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Subject: CHESS
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A FRAGMENT OF AN EPIC POEM, OCCASIONED BY THE LOSS OF A GAME, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once it was my brother on
Subject(s): Chess


THE GAME OF CHESS, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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