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First Line: "come, listen to me, you gallants so free"
Last Line: "and so they returned to the merry green-wood, / amongst the leaves so green"
Subject(s): England;robin Hood; English


"THE GOLDEN ISLAND OR THE DARIAN SONG, BY 'A LADY OF HONOUR'", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some slumbering thoughts possessed my brain
Last Line: O' respond both land and sea
Subject(s): England;fame;life;sea; English;reputation;ocean


Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twelve moneths agoe, what rate would I too dear
Last Line: Dispair is better farr, than fruitless hope.
Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whilst I behinde me cast my annual ey
Last Line: Thy graces aid, at least now gin to live.
Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


...WATER AND THE WORD SUICIDE, by KATE SONTAG    Poem Source                    
First Line: While the rest of us were asleep
Last Line: In branches, about to take their lives into their wings
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should die, think only this of me
Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven.
Variant Title(s): The Soldier
Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War


A BALLAD AT PARTING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea to sea that clasps and fosters england, uttering evermore
Last Line: Here the limitless north-eastern, there the strait south-western sea.
Subject(s): England; Sea; English; Ocean


A BALLAD FOR A BOY, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When george the third was reigning, a hundred years ago
Last Line: And treat some rescued breton as a comrade and a guest.
Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Farmer, George; Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


A BALLAD OF BATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a queen enchanted who may not laugh or weep
Last Line: Dawn and noon and sunset are one before thy face.
Subject(s): Dawn; England; Sunrise; English


A BALLAD OF KINSMEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pia bay wears a smooth, bright face
Last Line: And the other on to her grave.
Subject(s): England; Sea; Ships & Shipping; English; Ocean


A BUDDING MORROW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I woke, the sapphire sky
Last Line: And laughed to have been mistaken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


A CHANNEL PASSAGE, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick
Last Line: To choose 'twixt love and nausea, heart and belly.
Subject(s): English Channel; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Ocean


A CHANNEL RHYME, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Start point and beachy head
Last Line: Goodwin sands are worst of all!
Subject(s): English Channel; Sailing & Sailors


A CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis christmas, and the north wind blows
Last Line: My heart is always in the spot which was my childhood's home.
Subject(s): Australia; Christmas; England; Homesickness; Nativity, The; English


A CLASSICAL CONTRAST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have (in bronze) a tiny / adventuress of greece
Last Line: Of england or of greece!
Subject(s): England; Greece; English; Greeks


A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GEORGE AND FOX, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good charly fox, your counsel I implore
Last Line: And france, triumphant, stems the subject main.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fox, Charles James (1749-1806); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Navy - Spain; French Navy; English Navy; Spanish Navy


A DIALOGUE; OVERHEARD IN A VILLAGE NEAR PORTSMOUTH, DURING WAR FRANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says sue to jack, 'the reason why we english wins the day
Last Line: "jabbering beggars, no! Who'd understand 'em if they did?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Prayer; War; French Navy; English Navy


A DREAM OF ENGLAND, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will it be still the old land
Last Line: As lovely as before?
Subject(s): England; English


A FAREWELL TO SIR JOHN NORRIS AND SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have done with care, my hearts! Aboard amain
Last Line: Whose honour and whose glory you defend.
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); English Invasion Of Portugal - 1589; Norris, Sir John (1547-1597)


A FEW DIFFERENCES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You don't confuse a cake of soap
Last Line: Caused by a stomach full of bubbles
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


A FEW DIFFERENCES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In what way do your two lips differ?
Last Line: When there's a need to sulk and pout
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


A FEW DIFFERENCES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kindly barber trims your nape
Last Line: And shake you, and be pretty rough
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


A FEW DIFFERENCES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A jester differs from a dunce
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


A GRUB STREET RECESSIONAL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O noble gracious english tongue
Last Line: The gift of thy simplicity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): English Language; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists


A LETTER FROM ITALY, by JOSEPH ADDISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you, my lord, the rural shades admire
Last Line: And lines like virgil's or like yours, should praise
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Italy; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Travel; English; Liberty; Italians; Journeys; Trips


A MARCHING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We mix from many lands
Last Line: Live, for the truth is living; wake, for night is dead.
Subject(s): England; Justice; Marching & Marches; English


A PASTORAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the young year is sweetest, when the year
Last Line: That might be hushed, unless you come ere long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


A PETITION, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: All that a man might ask, thou hast given me, england
Last Line: England, for thee to die.
Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War


A REFRAIN, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell the tune his feet beat
Last Line: "england"" all the way!"
Subject(s): England; English


A ROUNDHEAD'S RALLYING SONG, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful is the battle
Last Line: We whose armour is the armour of the lord!
Variant Title(s): The Rally
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Civil War; Liberty; English Civil War


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 31, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On wenlock edge the wood's in trouble
Last Line: Are ashes under uricon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): On Wenlock Edge;wenlock Edge
Subject(s): England; Shropshire, England; Time; Wind; English


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 34. THE NEW MISTRESS, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be?
Last Line: Sick.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Army Life; England; Patriotism; Drills & Minor Tactics; English


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 52, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far in a western brookland
Last Line: About the glimmering weirs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): England; English


A SIMPLE PASTORAL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aurora, lady grey, / hides her face in blushes
Last Line: To our falls and risings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English Navy


A SONG OF DEGREES, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


A THESAURUS NIGHTMARE, by J. WILLARD RIDINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Drink (ingurgitate, engulph, engorge, gulp) to me
Last Line: (spirits, liquor, stingo, grog, cup that cheers, sir john barleycorn).
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


A WAR SONG TO ENGLISHMEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prepare, prepare the iron helm of war
Last Line: Prepare, prepare.
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Patriotism; War; English


A WATERPIECE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild-rose bush lets loll
Last Line: Incomparably wise, the doom of man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


A WORD FOR THE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men, born of the land that for ages
Last Line: God save the commonweal!
Subject(s): England; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English


A YEOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This man that at the wheatstack side
Last Line: And all his life has been alive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Farm Life; Landscape; English; Agriculture; Farmers


ACADEMIC KIDS, by JANET MCCANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your father asks you, how many
Last Line: And never write our names
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE BRITISH NAVY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We do not like to own it
Last Line: Hurrah for johnny bull!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War


AD ASTRA: 120, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And over all the bearing of the host
Last Line: That is the sure presentment of his race.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


AD ASTRA: 29, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O heavy day for all who follow after
Last Line: And to the scents of eve add new delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): England; Happiness; English; Joy; Delight


ADJUNCT, by BROCK DETHIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a bartleby of arts %and a doctorate in denial
Last Line: While I'm teaching your replacement %how to climb
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ADLESTROP, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I remember adlestrop
Last Line: Of oxfordshire and gloucestershire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Adlestrop, England; England; June; Time; English


ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST, by RICHARD GLOVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As near porto-bello lying
Last Line: And for england sham'd in me.
Variant Title(s): Ballad Of Admiral Hosier's Ghost
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Spanish Armada; English Navy


ADMIRALS ALL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Effingham, grenville, raleigh, drake
Last Line: To nelson's peerless name!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Sea; English Navy; Ocean


ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET, by KELLY CHERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To catch a poem %to seize it %like something falling
Last Line: On its own terms
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AFTER AN OLD PICTURE OF SCHOOL HOUSE CHILDREN, by WILL HOCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Attending cures snobbery and mind
Last Line: The point that there could have been more %and surely was
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AFTERWORD: AN ELDERLY WOMAN FALLS ASLEEP AT A POETRY READING, by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: And those of us behind her %can't help but smile
Last Line: The rewards of poetry are financial rather than spiritual
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AFTERWORD: BUTTONS, by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years, I've wanted to write a poem
Last Line: Those who are listening carefully, or doodling, or nodding %off
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AFTERWORD: POEMS, LIKE CHILDREN, by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little things, they are neither as good %nor as hard as we want them to be
Last Line: Variation on the writer's block poem myself
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AFTERWORD: THE ART OF PEDAGOGY/ THE PEDAGOGY OF ART: THE ART OF PEDA.., by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It starts, perhaps, with a notation, %a few words scrawled in the margins
Last Line: Guidelines that I wouldn't want my students to follow
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AFTERWORD: THE PEDAGOGY OF ART, by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just this once, I will resist narrative
Last Line: Alleluia as her program %plainly states, gloria deus
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AFTERWORD: THE YEAR MY POETRY BECAME A FAD, by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the coup of a lifetime for a minor poet
Last Line: We need to pay close attention to what that story is telling us
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AFTERWORD:INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPOSING A HAIKU, by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Make it exact: the ribs should show
Last Line: As evidenced in the following poem, which my thesis director %found particularly appalling
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ALGABAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhine-rentier
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ALL HAIL DIGREDI, by ANGUS WOODWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: According to legend, most students signed up for dr. Digredi's
Last Line: Loved ones hardly recognized them
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ALMSWOMEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends
Last Line: Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Old Age; English


AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A poet once the spartan's led to fight
Last Line: Let caesar live, and carthage be subdu'd!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists


AMERICA AND ENGLAND, by GEORGE HUNTINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two empires by the sea
Last Line: Blessing and blest.
Variant Title(s): Hymn Of World Peace;international Hymn;peace Hymn For England And America
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; United States; English; America


AMERICA: SONNET 2, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor force nor fraud shall sunder us! Oh ye
Last Line: Ser's dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney
Variant Title(s): England To America
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; United States; English; America


AMERICAN PAINTING, WITH RAIN, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gates have closed to the rotted park
Last Line: Greeting the rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Paintings And Painters; Rain; Thunder; English


AMONG THE LAKES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perhaps the roman, when he ruled this land
Last Line: Ullswater, derwentwater, windermere.
Subject(s): England; Lakes; Nature; English; Pools; Ponds


AMPHIBIANS HAVE FEELINGS TOO, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was this fine guy named steve odin
Last Line: Why have you been writing frog on my paper %all semester?'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AN ANCIENT GODDESS; IN TWO PICTURES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time grows perilous; forth she comes once more
Last Line: A moonlit sanctuary from time's worst powers?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


AN APPEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spare her, o cruel england!
Last Line: They can die and go to him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): England; Faith; Ireland; Religion; English; Belief; Creed; Irish; Theology


AN APPEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou indeed among these
Last Line: 11/20/67
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Freedom; Slavery; English; Liberty; Serfs


AN ECLOGUE GRATULATORY: THE EARL OF ESSEX ON RETURN FROM PORTUGAL, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Herdgroom, what gars thy pipe to go so loud?
Last Line: Iö, Iö pœan!
Subject(s): English Invasion Of Portugal - 1589; Essex, Robert Devereaux, 2d Earl Of


AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In measures solemn as the groans that fall
Last Line: The monuments of their base cruelty.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Great Britain - Civil War; Injustice; Lisle, Sir George (d. 1648); Lucas, Sir Charles; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English Civil War


AN ELEGY UPON THE MOST INCOMPARABLE KING CHARLES THE FIRST, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call for amazed thoughts, a wounded sense
Last Line: If zimri dies in peace that slew his lord.
Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War


AN ENGLISH DRIVE, by GEORGIA M. REDPATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the english roads and lanes
Last Line: But sleep at old land's end.
Subject(s): England; Roads; English; Paths; Trails


AN ENGLISH MOTHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every week of every season out of english ports go forth
Last Line: Until women's tears are reckoned in the budgets of your wars.
Subject(s): England; Mothers; English


AN ENGLISH SHELL, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was an english shell
Last Line: Slaying an english foe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): England; Shells; English; Conchology


AN EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When crowding folks with strange ill faces
Last Line: That one mouse eats, while t'other's starved.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Paris, France; Portraits; Time; English


AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The art of english poetry, I find
Last Line: With righter verdict, tho' the court's a dream.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; English Language; Language Poetry; Poetry & Poets; Reading


AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF BURLINGTON, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you, my lord, bid stately piles ascend
Last Line: What other counties must with envy hear.
Subject(s): Boyle, Richard. 3d Earl Of Burlington; England; Exeter, England; English


AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PULTENEY, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pult'ney, methinks you blame my breach of word
Last Line: All frenchmen are of petit-maitre kind.
Subject(s): England; France; Paris, France; Pulteney, William. 1st Earl Of Bath; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


AN EXTEMPORE INVITATION, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, / our weekly friends to-morrow meet
Last Line: Though dorset used to bless the roof.
Subject(s): England; Parties; English


AN IDEAL PASSION, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not she, the england I behold
Last Line: And ever breaks her word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): England; English


AN ODE IN IMITATION OF ALCAEUS, by WILLIAM JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: What constitutes a state?
Last Line: And steal inglorious to the silent grave.
Variant Title(s): A [or The] State;what Constitutes A State?
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Patriotism; English; Liberty


ANAMNESIS AND NOSTALGIA; TO LIONEL JOHNSON, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The traveller in a burning clime
Last Line: And something of a mortal pang.
Subject(s): Country Life; England; Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Longing; Nature; Nostalgia; English


ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In thriving arts long time had holland grown
Last Line: And gently lay us on the spicy shore.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Monck, George. 1st Duke Of Albemarle; Navy - Dutch; Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


ANOTHER SPRING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When lambs were come, who could be slow and sere?
Last Line: That now, this soon-come spring, goes slow and sere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English


ARS GUBERNANDI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy subtlest gift is steersmanship, o sea!
Last Line: Skills not that day when rigid moorings break.
Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


ART ELECTIVE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reflex of memory thrusts %the strong-voweled name rouault
Last Line: The writhings of facts made real
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ART LESSON, by CRAIG CHALLENDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...Eschews the quotidian,' he was saying
Last Line: In spite of everything, she liked to read
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ASTROPHEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A star in the silence that follows
Last Line: A star by a star.
Subject(s): England; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roundels; Stars; English


AT A VACATION EXERCISE IN THE COLLEGE, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail native language, that by sinews weak
Last Line: The rest was prose
Subject(s): Cambridge University; English Language; Latin


AT AN INN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are talkative proud, and assured, and self-sufficient,
Last Line: When we are cold.
Subject(s): England; History; Poetry & Poets; English; Historians


AT THE NAVAL EXHIBITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What pulse but throbs, what heart but quicker beats
Last Line: Only the seamen voiceless are and dumb.
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Pride; Sailing & Sailors; Strength; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect


