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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CORNWALLIS, CHARLES (1738-1805) Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ANCIENT PROPHECY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a certain great king, whose initial is g Last Line: And your lion shall growl, but hardly bite more. -- Subject(s): American Revolution; Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ASSUNPINK AND PRINCETON [JANUARY 3, 1777], by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious the day when in arms at assunpink Last Line: And you and your children would not have been free. Subject(s): American Revolution; Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); Princeton, Battle Of (1777); Reed, James (1724-1807); St. Clair, Arthur (1736-1818) CORNWALLIS'S SURRENDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When british troops first landed here Last Line: And may great britain rue the day / her hostile bands came hither Variant Title(s): Cornwallis Burgoyned Subject(s): "american Revolution;cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805);yorktown Campaign (1781); DIALOGUE, AT HYDE-PARK CORNER, LONDON, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let those, who will, be proud and sneer Last Line: We'll stay and guard our native shore. Subject(s): American Revolution; Burgoyne, John (1722-1792); Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805) LORD CORNWALLIS AND A CAROLINA SPRING, by HELEN SMITH BEVINGTON Poem Source First Line: Cardinals were singing in this wood Subject(s): Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805) LORD CORNWALLIS TO SIR HENRY CLINTON, FROM YORK, VIRGINIA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From clouds of smoke, and flames that round me glow Last Line: Nor leaves one triumph, even to hope for, more. Subject(s): American Revolution; Clinton, Sir Henry (1738-1795); Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805) NEWS FROM YORKTOWN, by LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past two o'clock and cornwallis is taken Last Line: Like a cry for god's justice born! Subject(s): American Revolution; Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); Yorktown Campaign (1781) ON THE FALL OF GENERAL EARL CORNWALLIS, 1781, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chieftain, formed on howe, burgoyne, and gage Last Line: Shrink from an injured world -- and fare like you. Subject(s): American Revolution; Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); Yorktown Campaign (1781) THE DANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Cornwallis led a country dance Last Line: "that while your hopes are danced away, / 'tis you must pay the piper?" Subject(s): "american Revolution;cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805);war;yorktown Campaign (1781); THE FLAG OF OLD ENGLAND, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to the day when the britons came over Last Line: Chorus—hail to the day, &c. Subject(s): Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); Flags - Great Britain; Halifax, Canada; Nova Scotia TO LORD CORNWALLIS, AT YORK, VIRGINIA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail great destroyer (equalled yet by none) Last Line: The plundering servant of a bankrupt king. Subject(s): American Revolution; Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805) |
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