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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DICTATORS Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF BATTLE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: How goes it, my brother, with you? Does the Last Line: O you with the weapon of god—life's splendid and terrible sword! Subject(s): Fights; Swords; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators A TALE FROM THE TALMUD, by WILLIAM DEARNESS Poem Text First Line: In judah, in the days of story Last Line: Her hero dames shall bloom amain. Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism; Dictators AN EPISTLE TO CURIO, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice has the spring beheld thy faded fame Last Line: And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear. Subject(s): Freedom; Roman Empire; Slavery; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Serfs; Dictators BEYOND THE BARS, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Within my cell are singing sounds - a robin's call, afar Last Line: "and still I muse, in chains that chafe: ""will there be prisons then?" Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Tyranny & Tyrants; Convicts; Dictators DICTATOR, by KATHARINE BROWN BURT Poem Text First Line: Sparrow with militant glitter in your eye Last Line: Since none will challenge, none now envy you! Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; Dictators FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism KINGS AND TYRANTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known Last Line: Kings seek their subjects good: tyrants their owne. Subject(s): Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators LITANY FOR DICTATORSHIPS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all those beaten, for the borken heads Last Line: Our children know and suffer the armed men Subject(s): Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators LORD ROBERTS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nestor of happy warriors, blest was he Last Line: Shall come hereafter for comparison. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Paradise; Dictators LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG OF JEALOUSIE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What state of life can be so blest Last Line: Thou tyrant of the mind! Variant Title(s): Jealousy, The Tyrant Of The Mind Subject(s): Death; Jealousy; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Songs; Dictators OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by A. A. IMBERMAN Poem Text First Line: Here lies giovanni Last Line: Sic transit gloria mundi. Subject(s): Death; Italy; Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dead, The; Italians; Dictators SELIMUS: SOLILOQUY OF SELIMUS, USURPER AND TYRANT, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, selimus, consider who thou art Last Line: Unless old bajazet do die the death. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dictators SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While norman tancred in salerno reigned Last Line: And on their monument inscrib'd their fate. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Tyranny & Tyrants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Allegories; Dictators SONNET ON THE SUBMISSION OF THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Dastardly slaves! And is it - can it be Last Line: And weep that thou producest things like these. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 27 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sins ancestral, o thou guiltless roman Last Line: And gosh! Our kids are getting even worse! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS, by R. A. LEVY Poem Text First Line: A wail comes o'er the swelling seas Last Line: "how long, our father, o! How long!" Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Massacres; Tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism; Dictators TIMOUR'S COUNCILS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emirs and khans in long array Last Line: "on wild chabanga's frozen plain!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Middle East; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Near East; Levant; Dictators TIRIEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And aged tiriel stood before the gates of his beautiful palace Last Line: He ceast outstretchd at har & hevas feet in awful death Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Mythology; Tyranny & Tyrants; Madness; Mental Illness; Dictators TO AN ANTIQUE STILETTO, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What grim adventures has this dagger known! Last Line: In pittsburgh, pennsylvania, u.S.A. Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators TO DELIA: 46 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As to the roman that would free his land Last Line: But happier yet, if thou wouldst change thy mind. Subject(s): Errors; Fame; Tyranny & Tyrants; Mistakes; Fallacies; Reputation; Dictators TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone brought them to palma Last Line: Impossible to bury them Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators TYRANNY, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This one I feared is powerless become Last Line: The taunt of silence takes my life -- my life. Subject(s): Fear; Love; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators VALERIAN, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: There's a plant, valerian Last Line: Left to mere valerian? Subject(s): Farewell; London; Tyranny & Tyrants; Parting; Dictators |
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