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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MONUMENTS Matches Found: 75 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGADIR, SELS., by ARTUR LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I was reading of the hunter gracchus, whose coming was Last Line: Never more %forever %agadir Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Monuments; Statues; Stones AND OTHER GODS, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Mile after mile Last Line: Call these the white man's gods Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Monuments; Mythology BENJAMIN HARRISON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As tangible a form in history Last Line: And victory -- as ever -- with the right. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901); Heroism; Life; Monuments; Heroes; Heroines BLUE FLAME, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Another day forcing me into place Last Line: And who. And never once asked why Subject(s): Monuments; Tourists; Travel 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 CALLING, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: Remember hiking home when the bourbon sun Last Line: Without thinking, to answer Subject(s): Monuments; Saints CANADA'S THERMOPYLAE, by ANNIE BETHUNE MACDOUGALD Poem Text First Line: Though his head was bowed to the caesar'a toll Last Line: Canada's thermopylae. Subject(s): Death; Monuments; War; Dead, The CARL MILLES MONUMENT, by ALICE L. REYBOLD Poem Text First Line: There is no common wind Last Line: With destiny. Subject(s): Milles, Carl (1875-1955); Monuments CENOTAPH, by GLAUCUS OF NICOPOLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No heap of dust and petty stones Last Line: Only the sea-mews know. Variant Title(s): Full Fathom Five Subject(s): Monuments CHURCH MONUMENTS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While that my soul repairs to her devotion Last Line: That thou mayst fit thyself against thy fall. Subject(s): Consolation; Monuments CLOCK THE REAL, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Twice glimpsed %precisely,/ leaps Last Line: Hour of %thinking a return Subject(s): Art And Artists; Monuments COMMEMORATION ODE, by KARL MYERS Poem Text First Line: Man has not lost, in whatsoever night Last Line: And wreathe the laurel with the asphodel. Subject(s): American Civil War; Garnett, Robert Selden (1819-1861); Monuments; U.s. - History CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America DESCRIPTION OF A PLAZA, A MONUMENT AND ALLEGORIES IN BRONZE, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: The horse, a liberator Last Line: Black truncheons, green helmets %whitened by birdshit Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Monuments; Patriotism DIADUMINIUS, by PIERRE BENOIT Poem Text First Line: The mournful majesty of human greatness Last Line: In the old house to which one will return. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Monuments EUMARES, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History FRED PERRY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, dear fred, our task is done Last Line: Whose name was alfred perry. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Monuments; Dead, The GETTYSBURG ODE; DEDICATION OF THE NATIONAL MONUMENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the eyes that looked, the lips that spake Last Line: And, dying here for freedom, also died for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Monuments; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of HART-LEAP WELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knight had ridden down from wensley moor Last Line: "with sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." Subject(s): Wells; Monuments HIS MONUMENT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Abiding as the pyramids it stands Last Line: Their betterment becomes thy monument. Subject(s): Monuments IN THE SHADOWS: 7, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hew atlas for my monument; upraise Last Line: Oh, cool the fever burning in my brain! Subject(s): Monuments INSCRIPTION FOR THE MONUMENT OF THE REV. GEORGE SCOTT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To youth, to age, alike, this tablet pale Last Line: Heaven crown'd its champion ere the fight was fought. Subject(s): Monuments INSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To those who died for her on land and sea Last Line: In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent. Subject(s): Boston; Monuments INSCRIPTIONS: 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youths and virgins: o declining eld Last Line: "which his own genius only could acquire." Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Monuments; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists JOHN HAY AND ROSA PARKS, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: The architect of the american empire Last Line: Is honored with a small, lightly traveled, almost alley-like side street Subject(s): Hay, John Milton (1838-1905); Monuments; Parks, Rosa (b. 1913) LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE WALLACE MONUMENT, STIRLING: 1861, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auld scotlan's hert an' baith her lugs war dirlin' Last Line: For ever—wallace, bruce, an' bannockburn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Monuments; Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305) LEGGETT'S MONUMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, pile the marble o'er him! It is well Last Line: Of the brave heart beneath, but of the builders' shame! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Leggett, William (1801-1839); Monuments; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs LINES ERECTED ON THE MONUMENT OF ADMIRAL SIR G. CAMPBELL LATELY FINISHED BY MR. CHANTREY, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To him, whose loyal, brave, and gentle heart Last Line: Whilst placing their memorial o'er his dust. Subject(s): Admirals; Monuments LINES WRITTEN ON A SEAT ON THE GRAND CANAL, DUBLIN, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O commemorate me where there is water Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Monuments LINES WRITTEN ON A SEAT ON THE GRAND CANAL, DUBLIN, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O commemorate me where there is water Last Line: O commemorate me with no hero-courageous %tomb - just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Monuments MOMENT IN ARCADIA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The landscape is painted Last Line: The always blinder painted eye %sees it and writes Subject(s): Arcadians; Monuments; Paintings And Painters; Tourists; Travel MONUMENT, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Standing under cherry trees Last Line: Not to be forgotten %in stone Subject(s): Monuments MONUMENTAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have ceased to rant and rave, and Last Line: Silent sea, a three-foot slab of slippery elm is plenty good enough for me. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Monuments; Stones; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks MY ROCKERY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Here in my garden I have lovely stones Last Line: Might well forget, and stay to worship stones! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Monuments; Stones; Granite; Rocks ODE: FOR THE GREENFIELD SOLDIERS MOMUMENT, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This slender spire of glossy stone Last Line: The gleaming shaft! The eagle bird! Subject(s): Monuments ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by W. T. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: No more the cannon peal Last Line: And deathless fame. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fame; Monuments; United States - History; Dead, The; Reputation ODES III, 30. APOTHEOSIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have erected a monument more durable than bronze Last Line: And graciously wreathe my hair with delphic laurel Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Monuments ON THE CENOTAPH OF ONE LOST AT SEA, by GLAUCUS OF NICOPOLIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sad hath erasippus to entomb him, not a boulder Subject(s): Monuments ON THE MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED AT BATH, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below this marble monument is laid Last Line: In sickness patient; and in death resign'd. Variant Title(s): On The Monument Of Miss Mary Frampton Subject(s): Death; Frampton, Mary (1676-1698); Monuments; Soul; Dead, The ON THE MONUMENT OF THE MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who in impious times untainted stood Last Line: To earth were meant for ornaments to heav'n. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Monuments; Paulet, John. 5th Marquis Of Winchester; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Pawlett, John; Poulett, John; Powlett, John PILLAR, by MAIREAD BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Clouds scud, what else, in the grey sky, and yes Last Line: And we rise up and kneel, rise up and kneel again Subject(s): Monuments PLATAEA: THE ATHENIAN MONUMENT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If valour's best be gallantly to die Last Line: Laboured, and here in ageless honour lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi PLATAEA: THE SPARTAN MONUMENT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the dark death cloud they passed, to set Last Line: Into the splendour from the night beneath. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi PRO PATRIA, by CONSTANCE VIRGINIA CARRIER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a green island in the main street traffic Subject(s): Monuments PRO PATRIA, by CONSTANCE VIRGINIA CARRIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a green island in the main street traffic Last Line: And the doves come down for bread on the sun-warmed stone Subject(s): Monuments SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels Last Line: Majesty! We have lifted you up on the backs of slaves %whoselives you still hold as the curved earth Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids SONNET: 9. GOETHE'S MONUMENT AT FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good german men, maids, matrons, pray give ear Last Line: Whom a stream doth from sachsenhausen sever! Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Monuments THE BLACK WATCH MEMORIAL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of mars, it gives me great content Last Line: And the company with one accord sung the national anthem. Subject(s): Memory; Monuments THE BURNS STATUE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see Last Line: In fear of not getting such a beautiful statue after they die. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dundee, Scotland; Monuments; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE LEADY'S TOWER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' then we went along the gleades Last Line: Built up the tower upon the knowl.' Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage; Memory; Monuments; Story-telling; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LOST PYX; A MEDIAEVAL LEGEND, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the spot is banned: that the pillar cross-and-hand Last Line: That midnight miracle. Subject(s): Monuments THE MAUSOLEUM, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A monument of love! More glorious love Last Line: Twas artemisia by her husband's tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Graves; Love; Marriage; Monuments; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MONUMENT OF FRANCIS MAKEMIE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, plain hero of a rugged race Last Line: Where rests this brave scotch-irish man of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Makemie, Francis (1658-1707); Monuments; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE MONUMENT-MAKER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chiselled her monument Last Line: Yet I hoped not quite, in her very innermost! Subject(s): Monuments THE NEW JERSEY MONUMENT, by ELLEN CLEMENTINE DORAN HOWARTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Build high the monument! We will remember Last Line: Those hero-hearted sires. Subject(s): Monuments; New Jersey THE NEWPORT TOWER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rude old monument Last Line: "the spot where I am laid." Subject(s): Monuments; Newport, Rhode Island THE PRISON SHIPS, 1776, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: O martyrdom of hope!-to lie Last Line: Holds back to god,—earth's brightest answering star. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Monuments; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Prison Ships; Ships & Shipping THE SCOTT MONUMENT, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sits he throned, where men and gods behold Last Line: While yon grey ramparts kindle to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hate; Life; Love; Monuments; Past; War THE SCULPTURED CHILDREN; ON CHANTREY'S MONUMENT IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair images of sleep Last Line: The faith, trust, joy, of immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Monuments; Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies THE SNOWDROP MONUMENT (IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvels of sleep, grown cold! Last Line: For when we wake -- with thee -- we shall be satisfied.' Subject(s): Churches; Lips; Love; Monuments; Silence; Sleep; Cathedrals THE SOLDIER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier! - meek the title, yet Last Line: The captain's high command. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Monuments; Soldiers; War; Liberty THE SPANISH STAIRS-ROME, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: John keats, if he were living, with sad eyes Last Line: Three blind men fiddle in the gathering dusk. Subject(s): Monuments; Rome, Italy THE SPHINX, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Couchant upon the illimitable sand Last Line: Inscrutable as is the face of death! Subject(s): Egypt; History; Monuments; Sphinx; Historians THE STAR'S MONUMENT; CONCLUDING PART OF A DISCOURSE ON FAME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be memory in the world to come Last Line: That gaze up dying into alien skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Life; Love; Memory; Monuments; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Reputation THE TAJ MAHAL, by LAURA BELL Poem Text First Line: On jumna's banks, where wavelets lap the shore Last Line: This tribute, of a monument sublime. Subject(s): Love; Monuments; Taj Mahal THE TWO MONUMENTS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Banners hung drooping from on high Last Line: Like him to live and die! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Monuments; Mourning; Bereavement TO LAURELS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A funeral stone / or verse I covet none Last Line: As the eternall monument of me. Subject(s): Monuments TO THE WIFE OF THE CORREGIDOR, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: For primates old, pale incense eddying round Last Line: Awake thy comrades! 'tis the hour. March on!' Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Monuments; Stones UNDERGROUND PALACE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Above the ancient palace Last Line: From the red soil ravaged %by rains and winds Subject(s): Death; Mansions; Monuments UNVEILING THE MONUMENT, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The veil remove. Now let the curtain rise Last Line: And guard his own in future rolling years. Subject(s): Life; Monuments; Peace; War WHITE NIGHT, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I went down the painted desert trail last Last Line: I returned to normalcy, to rest, and to sleep. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Monuments WOMAN AND THE CHILD IN COSTUME, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Brave under the blows of fate Last Line: Of the little girl as pale as the sky Subject(s): Monuments |
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