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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OXFORD, ENGLAND Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOVE THE HIGH, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Cold oxford unfamiliar now, around Last Line: So ancient town Subject(s): Love; Oxford, England AT LAST, DEAR WARD, I TAKE A RHYMING QUILL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On thine own regal cornerstone: I will! Subject(s): Oxford, England; Creative Ability; Imagination BRUSSELS AND OXFORD, by WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK Poem Text First Line: How first we met do you still remember? Last Line: And are meshed again in your golden hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H. Subject(s): Love; Oxford, England CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD; NIGHT, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faint from the bell the ghastly echoes fall Last Line: To spirits such as these, than unto common dead. Subject(s): Christ Church, Oxford, England; Night; Bedtime DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Towery city and branchy between towers Last Line: Who fired france for mary without spot. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; England; Oxford, England; Poetry & Poets; English ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: PREFACE, SELS., by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city! So venerable, so lovely, so unraveged Subject(s): Oxford, England EVENING IN OXFORD, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY Poem Text First Line: Dim pinnacles against the amber sky Last Line: "o love, do you remember, or forget?" Subject(s): Oxford, England; Wellesley College INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind! Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 1. WADHAM, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is like a sabbath in a swoon Last Line: The old quadrangle paved with afternoon. Subject(s): Oxford, England; Sabbath; Sunday OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 13. VICISSITUDE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that a sod for just a thrill or two Last Line: Exchange for burning tears its peaceful dew! Variant Title(s): Strange Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 4, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one whose road winds upward turns his face Last Line: From the assembly of my thoughts and days. Variant Title(s): In An Oxford Garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 10, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Primrose, and phlox, and clytie (as I call Last Line: And discord dreamwise vanish from it all. Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England; Sunflowers OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 17. CONSTANCY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the same sky over sea and land Last Line: Good is within all, having all things planned. Subject(s): Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 2, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No footfall sounds within the empty hall Last Line: A comfortable and a holy spot withal. Subject(s): Oxford, England; Sabbath; Sunday OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 24. RESTORATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To one tired heart I said: if it be true Last Line: That once in many a labyrinth was your clew. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 33, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great nelumbo heavy on the breast Last Line: Of the dear face that waits me down the west. Subject(s): Absence; Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England; Separation; Isolation OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 5, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As here among the well-remembering boughs Last Line: Glowing, the light of memory on her brows. Subject(s): Memory; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 6, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hath she uttered that should make me dread Last Line: And smileth on the glory of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Oxford, England; Dead, The OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 8, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blake hither brought his book-to con the sky Last Line: And they are patient still and standing by. Subject(s): History; Oxford, England; Historians OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 9. NATURE'S CALMNESS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things seem ordered sweetly in the calm Last Line: A nostril to the breeze-bestowèd balm. Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England ODE TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR, ON PUBLICATION OF HIS 'VISIT TO OXFORD', by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O worthy mayor! - I mean to say ex-mayor Last Line: And every lord mayor his own recorder! Subject(s): Oxford, England; Politics & Government ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial iffley, cumnor bowered in green Last Line: "even here remember me when thou shalt reign." Subject(s): Churches; Oxford, England; Cathedrals OXFORD, by FANNY HOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Homeless and never sadder, Last Line: The book is out of print Subject(s): Oxford, England; Books & Reading OXFORD BELLS, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always the ghost of these will wake again Last Line: The bell of christ's, tolling its hundred times. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Bells; Oxford, England OXFORD BELLS: PART 1, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The watchers in the everlasting towers Last Line: Till in the young dawn oxford towers are bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bells; Oxford, England OXFORD BELLS: PART 2; TO RHODA BROUGHTON, IN MEMORY OF HER SISTER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells their loud unchanging task fulfil Last Line: The coronal of this autumnal verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bells; Memory; Oxford, England OXFORD CANAL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you have wearied of the valiant spires of this county town Last Line: Forgotten they live, and forgotten die. Subject(s): Canals; Oxford, England OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What alters you, familiar lawn and tower Last Line: To mask the riches of her bleeding heart. Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain RUNNING IN OXFORD, by CHRISTIAN KARLSON STEAD Poem Source First Line: Might you have done this Last Line: An elderly visitor %is running in oxford Subject(s): Aging; Oxford, England; Track Athletics SCENE FROM A PLAY CALLED 'MATRICULATION', by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, my lad, lie the articles Last Line: Were made, not for men to believe, but to sign. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Oxford, England; Plays & Playwrights THE GHOSTS OF OXFORD, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went walking up and down Last Line: The darkened streets of oxford town. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain VERSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / since anna visited the muses' seat Last Line: What margaret tudor was, is harriet harley now. Subject(s): Muses; Oxford, England; Women; Writing & Writers |
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