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Subject: NAPOLEON III (1808-1873)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The child received two bullets in the brain
Last Line: Must sew the shrouds of children eight years old.
Subject(s): Death - Children; France; Grandparents; Guns; Murder; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); War; Death - Babies; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


A THOUGHT FOR MARCH 1860, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon happy blackbird's note the rushing wind
Last Line: His eagles wave their wings, and they are gone.
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873)


DIRE: 10. A COUNSEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O strong republic of the nobler years
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Nations; Time


EXECUTION OF FELICE ORSINI, MARCH 13TH, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A day to be remembered
Last Line: The red rose crown is thine %for evermore
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor
Subject(s): Assassination; Capital Punishment; Italy - Revolutions; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Orsini, Felice (1819-1858)


HEROES DEL CINCO DE MAYO: ANDREA BELARDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Which man is the greatest villain?
Last Line: They brought for our destruction
Subject(s): Maximilian, Emperor Of Mexico (1832-67); Mexico - French Invasion; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873)


LOUIS NAPOLEON, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eagle of austerlitz! Where were thy wings
Last Line: Breaks on the shores where kings lay crouched at ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873)


MADAME TALLEYRAND AND THE TRAVELLER, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The famous talleyrand, who knew
Last Line: Robinson crusoe by mistake!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Revolutions; Robinson Crusoe


NAPOLEON III IN ITALY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emperor, emperor! / from the centre to the shore
Last Line: Evermore.
Subject(s): Italy; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Regalia; Italians; Royal Perogatives


PRINCE HOHENSTIEL-SCHWANGAU; SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have seen better days, dear? So have I
Last Line: Double or quits! The letter goes! Or stays?
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873)


THE LAST CAESAR, 1851-1870, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now there was one who came in later days
Last Line: The lighted torch, the tocsin's heavy boom!
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873)


THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY, 1852, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lords, we heard you speak; you told us all
Last Line: And hold against the world this honor of the land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Liberty


VILLA FRANCA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wait a little; do we not wait?
Last Line: But only god endures forever!
Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873)