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Subject: LOYALTY
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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