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Subject: GEORGE III, KING OF ENGLAND (1738-1820)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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)


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)


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 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


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)


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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)


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)


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)


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 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 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 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 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 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)


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)