AUGURY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What sweeter sight will ever charm the eye
Last Line: Could steal one mothering wing for folly's bait?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Birds; England; Landscape; Spring; English


AULD MITHER SCOTLAND, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Auld scotland! Hoo I lo'e the name
Last Line: Sweeps ower the dinlin' strings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Scotland; English


AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND, by ARCHIBALD THOMAS STRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: By all the deeds to thy dear glory done
Last Line: Thy sons may stand beside thee strong and free.
Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Australia; English; Liberty


AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TULIPS, by HOLLY IGLESIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The book's overdue, but I can't let it go; sigh at the mere sight of
Last Line: Orders us to decline granum. I just want to go home and write my own %book: the dictionary unraveled
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


AUTUMN MORNING AT CAMBRIDGE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ran out in the morning, when the air was clean and new
Last Line: Gowns.
Subject(s): Cambridge, England; England; English


BALACLAVA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Six hundred stalwart warriors of england's pride the best
Last Line: To the england they had fought for on that wild october day
Subject(s): England;soldiers; English


BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I'LL TELL THEE, DICK, THAT I HAVE BEEN', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And can you think that this translation
Last Line: Than to have none at all.
Subject(s): English Language; French Language; Great Britain - Parliament; Latin Language


BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'THAT WE MAY ROW WITH MY P. OVER YE FERRY', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good people of england! Come hear me relate
Last Line: Till claret be restor'd, let us drink sherry.
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Drinks & Drinking; England; Noses; Wine; English


BAR MITZVAH LESSONS, by MARVIN DIOGENES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I took bar mitzvah lessons from mr. Bodzin
Last Line: His knowing assessment %of how far I had to go
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


BATTLE OF BRITAIN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What did we earth-bound make of it? A tangle
Last Line: Their luck, skill, nerve. And they were young like you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Film (photography); Great Britain - History; World War Ii; English History; Second World War


BATTLE OF THE ALMA, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark lowered the thunder-cloud of death
Last Line: A prison and a tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Europe; France; War; English


BEACHY HEAD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On thy stupendous summit, rock sublime!
Last Line: Had to some better region fled for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - History; Sussex, England; English History


BEAST ON THE BRINK, by JANE BARNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you are sitting across from me reading
Last Line: While you were reading
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


BEAUTIFUL TORQUAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye lovers of the picturesque, away
Last Line: And 'tis good for the health to reside there.
Subject(s): England; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; English; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BECKY'S MIRROR, by DEAN NEWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know I had on those heavy, steel-toed boots-my legs felt like
Last Line: Said, 'see that, dad? That's me. It's a me-er'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


BEFORE EVERYTHING, by DEVAN COOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: 6:50 a.M., before everything %except coffee and newspaper
Last Line: Wording your own time %fill it
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


BEFORE THE GRAVE OF THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH, by FREDERICK A. EARLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood before the poet's grave
Last Line: Our children shall repeat.
Subject(s): English, Thomas Dunn (1819-1902)


BIG UP, by LARRY STRAUSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That first month no one would do my homework. Instead, I'd
Last Line: Privacy I've changed them
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


BLIZZARD, by CYNTHIA MILLER COFFEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Julie seaton can't sleep. She's standing in her living room in
Last Line: And she thinks, I'll never get to sleep
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


BLUE BUTTERFLY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lucy paused for the blue butterfly
Last Line: Is whispering in my lonely walk anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Butterflies; England; Insects; Landscape; English; Bugs


BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am ten, the british quit
Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We made a trade
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Libraries & Librarians; India; English History


BOARDING: 5. THE DADAR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They ask me, what are shadows?
Last Line: A girl, I have lost my way
Variant Title(s): The Dadar School For The Blind
Subject(s): Blindness; Schools; Inida; English In India; Visually Handicapped


BOY-MAN, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England's lads are miniature men
Subject(s): England; English


BRADDAN VICARAGE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder if in that far isle
Last Line: And stand outside these nations and their noise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): England; English


BRAINS AND BOOKS, by DIANE PAYNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking back home, daypack filled with books, I see grandpa
Last Line: In a house with bookshelves, and I'll still be playing aggrava- %tion with grandpa
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


BRIGGFLATTS: 1, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brag, sweet tenor bull
Subject(s): England; English


BRITANNIA TO COLUMBIA, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the voice I hear
Last Line: "stronger than death is strong."
Variant Title(s): England To America;a Voice From The West;to America
Subject(s): England; Friendship; United States; English; America


BRITISH VOLUNTEERS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the call of the bugle, and the roll of the drum
Last Line: True hearts and true rifles she trusts not in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Soldiers; English


BRONZE TRUMPETS AND SEA WATER; ON TURNING LATIN VERSE INTO ENGLISH, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alembics turn to stranger things
Last Line: Who smooths the ripples out of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Change; English Language; Latin Language; Translating & Interpreting


BROOK IN DROUGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The willow catkins fall on the muddy pool
Last Line: This universe dried into sands and stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


CAN YOU PREDICT THE PAST? CAN YOU REMEMBER THE FUTURE?, by JANET MCCANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son tells me hitler was elected
Last Line: I wish I could've been there
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


CANAAN, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They march at god's
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CANADA TO ENGLAND, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great names of thy great captains gobe before
Last Line: Of all past greatnesses about thee stand.
Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Canada; English; Liberty


CAPTAIN DEATH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The muse and the hero together are fired
Last Line: I ne'er saw rhw fellow of brave captain death
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;pirates; English Navy;piracy;buccaneers


CASE FOR LITERATURE, by DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peace without the sweat of dance
Last Line: Someone reads. The stories we need
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


CHALK DUST AND URBAN RENEWAL, by TRISTA CORNELIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A memory: a long, cavernous classroom. The teacher stands at
Last Line: And grit, and, like communion, passing it around for everyone %to taste
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


CHANGING MOON, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green east hagged with prowling storm
Last Line: And where his useless gold and silver lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Moon; English


CHANNEL CROSSING, by GEORGE BARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And just by crossing the short sea
Subject(s): English Channel


CHANNEL CROSSING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On storm-struck deck, wind sirens caterwaul
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): English Channel


CHANNEL CROSSING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On storm-struck deck, wind sirens caterwaul
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): English Channel


CHANNEL PASSAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth from calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone
Subject(s): English Channel


CHARTIST SONG, by THOMAS COOPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The time shall come when wrong shall end
Last Line: Till goodness shall hold high jubilee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The
Subject(s): Chartism; Great Britain - History; English History


CHILDBEARING HIPS, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the workshop table in this advanced
Last Line: Not touch, no apologies permitted here
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 1. NEW GRANGE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The golden hill where long-forgotten kings
Last Line: Above the cromlech of the vanished gods.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 10. OLD MAGIC, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: As light swings wide the mighty eastern door
Last Line: And vanish up the flaming slopes of morn.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Magic; Druidism; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 11. THE BLIND NUN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A nun green-girdled in a forest tower
Last Line: Across her blindness shone the face of god.
Subject(s): Blindness; Great Britain - History; Nuns; Visually Handicapped; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 12. SAINT BRIDE'S EVE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: At twilight on a lonely cattle trail
Last Line: Her shadow falls, and wild hearts know its peace.
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Great Britain - History; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 13. DUNDAGIL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lonely headlands at a magic cry
Last Line: Beneath the splendor of the dragon star.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 14. SAINT ILLTYD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When fierce caer leon's wars were trumpeted
Last Line: Fair as the star of morning shone the grail.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 15. ARAN MOR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Foam-girdled shores a lost enchantment keep
Last Line: On cross and ruined cairn a rose of light.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 16. THE BLESSING OF SAINT COLUMCILLE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Torqued warriors turned their galley's crimson prow
Last Line: The old gods listened, lonely in the dew.
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 17. SAINT BRENDAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In simple days before the gods were old
Last Line: Upon the burnished edges of the air.
Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Great Britain - History; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 18. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOK, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath bronze chariot wheels the torn earth steamed
Last Line: Led by the lone white warrior of the skies.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 19. SAINT ORAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Saint oran told them while the west grew dim
Last Line: Of that wild fruit of flame whose taste is peace.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Oran, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 20. SAINT COLUMBA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The murmuring tide foams slowly up the sands
Last Line: The well-loved outline of his irish shore.
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 21. CLONARD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: By lost clonard the river meads still hold
Last Line: In morning meadows when the world was young.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 22. THE BURNING OF BAMBOROUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: With thundering wheels the golden war-wains run
Last Line: Far ringing harps on bamborough's starry height.
Subject(s): Aidan, Saint (d. 651); Bamborough, England; Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 23. CAEDMON, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: From feast and song the simple cowherd crept
Last Line: And a new speech was given to the earth.
Subject(s): Caedmon (7th Century); Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 24. SAINT HILDA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In hollow pastures misted with the spume
Last Line: High in her garth above the lonely sea.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Hilda, Saint (614-680); English History; Hild, Saint; Whitby, Abbess Of


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 25. THE FOREST SAINT, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When wolves were conquered by a hermit's bell
Last Line: And houseled odin's warrior christ's armed knight.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 26. OWINI'S VISION, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thane beneath a snowy hawthorn hedge
Last Line: Within the silver circle of their wings.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 28. JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: To wolfish knights with hound and hooded hawk
Last Line: The last great echoes of far greece are borne.
Subject(s): Erigena, John Scotus (810-877); Great Britain - History; Scot, John The (81-877); Eriugena, John Scotus (81-877); English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 29. THE STAG OF CHEDDAR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king rode close behind the royal stag
Last Line: Should rule the abbey of the holy thorn.
Subject(s): Dunstan, Saint (924-988); Edmund I, King Of England (921-946); Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 3. A DRUID TOWN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sunless maze of tangled lanes enfold
Last Line: The golden caer upon the ninth wave's foam.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 30. QUEEN MARGARET'S MISSAL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king stood bowed within the cloister crypt
Last Line: Love and the light-illumined word abide.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Malcolm Iii Macduncan, King Of Scotland; Margaret Of Scotland, Saint (1046-1093); English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 31. THE BRINDLED HARE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: By grange and castle when the fields were cool
Last Line: Bearing against his breast the wounded hare.
Subject(s): Animals; Anselm Of Canterbury, Saint (1033-1109); Great Britain - History; Rabbits; English History; Hares


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 32. SAINT HUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On mountain slopes, whose rocky summits glow
Last Line: Sunward to meet the mystery of god.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 33. A ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A road shines through the forest of the years
Last Line: The ruined roadway still endures and waits.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Roads; English History; Paths; Trails


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 4. CAER SIDI, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone, unarmed, the dragon king must go
Last Line: High in his mighty grasp the star-rimmed bowl.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 5. ARTHUR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind storm-fretted bastions gray and bare
Last Line: The strange gods calling through their mystic horn.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 6. TALIESIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lonely shores where dreams are drifted sand
Last Line: Up toward the dragon city of the sun.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Taliesin; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 7. YNISWITRIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dim watered vale whose clear streams seek the sea
Last Line: Of new songs that shall fill those fallen choirs.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 8. THE HOLY THORN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long centuries past by lonely barrows grew
Last Line: At wintry christ-tide flowers the holy thorn.
Subject(s): Glastonbury Thorn; Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 9. THE FOREST, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In lonely thickets where the wood is deep
Last Line: The light of dawn on his uplifted face.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History


CHRISTMAS EVE, 1917, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many happy returns, sweet babe, of the day!
Last Line: Ever happier and happier returns, dear christ, of thy day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Christmas; England; World War I; Nativity, The; English; First World War


CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1917: THE LAST LAP, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We seldom were quick off the mark
Last Line: Be your victorious christmas-tide.
Subject(s): Christmas; England; Hope; Patience; Victory; War; World War I; Nativity, The; English; Optimism; First World War


CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Endless london / mourns for that knowledge
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CLEAR THE WAY!, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear the way, my lords and lackeys! You have had your day
Last Line: Spread no more of sail for shipwreck: out, and clear the way!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; English


CLOUDY JUNE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the hedge the spearman thistle towers
Last Line: Nor tell me I am I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; June; Landscape; English


COMMA SPLICE, by WILLIAM M. RAMSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For farmers it is a wall heaved down
Last Line: A start stops a hope never finished
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE NEAR CALAIS [AUGUST 1802], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair star of evening, splendor of the west
Last Line: Among men who do not love her, linger here.
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English


COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair
Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English


COMPULSION, by JANE BARNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes, you will, you will %write down what you hear
Last Line: With questionable future access- %this is all
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


CONCERNING INHERITANCE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions
Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield / over the city
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Inheritance & Succession; English History


CORRUPTION; AN EPISTLE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Boast on, my friend -- though stripp'd of all beside
Last Line: O england! Sinking england! Boast no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Freedom; Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Liberty; English Revolution, 1688


CORSICA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In bordighera's groves of palm
Last Line: Whose glory filled a million graves.
Subject(s): England; Fame; Sea; Soul; English; Reputation; Ocean


COUNTRY SALE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the thin green sky, the twilight day
Last Line: So beautiful, all went for an old song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Auctions; Country Life; England; English


CREATIVE WRITING AT JEFFERSON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, by AMORAK HUEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here are the rules
Last Line: Soft-gray and smudging at the touch
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Prisons And Prisoners; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers


CURFEW SONG OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! From the dim church-tower
Last Line: With a thought of the olden days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): England; Past; English


CYCLE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Natural strange beatitudes
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DARK-LAND (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these last things reduced
Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Anglican Church; Jews; English History


DARK-LAND (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherein wesley stood
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DARK-LAND (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aspiring grantham
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DE ANIMA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salutation: it is as though
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DEATH OF READING, by DARRELL FIKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Damn the inventor of the highlighter pen
Last Line: Suspended above the page like a tiny guillotine blade
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


DEDICATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years are many, the changes more
Last Line: Bear home her signal across the sea.
Subject(s): Death; England; Sea; Time; Dead, The; English; Ocean


DEEP BLUE, by HOLLY IGLESIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seeds extracted one by one from la cascara, the membrane sharp around
Last Line: One vulval bloom. Squeals, !Ay honey, esta to die for!
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


DEPARTURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The beech leaves caught in a moment gust
Last Line: Our casual anglian train.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting


DER TAG: NELSON AND BEATTY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No doubt 'twas a truly christian sight
Last Line: This grey november morning.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Beatty, David. 1st Earl (1871-1936); Navy - Great Britain; World War I - Naval Actions; English Navy


DESCRIPTION OF A NINETY-GUN SHIP, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst a wood of oaks with canvas leaves
Last Line: And with triumphant navies rule the main!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


DESTINY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not to be thought of that the flood
Last Line: Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold.
Variant Title(s): British Freedom;the British Heritage;england, 1802
Subject(s): Courage; England; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; English; Liberty


DICTION LESSON, by PATRICIA VALDATA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A writing workshop, held in a tent
Last Line: Discusses the merits of moving from %the general to the specific
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is calm to-night
Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


DREAM OF TEACHING, by KENNETH M. AUTREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each fall I know the dream will come
Last Line: Books reappear and bloom again
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Towery city and branchy between towers
Last Line: Who fired france for mary without spot.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; England; Oxford, England; Poetry & Poets; English


DURHAM FIELD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lordings, listen, and hold you still"
Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;durham, England;england;fields;" English;pastures;meadows;leas


DUSK ON ENGLISH BAY, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lighting rooms perfect a chequerboard
Last Line: Any clutch of ours can hold this precious night.
Subject(s): Dusk; England; English


DUTCHESS OF MONMOUTH'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER DUKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "loyal hearts of london city, come, I pray, and sing my ditty"
Last Line: "then from her eyes, with fresh supplies, down trickles many a brinish tear"
Subject(s): "cooper, Anthony (1621-1683);great Britain - History;love - Loss Of;scott, James. Duke Of Monmouth (1649-85);" "shaftesbury, 1st Earl Of;english History;


E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My frowning students carve
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form


E.S.L. (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My frowning students carve
Last Line: As all the rest of my class is %bound to discover
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Literary Form


EARLY AND LATE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How fondly still the grecian form
Last Line: In easter rays!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


EAST TO WEST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one
Last Line: Die.
Subject(s): England; Evening; Praise; Sea; United States; English; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; America


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 14. GLAD TIDINGS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For ever hallowed be this morning fair
Last Line: And calm with fear of god's divinity.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 26. ALFRED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold a pupil of the monkish gown
Last Line: In sacred converse gifts with alfred shares.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ELEGIAC VERSES ON THE DEATH OF LORD PALMERSTON, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A loftier muse, in higher strains, may sing
Last Line: Still vibrates strong for him, revered of all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; England; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English


ELEGY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auvergne, auvergne, o wild and woful land
Last Line: Burton -- a name that lives till fame be dead.
Subject(s): Blindness; Death; England; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; English


ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men that worked for england / they have their graves at home
Last Line: They have no graves as yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): England; Politics & Government; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War


ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Last Line: The bosom of his father and his god.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Courage; Death; England; Faith; Graves; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement


ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, england! / sick in head and sick in heart"
Last Line: For thinking that thou art not ill
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we but turn from braggart pride
Last Line: And of thy sons be justified!
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: We have no grass locked up in ice so fast
Last Line: Give me this england now for all my world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nurse of the pilgrim sires, who sought, beyond the atlantic foam
Last Line: So let thy children live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Variant Title(s): Hymn
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England, thy foes make boast of thy decline
Last Line: And justice is a goddess still unbought.
Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty


ENGLAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of my father's love, my father's race
Last Line: England! I shall not see thee ere I die!
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, by J. K. MCGUINNESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, england! When your lanes are fringed with green
Last Line: The call of what was homeland long ago.
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With its baby rivers and little towns, each with its abbey or its cathedral
Last Line: That it is not there? It has never been confined to one locality.
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shoulders of upland brown laid dark to the sunset's bosom
Last Line: Filling those hearts till the love is more than the heart can hold?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): England; Socialism; English


ENGLAND, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tyre of the west, and glorying in the name
Last Line: So gives he them by turn, to suffer or be blest.
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother-country! Of a continent
Last Line: And farthest ages celebrate thy glory!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English


ENGLAND (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No lovelier hills than thine have laid
Last Line: And thine my darkness be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND AGAIN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sacred england, stagnant pool
Last Line: Moral england, fat and sweet.
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1863, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We only know that in the sultry weather
Last Line: Of wildering passions and the crash of foes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): England; United States; English; America


ENGLAND BEFORE THE STORM, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day that is the night of days
Last Line: Its fighting rag outrolled.
Subject(s): England; War; English


ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our demagogues, as wise old aristophanes may show
Last Line: Hold fast by english fortitude -- you'll ne'er need irish rant.
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND I THE WORLD WAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dauntless, high-hearted england! 'twas thy day
Last Line: This glorious watch and ward wilt thou forego!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): England; World War I; English; First World War


ENGLAND IN 1819, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king
Last Line: Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: England In 1819
Subject(s): England; Hate; English


ENGLAND TO AMERICA, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred years! / too long for memory of the justest feud!
Last Line: And all we have done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): England; United States; English; America


ENGLAND'S ANSWER, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truly ye come of the blood; slower to bless than to ban
Last Line: Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men!
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND'S DEAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Son of the ocean isle!
Last Line: Where rest not england's dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): England; Soldiers; War; English


ENGLAND'S ENEMY, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands like one with mazy cares distraught
Last Line: Muses how rome of romans was undone.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; World War I - Great Britain; English History


ENGLAND'S HONOUR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How easily the breath of god overwhelms
Last Line: Of our weak neighbours finds us slow to dare.
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLAND, JULY 1913; TO RUPERT BROOKE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O england, england -- that july
Last Line: In cambridge, I did not know you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); England; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; English


ENGLAND: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun
Last Line: Sea.
Subject(s): England; Justice; Sea; English; Ocean


ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle
Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane
Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Canteen
Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers; English Civil War


ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle
Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane
Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Cantee
Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers


ENGLISH - UGH!, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: One morning, reading the paper, I was flabbergasted
Last Line: Or, rather, wheat-wine to our fascist friends
Subject(s): English Language; Fascism And Fascists; Human Rights; Japan - Foreign Population


ENGLISH 108, by PHEBE DAVIDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at her %stone glass-eye bitch
Last Line: Instead of just %paper and %words
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ENGLISH A, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No paraphrase does
Last Line: You whatsoever %wish. Period
Subject(s): English Language


ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, 1927, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: New on the block
Last Line: She got an a in class %held her new words like the star spangled banner
Subject(s): English Language; Grandparents; Immigrants; Jews - Women


ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by NICK CARBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: He then asked me, japanese
Last Line: Brush against his sculpted thigh
Subject(s): English As A Second Language


ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ship %I wrote on the empty blackboard
Subject(s): English As A Second Language


ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by J. D. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is in the front of his desk
Last Line: I am in the king's place
Subject(s): English As A Second Language


ENGLISH COUNTRY (WHERE THREE SHIRES MEET), by WILLIAM BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No change is here. If chaucer came
Last Line: Of wood-smoke, as 'twere matins bell.
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


ENGLISH FLAVORS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to lick english the way I licked the hard
Last Line: Flavored and sharp -- to the ambiguities of meaning.
Subject(s): English Language; English Language; Language; Mouths; Nuns; Pleasure; Taste (sense); Words; Vocabulary


ENGLISH IVY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Right here within my little room
Last Line: And english ivy growing over all!
Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; English


ENGLISH LANGUAGE, SELS., by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me of every language, first my vigorous english
Subject(s): English Language


ENGLISH LESSONS, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When it was desdemona's time to sing
Last Line: Their bodies with other worlds
Subject(s): English Language


ENGLISH TEACHER'S BAD DAY, by GRACE BAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something there is %that doesn't love a wall
Last Line: To define the elements of tragedy %in two-hundred-fifty words
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ENGLISH TONGUE, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aligned across a snowy styrofoam tray%six frozen new zealand lamb tongues
Last Line: Blackens with centuries like the shriveled trowel %of sain't tongue in its jewel-scabbed reliquary
Subject(s): English Language


ENGLISH TONGUE, by LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Words that have tumbled and tossed from
Subject(s): English Language


ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These faces make a chapel where worship comes easy
Last Line: As across the eye of a bathysphere surfacing
Subject(s): England; English


ENGLISH WAR SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who fears to die? Who fears to die?
Last Line: England for aye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): England; War; English


ENGLISH WAS ONLY A SECONG LANGUAGE, by WALTA BORAWSKI    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Homosexuality; Incest


ENGLISH WEATHER, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How erring oft the judgment in its hate
Last Line: Rich queen of mists and vapors!
Subject(s): England; Fog; English; Haze


EPILOGUE ON OCCASION OF REPRESENTATION FOR DRYDEN'S BENEFIT, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps the parson stretched a point too far
Last Line: While you have still your oats, and we our hains.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue To The 'pilgrim,' Revived
Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; English; Stage Life


EPILOGUE TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE, OR THE EARL OF ESSEX', by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We act by fits and starts, like drowning men
Last Line: The satisfaction of a gentleman.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue For The King's House;prologue And Epilogue To The Unhappy Favorite: Epilogue
Subject(s): England; Plays & Playwrights ; Treason & Traitors; English; Dramatists


EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No poor dutch peasant, winged with all his fear
Last Line: We'll boldly back, and say their price is rais'd.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At The Acting Of The 'silent Woman'
Subject(s): England; Fear; France; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; War; English; Dramatists


EPITAPH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happily through my years this small stream ran
Last Line: Where with so strong a life you run and sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


ETON: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four hundred summers and fifty have shone
Last Line: Haply here shall eton's record be what england finds it yet.
Subject(s): England; Eton College; Time; English


EUONYMOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A year ago red wrath and keen despair
Last Line: Since england wept upon elizabeth.
Subject(s): England; Fear; English


EVENING MYSTERY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now ragged clouds in the west are heaping
Last Line: What poison pours she in slumber's ear?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


EVERYTHING WE NEED, by DEVAN COOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few days after christmas I was at my parents' house, standing
Last Line: Say it again,' she said. ' say it. Say it'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


EXTENTE CORDIALE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now side by side curvet and prance
Last Line: Now side by side!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): England; France; Peace; English


EZEKIEL'S WHEEL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider now the valley
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


FALKLAND AT NEWBURY, 1643, by FREDERICK JOHN FARGUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now which is wrong or right? Too glib we talk
Last Line: A soldier's death to end a statesman's doubts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Conway, Hugh
Subject(s): Cary, Lucius. 2d Viscount Falkland; Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War


FAREWELL TO ENGLISH, by MICHAEL HARTNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her eyes were coins of porter and her west
Subject(s): English Language; Irish Language


FEARS IN SOLITUDE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A green and silent spot, amid the hills
Last Line: Love, and the thoughts that yearn for human kind.
Variant Title(s): The Dell
Subject(s): England; Fear; Poetry & Poets; War; English


FEW DIFFERENCES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You don't confuse a cake of soap
Last Line: With angel food or gingerbread
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


FEW DIFFERENCES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In what way do your two lips differ?
Last Line: When there's a need to sulk and pout
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


FEW DIFFERENCES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kindly barber trims your nape
Last Line: And shake you, and be pretty rough
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


FEW DIFFERENCES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A jester differs from a dunce
Last Line: But one of them is bright, perhaps
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


FIRST NIGHT OF CLASS, by LAURA APOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing begins with us- %not this story or any other
Last Line: Our words the edge of a knife %we are just beginning to hone
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


FIRST PIANO TEACHER, by AVA LEAVELL HAYMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earnest mrs. Clinkscales, the first piano teacher
Last Line: He'd put on airs for the rest of his life!
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


FIRST SNOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the red chimney-pots the pigeons cower
Last Line: Even his enemies sing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Snow; English


FISH, SPRING, WINDOW, by LEONORA SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: These students, dopey with spring-their heads
Last Line: But all shimmery as aquarium fish, or the rainbow halos of %circus angels
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich
Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect


FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY, by LEONORA SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A five paragraph essay %reminds me of a blind date
Last Line: Worth taking home from school
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


FLAT OUT, by JACQUELINE BRICE-FINCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fine weariness %penetrates %to my bones
Last Line: Finally %the voice of reason %penetrates: %goin' home %chile, %an'get %some rest
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


FLATTENED BY FLATTERY, by TERRY RASMUSSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He catches me off guard
Last Line: Foolish, silly old woman
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


FOR L'S PRIVATE CONSUMPTION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When poets suffer long from lack of vogue
Last Line: 01/18/14
Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; English


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1761, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still must the muse, indignant, hear
Last Line: And albion's dreaded strength secure the world's repose.
Subject(s): Blood; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mourning; Navy - Great Britain; Ruins; British Empire; England - Empire; Bereavement; English Navy


FOR W.H. AUDEN AND ALAIN BOMBARD, by SKIP EISIMINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One may survive %a wreck at sea
Last Line: A poem may be said %to have saved the day
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


FOREFATHERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here they went with smock and crook
Last Line: Who made honey long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Landscape; Heritage; Heredity; English


FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 4. AUTUMN IN CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The year lies fallen and faded
Last Line: Broke, breaking with the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; England; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; English; Ocean


FRANKIE, by PAT NOLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girls from the factory across the river came into my grandmother's
Last Line: Made a joke or act the fool, they would do it in english. It just wasn't a serious %language to them
Subject(s): English Language; Girls


FRENCH AND ENGLISH, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never go to france
Last Line: A nation with a dummy!
Subject(s): English Language; French Language


FRENCHMAN ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I vould you make ze little speak avec plaisir
Subject(s): English Language


FRESHMEN LIT & COMP, by STEPHEN DALE COREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wednesday evenings rooted to his place
Last Line: The aura that holds around the perfect forging
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


FRITILLARIES, FR. THE LAND, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But once I went through the lanes, over the sharp
Last Line: And the lapwings crying free above the plough.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita
Subject(s): England; Nature; English


GEOGRAPHY LESSONS, by GRACE BAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's nebraska? Asks adam
Last Line: I am still trying to imagine into place
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


GHOSTS IN ENGLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At east lulworth the dead were friendly and pitiful, I saw them peek
Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Supernatural; English


GLEANING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the baulk the grasses drenched in dews
Last Line: With such small winnings more than satisfied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


GODIVA, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I waited for the train at coventry
Last Line: And built herself an everlasting name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): England; Godiva, Lady (1140-1180); English


