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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOYALTY Matches Found: 36 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF LANCELOT, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By coasts where scalding deserts reek Last Line: The look, the soul of guinevere. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Despair; Fathers & Sons; Grail; Lancelot Du Lac; Love; Loyalty; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Holy Grail; Graal A FAITHFUL DOG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My merry-hearted comrade on a day Last Line: Fast-locked against a loved one, evermore? Variant Title(s): Faithful Follower, Gentle Friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Loyalty A LIGHT WOMAN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So far as our story approaches the end Last Line: Here's a subject made to your hand! Subject(s): Courtship; Loyalty A LOYAL WOMAN'S NO, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! Is my answer from this cold Last Line: Take my life's silence for your answer: no! Subject(s): Evil; Freedom; Loyalty; Marriage; Women's Rights; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A VALENTINE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I that was silent long, at last Last Line: A loyal woman friend! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Loyalty; Valentine's Day BEYOND THE BLUE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben fields was far too sound Last Line: Of seeing ben some day again, 'way up beyond the blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Despair; Dogs; Loyalty; Pets BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations ELSINORE IN THE LATE ANCIENT AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a dead march. A thin wrist is mincing roses Last Line: They buried me. Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Secrets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Dead, The FAREWELL TO ARMS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned Last Line: To be your beadsman now that was your knight. Variant Title(s): The Aged-man At Arms;the Old Knight;an Old Soldier;youth's Waning;polyhmnia: Sonnet;farewell To Arms (to Queen Elizabeth) Subject(s): Aging; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Lee, Sir Henry (1532-1611); Loyalty; Old Age; Retirement; Time GUNGA DIN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' gin and beer Last Line: You're a better man than I am, gunga din! Subject(s): Army Life; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Heroism; India; Loyalty; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire; Heroes; Heroines I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT LOVE WOULD BE, by NORMA PAUL RUEDI Poem Text Last Line: A fortress against time. Subject(s): Loyalty; Memory KAGA-SOTO: THE FATAL ERROR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "with a sorrowful face, and a mystified frown" Last Line: And take care that you don't lose your heart or your head Subject(s): Loyalty;murder;suicide LET MINE EYES FEED FOR EVER ON THINE EYES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Infatuation; Loyalty; Sky LISTEN, LADY!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, lady! Let me sing Last Line: Looks and wins the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Loyalty; Passion; Relationships LOYALTIES, by WALTER A. CUTTER Poem Text First Line: Let us keep splendid loyalties Last Line: And right still claims a kingdom of its own. Subject(s): Loyalty LOYALTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Kings, who would have good subjects, must Last Line: Can sing without his robe or glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Loyalty MAHMED, by MORA L. ACKERMAN Poem Text First Line: These words were lightly spoken, 'please, mahmed Last Line: I've yet to find another man more loyal through and through. Subject(s): Loyalty; Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Mahomet; Mohammed MY GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I own a dog who is a gentleman Last Line: God grant I may be worthy of my dog!' Subject(s): Animals;dogs;friendship;gentility;honesty;loyalty O-TSUYA FORSAKEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I followed. In the tea-house geisha danced the death Last Line: Shall he be mine in no reincarnation? Subject(s): Death; Japan; Love; Loyalty; Stars; Dead, The; Japanese RHYME OF THE DUCHESS MAY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the belfry, one by one, went the ringers from the sun Last Line: Round our restlessness, his rest. Subject(s): Courtship; Loyalty; Brides SAM DAVIS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me his name and you are free Last Line: Who dies to save an enemy! Subject(s): American Civil War; Davis, Samuel (1842-1863); Heroism; Loyalty; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Heroes; Heroines SHE WENT TO STAY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to chop mother down is like Last Line: I couldn't Subject(s): Loyalty; Mothers SHE WENT TO STAY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to chop mother down is like Last Line: With phalangists for hat-pins. %I couldn't Subject(s): Loyalty; Mothers SPANISH BOYS AT THE HOTEL MANX, by DEBORAH BYRNE Poem Source First Line: They prepare french dip sandwiches Last Line: So innocent they believe only the stars %know where they've been Subject(s): Honeymoons; Labor And Laborers; Loyalty; Unfaithfulness SURETY, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have each other's deathless love Last Line: How dear a thing is dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love; Loyalty; Mortality; Dead, The THE ANSWER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spare me, dread angel of reproof Last Line: "as thou forsakest him!" Subject(s): Faith; Loyalty; Belief; Creed THE CONFLICT: 5. KRUPPISM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned on the twilight battlefield, there bends Last Line: So long shall we serve krupp instead of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Jesus Christ; Krupp (industrial Conglomerate); Loss; Loyalty; World War I; Dead, The; Germans; First World War THE DUELLIST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globe Last Line: The happy choice their dam had made. Subject(s): England; Freedom; Loyalty; Martin, Samuel; Patriotism; Sin; Warburton, William (1698-1779); English; Liberty THE SEA-KING'S BURIAL; BY THE MIDSHIPMITE'S MOTHER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, as his henchman served Last Line: Most of all men? Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Service; Wishes; Dead, The THE SHADOWS AT BOXFORD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the white powder cauliflower of still distant moons Last Line: Filling with rain. Subject(s): Aliens; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Extraterrestrials; Male-female Relations THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 5, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Look not for gratitude from mortal prince Last Line: Suspicion never slumbers, never spares! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Loyalty TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN?, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie charlie's now awa Last Line: But aye to me he sings ae sang, %will ye no come back again? Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Loyalty; Stuart, Charles Edward (young Pretender) WINTER, by LUIS KUTNER Poem Source First Line: Summer's rugged recklessnes, once defiant, now must repay Last Line: There is daily death to your %loyalty, if you do not avenge a friend falsely accused Subject(s): False Accusations; Friendship; Loyalty YOUNG WINDEBANK, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They shot young windebank just here Last Line: And loyal love as sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Cavaliers; Loyalty |
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