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Subject: GREAT BRITAIN - RELATIONS WITH FRANCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIFTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last villeneuve accepts the sea and fate
Last Line: And fiercely the predestined plot proceeds
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark now, and gather how the martial mood
Last Line: Affection ever was illogical
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, yes, I grasp your reasons, mr. Pitt
Last Line: He's staunch. He's watching, or I am much deceived
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our migratory proskenion now presents
Last Line: And if he's not, why, we've a holiday!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldiers, the hordes of muscovy now face you
Last Line: A gauze of shadow overdraws
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur the admiral decres
Last Line: If time's weird threads to weave!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. FORE SCENE. THE OVERWORLD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What of the immanent will and its designs?
Last Line: We may but muse on, never learn
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIFTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Napoleon even now embraces not
Last Line: Over the scene they disappear
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another stranger presses to see you, sir
Last Line: And peoples are enmeshed in new calamity!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether the rain comes in or not
Last Line: Whether ye sigh their sighs with them or no!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The life-guards still insist, love, that the king
Last Line: Will light me in
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird's eye perspective is revealed of the peninsular trace
Last Line: A painless hand
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now he's one of the eighty-first
Last Line: The night closes over
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The portent is an ill one, emperor
Last Line: The woes of moscow
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The view is from a vague altitude over the beautiful country
Last Line: The opera house becomes lost in darkness
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This grateful rest of four-and-twenty hours
Last Line: To leipzig city, and await the blow
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SEVENTH. THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aerial view of the battlefield at the time of sunrise
Last Line: Because it must
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground
Last Line: From to-morrow's mist-fall till time is sped
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo


DYNASTS: 3. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We come; and learn as time's disordered deaf sands run
Last Line: The dawn must find us fording the nivelle!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. AFTER SCENE. THE OVERWORLD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus doth the great foresightless mechanize
Last Line: Concious the will informing, till it fashion all things fair
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


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


FROM MUCK TO MUCKISH, by JANICE FITZPATRICK-SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fossil rock from the sligo coast, spanish bowls
Last Line: And what we drive toward willingly now
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


ODE, WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BONAPARTE, IN JANUARY, 1814, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who counsels peace at this momentous hour
Last Line: Take vengeance for thyself, and for mankind!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


PAX BRITANNICA, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind her rolling ramparts england lay
Last Line: Watchful she leaned.
Subject(s): Calm; Great Britain - Relations With France; Nations; Peace; Retirement; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


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


TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE; A METRICAL EPISTLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord! Though your lordship repel deviation
Last Line: To pause, and resume the remainder to-morrow.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Great Britain - Relations With France; Grenville, William Wyndham (1759-1834); Talleyrand, Charles (1754-1838)


THE DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo; Scientists; Battle Of Waterloo


THE VOLUNTEER, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in that memorable year
Last Line: A martial epigram.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Soldiers