GOING HOME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm goin' 'ome to blighty - ain't I glad to 'ave the chance!
Last Line: Thank gawd for dear old blighty in the mawnin'.
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; England; War; World War I; English; First World War


GRAMMARIAN, by DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is wind a noun or a verb?'
Last Line: And refused to look at deciduous trees
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


GREATNESS OF ENGLAND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full long ere europe knew the iron road
Last Line: Perchance the ebb comes next. We stand at full of tide.
Subject(s): England; English


HAIG IS MOVING; AUGUST, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haig is moving
Last Line: Haig is moving!
Subject(s): England; Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); World War I; English; First World War


HANDS ALL ROUND (1ST VERSION), by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First drink a health, this solemn night
Last Line: And the great cause of freedom, round and round.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Patriotism; English; Liberty


HAPPY IS ENGLAND NOW, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is not anything more wonderful
Last Line: In those that fight, and watch with pride and tears.
Subject(s): England; English


HAWTHORN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath that hawthorn shade the grass will hardly grow
Last Line: Sit in this same sanctuary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Hawthorn; Landscape; English


HEART AND WILL, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our england's heart is sound as oak
Last Line: And first among the free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty


HEART OF OAK, by DAVID GARRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer
Last Line: Heart of oak etc.
Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Great Britain; Quebec, Battle Of (1759); Valor; Bravery; English Navy


HENRY AND EMMA, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, to whose eyes I bend, at whose command
Last Line: To the true lover, and the nut-brown maid.
Subject(s): Beauty; England; Happiness; Love; English; Joy; Delight


HERITAGE, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is there here, in these small country places
Last Line: England, that is our children's heritage.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Heritage; Heredity; English


HEROIC STANZAS, CONSECRATED TO MEMORY OF OLIVER [CROMWELL], by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now 'tis time; for their officious haste
Last Line: Where piety and valour jointly go.
Variant Title(s): Heroic Stanzas Consecrated To The Glorious Memory Of His Most Serene
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; England; Freedom; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English; Liberty


HIGH SUMMER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all the birds are flown, the first, the second brood
Last Line: Talks forgotten battles with a tear in his eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Summer; English


HIGH WIND, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boeotius laughed upon the windy corner's
Last Line: While slave-ships foundered under samothrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): England; English


HIGHLIGHTS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drunk, her eyes would water and sparkle
Last Line: Who used to be married to her sister
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


HOME, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where'er I roam in this fair english land
Last Line: My weary round, yet miss thy likeness still.
Subject(s): England; English


HOME THOUGHTS IN [OR, FROM] LAVENTIE, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green gardens in laventie
Last Line: Home, what a perfect place!
Subject(s): England; Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War


HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there
Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Variant Title(s): April In England
Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips


HOMELESS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It is cold dark midnight, yet listen
Last Line: And dives neglects him still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): England; Homeless; Poverty; English


HONOUR ITS OWN REWARD, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swell, swell the shrill trumpet clear sounding afar
Last Line: How vast the reward of the brave!
Subject(s): England; Honor; Patriotism; English


HUDIBRAS: PART 1, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir hudibras his passing worth
Last Line: Already tir'd with other toil.
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Presbyterianism; Liberty; English History


I'M PROUD OF HER, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am deeply touched when
Last Line: She's passed already %in a blaze of glory
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


IGNORING THE LINGUIST, by ROBERT PARHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the professor explained that
Last Line: While the light, because it is summer %refuses to leave
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


IMMIGRANTS WRESTLING WITH SOUNDS, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blackboard is parcelled like a small farmer's field
Last Line: Don't buy an immigrant dog
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


IN ENGLAND, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone in rain I sat today
Last Line: Is never far from sailing.
Subject(s): Country Life; England; English


IN REMEMBRANCE OF ENGLAND, by ZELLA WALLACE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of fabled castles england has her share
Last Line: And known that peace can never come too soon.
Subject(s): England; English


IN ROMNEY MARSH, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went down to dymchurch wall
Last Line: Pealing again, prolonged the roar.
Subject(s): England; Romney Marsh, England; English


IN THE CHANNEL, BETWEEN THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ranging the heights of scawfell or blackcomb
Last Line: To cope with sages undevoutly free.
Subject(s): English Channel


IN THE ENGINE-SHED, by WILLIAM WILKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through air made heavy with vapors murk
Last Line: We're going out with the express.
Subject(s): England; Railroads; Tragedy; English; Railways; Trains


IN THE TRAIN, by CLIFFORD BAX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly from a wayside station
Last Line: Her, he loves the heart of england?
Subject(s): England; Railroads; English; Railways; Trains


INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou a patriot, traveller? On this field
Last Line: And quell each angry and injurious thought.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Honor; Travel; English History; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT OLD SARUM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, if thou canst boast the noble name
Last Line: An individual's rights, how happy all!
Subject(s): England; History; Law & Lawyers; Legislation; Patriotism; English; Historians


INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE FOUR SIDES OF A PEDESTAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marlowe, the father of the sons of song
Last Line: First gave our song a sound that matched our sea.
Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Soul; English


INTERNATIONAL ODE; OUR FATHER'S LAND, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God bless our father's land!
Last Line: Great king of kings!
Subject(s): England; English


INTERVAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the cloudy evening shows
Last Line: Suddenly unconfined as air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


INTO TO POETRY, by STEVEN ALBERT BAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You thought it was math that taught
Last Line: And a voice asking, is this my life?
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


INTOLERANCE; A SATIRE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Start not, my friend, nor think the muse will stain
Last Line: And feels but half thy loss while grattan lives.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Religious Discrimination; English Revolution, 1688; Religious Conflict


INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, by SHANNON MARQUEZ MCGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking library aisles two hours, up toe pr's, down the ps's
Last Line: I listen, and notice that I'm humming-a little alliteration, %some soft consonance
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ITALY SWEET TOO!, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy is england! I could be content
Last Line: And float with them about the summer waters.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet
Subject(s): England; Italy; English; Italians


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 1, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a void, outside of existence, which if entered into
Last Line: Jesus.
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love
Last Line: Is an arrow from the almighties bow!
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But los, who is the vehicular form of strong urthona
Last Line: In englands green & pleasant bowers.
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English


JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 4, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spectres of albions twelve sons revolve mightily
Last Line: And I heard the name of their emanations they are named jerusalem
Subject(s): Bible; England; Mythology; Peace; War; English


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus to the martyrs in their country's cause
Last Line: Give to the arms of freedom such success.
Variant Title(s): The Crowning Of The King
Subject(s): Coronations; Creative Ability; England; Faith; France; Freedom; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Inspiration; Creativity; English; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 7, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong were the english forts, by daily toil
Last Line: Betaking them, for now the night drew on.
Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Historians; Theology


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now was the noon of night; and all was still
Last Line: The shattered fragments of the midnight wreck.
Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far through the shadowy sky the ascending flames
Last Line: "the thunder—she shall blast her despot foes."
Subject(s): Death; England; Faith; France; Funerals; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Burials; Heroes; Heroines


JOURNEY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the relic of an ancient ride
Last Line: We laughed at time, nor wished a better place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


JUST GUESSING: A LITTLE LECTURE ON AMBITION, by DAVID GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rainer maria rilke never worked a day
Last Line: No: like you, like me, rilke was just guessing
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp
Last Line: Upon his dying day.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness


KING HENRY VII AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harry, our king in england, from london town is gone
Last Line: That they may keep measure with harry our king and peace in engeland!
Subject(s): Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Navy - Great Britain; Shipbuilding; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry; English Navy


KING STEPHEN; A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If shame can on a soldier's vein-swoll'n front
Last Line: Can make his june december. Here he comes.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


KINGFISHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern god with natural blessing gleams
Last Line: The kingfisher returns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Kingfishers; Landscape; English


KYNG ALISAUNDER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a day sone after pan
Last Line: Forto he com to tolomew
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Legends, English


LEACHED, by FRANCES SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In france they martyred one progenitor
Last Line: Heroes set forth in a menagerie.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; France; Martyrs; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English


LED AND RULED?, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: English led and english ruled'!
Last Line: That herald peace, outshining mars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): England; Leadership; United States; English; America


LEISURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, and lose not the sweet luring cry
Last Line: And mercy's music be for ever dumb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Leisure; English


LIBERTINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In summer-time when haymaking's there
Last Line: And a dryad will peep when she thinks I'm asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


LIBERTY: PART 4. BRITAIN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Struck with the rising scene, thus I amazed
Last Line: "and lay the toil of ages in the dust."
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History


LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Last Line: More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake!
Variant Title(s): Tintern Abbey;on Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye
Subject(s): England; Holidays; Immortality; Nature; Religion; Trees; English; Theology


LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now farewell to you! You are
Last Line: To england, and to me my friend.
Subject(s): England; United States; War; English; America


LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Corpses are cold in the tomb
Last Line: To the bed of the bride!
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; English; Liberty; Castlereagh, Viscount


LINES WRITTEN IN SURREY, 1917, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sudden swirl of song in the bright sky
Last Line: Of english daisies dancing in english dells.
Subject(s): England; World War I - Great Britain; English


LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest
Last Line: . . . . . .
Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este


LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For aye be hynce ye vayne delyghts
Last Line: Forlettying erthlie loste.
Subject(s): England; Mexico; Poetry & Poets; Religion; English; Theology


LINES WRITTEN IN THE 16TH CENTURY PARODIED IN THE 18TH CENTURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hither frolics and delights
Last Line: Let angels have the rest.
Subject(s): England; Parties; Poetry & Poets; English


LISTEN MR. OXFORD DON, by JOHN AGARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Me not no oxford don
Last Line: I making de queen's english accessory/to my offence
Subject(s): English Language; Immigrants; Oxford University


LITERACY: OR HOW I ENDED UP AT THE OLD FOLKS HOME, by ANNE-MARIE OOMEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my battered kalkaska classroom, %the old man had come, asking
Last Line: Spreading like bright wings over their faces
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


LOGICAL FALLACIES, by ALISON TOWNSEND    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning I taught my freshman english class
Last Line: A prayer of feathers outlined %against the winter sky
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


LONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black in the midnight lies the city vast
Last Line: England's ideal life alone survives!
Subject(s): England; London; Past; English


LONG OVERDUE NOTE TO MY COLLEGE PROFESSOR WHO BROKE DOWN, by DAVID GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: At long last I know what you mean
Last Line: Over, and about our silence
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


LORD EXMOUTH'S VICTORY AT ALGIERS, 1816, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun looked bright upon the morning tide
Last Line: In glorious victory.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Pellew, Edward. 1st Viscount Exmouth; Sea Battles; English Navy; Naval Warfare


LORD LOVEL (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord lovel he stood at his castle gate
Last Line: For all true lovers to admire
Subject(s): England; English


LORD ROBERTS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: He came, he saw, he conquered; though his heart
Last Line: The idol of his country and his queen.
Subject(s): England; Fathers & Sons; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; English


LUCY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travelled among unknown men
Last Line: That lucy's eyes surveyed.
Variant Title(s): "i Travelled Among Unknown Men"";
Subject(s): Death; England; Travel; Dead, The; English; Journeys; Trips


MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN, by NOEL COWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In tropical climes there are certain times of day
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


MAGNA CARTA, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magna carta! Magna carta!
Last Line: English brothers, we are waiting!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; World War I; English History; First World War


MALEFACTORS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nailed to these green laths long ago
Last Line: Dreary as a passing-bell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


MARCH THOUGHTS FROM ENGLAND, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O that I were lying under the olives
Last Line: Rudel sing the lady of tripoli.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): England; March (month); Olive Trees And Olives; English


MELTING OF THE EARL'S PLATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's the gold cup all bossy with satyrs and saints
Last Line: With the shouts of the multitude bringing the king.
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Great Britain - History; English History


MERCIAN HYMNS: 1, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of
Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English


MERCIAN HYMNS: 10, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He adored the desk, its brown-oak inlaid with ebony
Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English


MERCIAN HYMNS: 16, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clash of salutation. As keels thrust into shingle
Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English


MERCIAN HYMNS: 28, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Processes of generation; deeds of settlement. The
Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English


MERCIAN HYMNS: 30, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk to
Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English


MERCIAN HYMNS: 6, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The princes of mercia were badger and raven. Thrall to their freedom
Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English


MERCIAN HYMNS: 7, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring
Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English


MERCIAN HYMNS: 8, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour
Subject(s): England; Offa (d. 796), King Of Mercia; English


MIDNIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last-lighted windows have darkened
Last Line: Be the wind in the moonlit thorn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Night; English; Bedtime


MILTON, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What splendour of imperial station man
Last Line: Rays of his glory on their foreheads bear.
Subject(s): England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; English


MINORA SIDERA (THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY), by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting at times over a hearth that burns
Last Line: Of lives obscurely great.
Subject(s): England; English


MISUNDERSTANDINGS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the bright shallow of this broadened dyke
Last Line: But to her frost-cold eggs she ne'er returned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


MOAT, by OLIFFE RICHMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little moat that fronts our fortress-wall
Last Line: Confederate shores not ocean can divide
Subject(s): English Channel; World War Ii


MOLE CATCHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With coat like any mole's, as soft and black
Last Line: There's not a peal in england sounds so well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Animals; England; Labor & Laborers; Landscape; Moles; English; Work; Workers


MONOTONOUS VARIETY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She 'greeted' and he 'volunteered'
Last Line: They had a thing or two to say.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 1, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of duck is drake
Last Line: Of duck, of course, is getting hit
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 1, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of duck is drake
Last Line: Of duck, of course, is getting hit
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 10, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of 'gee!' is some
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 10, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of 'gee!' is some
Last Line: Don't interrupt me, please. Gee whiz!
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 11, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of kite, I'd say
Last Line: (if you can work the blasted thing)
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 11, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of kite, I'd say
Last Line: (if you can work the blasted thing
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ships send out an s.O.S.
Last Line: It means that things could not be finer
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ships send out an s.O.S.
Last Line: It means that things could not be finer
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 13, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When some poor thirsty nomad sees
Last Line: A sandy islet in the sea
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 13, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When some poor thirsty nomad sees
Last Line: A sandy islet in the sea
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 14, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of robber? Come
Last Line: Posite of robber is a cop
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 14, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of robber? Come
Last Line: Posite of robber is a cop
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 15, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of less is more
Last Line: Try to be temperate, more or less
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 15, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of less is more
Last Line: Try to be temperate, more or less
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 16, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An echo's opposite is the cry
Last Line: It won't until; it hears from you
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 16, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An echo's opposite is the cry
Last Line: It won't until it hears from you
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 17, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of root?
Last Line: (such happenings are very rare
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 18, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dragon is a winged snake
Last Line: A golden egg (or so they say
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 19, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of stunt? You're right!
Last Line: Or merely lying on the grass
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 2, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of doctor? Well
Last Line: It's anyone who makes you sick
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 20, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of so-and-so
Last Line: You so-and-so! I want that back!
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 20, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of so-and-so
Last Line: You so-and-so! I want that back!'
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 21, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of punch, I think
Last Line: I'm getting punchy. That will do
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 21, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of punch, I think
Last Line: I'm getting punchy. That will do
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spell is something you are under
Last Line: And things are only fairly creepy
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spell is something you are under
Last Line: And other horribel mistaiks
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of hot, we know
Last Line: Since all those things are not so hot
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of hot, we know
Last Line: Since all those things are not so hot
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 24, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of moth? It's moth!
Last Line: As well as dresses, coats, and hats
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 25, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of top, in case
Last Line: Since none of those is fun to spin
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 26, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you are playing on a harp
Last Line: A soda should be full of fizz
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray is the opposite of blue
Last Line: And so its opposite is cheerful
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray is the opposite of blue
Last Line: And so its opposite is cheerful
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 28, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of chew?
Last Line: If you were seen to have a cud
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 29, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of a u?
Last Line: May have no opposite at all
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of baby?
Last Line: The answer is grown-up. Maybe
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of baby?
Last Line: The answer is a grown-up, maybe
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 30, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder if you've ever seen a
Last Line: A wild beast laughing uncontrollably!
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 31, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of pluck, my dear
Last Line: Of adding feathers to a bird
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 32, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of sound? Well, that's
Last Line: Or banging powder puffs together
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 32, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of sound? Well, that's
Last Line: Or banging powder puffs together
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 33, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of missouri?
Last Line: In massachusetts, anyway
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; United States


MORE OPPOSITES: 33, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of missouri?
Last Line: In massachusetts, anyway
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 34, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of stop is go
Last Line: I'll stop. And go. Farewell, my friend
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 4, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of pillow?
Last Line: Or else we'll have a pillow fight
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 4, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of pillow?
Last Line: Or else we'll have a pillow fight
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of tar is rat
Last Line: And bring the vessel into port
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of tar is rat
Last Line: And bring the vessel into port
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of sheep, I think
Last Line: To let you know it knows you're there
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How often travelers who mean
Last Line: Or you may draw a curious crowd
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 8, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An omen is a sign of some
Last Line: And the cat looks a little fatter
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 8, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An omen is a sign of some
Last Line: And the cat looks a little fatter
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MORE OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of road?
Last Line: Because you are already there
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Roads


MORE OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of road?
Last Line: Because you are already there
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


MR. HOWARD, by GERALDINE DELUCA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Howard was tall and skinny as a crane. He had a narrow
Last Line: Was afraid. Maybe he wouldn't remember me. Or worse, maybe %he would
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


MUCH VIRTUE IN IF, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were king of this broad land
Last Line: With you crowned at my side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): England; English


MUFFLED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black ponds and boughs of clay and sulky sedge
Last Line: When even the owls and bats are hesitating.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


MY BAD, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ignore her, they said
Last Line: I make on a white shirt
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


MY ENGLISH LETTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When each white moon, her lantern idly swinging
Last Line: That drifts into my sun-kissed western home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Canada; England; Canadians; English


MY LAST GLAD SUMMER, by PHEBE DAVIDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My last glad summer of lust
Last Line: Made lilies bloom beneath my skin
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


MY MASTER AND I, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "says the master to me, is it true? I am told"
Last Line: I can promise you we shall not get first in a rage
Subject(s): England;peace;poverty; English


MYSTERY AND MANNERS, by MARVIN DIOGENES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dr. Kopkind?' I asked the man standing at the emergency %room check-in
Last Line: Like he could use some help
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset
Last Line: This is also admitted: introit turba
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; English History


NAMES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From somerset and devon
Last Line: One race, one truth, one speech.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Names; New England; Heritage; Heredity; English


NEAR DOVER, SEPTEMBER 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood
Last Line: Only, the nations shall be great and free.
Variant Title(s): English Channel;france And England;september, 1802
Subject(s): English Channel


NELL GWYN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet heart, that no taint of the throne or the stage
Last Line: That thy name was the last on the lips of king charles.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Women; English


NERVOUSWORK, by WILLIAM SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saturday morning, and orange juice and the heater's buzz
Last Line: But my regrets must be every bit as fine. Every bit
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New year, be good to england. Bid her name
Last Line: 01/01/89
Subject(s): England; Holidays; New Year; Time; English


NEWSPAPER FINDINGS: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben
Last Line: At the paris exhibition.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Newspapers; Politics & Government; Rome, Italy; Social Problems; English; Journalism; Journalists


NIGHT ON THE CONVOY, ALEXANDRIA - MARSEILLES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck
Last Line: We are going home ... Victims ... Three thousand souls.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War


NINETEEN FORTY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars
Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh.
Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War


NO CONTINUING CITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The train with its smoke and its rattle went on
Last Line: "at this time next year."
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Country Life; England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting


NO SURRENDER! (VERSES WRITTEN AT A TIME OF INDUSTRIAL CRISIS), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand fast at last, o weary nation
Last Line: Thy fate in thine own will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Class Struggle; England; Industry; English


NOSTRADAMUS IN HEAVEN, by SARAH SLOANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When nostradamus died and went to heaven one inky july
Last Line: Singing back to him again from this half-grown, blue-green, %divine, dull world
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


NOT TO BE, by BROCK DETHIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carve your name in the paper
Last Line: Treasure strong verbs %share the gift
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


NOTE ABOUT ALLEN TATE, by KELLY CHERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I took literary criticism with allen tate. My mind was not on
Last Line: Observantly, in a way that recognizes change in the world
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


NOVEMBER BLUE, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O heavenly colour, london town
Last Line: The throng go crowned with blue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Electricity; England; London; Street Lights; English


NOVEMBER MORNING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the night storm sad wakes the winter day
Last Line: And sharded pots and rusty curry-combs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


NUPTIAL ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pass from the earth,deep shadows of the night
Last Line: And holiest silence seal the marriage night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); England; Wedding Song; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Epithalamium


O, THE PLEASANT DAYS OF OLD!, by FRANCES BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the pleasant days of old, which so often people praise!
Last Line: Blessed times of old!
Subject(s): Contentment; Great Britain - History; English History


ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, / that crown the watery glade
Last Line: Tis folly to be wise!
Variant Title(s): On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College
Subject(s): England; Eton College; Youth; English


ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury the great duke / with an empire's lamentation
Last Line: God accept him, christ receive him!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Let Us Bury The Great Duke
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Great Britain - History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; English History


ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day


OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs / blooded with amber
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


OLD ENGLAND FOREVER AND DO IT NO MORE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "as the queen and prince albert, so buxom and all pert"
Last Line: "the queen and prince albert, and do it no more"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;england; English


OLD HOMES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happiest village! How I turned to you
Last Line: And in your pastoral still my life has rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Home; Landscape; English


OLD SAWS NEW SET; A GREEK FABLE TO AN ENGLISH MORAL, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met john clod the other day quite out of sorts and pensive
Last Line: Reforms are god's own blessings -- revolutions oft his curse.
Subject(s): England; Government; English


ON GRAY'S ELEGY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Go back beyond the electric light
Last Line: And you have gray and gray's good age.
Subject(s): Country Life; England; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Memory; English


ON PROPOSED PRESENTATION OF GUNS TO KING OF SARDINIA, ITALIAN LIBERTY, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No gold - no jewels bright
Last Line: Be god to aid thee nigh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Europe; Freedom; Italy; Nations; English; Liberty; Italians


ON THE ANTICIPATED RETURN OF J. B. GOUGH TO ENGLAND, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere ancient thebes began on high to raise
Last Line: And earth, yea, heaven, shall prove thy words not vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Temperance; English; Prohibition


ON THE BELFRY TOWER; A SKETCH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look down the road. You see that mound
Last Line: Poor child! The last of all his race.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War


ON THE CAPTURE OF THE GUERRIERE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long the tyrant of our coast
Last Line: Dacre and the guerriere!
Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; English Navy; Naval Warfare


ON THE DEATH OF JOHN CASSELL; THE TRUE FRIEND OF THE WORKING MAN, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What mournful voices thrill upon my ears?
Last Line: The trophies of his power remain behind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cassell, John (1817-1865); Death; England; Labor & Laborers; Praise; Dead, The; English; Work; Workers


ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD BURTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night or light is it now, wherein
Last Line: That shines as dawn on a tideless sea.
Subject(s): Death; England; Night; Soul; Dead, The; English; Bedtime


ON THE FREQUENT REVIEW OF THE TROOPS, by M. [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Reviews are gaudy shows - allowed
Last Line: "let causists tell us, if they can, / is england's welfare furthered?"
Alternate Author Name(s): M.
Subject(s): Death;england;fights;guns; "dead, The;english;


ON THE NUMEROUS ACCESSE OF THE ENGLISH TO WAITE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hasten (great prince) unto thy british isles
Last Line: Will go, and see him once before I dye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Islands; English


ON W.S., by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shakespeare the boy with fairies in his head!
Last Line: And most himself beneath the stratford thatch.
Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); English


OPEN LETTER TO MY STUDENTS, by KATHLEEN KIRK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's the difference between us: %I don't know what a hackey sack is
Last Line: The wire scraped along concrete, %the balcony, %the hackey sack
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


OPPOSITES: 1, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of nuts
Last Line: You’re nuts if you think otherwise
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 1, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of nuts
Last Line: You're nuts if you think otherwise
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 10, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of fox?
Last Line: Perhaps a greenish ox would do
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 10, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of fox?
Last Line: Perhaps a greenish ox would do
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 11, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of making faces
Last Line: Fixed expression can be scary
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 11, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of making faces
Last Line: Fixed expression can be scary
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite two?
Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely me
Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms; Togetherness; Solitude


OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of two?
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of two?
Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely you
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 13, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of doe
Last Line: The current slang for dough is bread
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 13, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of doe
Last Line: The current slang for dough is bread
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 14, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of penny?
Last Line: Of someone who is penniless
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 14, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of penny?
Last Line: Which is it, heads or tails? You lose
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 15, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of squash? Offhand
Last Line: The opposite of squash is bean
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 15, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of squash? Offhand
Last Line: The opposite of squash is bean
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 16, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of actor?
Last Line: I'm romeo. Who might you be?
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 16, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of actor?
Last Line: I'm romeo. Who might you be?
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 17, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's more than one way to be right
Last Line: The opposite of white is yolk!
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 17, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's more than one way to be right
Last Line: The opposite of white is yolk!'
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 18, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of doughnut? Wait
Last Line: A cookie with a hole around it
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 18, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of doughnut? Wait
Last Line: A cookie with a hole around it
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 19, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because what's present doesn't last
Last Line: Something with which you like to play
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 19, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because what's present doesn't last
Last Line: Something with which you like to play
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 2, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of flying?
Last Line: Would be to take a train or bus
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 2, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of flying?
Last Line: Would be to take a train or bus
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 20, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of hat?
Last Line: And run the risk of looking silly
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 20, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of hat?
Last Line: And run the risk of looking silly
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 21, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposites of earth are two
Last Line: To choose. All right, we’ll keep them both
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 21, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposites of earth are two
Last Line: To choose. All right. We'll keep them both
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of a cloud could be
Last Line: Caused by a cloud's not being there
Subject(s): Clouds; English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 22, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of a cloud could be
Last Line: Caused by a cloud's not being there
Subject(s): Clouds; English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not to have any hair is called
Last Line: And must be patted on their pores
Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not to have any hair is called
Last Line: And must be patted on their pores
Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 24, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of cupid?
Last Line: “I hate you,” “ouch,” and “c uty it out”
Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 24, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of cupid?
Last Line: I hate you,' 'ouch,' and 'cut it out.'
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 25, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of a shoe?
Last Line: The question's foolish, is it not?
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 26, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of fleet
Last Line: Engage the first fleet in a battle
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 26, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of fleet
Last Line: Engage the first fleet in a battle
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of july?
Last Line: The opposite of july’s july
Subject(s): English Language; July; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of july?
Last Line: The opposite of july's july
Subject(s): English Language; July; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 28, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of bat
Last Line: Another answer might be ball
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 28, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of bat
Last Line: Another answer might be ball
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 29, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of well is sick
Last Line: Without a lot of 'well...Well...Well...'
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of foot is what?
Last Line: The opposite of foot was horse
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 3, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of foot is what?
Last Line: The opposite of foot was horse
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 30, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of tiller? Well,
Last Line: Since none of these can steer a boat
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 31, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of fast is loose
Last Line: The opposite of fast is feast
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 31, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of fast is loose
Last Line: The opposite of fast is feast
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 32, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of a prince?
Last Line: And sitting on a lily pad
Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 32, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of a prince?
Last Line: And sitting on a lily pad
Subject(s): English Language; Supernatural; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 33, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of a king, I'm sure
Last Line: If she is quarrelsome and mean
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 34, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of spit, I'd say
Last Line: And decent instincts of mankind!
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 34, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of spit, I'd say
Last Line: And decent instincts of mankind!
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 35, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of ball?
Last Line: And merely make a dreadful hole
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 35, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of ball?
Last Line: And merely make a dreadful hole
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 36, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of trunk could be
Last Line: The answer tail is rather clever
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 36, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of trunk could be
Last Line: Of anything in which to pack
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of post, were you
Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms & Antonyms; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


OPPOSITES: 37, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of post, were you
Last Line: To put your letters in the mail
Subject(s): English Language; Postal Service; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 38, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of mirror
Last Line: While looking at a swarm of flies
Subject(s): English Language; Mirrors; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 38, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of mirror
Last Line: While looking at a swarm of flies
Subject(s): English Language; Mirrors; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 39, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of opposite?
Last Line: That's much too difficult. I quit
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 39, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of opposite?
Last Line: That's much too difficult, I quit
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 4, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of cheese?
Last Line: I'm certainly not opposed to it
Subject(s): Cheese; English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite ofjunk is stuff
Last Line: That isn’t in the least chinese
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 5, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite ofjunk is stuff
Last Line: That isn't in the least chinese
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of string?
Last Line: It’s gnirts, which doesn’t mean a thing
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 6, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of string?
Last Line: It's gnirts, which doesn't mean a thing
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of standing still
Last Line: Or any other mode of travel
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 7, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of standing still
Last Line: Or any other mode of travel
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 8, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of riot?
Last Line: It's lots of people keeping quiet
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 8, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of riot?
Last Line: It's lots of people keeping quiet
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of a hole's a heap
Last Line: If it will give you any pleasure
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 9, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The opposite of a hole's a heap
Last Line: If it will give you any pleasure
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by JOSEPH DUEMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My language is originating before my eyes, in the mouth
Subject(s): English Language


OUR MOTHER TONGUE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the vague atlantic deep
Last Line: Forget not it is yours and ours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Variant Title(s): An Envoy To An American Lady
Subject(s): English Language


OUT OF THE MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Merely the moonlight
Last Line: It falls on the ferns under my may-tree bough.
Subject(s): England; Flowers; Moon; English


OUTLANDERS, by ANDREW GLAZE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The channel moon went down, as ignorance
Last Line: Was new world doubt if good or guile were there %in all the level state that met our stare
Subject(s): English Channel


OVERLOOKING THE RIVER STOUR, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The swallows flew in the curves of an eight
Last Line: These less things hold my gaze!
Subject(s): England; Rivers; Stour (river), England; English


PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rumbling under blackened girders, midland, bound for
Subject(s): England; English


PERCH FISHING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the far hill the cloud of thunder grew
Last Line: They did together, never more to do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Perch (fish); English


PERINDE AC CADAVER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a vision liberty stood
Last Line: "ashes, and iron, and gold."
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); England; Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); English; Liberty


PERKIN WARBECK, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Studies have of this nature been of late
Last Line: And often find a welcome to the muses.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Impostors & Imposture; English History; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry


PERSPECTIVE, by PATRICIA VALDATA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the overheated classroom %twenty students lean back
Last Line: Flesh with its beak as students passed by
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


PHILIP VERNON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When bess was queen, and the bishop of rome and
Last Line: Ring in their new lord, and these gladder times.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Spain; English


PHYSICS TEACHER, by ANNE-MARIE OOMEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He wanted to believe something defied the laws
Last Line: His own hands open and the bird %explodes into its own law and beauty
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


PISGAH, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


PITT'S BON-MOT, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though william pitt (nick-named the tory
Last Line: "except in case of an invasion!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): England; Fame; English; Reputation


PLAYGROUND, by KATE SONTAG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You search the day for inspiration
Last Line: Distracted now and elsewhere
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


POEM: 1, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Trew king, pat sittes in trone
Last Line: In ingland help vs to haue þese.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Scotland; War; English


POEM: 3, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: God pat schope both se and sand
Last Line: And blis it with his haly hand. Amen.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; God; Ships & Shipping; War; English


POEM: 9, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sir david pe bruse -- was at distance
Last Line: Pus was dauid þe bruse -- into þe toure tane.
Subject(s): England; Grief; War; English; Sorrow; Sadness


POET MEETS HIS CLASS IN THE CHEMISTRY LAB, by KENNETH M. AUTREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The periodic chart is god here
Last Line: And dare each other to taste them
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


POLITICAL PROLOGUE: TO 'THE UNHAPPY FAVORITE,' BY JOHN BANKS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first the ark was landed on the shore
Last Line: Still to havesuch a king, and this king long.
Variant Title(s): Prologue And Epilogue To The Unhappy Favorite: Prologue Spoken To The
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); England; Mankind; Peace; English; Human Race


PORTUGUESE PRINCESS LOOKS TO THE EAST, by THOMAS STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The portuguese princess looks to the east
Last Line: To an early evening that may or may not be
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


POSTLUDE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


PRECIOUSNESS OF IMPERFECTION, by WILLIAM SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm getting so frustrated, she says, this is so
Last Line: And with me even. With all of us, gone as we are %to confusion and flaw
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


PREPOSITIONS IN ALABAMA, by KENNETH M. AUTREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: About columbus day, 6th grade, I learned the power
Last Line: We'd ever need of who, what, when, and where
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A new grave meets the hastiest passer's eye
Last Line: What a low hillock by your path may mean.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Graves; Landscape; Villages; English; Tombs; Tombstones


PRODUCE, by DARRELL FIKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, send along a half-dozen fresh ones'
Last Line: Simile, red potatoes sly and winking
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


PROEM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, when the mocking-bird, returned
Last Line: That, denied to desire, obedience yet may invite thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): England; Life; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; English


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (2), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Discord and plots, which have undone our age
Last Line: Oxford's a place where wit can never sterve.
Subject(s): England; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; English; Dramatists


PSALMS OF ASSIZE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I strike you with my name
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


PUTTYROOT AND STOPCOCK, by DAVID GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old mr. What's his name was always good
Last Line: The wondrous fog of your wide ignorance
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


QUO VADIS, M.F.A.?, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you remember how bartleby the scrivener
Last Line: For a single one-year, non-tenure-track %lectureship %in creative writing
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


READING, by HOLLY IGLESIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poet declares the body didactic; and I yearn for yours, desire
Last Line: Beginning to slide like layers of an over-iced cake
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


READING FOR THE BLIND, by KARA PROVOST    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can tell by how she reads
Last Line: Letting us see ourselves %as the angels see us
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


READY, AY, READY, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old england's sons are english yet
Last Line: Be thy first word thy last, -- ready, ay, ready!
Subject(s): England; English


REALIZATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is one syllable that stirs me: war
Last Line: God, let me apprehend this nearer strife!
Subject(s): Death; England; France; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War


REHABILITATING JOSEPH ADAMS, by SCOTT SIMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They caught him with the pictures- %drawings in ink
Last Line: Brucker blood-red %brucker, brucker, dead
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


REMARKS ON DR. BROWN'S 'ESTIMATE OF THE MANNERS OF THE TIMES', by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The book appears to my perusing sight
Last Line: All-bearing meekness, and all-conq'ring love.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; England; Writing & Writers; Reading; English


REPLY, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A teacher, who is also my friend
Last Line: Like, o my teacher, my teacher, %before he dies
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


RESPUBLICA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The srident high
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


RETALIATION, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Of old, when scarron his companions invited
Last Line: He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Paintings & Painters; English History


REVELRY OF THE DYING, by BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We meet 'neath the sounding rafter
Last Line: And hurrah for the next that dies!
Variant Title(s): Indian Revelry;the Revel;our Last Toast;revelry In India;hurrah For The Next That Dies
Subject(s): Death; England; Epidemics; India; India - British Rule; Plague; Tragedy; Dead, The; English


RHETORIC OF WOOD, by MICHAEL SPOONER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In february, just five, and master %of the shoelace, isaac ties
Last Line: If we poured every grain %of sand out of these bags?'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 25, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What have I done for you?
Last Line: Out of heaven on your bugles blown!
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Variant Title(s): Pro Rege Nostro;england, My England
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English


RITORNELLI, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angel of tones
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea
Last Line: Going. He calls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English


RONALD BEAVER'S LIFE IN ENGLAND, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life in england for ronald beaver.
Subject(s): England; English


ROSA MUNDI, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There in a solitude of silence slips
Last Line: -- but like a spy the shadow passed their enfilade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


ROSES AND TULIPS, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is all so ordinary
Last Line: And finally, what in our ordinary lives, %we might call love
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


RULES OF CONDUCT: COLORED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1943, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Watch your language, say words right
Last Line: Keep every anger coiled in tight
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


RUNNING THE BLOCKADE, by NORA PERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the french fleet lay
Last Line: Who had run the blockade!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston Harbor, Blockade Of (1778); Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; French Navy; English Navy


RUSTIC WREATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With may's tomthumb and daisy come
Last Line: And only earth's rude rustic here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Country Life; England; Landscape; English


S. MARK, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis not thine alexandrian seat
Last Line: Whom thou recordest, can reward thy story.
Subject(s): Christianity; England; Saints; English


SAINT KENELM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pe kyng pat of pe march, ase ich telle bigan
Last Line: Pat we moten to pulke joie pare he is inne iwiende. Amen
Subject(s): Legends, English; Saints


SALE OF RAMSAY'S HISTORY PROHIBITED IN LONDON, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some bold bully dawson, expert in abusing
Last Line: The king will run mad -- and the book will be sold.
Subject(s): Censorship; England; Ramsay, David (1749-1815); English


SALUTE TO DONALD DAVIE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine david, how a single
Last Line: Though only for a visit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Waves; English; Hunters; Ocean


SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN POET AND FRIEND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I note the moods and feelings men betray
Last Line: Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws!
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; England; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; English; Religious Conflict


SCENES FROM THE TEACHING MOMENT LOUNGE, by LYNNA WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among the fiction writers in my graduate writing program
Last Line: It was my first teachable moment, and my favorite still
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SCHOLAR, by GRACE BAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deconstructs desire, confines
Last Line: There are no words to signify
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SECOND APARTMENT, FIRST-YEAR TEACHER, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just one grocery bag but it was heavy
Last Line: And gold china and at the cup's bottom %a clutch of yellow roses
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SELF AS WORD, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can hear the meaning in the sonics
Last Line: Elves in a world of giants, brash eyes in the potato flesh
Subject(s): English Language; Language; Self


SEMINAR, by SHANNON MARQUEZ MCGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: But tonight, another crime, besides the way it
Last Line: Teaching's rapture shining from your eyes
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SENRYU (93), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So hard to fall for
Last Line: English-language typist
Subject(s): English Language


SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 1. MAGPIE, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was six years old, I met magpie in woods beside a
Last Line: Even after I had graduated, magna cum feathers, from woods %into more knowing
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 2. BAD DOG, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was eleven, bad dog bit me. 'that will teach you,' he
Last Line: Baring his teeth. Bad teacher! Down! Get in your house!
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 3. LIZARD, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh I, age seventeen, was hammering boulders at a gravel pit
Last Line: Tend not to do well on the quizzes that count'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 4. SQUIRREL, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Later, when seriousness befell me, I encountered squirrel, a nervous
Last Line: I scrambled, my cheeks bursting with clever things to say
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 5. DEER, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Learned deer, she of the polished obsidian hooves, stopped me
Last Line: These are, we only think we know'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 6. RACCOON, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: One evening I was fortunate enough to hear raccoon's
Last Line: Disappeared. I was left to a lunar tutorial
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 7. SNAKE, by HANS OSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snake was rumored to be one of the best teachers in those
Last Line: Add-though of course I'm biased-that it helps to stay %grounded
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SEVEN WORDS OF POETRY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All this happened on the same day, as I remember -- the seven words
Last Line: Museum! Tell me mama-san -- how long have you been in this oday fresh!
Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; English As A Second Language; Poetry And Poets


SHAKESPEARE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England, that gavest to the world so much
Last Line: Nearest himself in universal power.
Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); World War I; English; Dramatists; First World War


SHEET LIGHTNING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When on the green the rag-tag game had stopt
Last Line: With fear. Joe beat its brain out on the wheel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods


SHEPHERD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening has brought the glow-worm to the green
Last Line: And gently leads the yoes that are with young.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; English


SHOOTING STAR AT HARVEST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bell softer than silence
Last Line: To live in rapture new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Stars; English


SIR CAWLINE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;england; English


SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is an ancient england in the new
Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


SIR WILLIAM GOMM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At threescore years and vive aroused anew
Last Line: While children of such mould are born to thee?
Subject(s): England; India; English


SISTER ALBERT, by BILL RANSOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sixty-two students crowded the room right up to sister albert's
Last Line: Then do it once more, just for fun, and we can both go %home'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SOBIESKI'S SHIELD, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blackberry, white
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


SOME DIFFERENCES: DAWN AND DAYBREAK, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn is a thing that poets write
Last Line: My opulent bric-a-brac earth to damn his eyes
Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: 1
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms


SOME DIFFERENCES: DAWN AND DAYBREAK, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn is a thing that poets write
Last Line: And drink it, and go off to work
Variant Title(s): A Few Differences:
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


SOME DIFFERENCES: OWL AND CAT, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An owl is like a cat because
Last Line: Until some fireman brings a ladder
Variant Title(s): A Few Differences:
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


SOME DIFFERENCES: ROOM AND MOOR, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is a room unlike a moor?
Last Line: You wouldn't have one in the house
Variant Title(s): A Few Differences: 4
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; Moors (land); Rooms


SOME DIFFERENCES: ROOM AND MOOR, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is a room unlike a moor?
Last Line: You wouldn't have one in the house
Variant Title(s): A Few Differences:
Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms And Antonyms


SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: While a thousand fine projects are planned every day
Last Line: Contrive that the poor may have something to eat
Subject(s): Cities;england;free Trade;markets;poverty; Urban Life;english;supermarkets


SONG FOR THE NAVY LEAGUE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O where be all those mariners bold who used to control the sea
Last Line: With his yo, heave ho, and his s h ts, and a master of arts degree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Beresford, Charles. 1st Baron; Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of england! Who inherit
Last Line: For their birthrights -- so will we!
Subject(s): England; Freedom; English; Liberty


SONG, FR. THE EMIGRANT, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old england is eaten by knaves
Last Line: Nor a foreign foe land on her shore.
Subject(s): England; Immigrants; Poverty; English; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


SONGS IN ABSENCE: 4, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green fields of england! Wheresoe'er
Last Line: Dear home in england, won at last.
Subject(s): England; Homesickness; English


SONNET INSERTED IN M. RIO'S WORK, 'LA PETITE CHOUANNERIE', by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For honest men, of every blood and creed
Last Line: If what god loves to make man's passions still will mar?
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): England; France; English


SONNET TO BRITAIN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Halt! Shoulder arms! Recover! As you were!
Last Line: Pounding them into mummy. Shoulder, hoop!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): England; Soldiers; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); English; Wellington, Duke Of


