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| Searching... Subject: CHESS Matches Found: 34 A FRAGMENT OF AN EPIC POEM, OCCASIONED BY THE LOSS OF A GAME, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thus the hostile maid refus'd to yield Last Line: And burns with ardour to renew the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Chess A GAME OF CHESS, by ROBERT PORTER ST. JOHN Poem Text First Line: We played at chess one wintry night Last Line: We played at chess. Subject(s): Chess AN ANCIENT CHESS KING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haply some rajah first in the ages gone Last Line: And murmurs of the dark majestic town. Subject(s): Chess; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CHESS, by ERIC BOWDEN Poem Source First Line: He is a pawn Last Line: But they are mere pawns in the corporation, %and will never be heard Subject(s): Chess; Corporate Life CHESS, by VONNIE CRIST Poem Source First Line: This globe of pawns acknowledges Subject(s): Chess CHESS, by DR. NICK & CO. Poem Source First Line: He entered a room Last Line: Because our long overdue date %is now a checkmate Subject(s): Chess CHESS, by IBN SHARAF Poem Text First Line: I hear men cry on every hand Last Line: The pawn may yet become a queen.' Subject(s): Chess CHESS, by JOHN ROBERT MOSES Poem Source First Line: Do you remember how we played Subject(s): Chess CHESS, by WALDO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: Antonius block played chess with death at seaside Last Line: And the black and white irreconciliable little squares %where life trembles %until the tail twitches Subject(s): Chess CHESS GAME, by SHMU'EL SHATAL Poem Source First Line: In the end Subject(s): Chess CHESS KNIGHT, by MICHALIS STASINOPOULOS Poem Source First Line: Cautious and still, mute and absorbed Subject(s): Chess CHESS MADE SIMPLE, by KEVIN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: My father pressed the chess Last Line: Now it's my turn Subject(s): Chess; Fathers DOGMATIC STATEMENT CONCERNING THE GAME OF CHESS: THEME FOR A SERIES OF PICTURES, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens Subject(s): Chess GAME AT CHESS: BISHOP TO KING, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: Sir, the kingdom is all in turmoil Last Line: Of a prodigy redeems the game Subject(s): Chess; Courts And Courtiers; Play GAME AT CHESS: ENDGAME, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: One leans into the mirror and speaks Last Line: Hovering in airs of shadow and light Subject(s): Chess; Play GAME AT CHESS: FERDINAND AND MIRANDA DISCOVERED PLAYING CHESS, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: How should she mind if ferdinand had played Last Line: His talk of strategy, his abstract look Subject(s): Chess; Learning; Play GAME AT CHESS: PERPETUAL CHECK, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: The fiscal bishops tear their mitred hair Last Line: Prosperity could balance or redress %the regal magnanimity of loss Subject(s): Chess; Play GAME AT CHESS: THE CATCH, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: Ever the gentleman, he knows Last Line: And that black is irretrievably lost Subject(s): Chess GAME AT CHESS: THE CHESS CLOCK, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: When, having placed my piece Last Line: The game we never knew we lived Subject(s): Chess; Clocks; Time GAME OF CHESS, by DAVID SKAATS FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Twas stinging, blustering winter weather Subject(s): Chess GAME OF CHESS, by MARCUS HIERONYMUS VIDA Poem Source First Line: Awhile he ponder'd which of all his train Last Line: For if some adverse warriors were 'erthrown, %he little thought what dangers threat his own Subject(s): Chess IN JIN-LING: A SECOND SERIES ON WATCHING A CHESS GAME: 1, by CH'IEN CH'IEN-YI Poem Source First Line: Still and somber, a bare chessboard Last Line: I see the southern dynasties Subject(s): Chess; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); China - Southern Dynasties; Nanking, China OLD MASTERS, by JOSEPH ALGER Poem Source First Line: Each sport can boost its king or queen Last Line: There'll always be bogoljubow %and dr. Alekhine Subject(s): Bogoljubow, Efim; Chess ON THE REBURIAL OF A SECOND LIEUTENANT, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drank a beer Subject(s): Soldiers; Death; Chess; Dead, The PINDARIC ODE: DESTINIE [DESTINY], by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange and unnatural! Lets stay and see Last Line: And all thy great forefathers were, from homer down to ben. Subject(s): Angels; Chess; Poetry & Poets THE CHESS GAME, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: My king, my queen, the castles twain, each bishop, pawn and knight Last Line: To show their knightly courtesy upon a teakwood stand. Subject(s): Chess THE CHESS-PLAYER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I played at chess with lasker, but to lose Last Line: As I played lasker, so I challenge life! Subject(s): Chess; Failure; Life; Strength THE CHESS-PLAYERS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The clock, unheeded, peals the midnight hour Last Line: And each automaton becomes a man. Subject(s): Chess; Competition; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE CHESSBOARD IS ON FIRE, by AARON FOGEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ant stood up on two legs looks like a chesspiece maybe a bishop Last Line: Story. The story of the stories isn't a store. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolot, Jim Subject(s): Chess; Translating & Interpreting; Yiddish THE FIGURE ON THE FAR SIDE, by JANE COOPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once it was my brother on Subject(s): Chess THE GAME OF CHESS, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens Last Line: Blocked lights working in. Escapes. Renewal of contest. Subject(s): Chess THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little love, do you remember Last Line: Play chess, as then we played together. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Chess; France; Love - Beginnings; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO DR. F.B. ON HIS BOOK OF CHESS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, now unravell'd is the golden fleece Last Line: Bluster'd and clutter'd for, you play. Subject(s): Chess ZUGZWANG AMORE, by BARBARA HAMBY Poem Source First Line: Although a chess term, the german word zugzwang or move Last Line: As if her rage-splintered heart will never mend Subject(s): Chess; Love; Metaphor |
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