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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEDICATORY ELEGY TO THE ... UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother most rich, from thy poor son to thee Last Line: Death never can avail to close thine eyes! Subject(s): Cambridge University A PASTORAL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell, dear alexis, tell thy damon, why Last Line: Whom present you revere, him absent praise. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Heaven; Life; Soul; Tears; Paradise AD CHLOEN, M.A.; FRESH FROM HER CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Lady, very fair are you Last Line: Magistra. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Cambridge University; Women AN ELECTION ADDRESS (TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 1882), by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I venture to suggest that I / am rather noticeably fit Last Line: Respectability I can. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Clergy; Elections; Politics & Government; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Voting; Voters; Suffrage AT A VACATION EXERCISE IN THE COLLEGE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail native language, that by sinews weak Last Line: The rest was prose Subject(s): Cambridge University; English Language; Latin CAMBRIDGE IN THE LONG, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where drowsy sound of college chimes Last Line: Of loving, is too much. Subject(s): Cambridge University CORPUS, CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing can I recall Last Line: Walked and blasphemed on corpus sod. Subject(s): Cambridge University; God; Mass; Singing & Singers; Tears ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 43. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL(1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tax not the royal saint with vain expense Last Line: That they were born for immortality. Variant Title(s): Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge;king's College Chapel;within King's College Chapel, Cambridge Subject(s): Cambridge University ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 44. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL(2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What awful perspective! While from our sight Last Line: Of the devout, a veil of ecstasy! Subject(s): Cambridge University ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 45. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL(3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They dreamt not of a perishable home Last Line: Of grateful england's overflowing dead. Subject(s): Cambridge University ELEGY UPON DOCTOR CHADDERTON, THE FIRST MASTER OF EMANUEL COLLEGE, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, dear saint, that we so late Last Line: Than at thy many years before. Subject(s): Cambridge University ELEGY: 2. ON THE DEATH OF THE BEADLE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, notable for carrying your shining mace Last Line: And may the colleges echo with a song of lament Subject(s): Cambridge University ELEGY: 2. ON THE DEATH OF THE UNIVERSITY BEADLE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thee, whose refulgent staff, & summons clear Last Line: In every school her sweetest, saddest verse. Subject(s): Cambridge University ELEGY: 2. ON THE DEATH OF THE UNIVERSITY BEADLE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As beadle, you were wont, standing conspicuous with your shining staff Last Line: And let a mournful dirge ring through all the schools Subject(s): Cambridge University; Ridding, Richard (d. 1626) EPIGRAM ON GEORGE I'S GIFT OF BOOKS TO CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN TRAPP Poem Text First Line: King george observing, with judicious eyes Last Line: How much that loyal body wanted learning. Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading EPIGRAM ON HINCHLIFF, MASTER OF TRINITY ..., by WILLIAM LORT MANSEL Poem Source First Line: A singing-man and yet not sing! Last Line: Forgive me; you mistake the thing: %my voice is in another country! Subject(s): Cambridge University; Singing And Singers EPIGRAM ON THE MARRIAGE OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Saint paul has declared, that persons though twain Last Line: The apostle, methinks, would have altered his tone, %and cried, these two splinters shall make but o Subject(s): Cambridge University; Marriage; Slenderness HERSILIA, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see her stand with arms a-kimbo Last Line: For youthful friendship is a thing %more precious than succeeding Subject(s): Cambridge University HOW THE COMMENCEMENT GROWS NEW, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no coranto-news I undertake Last Line: And so the commencement grows new. Subject(s): Cambridge University IN THE BACKS, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too many of the dead, some I knew well Last Line: Why is this air so sacred and so still? Subject(s): Cambridge University; England; Rivers KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buttress frowns, the gorgeous windows blaze Last Line: And the same hand that finished overthrew. Subject(s): Churches; Cambridge University LINES ON DR. ROBERT SMITH, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you ask why old focus silvanus defies Last Line: But because he has writ about seeing. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Chestnut Trees ODE ON INSTALLATION OF DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, CHANCELLOR ..., by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hence a while, severer muses Last Line: English science, manhood, worth. Subject(s): Cambridge University ODE ON THE INSTALLATION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thirst of power that heaven disowns Last Line: The pride of the islands, victoria the queen. Subject(s): Albert, King Of The Belgians (1875-1934); Cambridge University ODE, SUNG AT CAMBRIDGE, 1832, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath these shades, whose hallowed fame Last Line: And nations own a soul! Subject(s): Cambridge University; Odes (as Poetic Form) ON CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges Last Line: And teach us nothing, feeding not the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Cambridge University ON REVISITING CAMBRIDGE, AFTER A LONG ABSENCE ON THE CONTINENT (1), by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor few, nor poor in beauty, my resorts Last Line: The full response of antique litanies. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cambridge University ON REVISITING CAMBRIDGE, AFTER A LONG ABSENCE ON THE CONTINENT (2), by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a debt of my heart's own to thee Last Line: On the dark-flowing hours I breast in fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cambridge University ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies old hobson, death hath broke his girt Last Line: Hobson has supt, and 's newly gon to bed. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Hobson, Thomas (1544-1630); Labor & Laborers; Plague; Work; Workers ONE, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS Poem Source First Line: One thinks of one as a pronoun employed principally %at cambridge Last Line: A certain exclusiveness in the cambridge one %is suspected, at oxford Subject(s): Cambridge University RECOLLECTION OF THE PORTRAIT OF KING HENRY VIII, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imperial stature, the colossal stride Last Line: Which neither force shall check nor time abate! Subject(s): Cambridge University; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547) SATIRE ON THE HEADS OF HOUSES, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cambridge, attend Last Line: We say nothing at all. Subject(s): Cambridge University SEMANTIC LIMERICK ACCORDING TO THE SHORTED OXFORD DICTIONARY, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There existed an adult male person who had lived a relatively short Last Line: Specially retained for the head, fellows and tutors of the college! Subject(s): Cambridge University THE CANDIDATE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Enough of actors -- let them play the player Last Line: To grace a stuart brow, she plants on thine. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Critics & Criticism; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Yorke, Philip. 2d Earl Of Hardwicke; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy THE CANDIDATE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sly jemmy twitcher had smugg'd up his face Last Line: He's christian enough, that repents, and that -------. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy THE COLLEGIAN AND THE PORTER, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At trin. Coll. Cam. -- which means, in proper spelling Last Line: "I'll give you -- leave to go to bed!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Cambridge University THE TOWNSMEN'S PETITION OF CAMBRIDGE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, scholars, look unto it Last Line: And the scholars must domineer. Subject(s): Cambridge University TO MY BROTHER AT ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, by ELIZABETH TOLLET Poem Text First Line: Blest be the man, who first the method found Last Line: Nor in the patriot's labours lose the friend. Subject(s): Brothers; Cambridge University; Half-brothers UPON SAMUEL WARD, D.D., THE LADY MARGARET'S PROFESSOR IN CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were't not peculiar to weep for thee Last Line: But the sweet breathing smoke still upward go. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Cambridge University; Puritans; Teaching & Teachers; Ward, Samuel (d. 1643); Educators; Professors WHIGS AND TORIES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774) Poem Text First Line: The king to oxford sent a troop of horse Last Line: For whigs admit no force but argument. Variant Title(s): Oxford And Cambridge;epigram: The Answer To Trapp's Epigram Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading WRITTEN AT CAMBRIDGE (1819), by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was not trained in academic bowers Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Cambridge University |
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