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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: THAMES (RIVER) Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... THE RIVER THAMES FROZE AT MARLOW...', by SUSAN PETERS Poem Source First Line: It turns up in idle sketches Last Line: And I will breathe again %without you Subject(s): Rivers; Thames (river) A BALLAD OF THE UPPER THAMES, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What a storm of wind and hail! Last Line: Down to the brimming river. Subject(s): Thames (river) A DESCRIPTION OF LONDON, by JOHN BANCKS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Houses, churches, mixed together, / streets unpleasant in all weather Last Line: This is london! How d'ye like it? Subject(s): London; Thames (river); Travel; Journeys; Trips A RIDDLE OF THE THAMES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At windows that from westminster Last Line: Into some visionary day. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Thames (river) A WEDDING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come up the broad river, the thames, my dane Last Line: As may suit with my mother's fame. Subject(s): Danube (river); London; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Thames (river); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs AVON AND THE THAMES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If, in all albion's storied sweep Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Thames (river) BAB-LOCK-HYTHE, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the time of wild roses Last Line: Our hearts sang together. Subject(s): Birds; Thames (river) BY THE WATER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are rivers lapsing down Last Line: And ah, where is my friend? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): River Thames Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Lilies; Thames (river) COINS OF MIST, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who's the little old man selling matches? Last Line: Where's the light in the sky -- and who watches? Subject(s): Flowers; London; Numismatics; Thames (river); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical CYGNET; A SONG OF THE THAMES, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sails alone, rocking on turbid water Last Line: Until our spirit flowers, and we follow Subject(s): Birds; Swans; Thames (river) DOWN STREAM, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between holmscote and hurstcote Last Line: The sweet school-children's road. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Thames (river) FOR THE PLAN OF A FOUNTAIN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye active streams, where'er your waters flow Last Line: Anna quid imperiis potuit, quid marlburus armis. Subject(s): Danube (river); Fountains; Thames (river); Water FRESH WATER, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a long time ago. I am visiting my brother, who is living Subject(s): Thames (river) IMPRESSION DU MATIN, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thames nocturne of blue and gold Last Line: With lips of flame and heart of stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Prostitution; Thames (river); Winter; Harlots; Whores; Brothels LONDON SONG: 1967, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: The city sifts the mist, Last Line: In a shark-infested thames. Subject(s): London; Thames (river) OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 14. OLD SONG AND A RIVER, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the lip of murmuring thames along Last Line: "sweet thames, run softly till I end my song." Subject(s): Thames (river) OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 15, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spenser lay the dewy grass upon Last Line: Low chanting his glad prothalamion. Subject(s): Thames (river) ON THE REPORT OF A WOODEN BRIDGE WAS TO BE BUILT AT WESTMINSTER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By rufus' hall, where thames polluted flows Last Line: While o'er his head the circling waters foam. Subject(s): Bridges; Thames (river) PROJECTS AND COMPANIES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nation's wealth that overflows Last Line: That close his fourth epistle. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Thames (river); War SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 12, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few more days in this unkind july Last Line: But you -- but you will then be far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): At The Season's End Subject(s): July; Kisses; Moon; Thames (river) SYMPHONY IN YELLOW, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: An omnibus across the bridge Last Line: Lies like a rod of rippled jade. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Rivers; Thames (river) THE BURDEN OF ITYS, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This english thames is holier far than rome Last Line: Hark! 'tis the curfew booming from the bell at christ church gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Thames (river) THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: AUGUST. ON THE THAMES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river thames has many a dear delight Subject(s): Thames (river) THE LOVER TO THE THAMES OF LONDON TO FAVOUR HIS LADY ..., by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou steady stream that with the swelling tide Last Line: Have power for aye in wonted gult to glide. Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Thames (river) THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 2, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A muse (like this) of great and good desires Last Line: Which now (till then) giues me like breath to pawse. Subject(s): Friendship; Thames (river) THE PAUPER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It dawned a morn to make a heart despair Last Line: More swift, more kind, the flow of thames' dark wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Dogs; Thames (river); Estrangement; Outcasts THE THAMES, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the rhine be blue and bright Last Line: My own, my native thames! Subject(s): Thames (river) TO DELIA: 48, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: None other fame mine unambitious muse Last Line: I'll sound her name the river all along. Subject(s): Love; Thames (river) TO THE THAMES AT WESTMINSTER, by THOMAS NOON TALFOURD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With no cold admiration do I gaze Last Line: A rock-throned city clad in heavenly light. Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant Subject(s): Thames (river) UNPOSSESSED POSSESSIONS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose are windsor and hampton, the pride of the land Last Line: To be only a poor unpatrician bard! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Pity; Thames (river) VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvho dares vpbraid these open rimes of mine Last Line: Rather than say I doted in my age. Subject(s): Death; Thames (river); Theater & Theaters; Dead, The; Stage Life |
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