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Subject: ENGLAND Matches Found: 1708 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, boston, boston, thou hast nought to boast on" Last Line: And a coast as souls are lost on Subject(s): "boston, England; "ON RICHARD, DUKE OF CORNWALL, BROTHER TO HENRY III", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sitteth alle stille and herkneth to me Last Line: Tricchen shalt thou neuermore Subject(s): "henry Iii, King Of England (1207-1272);lewes, Battle Of (1264);richard, Earl Of Cornwall (1209-1272); "ROBIN HOOD AND ALLIN-A-DALE [OR, ALAN A DALE]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, listen to me, you gallants so free" Last Line: "and so they returned to the merry green-wood, / amongst the leaves so green" Subject(s): England;robin Hood; English "THE GOLDEN ISLAND OR THE DARIAN SONG, BY 'A LADY OF HONOUR'", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some slumbering thoughts possessed my brain Last Line: O' respond both land and sea Subject(s): England;fame;life;sea; English;reputation;ocean Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twelve moneths agoe, what rate would I too dear Last Line: Dispair is better farr, than fruitless hope. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Whilst I behinde me cast my annual ey Last Line: Thy graces aid, at least now gin to live. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism 17TH CENTURY EPITAPH, FOR JOSIAS SHUTE, GIGGLESWICK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Heer's yt wise charmer whose sweet ayres to hear Last Line: Ev'bn blessed visions doth his boooke unfoulde Subject(s): Yorkshire, England 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War 534, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For ages you were rock, far below light Last Line: Of those who speed your launching come to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Queen Mary (ship); Sea; Unemployment; Recessions; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean A BALLAD AT PARTING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea to sea that clasps and fosters england, uttering evermore Last Line: Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea. Subject(s): England; Sea; English; Ocean A BALLAD OF BATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a queen enchanted who may not laugh or weep Last Line: Dawn and noon and sunset are one before thy face. Subject(s): Dawn; England; Sunrise; English A BALLAD OF CANTERBURY, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the grim, gray northern sea Last Line: "has done it unto me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Canterbury, England A BALLAD OF KINSMEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pia bay wears a smooth, bright face Last Line: And the other on to her grave. Subject(s): England; Sea; Ships & Shipping; English; Ocean 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 THE QUEEN'S MAJESTY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name that has been thy nation's shield Last Line: Victoria! Whom god preserve! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) A BALLAD TO QUEEN ELIZABETH (OF THE SPANISH ARMADA), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King philip had vaunted his claims Last Line: And where are the galleons of spain? Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): Ballad Of The Spanish Armada Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Spanish Armada A BUDDING MORROW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I woke, the sapphire sky Last Line: And laughed to have been mistaken. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FIRST PEARLE. RELIGION, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: The goodliest pearl in fair eliza's chain Last Line: And against england never could prevaile. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nations; Pearls; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sweeter music [musick] can be bring Last Line: M. Henry lawes. Variant Title(s): Sung To The King In The Presence At White-hall Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Christmas Carols A CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis christmas, and the north wind blows Last Line: My heart is always in the spot which was my childhood's home. Subject(s): Australia; Christmas; England; Homesickness; Nativity, The; English A CLASSICAL CONTRAST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: I have (in bronze) a tiny / adventuress of greece Last Line: Of england or of greece! Subject(s): England; Greece; English; Greeks A DAY IN OLD GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, he was a brave sea captain Last Line: Of his own affianced bride. Subject(s): Cavendish, Thomas (1560-1592); Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 A DECSRIPTIVE ODE, ... UNDER THE RUINS OF RUFUS'S CASTLE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaotic pile of barren stone Last Line: With legal toils to drag me to my fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Castles; Portland (penisula), England; Ruins A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GEORGE AND FOX, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good charly fox, your counsel I implore Last Line: And france, triumphant, stems the subject main. Subject(s): American Revolution; Fox, Charles James (1749-1806); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Navy - Spain; French Navy; English Navy; Spanish Navy A DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY MARCH OF HIGHLANDERS INTO LANCASHIRE, 1745, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you not sadly frighten'd, honest harry Last Line: Harry. Yoi, sur, as lung as ere I con, I will. Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Lancashire, England; Scotland - Relations With England A DREAM OF ENGLAND, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will it be still the old land Last Line: As lovely as before? Subject(s): England; English A FABLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In aesop's tales an honest wretch we find Last Line: He without hair, and thou without a crown. Subject(s): William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) A FACT, AND AN IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The danish conqueror, on his royal chair Last Line: "until they reach the bounds by heaven assigned." Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England A HYMN OF PRAISE FOR THREE GREAT SALVATIONS: THE LANDING WILLIAM III, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But lo! The great deliverer sails Last Line: A hymn of praise for Subject(s): William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) A HYMN WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All hail! Once pleasing, once inspiring shade Last Line: And love the brightest eyes, but love in vain! Variant Title(s): Lines Written In Windsor Forest Subject(s): Windsor Forest, England A HYMNE TO HIS LADIES BIRTH-PLACE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coventry, that do'st adorne Last Line: And strike the slave for ever dumbe. Subject(s): Coventry, England; Godiva, Lady (1140-1180) A KING'S SOLILOQUY (ON THE NIGHT OF HIS FUNERAL), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the slow march and muffled drum Last Line: My acts and me. Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) A LANCASHIRE DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY A PREACHER WITHOUT NOTES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wus yo at church o' sunday morning, john? Last Line: James. If onny comes, I'll tak it; john,—good bye! Subject(s): Clergy; Lancashire, England; Language; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Words; Vocabulary; Oratory; Orators A LETTER FROM ITALY, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, my lord, the rural shades admire Last Line: And lines like virgil's or like yours, should praise Subject(s): England; Freedom; Italy; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Travel; English; Liberty; Italians; Journeys; Trips A LILLIPUTIAN ODE ON THEIR MAJESTIES' ACCESSION, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smile, smile, / blest isle! Last Line: Of george and caroline! Subject(s): George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760) A MADRIGAL (QUEEN VICTORIA), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can dwell with greatness! Greatness is too high Last Line: Greater still as woman, greatest in thy tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) A MAP OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX IN ENGLAND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathers Subject(s): Essex, England; Landscape; Maps A MARCHING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We mix from many lands Last Line: Live, for the truth is living; wake, for night is dead. Subject(s): England; Justice; Marching & Marches; English A NEW FOREST BALLAD, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh she tripped over ocknell plain Last Line: A widow and never a bride. Subject(s): New Forest, England A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: I walked thru an old new england town Last Line: Without purpose or will to stop itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): City & Town Life; New England; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips A PANEGYRE, ON HAPPY ENTRANCE OF JAMES, OUR SOVEREIGN TO PARLIAMENT, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven now not strives, alone, our breasts to fill Last Line: Still to have such a king, and this king long.' Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) A PASTORAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the young year is sweetest, when the year Last Line: That might be hushed, unless you come ere long. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A PETITION, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Text First Line: All that a man might ask, thou hast given me, england Last Line: England, for thee to die. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War A PINDARICK TO MRS. BEHN ON HER POEM ON THE CORONATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail, thou sole empress of the land of wit" Last Line: Since the first mother of mankind rebell'd Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);james Ii, King Of England (1633-1701);life;poetry & Poets;women; A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live here: 'wessex' is my name Last Line: "yet, will this pass, and pass shall I?" Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wessex, England 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 PRAYER FOR THE KING'S MAJESTY; 22ND JANUARY, 1901, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen is dead. God save the king Last Line: God, save the king! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S REIGN, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, the ruler over earth and sea Last Line: In this beginning reign may be fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Coronations; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Rulers; Peace; Prayer A PREMONITION; CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 1913, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey walls, broad fields, fresh voices, rippling weir Last Line: And knowledge is a pang, like love of yore. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Worry A REFRAIN, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS Poem Text First Line: Tell the tune his feet beat Last Line: "england"" all the way!" Subject(s): England; English A REMEMBRANCE OF GRASMERE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O vale and lake, within your mountain-urn Last Line: Smiles that subdue the soul to love, and tears, and prayer! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Spring 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 RHPASODY; WRITTEN AT THE LAKES IN WESTMORLAND, by JOHN BROWN (1715-1766) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now sunk the sun, now twilight sunk, and night Last Line: Of quiet whispering to the ear of night. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Silence; Westmorland, England; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime A SATIRE WRITTEN TO KING JAMES I, SELECTION, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did I not know a great man's power and might Last Line: Into the mouth of ruin without hope. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) A SHADOW OF TRUTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a wondrous vision - a dream, but not of night Last Line: "when the base fiend expediency o'ercomes the seraph right!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Catholics - England; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 1. 1887, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From clee to heaven the beacon burns Last Line: And god will save the queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 31, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On wenlock edge the wood's in trouble Last Line: Are ashes under uricon. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): On Wenlock Edge;wenlock Edge Subject(s): England; Shropshire, England; Time; Wind; English A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 34. THE NEW MISTRESS, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be? Last Line: Sick.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Army Life; England; Patriotism; Drills & Minor Tactics; English A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 52, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in a western brookland Last Line: About the glimmering weirs. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): England; English A SONG OF EMPIRE; JUNE 20, 1887, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First lady of our english race Last Line: Rejoice to-day, and make our solemn jubilee!! Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); British Empire; England - Empire A SONG OF STRATFORD, by DOROTHY GOLDSMITH HARTT Poem Text First Line: Where avon's slow and silver stream Last Line: Remembered footsteps pass! Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Stratford-on-avon, England A SPEECH THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPOKEN BY THE KING ..., by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lords, I can hardly from weeping refrain Last Line: Let us conquer -- or go to the devil together. Subject(s): American Revolution; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) A SPELLBOUND PALACE (HAMPTON COURT), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this kindly yellow day of mild low-travelling winter sun Last Line: Save the mindless fountain tinkling on with thin enfeebled will. Subject(s): Hampton Court Palace, England A SPRINGTIME PILGRIMAGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Feet on the hills and heads in the sky Last Line: Here in the hollow of tarrytown. Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Spring A STORM AT HASTINGS AND THE LITTLE UNKNOWN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas august - hastings every day was filling Last Line: Seized the last cast -- and nick'd him in the main! Subject(s): Hastings, England; Storms A STRANGER MINSTREL; TO MRS. ROBINSON BEFORE HER DEATH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As late on skiddaw's mount I lay supine Last Line: I would, I would that she were here!' Subject(s): Mountains; Robinson, Mary (1758-1800); Skiddaw (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A SWAMP TRAGEDY, by I. V. Poem Text First Line: In andrus swamp, out hastings way Last Line: Laugh if you will -- not I! Subject(s): Hastings, England; Swamps; Tragedy; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On stern blencathra's perilous height Last Line: The things that seek the earth, how full of noise and riot! Subject(s): Mountains; Saddleback (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A TRIAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who have chafed at the law's delays Last Line: "verdict for plaintiff. Said beer was good." Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Trials A WAR SONG TO ENGLISHMEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war Last Line: Prepare, prepare. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Patriotism; War; English A WARNING-PIECE TO ENGLAND AGAINST PRIDE AND WICKEDNESS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When edward was in england king Last Line: That pride must have a fall. Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A WATERPIECE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild-rose bush lets loll Last Line: Incomparably wise, the doom of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A WORD FOR THE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men, born of the land that for ages Last Line: God save the commonweal! Subject(s): England; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English A YEOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man that at the wheatstack side Last Line: And all his life has been alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Farm Life; Landscape; English; Agriculture; Farmers ABOVE THE HIGH, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Cold oxford unfamiliar now, around Last Line: So ancient town Subject(s): Love; Oxford, England ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord. Variant Title(s): Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Conspiracy; Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Hyde, Lawrence. 1st Earl Of Rochester; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Jews; Politics & Government; Scott, James. Duke Of Mon ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL; THE SECOND PART, by NAHUM TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since men, like beasts, each other's prey were made Last Line: Their error and obeyed their lord Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Durfort De Duras, Louis (1641-1709); Fitzroy, Henry. 1st Duke Of Grafton; Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Legge, George. 1st Baron Dartmouth; Somerset, Henry. 3d Marquis Of Worc ABU SALAMMAMM - A SONG OF EMPIRE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great is king george the fifth Last Line: Be at an end. Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936) ACCOUNT OF HARWICH, by THEODORE HOOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old harwich stands %upon two strands Last Line: At mistley stay %be hang'd if I go to harwich Alternate Author Name(s): Hook, Theodor Subject(s): Harwich, England AD ASTRA: 29, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O heavy day for all who follow after Last Line: And to the scents of eve add new delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): England; Happiness; English; Joy; Delight ADBASTON, SELS., by CHARLES BOWKER ASH Poem Source First Line: There was a time I yet remember well Subject(s): England ADDITION TO KIPLING'S THE DEAD KING (EDWARD VII), 1910, by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM Poem Source First Line: Wisely and well was it said of him, 'hang it all, he's a' Last Line: For we know that in heaven above at this moment he's saving god Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) ADDRESS TO BEELZEBUB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life, my lord, an' health be yours Last Line: An' till ye come -- your humble servant, Subject(s): Freedom; Scotland - Relations With England; Liberty ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship & Scholars ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage Last Line: And if there's passion enough for half their flame, %your wisdom has done this, sages of harvard Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship And Scholars ADEQUACY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by the verdure on thy thousand hills Last Line: Only to make me worthier of the least. Subject(s): England' Conduct Of Life ADLESTROP, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I remember adlestrop Last Line: Of oxfordshire and gloucestershire. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Adlestrop, England; England; June; Time; English ADLESTROP 1987, by ALAN CHARLES BROWNJOHN Poem Source First Line: The name, as I drove west that day Last Line: Rumour in all those covered nests %of oxfordshire and gloucestershire Subject(s): Adlestrop, England; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) AFTER THREE YEARS, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS Poem Source First Line: O fields and little street and faces kind Subject(s): England AFTERJACKS, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: What terrified me, will terrify others. - mary shelley Last Line: But soft! Here come my executioners. - richard iii Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) AGINCOURT, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair stood the wind for france Last Line: Such a king harry? Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Agincourt;ode To The Cambro-britons;ode: 12;to The Cambro-britons, And Their Harp;agincourt: The Battle;his Battle Of Agincourt;to The Cambro-britans, And Their Harpe, His Ballad Of Agincourt Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); War; Valor; Bravery AH, 'TIS IN VAIN THE PEACEFUL DIN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By no laconian rill Subject(s): New England; American Revolution ALBION AND ALBANIUS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full twenty years and more,our laboring stage Last Line: Voices may help your charter to restoring, %and get by singing what you lost by roaring Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Opera ALBION'S ENGLAND, SELS., by WILLIAM WARNER Subject(s): England; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Sea; Sleep ALEXANDRA, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breasting white whirlwinds Last Line: Ay, my comrade long and well-beloved, alexandra! Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Love; Pictures; Portraits; Thought; Thinking ALMSWOMEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Last Line: Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Old Age; English ALNWICK CASTLE, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home of the percy's high-born race Last Line: For ten-and-six-pence sterling. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Percy Family, Northumberland, England 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 AMERICA AND ENGLAND, by GEORGE HUNTINGTON Poem Text First Line: Two empires by the sea Last Line: Blessing and blest. Variant Title(s): Hymn Of World Peace;international Hymn;peace Hymn For England And America Subject(s): England; Patriotism; United States; English; America AMERICA: SONNET 2, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor force nor fraud shall sunder us! Oh ye Last Line: Ser's dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney Variant Title(s): England To America Subject(s): England; Patriotism; United States; English; America AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love every stock and stone Last Line: Break the sword: the iron strike %to plough-shares, share and share alike! Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans In England; Travel AMERICAN PAINTING, WITH RAIN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gates have closed to the rotted park Last Line: Greeting the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Paintings And Painters; Rain; Thunder; English AMONG THE LAKES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Perhaps the roman, when he ruled this land Last Line: Ullswater, derwentwater, windermere. Subject(s): England; Lakes; Nature; English; Pools; Ponds AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love every stock and stone Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans In England; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN ANCIENT GODDESS; IN TWO PICTURES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time grows perilous; forth she comes once more Last Line: A moonlit sanctuary from time's worst powers? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English AN ANCIENT PROPHECY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a certain great king, whose initial is g Last Line: And your lion shall growl, but hardly bite more. -- Subject(s): American Revolution; Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) AN APPEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her, o cruel england! Last Line: They can die and go to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): England; Faith; Ireland; Religion; English; Belief; Creed; Irish; Theology 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 APPLE-TREE RHYME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here stands a good old apple tree Last Line: "holla, boys, holla, hip hip hurrah!" Variant Title(s): Apple Howling Song: Surrey Subject(s): "apple Trees;surrey, England;trees; AN ELEGY UPON THE MOST INCOMPARABLE KING CHARLES THE FIRST, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call for amazed thoughts, a wounded sense Last Line: If zimri dies in peace that slew his lord. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War AN ENGLISH BALLAD, ON THE TAKING OF NAMUR BY THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it Last Line: And so be constable of france. Subject(s): Namur, Belgium; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) AN ENGLISH DRIVE, by GEORGIA M. REDPATH Poem Text First Line: I love the english roads and lanes Last Line: But sleep at old land's end. Subject(s): England; Roads; English; Paths; Trails AN ENGLISH MOTHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every week of every season out of english ports go forth Last Line: Until women's tears are reckoned in the budgets of your wars. Subject(s): England; Mothers; English AN ENGLISH SHELL, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was an english shell Last Line: Slaying an english foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): England; Shells; English; Conchology AN EPIGRAM ON THE PRINCE'S BIRTH, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou born, brave babe? Blessed be thy birth! Last Line: Festinat caesar qui placuisse tibi. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) AN EPIGRAM TO KING CHARLES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great charles, among the holy gifts of grace Last Line: But, that he cure the people's evil too? Variant Title(s): An Epigram. To King Charles For A Hundred Pounds He Sent Me Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Piety AN EPIGRAM TO THE QUEEN, THEN LYING IN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail mary, full of grace, it once was said Last Line: Of so much safety to the realm, and king. Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England; Pregnancy AN EPIGRAM. TO OUR GREAT AND GOOD KING CHARLES ON HIS ANNIVERSARY DAY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy were the subject if he knew Last Line: How much to heaven for thee, great charles, they owe! Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) AN EPIGRAM. TO THE HOUSEHOLD, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can the cause be, when the king hath given Last Line: The king's fame lives. Go now, deny his tierce. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) AN EPISODE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING IN NEW ENGLAND, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As night pushes its red forerunners Subject(s): Revivals; Religion; New England; Religious Revivals; Theology 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 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF BURLINGTON, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, my lord, bid stately piles ascend Last Line: What other counties must with envy hear. Subject(s): Boyle, Richard. 3d Earl Of Burlington; England; Exeter, England; English AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PULTENEY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pult'ney, methinks you blame my breach of word Last Line: All frenchmen are of petit-maitre kind. Subject(s): England; France; Paris, France; Pulteney, William. 1st Earl Of Bath; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies one who never drew / blood himself, yet many slew Last Line: Pointer to sir john throckmorton. Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Epitaphs AN ESSAY TOWARDS A CHARACTER OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY KING JAMES II, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I paint the prince the world would surely crave Last Line: Fall short of james the great, the good, the just. Subject(s): James Ii, King Of England (1633-1701) AN EXTEMPORE INVITATION, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, / our weekly friends to-morrow meet Last Line: Though dorset used to bless the roof. Subject(s): England; Parties; English AN HORATIAN ODE TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with high-vaulting phrase, or rush Last Line: An ancient fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936) AN IDEAL PASSION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not she, the england I behold Last Line: And ever breaks her word. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; English AN NEW YEARES GUIFT TO THE KINGS MAJESTIE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When time our styled yeare did end Last Line: Till tyme noe more shalbee. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) 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 IN IMITATION OF ALCAEUS, by WILLIAM JONES Poem Text First Line: What constitutes a state? Last Line: And steal inglorious to the silent grave. Variant Title(s): A [or The] State;what Constitutes A State? Subject(s): England; Freedom; Patriotism; English; Liberty 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 ODE WRITTEN IN THE PEAK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This while we are abroad Last Line: The muse is still in ure. Subject(s): Derbyshire, England; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AN ODE. TO BE PERFORMED AT THE CASTLE OF DUBLIN, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early queen of light arise Last Line: His royal issue, and our caroline. Subject(s): Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England ANAMNESIS AND NOSTALGIA; TO LIONEL JOHNSON, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The traveller in a burning clime Last Line: And something of a mortal pang. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Longing; Nature; Nostalgia; English ANATOMICAL EPITAPH ON AN INVALID, by WILLIAM GOLDWIN Poem Source First Line: Here lies an head that often ach'd Last Line: In future state of peace and love, %where just men's perfect spirits move Subject(s): Bristol, England ANGLORUM FERIAE, ENGLAND'S HOLIDAY, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Descend, ye sacred daughters of king jove Last Line: Dear in heaven's eye, her court and country's glory. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ANNUS MIRABILIS: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENSUING POEM, IN A LETTER TO THE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, %I am so many ways obliged to you and so little able to return Last Line: Pretending to a greater, which I have given them Variant Title(s): An Account Of The Ensuing Poem, In A Letter To The Honourable Sr. Rob Subject(s): England; Letters; Poetry And Poets; War ANOTHER SPRING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lambs were come, who could be slow and sere? Last Line: That now, this soon-come spring, goes slow and sere. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English ANSWER TO 'UPON SIR JOHN SUCKLING'S HUNDRED HORSE', by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee, fellow, whoe'er thou be Last Line: To venture for a crown. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England APRIL LANDSCAPE, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The cracked bell rings to lenten service over Subject(s): England AQUAE SULIS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chimes called midnight, just at interlune Last Line: And the boiling voice of the waters' medicinal pour. Subject(s): Bath, England ARCHAEOLOGY, SELS., by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source First Line: They say a church once stood in this anglian field Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): England ARRIVED AT LAST: AN HEIR TO THE THRONE OF ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark! Hark! How the bells do merrily sing Last Line: A sweet little heir to the throne Subject(s): Birth; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) AS TOM WAS A-WALKING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I'll swear to thee now, thee shu'st marry me here Subject(s): Cornwall, England AS YOU CAME FROM THE HOLY LAND OF WALSINGHAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "never sick, never dead, never cold, / from itself never returning" Subject(s): "shrines;walsingham, England; ASTRAEA REDUX: A POEM ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now with a general peace the world was blest Last Line: The world a monarch, and that monarch you Variant Title(s): Poem On The Happy Restoration & Return Of His Sacred Majesty Charles; Astraea Redu Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Sforza, Ludovico (1452-1508); Winter ASTROPHEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A star in the silence that follows Last Line: A star by a star. Subject(s): England; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roundels; Stars; English ASYLUM OPHELIA: SURREY, 1848, by JENNIFER FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: By day, I sort colored beans Last Line: In the fierce swinging arms of waves Subject(s): Insanity; Surrey, England AT AN INN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are talkative proud, and assured, and self-sufficient, Last Line: When we are cold. Subject(s): England; History; Poetry & Poets; English; Historians AT BEDDINGTON, SURREY; 'HIS NAME WAS GREENHILL', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Under they feare interrd is here %a native born of oxfordsheere Last Line: But darksome earth by powre divine %bright at last as ye sonne may shine Subject(s): Surrey, England AT DOVER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the pier's head, musing, and with increase Last Line: "the shouts of folly, and the groans of sin." Subject(s): Dover, England AT DOVER CLIFFS, JULY 20, 1787, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood Last Line: The world his country, and his god his guide. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 9. At Dover Cliffs, July 20, 1787 Subject(s): Dover, England AT FLODDEN; A FRAGMENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go sit old cheviot's crest below Last Line: Earth's mountain billows come. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England AT GIBRALTAR, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, I stand on thy imperial ground Last Line: Peace to the world, from ports without a gun! Subject(s): Gibraltar; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Peace; British Empire; England - Empire AT GRAFTON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God laughed when he made grafton Last Line: The breath of bristol tide. Subject(s): Bredon Hill; Grafton, England AT LAST, DEAR WARD, I TAKE A RHYMING QUILL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On thine own regal cornerstone: I will! Subject(s): Oxford, England; Creative Ability; Imagination AT LINCOLN, by OSCAR FAY ADAMS Poem Text First Line: When I went up the minster tower Last Line: What time the clock slow chimed the hour. Subject(s): Lincoln Cathedral, England AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I but lived a hundred years ago Last Line: And bend with reverence where his ashes lie.' Subject(s): Dorset, England; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets AT LYNMOUTH, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too have slept in lynmouth Last Line: For just one waking there! Subject(s): Lynmouth, England; Sleep AT PENSHURST (1), by EDMUND WALLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While in the park I sing, the listening deer Subject(s): Penshurst, England AT PENSHURST (2), by EDMUND WALLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had sacharissa lived when mortals made Last Line: His humble love whose hopes shall ne'er rise higher %than for a pardon that he dares admire Subject(s): Penshurst, England; Sidney, Lady Dorothy (1617-1684) AT THE NAVAL EXHIBITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What pulse but throbs, what heart but quicker beats Last Line: Only the seamen voiceless are and dumb. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Pride; Sailing & Sailors; Strength; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect AT THE PASSING OF A BELOVED MONARCH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting wisdom has ordained Last Line: That millions yet unborn shall bless her reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Crowns; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Memory; Prayer; War; Wisdom; British Empire; England - Empire 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) AUGURY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sweeter sight will ever charm the eye Last Line: Could steal one mothering wing for folly's bait? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; England; Landscape; Spring; English AUGUST, 1914, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How still this quiet cornfield is tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): England AULD MITHER SCOTLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auld scotland! Hoo I lo'e the name Last Line: Sweeps ower the dinlin' strings. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Scotland; English AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND, by ARCHIBALD THOMAS STRONG Poem Text First Line: By all the deeds to thy dear glory done Last Line: Thy sons may stand beside thee strong and free. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Australia; English; Liberty AUTUMN IN ENGLAND, by COLIN MITCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; England; Seasons; Soldiers; World War I AUTUMN MORNING AT CAMBRIDGE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ran out in the morning, when the air was clean and new Last Line: Gowns. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; England; English AVE IMPERATRIX, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Set in this stormy northern sea Last Line: Rise from these crimson seas of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; British Empire; England - Empire AVENUE IN SAVERNAKE FOREST, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How soothing sound the gentle airs that move Subject(s): England; Landscape AVON AND THE THAMES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If, in all albion's storied sweep Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Thames (river) BACK TO THE LAND!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Acres out of cultivation! Last Line: Peace in her imperial eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Urban Life; British Empire; England - Empire BALACLAVA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Six hundred stalwart warriors of england's pride the best Last Line: To the england they had fought for on that wild october day Subject(s): England;soldiers; English BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'THAT WE MAY ROW WITH MY P. OVER YE FERRY', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of england! Come hear me relate Last Line: Till claret be restor'd, let us drink sherry. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Drinks & Drinking; England; Noses; Wine; English BALLADE OF ENGLAND, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are now, in coign or crack Last Line: We looked to see our fortunes made, %but there is nowhere left to look Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): England BALLADE OF THE SCOTTYSHE KINGE, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kyng jamy, your joye is all go Last Line: And god save noble kynge henry the viii. Subject(s): Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547) BARON RENFREW'S BALL, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a grand display was the prince's ball Last Line: By his highness, the prince of wales. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Parties BATTLE OF MALDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Then he bade each of the youths let go his horse Subject(s): Maldon (england), Battle Of; Vikings; War BATTLE OF MALDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He blade a warrior abandon his horse Subject(s): England; Freedom; Vikings BATTLE OF MALDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was broken. Then he commanded each of the warriots Last Line: That was not the godric who fled from the fight Subject(s): Maldon (england), Battle Of; Vikings BATTLE OF MALDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He bade each youth turn loose his horse and drive it far away Subject(s): Maldon (england), Battle Of; Vikings BATTLE OF MALDON (FRAGMENT), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Byrhtnoth encouraged his comrades heartily Last Line: Close by my lord and comrade dear Subject(s): Maldon (england), Battle Of; Vikings BATTLE OF THE ALMA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark lowered the thunder-cloud of death Last Line: A prison and a tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Europe; France; War; English BEACHY HEAD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thy stupendous summit, rock sublime! Last Line: Had to some better region fled for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - History; Sussex, England; English History BEAUTIFUL TORQUAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye lovers of the picturesque, away Last Line: And 'tis good for the health to reside there. Subject(s): England; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; English; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BECAUSE I LOVE HER, by GERALD WILLIAM BULLETT Poem Source Subject(s): Edward Viii, King Of England (1894-1972); Love BEECHWOODS AT KNOLE, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do I love you, beechwoods, in the autumn Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): England BEN JONSON'S GRACE BEFORE KING JAMES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our royal king and queen, god bless Last Line: And god bless me, and god bless rafe. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) BENJAMIN-CONSTANTS PORTRAIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apart, with centuries which she doth illume Last Line: What counter of gains hath likewise told her tears? Subject(s): Constant, Benjamin (1845-1902); Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) BERKSHIRE RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whistle, daughter, whistle, and you shall have a sheep Last Line: Mother, I cannot whistle, but I'll do the best I can Subject(s): Berkshire, England BERNARDINE DU BORN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King henry sat upon his throne Last Line: "go forth -- unscathed and free." Subject(s): Bertran De Born (1202-1215); Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Revolutions BESIDE THE SHORE ROAD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Here lies an old, worn highway winding far Last Line: Defying sense to fathom. Subject(s): New England; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips BIRMINGHAM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke from the train-gulf hid by hoardings blunders upward, the brakes of cars Last Line: To call, in the harsh morning, sleep-stupid faces through the daily gate Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Birmingham, England BLACK OAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of the black oak linger the winter through Last Line: I forget the plains, I behold new england's face. Subject(s): New England; Oak Trees BLUE BUTTERFLY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lucy paused for the blue butterfly Last Line: Is whispering in my lonely walk anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Butterflies; England; Insects; Landscape; English; Bugs BLUEBIRDS, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: One thing makes the english tinglish Last Line: Keeping white cliffs white Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Dover, England BOOTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're foot - slog - slog - sloggin' over africa Last Line: An' there's no discharge in the war! Subject(s): Army Life; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; British Empire; England - Empire BOTHWELL BRIDGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o billie, billie, bonny billie" Last Line: The bloody battle of bothwell bridge Subject(s): "bothwell, Scotland;scotland - Relations With England;war; BOTTLES IN THE BOMBED CITY, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They gave the city a stroke. Its memories Last Line: When the stroke came, every bottle winked at its neighbour Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Bombs; Bottles; Manchester, England; Stroke BOY-MAN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England's lads are miniature men Subject(s): England; English BOY-MAN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England's lads are miniature men Last Line: Forgive the europeans for their sins, %establish work, that values may go on Subject(s): England BRADDAN VICARAGE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if in that far isle Last Line: And stand outside these nations and their noise. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): England; English BRIGGFLATTS: 1, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Brag, sweet tenor bull Subject(s): England; English BRIGGFLATTS: 1, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brag, sweet tenor bull Last Line: Split in soft slate %a few months obliterate Subject(s): England BRIGHTON, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her brave sea-bulwarks builded strong Last Line: "and trust the darkness and the sea?" Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Brighton, England BRIGHTON PIER, by CLEMENT WILLIAM SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which is the merriest place to love Last Line: Kicking my heels upon brighton pier! Subject(s): Brighton, England; Love; Wharves; Piers BRISTOL AND CLIFTON, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I was only sidesman here when last Last Line: There are some pleasant people living here %I know the inskips very well indeed Subject(s): Bristol, England BRITANNIA, by HENRY DE VERE STACPOOLE Poem Source First Line: Men deemed her changed, and lo! Subject(s): England BRITANNIA TO COLUMBIA, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the voice I hear Last Line: "stronger than death is strong." Variant Title(s): England To America;a Voice From The West;to America Subject(s): England; Friendship; United States; English; America BRITISH VOLUNTEERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the call of the bugle, and the roll of the drum Last Line: True hearts and true rifles she trusts not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Soldiers; English BRITONS AND GUESTS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We fought you once-but that was long ago! Last Line: We once did fight you-ev'n as next of kin %may cleave apart,at end to closer win! Subject(s): England; Patriotism BROOK IN DROUGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willow catkins fall on the muddy pool Last Line: This universe dried into sands and stones. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English BRUSSELS AND OXFORD, by WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK Poem Text First Line: How first we met do you still remember? Last Line: And are meshed again in your golden hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H. Subject(s): Love; Oxford, England BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PLACE NAMES, by THEODORA ROSCOE Poem Text First Line: Go take the upper icknield way Last Line: Sweet to the ear as are old ballad rhymes. Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England; Names BUCOLIC COMEDY: FOX TROT, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old / sir / faulk, / tall as a stork Last Line: Lest the flood -- the flood -- the flood begin again through these! Subject(s): Mary Ii, Queen Of England (1662-1694); William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) BUTCHER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Kosminski, schminsli. Schloski. A meaterialist from an island Last Line: Yet her hole was equal to the sum of my pants, its snakey girth Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) BY OCCASION OF THE YOUNG PRINCE HIS HAPPY BIRTH, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this glad triumph, when most poets use Last Line: Heir to himself, through all posterity. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) BY THE RECTOR OF MARHULL, DORSET, FOR HIS CLERK JOHN WARREN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here under this stone %lie ruth and old john Last Line: Though you love to four score, %'tis a whiff and no more Subject(s): Dorset, England BY THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES AT CHARING CROSS, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre [or, somber] and rich, the skies Last Line: Work out a perfect will. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) BYRON'S OAK AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: The little twig that byron planted here Last Line: While byron's fame through endless time will reign! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron CAELICA: 81, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a throne I saw a virgin sit Last Line: But that this princely creature is her seat. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): Elizabetha Regina Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 CALL OF THE FELLS, SELS., by HERBERT EDWARD PALMER Poem Source First Line: I would that I were home again Subject(s): England CAMBRIDGESHIRE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stacks, like blunt impassive temples, rise Subject(s): England CANADA SPEAKS OF BRITAIN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is that bastioned rock where dwell the free Last Line: She calls. And we will answer to our last breath, - %make light of sacrifice, and jest with death Subject(s): England; World War Ii CANADA TO ENGLAND, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great names of thy great captains gobe before Last Line: Of all past greatnesses about thee stand. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Canada; English; Liberty CANADA TO ENGLAND, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Source First Line: Sang one of england in his island home Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): England CANUTE THE GREAT, SELS., by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England; Great Britain - History CARLE, NOW THE KING'S COME (BEING NEW WORDS TO AULD SPRING), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The news has flown frae mouth to mouth Last Line: Pay down your subscriptions for four volumes more. Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Scotland CATTIN AND CLEMENTING SONG (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Catherine and clement come year by year Last Line: Then down to old arley, astley and shrawley go nimbly, %and finish we up at holt, hallow, and grimle Subject(s): Midlands, England CATTLIN AND CLEMENTING SONG (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: St. Clement's! St. Clement's a cat by the ear! Last Line: But if you fill it of the small, %the devil take butler, bowl, and all Subject(s): Midlands, England CHANGING MOON, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green east hagged with prowling storm Last Line: And where his useless gold and silver lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Moon; English CHANT OF THE BARDS BEFORE THEIR MASSACRE BY EDWARD I, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raise ye the sword! Let the death-stroke Last Line: The children of song may not breathe in the chain! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Massacres; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COUNTIES, BY A SHROPSHIRE POET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The propyrte of every shire Last Line: Thgat lord that for us all dyde dye, %save all these shires!Amen, say we Subject(s): England CHARADE, by JAMES AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: In my first that he may not be tardy & late Last Line: That he'll ever do either again Subject(s): Canterbury, England 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 CHARLES I, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was going to charing cross Last Line: "oh dear, my heart was ready to burst!" Subject(s): "charing Cross, London;charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); CHARLES THE FIRST, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Place for the marshal of the masque! Last Line: Except the mill-wheel's sound.' Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Church Of Scotland CHARLIE IS MY DARLING, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a monday morning Last Line: The young chevalier. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers CHARM AGAIN 'UDERN ILL'; EAST CORNWALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Might comes from the sun Last Line: And holy ghost. %amen Subject(s): Cornwall, England CHARM FOR A SPRAIN; DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bone to bone, and vein to vein Last Line: And so shall thine, in the name of the father, son and holy ghost Subject(s): Devonshire, England CHILTERNS, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember once a glorious thing Subject(s): Chiltern Hills, England CHRIST BROUGHT HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Herod by his great cruelty Subject(s): Catholics; Mary I, Queen Of England (1516-1568) CHRIST CHILD DAY IN AUSTRALIA, by ETHEL S. TURNER Poem Source First Line: A copper conclave of a sky Subject(s): Australia; England CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD; NIGHT, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faint from the bell the ghastly echoes fall Last Line: To spirits such as these, than unto common dead. Subject(s): Christ Church, Oxford, England; Night; Bedtime CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 22. THE BURNING OF BAMBOROUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: With thundering wheels the golden war-wains run Last Line: Far ringing harps on bamborough's starry height. Subject(s): Aidan, Saint (d. 651); Bamborough, England; Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 27. THE BIRDS OF WHITBY, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Sea-mosses hide the massive architrave Last Line: Between the moonrise and the morning star. Subject(s): Birds; Hilda, Saint (614-680); Whitby (monastery), England; Hild, Saint; Whitby, Abbess Of CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 29. THE STAG OF CHEDDAR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The king rode close behind the royal stag Last Line: Should rule the abbey of the holy thorn. Subject(s): Dunstan, Saint (924-988); Edmund I, King Of England (921-946); Great Britain - History; English History CHRISTMAS EVE, 1917, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many happy returns, sweet babe, of the day! Last Line: Ever happier and happier returns, dear christ, of thy day! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Christmas; England; World War I; Nativity, The; English; First World War CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1917: THE LAST LAP, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We seldom were quick off the mark Last Line: Be your victorious christmas-tide. Subject(s): Christmas; England; Hope; Patience; Victory; War; World War I; Nativity, The; English; Optimism; First World War CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND, by ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pis manere pe barons bigonne hor vrning Last Line: Ne, vort after misselmasse, hii ne come namore per Subject(s): England; History CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND: INTRODUCTION, by ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, it is a right good land, I ween of lands the best Last Line: That england is the best land, e'en as I tell to ye. Subject(s): England 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 CLIFTON, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm here at clifton, grinding at the mill Last Line: And thunder in her caves -- thank god! Thank god! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Clifton, England CLIFTON CHAPEL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the chapel: here, my son Last Line: "sed miles, sed pro patria." Subject(s): Clifton, England CLIFTON GROVE, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! In the west, fast fades the lingering Last Line: The hosts of sylphids on the moon-beam sail Subject(s): Clifton, England CLOSING LINES OF EPITAPH FOR NICHOLAS GREENHILL, REECTOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This greenhill periwig'd with snow Last Line: But he must down, although so much devine, %before he rise, never to set set, but shine Subject(s): Warwickshire, England CLOUDY JUNE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the hedge the spearman thistle towers Last Line: Nor tell me I am I. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; June; Landscape; English COCKLE WOMAN; VERSES ON MRS. MARY BLAKE, D. 1841, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where tamar's waters roll along Last Line: No more on kinterbury's back %rake up the pickle cocks Subject(s): Cornwall, England COEUR DE LION AT THE BIER OF HIS FATHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torches were blazing clear Last Line: "look on me till I die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Remorse; Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199) COEUR DE LION TO BERENGARIA, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O far-off darling in the south Last Line: Come back to me! Come back to me! Subject(s): Berengaria, Queen Of Leon (1197-1246); Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199) COEUR DE LION, SELECTION, by ELEANOR ANNE (PORDEN) FRANKLIN Poem Text First Line: She left her steed beneath the beechen shade Last Line: "oh! Touch the eagle's heart -- oh! Guide my wandering feet." Subject(s): Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199) COEUR DE LION: 1; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard the lion-hearted, crowned serene Last Line: Lord of himself, therefore his brethren's lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199) COEUR DE LION: 2; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O richard, o mon roi.' so minstrels sighed Last Line: "whispering with innocent awe -- ""this was a king." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199) COLLOP MONDAY'; A SONG FROM THE BOYS OF SALISBURY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Shrove-tide is nigh at hand Last Line: Or a piece of pancake Subject(s): Salisbury, England COLONISATION IN REVERSE, by SIMONE LOUISE BENNETT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wat a joyful new, miss mattie Last Line: Colonizin' in reverse. Alternate Author Name(s): Bennett, Louise Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Jamaica, West Indies; British Empire; England - Empire 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; COME TO BRITAIN, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, why does new york go to france for its fun Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): England COMPLIMENT TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gentle puck, come hither Last Line: Fetch me that flower. Variant Title(s): Maiden Meditation Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Fairies; Elves COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE NEAR CALAIS [AUGUST 1802], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair star of evening, splendor of the west Last Line: Among men who do not love her, linger here. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English COMPOSED BY THE SIDE OF GRASMERE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars Last Line: "ravage the world, tranquillity is here!" Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Lakes; Pools; Ponds COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English CONFLUENCE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: How the snow melts to keep this river flowing Last Line: The light of day on the other Subject(s): New England; Romance; Winter CONVIVIAL SONG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come fill each brimming glass, boys Last Line: At our next fed'ral meeting. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New England; Patriotism; Independence Day CORNISH CLIFFS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those moments, tasted once and never done Last Line: With, as the everlasting ocean rolls %two chapels built for half a hundred souls Subject(s): Cornwall, England CORNISH HEROIC SONG FOR VALDA TREVLYN, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Cornwall, England CORNISH MAGIC, by ANN DURELL Poem Source First Line: Pixies, slipping, dipping, stealing Last Line: The cornish coast, enchanted land Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Fairies CORNISH VILLAGES, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are nothing but sifted Last Line: Keeping them keen! Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Villages CORNISH WIND, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wind in cornwall that I know Last Line: A wind in england like my cornish wind. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Wind CORNISHMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: By tre, pol, and pen Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Mnemonics CORONATION DAY, by EDNA C. HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: With flying flags and beating drums Last Line: Who loved, and dared to challenge fate! Subject(s): Edward Viii, King Of England (1894-1972) CORONATION ODE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou enfolded in grief Last Line: "so let them lie!" Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936) CORSICA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bordighera's groves of palm Last Line: Whose glory filled a million graves. Subject(s): England; Fame; Sea; Soul; English; Reputation; Ocean COTSWOLD HILLS, by MARY COLBORNE-VEEL Poem Source First Line: I shall die on cotswold hills Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England COTSWOLD LOVE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue skies are over cotswold Last Line: With slyly tilted shoe. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England COUNTRY SALE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the thin green sky, the twilight day Last Line: So beautiful, all went for an old song. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Auctions; Country Life; England; English CRAYFORD, KENT; EPITAPH FOR PETER SNELL, PARISH CLERK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The life of this clerk was just threescore and ten Last Line: And here with three wives he waits till again %the trumpet shall rouse him to sing out amen Subject(s): Kent, England CROMWELL'S SOLILOQUY OVER THE DEAD BODY OF CHARLES, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charles sleeps, and feels no more the grinding cares Last Line: My spirit, like a bark, sweeps on to fortune! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) CROSS-CURRENTS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through twelve stout generations Last Line: Who chose him for my sake. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; New England; Heritage; Heredity CROWNED AND WEDDED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When last before her people's face her own fair face she bent Last Line: The blessings happy peasants have, be thine, o crowned queen!' Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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) CURFEW SONG OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From the dim church-tower Last Line: With a thought of the olden days. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Past; English DARLINGTON RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I was a little girl, about seven years old Last Line: The bullfinch played the organ, and we made merry work Subject(s): Darlington, England DARTMOOR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst the peopled and the regal isle Last Line: Shall find their temple in the silent waste. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dartmoor, England DARTMOOR, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crossed the furze-grown table-land Last Line: Call down the hiveless swarms. Subject(s): Dartmoor, England; Railroads; Smoke; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips DAWN AT LIVERPOOL, by ARCHIBALD THOMAS STRONG Poem Source First Line: The sunlight laughs along the serried stone Subject(s): Liverpool, England DAY'S END IN DURHAM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In the abbey at durham, / with its great stony silence Last Line: I wondered, and woke. Subject(s): Durham, England; Dusk; Prayer; Silence; Wisdom DEATH OF KING EDWARD I, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alle that beth of herte trewe Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307) DEATH OF KING EDWARD VII, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The will of god we must obey Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) DEATH OF KING GEORGE V, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe Variant Title(s): New King Arrives In His Capital By Air Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936) DEATH OF KING GEORGE V, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe Last Line: Where a young man lands hatless from the air Variant Title(s): New King Arrives In His Capital By Ai Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936) DECEASE RELEASE, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pounded spice both taste and scent doth please Last Line: From woe to weale, from hell to heavenly raigne. Variant Title(s): Decrease, Release: Dum Morior Orior;at Fotheringay Subject(s): Fotheringay, England DEDICATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are many, the changes more Last Line: Bear home her signal across the sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Sea; Time; Dead, The; English; Ocean DEEIN BE INCHES; A DIALECT POEM, by JOSEPH B. ECCLES Poem Source First Line: A'm deein be inches tha knaws weel enuf Last Line: Wal hear a'm hauf pined, an get nowt but crusts, %it's noan her at's deein, it's me Subject(s): Yorkshire, England DEPARTURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beech leaves caught in a moment gust Last Line: Our casual anglian train. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting DERBYSHIRE RHYME ON LOCAL PLACES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When chesterfield was heath and broom Last Line: Now leech fend is all heath and broom %and chesterfield a market town Subject(s): Derbyshire, England DESCENSUS ASTRAEAE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, lovely lords, and you, my lord, behold Last Line: Guided by grace and heaven's immortal hand. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Festivals; London; Webbe, Sir William (fl 1568-1591); Fairs; Pageants DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ENGLAND COUNTRY DANCE, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN Poem Text First Line: How funny 't is, when pretty lads and lasses Last Line: Raptures extatick. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; New England DESERTED FARMS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foretimes, fruitfulness and tilth were here Last Line: Or toward the peopled cities set your face. Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; New England; Agriculture; Farmers DESTINY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not to be thought of that the flood Last Line: Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. Variant Title(s): British Freedom;the British Heritage;england, 1802 Subject(s): Courage; England; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; English; Liberty DEVON TO ME!, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where my fathers stood Last Line: Devon to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Devonshire, England; Heritage; Heredity DEVONSHIRE RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Walk fast in snow Last Line: Sit by the fire and spare shoe leather Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Winter DEVONSHIRE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thou nere wilt riddle neighbour john Subject(s): Devonshire, England DISCONTENTS IN DEVON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More discontents I never had Last Line: Then where I loath'd so much. Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Discontent; Dissatisfaction DITTY OF SIX VIRGINS, by THOMAS WATSON Poem Source First Line: With fragrant flowers we strew the way Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 DON SEBASTIAN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The judge removed, though he's no more my lord Last Line: And let him pay his taxes out in writing. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Religious Discrimination; British Empire; England - Empire; Dramatists; Religious Conflict DORSET NURSE AND 'BONEY'; A DORSET LULLABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Baby, baby, naughty baby Last Line: And he limb from limb will tear you, %just as pussy tears a mouse Subject(s): Dorset, England DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DOVER CLIFF, by F. WYVILLE HOME Poem Text First Line: Last april, when the winds had lost their Last Line: The utter sweetness of the violet. Subject(s): Dover, England DOWN-HALL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing not old jason, who travelled through greece Last Line: Derry down, down, hey derry down. Subject(s): Canterbury, England; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers DRAKE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on the highest ridge of that strange land Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 DREAM - COTSWOLD, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Text First Line: Thy little dreaming towns life passes by Last Line: Where the trees have emerald leaves and the streets are gold. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Oxford University; Towns DRIVING THROUGH NEW ENGLAND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: These wheatfields %white poets call the past Subject(s): Fields; New England DRUNKEN BARNABY, by RICHARD BRATHWAITE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Then to rippon, I appear there Last Line: When to quicken 'em I tell ye, %I put quick eels into their belly Alternate Author Name(s): Braithwaite, Richard; Brathwait, Richard Subject(s): Yorkshire, England DUNKIRK, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Will came back from school that day Last Line: There at his side sat francis drake, %and held him true and steered him home Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; England; Retreats (military); World War Ii DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Towery city and branchy between towers Last Line: Who fired france for mary without spot. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; England; Oxford, England; Poetry & Poets; English 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 DUSK ON ENGLISH BAY, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lighting rooms perfect a chequerboard Last Line: Any clutch of ours can hold this precious night. Subject(s): Dusk; England; English EARLY AND LATE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fondly still the grecian form Last Line: In easter rays! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English EAST ANGLIAN BATHE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh when the early morning at the seaside Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Resorts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore EAST ANGLIAN BATHE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh when the early morning at the seaside Last Line: The wood smoke and the breakfast and the frying, %and your warm freshwater ripples, horsey mere Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Resorts; Seashore EAST ANGLIAN FEN, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far to the left he saw the huts of men Subject(s): East Anglia, England EAST ANGLIAN SEAS AND SHORES, SELS., by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Sea EAST COKER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S. EAST TO WEST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one Last Line: Die. Subject(s): England; Evening; Praise; Sea; United States; English; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; America EAST WIND, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of a languorous, tideless shore Last Line: And the sea wind is the east wind, as the sea wind ought to be! Subject(s): New England; United States - Immigration & Emigtration EBB TIDE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly thy flowing tide Last Line: Then hasten to old age! Subject(s): Aging; Avon (river), England; Rivers; Tides ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 30. CANUTE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasant music floats along the mere Last Line: Of heaven-descended piety and song. Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England; Piety ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 31. EDWARD VI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the holiness of youth' - so felt Last Line: Piercing the papal darkness from afar! Subject(s): Edward Vi, King Of England (1537-1553) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 32. EXECUTION JOAN OF KENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tears of man in various measure gush Last Line: To pen the mandates, nature doth disown. Subject(s): Edward Vi, King Of England (1537-1553) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 38. ELIZABETH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, virgin queen! O'er many an envious bar Last Line: By men and angels blest, the glorious light? Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 44. TROUBLES OF CHARLES I, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even such the contrast that, where'er we move Last Line: Her blessings cursed -- her glory turned to shame! Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 3. CHARLES THE SECOND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes - with rapture greeted, and caressed Last Line: By poets loathed; from which historians shrink! Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 9. WILLIAM THE THIRD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm as an under-current, strong to draw Last Line: Shrinks from the verdict of his stedfast eye. Subject(s): Sea; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Ocean ECHOES: 32, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, falmouth is a fine town with ships in the bay, Last Line: They're all growing green in the old countrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Falmouth;home Subject(s): Falmouth, England; Home; Sea; Ocean ECLOGUE ON NOBLE ASSEMBLIES REVIVED ON COTWSOLD HILLS BY ROBERT DOVER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What clodpates, thenot, are our british swains! Last Line: To saint him in the shepherd's calendar. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Country Life; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements EDINBURGH AFTER FLODDEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: News of battle! News of battle! Last Line: Be our universal grave!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Scotland - Relations With England; War EDWARD THE SECOND, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is deceased!' come, gaveson Last Line: Be witness of my grief and innocency. [exeunt. Subject(s): Edward Ii, King Of England (1284-1327) ELEGIAC SONNET: 26. TO THE RIVER ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thy wild banks, by frequent torrents worn Last Line: Thy otway's sorrows, and lament his fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Arun (river), England; Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Rivers ELEGIAC SONNET: 30. TO THE RIVER ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be the proud thames of trade the busy mart! Last Line: Bright as its waves, and various as its way! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Arun (river), England; Collins, William (1721-1759); Rivers ELEGIAC SONNET: 31. WRITTEN IN FARM WOOD, SOUTH DOWNS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's dewy hand on this fair summit weaves Last Line: When scenes could charm that now I taste no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sussex, England ELEGIAC SONNET: 33. TO THE NAIAD OF THE ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, rural naiad! Wind thy stream along Last Line: Adds the cool head, and the unblemish'd heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Arun (river), England; Rivers; Sussex, England ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pressed by the moon, mute arbitress of tides Last Line: To gaze with envy on their gloomy rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Churchyards; Moon; Sussex, England ELEGIAC SONNET: 45. ON LEAVING A PART OF SUSSEX, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewel, aruna! - on whose varied shore Last Line: Or wake wild phrenzy -- from her hideous cell! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Sussex, England ELEGIAC SONNET: 71. WRITTEN AT WEYMOUTH IN WINTER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chill waves whiten in the sharp north-east Last Line: All that gave me delight -- ah! Never to return! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Weymouth, England ELEGIAC VERSES ON THE DEATH OF LORD PALMERSTON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loftier muse, in higher strains, may sing Last Line: Still vibrates strong for him, revered of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; England; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English ELEGY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auvergne, auvergne, o wild and woful land Last Line: Burton -- a name that lives till fame be dead. Subject(s): Blindness; Death; England; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; English ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men that worked for england / they have their graves at home Last Line: They have no graves as yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): England; Politics & Government; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War ELEGY ON DAVID LAING, ESQ., by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! What causes such complaining breath Last Line: In chaise and pair -- and lain in pere-la-chaise! Subject(s): Gretna Green, England; Laing, David (1755-1827) ELEGY ON NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newstead! Fast-falling, once-resplendent dome Last Line: And bless thy future as thy former day. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Monasteries; Newstead Abbey, England; Abbeys ELEGY UPON KING CHARLES THE FIRST, MURDERED PUBLICLY BY HIS SUBJECTS, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were not my faith buoyed up by sacred blood Last Line: This our josias had a jeremy. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Last Line: The bosom of his father and his god. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Courage; Death; England; Faith; Graves; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ELEGY, WRITTEN AMONG THE RUINS OF A NOBLEMAN'S SEAT IN CORNWALL, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these venerable drear remains Last Line: A superstructure time can ne'er decay. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Mansions; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ELIZABETH, by GEORGE BRANDON SAUL Poem Text First Line: She has the strange sweet grace of violets Last Line: A sense of flowers drifting down the wind. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ELIZABETH TOLD ESSEX, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For a reprieving look Variant Title(s): Poem: 1321; Poem: 133 Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Essex, Robert Devereaux, 2d Earl Of ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The ELIZABETHAN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her sex sent her mother Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, england! / sick in head and sick in heart" Last Line: For thinking that thou art not ill Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we but turn from braggart pride Last Line: And of thy sons be justified! Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We have no grass locked up in ice so fast Last Line: Give me this england now for all my world. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nurse of the pilgrim sires, who sought, beyond the atlantic foam Last Line: So let thy children live! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Variant Title(s): Hymn Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, thy foes make boast of thy decline Last Line: And justice is a goddess still unbought. Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty ENGLAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land of my father's love, my father's race Last Line: England! I shall not see thee ere I die! Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, by J. K. MCGUINNESS Poem Text First Line: Oh, england! When your lanes are fringed with green Last Line: The call of what was homeland long ago. Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With its baby rivers and little towns, each with its abbey or its cathedral Last Line: That it is not there? It has never been confined to one locality. Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shoulders of upland brown laid dark to the sunset's bosom Last Line: Filling those hearts till the love is more than the heart can hold? Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): England; Socialism; English ENGLAND, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tyre of the west, and glorying in the name Last Line: So gives he them by turn, to suffer or be blest. Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother-country! Of a continent Last Line: And farthest ages celebrate thy glory! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English ENGLAND (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that is dearest to me thou didst give Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): England ENGLAND (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No lovelier hills than thine have laid Last Line: And thine my darkness be. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND AGAIN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred england, stagnant pool Last Line: Moral england, fat and sweet. Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1863, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We only know that in the sultry weather Last Line: Of wildering passions and the crash of foes. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): England; United States; English; America ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES [OR, DOMINIONS], by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stands, a thousand wintered tree Last Line: Perchance may one day call. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Children Of Britain Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; British Empire; England - Empire ENGLAND BEFORE THE STORM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day that is the night of days Last Line: Its fighting rag outrolled. Subject(s): England; War; English ENGLAND EXPECTS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us pause to consider the english Last Line: They always land on their own or somebody else's feet Subject(s): England ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our demagogues, as wise old aristophanes may show Last Line: Hold fast by english fortitude -- you'll ne'er need irish rant. Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND I THE WORLD WAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dauntless, high-hearted england! 'twas thy day Last Line: This glorious watch and ward wilt thou forego! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): England; World War I; English; First World War ENGLAND IN 1819, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king Last Line: Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: England In 1819 Subject(s): England; Hate; English ENGLAND IS OUR ENEMY, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): England ENGLAND QUEEN OF THE SEAS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Will you take them into partnership Last Line: The children of your knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire ENGLAND TO AMERICA, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years! / too long for memory of the justest feud! Last Line: And all we have done. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): England; United States; English; America ENGLAND'S ANSWER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truly ye come of the blood; slower to bless than to ban Last Line: Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men! Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND'S DEAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the ocean isle! Last Line: Where rest not england's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Soldiers; War; English ENGLAND'S DEAD, by FRANK TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Homeward the long ships leap; swift-shod with joy Subject(s): England; World War I ENGLAND'S HONOUR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How easily the breath of god overwhelms Last Line: Of our weak neighbours finds us slow to dare. Subject(s): England; English ENGLAND, AWAKE NOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Nevertheless for them all %the mighty bear down the right cause Subject(s): England; Freedom ENGLAND, HO! FOR ENGLAND, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old england needs her children Subject(s): England ENGLAND, JULY 1913; TO RUPERT BROOKE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O england, england -- that july Last Line: In cambridge, I did not know you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); England; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; English ENGLAND: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; Justice; Sea; English; Ocean ENGLISH ARE SO NICE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But nice enough, just nice enough %to let them feel they're not quite as nice as they might be Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): England; Men ENGLISH BEACH MEMORY: MR. THUDDOCK, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the bulbous babylon Last Line: As tonight it lies so lightly %on the cold granite slab that covers his bones Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): England ENGLISH COUNTRY (WHERE THREE SHIRES MEET), by WILLIAM BLISS Poem Text First Line: No change is here. If chaucer came Last Line: Of wood-smoke, as 'twere matins bell. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English ENGLISH IVY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Right here within my little room Last Line: And english ivy growing over all! Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; English ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These faces make a chapel where worship comes easy Last Line: As across the eye of a bathysphere surfacing Subject(s): England; English ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These faces make a chapel where worship comes easy Last Line: As across the eye of a bathysphere surfacing Subject(s): England ENGLISH WAR SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who fears to die? Who fears to die? Last Line: England for aye! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; War; English ENGLISH WEATHER, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How erring oft the judgment in its hate Last Line: Rich queen of mists and vapors! Subject(s): England; Fog; English; Haze ENGLISHMAN'S HOME, by OLIVER REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: The house where we live is salisbury plain Last Line: And the wife, bless her. She will not respond Subject(s): England; Home EPIGRAM ON A PICTURE OF QUEEN CAROLINE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! What room for flattry, or for pride! Last Line: This single crayon, madam, saints the queen. Subject(s): Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England EPIGRAM ON GEORGE I'S GIFT OF BOOKS TO CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN TRAPP Poem Text First Line: King george observing, with judicious eyes Last Line: How much that loyal body wanted learning. Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading EPIGRAM ON GEORGE II AND COLLEY CIBBER, ESQ, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Augustus still survives in maro's strain Last Line: For nature formed the poet for the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760) EPIGRAM ON QUEEN CAROLINE'S DEATHBED, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies wrapped up in forty thousand towels Last Line: The only proof that c*** had bowels. Subject(s): Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England; Hate EPIGRAM ON THE SOUTHAMPTON CANAL, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Southampton's wise sons found their river so large Last Line: When his great hole was cut for the first to go through, %would a little one have for the little one Subject(s): Canals; Southampton, England EPIGRAM: A WALK IN SURREY, by G. N. CLARK Poem Text First Line: You see no great adventure in the tale Last Line: And every pot of beer a holy grail. Subject(s): Oxford University; Surrey, England EPIGRAM: TO KNG JAMES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would not be thy subject, james, to obey Last Line: And since, the whole land was preserved for thee. Variant Title(s): To King James Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) EPILOGUE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our farce is now finished, your sport's ... End Last Line: Immutable amity to the world's end. %derry down, etc Subject(s): Americans In England; Friendship; Independence EPILOGUE ON OCCASION OF REPRESENTATION FOR DRYDEN'S BENEFIT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the parson stretched a point too far Last Line: While you have still your oats, and we our hains. Variant Title(s): Epilogue To The 'pilgrim,' Revived Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; English; Stage Life EPILOGUE TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE, OR THE EARL OF ESSEX', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We act by fits and starts, like drowning men Last Line: The satisfaction of a gentleman. Variant Title(s): Epilogue For The King's House;prologue And Epilogue To The Unhappy Favorite: Epilogue Subject(s): England; Plays & Playwrights ; Treason & Traitors; English; Dramatists EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No poor dutch peasant, winged with all his fear Last Line: We'll boldly back, and say their price is rais'd. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At The Acting Of The 'silent Woman' Subject(s): England; Fear; France; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; War; English; Dramatists EPISTLE TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fintry, my stay in wordy strife Last Line: To grind them in the mire! Subject(s): Elections; Scotland - Relations With England; Voting; Voters; Suffrage EPISTOLA AD DAKYNS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dakyns, when I am dead Last Line: Three places, dakyns. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Death; Rivers; Dead, The EPITAPH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happily through my years this small stream ran Last Line: Where with so strong a life you run and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English EPITAPH, by DENNIS SCOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They hanged him on a clement morning, swung Last Line: Till they pass away. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lynching; British Empire; England - Empire EPITAPH AT SPEEN, BERKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here sleeps within this silent grave Last Line: Till the last trumpet's awful sound %he is here in settled quarters bound Subject(s): Berkshire, England EPITAPH FOR DOLLY PENTREATH, LAST NATIVE SPEAKER OF CORNISH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old doll pentreath, one hundred aged and two Last Line: Not in the church, with people great and high, %but in the church-yard doth old dolly lie Subject(s): Cornwall, England EPITAPH FOR ELIZABETH BARKHAM (D.1797); SHROPSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When terrestrial all in chaos shall exhinbit effervescence Last Line: Where honest phlebeians ever shall have presidence o'er ambiguous great monarchs Subject(s): Shropshire, England EPITAPH FOR ISABELL CHIVERTON, D. 1631; QUETHIOCK, CORNWALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My birth was the moneth of may Last Line: But heere forebeare, for why? 'tis sayd, %teares fit the living, not the dead Subject(s): Cornwall, England EPITAPH FOR JOHN WARREN, BUILDER, DIED REBUILDING .. 1608, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A speaking stone Last Line: Who with the church %his own life finished Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Cambridge, England; Churches EPITAPH FOR MARY GIRLING, D. 1771; LITTLE WELNETHAM, SUFFOLK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It can hardly be said she died Last Line: Where peacefull scepters for the patient grow, %and crowns repay our long fatigues below Subject(s): Suffolk, England EPITAPH FOR MARY, DAUGHTER OF SIR PETER COURTNEY, D. 1655, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Neer this a rare jewell's set Last Line: I'll require it safe and sound %both above and under ground Subject(s): Cornwall, England EPITAPH FOR NED ALLAN, WEAVER AND FISHERMAN, HOLYSTONE, by ROBERT+(1) HUNTER Poem Source First Line: Here lies old ned in his cold bed Last Line: For poor old ned in his cold bed %sleeps sound at holystone Subject(s): Northumberland, England EPITAPH FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heroes and kings! Your distance keep Last Line: Let horace blush, and virgil too. Subject(s): Twickenham, England; Westminster Abbey EPITAPH FOR PHILIP ROE, PARISH CLERK, D. 1815; BAKEWELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The vocal powers, here let us mark Last Line: Sleep undisturbed, within thy peaceful shrine, %till angels wake thee with such tones as thine Subject(s): Derbyshire, England EPITAPH FOR RICHARD COLSBORNE, 1715; WOODSTOCK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was decreed that I should die Last Line: Rejoicing the king george was come %which sent me forth to my long home Subject(s): Oxfordshire, England EPITAPH FOR SARAH GUNDRY, D. 1807, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Reader! She wandered all the desert through Last Line: Shed the last tear, breathed the last sigh, and here %the aged pilgrim rests in trembling hope! Subject(s): Middlesex, England EPITAPH FOR THE FIRST LORD WHARTON (D. 1568); WESTMORLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here I thomas wharton do lie Last Line: With one devil under my head, %and another laid close on each side! Subject(s): Westmorland, England EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM BURNETT, D. 1760, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What is man? %to-day he's drest in gold and silver bright Last Line: Now, when you've wrote and said whate'er you can, %this is the best that you can say of man! Subject(s): Croydon, England EPITAPH FORMERLY IN SNODLAND CHURCH, KENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Palmers al our faders were Last Line: A thousand wyth four hundred seven, %and took my journey hence to heaven Subject(s): Kent, England EPITAPH IN A YORKSHIRE CHURCHYARD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Underneath this stone doth lie Last Line: When the last trump sounds so shrill, %if she gets up I'll life still Subject(s): Yorkshire, England EPITAPH IN DINTON CHURCHYARD FOR SAMUEL PAYNE, D. 1809, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've plodded thro' life's weary way Last Line: At the archangel's thrilling blast, %oh! Take me to thyself at last Subject(s): Buckinghamshire, England EPITAPH IN HOLM CULTRAM ABBEY, CUMBERLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Till death brought him Last Line: His rank could be for %liberall hospitallite Subject(s): Cumberland, England EPITAPH IN HOLY TRINITY CHURCH FOR RICHARD PHILLPOTS, D.1766, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the ripe corn demands the reaper's hand Last Line: And such was he whose name inscribes this stone %who lived unblam'd and died without a groan Subject(s): Worcestershire, England EPITAPH ON CHARLES II, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies our sovereign lord the king Last Line: Nor ever did a wise one. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): King Charles Ii;on Charles Ii Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Epitaphs EPITAPH ON KING CHARLES I, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Great, good and just, could I but rate Last Line: And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds! Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): Lines On The Execution Of Charles I;upon The Death Of King Charles I;his Metrical Vow (on The Death Of Charles I) Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) EPITAPH ON THE TOMB OF SIR EDWARD GILES AND HIS WIFE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No trust to metals nor to marbles, when Last Line: And so to bed: pray wish us all good rest. Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Sir Edward Giles And His Wife Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPPING FOREST, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woods and coppice by tempest lashed Subject(s): Epping Forest, England ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: PREFACE, SELS., by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city! So venerable, so lovely, so unraveged Subject(s): Oxford, England ESSEX, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vagrant visitor erstwhile Variant Title(s): Out Into Esse Subject(s): Essex, England ESSEX, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS Poem Text First Line: I go through the fields of blue water Last Line: Found to lose them all! Subject(s): Essex, England ETHELSTAN: RUNILDA'S CHANT, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the wild gannet's bath Last Line: Steeds of the ocean! Subject(s): Aethelstan, King Of England (d. 939); Athelstan, King Of England (d. 939) ETHELSTAN: SCENE, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My sister, my born friend! Last Line: Great natures are much given to melancholy. Subject(s): Aethelstan, King Of England (d. 939); Athelstan, King Of England (d. 939) ETON: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four hundred summers and fifty have shone Last Line: Haply here shall eton's record be what england finds it yet. Subject(s): England; Eton College; Time; English EUONYMOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago red wrath and keen despair Last Line: Since england wept upon elizabeth. Subject(s): England; Fear; English EUROPA: 4. THE POUND, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: All night, stray comets crossed the azimuth Last Line: Now kings are hauled like dogfish in the nets Subject(s): Comets; England; Sky EVENING IN OXFORD, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY Poem Text First Line: Dim pinnacles against the amber sky Last Line: "o love, do you remember, or forget?" Subject(s): Oxford, England; Wellesley College EVENING MYSTERY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now ragged clouds in the west are heaping Last Line: What poison pours she in slumber's ear? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English EXACT MOMENT, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Our fingers apprised of the situation begin to flirt and flicker across the Last Line: Without sound, without insight Subject(s): Desire; Love; New England; Travel EXILE, by THEODORE MAYNARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the season swiftly turns Subject(s): California; England EXILE FROM NEW ENGLAND, by DOROTHY HALE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Where, o heart, are the cedared pastures Last Line: To the wind on the hills and the lake in the valley of home. Subject(s): New England EXTENTE CORDIALE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now side by side curvet and prance Last Line: Now side by side! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): England; France; Peace; English FABLE, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In aesop's tales an honest wretch we find Last Line: He without hair, and thou without a crown Subject(s): William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) FAERIE QUEENE (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I the man, whose muse whilome did maske Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabbaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights And Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Virtue FAREWELL TO ARMS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned Last Line: To be your beadsman now that was your knight. Variant Title(s): The Aged-man At Arms;the Old Knight;an Old Soldier;youth's Waning;polyhmnia: Sonnet;farewell To Arms (to Queen Elizabeth) Subject(s): Aging; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Lee, Sir Henry (1532-1611); Loyalty; Old Age; Retirement; Time FAREWELL TO THE COURT, by HENRY LEE (1530-1610) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned Last Line: To be your beadsman now, that was your knight. Variant Title(s): Farewell To Arms Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; War FARM ANIMALS' DESERTION, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you gone, o cherished lexington Last Line: Like all the million acres of new england %that bear no crop except these rags, these bones Subject(s): Animals; New England FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! They come, those sainted forms Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers FEARS IN SOLITUDE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A green and silent spot, amid the hills Last Line: Love, and the thoughts that yearn for human kind. Variant Title(s): The Dell Subject(s): England; Fear; Poetry & Poets; War; English FIDELITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A barking sound the shepherd hears Last Line: Above all human estimate! Variant Title(s): Helvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England FIRST SNOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the red chimney-pots the pigeons cower Last Line: Even his enemies sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Snow; English FISHING IS WHAT WE GO ON DOING, by MARY KAY RUMMEL Poem Source First Line: On the edge of derwentwater Last Line: For something to happen beneath ice. %they sit inside themselves, like trees, thinking Subject(s): Derwentwater (lake), England; Fishing And Fishermen FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect FOR ENGLAND, by J. D. BURNS Poem Source First Line: Bugles of england were blowing o'er the sea Subject(s): England FOR ENGLAND WHEN WITH FAVOURING GALE, by WILLIAM PEARCE Poem Source Subject(s): England FOR ENGLAND'S SAKE MEN GIVE THEIR LIVES, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): England FOR ENGLAND, HOME AND BEAUTY!, by HORATIO NELSON Poem Source Subject(s): England FOR ENGLAND, IN GREATFUL APPRECIATION, by ANTON VOGT Poem Source First Line: I was five when we moved to england Subject(s): England FOR IONE FOWKE, D. 1572; BREWOOD, STAFFORDSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This vertuous dame whyle that she lyved heer Last Line: The which bothe yonge and old must trace %when as the lord cuttes of the thred well sponne Subject(s): Staffordshire, England FOR JAMES SIMMONDS, D. 1867; HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LICKEY END, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He is gone a little before Last Line: In heaven I know I shall meet him %never to part any more Subject(s): Worcestershire, England FOR JEREMIAH FOUND; THE CHURCH AT WELTON, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Has eight times married been Last Line: But now old age has caught him in his cage, %and he lies under grass so green Subject(s): Yorkshire, England FOR L'S PRIVATE CONSUMPTION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poets suffer long from lack of vogue Last Line: 01/18/14 Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; English 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 RICHARD DOWNE, D. 1710; EXBOURNE, DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In speechless %silence my youthful Last Line: Left my cradle and %come here to bed Subject(s): Devonshire, England FOR SUSANNA TESDALE; A BRASS OF 1656, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The lillie of vallies by his spirit Last Line: By virtue of the roote of david shall %with orient colours, like a red rose rise Subject(s): Wiltshire, England 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 1718, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh touch the string, celestial muse, and say Last Line: And britain's festival be thine. Subject(s): Birthdays; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Relations With France; Triplets; United Nations 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 1732, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light! Last Line: And joins the joy that crowns the day. Subject(s): George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Holidays; New Year 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 KING'S BIRTHDAY 1794, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rous'd from the gloom of transient death Last Line: Sacred to patriot worth, to patriot bosoms dear. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Wars With France; Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty 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 NEW YEAR 1761, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still must the muse, indignant, hear Last Line: And albion's dreaded strength secure the world's repose. Subject(s): Blood; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mourning; Navy - Great Britain; Ruins; British Empire; England - Empire; Bereavement; English Navy FOR THOMAS LEE, D. 1859, IN THE PARISH OF PIPE AND LYDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mourner who sittest in the churhyard alone Last Line: Look up with tearful eye, - %jesus of nazareth passeth by Subject(s): Herefordshire, England FOREFATHER'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: New england's annoyances you that would know them Last Line: "but bring both a quiet and contended mind, / and all needful blessings you surely will find" Subject(s): New England;u.s. - Colonial Period FOREFATHERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they went with smock and crook Last Line: Who made honey long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Landscape; Heritage; Heredity; English FOREST OF DEAN, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Source First Line: The quiet congregation of the trees Subject(s): England FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do I give for the pope and his riches Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): England - Social Life And Customs; Famous People FORTUNE HATH TAKEN THEE AWAY, MY LOVE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No fortune base shall ever alter me Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Fortune FOUR EPIGRAMS ON THE NATURALIZATION BILL, SELS., by JOHN BYROM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): England; Immigrants FOUR FIERY STEEDS IMPATIENT OF THE REIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gaze on the moon by parting clouds revealed Subject(s): Horses; Lake District, England FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 4. AUTUMN IN CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year lies fallen and faded Last Line: Broke, breaking with the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; England; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; English; Ocean FRAGMENT: THE QUANTOCKS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These populous slopes Last Line: Of peopled solitude. Subject(s): Quantock, England; Solitude; Loneliness FRITILLARIES, FR. THE LAND, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But once I went through the lanes, over the sharp Last Line: And the lapwings crying free above the plough. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): England; Nature; English FROM A HOUSE IN NEW ENGLAND (TO A FRIEND IN THE WEST), by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: There is a window in this magic house Last Line: Running away -- knowing us one too few! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Magic; New England; Separation; Isolation FROST'S FARM ROAD, by JAMES HAYFORD Poem Source First Line: I pocketed a pebble Last Line: In or just under the great world Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); New England; Poetry And Poets FUNERAL SONG FOR THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In its summer pride arrayed Last Line: Lays a garland on thy herse. Subject(s): Blessings; Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Epitaphs; Funerals; Grief; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Honor; Wales; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Welshmen; Welshwomen FURNESS ABBEY; IN THE VALE OF NIGHTSHADE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish for the days of the olden time Last Line: And I sigh for the days of the veil and the vow. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Furness Abbey; Lancashire, England; Past; Abbey Of St. Mary GEORGE III, by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: George the third %ought never to have occurred Last Line: One can only wonder %at so grotesque a blunder Alternate Author Name(s): Bentley, E. C. Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) GEORGE III, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright Last Line: The triumphs of this hour; for they are thine! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) GEORGE THE THIRD'S SOLILOQUY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mean these dreams, and hideous forms that rise Last Line: Or share, what still is worse -- old charles's fate. Subject(s): American Revolution; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) GHELUVELT; EPITAPH ON THE WORCESTERS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Askest thou of these graves? They'll tell thee Last Line: Battle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Graves; Worcestershire, England; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GHOSTS, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: They call you cold new england Last Line: To guard the flames below! Subject(s): Ghosts; New England; Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches GHOSTS IN ENGLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At east lulworth the dead were friendly and pitiful, I saw them peek Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Supernatural; English GHOSTS IN ENGLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At east lulworth the dead were friendly and pitiful, I saw them peek Last Line: No pity for the great pillar of empire settling to a fall, the pride and the power slowly dissolving Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Supernatural GLADSTONE, 1885 (DURING THE SOUDANESE WAR), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A skilful leech, so long as we were whole Last Line: Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sudan; British Empire; England - Empire GLARAMARA, SELS., by ROBERT CALVERLEY TREVELYAN Poem Source First Line: From the wild fells I return to my lowland home Subject(s): England GLEANING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the baulk the grasses drenched in dews Last Line: With such small winnings more than satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English GLOUCESTER NIGHTS, by ELIZABETH HART PENNELL Poem Text First Line: So often on a night like this Last Line: Upon a night like this. Subject(s): Gloucestershire, England; Wellesley College GOD'S CONTROVERSY WITH NEW ENGLAND, SELECTION, by MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Good christian reader judge me not / as too censorious Last Line: No man may disregard. Subject(s): New England GODIVA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I waited for the train at coventry Last Line: And built herself an everlasting name. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; Godiva, Lady (1140-1180); English GOING HOME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm goin' 'ome to blighty - ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! Last Line: Thank gawd for dear old blighty in the mawnin'. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; England; War; World War I; English; First World War GRANITE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england doesn't kid around Last Line: When I'm blinder than stone Subject(s): Graves; New England; Stones GRASS AND THE SUDDEN RAIN, by PAULS TOUTONGHI Poem Source First Line: Near-vertical road, yorkshire dales, landscape Last Line: Drunk again, wet Subject(s): Rain; Yorkshire, England GREATNESS OF ENGLAND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full long ere europe knew the iron road Last Line: Perchance the ebb comes next. We stand at full of tide. Subject(s): England; English GREEN GRASS SONG; KNOWN AT BERRINGTON, SHROPSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Walking up the green grass Last Line: The bells would ring and we should sing, %and all clap handstogether! Subject(s): Shropshire, England GUILT AND SORROW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller on the skirt of sarum's plain Last Line: And drop, as he once dropped, in miserable trance. Variant Title(s): Salisbury Plain And Stonehenge Subject(s): Landscape; Salisbury, England; Stonehenge GULLS AND BUOYS, by ANNE LEMIEUX Poem Source First Line: Gulls swoop, gulls soar Last Line: Raucous caucus, birds of a feather Subject(s): New England; Sea Gulls GUNGA DIN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' gin and beer Last Line: You're a better man than I am, gunga din! Subject(s): Army Life; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Heroism; India; Loyalty; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire; Heroes; Heroines HAIG IS MOVING; AUGUST, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haig is moving Last Line: Haig is moving! Subject(s): England; Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); World War I; English; First World War HAMPSTEAD: THE HORSE CHESTNUT TREES, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the top of a low hill Last Line: Hardening tender green %to insensate lumber Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Hampstead, England HANDS ALL ROUND (1ST VERSION), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First drink a health, this solemn night Last Line: And the great cause of freedom, round and round. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; Freedom; Patriotism; English; Liberty HANDS ALL ROUND (2D VERSION), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First pledge our queen this solemn Last Line: And the great name of england, round and round Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England HANGED MAN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storm lifts from wales Last Line: It is all just like the poet said Subject(s): England; Love - Unrequited; Poetry And Poets HAPPY IS ENGLAND NOW, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is not anything more wonderful Last Line: In those that fight, and watch with pride and tears. Subject(s): England; English HARNET AND THE BITTLE, by JOHN YONGE AKERMAN Poem Source First Line: A harnet zet in a hollur [hollow] tree Last Line: You'll meet the vate o' these 'ere two: they'll take your coat and carcass too! Variant Title(s): A North Wiltshire Dialect Son Subject(s): Wiltshire, England HAWORTH IN MAY, SELS., by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Source First Line: The crowded garveyard, the tall solemn trees Subject(s): England HAWTHORN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath that hawthorn shade the grass will hardly grow Last Line: Sit in this same sanctuary. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Hawthorn; Landscape; English HAYMAKING, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After night's thunder far away had rolled Last Line: Immortal in a picture of an old grange Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): England; Environment; Fields; Hay And Haymaking HE NEVER SMILED AGAIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bark that held a prince went down Last Line: He never smiled again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Grief; Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135); Sorrow; Sadness HEART AND WILL, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our england's heart is sound as oak Last Line: And first among the free. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty HEART OF HAMPSHIRE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: O heart of hampshire, primrose-paved woods Last Line: Time hath, unthanked of me, had grace to spare. Subject(s): Hampshire, England HEART'S JOURNEY, SELS., by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is stonehenge? It is the roofless past Subject(s): England; Stonehenge HEBRON; THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had the saracen with ruthless arms Last Line: The 'ladder' and the 'cross', with promise sweet! Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Hebron, Israel HEBRON; THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How doth the crescent brook this mighty charge? Last Line: And let poor israel share the new-won prize. Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Hebron, Israel HEBRON; THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when the coveted blessing is once gained Last Line: The pupil of pure love is quick to learn. Subject(s): Christianity; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Jews; Judaism HELFORD RIVER, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helford river, helford river Last Line: And the old face wear! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Helford River, England HELVELLYN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the drak brow of the mighty helvellyn Last Line: In the arms of helvellyn and catchedicam. Variant Title(s): Hellvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England; Mountain Climbing; Valor; Bravery HENGEST CYNING, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this stone lies the body of hengist Last Line: And to other men's care never yielded my destint %and no one dared ever betray me Subject(s): England; Hengist (5th Century A.d.) HENGIST WANTS MEN (449 A.D.), by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hengist wants men Last Line: Hengist wants them (though he will neve know it) so that %I may form these letters Subject(s): England; Hengist (5th Century A.d.) HENRY AND EMMA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, to whose eyes I bend, at whose command Last Line: To the true lover, and the nut-brown maid. Subject(s): Beauty; England; Happiness; Love; English; Joy; Delight HENRY II, WITH THE DEATH OF ROSAMOND: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen Last Line: But I was drenched today for loving well, %and fear the prison that would make me swell Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189) HERE'S A HEALTH TO KING CHARLES, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring the bowl which you boast Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) HEREFORDSHIRE CHARM FOR A GIRL TO SEE HER FUTURE HUSBAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I put this under my head Last Line: But in the clothes he will wear every day Subject(s): Herefordshire, England HERITAGE, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS Poem Text First Line: What is there here, in these small country places Last Line: England, that is our children's heritage. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Heritage; Heredity; English HEROIC STANZAS, CONSECRATED TO MEMORY OF OLIVER [CROMWELL], by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now 'tis time; for their officious haste Last Line: Where piety and valour jointly go. Variant Title(s): Heroic Stanzas Consecrated To The Glorious Memory Of His Most Serene Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; England; Freedom; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English; Liberty HIGH SUMMER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all the birds are flown, the first, the second brood Last Line: Talks forgotten battles with a tear in his eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Summer; English HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 1. THE SEA'S SALUTATION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The immense life of the sea, out of remote horizons Last Line: Passing, under the clatter of wheels and of crowding feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Tides; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 2. THE GREAT ROAD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came up the narrow seas, as a flock it gathered thy / children Last Line: "what bearest thou?""—and the keel makes answer, ""life." Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Life; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 3. THE LOOM OF LONDON, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange far lives, manifold, each from the other Last Line: "and again whispers to the walls of the unheeding city ""life." Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 4. THE QUEEN'S SONS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide of the sea-listen, its breathing voice is triumphant Last Line: "mine are thy sons!' he calls to thee, 'queen, rejoice in my children.'" Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 5. THE DARK VISION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But the sea is immortal, he knows nothing, he cannot / divine Last Line: First he found thee and crowned thee in waste dominions a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore HIGH WIND, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boeotius laughed upon the windy corner's Last Line: While slave-ships foundered under samothrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): England; English HINTS OF AN HISTORICAL PLAY TO BE CALLED WILLIAM RUFUS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walter tyrrell, the son of a norman papa Last Line: And -- never shoot elderly people in fun!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Murder; Poison; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100) HIS PETITION TO QUEEN ANNE OF DENMARK (1618), by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O had truth power, the guiltless could not fall Last Line: Who brings us equal, if not greater, bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England HOLIDAY AT HAMPTON COURT, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scales of pearly cloud inlay Last Line: Near the zenith gleams the moon. Subject(s): Hampton Court Palace, England HOME, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where'er I roam in this fair english land Last Line: My weary round, yet miss thy likeness still. Subject(s): England; English HOME AT GRASMERE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On nature's invitation do I come Last Line: Perfect contentment, unity entire. Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Home HOME THOUGHTS IN [OR, FROM] LAVENTIE, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green gardens in laventie Last Line: Home, what a perfect place! Subject(s): England; Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips HOMELESS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold dark midnight, yet listen Last Line: And dives neglects him still. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): England; Homeless; Poverty; English HONOUR ITS OWN REWARD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swell, swell the shrill trumpet clear sounding afar Last Line: How vast the reward of the brave! Subject(s): England; Honor; Patriotism; English HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE', by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bitterly, england must thou grieve Last Line: No more remorse can share Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): England HYMN OF EMPIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Britons! Salute the rising sun Last Line: Save for the freedom of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire I BURN FOR ENGLAND WITH A LIVING FLAME, by GERVASE STEWART Poem Source Subject(s): England; War IDYLLS OF THE KING: DEDICATION, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These to his memory -- since he held them dear Last Line: Till god's love set thee at his side again! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): To The Queen;albert, Prince Consort Of England Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria IDYLLS OF THE KING: TO THE QUEEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O loyal to the royal in thyself Last Line: Where all of high and holy dies away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Arthur, King IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe. Variant Title(s): To Augustus Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen IMPROMPTU ON CHARLES II (1), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have a pretty witty king Last Line: And never did a wise one. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) IMPROMPTU ON CHARLES II (2), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless our good and gracious king, / whose promise none relies on Last Line: Nor ever did a wise one. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) IN BOSTON CHURCH, LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My corps with kings and monarchs sleeps in bedd Last Line: Than pheobus when he streams his clearest light Subject(s): Lincolnshire, England IN COMMENDATION OF THE TIME ... REIGN OF KING CHARLES, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curst be that wretch (death's factor sure) who brought Last Line: Into an age of gold. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) IN ENGLAND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in rain I sat today Last Line: Is never far from sailing. Subject(s): Country Life; England; English IN FALMOUTH HARBOUR, SELS., by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The large, calm harbour lies below Subject(s): England; Falmouth, England IN HENRY VII'S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O holy heart of england! Inmost shrine Last Line: Save god and such as she. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Westminster Abbey; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry IN HONOR OF THAT HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCESS QUEEN ELIZABETH, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although great queen thou now in silence lie Last Line: If many worlds, as that fantastic framed, %in every one be her great glory found Variant Title(s): Queen Elizabet Subject(s): Children; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Home; Marriage; Memory; Puritans IN KEW CHURCH; FOR ROBERT AND ANNA PLAISTOW, D. 1728, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At tyso they were born and bred Last Line: Their only one surviving son, %has caused this stone for to be done Subject(s): Surrey, England IN MANCHESTER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a noise of feet that move in sin Last Line: Near the peace of lakes when I have ceased to roam. Subject(s): Manchester, England IN MEMORIAM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that was king an hour ago Last Line: Must still endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) IN MEMORY OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN: 1. JANUARY 22, 1901, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days, the years, the centuries decay Last Line: Friend! Sovereign! Mother! Oh, farewell! Farewell! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) IN MEMORY OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN: 2. FEBRUARY 1ST AND 2ND, 1901, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from her palace gate Last Line: Knit close again! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) IN OLD HASTINGS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ere dawn, when clustered stars are wan Last Line: Is gathered to the secret of the sea! Subject(s): Dawn; Hastings, England; Night; Sea; Sunrise; Bedtime; Ocean IN PRAISE OF LIMESTONE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Limestone; Yorkshire, England IN PRAISE OF LIMESTONE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones Last Line: Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Limestone; Yorkshire, England IN PRISON [AT LINN] (WRITTEN WHEN A PRISONER DURING CROMWELL'S REVOLT), by ROGER L'ESTRANGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beat on, proud billows; boreas blow Last Line: Disgrace to rebels, glory to my king. Variant Title(s): Loyalty Confined;mr. Le Strange His Verses Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); L'estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704); Prisons & Prisoners; Tower Of London; Convicts IN REMEMBRANCE OF ENGLAND, by ZELLA WALLACE Poem Text First Line: Of fabled castles england has her share Last Line: And known that peace can never come too soon. Subject(s): England; English IN ROMNEY MARSH, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went down to dymchurch wall Last Line: Pealing again, prolonged the roar. Subject(s): England; Romney Marsh, England; English IN SIGHT OF THE TOWN OF COCKERMOUTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A point of life between my parent's dust Last Line: And only love keep in your hearts a place. Subject(s): Cockermouth, England IN THE BACKS, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too many of the dead, some I knew well Last Line: Why is this air so sacred and so still? Subject(s): Cambridge University; England; Rivers IN THE BLACK COUNTRY, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hell hath its uses; here each mortar mouth Last Line: An earth of ashes and a sky of brass? Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Staffordshire, England IN THE CHURCHYARD AT BERKELEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE (1665), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lyeth thomas peirce, whom no man taught Last Line: To winde it up, but useless it must lie, %until he rise againe no more to die Subject(s): Gloucestershire, England IN THE DIM CITY, SELS., by ARTHUR L. SALMON Poem Source First Line: City of clanging bells Subject(s): England IN THE ENGINE-SHED, by WILLIAM WILKINS Poem Text First Line: Through air made heavy with vapors murk Last Line: We're going out with the express. Subject(s): England; Railroads; Tragedy; English; Railways; Trains IN THE ISLE OF DOGS, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the water-wagon's ringing showers Last Line: The fittest utterance of the voice of earth Subject(s): England IN THE TRAIN, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly from a wayside station Last Line: Her, he loves the heart of england? Subject(s): England; Railroads; English; Railways; Trains IN THE TRAIN, SELS., by VIVIAN DE SOLA PINTO Poem Source First Line: I am in a long train gliding through england Subject(s): England IN TIME OF INVASION, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Do you remember, england Subject(s): England IN VILLAGE CHURCH AT COLKIRK; FOR SAMUEL SMITHE, D. 1663, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: See him, a man, a son of adam's race Last Line: For no man to the life the fire can paint, %no more the picture of a glorious saint Subject(s): Norfolk, England IN WHICH THE ANCIENT HISTORY I LEARN IS NOT MY OWN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The linen map Subject(s): England - History IN WILTSHIRE; SUGGESTED BY POINTS OF SIMILARITY WITH THE SOMME COUNTRY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest of valleys, in this full-bloomed night Last Line: Among old valley-tombs of flesh and blood and years. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Wiltshire, England INDIA'S GUEST (H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young heir to an old, old throne! Your wandering prow Last Line: Of all our wondrous fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Edward Viii, King Of England (1894-1972); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; India; British Empire; England - Empire INEVITABLY, SHE DECLINED, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: On a bishop's backless chair, inevitably, upright she declined Last Line: Between moments, squall of air reclining, upright bolt, declining %vertical Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 INNOCENT ENGLAND, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh what a pity, oh! Don't you agree Last Line: So my pictures are in prison, instead of in the zoo Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): England INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT OLD SARUM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, if thou canst boast the noble name Last Line: An individual's rights, how happy all! Subject(s): England; History; Law & Lawyers; Legislation; Patriotism; English; Historians INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE ERECTED AT SOWING OF A GROVE OF OAKS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other stones the era tell Last Line: Stone at heart, and cannot grow, Subject(s): Somerset, England INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind! Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT PENSHURST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are days of old familiar to thy mind Last Line: Lives and shall live, immortalized in song. Subject(s): History; Honor; Immortality; Penshurst, England; Presence; Singing & Singers; Historians INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION IN THE GEORGE INN, WANSTEAD, ESSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In memory of %ye cheery pey Last Line: I hope to see money a year Subject(s): Essex, England INSCRIPTION ON A LIVERPOOL WARE JUG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At last it pleased his majesty Last Line: Plump to the devil I boldly kick'd %my poll and my partner joe Subject(s): Liverpool, England INSCRIPTION ON A SILVER CUP, COMBE MARTIN, DEVON, 1640 (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When water workes in broaken wharfe Last Line: Till bulmer by his skill and charge %did frame me this to be Subject(s): Bulmer, Sir Bevis; Devonshire, England; Silver Mining And Miners INSCRIPTION ON A SILVER CUP, COMBE MARTIN, DEVON, 1640 (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In martyn's commbe long lay I hydd Last Line: Coomeb martin gave the use alone, %bulmer the fining and fashion Subject(s): Bulmer, Sir Bevis; Devonshire, England; Silver Mining And Miners INSCRIPTION ON A STONE FOR ANN WEST, 1811, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The reverend rector being a hard %austerly rigid man Last Line: So to the memory of a friend %I, here am now set down Subject(s): Kent, England INSCRIPTION ON A STONE OVER PORCH DOOR OF VICERAGE, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A house, a glebe a pound a day Last Line: Be true to church - be kind to poor, %o minister! For evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Cornwall, England INSCRIPTION ON THE BASSET CUP, ST. IVES, CORNWALL, 1640, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Iff any discord 'twixt my friends arise Last Line: Then am I blest to have given a legacie %so like my hartt unto posteritie Subject(s): Cornwall, England INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some proud son of man returns to earth Last Line: I never knew but one, -- and here he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Epitaph To A Dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nottinghamshire, England INSCRIPTION ON THE PALM HOUSE DOORS, BICTON HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The gardener at a hole looks out Last Line: While those who come in open dsay %may look but carry nought away Subject(s): Devonshire, England INSCRIPTION ON THE PENDULUM OF THE TOWER CLOCK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept Last Line: Will christ have saved my soul by then? Amen Subject(s): Kent, England INSCRIPTION OVER THE DOORWAY OF POST OFFICE AT LANSTINGHAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hap of a good life Last Line: The choyce of a wife Subject(s): Yorkshire, England INSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF ALDERMAN NYNN, by FRANCES WEBB Poem Source First Line: Full forty years was the alderman seen Last Line: For the great bowler death, at one critical cast, %has ended his length, and close rubbed him at las Subject(s): Kent, England INSCRIPTION: EPITAPH ON KING JOHN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John rests below. A man more infamous Last Line: For they must bear the burthen of thy crime. Subject(s): Epitaphs; John, King Of England (1167-1216); Lackland, John INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE FOUR SIDES OF A PEDESTAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marlowe, the father of the sons of song Last Line: First gave our song a sound that matched our sea. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Soul; English INSCRIPTIONS ON THE BELLS OF THE PARISH CHURCH, RYE, SUSSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To honour both of god and king Last Line: Be sober, merry, wise, %and you'll be the same posssess Subject(s): Sussex, England 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 INTERNATIONAL ODE; OUR FATHER'S LAND, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless our father's land! Last Line: Great king of kings! Subject(s): England; English INTERVAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cloudy evening shows Last Line: Suddenly unconfined as air. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English INTRODUCTION TO THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: For months the night stalker Last Line: Avatar of conscience Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) ISLAND QUEEN: BOOK 1, SELS., by SARAH (STICKNEY) ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Work? There are millions working at the loom Last Line: And least remembered in our country's boast Subject(s): Tahiti; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Women ITALY SWEET TOO!, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy is england! I could be content Last Line: And float with them about the summer waters. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): England; Italy; English; Italians IVY LANE (A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LOVE SONG), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivy lane in devon Last Line: That's the place for me! Subject(s): Cities; Devonshire, England; London; Love; Urban Life JEREMY JOY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red winter, with a sigh and shrug Last Line: When jeremy joy was singing! Subject(s): Winter; Yorkshire, England JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: And I heard their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 1, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into Last Line: Jesus. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love Last Line: Is an arrow from the almighties bow! Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But los, who is the vehicular form of strong urthona Last Line: In englands green & pleasant bowers. Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spectres of albions twelve sons revolve mightily Last Line: And I heard the name of their emanations they are named jerusalem Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to the martyrs in their country's cause Last Line: Give to the arms of freedom such success. Variant Title(s): The Crowning Of The King Subject(s): Coronations; Creative Ability; England; Faith; France; Freedom; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Inspiration; Creativity; English; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 7, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong were the english forts, by daily toil Last Line: Betaking them, for now the night drew on. Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Historians; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now was the noon of night; and all was still Last Line: The shattered fragments of the midnight wreck. Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the shadowy sky the ascending flames Last Line: "the thunder—she shall blast her despot foes." Subject(s): Death; England; Faith; France; Funerals; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Burials; Heroes; Heroines 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 JOURNEY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the relic of an ancient ride Last Line: We laughed at time, nor wished a better place. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English 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 KEEP TROTH, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When algebra is done, boys Last Line: Keep troth and spoken time Subject(s): Schools; England; Patriotism; Duty; Students KESWICK, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD Poem Text First Line: Lo! How the orient morning sweetly lights Last Line: My pen's unequal to the task—I stop. Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza Subject(s): Keswick, England; Nature KING CANUTE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King canute was weary hearted; he had reigned for years a score Last Line: And his golden crown of empire never wore he from that day. Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England KING EDWARD THE FOURTH AND A TANNER OF TAMWORTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In summer time, when leaves grew green %and birds were singing in every tree Subject(s): Edward Iv, King Of England (1442-1483) KING EDWARD THE THIRD, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, to whose fury the nations are Last Line: "fair albion's shore, and all her families." Subject(s): Bible; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377); Freedom; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology; Liberty 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 HAL AND THE COBBLER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: King hal was a-hunting the swift fallow-deer Subject(s): Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422) KING HENRY FIFTH'S CONQUEST OF FRANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As our king lay musing on his bed Last Line: To the rose of england I will give free Subject(s): "henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness KING HENRY VII AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry, our king in england, from london town is gone Last Line: That they may keep measure with harry our king and peace in engeland! Subject(s): Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Navy - Great Britain; Shipbuilding; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry; English Navy KING LEAR, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): England; Hate; Lear, King; Mothers; Social Protest KING'S RETURN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He returns, he returns. At this the people roll forth a mighty roar Last Line: Because we can truly say, he is returned Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) KINGFISHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eastern god with natural blessing gleams Last Line: The kingfisher returns. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Kingfishers; Landscape; English KISSING BRIDGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No roebling reared that primal way Last Line: As then in old nieuw amsterdam! Subject(s): Bridges; Kisses; New England; New York City - Dutch Period LAMENT FOR FLODDEN [FIELD], by JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking Last Line: The flowers of the forest are a' wede away. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Jane Variant Title(s): The Flowers Of The Forest Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Flowers; Love; Mourning; Bereavement LAMENT FOR KING EDWARD 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All men that be of heart full true Last Line: "that he to jesu's bliss us send / amen, amen, for charite!" Subject(s): "edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); LAMORNA COVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I see at last our great lamorna cove Last Line: Screams in its fresh young wonder and delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Coves LAND SONG OF THE WEST COUNTRY, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lanes are long, and home is far Last Line: As we go joggin' on. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Devonshire, England LAND, SELS., by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): England; Gardens And Gardening; Plowing And Plowmen LANGDALE: NIGHTFALL, JANUARY 4TH, SELS., by MICHAEL ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Dark are the shrouded hills, and vague, and the rain Subject(s): England LAST DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Rise from thy bloody grave Last Line: Sad as the dove, but, like the dove, surviving all! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 LAST VERSES, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, bristolia's dingy piles of brick Last Line: And this last act of wretchedness forgive. Subject(s): Bristol, England; Death; Dead, The LEACHED, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: In france they martyred one progenitor Last Line: Heroes set forth in a menagerie. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; France; Martyrs; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English LEAFY WARWICKSHIRE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will your mind for ever go Last Line: For leafy warwickshire! Subject(s): Country Life; Warwickshire, England LED AND RULED?, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: English led and english ruled'! Last Line: That herald peace, outshining mars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): England; Leadership; United States; English; America LEGEND OF GLASTONBURY, VERSIFIED IN THE SOMERSET DIALECT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who hath not hir'd of avalon? Last Line: Let tell pumparles or lazy brue %that what is told is vor sartain true! Subject(s): Somerset, England LEGEND OF THE RECTORY AT PERIVALE, MIDDLESEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Loud roared the wind at perivale Last Line: The come from the great western rail, %when the express trains pass! Subject(s): Middlesex, England LEISTON ABBEY, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful fabric! Even in decay Last Line: Shall recompense me well, and for the task atone. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Leiston Abbey, England; Ruins LEISURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, and lose not the sweet luring cry Last Line: And mercy's music be for ever dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Leisure; English LENT CROCKING SONG; OKEHAMPTON, DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lent crock, give a pancake Last Line: Give me my mumps and I'll be go Subject(s): Devonshire, England LETTER TO MISS E.B. AT BATH, by MARY SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: To doggerel now I turn my pen Last Line: Is the sincere wish of yours &c. Subject(s): Bath, England; Friendship LEWIE GORDON, by ALEXANDER GEDDES Poem Text First Line: O send lewie gordon hame Last Line: Ohone! My highlandman. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers LIBERTINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer-time when haymaking's there Last Line: And a dryad will peep when she thinks I'm asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English LILACS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs / false blue Last Line: Since certainly it is mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New England LINCOLNSHIRE TALE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kirkby with muckby-cum-sparrowby-cum-spinx Subject(s): Fantasy; Lincolnshire, England LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Last Line: More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! Variant Title(s): Tintern Abbey;on Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye Subject(s): England; Holidays; Immortality; Nature; Religion; Trees; English; Theology LINES COMPOSED ON THE BODY POLITIC: AN ACCOUNTING, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 LINES INSCRIBED IN A COPY OF HIS POEMS SENT TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deign, sovereign mistress! To accept a lay Last Line: And help life onward in its noblest aim Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) LINES ON JAMES THOMSON, THE POET OF NATURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye who from london smoke and turmoil fly Last Line: Bidding us prize the favourite scenes he trod, %and view in nature's beauties nature's god Subject(s): Richmond Park, England; Thomson, James (1700-1748) LINES ON THE CAMP HILL NEAR HASTINGS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep blue of eve Last Line: And to-morrow beheld it their own. Subject(s): Hastings, England LINES ON THE SUCCESSION OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: George the fourth, the son of third, the grandson of the second Subject(s): George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Mnemonics LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now farewell to you! You are Last Line: To england, and to me my friend. Subject(s): England; United States; War; English; America LINES TO KING GEORGE II, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O all-accomplish'd caesar! On thy shelf Last Line: And there triumphant sing thy soverain's praise. Subject(s): George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760) LINES TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND, by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, perchance my untaught strain Last Line: A nation happy, wise, and free Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) LINES UPON A LOOKING-GLASS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Glass antique, 'twixt thee and nell Last Line: Was that face, by beauty's spell, %to the honest soul of nell! Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687) LINES WRITTEN BENEATH AN ELM IN THE CHURCHYARD OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spot of my youth! Whose hoary branches sigh Last Line: And unremember'd by the world beside Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Harrow, England; Youth LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corpses are cold in the tomb Last Line: To the bed of the bride! Subject(s): England; Freedom; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; English; Liberty; Castlereagh, Viscount LINES WRITTEN IN RICHMOND PARK, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richmond, ev'n now, %thy living landscape spreads beneath my feet Last Line: Glides swiftly onward like a lovely dream, %making the scene a paradise Subject(s): Richmond Park, England LINES WRITTEN IN SURREY, 1917, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A sudden swirl of song in the bright sky Last Line: Of english daisies dancing in english dells. Subject(s): England; World War I - Great Britain; English LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For aye be hynce ye vayne delyghts Last Line: Forlettying erthlie loste. Subject(s): England; Mexico; Poetry & Poets; Religion; English; Theology LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY PARODIED IN THE 18TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hither frolics and delights Last Line: Let angels have the rest. Subject(s): England; Parties; Poetry & Poets; English LINES, ETC., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman should not rule this realm' Last Line: And guard our coeur de lion still, %in every sacred right! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Women's Rights LITERARY NEW ENGLAND (1), by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: All night walking Subject(s): New England LITERARY NEW ENGLAND (2), by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: I saw hawthorne's %gravestone one autumn Last Line: Man %is his stories Subject(s): New England LIZZY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The queen who taught us to read and write Last Line: Thank god for the brindled cat.' Subject(s): Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Fools; Independence; Protest, Social LOCAL RHYME, ONCE KNOWN AROUND BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Boston boston boston! %thou hast nought to boast on Last Line: And a proud conceited ignorant people, %and a coast which souls get lost on Subject(s): Boston, England LONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black in the midnight lies the city vast Last Line: England's ideal life alone survives! Subject(s): England; London; Past; English LONDON BEAUTIFUL, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: London, I heard one say, no more is fair Subject(s): England LONDON CROSSFIGURED, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): London, England; Models LORD LOVEL (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Lord lovel he stood at his castle gate Last Line: For all true lovers to admire Subject(s): England; English LORD ROBERTS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: He came, he saw, he conquered; though his heart Last Line: The idol of his country and his queen. Subject(s): England; Fathers & Sons; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; English LUCASTA TAKING THE WATERS AT TUNBRIDGE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye happy floods! That now must pass Last Line: Of virtue, honour, love and bliss. Subject(s): Health Resorts; Tunbridge Wells, England; Spas LUCY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I travelled among unknown men Last Line: That lucy's eyes surveyed. Variant Title(s): "i Travelled Among Unknown Men""; Subject(s): Death; England; Travel; Dead, The; English; Journeys; Trips LUNCH IN TOWN, by MILDRED WHITNEY STILLMAN Poem Text First Line: I like you better far in country places Last Line: I wish I had not come to town today. Subject(s): Lunch; New England LYNMOUTH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought her I love to this sweet place Last Line: My love, and keep her till I tell her all. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Calm; Love; Lynmouth, England; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility LYONNESSE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No use whistling for lyonnesse ! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cornwall, England MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN, by NOEL COWARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tropical climes there are certain times of day Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN, by NOEL COWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In tropical climes there are certain times of day Last Line: But mad dogs and englishmen %go out in the midday sun Subject(s): England; Travel MADRIGAL ON THE BIRTHDAY OF QUEEN VICTORIA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady on the silver throne Last Line: That a subject dares not raise. Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) MALEFACTORS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nailed to these green laths long ago Last Line: Dreary as a passing-bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MANCHESTER BY NIGHT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er this huge town, rife with intestine wars Last Line: As life exchanges semblances with death. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Manchester, England MANDALAY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: By the old moulmein pagoda, lookin' lazy [or, eastward to] at the sea Last Line: Crost the bay! Subject(s): Army Life; Asia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Mandalay, Burma; Drills & Minor Tactics; Far East; East Asia; Orient; British Empire; England - Empire MANOR FARM, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rock-like mud unfroze a little and rills Last Line: This england, old already, was called merry Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): England MANUSCRIPT ENGLISH ELEGIACS ON MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING IN CUMBERLAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vale of the north, farewell! Farewell, o pastoral valley Last Line: Never a thought unblest darken the image of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Cumberland, England; Mountain Climbing MARCH THOUGHTS FROM ENGLAND, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O that I were lying under the olives Last Line: Rudel sing the lady of tripoli. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): England; March (month); Olive Trees And Olives; English MARIA WENTWORTH, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here the precious dust is laid Last Line: Fraile as our flesh, crumble to dust. Variant Title(s): The Inscription On The Tomb;epitaph For Maria Wentworth;the Inscription On The Tomb Of The Lady Mary Wentworth Subject(s): Bedfordshire, England; Mourning; Wentworth, Maria (d. 1632); Bereavement MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MARMION: CANTO 1. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November's sky is chill and drear Last Line: A knightly tale of albion's elder day. Variant Title(s): The Castle Of Norham;norham Castle Subject(s): Flodden Field, England MARMION: CANTO 1. THE CASTLE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day set on norham's castled steep Last Line: Which gave again the prospect fair. Subject(s): Castles; Christmas; Courage; Faith; Flodden Field, England; Love; Nativity, The; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed MARMION: CANTO 2. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scenes are desert now, and bare Last Line: Of this mysterious man of woe. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England MARMION: CANTO 2. THE CONVENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze, which swept away the smoke Last Line: To hear that sound so dull and stern. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys MARMION: CANTO 3. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like april morning clouds, that pass Last Line: Flow forth, flow unrestrained, my tale! Subject(s): Flodden Field, England MARMION: CANTO 3. THE HOSTEL, OR INN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The livelong day lord marmion rode Last Line: The first notes of the morning lark. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MARMION: CANTO 4. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient minstrel sagely said Last Line: Lord marmion's march I thus renew. Subject(s): Flodden Field, England MARMION: CANTO 5. THE COURT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train has left the hills of braid Last Line: For march against the dawning day. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Flodden Field, England; Monasteries; Abbeys MARMION: CANTO 6. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill Last Line: And store of literary wealth. Subject(s): Christmas; Flodden Field, England; Heber, Richard; Leyden, John (1775-1811); Vikings; Nativity, The MARSHALL WASHER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cowshit farmers, these new englanders Last Line: "and flagged aisles saturated with a century’s Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; New England; Agriculture; Farmers MARSTON MOOR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To horse! To horse! Sir nicholas, the clarion's note is high! Variant Title(s): Sir Nicholas At Marston Moo Subject(s): Courage; Marston Moor, England MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear to the loves, and to the graces vowed Last Line: Stilled by the ensanguined block of fotheringay! Subject(s): Cumbria, England; Derwent (river) Great Britain; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: TO JAMES KING OF BRITAIN, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The disunited scythians when they sought Last Line: If he that marries kingdoms, marries men? Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) MATLOCK BATH, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From matlock bath's half-timbered station Last Line: A sense of doom, a dread to see %the rock of ages cleft for me Subject(s): England MEDITATIONS IN GREAT BEALINGS CHURCH-YARD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only while we look upon Last Line: One more look ere I part! 'tis given, and now, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Churchyards; Farewell; Gosfield Park, Essex, England; Parting MEMORY OF KENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kentish hamlets grey and old Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Kent, England MEN OF THE NORTH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Conquering nations all come from the north Last Line: Men of the north! You are welcome to all. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; North, The; Tyranny & Tyrants; British Empire; England - Empire MENDIP HILLS OVER WELLS, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How grand beneath the feet that company Subject(s): England; Landscape MERCIAN HYMNS: 1, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 1, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of Last Line: I liked that,' said offa, 'sing it again.' Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 10, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He adored the desk, its brown-oak inlaid with ebony Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 10, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He adored the desk, its brown-oak inlaid with ebony Last Line: He wept, %attempting to master ancilla and servus Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 16, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clash of salutation. As keels thrust into shingle Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 16, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clash of salutation. As keels thrust into shingle Last Line: Hissing. Wine, urine and sashes Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 28, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 28, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The Last Line: Of legendary holly; silverdark the ridged gleam Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 30, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk to Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 30, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk to Last Line: He left behind coins, for his lodging, and traces of red mud Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 6, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The princes of mercia were badger and raven. Thrall to their freedom Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 6, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The princes of mercia were badger and raven. Thrall to their freedom Last Line: Dried snot; wrists and knees garnished with impetigo Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 7, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 7, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring Last Line: In his private derelict sandlorry named albion Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERCIAN HYMNS: 8, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English MERCIAN HYMNS: 8, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour Last Line: Law. I dedicate my awakening to this matter Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia MERRILY SANG THE MONKS IN ELY, by CANUTE Poem Source Subject(s): Ely, City Of, England MIDDLESEX, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaily into ruislip gardens Last Line: Long in kensal green and highgate silent under soot and stone Subject(s): Middlesex, England; Suburbs MIDDLESEX, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Germans, she said, were sometimes independent Last Line: Thus, home she said was middlesex, though wembley %I should have named, indifferently, as 'london' Subject(s): Middlesex, England MIDNIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last-lighted windows have darkened Last Line: Be the wind in the moonlit thorn? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Night; English; Bedtime MIDSUMMER IN NEW ENGLAND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The royalty of midsummer is here! Last Line: Their hearts' midsummer found, with bliss are dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): New England; Summer MILTON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What splendour of imperial station man Last Line: Rays of his glory on their foreheads bear. Subject(s): England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; English MINORA SIDERA (THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY), by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at times over a hearth that burns Last Line: Of lives obscurely great. Subject(s): England; English MISUNDERSTANDINGS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bright shallow of this broadened dyke Last Line: But to her frost-cold eggs she ne'er returned. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cumbrous pollards that o'ershade Subject(s): England; Landscape MOGG MEGONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone Last Line: Ruth boniton is dead! Subject(s): Death; Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans - Wars; New England; Norridgewock, Maine; Penobscot Bay, Maine; Rale, Sebastien (1654-1724); Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine; U.s. - Colonial Period; Waterfalls; Dead, The MOLE CATCHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With coat like any mole's, as soft and black Last Line: There's not a peal in england sounds so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Animals; England; Labor & Laborers; Landscape; Moles; English; Work; Workers MONODY ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CAROLINE, SELS., by RICHARD WEST (18TH CENTURY) Subject(s): Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England MORNING HAZE ON DERWENTWATER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft through a veil of amethystine mist Last Line: To beauty and to praise. Subject(s): Derwentwater (lake), England; Southey, Robert (1774-1843) MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie Last Line: And prairies too! Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains MS. FOUND UNDER A SERVIETTE IN A LOVELY HOME, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear counsin nancy: %you probably never heard of me or cousin beauregard Last Line: And resumed our conversation about dollars Subject(s): England MUCH VIRTUE IN IF, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were king of this broad land Last Line: With you crowned at my side. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): England; English MUFFLED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black ponds and boughs of clay and sulky sedge Last Line: When even the owls and bats are hesitating. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MY ENGLISH LETTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When each white moon, her lantern idly swinging Last Line: That drifts into my sun-kissed western home. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; England; Canadians; English MY MASTER AND I, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "says the master to me, is it true? I am told" Last Line: I can promise you we shall not get first in a rage Subject(s): England;peace;poverty; English 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 NAMES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From somerset and devon Last Line: One race, one truth, one speech. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Names; New England; Heritage; Heredity; English NATIVITY, by PHILIP H. CUMMINGS Poem Text First Line: There is a warm brownness Last Line: Of my new england. Subject(s): New England 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 NETLEY ABBEY; A LEGEND OF HAMPSHIRE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee, netley, as the sun Last Line: "but -- I can't say much for his taste.""'" Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Hampshire, England; Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys NEW BATH GUIDE, SELS, by CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY Subject(s): Bath, England NEW ENGLAND, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Smug little towns Last Line: "I do not choose to run." Subject(s): Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933); New England NEW ENGLAND, by EDNA LEMONT MALONE Poem Text First Line: You stand a worthy sentinel Last Line: Those are the things we prize. Subject(s): New England; Sea; Ocean NEW ENGLAND, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to the land whereon we tread Last Line: Our hand. Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by SUSAN N. PULSIFER Poem Text First Line: Houses of generous, ample line Last Line: Tell of past springs the heart remembers. Subject(s): Landscape; Life; New England; Time NEW ENGLAND, by THERESA MARIE READ Poem Source First Line: I am caught with %its springtime Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the wind is always north-north-east Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the wind is always north-north-east Last Line: Cheerful as when she tortured into fits %the first cat that was ever killed by care Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art, who walkest there Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside, gray smoke curls up Last Line: What is left then? Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a condition Last Line: To end “walking on air” Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a condition Last Line: Smile-a thought of indians %on chestnut branches %to end 'walking on the air' Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND BALLAD, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He saw the drab and dreary town Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND CAPITALIST, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are his machines Last Line: Now let him make a harp! Subject(s): Capitalism; New England NEW ENGLAND IS NEW ENGLAND IS NEW ENGLAND, by BRENDA HELOISE GREEN Poem Source First Line: Is seacoast fog, is starfish caught Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPE, by DUBOSE HEYWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a sepia ground Last Line: Is slowly unwinding its skein. Subject(s): Landscape; New England NEW ENGLAND LIGHTHOUSE, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: It's a tower %of stone Last Line: As they pass %through the night Subject(s): Lighthouses; New England NEW ENGLAND MIND (FOR EMILY DICKINSON AND PERRY MILLER), by JOHN WILLIAM ELSBERG Poem Source First Line: T %hed Last Line: E -- dit Subject(s): New England NEW ENGLAND PORTRAIT, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Text First Line: She faces life across a willow plate Last Line: Who rings herself with aureoles of race! Subject(s): Family Life; New England; Relatives NEW ENGLAND WALLS, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the blow that shall deliver death Last Line: My flesh would pass, leaving my spirit here. Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; New England; Walls; Dead, The NEW ENGLAND WOODS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New england woods are fair of face Last Line: A pine, communing with the skies. Subject(s): Forests; New England; Woods NEW ENGLAND'S GROWTH, by WILLIAM BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Famine once we had Last Line: If you will take the pains them to seek for. Subject(s): New England; United States - Colonial Period NEW ENGLAND'S MOUNTAIN-CHILD, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where foams the fall - a tameless storm Last Line: New england's mountain-child! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Children; Independence; Love; New England; Simplicity; Childhood NEW ENGLAND, AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughter dreamt of magnolias Last Line: I woke with a start as if we had set an alarm. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Family Life; New England; Nightmares; Relatives NEW ENGLAND, SPRINGTIME, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emerson thought the bride had one eye Last Line: Cattle cars rattling by at sunset. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Missionaries & Missions; New England; Spring NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, be good to england. Bid her name Last Line: 01/01/89 Subject(s): England; Holidays; New Year; Time; English NEWS FROM NEWCASTLE; UPON THE COAL-PITS ABOUT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England's a perfect world, has indies too Last Line: And gives her a black bag for a green gown. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Newcastle-upon-tyne, England NEWSPAPER FINDINGS: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben Last Line: At the paris exhibition. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Newspapers; Politics & Government; Rome, Italy; Social Problems; English; Journalism; Journalists NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dome of my sires as the clear moonbeam falls Last Line: But the wreck of the line that have held it in sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Monasteries; Newstead Abbey, England; Abbeys NIGHT ON DARTMOOR, by MARY DOREEN SPENDER Poem Text First Line: Dark - and a still night, lying up here on dartmoor Last Line: Gone! Beautiful wordless voice, and feet of the far off dancers. Subject(s): Dartmoor, England; Night; Bedtime NIGHT RAIN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time of night it is Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Night; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime NIGHTSONG: CITY, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep well, my love, sleep well Last Line: My sounds begin again. Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; South Africa - Apartheid; British Empire; England - Empire NINETEEN FORTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh. Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War NO CONTINUING CITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train with its smoke and its rattle went on Last Line: "at this time next year." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting NO SURRENDER! (VERSES WRITTEN AT A TIME OF INDUSTRIAL CRISIS), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand fast at last, o weary nation Last Line: Thy fate in thine own will. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Class Struggle; England; Industry; English NORTHUMBERLAND BETRAYED BY DOUGLAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now list and lithe, you gentlemen" Last Line: There douglas landed lord percye Subject(s): "douglas, Sir James De Douglas, Lord Of;percy Family, Northumberland, England;scotland - Relations With England;" "douglas The Good;black Douglas, The; NOSCE TEIPSUM: DEDICATION 1. TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: To that clear majesty which in the north Variant Title(s): To My Most Gracious Dread Soveraign Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 NOVEMBER BLUE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heavenly colour, london town Last Line: The throng go crowned with blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Electricity; England; London; Street Lights; English NOVEMBER MORNING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the night storm sad wakes the winter day Last Line: And sharded pots and rusty curry-combs. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English NOW THE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the children are old enough to see what there is to see Subject(s): Children; London, England; City Traffic; Swimming & Swimmers 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 O FLODDEN FIELD' (IN MEMORY OF EDWIN MUIR), by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The learned king fought Last Line: Picks up from the heather / a whole sword Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Muir, Edwin (1887-1959); War O FLODDEN FIELD' (IN MEMORY OF EDWIN MUIR), by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The learned king fought Last Line: Picks up from the heather %a whole sword Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Muir, Edwin (1887-1959); War O LOVELY ENGLAND, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely england, whose ancient peace Last Line: Dream unashamed of these! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): England OBSERVATIONS IN A CORNISH TEASHOP, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can they write or paint Last Line: Fed intravenously? Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Social Protest; Speculation OBSERVATIONS IN A CORNISH TEASHOP, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can they write or paint Last Line: Would it be nicer to be %fed intravenously? Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Social Protest; Speculation OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 27, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faith's pure shield, the christian diana Last Line: And thick heads do vanish. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Rain OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 1. WADHAM, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is like a sabbath in a swoon Last Line: The old quadrangle paved with afternoon. Subject(s): Oxford, England; Sabbath; Sunday OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 13. VICISSITUDE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that a sod for just a thrill or two Last Line: Exchange for burning tears its peaceful dew! Variant Title(s): Strange Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 4, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one whose road winds upward turns his face Last Line: From the assembly of my thoughts and days. Variant Title(s): In An Oxford Garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 10, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Primrose, and phlox, and clytie (as I call Last Line: And discord dreamwise vanish from it all. Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England; Sunflowers OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 17. CONSTANCY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the same sky over sea and land Last Line: Good is within all, having all things planned. Subject(s): Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 2, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No footfall sounds within the empty hall Last Line: A comfortable and a holy spot withal. Subject(s): Oxford, England; Sabbath; Sunday OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 24. RESTORATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To one tired heart I said: if it be true Last Line: That once in many a labyrinth was your clew. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 33, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great nelumbo heavy on the breast Last Line: Of the dear face that waits me down the west. Subject(s): Absence; Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England; Separation; Isolation OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 5, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As here among the well-remembering boughs Last Line: Glowing, the light of memory on her brows. Subject(s): Memory; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 6, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hath she uttered that should make me dread Last Line: And smileth on the glory of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Oxford, England; Dead, The OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 7, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here did wren make himself a student home Last Line: Adown the wall as then he saw it roam. Subject(s): Oxfordshire, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 8, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blake hither brought his book-to con the sky Last Line: And they are patient still and standing by. Subject(s): History; Oxford, England; Historians OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 9. NATURE'S CALMNESS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things seem ordered sweetly in the calm Last Line: A nostril to the breeze-bestowèd balm. Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England ODE FOR THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, 1897, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night; and the street a corpse beneath the moon Last Line: Filled with the shaven faces of the norman horde. Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, / that crown the watery glade Last Line: Tis folly to be wise! Variant Title(s): On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College Subject(s): England; Eton College; Youth; English ODE ON INSTALLATION OF PRINCE OF WALES AS CHANCELLOR OF UNIV. OF WALES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is our joyous hour Last Line: Sits wisdom crowned with right! Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); University Of Wales ODE ON LORD MACARTNEY'S EMBASSY TO CHINA, by WILLIAM SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Swift shot the curlew 'thwart the rising blast Last Line: Remember afric's woes—and save your destined land.' Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire ODE ON THE DAY OF THE CORONATION OF KING EDWARD VII, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sire, we have looked on many and mighty things Last Line: Of strength and conquering grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) ODE TO EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, ESQ., by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Gibbon! Last Line: And has no follower -- I mean no uncle! Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Wakefield, Edward Gibbon (1796-1862); British Empire; England - Empire ODE TO LUDLOW CASTLE, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud pile! That rearest thy hoary head Last Line: The remnant of the storm. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Castles; Ludlow, England; Ruins 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) ODE TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR, ON PUBLICATION OF HIS 'VISIT TO OXFORD', by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O worthy mayor! - I mean to say ex-mayor Last Line: And every lord mayor his own recorder! Subject(s): Oxford, England; Politics & Government ODE TO THE PRICE OF WALES; INVITING ... TO A COUNTRY COTTAGE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O prince of wales! Last Line: A hamlet is n't much without a prince! Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) ODE UPON HIS MAJESTIE'S RESTORATION AND RETURN, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now blessings on you all, ye peaceful starres Last Line: If your heads always stood within, and the rump-heads without. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there! Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day ODE, OR SONG, BY ALL THE MUSES, CELEBRATION OF HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up public joy, remember Last Line: And charles a caroline! Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England OF ENGLAND, AND OF ITS MARVELS, by FAZIO DEGLI UBERTI Poem Text First Line: Now to great britain we must make our way Last Line: Which might be fair to tell but which I hide. Alternate Author Name(s): Bonifazio Degli Uberti Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Salisbury, England; Travel; Journeys; Trips OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND, NOW THAT APRIL'S THERE, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The little lanes of england Subject(s): England OLD BORDER RHYME ABOUT THE RIVERS TWEED AND TILL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Quoth tweed to till Last Line: Whar ye droon ae man I droon twae Subject(s): Till (river), England And Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland OLD CORNISH SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I trudged on at ten at night Last Line: Faith! She was right; here, tied up tight, %I could not have fared better Subject(s): Cornwall, England 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 FRIENDS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky widens to cornwall. A sense of sea Last Line: And the silver snake of the estuary curls to sleep %in daymer bay Variant Title(s): In Memoriam: A.c., R.j.o, K.s Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Death; Friendship OLD HOMES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happiest village! How I turned to you Last Line: And in your pastoral still my life has rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Home; Landscape; English OLD SAWS NEW SET; A GREEK FABLE TO AN ENGLISH MORAL, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met john clod the other day quite out of sorts and pensive Last Line: Reforms are god's own blessings -- revolutions oft his curse. Subject(s): England; Government; English ON A BEAM IN THE CEILING OF THE PARSONAGE AT MEPPERSHALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you wish to go into hertfordshire Last Line: Hitch a little nearer to the fire Subject(s): Hertfordshire, England ON A CARRIER WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John adams lies here, of the parish of southwell Last Line: He could not carry off, -- so he's now carri-on. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Epitaph On John Adams, Of Southwell;epitaph For John Adams Of Southwell, Nottinghamshire Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Nottinghamshire, England; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection Last Line: Oh, such were the days which my infancy knew!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Children; Harrow, England; Nostalgia; Schools; Childhood; Students ON A MEMORIAL TO MARY ANN ASH, AT BROCKENHURST, HAMPSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The trees whose name in life I bore Last Line: Then by decay to pass away, %but thou art now god's ash in heaven Subject(s): Hampshire, England ON A PILLAR IN THE CHURCHYARD, ARELEY KINGS, WORCESTERSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Three things there be in very deede Last Line: The third with tears bedews my face, %that I must die, nor know the place Subject(s): Worcestershire, England ON A POLITICAL PRISONER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She that but little patience knew Last Line: Cried out the hollows of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Socialism; Ire;and; England 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 A PROTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AT HAMPTON COURT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The restles swallow fits my restles minde Last Line: My musique may be plaintes, my physique teares, %if this be all the fruite my love-tree beares Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Famed for their civil and domestic quarrels Last Line: The blood and dirt of both to mould a george! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ON A SAMPLER 'IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF CHARLES S.', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now no more fatigued no more distressed Last Line: Now he sings of sovereign grace %christ is made his holiness Subject(s): Wiltshire, England ON A SIGNBOARD AT KINGSTAG, DORSET WITH PICTURE WHITE DEER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When julius caesar landed here Last Line: Whoever shall me overtake %save my life for caesar's sake Subject(s): Dorset, England ON A SILVER FLAGON, ALTAR PLATE AT FRIERN BARNET CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This pott's for holy wine, this wine pure blood Last Line: Such blood, such life, such good, o christ take mine Subject(s): Middlesex, England ON A SILVER WEDDING; MARCH 10, 1888, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rapid tide of gliding years Last Line: A throne, a people great! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) ON A SIX-GALLON LIVERPOOL WARE JUG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here's luck in the bottom dear jane only see Last Line: I fear I can wait for no wedding at all Subject(s): Liverpool, England ON A WELL, CHAPEL OF ST. CATHERINE, MELTON ABBEY, ABBOTSBURY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A husband, saint catherine Last Line: And soon, saint catherine Subject(s): Dorset, England ON AN OLD SUSSEX MILL-POST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The windmill is a couris thing Last Line: To jump about and get things ready, %or else the mill will soon run empty Subject(s): Sussex, England; Windmills ON BLENHEIM HOUSE, by ABEL EVANS Poem Source First Line: See, sir, here's the grand approach Subject(s): Blenheim Park, England ON EDWARD III'S GOLD NOBLE COIN, AFTER BATTLE OF SLUYS, 1340, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Foure things our noble sheweth to me Last Line: King, ship and sword and power of the sea Subject(s): Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377) ON GRAY'S ELEGY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Go back beyond the electric light Last Line: And you have gray and gray's good age. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Memory; English ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who shalt stop, where thames' translucent wave Last Line: Who dare to love their country, and be poor. Subject(s): Home; Twickenham, England ON HIS MAJESTIE'S RETURN OUT OF SCOTLAND, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, great sir, with all the joy that's due Last Line: And we, the prophets' sons, write not by guess. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ON HIS MAJESTIE'S RETURNE OUT OF SCOTLAND, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great charles: there stop you trumpeters of fame Last Line: Who is most neere, most like the deitie. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ON HIS MAJESTY'S CONQUESTS IN IRELAND, by THOMAS SHADWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How great a transport is a brave man in Last Line: And that shall crown your arms, and they your love. Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Protestantism; Soldiers; Victory; War; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) ON HOLMBURY HILL, SELS., by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The narrow paths branch every way up here Subject(s): England ON KING CHARLES, FOR WHICH HE WAS BANISHED THE COURT, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the isle of great britain long since famous known Last Line: E'er she can raise the member she enjoys. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) ON KING WILLIAM III, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I walk'd by my self Last Line: The self-same thing will be Subject(s): "william Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through thy battlements, newstead, the hollow winds whistle; Last Line: When decay'd, may he mingle his dust with your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Newstead Abbey, England; Farewell ON MRS. E. MONTAGUE'S BLUSHING IN THE CROSS-BATH; A TRANSLATION, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst the nymphs (the glory of the flood) Last Line: From the tribunal of a lovely face. Subject(s): Bath, England; Baths & Bathing; Blushing; Showers & Showering ON PROPOSED PRESENTATION OF GUNS TO KING OF SARDINIA, ITALIAN LIBERTY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No gold - no jewels bright Last Line: Be god to aid thee nigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Europe; Freedom; Italy; Nations; English; Liberty; Italians ON REVISITING HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once engaged the stranger's view Last Line: And blotted out the line for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Harrow, England; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON RICHARD THE THIRD SUPPOSED TO BE BURIED UNDER BRIDGE AT LEICESTER, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What means this wat'ry canopy 'bout thy bed Last Line: A heaven to thee midst hellish misery. Subject(s): Graves; Richard Iii, King Of England (1452-1485); Tombs; Tombstones ON SEEING BLENHEIM CASTLE, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O ask not me of blenheim's marble halls Last Line: Chilled by the frown of dull unsocial state. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Blenheim Park, England; Castles ON STONES HOUSE, TODMORDEN, NEAR ROCHDALE, LANCASHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Friend I dwell here Last Line: Disdain thou not %for wanting of the rest Subject(s): Lancashire, England ON SWIFT JOINING AVON NEAR RUGBY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent and modest brook! Who dippest here Last Line: Silent and modest brook! Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Rugby, England; Swift (river), England ON TENNYSON'S POEMS, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD Poem Source First Line: Dear friend, since you have chosen to associate Last Line: On prancing steed with nodding plume, I join their hunting sports Subject(s): England; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) ON THE ANTICIPATED RETURN OF J. B. GOUGH TO ENGLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere ancient thebes began on high to raise Last Line: And earth, yea, heaven, shall prove thy words not vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Temperance; English; Prohibition ON THE BIRTH-DAY OF QUEEN KATHERINE, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While yet it was the empire of the night Last Line: God darkn'd heaven, when he the world did save. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Catherine Of Bragnza, Queen Of England ON THE BRITISH KING'S SPEECH ... PEACE WITH AMERICAN STATES, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grown sick of war, and war's alarms Last Line: And whitehead, thou to write his epitaph. Subject(s): American Revolution; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE CHURCH FONT AT BARNETBY, LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Like fruitful vine on thy house side Last Line: The promised hierusalem %and his felicitie Subject(s): Lincolnshire, England ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD VII, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour the happy dead with sober praise Last Line: Pretended not to greatness, yet was great. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) ON THE DEATH OF GEORGE III; WRITTEN AT WINDSOR THE DAY AFTER FUNERAL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him last on this terrace proud Last Line: For the people's pity and wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): The Contrast Subject(s): Bells; Birds; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Tears ON THE DEATH OF HIS MAJESTY (GEORGE THE THIRD), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ward of the law! - dread shadow of a king! Last Line: An unexampled voice of awful memory! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE DEATH OF JOHN CASSELL; THE TRUE FRIEND OF THE WORKING MAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mournful voices thrill upon my ears? Last Line: The trophies of his power remain behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cassell, John (1817-1865); Death; England; Labor & Laborers; Praise; Dead, The; English; Work; Workers ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CAROLINE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Star of england! Brunswick's pride! Last Line: The volume closed -- and all was blank! Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England 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 RICHARD BURTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night or light is it now, wherein Last Line: That shines as dawn on a tideless sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Night; Soul; Dead, The; English; Bedtime ON THE DELIVERY OF THE FAIREST QUEEN IN WINTER, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Garlands, boy: (what garden would not offer flowers now?) Last Line: One the month of charles, the next the month of mary Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England ON THE FACE OF MOST MAJESTIC KING RECOVERED FROM SMALL POX, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return muse; our propitious mother to the university calls: lo you Last Line: In the latter the king showed he was a man; in the former, a god Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ON THE FALL OF THE MITRE TAVERN IN CAMBRIDGE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, lament, ye scholars all Last Line: But now we'll drink like doctors. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cambridge, England; Fire; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ON THE FREQUENT REVIEW OF THE TROOPS, by M. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Reviews are gaudy shows - allowed Last Line: "let causists tell us, if they can, / is england's welfare furthered?" Alternate Author Name(s): M. Subject(s): Death;england;fights;guns; "dead, The;english; ON THE FUNERAL OF CHARLES I; AT NIGHT, IN ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The castle clock had tolled midnight Last Line: We thought of him with tears. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Funerals; Burials ON THE FUNERAL OF PRINCESS DIANA, by FREDERICK TURNER Poem Source First Line: Midwife to the mob that made you Last Line: Virgin by vox populi, %princess, die Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; England ON THE JOY UNIVERSALLY EXPRESSED ON THE KING'S HAPPY ESCAPE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud that frowns on what we prize Last Line: And give him double praise. Subject(s): Assassination; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty times the rose has flower'd and faded Last Line: Dawns into the jubilee of the ages. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) ON THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rouse up thyself, my gentle muse Last Line: That best of crowns is such a love. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) ON THE KING'S ILLNESS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest afflicted spirit, quickly pass Last Line: Nor to its call reluctant. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Illness ON THE KING'S RETURN TO WHITE-HALL, AFTER HIS SUMMER'S PROGRESS, 1684, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From those serene and rapturous joys Last Line: When they fix'd on his brows his imperial crown. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Homecoming ON THE LAKE OF WINDEMERE, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD Poem Text First Line: Haste, airy fancy! And assist my song Last Line: And overlook the errors of eighteen. Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza Subject(s): Nature; Windermere, Lake (england) ON THE LINTEL OF A TOWER DOOR AT BYLAND ABBEY, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here hills and waving groves a scene display Last Line: To observe a mena, be to himself a friend, %to follow nature, and regard his end Subject(s): Yorkshire, England ON THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me, harper, wherefore flow Last Line: "revenge for blood and treachery!""'" Subject(s): Glencoe, Massacre Of (1690-1692); Scotland - Relations With England ON THE MONUMENT OF PRINCESS ELIZABETH STUART - ISLE OF WIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! By our queen's command, the parian stone Last Line: For this long-hidden flower of carisbrook. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Stuart, Princess Elizabeth (d. 1650); Wight, Isle Of ON THE MONUMENT OF ROBERT CREWS, D.1731, IN THAME CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the morning when sober, in the evening when mellow Last Line: You scarce ever met such a jolly good fellow Subject(s): Oxfordshire, England ON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF OUR LATE SOVEREIGN LORD, KING CHARLES II, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Why are we tempted to complain Last Line: By the joint groans of melancholy christendom. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) 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 OPENING OF FIRST PUBLIC PLEASURE-GROUND AT BIRMINGHAM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers of industry! Come forth Last Line: To feel and understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Birmingham, England; Parks ON THE PASSING OF KING GEORGE V, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When time has sifted motives, passions, deeds Last Line: And ventured to a nobler marching word. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Memory; Prayer; Rest; Dead, The ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial iffley, cumnor bowered in green Last Line: "even here remember me when thou shalt reign." Subject(s): Churches; Oxford, England; Cathedrals ON THE QUEEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, o muse, with the sacred company flyinf Last Line: You give first a daughter then a son but each one is a day Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England ON THE QUEEN'S REPAIRING SOMERSET HOUSE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god (the cause to me and men unknown) Last Line: With her son's fabricks the rough sea is fill'd. Subject(s): Catherine Of Bragnza, Queen Of England; Somerset House, London ON THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO LONDON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, long sequestered from his throne Last Line: Such previous woe the price! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) 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 ON THE SIGN OF THE ANGEL INN, SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Faith and grace this hous doth keep Last Line: Faith is dead, the angel fled, %and grace is now no more Subject(s): Yorkshire, England ON THE SPRINT OF THE NARROW VALLEY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Riv'let of the narrow valley Last Line: Swell a nobler river's pride. Subject(s): Bridges; Kent River, England; Sprint River, England ON THE STATUE OF KING CHARLES I AT CHARING CROSS, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the first charles does here in triumph. Last Line: Loud as the trumpet of surviving fame Subject(s): Art And Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Statues ON THE TOMB OF THE COLE FAMILY, LILLINGTON, DORSET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Reader you have within this grave Last Line: The little spark, now in the dark, %will like the phoenix rise Subject(s): Dorset, England ON THE VILLAGE CROSS AT SPROTBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whoso is hungry and list well eate Last Line: His horse shall have both corne and hay, %and no man shall aske him when he goeth away Subject(s): Yorkshire, England ON W.S., by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Shakespeare the boy with fairies in his head! Last Line: And most himself beneath the stratford thatch. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); English ONE NIGHT AT VICTORIA BEACH, by GABRIEL OKARA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind comes rushing from the sea Last Line: But the rushing wind killed the budding words. Subject(s): Aladuras (christian Sect); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Rites & Ceremonies; British Empire; England - Empire OPENING OF THE INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION BY THE QUEEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, welcome with one voice! Last Line: Britons, hold your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire OUR BIRTH-CORD, by KOFI ANYIDOHO Poem Text First Line: A piece of meat lost in cabbage stew Last Line: The maimed panther is no playmate for antelopes Variant Title(s): Soul In Birthwaters (suite For The Revolution) 1. Our Birth-cord Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Revolutions; British Empire; England - Empire OUR NEIGHBOR, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old neighbor, for how many a year Last Line: Into horizons vaster far! Subject(s): New England OUR SUSSEX DOWNS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My youth is gone -- my youth that laughed and yawned Last Line: "and youth that laughs and yawns in one short breath." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sussex, England OUR WIDOWED QUEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The husband of the widow care for her Last Line: Then may her husband praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Widows & Widowers; Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria; Dead, The OUR YANKEE GIRLS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest greener lands and bluer skies Last Line: God bless our yankee girls! Subject(s): Girls; New England OUT OF THE COALFIELDS [MINING PLACES], SELS., by FREDERICK C. BODEN Poem Source First Line: Beauty never visits mining places Subject(s): England; Justice OUT OF THE MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merely the moonlight Last Line: It falls on the ferns under my may-tree bough. Subject(s): England; Flowers; Moon; English OVERLOOKING THE RIVER STOUR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The swallows flew in the curves of an eight Last Line: These less things hold my gaze! Subject(s): England; Rivers; Stour (river), England; English OWL AND NIGHTINGALE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ich was in one sumere dale Last Line: Her nis namore of pis spelle Subject(s): Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Nicholas Of Guilford, Master OXFORD, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Homeless and never sadder, Last Line: The book is out of print Subject(s): Oxford, England; Books & Reading OXFORD, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of weathered cloister and worn court Subject(s): England OXFORD BELLS, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always the ghost of these will wake again Last Line: The bell of christ's, tolling its hundred times. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Bells; Oxford, England OXFORD BELLS: PART 1, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The watchers in the everlasting towers Last Line: Till in the young dawn oxford towers are bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bells; Oxford, England OXFORD BELLS: PART 2; TO RHODA BROUGHTON, IN MEMORY OF HER SISTER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells their loud unchanging task fulfil Last Line: The coronal of this autumnal verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bells; Memory; Oxford, England OXFORD CANAL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you have wearied of the valiant spires of this county town Last Line: Forgotten they live, and forgotten die. Subject(s): Canals; Oxford, England OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What alters you, familiar lawn and tower Last Line: To mask the riches of her bleeding heart. Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain OXFORDSHIRE GUY FAWKES' SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "remember, remember / the fifth of november" Last Line: And the worse for you Subject(s): "country Life;gunpowder Plot;oxfordshire, England;" Guy Fawkes PARACHUTE MEN, by LENRIE PETERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Parachute men say / the first jump Last Line: We are always at the starting point Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Parachutes; British Empire; England - Empire PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rumbling under blackened girders, midland, bound for Subject(s): England; English PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rumbling under blackened girders, midland, bound for Last Line: Sheaves of drooping dandelions to the courts of kentish town Subject(s): England PART OF AN EPITAPH FOR SIR THOMAS STANLEY IN TONG CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Not monumental stone preserves our fame Last Line: When all to tyme's consumption shall be given, %stanley for whom this stands shall stand in heaven Subject(s): Shropshire, England PASTORAL ON THE KING'S DEATH ... 1648, by ALEXANDER BROME Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where englands damon us'd to keep Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) PATRIOT'S APOSTROPHE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Source First Line: I love thee, england, as I love Last Line: Beneath bright english rule! Subject(s): England; Patriotism PEARL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "perle, plesaunte to prynces paye" Last Line: On that precios perle wythouten spot Subject(s): "consolation;dreams;innocence;redemption;richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400);" Nightmares PERCH FISHING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the far hill the cloud of thunder grew Last Line: They did together, never more to do. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Perch (fish); English 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 PERKIN WARBECK, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639) Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Studies have of this nature been of late Last Line: And often find a welcome to the muses. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Impostors & Imposture; English History; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry PETITION TO THE HONOURABLE BOARD OF ORDNANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye mun na think me se'l-sufficient Last Line: And aye get that for which ye wist: sae ends my prayer Subject(s): Kent, England PHI BETA KAPPA POEM; HARVARD, 1914, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve Last Line: The sunrise kindling all the peaks with fire. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Duty; Harvard University; Idealism; New England; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity 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 PHYSICIAN, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Evil: this 'philosophical problem' is a germ Last Line: Death was immediate Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) PITT'S BON-MOT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though william pitt (nick-named the tory Last Line: "except in case of an invasion!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): England; Fame; English; Reputation PLAYFORD; A DESCRIPTIVE FRAGMENT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou a heart to prove the power Last Line: * * * * * * Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Landscape; Playford (city), England PLAYING FOR ENGLAND, by DAVID SCOTT Poem Source First Line: He sat by the boot shop window Last Line: Her african violets; and round about %the folks' shoes to make and mend Subject(s): England PLYMOUTH, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Full Text First Line: I've just been down to plymouth. Did you know Last Line: Were dancing on the hoe. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Plymouth, England; War - Home Front; World War Ii; Second World War PLYMOUTH HARBOUR, by EMILY N. HOXIE Poem Text First Line: I little thought to see red sails Last Line: In devon hills at dawning. Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean PLYMOUTH HARBOUR, by ERNEST RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what know they of harbours Last Line: Who toss not on the sea! Subject(s): Plymouth, England; Sea; Ocean POEM FROM THE YEAR OF LOSS, by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The elizabethan queen, not dido now Subject(s): Consolation; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 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: 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: 9, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Sir david pe bruse -- was at distance Last Line: Pus was dauid þe bruse -- into þe toure tane. Subject(s): England; Grief; War; English; Sorrow; Sadness POET, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Horses clop-jop and the stones clap back Last Line: O that I was a lit-tle %ti-ny boy Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) POETIC LAMENTATION INSUFFICIENCY OF STEAM LOCOMOTION LAKE DISTRICT, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright summer spreads his various hue Last Line: By man's completing hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Lake District, England; Railroads; Railways; Trains POETICAL ADDRESS TO MR. WILLIAM TYTLER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Revered defender of beauteous stuart Last Line: Your course to the latest is bright. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Scotland - Relations With England POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVORITE,' BY JOHN BANKS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the ark was landed on the shore Last Line: Still to havesuch a king, and this king long. Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To The Unhappy Favorite: Prologue Spoken To The Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); England; Mankind; Peace; English; Human Race POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those cold regions which no summers cheer Last Line: And makes us happy by our own free-will. Variant Title(s): Prologues To The Duke And Duchess Of York: Prologue To His Royal Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); God; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life POLYHYMNIA, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, when thirty-two were come and gone Last Line: And days and years as many such as she in heart can crave! Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Lee, Sir Henry (1532-1611) POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There are the countless, returning new england widows Last Line: With alabaster. And suffer affliction like an insect. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Habits; New England; Widows & Widowers POPPIES IN LUDLOW CASTLE, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through halls of vanished pleasure Last Line: A-top of ludlow keep Subject(s): Ludlow, England; Poppies POPULAR RHYME FROM SOUTH CHESHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a lad, %an' he had noo dad Last Line: Blowed him up to jeremiah; %puff, puff, puff Subject(s): Cheshire, England POPULAR RHYME ON SOME PLACES IN CO. DURHAM & NORTHUMERLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cuckenheugh there's gear enough, collierheugh there's mair Last Line: Ancroft for whores, and spittal for fishers, %of a' the towns eer I saw berrington for dishes Subject(s): Durham, England; Northumberland, England POPULAR RHYME, PETITION TO INHABITANTS OF SHREWSBURY & REPLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whereas I have by you been driven Last Line: We deem your pray'r a rude intrusion, %and will not mend our elocution Subject(s): Shrewsbury, England PRAISES OF WILTSHIRE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: But let not the forests of scotland, harbour of horned deer Last Line: If those ancestral habitations know me a grandson. Subject(s): Wiltshire, England PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new grave meets the hastiest passer's eye Last Line: What a low hillock by your path may mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Graves; Landscape; Villages; English; Tombs; Tombstones PRIEST, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: This sacrifice, of what I most love Last Line: Who can say? At the base of the brain, %something %starts Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) PRINCE, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Her smell! First so enticing. When I raised Last Line: Are you not 'amused'? Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY'S SOLILOQUY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People are mad, thus to adore the dauphin Last Line: And seas congeal beneath the torrid zone! Subject(s): France; William Iv, King Of England (1765-1837) PRISONED IN WINDSOR, HE RECOUNTETH HIS PLEASURE THERE PASSED, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So cruel prison how could betide, alas Last Line: To banish the less, I find my chief relief. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Variant Title(s): In Windsor Castle Subject(s): Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Prisons & Prisoners; Windsor Castle; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry; Convicts PROEM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when the mocking-bird, returned Last Line: That, denied to desire, obedience yet may invite thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): England; Life; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; English PROLOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, like lawful monarchs, ruled the stage Last Line: Of presbyterians who would kings maintain, %of forty thousand five would scarce remain Subject(s): Catholics; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746) PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (2), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Discord and plots, which have undone our age Last Line: Oxford's a place where wit can never sterve. Subject(s): England; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; English; Dramatists PSYCHIC, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: As I said to the chief inspector Last Line: Cut him down on the spot like a dog Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) QUEEN CAROLINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Most gracious queen, we thee implore Last Line: But if the effort be too great, %to go away at any rate Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England QUEEN ELIZABETH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet our elizabeth stood out alone Last Line: Far to the north their scurrying vessels went! Subject(s): Anglican Church; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Spanish Armada QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the lone tent, waiting for victory Last Line: My freedom and my life republican! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England QUEEN MARGARET TO WILLIAM DE LA POOL, DUKE OF SUFFOLK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What news (sweet pool) look'st thou my lines should tell Subject(s): Margaret Of Anjou. Queen Of England; Pole, William De La, Duke Of Suffolk QUEEN TAKES DRAWING LESSONS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: At buckingham palace in royal red Last Line: She smiled. 'you clevah chap!' Variant Title(s): The Queen Takes Drawing Lessons From King Lea Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) QUEEN VICTORIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "welcome now, victoria!" Last Line: "ladies, help me for to sing, / victoria, queen of england" Subject(s): "victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); QUEEN VICTORIA, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With mystic power hath played upon the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Death; Dead, The QUEEN VICTORIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Welcome now, victoria! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) 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 QUEEN'S AFTER-DINNER SPEECH, by PERCY FRENCH Poem Source First Line: Me loving subjects,' sez she Last Line: And before our flag's furled,' sez she, %'we'll own the wurruld,' says she Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) QUO' THE TWEED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Quo' the tweed to the till Last Line: I droon twa Subject(s): "till (river), England And Scotland;tweed (river), England And Scotland; RAMBLE OF THE GODS THROUGH BIRMINGHAM, SELECTION, by JAMES BISSET Poem Text First Line: Next day they rambled round the town, and swore Last Line: With thund'ring hammers made the air resound. Subject(s): Birmingham, England; Goddesses & Gods; Labor & Laborers; Mythology; Towns; Work; Workers READY, AY, READY, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old england's sons are english yet Last Line: Be thy first word thy last, -- ready, ay, ready! Subject(s): England; English REALIZATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one syllable that stirs me: war Last Line: God, let me apprehend this nearer strife! Subject(s): Death; England; France; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War REBUSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The name of the monarch that abandon'd his throne Last Line: Is the name of the fair, I prefer to his crown. Subject(s): James Ii, King Of England (1633-1701) REBUSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden stem, with generous aid Last Line: Is the name of the nymph I pursue. Subject(s): James Ii, King Of England (1633-1701) REBUSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me the fair, if such a fair there be Last Line: Whose sweetness softens majesty and wit. Subject(s): James Ii, King Of England (1633-1701) REBUSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That awful name which oft inspires Last Line: My little wily wanton's name. Subject(s): James Ii, King Of England (1633-1701) RECESSIONAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, known of old Last Line: Thy mercy on thy people, lord! Variant Title(s): Lest We Forget! Subject(s): Faith; God; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humanity; Imperialism; Patriotism; Prayer; Religion; Soldiers; Wealth; Belief; Creed; British Empire; England - Empire; Theology; Riches; Fortunes RECOLLECTION OF THE PORTRAIT OF KING HENRY VIII, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imperial stature, the colossal stride Last Line: Which neither force shall check nor time abate! Subject(s): Cambridge University; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547) REFUGEE, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In england, on the downs Last Line: And over down and plain %all nature seemed to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): England; Refugees; World War Ii REMARKS ON DR. BROWN'S 'ESTIMATE OF THE MANNERS OF THE TIMES', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book appears to my perusing sight Last Line: All-bearing meekness, and all-conq'ring love. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; England; Writing & Writers; Reading; English RETREATS, by CARRIE ADAMS BERRY Poem Text First Line: New england has her rocky walls, enclosing hilltop fields Last Line: To find the way to ultimates which give the soul new birth. Subject(s): New England; Soul; Walls REVELRY OF THE DYING, by BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We meet 'neath the sounding rafter Last Line: And hurrah for the next that dies! Variant Title(s): Indian Revelry;the Revel;our Last Toast;revelry In India;hurrah For The Next That Dies Subject(s): Death; England; Epidemics; India; India - British Rule; Plague; Tragedy; Dead, The; English RHYME ON SALISBURY CATHEDRAL (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fair sarum's church, besides the stately tower Last Line: And to the view doth probably appear %a pillar for each hour in the year Subject(s): Salisbury, England RHYME ON SALISBURY CATHEDRAL (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As many days as in one year there be Last Line: As many gates as moons one here doth view: %strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true Subject(s): Salisbury, England RHYME TO LISBON, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A health to kate! Last Line: Who made her bone his bone. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Catherine Of Bragnza, Queen Of England; Rhyme; Toasts RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 25, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I done for you? Last Line: Out of heaven on your bugles blown! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Pro Rege Nostro;england, My England Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English RHYMES USED FOR THE 'DUNMOW FLITCH' CONTEST, DUNMOW, ESSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You shall swear by custom of confession Last Line: For this is the custom of dunmow well known, %tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own Subject(s): Essex, England RICHARD COEUR DE LION: 1. HIS PARENTAGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lord jesus, king of victory / who did such grace, and such glory" Last Line: "his son richard, by decree, / after him the king should be" Subject(s): "richard I, King Of England (1157-1199); RICHARD COEUR DE LION: HOW RICHARD WON THE NAME OF COEUR DE LION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now they dight them speedily / these three knights, to set to sea" Last Line: "as a king sends for his queen - / this the better rede, I ween.'" Subject(s): "richard I, King Of England (1157-1199); RICHARD II FORTY, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Source First Line: My country now is like a barge Last Line: The light was pallis on the leaf %still am I king of all my grief Subject(s): France; Grief; Richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400); World War Ii RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER; A TRAVESTY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps, my dear boy, you may never have heard Last Line: By unpleasant allusions and rude observations! Subject(s): Cruelty; Richard Iii, King Of England (1452-1485) RICHMOND PARK, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Oh, have you been to richmond of a windy april morning Last Line: I shouldn't be astonished if she asked you in to tea! Subject(s): Nature; Richmond Park, England RICHMOND PARK, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE Poem Text First Line: The thorns were blooming red and white Last Line: And a yaffle laughed in richmond park. Subject(s): Richmond Park, England; World War I - Great Britain 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 RIPPER: A MEMOIR OF THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that title every night for years Last Line: Right now. And if I die before I sleep--stop asking why-- %I will Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO ANNIE, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Poe thought nothing would ever part him Last Line: But I love you and love what you loved Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO CATHY AND LIZ, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: The juwes are not the men that will be blamed Last Line: Each night in this land of angels like devils like us Variant Title(s): Jacks To Open: Jack To Cathy And Li Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO EMMA SMITH, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: The first time I cut off a whore's ear Last Line: I left her alive, I don't know Variant Title(s): Jack The Ripper Poems: To Emma Smith, 3 April 1888; Jacks To Open: Jack To Emma Smit Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO MARTHA TABRAM, STABBED 39 TIMES, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Martha once I believed the magic Last Line: For her. Say a charm dear it's over %with this Variant Title(s): Jack The Ripper Poems: To Martha Tabram, Stabbed 39 Times; Jacks To Open: Jack To Martha Tabram, Stabbed 39 Time Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO POLLY NICHOLS, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: I too can't stay home. I am driven out nights Last Line: I'll say -- %call me jack Variant Title(s): Jack The Ripper Poems: To Polly Nichols, 21 August 188 Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO THE YARD, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: You will not discover in mary kelly's retinal impressions Last Line: Hers by the yield %of a kidney-truth's vein Variant Title(s): Jacks To Open: Jack To The Yar Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIVERS, SELS., by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those rivers in that lost country Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): England RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea Last Line: Going. He calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers ROKEBY: CANTO 1, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is in her summer glow Last Line: "I hear his hasty step -- farewell!" Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Marston Moor, England; Scotland - Relations With England ROKEBY: CANTO 2, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the chambers of the west Last Line: "may lightly row his bark to shore." Subject(s): Marston Moor, England; Scotland - Relations With England ROKEBY: CANTO 3, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hunting tribes of air and earth Last Line: Bade four, the bravest, take the brand. Variant Title(s): Man And The Enemy Subject(s): Marston Moor, England; Scotland - Relations With England 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: KING RICHARD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the silent glades of the forest there springs Last Line: And his spurs to his proud horse gives he. Subject(s): Forests; Prisons & Prisoners; Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199); Woods; Convicts RONALD BEAVER'S LIFE IN ENGLAND, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life in england for ronald beaver. Subject(s): England; English ROSA MUNDI, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There in a solitude of silence slips Last Line: -- but like a spy the shadow passed their enfilade. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD TO KING HENRY III, AFTER SHE HAD TAKEN THE VEIL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry, 'its past! Each painful effort o'er Last Line: That even death was weak to end our love. Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Farewell; Henry Iii, King Of England (1207-1272); Love; Nuns; Redemption; Regret; Salvation; Parting ROYAL ANGLER, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks, I see our mighty monarch stand Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) ROYAL TOUR, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who reaches weymouth - treads the esplanade Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) RUNNING IN OXFORD, by CHRISTIAN KARLSON STEAD Poem Source First Line: Might you have done this Last Line: An elderly visitor %is running in oxford Subject(s): Aging; Oxford, England; Track Athletics RURAL SCENERY, by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) Poem Source First Line: Before my door the box-edg'd border lies Subject(s): England RUSTIC WREATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With may's tomthumb and daisy come Last Line: And only earth's rude rustic here. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Landscape; English S. MARK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tis not thine alexandrian seat Last Line: Whom thou recordest, can reward thy story. Subject(s): Christianity; England; Saints; English SALE OF RAMSAY'S HISTORY PROHIBITED IN LONDON, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some bold bully dawson, expert in abusing Last Line: The king will run mad -- and the book will be sold. Subject(s): Censorship; England; Ramsay, David (1749-1815); English SALOPIA INHOSPITALIS, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch not that maid Last Line: For adamant can neither waste nor melt. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Shropshire, England SALUTE TO DONALD DAVIE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine david, how a single Last Line: Though only for a visit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Waves; English; Hunters; Ocean SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN POET AND FRIEND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I note the moods and feelings men betray Last Line: Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws! Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; England; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; English; Religious Conflict SANDBLAST GIRL AND THE ACID MAN, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the cities far and wide Last Line: Tis hard to be an acid man, %without a sandblast girl! Subject(s): Glass And Glassblowers; Manchester, England SARDANAPALUS, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The assyrian king - in peace, with foul desire Last Line: Murdered himself, to show some manful deed. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Mythology - Classical; Sardanapalus (7th Century B.c.); Suicide SCENE FROM A PLAY CALLED 'MATRICULATION', by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, my lad, lie the articles Last Line: Were made, not for men to believe, but to sign. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Oxford, England; Plays & Playwrights SCHOOL-DAYS, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: I think that, even as then, there must be hours Last Line: The silent air swoons into an august night. Subject(s): Oxford University; Rugby, England; Schools; Students 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 PEOPLE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget Last Line: The people of the peace of god %went roaring down to die Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): England; Freedom SEEKING, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For old new england Subject(s): New England SEMI-CENTENIAL CELEBRATION OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england, we love thee; no time can erase Last Line: God bless all her children! Good night to you all! Subject(s): New England SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 2, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now by the wall of the ancient town I lean Last Line: And something that may be leaves or may be sea. Variant Title(s): Twilight: Rye, Sussex Subject(s): Night; Rye, England; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean SEVERN SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The severn flow is soft and fair, as slowly Last Line: And smoothly swift, o severn, flow! Subject(s): Severn (river), England SHADY SIDE OF SUNNYSIDE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe worth the day when folly gave the signal Last Line: Oh! Woe to graingers ( ) and brignalls! Subject(s): Durham, England; Travel SHAKESPEARE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, that gavest to the world so much Last Line: Nearest himself in universal power. Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); World War I; English; Dramatists; First World War SHAKESPEARE IN THE THRUSH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who sings so more than passing sweet Last Line: And gods go large in warwickshire! Subject(s): Birds; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Thrushes; Warwickshire, England; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE READS THE KING JAMES VERSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by our lady, here is master speech! Last Line: "and pluck a heedless world anew from hell!" Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dramatists; God; James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Reading; Dramatists SHEET LIGHTNING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on the green the rag-tag game had stopt Last Line: With fear. Joe beat its brain out on the wheel. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods SHEPHERD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening has brought the glow-worm to the green Last Line: And gently leads the yoes that are with young. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; English SHOOTING STAR AT HARVEST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bell softer than silence Last Line: To live in rapture new. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Stars; English SHROPSHIRE CHARM FOR A GIRL TO SEE HER FUTURE HUSBAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This is the blessed friday night Last Line: To dream of the young man I am to wed Subject(s): Shropshire, England SIDERA CADENTIA (ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When one of the old, little stars doth fall Last Line: And the ultimate change that we fear feels a little less far. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Dead, The SIGN ON A WAYSIDE INN NEAR RIPON, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The maltster doth crave Last Line: How the case stands with me, %so I pray you, don't ask me to trust Subject(s): Yorkshire, England SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, AND DUBLIN; A COMPARISON, by JOHN+(2) FORD Poem Source First Line: Two famous places I record Last Line: But I prefer the coal, though some %declare that whisky's warmer Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Silkstone, England SIR CAWLINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;england; English SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is an ancient england in the new Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples SIR WILLIAM GOMM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At threescore years and vive aroused anew Last Line: While children of such mould are born to thee? Subject(s): England; India; English SKELETON, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Once again, huge rock! Whose front sublime Last Line: And breathe a requiem to thy nameless dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Graves; Punishment; Saint Michael's Mount (england); Skeletons SKETCHES OF SAINT MICHAEL'S MOUNT: SKETCH THE FIRST, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boast of columbia's shores, I bid thee hail! Last Line: A brightening radiance, as his soul departs! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Saint Michael's Mount (england) SKETCHES OF SAINT MICHAEL'S MOUNT: SKETCH THE FOURTH, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, darkness reign'd -- and visionary forms Last Line: Till earth appears a prototype of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Saint Michael's Mount (england) SKETCHES OF SAINT MICHAEL'S MOUNT: SKETCH THE SECOND, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much had I heard of thee, thou sea-girt rock! Last Line: And on the midnight air thanksgiving rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Saint Michael's Mount (england) SKETCHES OF SAINT MICHAEL'S MOUNT: SKETCH THE THIRD, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time was midnight; and the wintry wind Last Line: And we are left alone Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Saint Michael's Mount (england) SLEEPING NOW IN COVENTRY, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests a lad Last Line: Sleeping now %in coventry! Subject(s): Coventry, England; World War Ii SLEEPY HOLLOW, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the drowsy moon of falling leaves Last Line: That hears the murmur of pocantico. Subject(s): Forests; Magic; New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods SLOUGH, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, friendly bombs, and fall on slough Last Line: The earth exhales Subject(s): Slough, England; Suburbs SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While a thousand fine projects are planned every day Last Line: Contrive that the poor may have something to eat Subject(s): Cities;england;free Trade;markets;poverty; Urban Life;english;supermarkets SONG FOR ENGLAND, by ANDREW SALKEY Poem Source First Line: An' a so de rain a-fall Last Line: De misery o' de englishman Subject(s): England SONG OF THE CORNISH MEN, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A good sword and a trusty hand! Last Line: "will know the reason why." Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Variant Title(s): And Shall Trelawny Die?;the Song Of The Western Men;trelawny Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Courage; Freedom; Trelawney, Sir Jonathan (1650-1721); Valor; Bravery; Liberty SONG OF THE CUALD LAD OF HILTON; YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wae's me! Wae's me! Last Line: That's to lay me Subject(s): Yorkshire, England SONG ON HIS MAJESTIE'S RETURNE OUT OF SCOTLAND, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence clouded lookes, hence briny teares Last Line: A joyfull venus doth arise. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of england! Who inherit Last Line: For their birthrights -- so will we! Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of england, wherefore plough Last Line: England be your sepulchre. Variant Title(s): True Freedom Subject(s): Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Massacres; Liberty; Work; Workers 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 SONG, FR. THE EMIGRANT, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old england is eaten by knaves Last Line: Nor a foreign foe land on her shore. Subject(s): England; Immigrants; Poverty; English; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration SONGS IN ABSENCE: 4, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green fields of england! Wheresoe'er Last Line: Dear home in england, won at last. Subject(s): England; Homesickness; English SONNET, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England will keep her dearest jewel bright Last Line: She, seeing her face therein, shall not be ashamed Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Theater - England - 20th Century SONNET (4), by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a lampe whose flaming lyghte is deade Last Line: Where those bright eyes their beames do not dysclose Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 SONNET INSERTED IN M. RIO'S WORK, 'LA PETITE CHOUANNERIE', by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For honest men, of every blood and creed Last Line: If what god loves to make man's passions still will mar? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): England; France; English SONNET TO BRITAIN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Halt! Shoulder arms! Recover! As you were! Last Line: Pounding them into mummy. Shoulder, hoop! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): England; Soldiers; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); English; Wellington, Duke Of SONNET TO GEORGE THE FOURTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be the father of the fatherless Last Line: And by the heart, not hand, enslaving us. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Prince Regent Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830) SONNET TO QUEEN VICTORIA, ON A PUBLIC CELEBRATION, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How art thou calm amid the storm, young queen! Last Line: The living, loving, nature of a child! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) SONNET TO THE DEBEN, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou windest not through scenery which enchants Last Line: By the bright promise of a cloudless morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Deben (river), England SONNET TO THE FOREST YTENE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along thy wood-lanes wild, or shrubby lawns Last Line: And seeks the hermit peace within his forest bowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): New Forest, England SONNET: 18. LACOCK NUNNERY, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood upon the stone where ela lay Subject(s): Ela, Countess Of Salisbury (1187-1261); Lacock Abbey, Wilshire, England SONNET: 4. TO THE RIVER WENBECK, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As slowly wanders thy forsaken stream Last Line: Delightful haunts, he will remember you. Subject(s): Wenbeck (river), England SONNET: 5: WRITTEN AFTER SEEING COLLECTION OF PICTURES AT WILTON HOUSE, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From pembroke's princely dome, where mimic art Last Line: And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Wilton House, Wiltshire, England SONNET: 8. TO THE RIVER ITCHIN, NEAR WINTON, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Itchin, when I behold thy banks again Last Line: From whom, in happier hours, we wept to part. Subject(s): Itchin (river), England SONNET: ENGLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While men pay reverence to mighty things Last Line: Each iron sinew quivering, lioness! Subject(s): England; English SONNET: ENGLAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-girded land, brave land beyond the sea! Last Line: There lived my sires, whose sacred dust is there. Subject(s): England; English SONNET: STRATFORD-ON-AVON, MAY 14, 1880, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grey old church is solemn in the sheen Last Line: Changeful, yet changeless, e'en as life and love. Subject(s): Stratford-on-avon, England SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR': 3, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the strength of england, and her pride Last Line: What is it that giveth her immortal breath? Variant Title(s): America And England Subject(s): England; English SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR: 4, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then the west answered: 'is the sword's keen edge Last Line: About the hills, and flashed beneath the sea.' Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR: 5, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First of mankind bid we our eagles pause Last Line: Shall warm thy hearthstone from their million homes. Subject(s): England; Justice; English SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 27. ENGLAND, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: England of shakespeare, shelley, milton, keats Last Line: While passionless thy giant sword-arm lies. Subject(s): England; English SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 29. CHRIST AND ENGLAND, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Nay! But our own dear land thou shalt not hold Last Line: We are content. We have no need of thee. Subject(s): England; Jesus Christ; English SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 49. THE ENGLISH RACE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The english spirits round me are mine own Last Line: Looked the whole spanish navy in the face. Subject(s): England; Revenge (ship); English SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we had been in heart, now link'd in hand Last Line: By all that deepest tries, and most endears. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 1. WARK CASTLE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emblem of strength, which time hath quite subdued Last Line: While carham whispers of the slaughter'd dane. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 2. DRYBURGH ABBEY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath, tweed murmur'd 'mid the forests green Last Line: To give their whole lives blamelessly to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 3. MELROSE ABBEY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer was on thee - the meridian light Last Line: And douglas sleeps with evers, side by side! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 4. ABBOTSFORD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The calm of evening o'er the dark pine-wood Last Line: The scenes around, with reverential fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 5. NIDPATH CASTLE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern, rugged pile! Thy scowl recalls the days Last Line: Thy giant walls seem'd picturesquely piled. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 6. 'THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR', by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As speaks the sea-shell from the window-sill Last Line: Thinking of scotland, scarce forbears to weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 1., by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of her whose face, and lofty name Last Line: Toward him spurring over bosworth field. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Alps; Daughters; Death; England; Mountains; Dead, The; English; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 6, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I move amid your throng, I watch you hold Last Line: Only the splendour of your loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; Friendship; Night; English; Bedtime SONS OF THE EMPIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Dear motherland! Dear motherland! Home of the / brave and free Last Line: When the bugles of britain blow shrill behind us! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not thirty miles away from here Last Line: Delightedly, south warwickshire! Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Warwickshire, England; Joy; Delight SPECIMEN OF A POETICAL PARAPHRASE OF OUR GENERAL'S JOURNAL, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that famed town, which sends to boston mart Last Line: Cetera desunt Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Heath, William (1737-1814); New England 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 SPRING IN NEW ENGLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long years come and go Last Line: Telling us spring has come again! Subject(s): New England; Spring; Time SPRING NIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the smothered air the wicker finds Last Line: As if day's host of flowers were a moment's whim. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English SPRINGTIME IN COOKHAM DEAN, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How marvellous and fair a thing Last Line: Where spring performs her miracle. Subject(s): Cookham Dean, England; Spring 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 GEORGE'S DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herbert: I hear the lark and linnet sing Last Line: Of england and the english spring! Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; English ST. BEE'S HEAD, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen cliffs that met the ocean foe Last Line: And writhe and sob their puny lives away! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): St. Bee's Head, England; Cliffs ST. COLUMB, CORNWALL; INSCRIPTION ON A SILVER-COATED BELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: St. Columb major and minor %do your best Last Line: In one of your parishes %I must rest Subject(s): Cornwall, England ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why doe you boast of arthur and his knightes Subject(s): England ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND (2), by JOHN GRUBB Poem Source First Line: The story of king arthur old Subject(s): England ST. PETER-AD-VINCULA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too well I know, pacing the place of awe Last Line: Add to these aisles one other broken heart. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; London STANG-RIDING SONG, NORTHALLERTON, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hey derry! Hey derry! Hey derry dan! Last Line: And if your husbands you wives do bang, %come to me and my congregation, and we'll ride the stang Subject(s): Yorkshire, England STANZAS SUGGESTED IN A STEAMBOAT OFF ST. BEES' HEAD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If life were slumber on a bed of down Last Line: That furthered the first teaching of st. Bees. Subject(s): St. Bees' Head, England STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE THE THIRD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another warning sound! The funeral bell Last Line: Father and patriot! Blend, in england's songs, with thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTHWESTERLY GALE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods and downs have caught the mid-december Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Sea; Wind; England; Patriotism; Ocean; English STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND, by NOEL COWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord elderley, lord borrowmere, lord sickert and lord camp Last Line: In a hand-embroidered shroud, %we're proud of the stately homes of england Subject(s): England; Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835); Houses; Social Classes STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND, by LIAM RECTOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I lived in the visionary city Subject(s): England; English STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I lived in the visionary city Last Line: The doubt says, 'lie down and I will cover you' Subject(s): England STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in america, / by the other ocean Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; United States; War; English; America STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in america, %by the other ocean Last Line: Sky to the black water %and turns it all to ice Subject(s): England; Poetry And Poets; United States; War STONE WALL BUILDERS, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Sturdy and staunch were those new england men Last Line: In this the land we love! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; New England; Stones; Walls; Work; Workers; Granite; Rocks STONE WALLS OF NEW ENGLAND, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: O walls of stone, built carefully and straight Last Line: Gray guardian walls in silent witness lie. Subject(s): New England; Walls STONEHENGE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near wilton sweet huge heaps of stone are found Last Line: She is the cause that all the rest I am. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 22. The Seven Wonders Of England Subject(s): England; Stonehenge; English STORY OF THE LIPPI'TON BAR, COMMUNALLY COMPOSED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In loppington town there now doth dwell Last Line: To ha' heard the growls of a chump o' wood? Subject(s): Shropshire, England STRATFORD SKETCHES, by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER Poem Text First Line: When sheep to shearing amble by Last Line: In dreams of dancing marston, when she was sixteen! Subject(s): Stratford-on-avon, England STRATHALLAN'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thickest night, o'erhang my dwelling? Last Line: But a world without a friend. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, shaping nations, the creative hand Last Line: Is filled with humour, irony, and song. Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Literature; Poetry & Poets; English SUBJECTED EARTH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking in the flat oxfordshire fields Last Line: And all its music to make, beats on the grave-mound Subject(s): Earth; Graves; England; World; Tombs; Tombstones; English SUCH A PARCEL OF ROGUES IN A NATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to a' our scottish fame Last Line: Such a parcel of rogues in a nation! Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Treason & Traitors SUCH WATER DO THE GODS DISTILL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of helicon again. Subject(s): Water; New England SUFFOLK SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a man lived in the west Last Line: With a ricararo, ricararo, milk in the morn %o' dary mingo -mingo Subject(s): Suffolk, England SUMMONDED BY BELLS, SELS., by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear dead father, how I loved him then Last Line: I know that I must light mine up again Subject(s): Cornwall, England SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Last Line: Go talking and have easy hours Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry And Poets; Walking SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN ST. ENODOC CHURCH, CORNWALL, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where deep cliffs loom enormous, where cascade Subject(s): England SUSPECTS: FACTS AND THEORIES, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Even the number of victims is uncertain. Many murders, some more Last Line: Had they truly caught the riper? Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) SUSSEX, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chiddingly, pronounced %chiddinglye: the oast-house Last Line: Another emigration: %draining away of love Subject(s): Sussex, England SUSSEX, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God gave all men all earth to love Last Line: Yea, sussex by the sea! Subject(s): Sussex, England SUSSEX CUCKOO-RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In april, come he will Last Line: Tis as much as the oldest man can remember Subject(s): Sussex, England TABLET AT THE BISHOP OF CHESTER'S RETREAT AT BANWELL CAVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here let time's creeping winter shed Last Line: Till life dissolving at the view, %I wake, and find the vision true Subject(s): Somerset, England TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The price seemed reasonable, location Last Line: See for yourself?' Subject(s): Blacks; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire TEMPERANCE WARFARE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arouse ye! Arouse ye! The foe is at large Last Line: As a christian mother devoted to duty. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Temperance; War; English; Prohibition THE AIR REGISTER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the tower gun announc'd queen anna's death Last Line: Shall make its own memorial current there. Subject(s): Boleyn, Anne (1507-1536); Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547) THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY Poem Text First Line: The little red road climbs the hill Last Line: "who were a hundred years away." Subject(s): Americans In England; England; Travel; Wellesley College; English; Journeys; Trips THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, the scholars come to learn the puritan tongue Last Line: The thirteen parallel pioneer stripes, justified and multiplied. Subject(s): Language; New England; Puritans; Words; Vocabulary THE APPLE-DUMPLINGS AND GEORGE THE THIRD, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the chase, this monarch drooping Last Line: "then, where, where, where, pray, got the apple in?" Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE ASHANTEE WAR: THE FALL OF COOMASSIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1874, and on new year's day Last Line: And the reception they received was very grand. Subject(s): Enemies; Failure; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; War; British Empire; England - Empire THE AUTHOR'S EARNEST CRY AND PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye irish lords, ye knights an' squires Last Line: Take aff your dram! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Scotland - Relations With England; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE AVON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avon - a precious, an immortal name! Last Line: Shrink from 'thy' name, pure rill, with unpleased ears. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers THE BAKER'S VAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Village children shouted shrill Last Line: Was still in a brown study seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; England; Landscape; English THE BALLAD OF HIRAM HOVER; A BALLAD OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the moosatockmaguntic Last Line: Comfort for a wedded pair! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): New England; Women THE BALLAD OF JOHN PAUL JONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath masted the flag of the crimson bars Last Line: By the sweep of the moonlit steel! Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); New York City - Revolutionary Period; British Empire; England - Empire THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Last Line: Night. Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "athelstan king, lord among earls" Last Line: Hunger of glory gat / hold of the land Subject(s): "aethelstan, King Of England (d. 939);brunanburh, Battle Of (937 A.d.);" "athelstan, King Of England (d. 939); 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 BURGHERS OF CALAIS, by EMILY A. BRADDOCK Poem Text First Line: Philippa of hainault, the good, philippa, england's Last Line: And tear-dimmed eyes, as when she saved the burghers of calais. Subject(s): Calais, France; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377) THE BURIAL OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lowly upon his bier Last Line: That were but heard in heaven? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; William I, King Of England (1028-1087); Burials; William The Conqueror THE BURIAL-MARCH OF THE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the fife, and cry the slogan Last Line: Chieftain than our own dundee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Graham Of Calverhouse, John (1648-1689); Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England; War; Dead, The THE BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erewhile, on england's pleasant shores, our sires Last Line: Her ruddy, pouting fruit. -- -- -- -- -- - Subject(s): England; Graves; Pilgrim Fathers; English; Tombs; Tombstones THE BUTTERYFLY'S ASSUMPTION-GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: in a new england town! Subject(s): Butterflies; New England THE CALL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under what spell are we debased Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; War; British Empire; England - Empire THE CATARACT OF LODORE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How does the water / come down at lodore? Last Line: And this way the water comes down at lodore. Subject(s): Lodore, England; Waterfalls THE CHALLENGE OF THE GUNS, by ARTHUR NELSON FIELD Poem Text First Line: By day, by night, along the lines Last Line: All that we have and are we lay on england's shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, A. N. Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War THE CHANGE OF FLAGS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flurried scud of sunlit sails Last Line: "that wrought the battle-blade!" Subject(s): England; Flags; Freedom; Spain; English; Liberty THE CHAUTAUQUAN MAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had studied every ology Last Line: But they got themselves in trouble, and, of course, got whipped, by gaul. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); England; Geology; Greek Language; Latin; Philology; English THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When war had broke in on the peace of auld men Last Line: And will follow us yet for the sake o' langsyne. Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Royal Hospital, Chelsea, England; Veterans THE CHERRY OF LUCULLUS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the days when rome was hungry, and, as / robber of the world Last Line: Such a signal of repentance as the cherry of lucullus. Subject(s): England; English THE CHILDREN OF HENRY THE FIRST, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light sped a bark from gallia's strand Last Line: The smile sat never more. Subject(s): Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135) THE CHIMES OF [OLD] ENGLAND, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chimes, the chimes of motherland Last Line: The wilderness shall ring Subject(s): Bells; England; Worship; English THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPS OF CHELTENHAM, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When hawthorn buds are creaming white Last Line: "I am looking for my children. Awake, and come away." Subject(s): Children; Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Dancing & Dancers; England; Faces; Singing & Singers; Childhood; English THE CHOLERA MORBUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It comes! It comes! From england's trembling tongue Last Line: Requite the love that snatched them from the pest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Angels; Death; England; Love; Dead, The; English THE CLIFF CHURCH: (WEMBURY), by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stand I Last Line: To eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Churches; Devonshire, England; Cathedrals THE CLIFFS OF DOVER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rocks of my country! Let the cloud Last Line: To live and die for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dover, England; Great Britain; Patriotism THE COASTWISE LIGHTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on Last Line: The lights of england sent you and by silence shall ye speak! Subject(s): England; English THE COMET, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye of the demon on albion was turned Last Line: The fire-brand of yamen shall dazzle in vain. Subject(s): Anger; Devil; England; Envy; Floods; Weather; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; English THE COMPLAINT OF CHAUCER TO HIS EMPTY PURSE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you, my purse, and to non other wight Last Line: Have mynde upon my supplicacion! Variant Title(s): Complaint To His Empty Purse;song To His Purse For The King;to My Empty Purse;to His Empty Purse;complaint To His Purse Subject(s): Henry Iv, King Of England (1366-1413) THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen. Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The THE CONCLUSION TO THE KINGS MAJESTIE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of manie now that sound with hopes consort Last Line: For constant faith draws favour from the skyes. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man. Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE CONFLICT: 1. TO WILLIAM WATSON IN ENGLAND, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singer of england's ire across the sea Last Line: He cannot tear our plighted souls apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; Watson, William (1858-1935); World War I; English; First World War THE CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 3. PEACE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! - but there is no peace. To hug the thought Last Line: Or would we crown with peace — caligula? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONISTON CURSE: A YORKSHIRE LEGEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They knelt upon the altar steps, but other looks were there Last Line: And touches all, -- no master yet has ever left an heir. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Curses; Yorkshire, England THE CONQUEST, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The son of love and lord of war I sing Last Line: And britain's bravest victor was the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): William I, King Of England (1028-1087); William The Conqueror THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven. Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory. Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English THE CORNISH EMIGRANT'S SONG, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The eastern winds are blowing Last Line: In north americay.' Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE CORONATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At westminster, hid from the light of day Last Line: Clamour dogs kingship; afterwards not so!' Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Great Britain - Rulers THE COUNTRY OF BOUNDERS, by ERNEST FRANCIS O'FERRALL Poem Text First Line: The coach was creaking up the hill, the straining nags were nodding Last Line: "then drawled, ""hey, boss! Them blankers there is native 'boundahs' bounding!" Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak Subject(s): England; Kangaroos; Language; English; Words; Vocabulary THE COVERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always thought to find my love Last Line: As ever hailed the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE CROWN INN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes Last Line: While empires shudder into night. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE CURSE UPON EDWARD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weave the warp, and weave the woof Last Line: (the web is wove. The work is done.) Variant Title(s): The Bard: 2.1 Subject(s): Edward V, King Of England (1470-1483); Weaving & Weavers THE CYCLISTS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spread on the roadway, Subject(s): Bicycles; England; Decay; Cycling; English; Rot; Decadence THE DEAD DRUMMER; A LEGEND OF SALISBURY PLAIN, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, salisbury plain is bleak and bare Last Line: And mind, above all things, the man's not a drummer!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Salisbury, England; Drums; Ghosts THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Our noble and generous queen victoria is dead Last Line: The greatest and most virtuous queen that ever wore a crown. Subject(s): Crowns; Death; Leadership; Obituaries; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Dead, The THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy, joy in london now! Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god! Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight THE DEVONSHIRE YEOMAN'S HOME, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years ago today our wedding bells were rung Last Line: And home, our own dear home, is dearer now tenfold. Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Home THE DEVOURERS, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Text First Line: Cambridge town is a beleaguered city Last Line: Her imperishable heart of pity. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Cambridge, England; England; English THE DIAMOND JUBILEE; AN ODE. JUNE 20, 1897, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice, give thanks for all the centuries Last Line: And bless with heart and voice this fair auspicious day. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Great Britain - History; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); English History THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM, THE MURDERER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the prime of summer time Last Line: With gyves upon his wrist. Subject(s): Aram, Eugene (1704-1759); England; Murder; Tragedy; English THE DRIED MILLPOND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old broadbridge pond, once on a time so deep Last Line: Nor any pleasure of the past abides. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE DUELLIST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globe Last Line: The happy choice their dam had made. Subject(s): England; Freedom; Loyalty; Martin, Samuel; Patriotism; Sin; Warburton, William (1698-1779); English; Liberty THE DUKE OF GRAFTON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "as two men were a-walking, down by the sea-side" Last Line: Where the royal queen mary went weeping away Subject(s): "fitzroy, Henry. 1st Duke Of Grafton;mary Ii, Queen Of England (1662-1694); 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 DYING BARD'S PROPHECY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hall of harps is lone tonight Last Line: Winds! Bear the spoiler one more tone of pride! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Massacres; Prophecy & Prophets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE DYING PATRIOT, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day breaks on england down the kentish hills Last Line: Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English THE EMBRYO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That grey-green river pouring past Last Line: The swans through air anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE EMIGRATION OF THE FAIRIES, SELECTION, by JOHN HUNTER-DUVAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few days more they drifted, ever west Last Line: As lithe as squirrels and as smug as rabbits. Alternate Author Name(s): Duvar, John Hunter Subject(s): Acadia; England; Fairies; English; Elves THE ENEMY IN THE GATE; TO BRITANNIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, all this availeth thee nothing Last Line: The captives of drink, on her shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; England; Evil; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; English; Prohibition THE ENGLISH BOY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look from the ancient mountains down Last Line: The altars of the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Duty; England; Youth; English THE ENGLISH POETS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I looked across the fields and saw a light Last Line: The spirit fire that keeps our england young? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; English THE ENGLISHMAN, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There's a land that bears a world-known name Last Line: "is breathed in the words, ""I'm an englishman." Variant Title(s): Trombone Solo Subject(s): England; English THE ENGLISHMAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met a sailor in the woods Last Line: With painted eyes to sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; English; Seamen; Sails THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FALL; A GREAT FAVORIT BEHEADED, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bloody trunk of him who did possess Last Line: Much doctrine lies under this little stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE FAMOUS CHRONICLE OF KING EDWARD THE FIRST, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord lieutenant of glocester, and lord mortimer Last Line: [exit. Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307) THE FAREWELL, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Farewell to europe, and at once farewell Last Line: P. She cannot starve, if there was only clive. Subject(s): England; Farewell; English; Parting THE FEMALE EXILE. WRITTEN AT BRIGHTELMSTONE IN NOVEMBER 1792, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: November's chill blast on the rough beach is howling Last Line: I can warm the cold heart of the wretched no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Brighton, England; Exiles; French Revolution (1789) THE FIELD OF PINKIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely eve! As loath to quit a scene Last Line: And all shall walk in light—the light from heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Fields; Peace; Pinkie, Battle Of (1547); Scotland; Warwickshire, England; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'll sing you a good old song Last Line: "of a fine old english gentleman, / all of the olden time" Subject(s): England;wealth; English;riches;fortunes THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate Last Line: Hail to the coming time! Subject(s): England; Great Britain - History; Wealth; English; English History; Riches; Fortunes THE FLEET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, you, if you shall fail to understand Last Line: But then too late, too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Navy - Great Britain; British Empire; England - Empire; English Navy THE FLOWERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buy my english posies! Last Line: Masters of the seven seas, oh, love and understand. Subject(s): England; Flowers; English THE FORESTERS: NATIONAL SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no land like england Last Line: Cho. -- for the french, etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - History; National Song - England; English History; English National Anthem THE FORESTERS: SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep! To sleep! The long bright day is done Last Line: To sleep! To sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; English THE FREED ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few brief years have passed away Last Line: "to new-world tyrants, old-world kings!" Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; West Indies; Antislavery Movement - United States; British Empire; England - Empire; Caribbean Islands THE GEORGES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George the first was always reckoned Last Line: (god be praised!) the georges ended. Subject(s): George I, King Of England (1660-1727); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830) THE GHOST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With eager search to dart the soul Last Line: Were delivered at pewterers' hall, in lime street. Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Gypsies; Magic; Quackery & Quacks; Supernatural; English; Gipsies THE GHOSTS OF OXFORD, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went walking up and down Last Line: The darkened streets of oxford town. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain THE GIANT PUFFBALL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From what proud star I know not, but I found Last Line: Be but as crouching dust and wind-blown sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Puffballs; English THE GLORY OF ALL ENGLAND, by EDWARD WILLIAM BOK Poem Text First Line: There are some who think of england with its ways of Last Line: The lordly trees of arthur's time! Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English THE GOLDEN AGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money abundant, at an easy rate! Last Line: That gold alone can make no golden age. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): England; Freedom; Materialism; Muses; Wealth; Youth; English; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round Last Line: From guilt, though not without a hope in christ. Subject(s): England; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Guilt; Murder; Story-telling; English; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE GREENHORN YANK, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning I stood in the fair of dunleer Last Line: Concerning the rope and the nose-ring. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Americans; Bristol, England; Ireland; Irish THE GREENWOOD SHRIFT; GEORGE III AND A DYING WOMAN IN WINDSOR FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outstretched beneath the leafy shade Last Line: Knelt their anointed king. Subject(s): England; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Religion; Windsor Forest, England; English; Theology 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 GUARDS CAME THROUGH, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the twenty-first Last Line: How the guards came through. Subject(s): England; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE GUNS IN SUSSEX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light green of grass and richer green of bush Last Line: But still I hear the mutter of the guns. Subject(s): Desolation; England; Guns; Patriotism; Sussex, England; War; World War I; English; First World War THE HANGED MAN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storm lifts from wales Last Line: It is all just like the poet said Subject(s): England; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets; English THE HERMIT'S SPEECH TO QUEEN ELIZABETH AT THEOBALD'S, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sovereign lady, and most gracious queen Last Line: Than any one of silver or of gold. Subject(s): Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burleigh; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE HIGH TIDE AT [OR, ON THE COAST OF] LINCOLNSHIRE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old mayor climbed the belfry tower Last Line: "jetty, to the milking-shed!" Variant Title(s): The Brides Of Enderby Subject(s): Death; Floods; Lincolnshire, England; Tides; Dead, The THE HISTORY OF INSPIDS; A LAMPOON, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chast, pious, prudent, charles the second Last Line: Prove wretched, king'd by storks and loggs. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Great Britain - History; English History THE HOMES OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stately homes of england Last Line: Its country and its god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Home; Houses; Women; English THE HOUSE-WARMING; A LEGEND OF BLEEDING-HEART YARD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sir christopher hatton he danced with grace Last Line: That the iron one is not the only 'pump' there! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Witchcraft & Witches; Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE HUMBLE PETITION OF POOR BEN TO .. KING CHARLES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doth most humbly show it Last Line: You'ld read a snake, in his next song. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) THE HUNT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We have no mind to reach that pole Last Line: With all our faculties in play. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sports; English; Hunters THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: JULY. GOODWORD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the high breezes of the goodwood down Subject(s): Goodwood, England; Archer, Fred (1857-1886); Horse Racing THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: JUNE. A DAY AT HAMPTON COURT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is our custom, once in every year Subject(s): Hampton Court Palace, England THE IDLERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew Last Line: And not one of them all seemed to know the name of care. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Gypsies; Landscape; English; Gipsies THE ILLUMINATION OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS AT PORTSMOUTH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to those festal fires! Mankind shall be Last Line: And how the bells of welcome pealed and chimed! Subject(s): Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Peace; Portsmouth, England; French Navy; English Navy THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE; AN ODE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With soaring voice and solemn music sing! Last Line: Laud them, rejoice, peal forth: worthy are they of praise! Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); British Empire; England - Empire THE INCUNABULUM'S TALE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Master: tacitus in red morocco Last Line: Sine anno, sine loco. Subject(s): Books; England; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Reading; English THE IRISH AVATAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the daughter of brunswick is cold in her grave Last Line: T is the glory of grattan, and genius of moore! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Ireland; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Irish THE ISLAND, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for england? Last Line: England. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): England; English THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rhine is running deep and red Last Line: The passage of the scot. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Islands; Rhine (river), Europe; Scotland - Relations With England THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That second time they hunted me Last Line: It steals the time! To business now. Subject(s): Refugees; Italians In England THE JACK O' THE UNION, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Talk not of our fathers' fears! Last Line: Break out the jack! Let it boom to the buffeting breeze! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire THE JUBILEE OF 1850, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bless god, ye happy lands Last Line: She was our lady's dower. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Churches; England; Ireland; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; English; Irish; Theology THE KING'S BIRTH-DAY IN EDINBURGH, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the day sae aften sung Last Line: And tunes her lays. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Birthdays; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Parties THE KING'S DISGUISE, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why a tenant to this vile disguise Last Line: A league with mouldy bread and clouted shoes! Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) THE KING'S HEALTH, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Joy to great caesar Last Line: For none e'er can love, or be wise and rebel. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Patriotism THE KING'S MISSIVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the great hill sloping bare Last Line: Is gospel and law where the martyrs died. Subject(s): Boston; Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Endicott, John (1588-1655); Friends, Religious Society Of; Religious Discrimination; Shattuck, Samuel; Endecott, John (1588-1655); Quakers; Religious Conflict THE LAMBS OF GRASMERE, 1860, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The upland flocks grew starved and thinned Last Line: And scarce-saved lambs of westmoreland. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Lambs THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF BLOODY BROOK, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to the story of brave lathrop Last Line: From that dark and cruel day, -- cruel day! Subject(s): Deerfield, Battle Of (1675); Deerfield, Massachusetts; Lathrop, Thomas; New England; Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) THE LAST BERKSHIRE ELEVEN: THE HEROES OF MAIWAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at the disastrous battle of maiwand, in afghanistan Last Line: Until the last man in the arms of death stiff and stark lay. Subject(s): Afghanistan; Berkshire, England; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Heroism; Massacres; War; Heroes; Heroines THE LAST BUCCANEER, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, england is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high Last Line: To the pleasant isle of aves, to look at it once again. Variant Title(s): The Old Buccaneer;the Pleasant Isle Of Aves Subject(s): England; Pirates; English; Piracy; Buccaneers THE LAST INSTRUCTIONS TO A PAINTER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After two sittings, now, our lady state Last Line: Give us this court and rule without a guard. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Paintings And Painters THE LAST OF AUTUMN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From cloudy shapes of trees that cluster the hills Last Line: And cash upon his garden palisades. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Autumn; England; Landscape; Seasons; Fall; English THE LAST RAY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the world grows weak again, the sinewed woods are all / astrain Last Line: And sneers as one great laugh or gust huffs down the writhing avenue. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO FIRST, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast was over in branksome tower Last Line: After meet rest, again began. Subject(s): Branksome Castle, Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO FOURTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet teviot! On thy silver tide Last Line: And thus his tale continued ran. Subject(s): Graham Of Calverhouse, John (1648-1689); Killiecrankie, Battle Of (1689); Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO SECOND, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou would'st view fair melrose aright Last Line: Ere thus his tale again began. Subject(s): Melrose Monastery, Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO SIXTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathes there the man, with soul so dead Last Line: Bore burden to the minstrel's song. Subject(s): Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Patriotism; Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: CANTO THIRD, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And said I that my limbs were old Last Line: Arose a father's notes of woe. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL: INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way was long, the wind was cold Last Line: Twas thus the latest minstrel sung. Variant Title(s): The Minstrel Subject(s): Love; Religion; Scotland - Relations With England; Soldiers; Theology THE LESSON OF THE WAR, 1855, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast is spread through england Last Line: Will not be shed in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); England; Peace; English THE LIFE OF HUBERT: MEMORIES OF A DORSET BOYHOOD IN THE 1730S, by THOMAS COLE (1727-1796) Poem Text First Line: The blue expanse of a hyacinthine bloom Last Line: Their num'rous, ceaseless, varied cawings blend. Subject(s): Children; Dorset, England; Memory; Childhood 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 LONG TRUCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rooks in black constellation slowly wheeling Last Line: Only in sweet content for england vying. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE LOOKING GLASS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen bess was harry's daughter Last Line: More hard than any ghost there is or any man there was! Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Mirrors THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 88. A DAY IN SUSSEX, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dove did lend me wings. I fled away Last Line: It glimmers yet across whole years like these. Subject(s): Sussex, England THE LOYAL SCOT, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the old heroes when the warlike shades Last Line: Metempsychosed to some scotch presbyter. Subject(s): Cleveland, John (1613-1658); Douglas, Captain Archibald; Scotland - Relations With England THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 32, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that love england, who have an ear for her music Last Line: Wielders of power and welders of a new world. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): England; Revolutions; English THE MAN WHO SAW, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The master weavers at the enchanted loom Last Line: The happier peaks, that without strife, prevail. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; English THE MARCH BEE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A warning wind finds out my resting-place Last Line: Still listening to the bee, still basking in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Bees; England; Insects; Landscape; Beekeeping; English; Bugs THE MASK OF ANARCHY; WRITTEN ON OCCASION OF MASSACRE AT MANCHESTER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay asleep in italy Last Line: Ye are many, they are few!' Variant Title(s): The Masque Of Anarchy Subject(s): Anarchism & Anarchists; Manchester, England; Massacres THE MASQUERADE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here winds / the chiding chiming brook caught in two minds Last Line: With ringed lights dabbling and twirling the brambles and to yourself a-singing and a-talking. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Masquerades; English THE MAY DAY GARLAND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though folks no more go maying Last Line: Hid up his scythe in flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English THE MERMAID OF MARGATE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On margate beach, where the sick one roams Last Line: With the spirit of peter fin! Subject(s): Biffen, Sarah (1784-1850); Margate, England; Mermaids & Mermen; Puns; Seashore; Biffin, Sarah; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MERRY BELLS OF ENGLAND, by RANN KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You hear, as I, the merry bells of england Last Line: Upon life's daily mind. Subject(s): Bells; England; English THE MERRY MEN OF ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh the men of merry, merry england" Last Line: "to the men of merry, merry england" Subject(s): England;fame; English;reputation THE MESSAGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not feel the white glow in your breast, my bird? Last Line: With no death after, no arrow with stinging pains. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dover, England; Doves; Love; Messengers THE MIDLANDS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black in the summer night my cotswold hill Last Line: I draw the blood of england's midmost shires. Subject(s): England; Gloucestershire, England; Midlands, England; Sex; English THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hop-poles stand in cones Last Line: And let him hate you through the glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death; England; Landscape; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Dead, The; English THE MONUMENT OF GIORDANO BRUNO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not from without us, only from within Last Line: June 9,1889. Subject(s): England; Rome, Italy; Soul; English THE MOTHER AT HOME, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice deep and solemn is sounding abroad! Last Line: Best help, truest cure, from the mother at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Housewives; Mothers; Women; English THE NAME OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpet of the battle Last Line: O thou victorious word! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; English THE NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL, by DANIEL PIERCE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: New england, farewell! With thy evergreen mountains Last Line: As I bid thee a long and a lasting adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Immigrants; New England; Parting; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE NIGHT AT THE PALAIS, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just fifteen, we had to lie to get in there Last Line: Still and watched they fly like crazy angels Subject(s): Night Clubs; Manchester, England; Teenagers; Dancing & Dancers; Friendship; Innocence THE NIGHT OF THE LION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their day was at twelve of the night Last Line: His freedom shall not end. Subject(s): Admirals; Animals; Eyes; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lions; Night; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime THE NIGHT PATROL; SEPTEMBER, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind me on the darkened pier Last Line: And silent duty on the sea. Subject(s): England; Night; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers; War; World War I; English; Bedtime; First World War THE NORTH COUNTRY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In another country, black poplars shake themselves over a pond Last Line: With violent achings heaving to burst the sleep that is now not long. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): England; English THE NUN OF KENT; A HISTORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A goodly saint, a goodly saint now Last Line: (curtain falls.) Subject(s): Clergy; Convents; Kent, England; Monasteries; Nuns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys THE OLD CAVALIER, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For our martyr'd charles I pawn'd my plate Last Line: "with my son on worcester plain." Subject(s): Cavaliers; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - History; English History THE OLD CHARTIST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er I be, old england is my dam! Last Line: I'll preach you to the british nation. Subject(s): Chartism; England; Freedom; English; Liberty THE OLD SQUIRE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like the hunting of the hare Last Line: In the days ere I was born. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Nature; Rabbits; Sussex, England; Hunters; Hares THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just now the lilac is in bloom Last Line: And is there honey still for tea? Subject(s): England; Grantchester, England; Soldiers' Writings; English THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE QUEENES MAJESTYE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If sorrow comment on a text of woe Last Line: In that your sonne lives with the king of kings? Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) THE PASSER-BY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The listless year goes dimly down Last Line: "once ended ""never, never part""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE PASTURE POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the pasture pond alone Last Line: Their solitary pasture-pond. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE PATRIOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce is my life more dear to me Last Line: I have my own; I envy none. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Rivers; English THE PEOPLE'S FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her darkened fishing-ports they go Last Line: A fleet of memories that can never fail. Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; English THE PHANTOM FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset lingered in the pale green west Last Line: Then -- that high fleet of stars led on the night. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; England; Evening; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Sunset; Twilight THE PIKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From shadows of rich oaks outpeer Last Line: And the miller that opens the hatch stands amazed at the whirl in the water. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pike (fish); English THE PILGRIMS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How slow yon tiny [or, lonely] vessel ploughs the main! Last Line: Kneel, and renew the vow they breath'd to god Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers THE PLACE OF FAME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: The marriage registers of somerset Last Line: Say from your heart:—god rest each simple soul! Subject(s): Marriage; Somerset, England; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PLAYMATES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wye and the severn are offspring Last Line: On dark plinlimmon's side. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Severn (river), England; Wye (river), Great Britain THE PLOUGH; A LANDSCAPE IN BERKSHIRE, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above yon sombre swell of land Last Line: Plough deep and straight with all your powers! Variant Title(s): In Berkshire Subject(s): Berkshire, England; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen THE POOR MAN'S PIG, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green Last Line: And sulky as a child when her play's done. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pigs; English; Boars; Hogs THE PRELUDE: BOOK 3. RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a dreary morning when the wheels / rolled over a wide plain Last Line: Came and returned me to my native hills. Subject(s): Cambridge, England 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 OF WALES AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold he reared a race and ruled them not Last Line: The kingdom of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) THE PROPERTIES OF THE SHIRES OF ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The properte of every shire Last Line: Save all these shires. Amen say I Subject(s): England; English 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 PUBLICAN'S NEW SUNDAY ACT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now what do you think of this wonderful act Last Line: And guzzle enough for to last you a week Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;england;sabbath; English;sunday THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES: BOOK 7, STANZA 7, by THOMAS COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I saw thee on the day thou wast a bride Last Line: Was mine, -- for thee, that day, I breathed devotion leal. Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES: BOOK 7, STANZA 8, by THOMAS COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: And many a heart, yielding, that festive day Last Line: All gentle feelings in their way to some dire end. Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The Subject(s): Marriage; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES: BOOK 7, STANZA 9, by THOMAS COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When next thou passest by whitehall, look up Last Line: Throughout thy realm -- 'queen! From the fearful past -- be wise!' Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) THE PUZZLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo with a strong flute Last Line: God's freezing love. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE RATTLE-WATCH OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the rattle's discordant swell! Last Line: If our patrolmen were paid in coal! Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Police; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime; Seamen; Sails THE REBEL SCOT, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, providence? And yet a scottish crew? Last Line: Drops into styx and turns a solan goose. Subject(s): Hate; Scotland - Relations With England THE RECRUIT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carter for mister manley Last Line: "and nuts be brown"" answered the guns." Subject(s): England; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; English THE RED KING, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king was drinking in malwood hall Last Line: Shall england never bide again. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; New Forest, England; Tirel, Sir Walter; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100); English History; Tyrell, Sir Walter THE REVENGE; A BALLAD OF THE FLEET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At flores in the azores sir richard grenville lay Last Line: To be lost evermore in the main. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Revenge (ship); Sea Battles; English; Naval Warfare THE RIDERS OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare Last Line: And they keep the peace of our people and the honour of british law. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Honor; North West Mounted Police (canada); Canadians; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire THE RISING IN THE NORTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "listen, lively lordings all" Last Line: And the five wounds our lord did bear Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 34. AFTER-THOUGHT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of thee, my partner and my guide Last Line: We feel that we are greater than we know. Variant Title(s): To The River Duddon;the River Duddon. Conclusion;valediction To The River Duddon Subject(s): Duddon (river), England THE RIVER SEVERN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This is the morning bright and clear Last Line: To search his face and find a shadow. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Severn (river), England THE RIVER STOUR, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stour, of all our streams the dearest Last Line: Be thy by-dwellers, gliding stour. Subject(s): Children; Rivers; Stour (river), England; Childhood THE RIVERS TILL AND TWEED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Says tweed to till Last Line: I droon twa Variant Title(s): Two Rivers Subject(s): "till (river), England & Scotland;tweed (river), England & Scotland; THE ROADS TO DEVON, by NORA E. HUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: The roads that lead to devon Last Line: To lay me by and by. Subject(s): Devonshire, England THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND, by HENRY FIELDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mighty roast beef was the englishman's food Last Line: O, the roast beef, etc. Subject(s): Beef; England; Food & Eating; Patriotism; English THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND, by RICHARD LEVERIDGE Poem Text First Line: Our fathers of old were robust, stout, and strong Last Line: And o, the old english roast beef! Alternate Author Name(s): Loveridge, Richard Subject(s): Beef; Courage; England; Food & Eating; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English THE ROLLING ENGLISH ROAD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the roman came to rye or out to severn strode Last Line: Before we go to paradise by way of kensal green. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; England; Life; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; English THE ROSCIAD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Roscius deceased, each high aspiring player Last Line: Nor quit it—till thou place an equal there. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Comedy; Competition; England; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Actresses; English THE ROSE AND THE GAUNTLET, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low spake the knight to the peasant girl [or maid] Last Line: On the withered leaves, and the maiden dead. Subject(s): England; Tragedy; English THE ROYAL ADVENTURER, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prince william, of the brunswick race Last Line: "I curse -- and quit the land." Subject(s): American Revolution; William Iv, King Of England (1765-1837) THE RUN OF THE DOWNS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weald is good, the downs are best Last Line: You be glad you are sussex born! Subject(s): Sussex, England 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 SCOTS' APOSTASY, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it come to this? What? Shall the cheeks of fame Last Line: (what's easier far) renounce his nation too. Subject(s): Campbell, John (1598-1633); Scotland - Relations With England THE SCYTHE STRUCK BY LIGHTING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thick hot haze had choked the valley grounds Last Line: That ripens into blue, nor knows the storm is by. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: APRIL, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, good hobbinoll, what garres thee Last Line: And twincling starres the daylight hence chase. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): April; Country Life; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 THE SONG OF THE BOW, FR. THE WHITE COMPANY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the bow? Last Line: And the land where the true hearts dwell. Subject(s): Courage; England; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English THE SOUTH COUNTRY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am living in the midlands Last Line: Shall sit and drink with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): The Hills Of The South Country Subject(s): England; English THE SOWER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ridge on ridge the great fields lie Last Line: And the prayers of broken hearts. Subject(s): England; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; English; Work; Workers THE SPANISH ARMADA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear shone the morn, the gale was fair Last Line: Shall bear good tidings home. Subject(s): Ambition; England; Failure; Spanish Armada; English THE STATUE AT CHARING CROSSE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be the mystery why charing crosse Last Line: To behold ev'ry day such a court, such a son. Subject(s): Charing Cross, London; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Osborne, Thomas. 1st Earl Of Danby; Statues THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry & Poets; Walking; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SUNDAY RAIL: 1. FIRST RUNNING SUNDAY TRAINS ON NORTH BRITISH RAIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires! Last Line: Oh, is it too much?—'tis but one day in seven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Railroads; Sabbath; English; Railways; Trains; Sunday THE TEARS OF A GRATEFUL PEOPLE, by HYMAN HURWITZ Poem Text First Line: Oppressed, confused, with grief and pain Last Line: Lord, hear us! We entreat! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Jews; Judaism THE TENDER HUSBAND: PROLOGUE, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the first rise and infancy of farce Last Line: And kindly treat, like well-bred men, the stranger. Subject(s): Steele, Richard, Sir (1672-1729); Theater - England - 18th Century THE THING THAT MAKES ME PATRIOT MOST, by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: No wish can haunt, no pain reprove Subject(s): Patriotism; England THE THREE GIVERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England gave me sun and storm Last Line: That gave the richest gift to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; England; Ireland; United States; English; Irish; America THE TROUBADOUR AND RICHARD COEUR DE LION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The troubadour o'er many a plain Last Line: When merry england hails her king. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199) THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN: CONCLUSION, by DANIEL DEFOE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Then let us boast of ancestors no more Last Line: Tis personal virtue only makes us great. Subject(s): England; English THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN: PART 1, by DANIEL DEFOE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Where-ever god erects a house of prayer Last Line: And lords, whose parents were the lord knows who. Subject(s): England; English THE TWICKENHAM AIR, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Marlborough and brasenose Last Line: Wellington and clare! Subject(s): Twickenham, England 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 UNKNOWN QUANTITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Manda's twig-like arms Last Line: The snarl, the first, the knife in the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE VALE OF LONSDALE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could no tdwell here, it is all too fair Last Line: Between the placid scene, and its unrest. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Country Life; Lancashire, England THE VETERAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stumbles silver-haired among his bees Last Line: His bellman cockerel crying the first round. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Veterans; English THE VICAR OF BRAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In good king charles's golden days Last Line: "except the times should alter. / and this is law, etc" Subject(s): "aleyn, Simon (16th Century);bray, England;conversion;religion;" Theology THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English THE VIKINGS' DAUGHTERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The outrage of these poor each day Last Line: Wronged thule's daughters shall be heard. Subject(s): England; Orkney Islands (scotland); Praise; Shetland Islands; Vikings; English THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE VISION OF JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint peter sat by the celestial gate Last Line: I left him practising the hundredth psalm. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Southey, Robert (1774-1843) THE VOICE OF FRANCIS DRAKE (FROM NOMBRE DE DIOS BAY, 1919), by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: Oh england, mother england, the blue waves Last Line: Down to death and victory. Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); England; English THE VOLUNTEER (1914-1919), by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreams are passed and gone, old man Last Line: Carry on, old sport, carry on! Subject(s): England; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE VOWS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the plate was at pawn and the fob at an ebb Last Line: And quack in their language still, vive le roy. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Hate THE WAGGONER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old waggon drudges through the miry lane Last Line: As centuries past itself would do. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Variant Title(s): The Waggoner, 1919 Subject(s): England; Landscape; Wagons; English THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'CARPE DIEM', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow is a day too far Last Line: Foresee the men we may be. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Carpe Diem; England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'MEDIO DE FONTE LEPORUM SURGIT AMARI..', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked about at hampton court Last Line: That pinched me all the while there. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: BABYLONIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of simpering and grimace! Last Line: The inmate of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MATRIMONIAL COUNSELS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are going to marry my pretty relation Last Line: And your worth not the best of your friends will disparage! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Marriage; Travel; English; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MIDGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is talking aesthetics, the dear clever creature! Last Line: O you dear clever woman, explain it, I beg! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Flies; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: SEE-SAW, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a harlot, and I was a thief Last Line: With their hands, bless them all, in the popular purse! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE ALOE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger sent from burning lands Last Line: It never came to blossom. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE DEATH OF KING HACON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was odin that whispered in vingolf Last Line: Shall stand in the battle again. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE FOUNT OF TRUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the place by legends told Last Line: Or -- was it never found? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; Truth; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE LAST TIME THAT I MET LADY RUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some things hard to understand Last Line: You see I can laugh. That is all. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: DEDICATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, in the laurel's murmurous leaves Last Line: With thoughts less fond arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Youth; Memory; England; English THE WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-kings' daughter from over the sea Last Line: Alexandra! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE WEST COUNTREE, by GEOFFREY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Now england is a fine countree Last Line: Of the blessed west countree. Subject(s): Devonshire, England; England; Oxford University; English THE WEST WIND, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries Last Line: In the fine land, the west land, the land where I belong. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): April; England; English THE WESTERN EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An axe rang sharply 'mid those forest shades Last Line: Mid the lov'd scenery of his native land. Subject(s): Immigrants; New England; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE WHITE CZAR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gehazi by the hue that chills thy cheek Last Line: O white of name and red of hand, with thee Subject(s): England; English THE WHITE ROSE O' JUNE, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bricht sun, and the soft simmer showers Last Line: And may he that should wear it wear scotland's auld croun! Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Scotland - Relations With England THE WHITE SHIP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By none but me can the tale be told Last Line: (the sea hath no king but god alone.) Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135); Sea Pilots; English History THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ave you 'eard o' the widow at windsor Last Line: (poor beggars! -- they'll never see 'ome!) Variant Title(s): The Sons Of The Widow Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) THE WILD GALLANT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange to hear a poet say Last Line: Now spare him, drown him when he comes again. Subject(s): England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; English; Dramatists THE WINGS, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more, but wings and wings. And still no light Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): England - Social Life And Customs THE WORLD IS A BUNDLE OF HAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Earth; England THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Goody bull and her daughter together fell out Last Line: "but thanks to my friend here, I've humbled your pride" Subject(s): "great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies;pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806);u.s. - Colonial Period;" British Empire;england - Empire THE YOUNG GRAY HEAD, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Grief hath been known to turn the young head gray Last Line: There was an empty place, -- they were but three. Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): England; Tragedy; English THE YOUNG QUEEN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shroud is yet unspread Last Line: People's voice! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) THEN AND NOW, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember those mornings after the blitzes Last Line: Make real, of glory, common wealth, and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Factories; Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Memory; News; Strikes; Surrey, England; Unemployment; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts THERE'S NOT A HILL IN ALL THE VIEW, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): England THESE REMAIN, by A. S. WILSON Poem Source First Line: The lanes of england never end Subject(s): England THEY CALLED THEE MERRY ENGLAND, IN OLD TIME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Shall be thy rightful name, in prose and rhyme! Subject(s): England THIS IS NO CASE OF PETTY RIGHT OR WRONG, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And as we love ourselves we hate our foe Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): England; Soldiers; World War I THOSE OTHERS, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those others? - the men who stood Last Line: As the hallowed host goes by! Subject(s): Death; England; Patriotism; Praise; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two voices are there; one is of the sea Last Line: And neither awful voice be heard by thee! Variant Title(s): Switzerland;on The Subjugation Of Switzerland;england And Switzerland, 1802 Subject(s): England; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Switzerland; English; Liberty; Swiss 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 THOUGHTS NEAR ASHAMPSTEAD AERODROME, HARVEST-TIME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Not for the last time be our england filled Last Line: "god bless friend hodge,"" they say; ""his gear be sped!" Subject(s): Airports; England - Social Life & Customs; Farm Life; Harvest; Old Age; Agriculture; Farmers THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 2, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wherefore feels he thus? Because its shore Last Line: And fling the foam defiant in his face. Subject(s): England; Liberty; English THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 3, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And can it be, - when heaven this deep moat made Last Line: And perish smothered in a grave of gold! Subject(s): England; Liberty; English THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: A FUNERAL PINDARIC ODE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus long my grief has kept me dumb Last Line: The fasces of the main. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors THRENODY, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a slow lament for you, lost magic Last Line: Orchards, hurried on, and soon forgot. Subject(s): New England; Orchards THRENODY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching here alone by the fire whereat last year Last Line: Take: the best we can give is breath. Subject(s): Death; England; Life; Night; Dead, The; English; Bedtime THYRSIS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How changed is here each spot man makes or fills Last Line: Our scholar travels yet the loved hill-side. Subject(s): Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861); England; Mourning; English; Bereavement TILL THE DAY BE DONE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: From your island sloth awake you! Last Line: Of britain's sea-flung fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire TIME OF ROSES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clean flows the wind as from its grand source flowing Last Line: At first that this year grass has brought forth roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Flowers; Landscape; Roses; English TIME TO BE WISE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! I write verses now and then Last Line: The brave queen bess. Variant Title(s): The Effects Of Age Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Poetry & Poets TO A BANK OF ENGLAND PIGEON, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Descendant of the doves of aphrodite Last Line: The stern old lady of threadneedle street! Subject(s): England; Pigeons; English TO A RIVER IN THE SOUTH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me no more, o gentle stream Last Line: Old love shall dwell with old delight. Subject(s): Brooks; England; Rivers; Streams; Creeks; English TO AMERICA, CONCERNING ENGLAND, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou her child, born in the proud midday Last Line: Without the crown divine thou might'st have worn. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; United States; English; America TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seed that wasteful autumn cast Last Line: From age to age, from clime to clime! Subject(s): England; English TO AN OAK AT NEWSTEAD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young oak! When I planted thee deep Last Line: Are lost in the hours of eternity's day. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Time TO ARCHBISHOP LANG (WRITTEN AT TIME OF THE ABDICATION, 1936), by GERALD WILLIAM BULLETT Poem Source First Line: My lord archbishop, what a scold you are Last Line: Of christian charity how scant you are - %how lang, o lord, how full of cant you are! Subject(s): Edward Viii, King Of England (1894-1972); Lang, William Cosmo Gordon (1864-1945) TO ARMS!, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the cry, 'to arms! To arms Last Line: And her ironclads the sea! