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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WATERLOO Matches Found: 30 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 englandthe 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 |
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