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Subject: STATESMEN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPISTLE TO LORD BATHURST, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How happy you who varied joys pursued
Last Line: Deep, though unseen, remains the secret wound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Bathurst, Allen, 1st Earl (1684-1775); Statesmen


GREATER GRANDEUR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half a year after war's end, roosevelt and hitler dead, stalin tired
Last Line: And not appropriate for events on this scale watched from this level; admiration is all
Subject(s): World War Ii; Death; Statesmen; Second World War; Dead, The


LINES TO LORD BATHURST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wood? Quoth lewis; and with that
Last Line: An honest man, because not hang'd.
Subject(s): Bathurst, Allen, 1st Earl (1684-1775); Lewis, Erasmus (1670-1754); Statesmen


ON A YOUNG STATESMAN; IN MEMORIAM: THOMAS ELLIS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in this place of peace we make his grave
Last Line: "duw rho dy hedd."
Subject(s): Death; Statesmen; Dead, The


ON AN OLD STATESMAN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night falls, nor yet we may discern the dawn
Last Line: The onward march of man.
Subject(s): Old Age; Statesmen


OUR PILOT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who guided our noble ship of state
Subject(s): Statesmen


SMILES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world would rather see hope than just hear
Subject(s): Hope; Statesmen; Optimism


STATESMAN'S HOLIDAY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lived among the great houses
Last Line: Tall dames go walking in grass-green avalon
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Statesmen


STATESMEN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When statesmen gravely say, 'we must be realistic'
Last Line: Their generals are already poring over maps
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Statesmen


STATESMEN, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quieter than the sun is he
Last Line: How far, o god, from hope and thee.
Subject(s): Statesmen


STATESMEN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell us that they war on war. Why do
Last Line: The foe ye meet is still yourselves, the blade ye forged the sword that kills.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Statesmen


THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: CAMPBELL, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet of hope, of love, and woe
Last Line: Swell high when poland's wrongs revealing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Statesmen


THE STATESMAN'S HOLIDAY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lived among great houses
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Statesmen


THE STATESMAN'S SECRET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who of all statesmen is his country's pride
Last Line: It told the mystery of a mother's love.
Subject(s): Statesmen


TO ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not to look down, or blanch, or care
Last Line: Ah! There are honours of defeat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Balfour, Arthur. 1st Earl (1848-1930); Philosophy & Philosophers; Statesmen


TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As from an ancestral oak
Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one.
Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819
Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount


TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O patriot statesman, be thou wise to know
Last Line: In changing, chime with never-changing law.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Campbell, George John (1823-1900); Statesmen; Argyll, 8th Duke Of


WAKE, MASSACHUSETTS, by MARION PERHAM GALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This place has known a sturdy growth of men
Last Line: Set the glance backward! To our grandsires, hail!
Subject(s): Army - United States; Freedom; Gratitude; Statesmen; Liberty