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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LEADERSHIP Matches Found: 57 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEADER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though your eyes with tears were blind Last Line: And the mystery told in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Leadership A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE, by BLANCHE EDENS CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: As I look all around me and wonder Last Line: Living the new year, day by day. Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Leadership; New Year A PRESIDENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whom the slave-lords with contemptuous feet Last Line: Which gave us treason, war, and lastly -- thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Freedom; Leadership; Treason And Traitors; War; Liberty 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 ADDIS ABABA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buffaloes, %assorted and gelded Last Line: Of the abyssinian lake Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Leadership; Lions ADDRESS TO THE OLD YEAR, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou not glad to close Last Line: Now floating to them on this wintry air Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Leadership ALONG THE ROAD TO STONE LAKE: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throw on rouge and powder, watch the governor pass Last Line: At dusk I met an old man lying drunk beside the road. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Variant Title(s): Along The Road To Stone Lake (1078) Subject(s): Drought; Leadership; Rain ALONG THE ROAD TO STONE LAKE: 3, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grasses, a plain of sedge fresh with passing rain Last Line: Your governor, long ago, lived in a place like this Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Drought; Leadership; Rain AN ADVENTURE IN THE LIFE OF KING JAMES V. OF SCOTLAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On one occasion king james the fifth of scotland, when alone, in disguise Last Line: "then john said, ""thanks to your majesty, I'll willingly obey." Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; James V, King Of Scotland (1512-1542); Leadership 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) APOTHEOSIS OF MASTER SERGEANT DOE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear master sergeant to the fold Last Line: A blood-red streamer %in monrovian skies, a lamppost and-theswinging %redeemer Subject(s): Admiration; Human Rights; Leadership; Military; Patriotism; Survival BALLADE OF A FRIAR, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Some ten or twenty times a day Last Line: Le frère lubin is not the man! Subject(s): Leadership CASUALTIES: 11. CONVERSATIONS AT ACCRA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The situation may change Last Line: In the wind spell no design Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hunting; Leadership CASUALTIES: 5. THE USURPATION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caucuses at night, caucuses by day Last Line: The bird will flee the tree Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Leadership CASUALTIES: 7. THE REIGN OF THE CROCODILE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say, %because the alligator is stark deaf Last Line: Not one knew the song Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Crocodiles; Leadership; Swamps DRIVER SMITH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas driver smith of battery a was anxious to see a fight Last Line: And drawing a hundred pounds a week to tell how he won the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Leadership; Parades; Soldiers; War EVEN WEEDS, by ESTELLA SHIELDS FAHRINGER Poem Text First Line: The one that sins, judge not Last Line: Reach upward toward the light. Subject(s): Leadership; Sin IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son! Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN MEMORIAM G.D., by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: The church; the moving bier; the psalmist's span Last Line: His own and others' honour to his tent. Subject(s): Leadership; Memory IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The IN PERFECT HARMONY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher knows that he could play the field Last Line: And fairly aches to run that baseball club! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Leadership; Sports LEADER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have felled him to the ground Last Line: Nearest of kin, has quite locked his jaws Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Leadership 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 MASTER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not entirely enviable, however envied Last Line: Our reality and its insupportable innocence Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Leadership MEDITATION ON TODAY'S LIMIT OF PLEASURE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the cicadas come riding in wild Last Line: The hint of mercy saying we can't stand anymore %this song this sun this blue these cicadas Subject(s): Leadership; Pennsylvania; Pleasure; Travel NOT YE WHO GOAD, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not ye who goad, but ye who lead Last Line: In sympathy's own school. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Leadership OF GENERAL GOURAUD, by ROBERTA BALFOUR Poem Text First Line: He wears an empty sleeve Last Line: To victory, to liberty,—humanity! Subject(s): Blood; Courage; Generals; Leadership; Sacrifices; War; Valor; Bravery PAT MORAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He lived the game-to him 'twas all; yet he Last Line: The game is better for the part he bore. Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Moran, Pat (1876-1924); Sports PROGRESS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a leader riding. O how white! Last Line: Unless disgrace and death pay god a toll. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Leadership QUITE FREQUENTLY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The manager, with stony glare, Last Line: The ozone green and blue! Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Sports SELIMUS: KINGS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, my lords, until I call you / forth Last Line: That thinks a sceptre is a pleasant thing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Leadership; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes SIDE BY SIDE, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: You soldier leaders Last Line: Playing %playing %playing Variant Title(s): Soldier Leader Subject(s): Leadership; Native Americans - Wars; Soldiers SONNET OF POWER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Let lips and flesh remember the arrival Last Line: With my office hours be hung out publicly Subject(s): Leadership SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GRETA, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our age has caesars, though they wear silk hats Last Line: Differ only in name and class and year. Subject(s): Leadership; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET. A STATESMAN, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Staunch at thy post, to meet life's common doom Last Line: Than thy plain life, high thoughts and matchless constancy. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Leadership; Dead, The; Reputation SURFACE TENSION, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: It's no wonder you sometimes snag Last Line: Perhaps one more bend? I gather line and cast Subject(s): Leadership TAKE NOT MY HAND AS MINE ALONE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That greater men shall reach Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Leadership THE CAPTAIN, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a captain that commands Last Line: That owls and satyrs desecrate. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Leadership 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 FUNERAL OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of germany, your noble emperor william now is dead Last Line: The founder of the fatherland germany, that he did revere. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Leadership; William I, Kaiser Of Germany (1797-1888); Dead, The THE GUIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rode across the level plain Last Line: "will I be drunken!' is it so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Leadership; Memory; Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE LEADER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poet's Biography First Line: They have felled him to the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Leadership THE MANAGER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When all goes wrong, and when your dear old club Last Line: To give the manager your loud applause? Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Sports THE NEED FOR MEN, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, give us men! A time like this demands Last Line: Wrong rules the land and waiting justice sleeps. Variant Title(s): Wanted Subject(s): God; Leadership; Patriotism; Religion; Theology THE NERVE DOCTORS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they come by the busload the nerve doctors: some Subject(s): Conventions; Leadership; Physicians; Assemblies; Meetings; Doctors 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 UNBOUGHT SEMINOLE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old, old man, in thicker shades Last Line: "live on! Live on! Live on!" Subject(s): Leadership; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Wisdom; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THREE MEN OF TRURO: 1. E.W.B. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The church's outpost on a neck of land Last Line: Look down, behold how bravely goes the war! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Benson, Edward White (1829-1896); Leadership; Soldiers; War TO OUR CAPTAIN (ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN ANSON), by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They have waited--waited yonder for their captain of the past Last Line: Such was the towering commander—such was the captain we knew! Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Leadership; Past; Sports TO THE LEADER OF A GREAT NATION (A TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT), by ERNESTINE RENEE (WHITE) SELLIER Poem Text First Line: Calmly and alone / he lives his life Last Line: Safely through the maze. Subject(s): Leadership; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE GREAT LEADER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I use my name and powers, I use my great prestige Last Line: Except as things to be destroyed in using. Subject(s): Leadership TWO LEADERS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O great and wise, clear-souled and high of heart Last Line: Pass with the stars, and leave us with the sun.' Subject(s): Leadership; Praise; Soul UNDER THREAT OF DISASTER, by HENRY PICOLA Poem Text First Line: Always shall I remember Last Line: And bade me follow him! Subject(s): Leadership; Life; Memory VALDEMAR THE HAPPY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Favored in love, and first in war Last Line: While the poor, proud king is desolate. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Leadership WHAT TITLE?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What title best befits the man Last Line: The highest, noblest name -- the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Americans; Leadership; Life; Nations; Patriotism WHEN THE MOON DIED, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source Last Line: The earth is angry at the people. %we're not living right Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Leadership; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Navajo Indians; Prisons And Prisoners WO'IM BWIKAM, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: With an easter moon on the rise, the coyotes came back to Last Line: That singers take advantage of or not depending on the occasion Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Leadership; Native Americans - Wars; Palm Sunday; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers |
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