my son!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Crusades


THE CRUSADERS' MARCH, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Raise ye up the song of zion
Last Line: Cross and banner, sword and spear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Christianity; Crusades; Faith; Martyrs; Belief; Creed


THE CRUSADERS' WAR-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chieftains, lead on! Our hearts beat high
Last Line: Where but to die ensures eternal life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Crusades


THE FIRE-KING, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bold knights and fair dames to my harp lend an ear
Last Line: At the tale of count albert and fair rosalie.
Variant Title(s): Count Albert And Fair Rosalie
Subject(s): Crusades


THE HORN OF EGREMONT CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere the brothers through the gateway
Last Line: Sounded the horn which they alone could sound.
Subject(s): Crusades


THE KNIGHT OF ST. JOHN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere down yon blue carpathian hills
Last Line: The sun shall fall again.
Subject(s): Crusades


THE LAST CRUSADER, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Left to the saviour's conquering foes
Last Line: "the saviour's holy land is won!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord
Subject(s): Crusades


THE NORTHERN KNIGHT IN ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the record, true as his own word
Last Line: Embalm it, to be known in after-times.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Crusades; Legends


THE PALM AND THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When peter led the first crusade
Last Line: Renew their blended lives -- in mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Crusades; Holidays; Trees


THE PILGRIMAGE (OF SEVEN AND SEVENTY SISTERS), by ANNALEONE DAVIS PATTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the silver-ribboned highway
Last Line: Truly serves the lord.
Subject(s): Crusades; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Pioneers; Sisters


THE SURPRISE OF ANTIOCH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mournfully beamed the pale moonlight
Last Line: The traitor's head away!
Subject(s): Blood; Christianity; Crusades; Fights; Swords