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Subject: WATERLOO
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARAPHRASE FROM THE FRENCH, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In grey-haired celia's withered arms
Last Line: Te deum sing in quiet!'
Subject(s): Fear; Love; Singing & Singers; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


A SONG OF THE WELSH, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a race in an island place which rose in the morning gleam
Last Line: In a home that is ever the harp of song and legend and fairy tale.
Subject(s): Fights; Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Wales; Waterloo; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen; Battle Of Waterloo


A WATERLOO BALLAD, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To waterloo, with sad ado, / and many a sigh and groan
Last Line: And see th' illuminations.'
Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


AFTER VISITING THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A winged goddess - clothed in vesture wrought
Last Line: And horror breathing from the silent ground!
Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground
Last Line: From to-morrow's mist-fall till time is sped
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo


EPITAPH ON TOMBSTONE ERECTED OVER MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA'S LEG, by GEORGE CANNING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rests, and let no saucy knave
Last Line: Who never meant to run.
Subject(s): Legs; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


EXPIATION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain!
Last Line: He heard a voice replying to him: no!
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Waterloo


FIELD OF WATERLOO: A POEM, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair brussels, thou art far behind
Last Line: Best justifies the meed thy valiant sons have won
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852)


LINES ON THE BURIAL OF THE LEG OF HENRY PAGET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here lies - and let no saucy knave
Last Line: She thought two legs were lost on him %who never deigned to run
Subject(s): Paget, Sir Henry. 1st Marquis Anglesey; Waterloo


MIDNIGHT MUSTER AT WATERLOO, by VASILY (VASILI) ANDREYEVICH ZHUKOVSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At midnight, the ghostliest hour
Last Line: From his death has their emperor risen
Alternate Author Name(s): Zhucovski, Vassilii Andreievich
Subject(s): Waterloo


OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Intrepid sons of albion! Not by you
Last Line: Your country rears this sacred monument!
Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


OCCASIONED BY THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, FEBRUARY 1816, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bard - whose soul is meek as dawning day
Last Line: Angels might welcome with a choral shout!
Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


OLD SAM, by STANLEY HOLLOWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It occurred on the evening before waterloo
Last Line: So sam picked it up, 'gradeley, lad,' said the duke, %'right-o, boys, let battle commence'
Subject(s): Waterloo


ON A DRAWING OF THE ELM-TREE; ... DUKE OF WELLINGTON STOOD, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there one heart that beats on english ground
Last Line: It fell for many here, but there it stood for all.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); Battle Of Waterloo; Wellington, Duke Of


ON A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By art's bold privilege warrior and warhorse stand
Last Line: Conqueror, 'mid some sad thoughts, divinely blest!
Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846); Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); Battle Of Waterloo; Wellington, Duke Of


ON READING THE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, by LOUISE STUART COSTELLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! Who can listen with delight
Last Line: May rest her laurell'd head!
Subject(s): Waterloo


ON SCOTT'S 'THE FIELD OF WATERLOO', by THOMAS ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On waterloo's ensanguined plain
Last Line: Fell half so flat as walter scott.
Alternate Author Name(s): Erskine Of Restormel, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


PILGRIMAGE TO WATERLOO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ill had we done if we had hurried by
Subject(s): Waterloo


SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I should have pocketed the key left in the front door of the embassy and used
Last Line: I should have asked charon for permission to troll. %I should have thrown back what I caught.
Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; Politics; Presidents, United States; Waterloo


SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When napoleon was flying
Last Line: Wept when all their tears were dried.
Subject(s): Battle Of Waterloo; Death; Mourning; Fall


SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 28. WATERLOO, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: A stormy evening on a far-stretched plain
Last Line: Wavered,—and turned,—and the whole world's conquerors fled!
Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


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 DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo; Scientists; Battle Of Waterloo


THE PASSING OF THE EMPEROR, by AVERY L. GILES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The children romped in the village street
Last Line: On the road to waterloo.
Subject(s): Children; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Waterloo; Childhood; Battle Of Waterloo


THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old england! Thy name shall yet warrant thy fame
Last Line: Neath the red cross of england—the flag of the brave.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Marines - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; War; Waterloo; English History; Seamen; Sails; Battle Of Waterloo


TO ARMS!, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now let the cry, 'to arms! To arms
Last Line: And her ironclads the sea!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humility; Trafalgar, Battle Of; War; Waterloo; Weapons; Ammunition; British Empire; England - Empire; Battle Of Waterloo


TO THE MEMORY OF SIR HENRY ELLIS, WHO FELL ... WATERLOO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep'st thou for him, whose doom was sealed
Last Line: A warrior's name?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


WATERLOO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overlooking the battlefield, on that grassy
Last Line: At him. Perhaps he wasn't there. But he was.
Subject(s): Sadism; Social Protest; War; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


WATERLOO, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why have the mighty lived - why have they died?
Subject(s): Waterloo


WATERLOO, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, here such valorous deeds were done
Last Line: They'll swear to that in france!
Subject(s): Soldiers; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo