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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ELIZABETH I, QUEEN OF ENGLAND (1533-1603 Matches Found: 43 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen elizabeth sat on her threshold Last Line: I think they never knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 A BALLAD TO QUEEN ELIZABETH (OF THE SPANISH ARMADA), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King philip had vaunted his claims Last Line: And where are the galleons of spain? Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): Ballad Of The Spanish Armada Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Spanish Armada A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FIRST PEARLE. RELIGION, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: The goodliest pearl in fair eliza's chain Last Line: And against england never could prevaile. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nations; Pearls; Popes; Religion; Papacy; Theology A DAY IN OLD GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, he was a brave sea captain Last Line: Of his own affianced bride. Subject(s): Cavendish, Thomas (1560-1592); Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ANGLORUM FERIAE, ENGLAND'S HOLIDAY, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Descend, ye sacred daughters of king jove Last Line: Dear in heaven's eye, her court and country's glory. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 CAELICA: 81, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a throne I saw a virgin sit Last Line: But that this princely creature is her seat. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): Elizabetha Regina Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 COME O'ER THE BOURN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Until death us two do depart Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; COMPLIMENT TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gentle puck, come hither Last Line: Fetch me that flower. Variant Title(s): Maiden Meditation Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Fairies; Elves DESCENSUS ASTRAEAE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, lovely lords, and you, my lord, behold Last Line: Guided by grace and heaven's immortal hand. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Festivals; London; Webbe, Sir William (fl 1568-1591); Fairs; Pageants DITTY OF SIX VIRGINS, by THOMAS WATSON Poem Source First Line: With fragrant flowers we strew the way Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 DRAKE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on the highest ridge of that strange land Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 38. ELIZABETH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, virgin queen! O'er many an envious bar Last Line: By men and angels blest, the glorious light? Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ELIZABETH, by GEORGE BRANDON SAUL Poem Text First Line: She has the strange sweet grace of violets Last Line: A sense of flowers drifting down the wind. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ELIZABETH TOLD ESSEX, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For a reprieving look Variant Title(s): Poem: 1321; Poem: 133 Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Essex, Robert Devereaux, 2d Earl Of ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The ELIZABETHAN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her sex sent her mother Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 FAREWELL TO ARMS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned Last Line: To be your beadsman now that was your knight. Variant Title(s): The Aged-man At Arms;the Old Knight;an Old Soldier;youth's Waning;polyhmnia: Sonnet;farewell To Arms (to Queen Elizabeth) Subject(s): Aging; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Lee, Sir Henry (1532-1611); Loyalty; Old Age; Retirement; Time FAREWELL TO THE COURT, by HENRY LEE (1530-1610) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned Last Line: To be your beadsman now, that was your knight. Variant Title(s): Farewell To Arms Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; War FORTUNE HATH TAKEN THEE AWAY, MY LOVE, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No fortune base shall ever alter me Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Fortune IN HONOR OF THAT HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCESS QUEEN ELIZABETH, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although great queen thou now in silence lie Last Line: If many worlds, as that fantastic framed, %in every one be her great glory found Variant Title(s): Queen Elizabet Subject(s): Children; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Home; Marriage; Memory; Puritans INEVITABLY, SHE DECLINED, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: On a bishop's backless chair, inevitably, upright she declined Last Line: Between moments, squall of air reclining, upright bolt, declining %vertical Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 LAST DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Rise from thy bloody grave Last Line: Sad as the dove, but, like the dove, surviving all! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 LINES COMPOSED ON THE BODY POLITIC: AN ACCOUNTING, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 NOSCE TEIPSUM: DEDICATION 1. TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: To that clear majesty which in the north Variant Title(s): To My Most Gracious Dread Soveraign Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 27, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faith's pure shield, the christian diana Last Line: And thick heads do vanish. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Rain ON A PROTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AT HAMPTON COURT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The restles swallow fits my restles minde Last Line: My musique may be plaintes, my physique teares, %if this be all the fruite my love-tree beares Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 POEM FROM THE YEAR OF LOSS, by NICHOLAS MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The elizabethan queen, not dido now Subject(s): Consolation; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 POLYHYMNIA, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, when thirty-two were come and gone Last Line: And days and years as many such as she in heart can crave! Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Lee, Sir Henry (1532-1611) PROLOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, like lawful monarchs, ruled the stage Last Line: Of presbyterians who would kings maintain, %of forty thousand five would scarce remain Subject(s): Catholics; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746) QUEEN ELIZABETH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet our elizabeth stood out alone Last Line: Far to the north their scurrying vessels went! Subject(s): Anglican Church; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Spanish Armada SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SONNET (4), by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a lampe whose flaming lyghte is deade Last Line: Where those bright eyes their beames do not dysclose Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 ST. PETER-AD-VINCULA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too well I know, pacing the place of awe Last Line: Add to these aisles one other broken heart. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; London THE HERMIT'S SPEECH TO QUEEN ELIZABETH AT THEOBALD'S, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sovereign lady, and most gracious queen Last Line: Than any one of silver or of gold. Subject(s): Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burleigh; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE HOUSE-WARMING; A LEGEND OF BLEEDING-HEART YARD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sir christopher hatton he danced with grace Last Line: That the iron one is not the only 'pump' there! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Witchcraft & Witches; Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE LOOKING GLASS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen bess was harry's daughter Last Line: More hard than any ghost there is or any man there was! Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Mirrors THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: APRIL, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, good hobbinoll, what garres thee Last Line: And twincling starres the daylight hence chase. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): April; Country Life; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 TIME TO BE WISE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! I write verses now and then Last Line: The brave queen bess. Variant Title(s): The Effects Of Age Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Poetry & Poets TO HIS MISTRESS, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our passions are most like to floods and streams Last Line: And sues for no compassion. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Sir Walter Ralegh To The Queen;to The Queen;to Queen Elizabeth;the Silent Lover Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 TO THE THRICE-SACRED QUEEN ELIZABETH, by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even now that care which on thy crown attends Last Line: Sing what god doth, and doo what men may sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, Countess Of Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 TOURIST'S DAY, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elizabeth wore red to kenilworth Last Line: Close to that starling in the weeds, the throne. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 VERSES SUNG TO QUEEN ELIZABETH BY A MERMEAD, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blessed eyes, the lyfe of sights yee see Last Line: Finish their fading yeares, but not their lives. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 WHEN GOOD QUEEN ELIZABETH GOVERNED THE REIGN, by JOSEPH STANSBURY Poem Source Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 |
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