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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NAPOLEONIC WARS Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1810 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Where is palafox? Nor tongue nor pen Last Line: On rampart, and the banks of all her streams. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain 1810 (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erweening statesmen have full long relied Last Line: To labour and to prayer, to nature, and to heaven. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars AND IS IT AMONG RUDE UNTUTORED DALES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bread which without industry they find Subject(s): Spain; Napoleonic Wars BY MOSCOW SELF-DEVOTED TO A BLAZE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Finish the strife by deadliest victory! Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Moscow; Victory HAIL, ZARAGOZA! IF WITH UNWET EYE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And law was from necessity received Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain IL Y A CNET ANS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That march of the funereal past behold Last Line: And one without a shell, decisive odds. Subject(s): History; Napoleonic Wars; Nations; Historians INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know we french stormed ratisbon Last Line: Smiling, the boy fell dead. Variant Title(s): Ratisbon;an Incident At Ratisbon Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Napoleonic Wars; Ratisbon [regensburg], Germany INDIGNATION OF A HIGH-MINDED SPANIARD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can endure that he should waste our lands Last Line: That he has power to inflict what we lack strength to bear. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Anger LINES WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE THE DAY OF VICTORY IN EGYPT, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pledge to the much-loved land that gave us birth Last Line: Their country leave unconquered as of yore! Subject(s): Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars MARY LESLIE; BEFORE VITTORIA, JUNE 20, 1813, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary leslie, blithe and shrill Last Line: That clean cup to my mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; Spain; Vittoria, Spain; War MASQUE TO COMMEMORATE THE SPIRIT OF THE WARS OF LIBERATION, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But rarely I appear before the curtain Last Line: [the old marshal, touched by the director's wand, drops lifeless. Subject(s): Masques; Napoleonic Wars; Nationalism - Germany NAPOLEON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cannon his name, / cannon his voice, he came Last Line: Hull down, with masts against the western hues. Subject(s): France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Napoleonic Wars STANZAS ON THE THREATENED INVASION, 1803, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bosoms we'll bare for the glorious strife Last Line: And swear to prevail in your dear native land! Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF THE SPANISH PATRIOTS IN RESISTING REGENCY AND THE DUKE OF ANGOULEME, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave men who at the trocadero fell Last Line: But vengeance is behind, and justice is to come. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain THE BARD'S INCANTATION (WRITTEN UNDER THREAT OF INVASION), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The forest of glenmore is drear Last Line: And hymn'd the joys of liberty!' Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year Last Line: By giving them an inch or two of cold steel. Subject(s): Death; Loss; Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF MONTENOTTE, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow lifts the night her starry host Last Line: Within the peaceful evening-shade. Subject(s): Montenotte, Battle Of (1796); Napoleonic Wars THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year 1815 and on the 18th day of june Last Line: "exclaiming, ""oh, heaven! Mv noble army has met witha total rout!" Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo THE BOLD DRAGOON, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a marechal of france, and he fain would honour gain Last Line: Whack, fal de ral, &c. Subject(s): Courage; Napoleonic Wars; Valor; Bravery THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory. Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History THE CONFLAGRATION OF MOSCOW, by CALEB C. COLTON Poem Text First Line: Her royal nest the russian eagle fires Last Line: Rebukes, and says to glory -- follow me! Subject(s): Moscow; Napoleonic Wars THE MARTIAL COURAGE OF A DAY IS VAIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To think that such assurance can stand fast! Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Courage THE OLD GRENADIER'S STORY; TOLD ON A BENCH OUTSIDE THE INVALIDES, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the day beside the pyramids Last Line: "teach me the way to die!" Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars WAR-SONG OF THE ROYAL EDINBURGH LIGHT DRAGOONS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To horse! To horse! The standard flies Last Line: March forward, one and all! Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Napoleonic Wars |
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