SONNET: 16. TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL, MAY 1652, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud
Last Line: Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw.
Variant Title(s): To The Lord General Cromwell;to Lord General Cromwell, May 1652, On Proposals
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Great Britain - History; English History


SONNET: ENGLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While men pay reverence to mighty things
Last Line: Each iron sinew quivering, lioness!
Subject(s): England; English


SONNET: ENGLAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloud-girded land, brave land beyond the sea!
Last Line: There lived my sires, whose sacred dust is there.
Subject(s): England; English


SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR': 3, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the strength of england, and her pride
Last Line: What is it that giveth her immortal breath?
Variant Title(s): America And England
Subject(s): England; English


SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR: 4, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then the west answered: 'is the sword's keen edge
Last Line: About the hills, and flashed beneath the sea.'
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English


SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR: 5, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First of mankind bid we our eagles pause
Last Line: Shall warm thy hearthstone from their million homes.
Subject(s): England; Justice; English


SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 27. ENGLAND, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: England of shakespeare, shelley, milton, keats
Last Line: While passionless thy giant sword-arm lies.
Subject(s): England; English


SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 29. CHRIST AND ENGLAND, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nay! But our own dear land thou shalt not hold
Last Line: We are content. We have no need of thee.
Subject(s): England; Jesus Christ; English


SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 49. THE ENGLISH RACE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The english spirits round me are mine own
Last Line: Looked the whole spanish navy in the face.
Subject(s): England; Revenge (ship); English


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 1., by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of her whose face, and lofty name
Last Line: Toward him spurring over bosworth field.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Alps; Daughters; Death; England; Mountains; Dead, The; English; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 6, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I move amid your throng, I watch you hold
Last Line: Only the splendour of your loveliness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): England; Friendship; Night; English; Bedtime


SORREL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


SPATIAL RELATIONS, by LEONORA SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember the geometric forms on aptitude tests
Last Line: Which hung in the blurred wakes of their folding
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SPERANZA, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England puts on her purple, and pale, pale
Last Line: And every soul of man be satisfied.'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hope; Life; Sleep; Wind; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Optimism


SPRING NIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the smothered air the wicker finds
Last Line: As if day's host of flowers were a moment's whim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English


SPRING RICE FIELD, by KENNETH M. AUTREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Basho's great haiku
Last Line: Peeled from a still pond
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Matsuo Basho (1644-1694); Schools; Teaching And Teachers


ST GEORGE'S DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Herbert: I hear the lark and linnet sing
Last Line: Of england and the english spring!
Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; English


ST. DAVID'S HEAD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Salt sprays deluge it, wild waves buffet it, hurricanes rave
Last Line: I hold the measure of you all.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; St. David's Head, Wales; English History


STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTHWESTERLY GALE, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods and downs have caught the mid-december
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; England; Patriotism; Ocean; English


STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND, by LIAM RECTOR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I lived in the visionary city
Subject(s): England; English


STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in america, / by the other ocean
Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; United States; War; English; America


STONE DREAMS, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I first went to his house I could not understand
Last Line: I think,' stephanie says, 'it's about %sometimes we think we know a person %and we really don't'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


STONEHENGE, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near wilton sweet huge heaps of stone are found
Last Line: She is the cause that all the rest I am.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 22. The Seven Wonders Of England
Subject(s): England; Stonehenge; English


STRAFFORD; A TRAGEDY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say, if he be here
Last Line: Straf. O god, I shall die first -- I shall die first!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Wentworth, Thomas. Earl Of Strafford; English History


STRANGLEHOLD OF ENGLIST LIT., by FELIX MNTHALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those questions, sister
Last Line: How could they be answered?
Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); English Language; Literature; Novels And Novelists


SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, shaping nations, the creative hand
Last Line: Is filled with humour, irony, and song.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; England; Literature; Poetry & Poets; English


SUBJECTED EARTH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking in the flat oxfordshire fields
Last Line: And all its music to make, beats on the grave-mound
Subject(s): Earth; Graves; England; World; Tombs; Tombstones; English


TAKING THE WORLD LITERATURE CLASS OUTSIDE, by JANET MCCANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You, propped on the liveoak %drifting toward sleep
Last Line: Rings three chimes %& we are scattered by %two joyous labradors!
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TEACHER, by TOM ROMANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why do I forget question marks
Last Line: Before I take a long swig, %say, 'why not'
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TEACHER SHOT BY STUDENT, OR THE RISK OF OVERSTATEMENT, by KATHLEEN KIRK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I fail him for submitting %a paper written by his girlfriend
Last Line: And down the halls of their lives
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TEACHER'S LOUNGE, by BILL RANSOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the bell you hobble to your corners
Last Line: Or like a child spinning helpless in the ring
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by MARGOT TREITEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: All year I've been speaking the small
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching And Teachers


TEACHING IN MY SLEEP, by KATHLEEN KIRK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight again I am %teaching in my sleep
Last Line: Stars and teach me %how to wake and fly
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TEACHING POETRY: A WAY TO GRACE THE WORLD?, by KELLY CHERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever since someone suggested to me that teaching poetry may
Last Line: Flush, as I am surprised by joy
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TEACHING READING, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ginger root gnarls in my hand
Last Line: She climbs on finally %and the bus driver off
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TEMPERANCE WARFARE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arouse ye! Arouse ye! The foe is at large
Last Line: As a christian mother devoted to duty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Temperance; War; English; Prohibition


THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little red road climbs the hill
Last Line: "who were a hundred years away."
Subject(s): Americans In England; England; Travel; Wellesley College; English; Journeys; Trips


THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea
Last Line: Sea.
Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust
Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible
Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence


THE BAKER'S VAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Village children shouted shrill
Last Line: Was still in a brown study seen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; England; Landscape; English


THE BALLAD OF THE CLAMPHERDOWN, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was our war-ship clampherdown
Last Line: And as it still shall be.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; English Navy; Naval Warfare


THE BARONS BOLD, by WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: The barons bold on runnymede
Last Line: Our wrongs shall all be righted.
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Liberty; English History


THE BATTLE OF ATBARA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of great britain, pray list to me
Last Line: And to annihilate barbarity, and to establish what is right.
Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - History; Rifles; War; Dead, The; English History


THE BATTLE OF DUNDEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on the mountain-side the battle raged, there was no stop nor stay"
Last Line: That ''twas the english fought the dutch' at the battle of dundee
Subject(s): "dundee, Scotland;navy - Great Britain;war;" English Navy


THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of great britain! Come join with me
Last Line: And to establish what's right wherever they go.
Subject(s): Death; Fights; Great Britain - History; Military; Victory; War; Dead, The; English History


THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gallants, attend and hear a friend
Last Line: They'll make their boasts and brags, sir.
Variant Title(s): British Valor Displayed
Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Great Britain - Civil War; Machinery & Machinists; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; English Civil War; American Navy


THE BLUECOAT BOY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met an angel in the strand
Last Line: "charles lamb."
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; English


THE BRITISH PRISON-SHIP, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid these ills no tyrant dared refuse
Last Line: And his last efforts more than damn the first.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Hospitals; Navy - Great Britain; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea Battles; English Navy; Convicts; Naval Warfare


THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory.
Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore
Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History


THE BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Erewhile, on england's pleasant shores, our sires
Last Line: Her ruddy, pouting fruit. -- -- -- -- -- -
Subject(s): England; Graves; Pilgrim Fathers; English; Tombs; Tombstones


THE CAPTAIN; A LEGEND OF THE NAVY, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He that only rules by terror
Last Line: With one waft of the wing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea; English Navy; Ocean


THE CHALLENGE OF THE GUNS, by ARTHUR NELSON FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: By day, by night, along the lines
Last Line: All that we have and are we lay on england's shrine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, A. N.
Subject(s): England; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War


THE CHANGE OF FLAGS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A flurried scud of sunlit sails
Last Line: "that wrought the battle-blade!"
Subject(s): England; Flags; Freedom; Spain; English; Liberty


THE CHAUTAUQUAN MAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She had studied every ology
Last Line: But they got themselves in trouble, and, of course, got whipped, by gaul.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); England; Geology; Greek Language; Latin; Philology; English


THE CHERRY OF LUCULLUS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the days when rome was hungry, and, as / robber of the world
Last Line: Such a signal of repentance as the cherry of lucullus.
Subject(s): England; English


THE CHIMES OF [OLD] ENGLAND, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chimes, the chimes of motherland
Last Line: The wilderness shall ring
Subject(s): Bells; England; Worship; English


THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPS OF CHELTENHAM, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When hawthorn buds are creaming white
Last Line: "I am looking for my children. Awake, and come away."
Subject(s): Children; Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Dancing & Dancers; England; Faces; Singing & Singers; Childhood; English


THE CHOLERA MORBUS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It comes! It comes! From england's trembling tongue
Last Line: Requite the love that snatched them from the pest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Angels; Death; England; Love; Dead, The; English


THE COASTWISE LIGHTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on
Last Line: The lights of england sent you and by silence shall ye speak!
Subject(s): England; English


THE COLLISION IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a sunday morning, and in the year of 1888
Last Line: When on the briny deep, far, far away!
Subject(s): Disasters; English Channel; Shipwrecks; Storms


THE COMET, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eye of the demon on albion was turned
Last Line: The fire-brand of yamen shall dazzle in vain.
Subject(s): Anger; Devil; England; Envy; Floods; Weather; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; English


THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree
Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man.
Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE CONFLICT: 1. TO WILLIAM WATSON IN ENGLAND, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Singer of england's ire across the sea
Last Line: He cannot tear our plighted souls apart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; Watson, William (1858-1935); World War I; English; First World War


THE CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality
Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War


THE CONFLICT: 3. PEACE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace! - but there is no peace. To hug the thought
Last Line: Or would we crown with peace — caligula?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear
Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven.
Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun
Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory.
Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English


THE COUNTRY OF BOUNDERS, by ERNEST FRANCIS O'FERRALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coach was creaking up the hill, the straining nags were nodding
Last Line: "then drawled, ""hey, boss! Them blankers there is native 'boundahs' bounding!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak
Subject(s): England; Kangaroos; Language; English; Words; Vocabulary


THE COVERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I always thought to find my love
Last Line: As ever hailed the spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


THE CROWN INN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes
Last Line: While empires shudder into night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE CRUISE OF THE 'ROVER', A.D. 1575, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They sailed away one morning when sowing-time was over
Last Line: Then kissed each other silently, and hand in hand they died.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; English Navy; Naval Warfare


THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In westminster's royal halls
Last Line: Rests the city of our god!
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Westminster Abbey; Liberty; English History


THE CYCLISTS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spread on the roadway,
Subject(s): Bicycles; England; Decay; Cycling; English; Rot; Decadence


THE DAY IS COMING, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither lads and hearken
Last Line: And forth the banners go.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Great Britain - History; Peace; English History


THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy, joy in london now!
Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight


THE DEVOURERS, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cambridge town is a beleaguered city
Last Line: Her imperishable heart of pity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose
Subject(s): Cambridge, England; England; English


THE DIAMOND JUBILEE; AN ODE. JUNE 20, 1897, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice, give thanks for all the centuries
Last Line: And bless with heart and voice this fair auspicious day.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Great Britain - History; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); English History


THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM, THE MURDERER, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the prime of summer time
Last Line: With gyves upon his wrist.
Subject(s): Aram, Eugene (1704-1759); England; Murder; Tragedy; English


THE DRIED MILLPOND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old broadbridge pond, once on a time so deep
Last Line: Nor any pleasure of the past abides.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds


THE DUELLIST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globe
Last Line: The happy choice their dam had made.
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Loyalty; Martin, Samuel; Patriotism; Sin; Warburton, William (1698-1779); English; Liberty


THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our play's a parallel; the holy league
Last Line: Pull down the master, and set up the man.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Nations; Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists


THE DYING PATRIOT, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day breaks on england down the kentish hills
Last Line: Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow.
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English


THE EMBRYO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That grey-green river pouring past
Last Line: The swans through air anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


THE EMIGRATION OF THE FAIRIES, SELECTION, by JOHN HUNTER-DUVAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few days more they drifted, ever west
Last Line: As lithe as squirrels and as smug as rabbits.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duvar, John Hunter
Subject(s): Acadia; England; Fairies; English; Elves


THE ENEMY IN THE GATE; TO BRITANNIA, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, all this availeth thee nothing
Last Line: The captives of drink, on her shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; England; Evil; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; English; Prohibition


THE ENGLISH BOY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look from the ancient mountains down
Last Line: The altars of the land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Duty; England; Youth; English


THE ENGLISH POETS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked across the fields and saw a light
Last Line: The spirit fire that keeps our england young?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; English


THE ENGLISHMAN, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a land that bears a world-known name
Last Line: "is breathed in the words, ""I'm an englishman."
Variant Title(s): Trombone Solo
Subject(s): England; English


THE ENGLISHMAN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a sailor in the woods
Last Line: With painted eyes to sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; English; Seamen; Sails


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske
Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine
Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity
Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight
Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So oft as I with state of present time
Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde
Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele
Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics


THE FAIRY OF THE FOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did she love her mother's so?
Last Line: The fountain fairy -- melusine!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Fountains; Legends, English


THE FAMOUS FIGHT AT MALAGO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all you brave sailors that sails on the main
Last Line: Because with five frigates we did them destroy
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;sea;sea Battles; English Navy;ocean;naval Warfare


THE FAREWELL, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Farewell to europe, and at once farewell
Last Line: P. She cannot starve, if there was only clive.
Subject(s): England; Farewell; English; Parting


THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll sing you a good old song
Last Line: "of a fine old english gentleman, / all of the olden time"
Subject(s): England;wealth; English;riches;fortunes


THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by CHARLES DICKENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate
Last Line: Hail to the coming time!
Subject(s): England; Great Britain - History; Wealth; English; English History; Riches; Fortunes


THE FLEET, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, you, if you shall fail to understand
Last Line: But then too late, too late.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Navy - Great Britain; British Empire; England - Empire; English Navy


THE FLOWERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Buy my english posies!
Last Line: Masters of the seven seas, oh, love and understand.
Subject(s): England; Flowers; English


