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Subject: GUNPOWDER PLOT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 42. GUNPOWDER PLOT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear hath a hundred eyes that all agree
Last Line: The blood of huguenots through paris streamed.
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes


EPIGRAM: ON THE GUNPOWDER PLOT (1), by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When perfidious faux, you attempted your late unspeakable crime
Last Line: Was snatched away from the fields of jordan
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot


EPIGRAM: ON THE GUNPOWDER PLOT (2), by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O beast acrouch on the seven hills
Last Line: They will hardly, believe me, clamber up the hard road to heaven
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot


EPIGRAM: ON THE GUNPOWDER PLOT (3), by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King james laughed at those purgatorial fires
Last Line: Rolled high by tartarean fire, a burnt shade, to the upper shores
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot


EPIGRAM: ON THE GUNPOWDER PLOT (4), by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Him whom impious rome had vowed to her own furies
Last Line: And seeks to exalt him to the gods on high
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot


EPIGRAM: TO WILLIAM, LORD MONTEAGLE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, what my country should have done (have raised
Last Line: But saver of my country thee alone.
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Parker, William. 4th Baron Monteagle; Guy Fawkes


GUNPOWDER PLOT, by VERNON SCANNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: For days these curious cardboard buds have lain
Last Line: The past retreats. I hear a corpse's sons - %'who's scared of bangers!' 'uncle! John's afraid!'
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot


GUNPOWDER PLOT DAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Please to remember / the fifth of november
Last Line: Should ever be forgot
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes


GUY FAWKES, by RICHARD MIDDLETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, pity me, mine so short a breath
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot


GUY FAWKES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sing a doleful tragedy
Subject(s): Fawkes, Guy (1570-1606); Gunpowder Plot


ON THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good king james, coming from the far north
Last Line: No day in all the year is more celebrated than the fifth of november
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot


ON THE GUNPOWDER-TREASON, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing impiety beyond a name
Last Line: Least it breake forth, and burne thy sooty cell.
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes


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


THE GUNPOWDER PLOT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "remember, remember"
Last Line: And a jolly good bonfire to roast him
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot;mnemonics; Guy Fawkes


UPON THE GUNPOWDER TREASON (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grow plumpe, leane death; his holiness a feast
Last Line: And rugged touch of pluto's multitude.
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes


UPON THE GUNPOWDER TREASON (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reach me a quill, pluckt from the flaming wing
Last Line: The light's faire face, but still abortive bee.
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes


UPON THE POWDER DAY, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How fit our well-rank'd feasts do follow
Last Line: All mischiefe comes after all hallow.
Subject(s): Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes