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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PAGEANTS Matches Found: 69 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BLUE RIBBON AT AMESBURY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a fine pullet ought to go Last Line: And warrant prudence in a man Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants A CARNIVAL EPISODE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two there together alone in the night Last Line: "us two in the night there together." Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants A FESTIVAL, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nor bloody altar, nor barbaric rite Last Line: A cloudless sky wherethro' the songs fly up! Subject(s): Festivals; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Fairs; Pageants A HUSTLE FOR THE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Come, hurry up, sonny Last Line: So the last little webfoot can go to the fair. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants A MERRY HEART: I SING WHILE I WASH THE DISHES, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: Oh, I must dance a whirligig Last Line: For I have seen the gooses green! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Geese; Fairs; Pageants A WELCOME TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: To north and south, and east and west Last Line: Is camped upon the bay! Subject(s): Exhibitions; Festivals; Panama; World's Fairs; Expositions; Fairs; Pageants AT A COUNTRY FAIR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a bygone western country fair Last Line: If once, a hundred times! Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT A FAIR, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE Poem Text First Line: There in the quivering, golden light of the sun Last Line: To know true love for a little before they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H. Subject(s): Festivals; Oxford University; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 1. THE BALLAD-SINGER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune Last Line: Make me forget her tears. Subject(s): Festivals; Love; Singing & Singers; Fairs; Pageants; Songs AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 2. FORMER BEAUTIES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn Last Line: Them always fair. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Transience; Fairs; Pageants; Impermanence AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 3. AFTER THE CLUB-DANCE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black'on frowns east on maidon Last Line: They, too, have done the same! Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 4. THE MARKET-GIRL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey know Last Line: And I found that though no others had bid, a prize had been won by me. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 5. THE INQUIRY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And are ye one of hermitage Last Line: Preserves a maid's alive. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 6. A WIFE WAITS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will's at the dance in the club-room below Last Line: Shivering I wait for him here. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 7. AFTER THE FAIR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The singers are gone from the cornmarket-place Last Line: At their meeting-times here, just as these! Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a harvester, at dusk Last Line: These delights for festival. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Harvest; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Fairs; Pageants AWAY TO THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away to the fair my lad did repair Last Line: Willie comes not from the fair? Subject(s): Fear; Festivals; Love; Waiting; Fairs; Pageants BALSHAM BELLS, by KENRICK PRESCOT Poem Text First Line: Sweet waft their rounds those tuneful brothers five Last Line: Expiring notes—they and these lines are done. Subject(s): Feasts; Festivals; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sound; Fairs; Pageants BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: PROLOGUE TO THE KING'S MAJESTY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your majesty is welcome to a fair Last Line: To give you for a fairing true delight. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants BARTLEME FAIR, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While gentlefolks strut in their silver and satins Last Line: And thus ends the ballad of bartleme fair-o. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Mobs; Crowds; Fairs; Pageants CAPTAIN FRAZER'S NOSE, by NORMAN MACLEOD (1812-1872) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! If ye're at dumbarton fair Last Line: In memory o' frazer! Subject(s): Festivals; Noses; Fairs; Pageants CHRISTMAS DAY, by CAROLINE ELEANOR WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: A loving atmosphere surrounds this day of ... Last Line: The joy of heaven reaches us, this glad day of the year. Subject(s): Christmas; Festivals; Happiness; Holidays; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Joy; Delight COASTING TOWARD MIDNIGHT AT THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stomach in my throat Last Line: And hurl them out among the stars. Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Festivals; Self-control; Southern States; Fairs; Pageants; South (u.s.) CORYBANTIAST, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP Poem Text First Line: Who, thinking on death, decides Last Line: Too long the idle night! Subject(s): Death; Festivals; Future Life; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CRAIGBILLY FAIR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I went up to craigbilly fair Last Line: And away went the beggar-men all in a row Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;festivals; Fairs;pageants DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND GIRL, AT A FESTIVAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her, where the summer flowers Last Line: And glow with rapture's deathless ray. Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Festivals; Visually Handicapped; Fairs; Pageants DESCENSUS ASTRAEAE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, lovely lords, and you, my lord, behold Last Line: Guided by grace and heaven's immortal hand. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Festivals; London; Webbe, Sir William (fl 1568-1591); Fairs; Pageants DEVICE OF THE PAGEANT BORNE BEFORE WOLSTAN DIXIE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From where the sun doth settle in his wain Last Line: From whom our peace and quietness proceeds. Subject(s): Dixie, Sir Wolstan (16th Century); Festivals; London; Fairs; Pageants FESTIVAL, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The scarlet cloth / symbolical of his blood Last Line: "on his high calvary." Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants FOR THIS CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye old-time stave that pealeth out Last Line: And gentlewomen, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Festivals; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants GOIN' TO THE FAIR; OLD STYLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When me an' my ma an' pa went to the fair Last Line: "like you an' your pa an' ma went to the fair!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Festivals; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants HALLOW-FAIR, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At hallowmas, whan nights grow lang Last Line: Wi shame that day. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Festivals; Halloween; Fairs; Pageants HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE, by GERTRUDE ELOISE BEALER Poem Text First Line: Holly berries red and bright Last Line: Theirs a gladsome song! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Songs HOMAGE TO LESTER FLATT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five seasons without traveling to a festival, without walking Last Line: Rattling the bank echoes the tenor of our lives. Subject(s): Fame; Festivals; Flatt, Lester; Future Life; Music, Rock; Homage & Respect; Reputation; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Rock & Roll I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was just before easter Last Line: "next to me,"" history writes." Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Festivals; Holidays; The Resurrection; Fairs; Pageants KING CHARLEMAGNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas strange that he loved her, for youth was gone by Last Line: Of the spell that possess'd charlemagne. Subject(s): Beauty; Charlemagne (742-814); Curses; Festivals; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 10. THE FAIR, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mud hovels fringe the 'fair-green' of this town Last Line: With many an ancient patch and breezy rent. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Bargains; Festivals; Labor & Laborers; Southern Hemisphere; Towns; Fairs; Pageants; Work; Workers LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 9. GOING TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the sun has dried on hedge and furze Last Line: And biddy enters lisnamoy in pride; Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Festivals; Poverty; Fairs; Pageants LOCKERBIE FAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the lockerbie fair! - have you Last Line: Simply waiting your orders, at lockerbie fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Festivals; Moon; Night; Fairs; Pageants; Bedtime LOST AT THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at the fair did I lose thee, my honey Last Line: I kiss'd, sung, and linked with her home from the fair. Subject(s): Festivals; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Worry; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year. Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOUNTAIN FROLIC, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: In working clothes with song and whoop and shout Last Line: Shot dead for dancing with his pal's best girl. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Guns; Murder; Music & Musicians; Fairs; Pageants ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He, who instructs the youthful crew Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Festivals; Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Fairs; Pageants; Wine PAGEANT, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: The night is domed with diamonds. Moire Last Line: That healed the hearts of job and heloise. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Festivals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fairs; Pageants RASHA MEASURE. A DANCE OF THE AUTUMN FESTIVAL OF INDIA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The champak showers its perfume from the trees Last Line: Where the breeze pipes in rasha measure for thee. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Fairs; Pageants RECURRING YULETIDE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: How good our every festival appears Last Line: And to receive — in knowing how to give. Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Festivals; Maturity; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants SHRODON FEAR: THE REST O'T, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' after that we met wi' zome Last Line: Behind, a-kickèn o' the stwones. Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Flirtation; Food & Eating; Seasons; Fall; Fairs; Pageants SHRODON FEAR: THE VU'ST PEART, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' zoo's the day wer warm an' bright Last Line: He didden even zweal the crown. Subject(s): Autumn; Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Magic; Seasons; Vanity; Fall; Fairs; Pageants SONG; FOR A FESTIVAL IN FANEUIL HALL, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill, brothers, fill! -- the brightest pour Last Line: For us, &c. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Festivals; Wine; Fairs; Pageants SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants THE APPLE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: What is all this fuss about? Last Line: "and shout, ""hurrah for the apple fair!" Subject(s): Apples; Festivals; Fruit; Harvest; Fairs; Pageants THE BURNS FESTIVAL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stir the beal-fire, wave the banner Last Line: In the wreath of burns's fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Festivals; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Success; Fairs; Pageants THE DANCE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the snow falls the flakes Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Paintings And Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Fairs; Pageants THE FAIR OF NIJNI-NOVGOROD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by the tower of babel Last Line: Was ever such a crowd? Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Festivals; Nijni-novgorod, Russia; Russia; Fairs; Pageants; Soviet Union; Russians THE FEAST OF THALARCHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is all prepared, xeanres? Last Line: My lord, my lord! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Festivals; Guests; Fairs; Pageants; Visiting THE FESTIVAL OF GIOVEDI GRASSO, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it means looking into the sun, the people can barely see Subject(s): Festivals; Sun; Fairs; Pageants THE FINEST DAY OF ONE'S LIFE, by JACQUES BARON Poem Text First Line: Today is as a festive day Last Line: One can have a good time Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Colors; Festivals; Holidays; Mobs; Crowds; Fairs; Pageants THE FLUTE, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: For the festival of the hyacinths, he gave me a syrinx Last Line: The girdle I have lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Festivals; Flutes; Music & Musicians; Play; Singing & Singers; Fairs; Pageants; Songs THE GUITAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone on a hill above the festival, I listen past field noise Last Line: Could suddenly go strange in my hand? Subject(s): Festivals; Guitars; Music & Musicians; Fairs; Pageants THE HUMOURS O' GLESKA FAIR, by JOHN BRECKENRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The sun frae the eastward was peeping Last Line: As day was beginning to dawn. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; SUNG BY MR. MATTHEWS FOR THE SPRING MEETING, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well I remember the ninth of november Last Line: All, all to see the lord mayor's show. Subject(s): Cities; Festivals; Mayors; Urban Life; Fairs; Pageants THE MIDDLEBURY, VERMOUNT, FAIR, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thirteen teams go past your door Last Line: Wound up the merry fair. Subject(s): Festivals; Middlebury College; Vermont; Fairs; Pageants THE PERFECT FESTIVAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of mystery and gloom Last Line: You are joy and only joy! Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants THE RUSH-BEARING AT AMBLESIDE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come, with her leaves and her flowers Last Line: Let us seek the green rush by the deep woodland springs. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Festivals; Flowers; Fairs; Pageants THE WOOD ROAD, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: All day they are hurrying off to the fair Last Line: Then we'll turn from the highway and take the wood road. Subject(s): Festivals; Love; Marriage; Fairs; Pageants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VASANT PANCHAMI (LILAVATI'S LAMENT AT THE FEAST OF SPRING), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, dragon-fly, fold up your purple wing Last Line: That hath foregone the kisses of the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Festivals; Memory; Spring; Fairs; Pageants WEST END FAIR, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dame charity one day was tired Last Line: And keeps her play-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants WHEN THE COLTS ARE IN THE RING (AS RILEY WOULD SEE IT), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the fair time, the rare time, I can feel it Last Line: For the bloom is on the maiden and the colts are in the ring. Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Horse Racing; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants WHICH ROAD?, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still green on the limbs o' the woak wer the leaves Last Line: Gaït o' walkèn, so smooth as an aïr-zwimmèn cloud Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants; Paths; Trails |
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