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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GREAT BRITAIN - ROMAN CONQUEST Matches Found: 56 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PICT SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rome never looks where she treads Last Line: And then we shall dance on your graves! Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest A SONG TO MITHRAS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mithras, god of the morning, our trumpets waken the wall! Last Line: Mithras, also a soldier, teach us to die aright! Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Mithras (persian Mythology) AN OLD ROMAN SHIELD FOUND IN THE THAMES (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drowned for long ages, lost to human reach Last Line: Our weapons change, we quarrel now as then! Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest AN OLD ROMAN SHIELD FOUND IN THE THAMES (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He drew it home - he heaved it to the bank Last Line: Push boldly to the shore, the friend of all? Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest ARTHUR AND ALBINA, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! The yellow western sky turns pale Last Line: And bowed her humble, grateful head, resigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest BEAU NASH AND THE ROMAN, OR THE TWO ERAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that old pump-room, as I stood alone Last Line: And little caius cooed on british ground. Subject(s): "great Britain - Roman Conquest; Nash, Richard (""beau"") (1674-1762); BOADICEA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While about the shore of mona those neronian legionaires Last Line: Fell the colony, city, and citadel, london, verulam, camulodune. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOADICEA; AN ODE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the british warrior queen Last Line: "shame and ruin wait for you!" Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Boudica; Boadicea BOUDICA: 1, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Over the testicles of bulls, over the seven Last Line: Our words, speaking only in dreams Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 10, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Hymns bawled by the chain-gang. Sweeping Last Line: Men painted blue, its tattered women who don't come Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 11, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Thighs and rumps, mirrors, high-class rugs Last Line: Under the skin, under the bones Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 12, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Far from the sea, by wadi and fjord. Fashionable warriors and firedogs Last Line: Dictates. Hodge-podge of slogans. Kentoc'h mervel, freedom or %death Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 13, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Packs of black dogs, car-horn concerts, eddies of blood; sub-prefects Last Line: The goose-egg of aging moons. Another shot, gunboat and pillar of %fire, massacre of the druids, the Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 14, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: At the roots of the sacred wood, the prophet and his flock. Words Last Line: Caratacus in the cemetery. Harangue, stiff-necked, grit your%teeth. Bro gozh va zadou! Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 15, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: White hyena, trail of insects. Like a rumor, like an eczema, to burst Last Line: Foot-to-foot fighting, the molotov cocktail, pain eating at the left %breast Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 16, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Man-stealer, arsonist, pope joan of this and of that, if only someone Last Line: Trash cans of these tatterdemalion champs and support-structure Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 17, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Mack truck pin-ups, pasionaria with unsubtle step. O boudica Last Line: Her face towards the flame in the fireplace. She sloughs off a %world incapable of closure Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 18, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Fare-up of oghamic codices. Sufferance on twenty-five acres of Last Line: Tread of boots up country. Triumph arches and boneyards. %red eagles and wearing forefathers Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 19, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: What region of wild radishes with grinite pipers. Above the Last Line: Love, till the joints go stiff. Wound and salt. From single solitude %to the solitude of a hundred t Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 2, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: From the sacred wood to bitter fifedoms Last Line: Burning beneficent anxiety Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 20, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: What merchandise do the villages throw up Last Line: Stamp the ground in a ring Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 21, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Toutatis, thanatos, elliptical divinities, biodegradable ... Last Line: Pickpockets imminent Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 22, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: In the oppidum girls in shorts and t-shirts Last Line: Barkers, mobilized, surround her with familial haze Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 23, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Dress done up, neck a burnt umber Last Line: The children of excrement have beaming cheeks Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 24, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Periplus of the salmon, the waterway's Last Line: We putter around in the ferns and in the furze. Death, my eye Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 25, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Nomenclature of rites, tender hands for the Last Line: Rebel love and business as usual Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 26, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Stained glass of an ancient winter Last Line: Sweat and tears no longer do anybody ill Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 27, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: What's from here and reveals time past to do Last Line: With its warm ashes Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 28, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Aerial views, soundings, excavations Last Line: The people burlesqued Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 29, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Tough woman tyrannized by so much night Last Line: The blood of open hands. Tangling sources Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 3, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Gaps in the landscape, and a particular way of Last Line: Good stories that could. The impossible Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 30, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Day within night, night within day Last Line: Wind smites the typewriters Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 31, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Touching the white stones in the clearing Last Line: The oilcloth, the book wide open Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 32, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Here's the sky, the broom-field, the four walls Last Line: Onto that central region Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 33, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: History of the peace after orgasm Last Line: The luck of not being eternal Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 34, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: The night of fiction, friction of the stars Last Line: Boudica vying with angela, anjela Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 35, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: After decapitated bell-towres, nudity Last Line: Legends of a besieged people Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 36, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: A century of needles. The thorns shrink back Last Line: On the verge of the lips Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 37, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: The flies and their avatars, in concentric flight Last Line: Sleeping on her side among the ferns turned to coal, knees t Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 38, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Convene the landscape for the disclosure Last Line: It must have been intentional Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 39, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: End of winter: from atom to meteor, the thaw Last Line: Two-edged words, or three-edged Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 4, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Geography of the colonizer, from the fenced-off Last Line: Tons of mud, the gods bamboozled Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 40, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: From red to violet, meteorological flares Last Line: Death of the queen, toppled Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 5, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Grammarian and philologist, in obscure Last Line: Racing, courage in spurts Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 6, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Faithful wives, unlicked tots, adolescents down Last Line: Speak out before winter e Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 7, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: At carhaix, the cracked mirror, blood-stained Last Line: Loving them. From old saw to gordian knot Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 8, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: From nantes to carhaix, the savings-and-loan Last Line: To answer. Powder-barrels. Cities of refuge Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest BOUDICA: 9, by PAOL KEINEG Poem Source First Line: Straight line of jet planes, snake-bright metal Last Line: Garden / torture garden Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest CASWALLON'S TRIUMPH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the glowing southern regions Last Line: As a torch to stream through ages! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cassivelaunus, British Prince; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Cassivellaunus, British Prince; Casawallan, British Prince; Caswallon, British Prince CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 33. A ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: A road shines through the forest of the years Last Line: The ruined roadway still endures and waits. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Roads; English History; Paths; Trails DRUID CHORUS ON THE LANDING OF THE ROMANS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the dread and viewless powers Last Line: Gods are gathering -- romans, fly! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Anglesey (island), Wales; Druids; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Druidism ON MALVERN HILL, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wind is brushing down the clover Last Line: Quiet are the clan and chief, and quiet %centurion and signifer Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest ON THE PROSPECT FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, MARCH 1750, by ELIZABETH TOLLET Poem Text First Line: Caesar! Renowned in silence as in war Last Line: And last of all resign thy julian year. Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Westminster Bridge, London THE BARDS; TO THE SOLDIERS OF CARACTACUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Valiant sons of freedom's land Last Line: Free as the light, the wave, the wind! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bards; Caratacus (1st Century); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Patriotism; War TO VALERIA (A ROMAN LADY BURIED AT CAERLEON DURING ROMAN OCCUPATION), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How came you to this misty, northern isle Last Line: This isle, these mountains and this healing rain. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen TWELVE SONGS: 11, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the heather the wet wind blows Last Line: I shall do nothing but look at the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Roman Wall Blue Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Hadrian's Wall (great Britain); War |
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