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humility; Trafalgar, Battle Of; War; Waterloo; Weapons; Ammunition; British Empire; England - Empire; Battle Of Waterloo TO CAMDEN, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One fayre par-royall hath our iland bred Last Line: Ech streame should graue thy name vppon his shore Subject(s): Death; England; Fate; Islands; Sea; Dead, The; English; Destiny; Ocean TO ENGLAND, by FRANCIS WILLIAM LAUDERDALE ADAMS Poem Source First Line: There was a time when all thy sons were proud Subject(s): England; Freedom TO ENGLAND, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men deemed thee fallen, did they? Fallen like rome Last Line: Smilingly leaning on thy undrawn sword! Subject(s): England; English TO ENGLAND, by BARBARA JORDAN Poem Source First Line: A world was lined in velvet. Its garden pillars Last Line: And dioramas of the great fire and waterloo %preserved, like a plague arm in formaldehyde Subject(s): England TO ENGLAND, by FRANCIS BURDETT MONEY-COUTTS Poem Source First Line: When the agony is done and you are free Subject(s): England; World War I TO ENGLAND, by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now england lessens on my sight Last Line: Whate'er is brave and best. Subject(s): England; English TO ENGLAND (2), by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand, thou great bulwark of man's liberty Last Line: Through force or fraud, look westward to your child! Subject(s): England; War; English TO ENGLAND AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE BALKAN WAR, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o'er Last Line: Whose death made missolonghi holy ground. Subject(s): Balkan Wars (1912, 1913); England; English TO ENGLAND IN HER SORROW, by ELIZABETH TOUSEY Poem Text First Line: I wear a quiet garb today Last Line: With love's memorial flower. Subject(s): England; Mourning; English; Bereavement TO ENGLISHMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You flung your taunt across the wave Last Line: The pirate's skull-bone blazon! Subject(s): American Civil War; England; Slavery; U.s. - History; English; Serfs TO G. G.; AN AUTOGRAPH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graceful in name and in thyself, our river Last Line: Unbroken still the ties of blood remain! Subject(s): Haverhill, England; Haverhill, Massachusetts TO HAMPSTEAD (1), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet upland, to whose walks with fond repair Last Line: And love domestic, smiling equably. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Hampstead, England TO HAMPSTEAD (2), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has reached thee once again at last Last Line: The second, and the last, away from thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Hampstead, England; Winter TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, REVISITING WALES; AUGUST 24, 1889, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear lady, welcome once again Last Line: Of welcome to our queen, bidding all hearts rejoice. Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) TO HER SACRED MAJESTY, THE QUEEN MOTHER, ON DEATH OF MARY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Respite, great queen, your just and hasty fears Last Line: And dereliction adds unto remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Death - Children; Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England; Death - Babies TO HIS MISTRESS, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our passions are most like to floods and streams Last Line: And sues for no compassion. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Sir Walter Ralegh To The Queen;to The Queen;to Queen Elizabeth;the Silent Lover Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY KING JAMES II, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dread prince! Whom all the world admires and fears Last Line: Or fly like phantoms from the rising sun. Subject(s): James Ii, King Of England (1633-1701) TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY, ON HIS RESTORATION IN THE YEAR 1660, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virtue's triumphant shrine! Who dost engage Last Line: By daring loyalty, your wilmot's son. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) 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 HORROR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark horror, hear my call! Last Line: I will behold and smile by mercy's side. Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Injustice; Missions & Missionaries; Racism; Slavery; Terror; Vengeance; English; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs TO KING CHARLES. AN IMITATION, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough by this of plague and lightning pale Last Line: A second stock may spring. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) TO KING GEORGE, by SIRDAR DALJIT SINGH Poem Source First Line: From east to west, from north to south, thy banner is unfurled Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936) TO KING JAMES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, best of kings, dost thou a sceptre bear! Last Line: Of kings for grace; of poets for my test? Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) TO KING JAMES; UPON THE HAPPY FALSE RUMOUR OF HIS DEATH, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That we the loss might know, and thou our love Last Line: Look not upon thy dangers, but our fears. Variant Title(s): To King James Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625) TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.B., by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hill! Whose high daring with renew'd success Last Line: Gild with delight thy father's latter days! Subject(s): England; War; English TO MR HARLEY, WOUNDED BY GUISCARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In one great now, superior to an age Last Line: Enough to thee of grief, and fame is given. Subject(s): Death; England; Fame; Grief; Nations; Dead, The; English; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY LORD THE KING, ON THE CHRISTENING HIS SECOND SON JAMES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That thou art loved of god, this work is done Last Line: Oceano secura meo, securior umbris. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); James Ii, King Of England (1633-1701) TO MY SISTER, WITH A COPY OF SUPERNATURALISM OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sister! While the wise and sage Last Line: For the sweet bells of morning! Subject(s): New England; Sisters; Supernatural TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. PETER LELY, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See! What a clouded majesty, and eyes Last Line: None but my lely ever drew a mind. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Portraits TO ONE WHO RAN DOWN THE ENGLISH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You make our faults too gross Last Line: May seem the black ox of the distant plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; English TO PENSHURST, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not, penshurst, built to envious show Last Line: May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells. Subject(s): Animals; Buildings & Builders; Houses; Penshurst, England; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) TO PERCY BUCK, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folk alien to the muse have hemm'd us round Last Line: Beside me, listening in the chancel-aisle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Buck, Percy Carter (1871-1947); Harrow, England; Music & Musicians TO PRINCE CHARLES UPON HIS COMING TO EXETER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What fate decreed, time now ha's made us see Last Line: Receive (with songs) a flowrie diadem. Subject(s): Exeter, England TO SAXHAM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though frost, and snow, lock'd from mine eyes Last Line: They cannot steal, thou giv'st so much. Subject(s): Houses; Saxham, England TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As from an ancestral oak Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one. Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819 Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount TO SIR JOHN BERKLEY, GOVERNOUR OF EXETER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand forth brave man, since fate has made thee here Last Line: To weaken this thy great dictator-ship. Subject(s): Exeter, England TO THE ENGLISHMAN, FR. THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Woe! Woe! Son of the lowlander Last Line: Wasting the glen that was once in fair order? Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England TO THE FIRST OF AUGUST, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Britannia's isles proclaim Last Line: That they may not depart. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Serfs TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! I have never breathed thy air Last Line: Of some vast advent that makes all things new. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; Kisses; Life; Soul; United States; English; America TO THE KING (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give way, give way, now, now my charles shines here Last Line: Our eyes they'l blind, or if not blind, they'l bleer Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) TO THE KING ON IS BIRTHDAY. AN EPIGRAM. NOVEMBER 19, 1632, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is king charles his day. Speak it, thou tower Last Line: What prayers (people) can you think too much? Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) TO THE KING, AT HIS ENTRANCE INTO SAXHAM, BY MASTER JOHN CROFTS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere you pass this threshold, stay Last Line: Should jove descend, they could no more. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Saxham, England TO THE KING, UPON HIS TAKING OF LEICESTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day is yours great charles! And in this war Last Line: Hold but her hands; you hold both hands and wings. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) TO THE KING, UPON HIS WELCOME TO HAMPTON-COURT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, great cesar, welcome now you are Last Line: We'l from our owne, adde far more years to his. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauties! -- (for, dressed with so much taste Last Line: A well-dressed english woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; England; Nature; Women; English TO THE LADY ELIZABETH HARLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When future ages shall with wonder view Last Line: A fairer column to the father's praise. Subject(s): England; Future; Praise; English TO THE MEN OF KENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Vanguard of liberty, ye men of kent Last Line: Ye men of kent, 'tis victory or death! Subject(s): England; War; English TO THE MEN WHO HAVE DIED FOR ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All ye who fought since england was a name Subject(s): England; World War I TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune and glory may be lost and won Last Line: Which to his brother's life men wished, and wished them right. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS ... CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well may my book come forth like publique day Last Line: The see; so sow'd these tares throughout my book. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) TO THE MOST SCARED KING JAMES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O grief, how divers are thy shapes wherein men languish Last Line: When we were least aware. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST SCARED QUEEN ANNE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now dead night, and not a light on earth Last Line: Since fate in taking one hath thus disordered all. Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Mourning; Bereavement TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People of england, ye who toil and groan Last Line: And nurse them from the cradle to the grave ... Subject(s): England; English TO THE POET SHENSTONE; ON A VOTIVE TABLET AT BURFORD LODGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the bard of leasowe's grove Last Line: Still his spirit there presides, %still his urn shall deck the glade Subject(s): Shenstone, William (1714-1763); Surrey, England TO THE POLAR EXPEDITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God speed you on your high emprise Last Line: And plant the flag of england there. Subject(s): Ambition; England; Flags - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English TO THE QUEEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But even now it was time for you, greatest mother Last Line: O hail! For at your birth, golden boy, there was born %to charles and mary a third eye Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) TO THE QUEEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the page, oh, royal ladye! - seeking Last Line: A nation breathes upon victoria's name! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) TO THE QUEEN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To her beneath whose stedfast star Last Line: The all-father shield and save! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) TO THE QUEEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Revered, beloved - o you that hold Last Line: And compass'd by the inviolate sea.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) TO THE QUEEN AT OXFORD, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great lady! That thus, quite against our use Last Line: Whose softest accents will out-tongue my verse. Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England TO THE QUEEN'S MAJESTY, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madame. / 'mongst those long rowes of crownes that guild your race Last Line: Three kingdomes to supply this day's three kings. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England 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 TO THE QUEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Renowned empresse, and great britaines queene Last Line: Were but t'ecclipse your fame, and make it lesse. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England TO THE REFORMERS OF ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless ye, brothers! In the fight Last Line: God's blessing on the right! Subject(s): England; Reform And Reformers; English TO THE RIVER DUDDON, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder, duddon, if you still remember Subject(s): Cumberland, England; Duddon (river), England; England; Rivers; English TO THE RIVER DUDDON, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder, duddon, if you still remember Last Line: Thirty thousand feet of solid cumberland Subject(s): Cumberland, England; Duddon (river), England; England; Rivers TO THE THRICE-SACRED QUEEN ELIZABETH, by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even now that care which on thy crown attends Last Line: Sing what god doth, and doo what men may sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, Countess Of Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 TO YOUR HEART, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: The path to your heart is a new england roadway Last Line: And ends with a stone. Subject(s): Hearts; New England; Roads; Paths; Trails TOMB OF THOMAS MORLEY, D. 1566; STAINING, LANCASHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Man by lying downe in his bedde to reste Last Line: To the blessed, joifull, and to the cursed ach and woe. %andto the electe, heaven, and to the reprob Subject(s): Lancashire, England TOMMY [ATKINS], by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer Last Line: An' tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that tommy sees! Variant Title(s): Tommy Subject(s): Army Life; England; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; English TOO LATE! DEATH OF GEN. GORDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Across the vast soudan was borne Last Line: Will rest the load of shame Subject(s): Death;england;heroism; "dead, The;english;heroes;heroines; TOURIST'S DAY, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elizabeth wore red to kenilworth Last Line: Close to that starling in the weeds, the throne. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A LANCASHIRE MILL-HAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died at the age of sixty-three Last Line: For she lay in her chamber, dead. Subject(s): Lancashire, England TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. BY THE MERSEY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the sunlight on the river mersey Last Line: Far out to the atlantic. Subject(s): Mersey (river), England TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. EMPIRE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind, fooled, and staggering from her throne, I saw her fall Last Line: Tis better he should die. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. PORTLAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey north-east of winter the great granite rock Last Line: Is the easier fate reserved! Subject(s): Portland (penisula), England TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SHEFFIELD, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where a spur of the moors runs forward into the great town Last Line: In supreme beauty among the stars. Subject(s): Sheffield, England TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BRITISH, A.D. 1901, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the light descends to drown and redeem the world Last Line: Knew more and possessed more even than them all. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire TRAFALGAR DAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leads: we hear our seaman's call Last Line: Till setting of her sun. Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean TRAFALGAR DAY, 1940, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Source First Line: They have dropped a bomb on st. Paul's Last Line: And no one had warned them, 'they' did not know, none said %how dangerous it is to wake our dead Subject(s): England; World War Ii TRAGIC GUILT, by KEIDRYCH RHYS Poem Source First Line: No, I'm not and englishman with a partisan religion Subject(s): England TRAVELLING HOME, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train. A hot july. On either hand Subject(s): England TREBETHERICK, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We used to picnic where the thrift Last Line: Ask for our children all the happy days you gave %to ralph, vasey, alastair, biddy, john and me Subject(s): Cornwall, England TREGARDOCK, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mist that from the moor arose Subject(s): Cornwall, England; October TRESCO, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A low-set island this september Subject(s): Cornwall, England TRIPTYCH MISC., by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freesias are di's favorite bloom Last Line: Hanging from her mantle are several Subject(s): Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Property TRUE LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My mother's gone awandering Last Line: All for you love, all for true love %all for luck my dear Subject(s): Gypsies; Love; Midlands, England TRUE SONS OF BRITAIN, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In its true grandeur, in its rare completeness Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire TUDOR PORTRAIT, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Brusque shoulders and bluff beard Last Line: On strong new worlds he planned %the king looks down Subject(s): Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Portraits TUNBRIDGE WELLS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five this morn, when phoebus raised his head Last Line: Did seem to me by much the wiser creature. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Tunbridge Wells, England TWEED AND TILL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Says tweed and till what gars ye rin sae still Variant Title(s): Says Tweed To Til Subject(s): Till (river), England And Scotland; Tweed (river), England And Scotland TWEEDSIDE, by ROBERT CRAWFORD (?-1733) Poem Text First Line: What beauties does flora disclose! Last Line: Or the pleasanter banks of the tweed? Subject(s): Tweed (river), England & Scotland TWEEDSIDE, by LORD YESTER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: When maggie and I were acquaint Last Line: And lay my banes far frae the tweed. Subject(s): Love; Tweed (river), England And Scotland TWELFTH NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here's to thee, old apple-tree" Last Line: And our pockets full too Variant Title(s): A Farmer's And Farm-worker's Toast;apple-howling Song: Devonshire Subject(s): "apples;devonshire, England;fruit; TWICKENHAM FERRY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Ahoy! And o-ho! And it's who's for the ferry?' Last Line: There's danger in crossing to twickenham town. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Variant Title(s): A Verse From A Song, Once Painted On A Board At Twickenham Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Love; Moon; Twickenham, England TWICKENHAM FERRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hoi-ye-ho, ho-ye-ho, who's for the ferry! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Twickenham, England TWICKNAM GARDEN, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears Last Line: Who's therefore true, because her truth kills me. Variant Title(s): Twickenham Garden Subject(s): Love; Tears; Twickenham, England TWO EAST ANGLIAN POEMS: EDWARD FITZGERALD, by DICK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: East anglia, a century ago Last Line: I see you wrest this life %from brother death Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883) TWO LONG VACATIONS: GRASMERE, by ARTHUR GRAY BUTLER Poem Source First Line: Seven we were, and two are gone Subject(s): Grasmere, England TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind. Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain) UNDER A PICTURE OF CHARLES I .. ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH, IPSWICH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within this sacred arch doth lye %the quintessence of majesty Last Line: If such an other you would find %it must by angels be designed Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) UNDER A PORTRAIT OF JOHN KAYE'S WIFE, WOODSOME HALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To live at home in housewyverie Last Line: This is my care with modestye, %to live my lyfe in honestye Subject(s): Yorkshire, England UNDER KING CHARLES II'S PICTURE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, john roberts, writ this same Last Line: In honor of my master's master, king charles the second by name. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) UNIVERSITY COMMENDS ITS BOOK TO THE FAIREST QUEEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take this also - unless we ask too much - in your hand like a mother Last Line: Who at once both is a father and creates a father! Subject(s): Henrietta Maria, Queen Of England UPON AN IMAGE FROM DANTE, SELS., by SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: All there was of men was the smoke above their houses Subject(s): England UPON ECKINGTON BRIDGE, RIVER AVON, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pastoral heart of england! Like a psalm Last Line: Turns in her sleep, and murmurs of the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Variant Title(s): Ode Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Bridges; England; Rivers; English UPON PRUE, HIS MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this little urn is laid Last Line: Spring the purple violet. Variant Title(s): Upon Prew His Maid Subject(s): Cremation; Devonshire, England; Grief; Household Employees; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids UPON SIR JOHN SUCKLING'S HUNDRED HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I tell thee, jack, thou'st given the king" Last Line: By carding and dice Subject(s): "animals;gifts & Giving;horses;scotland - Relations With England;suckling, John (1609-1642); UPON SIR ROBERT VYNER'S SETTING UP THE KINGS-STATUE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As cityes that to the fierce conqueror yield Last Line: Yet we'd better by far have him than his brother. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Statues UPON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCESSE ELIZABETH, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright starre of majesty, oh shedd on mee Last Line: And I'le not blurre it with my paraphrase. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) UPON THE FIRST SIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND, by THOMAS TILLAM Poem Text First Line: Hail, holy land, wherein our holy lord Last Line: Come yee my servants of my father blessed Subject(s): New England; Pilgrim Fathers UPON THE KING'S CORONATION (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound forth, celestial organs, let heavens quire Last Line: The world will be one ocean, one great teare. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685) UPON THE KING'S HAPPY RETURN FROM SCOTLAND, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So breaks the day, when the returning sun Last Line: In thankful sacrifice for your return. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Homecoming; Scotland - Relations With England UPON THE KING'S RETURN FROM SCOTLAND, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Returned, I'll ne'er believe't; first prove him hence Last Line: Now he the counterpart comes south to us. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy Last Line: Far surrounding, seem their own Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees V.R. 1819-1901; A REVERIE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mightiest moments pass uncalendered Last Line: Till ripening years have run. Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) VENUS IN ARDEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now love, her mantle thrown Last Line: With youth whose days three thousand years are done. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rivers; Venus (goddess); English VER TENEBROSUM: HOME-ROOTEDNESS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot boast myself cosmopolite Last Line: With cradle-song of her protecting seas? Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; English VER TENEBROSUM: OUR EASTERN TREASURE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in cobwebb'd corners I can hear Last Line: A splendour blotted from that far-watched brow? Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; India; British Empire; England - Empire VERSE FOR A GRANT OF LAND TO THE HOPTON FAMILY; SHROPSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To me and to myne, to thee and to thine Last Line: For one bow and one broad arrow, %when I come to hunt upon yarrow Subject(s): Shropshire, England VERSE SCRATCHED ON A WINDOW OF THE YACHT INN AT CHESTER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rotten without and mouldering within Last Line: This place and its clery are all near akin! Subject(s): Chester, England VERSE UNDER A PICTURE AT PENGERSWICK CASTLE: PERSEVERANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What thing is harder than the rock? Last Line: Even so, nothing so hard to attayne, %but may be hadd with labour and payne Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Perseverance VERSE UNDER A PICTURES AT PENGERSWICK CASTLE: ONE NEDITH..., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The lame wyche lacketh for to goe Last Line: The layme to blynde doth yeld his sight Subject(s): Cornwall, England VERSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / since anna visited the muses' seat Last Line: What margaret tudor was, is harriet harley now. Subject(s): Muses; Oxford, England; Women; Writing & Writers VERSES FOR THE 'WAP' CELEBRATIONS; RANDWICK, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When arcelus began to spin Last Line: Let love and friendship still agree %to hold the banns of amity Subject(s): Gloucestershire, England VERSES FOR THE NEW SPIRE, WINGHAM CHURCH, KENT, 1793, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In seventeen hundred and ninety three, %richard hodgman, of folkstone Last Line: If you finish me well, for to make me secure, %so that a hundred of years may endure Subject(s): Churches; Kent, England; Spires VERSES FORMERLY INSCRIBED ON A TABLET IN PARISH CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This place of war is called battle, because in battle here Last Line: This slaughter happened to them upon st. Celict's day, %the year thereof (1066) this number doth arr Subject(s): Sussex, England VERSES FOUND ON THE MINISTER'S PORCH AT WYE, KENT, 1630, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The corne is so deare Last Line: Well you know my name, %you must be wise in the same Subject(s): Kent, England VERSES INSCRIBED IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY, BY A PARSON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here in my wicker chair I sitt Last Line: Though few my tyhes, and light my purse, %I thank my god it is no worse Subject(s): Yorkshire, England VERSES OF THE QUEENES ARMES BEINGE THE THREE LYONS, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perfections queene, these lyons three Last Line: And triple thryce your joye. Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England VERSES ON BATHING AT BRIGHTON, SUSSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's plenty of dippers and jokers Last Line: I oft wish myself martha gunn, %just to see the young ladies get dipt Subject(s): Brighton, England VERSES ON HEARING THAT AN AIRY AND PLEASANT SITUATION .. NEW BUILDINGS, by MARIA LOGAN Poem Text First Line: There was a time! That time the muse bewails Last Line: And give youth, ease and health to thy enfeebling arms. Subject(s): Industrial Revolution; Leeds, England; Nature 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 ON THE QUEEN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victoria's sceptre o'er the deep Last Line: Our thoughts into idolatry. Variant Title(s): Verses On The Queen Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) VERSES ON THE SPRINGS AT BATH, by ? GROVES Poem Source First Line: When bladud once espied some hogs Last Line: The hogs thus banished by their prince, %have liv'd in bristol ever since Subject(s): Bath, England; Mythology; Pigs; Springs (water) VERSES ON THE TRADES IN BROMSGROVE, 1851, by JOHN HARRIS SCROXTON Poem Source First Line: We have makers of buttons and makers of nails Last Line: We have those who are honest, and upright, and true, %and those in gaol ought long penance to Subject(s): Midlands, England VERSES ON THE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, LOFTHOUSE, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you want to be healthy, wealthy and stout Last Line: Whoso thirsteth let him come hither and drink Subject(s): Yorkshire, England VERSES SAID TO BE WRITTEN ON THE UNION, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen has lately lost a part Last Line: Our crazy double-bottomed realm. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England VERSES SAID TO HAVE BEEN HUNG UP NEAR THE GREAT BED OF WARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Take care thou dost thyself no wrong Last Line: What I have said do thou retain, %so kiss the horns, and say'amen' Subject(s): Hertfordshire, England VERSES SUNG TO QUEEN ELIZABETH BY A MERMEAD, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blessed eyes, the lyfe of sights yee see Last Line: Finish their fading yeares, but not their lives. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 VERSES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE NEW FOREST, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the woods, where leathery lichen weaves Last Line: Forgets his sorrows past, or gives them to the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): New Forest, England VERSES WRITTEN ON THE OAKLEY ARMS, MAIDENHEAD, NEAR BRAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Friend isaac, 'tis strange you that live so near bray Last Line: Twere a sign 'twas bad liquor within Subject(s): Bray, England VICAR OF BRAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: An innocent vicar of bray Subject(s): Bray, England VICTIMS: ANNIE CHAPMAN TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: I am not your annabel lee. I've read poe Last Line: Like mournful and never-ending %remorse Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: CATHY AND LIZ TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Because he paired us, both slain in one night Last Line: Care to give %a girl a light?' Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: EMMA SMITH TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Why did his face change Last Line: Or some bogeyman %will come Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: MARTHA TABRAM TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Sisters, sisters, we all are witches here. Brewing Last Line: We can discovr, who can see now we be blind Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: MARY KELLY TO THE YARD AND JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: You will not discover in my dying body's kidney's yield, who Last Line: And the scream of us all, %all, all Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: POLLY NICHOLS TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: 42 years old. I've got five of 'em. My husband used to give Last Line: Are you finished %yet? Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTORIA, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Text First Line: Queen of so many nations that the sun Last Line: A lonely woman, -- sable garmented. Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) VICTORIA, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From victoria I can go Last Line: I'm the sorriest one in all the nation %when my train runs into victoria station Subject(s): England; Railroads; Travel VICTORIA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now from the throne of england one is borne Last Line: The type of motherhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) VICTORIA (JUNE 22, 1893), by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen! What is this that comes Last Line: Stat matris gloria!' Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Sea; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Ocean VICTORIA (ON LEARNING THAT THE QUEEN'S CONDITION WAS HOPELESS), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Her reign: the greatest that this realm hath seen Last Line: Than hers, so bravely borne! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sickness; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Illness VICTORIA REGINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The earth is full of tears. 'the queen is dead!' Last Line: Received into the presence of the king. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines VICTORIA'S TEARS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O maiden! Heir of kings! Last Line: To wear that heavenly crown! Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) VICTRIX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How was it then with england? Last Line: And all is well with england. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Victory; War; English VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happy place we travel through! Last Line: Whose steps are wounds -- what happy place? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Facades; Landscape; Villages; English; Appearances VILLAGE GREEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thatched roofs green with moss and grass stand round Last Line: With trousers daubed in mire and face all black. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Soccer; Villages; English VISION OF JUDGMENT: PART 6. THE ABSOLVERS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! He exclaimed, king george of england standeth in judgment Last Line: Evil they sow, and sorrow they will reap for their harvest Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) VISION OF JUDGMENT: PART 8. GEORGE III ENTERS PARADISE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your heads, ye gates; and ye everlasting portals Last Line: While of the georgian age they thought, and the glory of england Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) VISIONS: 1, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting one day beside the banks of mole Last Line: As need another joseph to expound. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Mole, River, England' Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness VISIONS: 3, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a silver swan swim down the lea Last Line: Where, overgone with grief, poor bird, she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Swans; Lee (river), England VISITORS' VERSES IN PRAISE OF THE OLD INN & MRS. MARY MUNDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Full many bright things on this earth there be Last Line: That the brightest thing in the cornish land %is the face of miss mary mundy Subject(s): Cornwall, England VITAI LAMPADA, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a breathless hush in the close tonight Last Line: "play up! Play up! And play the game!" Variant Title(s): The Torch Of Life;play The Game Subject(s): Cricket (game); England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; Sports; War; English; British Empire; England - Empire VOICES OF THE DEAD: ON THE BRITISH SEAS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My islands, at a distance, extinquishing in me Last Line: Can death there be more human and more brief %on my english islands, beneath that false sky? Subject(s): England; Politics VOLUNTEER'S SONG, WRITTEN IN 1803, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who britain's soldiers be Last Line: Proves under their firm tread and vigorous stroke, %a deck of royal oak Subject(s): England; Patriotism VORTIGERN, by WILLIAM HENRY IRELAND Poem Text First Line: Good vortigern! As peace doth bless our isle Last Line: Finis. Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Samuel, Jr. Subject(s): Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Shakespeare - Forgeries WALES, SELS., by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walking on the step of the shingle, here Subject(s): England WALLACE'S INVOCATION TO BRUCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morn rose bright on scenes renowned Last Line: In him, for thee who lived and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Bruce, Robert; The Bruce WALLFLOWERS' SONG'; OGBOURNE, WILTSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Water, water, wild flowers Last Line: The bells shall ring Subject(s): Wiltshire, England WALTER OF BATTERSEA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall commit suicide or die Last Line: Where it starts and ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; England; Dead, The; English WARWICKSHIRE, by DAVID GARRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye warwickshire lads, and ye lasses Last Line: For the thief of all thieves, was a warwickshire thief! Variant Title(s): Song In Connection With The Shakespeare Jubilee At Stratford Upon Avon Subject(s): Warwickshire, England WASTE GROUND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wheat crowds close, the land falls sharp Last Line: The neighbours of a niche for fable. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WATCHING THE RICH IN SOUTHAMPTON, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Tired and hot late in the day Last Line: You know there is no other way %to come out of it Subject(s): Class Struggle; Southampton, England WATER MOMENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silver eel slips through the waving weeds Last Line: The silver death writhes with the chosen one. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WATER SPORT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all who hear our song say yalding bells Last Line: Shine like an angel to the mill boy's sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Boats; England; Landscape; English WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Last Line: The owl shall stoop from his turret, the rat cry out Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields WELCOME TO WINTERDYNE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Francie and willie, welcome to you Last Line: Now it is welcome to winterdyne! Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips WESSEX HEIGHTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some heights in wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand Last Line: And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty. Subject(s): Mountains; Wessex, England; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WESTON-SUPER-MARE, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: La pluie tombera tout le jour Subject(s): Weston-super-mare, England WHA'LL BE KING BUT CHARLIE?, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The news frae moidart cam' yestreen Last Line: For wha'll be king but charlie? Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England WHAT IS - 'PARADISE', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As new england used to be Variant Title(s): Poem: 215; Poem: 24 Subject(s): New England WHEN GOOD QUEEN ELIZABETH GOVERNED THE REIGN, by JOSEPH STANSBURY Poem Source Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 WHEN LOVE FLIES IN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And live without! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): England; Love WHEN SEVERN'S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let not our times halt in their better choice! Subject(s): Severn (river), England; Floods; Wales; Churches WHIGS AND TORIES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774) Poem Text First Line: The king to oxford sent a troop of horse Last Line: For whigs admit no force but argument. Variant Title(s): Oxford And Cambridge;epigram: The Answer To Trapp's Epigram Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading WILDERNESS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On lonely kinton green all day Last Line: Down to the bull for pipe and glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WILL O' THE WISP, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From choked morass I leap and run Last Line: Content in swamps despised to dwell! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WILL OF JAMES BIGSBY OF MANNINGTREE, 1839, by JAMES BIGSBY Poem Source First Line: As I feel very queer, my will I now make Last Line: And the rest of my goods sell to pay off my debts Subject(s): Essex, England; Labor And Laborers; Law And Lawyers WILLIAM RUFUS AND THE JEW, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May it please my lord the king, -- there's a jew at the door Last Line: "quoth he, ""I think I'll keep the thirty for the payment of my pains." Subject(s): Jews; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100); Judaism WINDOWS AT BRADFIELD COLLEGE, BERKSHIRE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From smallest seeds we sow Last Line: The mighty tree doth grow Subject(s): Berkshire, England WINDOWS AT BRADFIELD COLLEGE, BERKSHIRE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Falls the house built on sand Last Line: That on rock does stand Subject(s): Berkshire, England WINDOWS AT BRADFIELD COLLEGE, BERKSHIRE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Divided kingdoms fail Last Line: United hosts prevail Subject(s): Berkshire, England WINDOWS AT BRADFIELD COLLEGE, BERKSHIRE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The serpent's wisdom, love Last Line: Of the harmless dove Subject(s): Berkshire, England WINDOWS AT BRADFIELD COLLEGE, BERKSHIRE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The emmet's toil and care Last Line: No hour of light to spare Subject(s): Berkshire, England WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History WINDSOR POETICS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Famed for contemptuous breach of sacred ties Last Line: The blood and dust of both -- to mould a george. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649) WINTER IN BRIGHTON, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Will there be snowfall on lofty soracte Last Line: Nice little saints and still nicer young sinners - %winter in brighton! Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Brighton, England WINTER NIGHTS; A BACKWARD LOOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange chord! The weir-pool's tussling dance Last Line: Are the heart's invincible law. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English WINTER: EAST ANGLIA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a frosty sunset Last Line: And hard as winter dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English WINTERGREEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New england woods are softly fair Last Line: A grace that shines in deepest snows! Subject(s): Forests; New England; Woods WOOD WITCHERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way ran under boughs of checkered green Last Line: Unaging beauty by another name. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; New England; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets WORTH FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, prudence, you have done enough to-day Last Line: "sir, the child is dead!" Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Pilgrim Fathers; Rivers; Sussex, England; Worth Forest, England; Streams; Creeks WRITTEN AT LUDLOW CASTLE (IN THE HALL WHERE COMUS WAS FIRST PERFORMED), by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where wall and sill and broken window-frame Last Line: And they are more than ghosts who lived and sang. Subject(s): Ludlow Castle, England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets WRITTEN IN DEVONSHIRE, NEAR THE DART, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Hail, devon! In thy bosom let me rest Last Line: Writ in my heart amid each strain they flow. Subject(s): Devonshire, England WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dictate, o mighty judge, what thou hast seen Last Line: While talbot tells the world, where montaigne erred. Subject(s): Cities; England; France; Judges; Wisdom; Urban Life; English WUND AN' THE WETTER; A NORTUMBRIAN POEM, by KATRINA PORTEOUS Poem Source First Line: When god med the world it was wetter an' wund Last Line: Comes wi' the wund an' gans wi' the wetter Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Northumberland, England YOUNG AMERICA - OLD ENGLAND, by WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT Poem Text First Line: What! Shall saxon bonds be sundered Last Line: Hand-in-hand, not sword to sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Kent, Charles Subject(s): England; United States; English; America YOUNG ENGLAND - WHAT IS THEN BECOME OF OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let babes and sucklings be thy oracles Subject(s): England; Tradition YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen! Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you. Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War |
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