THE FORESTERS: NATIONAL SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no land like england
Last Line: Cho. -- for the french, etc.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; National Song - England; English History; English National Anthem


THE FORESTERS: SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To sleep! To sleep! The long bright day is done
Last Line: To sleep! To sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): England; English


THE GHOST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: With eager search to dart the soul
Last Line: Were delivered at pewterers' hall, in lime street.
Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Gypsies; Magic; Quackery & Quacks; Supernatural; English; Gipsies


THE GIANT PUFFBALL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From what proud star I know not, but I found
Last Line: Be but as crouching dust and wind-blown sand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Puffballs; English


THE GLORY OF ALL ENGLAND, by EDWARD WILLIAM BOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are some who think of england with its ways of
Last Line: The lordly trees of arthur's time!
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English


THE GOLDEN AGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Money abundant, at an easy rate!
Last Line: That gold alone can make no golden age.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Materialism; Muses; Wealth; Youth; English; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes


THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round
Last Line: From guilt, though not without a hope in christ.
Subject(s): England; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Guilt; Murder; Story-telling; English; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE GREENWOOD SHRIFT; GEORGE III AND A DYING WOMAN IN WINDSOR FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outstretched beneath the leafy shade
Last Line: Knelt their anointed king.
Subject(s): England; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Religion; Windsor Forest, England; English; Theology


THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of the twenty-first
Last Line: How the guards came through.
Subject(s): England; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War


THE GUNS IN SUSSEX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light green of grass and richer green of bush
Last Line: But still I hear the mutter of the guns.
Subject(s): Desolation; England; Guns; Patriotism; Sussex, England; War; World War I; English; First World War


THE HANGED MAN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Storm lifts from wales
Last Line: It is all just like the poet said
Subject(s): England; Love - Unrequited; Poetry & Poets; English


THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN: BRUTUS' PRAYER TO DIANA, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddess of shades, and huntress, who at will
Last Line: Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical; English History


THE HISTORY OF INSPIDS; A LAMPOON, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chast, pious, prudent, charles the second
Last Line: Prove wretched, king'd by storks and loggs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Great Britain - History; English History


THE HOMES OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stately homes of england
Last Line: Its country and its god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): England; Home; Houses; Women; English


THE HUNT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: We have no mind to reach that pole
Last Line: With all our faculties in play.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): England; Hunting; Sports; English; Hunters


THE IDLERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew
Last Line: And not one of them all seemed to know the name of care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Gypsies; Landscape; English; Gipsies


THE ILLUMINATION OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS AT PORTSMOUTH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks to those festal fires! Mankind shall be
Last Line: And how the bells of welcome pealed and chimed!
Subject(s): Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Peace; Portsmouth, England; French Navy; English Navy


THE INCUNABULUM'S TALE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Master: tacitus in red morocco
Last Line: Sine anno, sine loco.
Subject(s): Books; England; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Reading; English


THE ISLAND, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song for england?
Last Line: England.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): England; English


THE JACOBITE ON TOWER HILL, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He tripped up the steps with a bow and a smile
Last Line: With the life of the bravest of any that bled.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Jacobites; Patriotism; English History


THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1), by ALICE LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother england, mother england, 'mid the / thousands
Last Line: England say!
Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia
Subject(s): Exiles; Great Britain - Civil War; Heroism; Jews; Right To Asylum; Soldiers; English Civil War; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism


THE JUBILEE OF 1850, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless god, ye happy lands
Last Line: She was our lady's dower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Churches; England; Ireland; Love; Religion; Cathedrals; English; Irish; Theology


THE LAST BUCCANEER, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, england is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high
Last Line: To the pleasant isle of aves, to look at it once again.
Variant Title(s): The Old Buccaneer;the Pleasant Isle Of Aves
Subject(s): England; Pirates; English; Piracy; Buccaneers


THE LAST OF AUTUMN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From cloudy shapes of trees that cluster the hills
Last Line: And cash upon his garden palisades.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Autumn; England; Landscape; Seasons; Fall; English


THE LAST RAY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the world grows weak again, the sinewed woods are all / astrain
Last Line: And sneers as one great laugh or gust huffs down the writhing avenue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


THE LAUNCH OF A FIRST-RATE; WRITTEN ON WITNESSING THE SPECTACLE, 1840, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England hails thee with emotion
Last Line: Nail thy colors to the mast.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Shipbuilding; English Navy


THE LESSON OF THE WAR, 1855, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The feast is spread through england
Last Line: Will not be shed in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); England; Peace; English


THE LOGGER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight
Last Line: And who went the pace in england long ago.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Logue, Christopher (b. 1926); English


THE LONG TRUCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rooks in black constellation slowly wheeling
Last Line: Only in sweet content for england vying.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


THE LORDS OF THE MAIN, by JOSEPH STANSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When faction, in league with the treacherous gaul
Last Line: The first-born of neptune are lords of the main!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 32, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You that love england, who have an ear for her music
Last Line: Wielders of power and welders of a new world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): England; Revolutions; English


THE MAN WHO SAW, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The master weavers at the enchanted loom
Last Line: The happier peaks, that without strife, prevail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): England; English


THE MARCH BEE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A warning wind finds out my resting-place
Last Line: Still listening to the bee, still basking in the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Bees; England; Insects; Landscape; Beekeeping; English; Bugs


THE MASQUERADE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here winds / the chiding chiming brook caught in two minds
Last Line: With ringed lights dabbling and twirling the brambles and to yourself a-singing and a-talking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Masquerades; English


THE MAY DAY GARLAND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though folks no more go maying
Last Line: Hid up his scythe in flowers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English


THE MERRY BELLS OF ENGLAND, by RANN KENNEDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You hear, as I, the merry bells of england
Last Line: Upon life's daily mind.
Subject(s): Bells; England; English


THE MERRY MEN OF ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh the men of merry, merry england"
Last Line: "to the men of merry, merry england"
Subject(s): England;fame; English;reputation


THE MIDLANDS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black in the summer night my cotswold hill
Last Line: I draw the blood of england's midmost shires.
Subject(s): England; Gloucestershire, England; Midlands, England; Sex; English


THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hop-poles stand in cones
Last Line: And let him hate you through the glass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Death; England; Landscape; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Dead, The; English


THE MONUMENT OF GIORDANO BRUNO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not from without us, only from within
Last Line: June 9,1889.
Subject(s): England; Rome, Italy; Soul; English


THE MOTHER AT HOME, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice deep and solemn is sounding abroad!
Last Line: Best help, truest cure, from the mother at home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Housewives; Mothers; Women; English


THE NAME OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trumpet of the battle
Last Line: O thou victorious word!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): England; English


THE NIGHT PATROL; SEPTEMBER, 1918, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind me on the darkened pier
Last Line: And silent duty on the sea.
Subject(s): England; Night; Ships & Shipping; Soldiers; War; World War I; English; Bedtime; First World War


THE NORTH COUNTRY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In another country, black poplars shake themselves over a pond
Last Line: With violent achings heaving to burst the sleep that is now not long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): England; English


THE OLD CAVALIER, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For our martyr'd charles I pawn'd my plate
Last Line: "with my son on worcester plain."
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - History; English History


THE OLD CHARTIST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er I be, old england is my dam!
Last Line: I'll preach you to the british nation.
Subject(s): Chartism; England; Freedom; English; Liberty


THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just now the lilac is in bloom
Last Line: And is there honey still for tea?
Subject(s): England; Grantchester, England; Soldiers' Writings; English


THE OLD WARSHIP ABLAZE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Founder, old battleship; thy fight is done
Last Line: Dips out ironical that ship new moon.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English Navy


THE PASSER-BY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The listless year goes dimly down
Last Line: "once ended ""never, never part""!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


THE PASTURE POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the pasture pond alone
Last Line: Their solitary pasture-pond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds


THE PATRIOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce is my life more dear to me
Last Line: I have my own; I envy none.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Rivers; English


THE PEOPLE'S FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of her darkened fishing-ports they go
Last Line: A fleet of memories that can never fail.
Subject(s): England; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; English


THE PEOPLE'S PETITION, by WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lords! O rulers of the nation!
Last Line: Give us our daily bread!
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History


THE PHANTOM FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunset lingered in the pale green west
Last Line: Then -- that high fleet of stars led on the night.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; England; Evening; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Sunset; Twilight


THE PIKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From shadows of rich oaks outpeer
Last Line: And the miller that opens the hatch stands amazed at the whirl in the water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pike (fish); English


THE PLEASANT COMEDY OF OLD FORTUNATUS, by THOMAS DEKKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you then travelling to the temple of eliza?
Last Line: All. Amen, amen, amen! [exeunt.
Subject(s): Comedy; Legends, English


THE POOR MAN'S PIG, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green
Last Line: And sulky as a child when her play's done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pigs; English; Boars; Hogs


THE PROPERTIES OF THE SHIRES OF ENGLAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The properte of every shire
Last Line: Save all these shires. Amen say I
Subject(s): England; English


THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly
Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love."
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny


THE PUBLICAN'S NEW SUNDAY ACT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now what do you think of this wonderful act
Last Line: And guzzle enough for to last you a week
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;england;sabbath; English;sunday


THE PUZZLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cuckoo with a strong flute
Last Line: God's freezing love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


THE RECRUIT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carter for mister manley
Last Line: "and nuts be brown"" answered the guns."
Subject(s): England; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; English


THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old england! Thy name shall yet warrant thy fame
Last Line: Neath the red cross of england—the flag of the brave.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Marines - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; War; Waterloo; English History; Seamen; Sails; Battle Of Waterloo


THE RED KING, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The king was drinking in malwood hall
Last Line: Shall england never bide again.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; New Forest, England; Tirel, Sir Walter; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100); English History; Tyrell, Sir Walter


THE REVENGE; A BALLAD OF THE FLEET, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At flores in the azores sir richard grenville lay
Last Line: To be lost evermore in the main.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): England; Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Revenge (ship); Sea Battles; English; Naval Warfare


THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND, by HENRY FIELDING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mighty roast beef was the englishman's food
Last Line: O, the roast beef, etc.
Subject(s): Beef; England; Food & Eating; Patriotism; English


THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND, by RICHARD LEVERIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our fathers of old were robust, stout, and strong
Last Line: And o, the old english roast beef!
Alternate Author Name(s): Loveridge, Richard
Subject(s): Beef; Courage; England; Food & Eating; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English


THE ROLLING ENGLISH ROAD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the roman came to rye or out to severn strode
Last Line: Before we go to paradise by way of kensal green.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; England; Life; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; English


THE ROSCIAD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Roscius deceased, each high aspiring player
Last Line: Nor quit it—till thou place an equal there.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Comedy; Competition; England; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Actresses; English


THE ROSE AND THE GAUNTLET, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low spake the knight to the peasant girl [or maid]
Last Line: On the withered leaves, and the maiden dead.
Subject(s): England; Tragedy; English


THE SALUTE OF THE 'IMMORTALITE', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coming dawn flung out her pennants grey
Last Line: Till anglo-saxon peace shall lead the world.
Subject(s): Battleships; Manila, Philippines; Navy - Great Britain; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); English Navy


THE SAUCCESSION OF KINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: William the norman was brave in the field
Last Line: Reigns over england beloved and at peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); England; Peace; English


THE SCYTHE STRUCK BY LIGHTING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thick hot haze had choked the valley grounds
Last Line: That ripens into blue, nor knows the storm is by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods


THE SIN OF DAVID, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, sirs, that we have sought the lord in prayer
Last Line: [exeunt slowly, with bowed heads.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War


THE SINGERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the twentieth century fadeth
Last Line: For the distant sake of us who sleep?
Subject(s): English Poetry - 19th Century; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs


THE SONG OF THE BOW, FR. THE WHITE COMPANY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What of the bow?
Last Line: And the land where the true hearts dwell.
Subject(s): Courage; England; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; English


THE SOUL OF BRITAIN, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thro' the dark of the night we have trodden
Last Line: Must sink again to the prison, of party and place and creed.
Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Civil War; Heaven; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; English Civil War; Paradise


THE SOUTH COUNTRY, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am living in the midlands
Last Line: Shall sit and drink with me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Variant Title(s): The Hills Of The South Country
Subject(s): England; English


THE SOWER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ridge on ridge the great fields lie
Last Line: And the prayers of broken hearts.
Subject(s): England; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; English; Work; Workers


THE SPANISH ARMADA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear shone the morn, the gale was fair
Last Line: Shall bear good tidings home.
Subject(s): Ambition; England; Failure; Spanish Armada; English


THE SUNDAY RAIL: 1. FIRST RUNNING SUNDAY TRAINS ON NORTH BRITISH RAIL, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires!
Last Line: Oh, is it too much?—'tis but one day in seven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Railroads; Sabbath; English; Railways; Trains; Sunday


THE THREE GIVERS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England gave me sun and storm
Last Line: That gave the richest gift to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; England; Ireland; United States; English; Irish; America


THE THREE SCARS, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This I got on the day that goring
Last Line: And carried it off in my foraging bag.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; War; English Civil War


THE THREE TROOPERS DURING THE PROTECTORATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the devil tavern
Last Line: "god send this crum-well-down!"
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Great Britain - History; English History


THE TRAITOR, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Didst bid him come
Last Line: There is no stay in proud mortality. [exeunt.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most grave opinion!
Last Line: Yet with your smiles shall be restored again.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Masques; Peace; English History


THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN: CONCLUSION, by DANIEL DEFOE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Then let us boast of ancestors no more
Last Line: Tis personal virtue only makes us great.
Subject(s): England; English


THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN: PART 1, by DANIEL DEFOE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Where-ever god erects a house of prayer
Last Line: And lords, whose parents were the lord knows who.
Subject(s): England; English


THE TWILIGHT OF THE LORDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the sound a trumpet blown, or a bell for burial tolled
Last Line: And the lordship of your godhead is gone, o lords our gods.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; English


THE UNION OF HEARTS; AN ODE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spaniard has fallen! Has fallen!
Last Line: Till all the future of mankind is peace!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Manda's twig-like arms
Last Line: The snarl, the first, the knife in the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


THE VETERAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stumbles silver-haired among his bees
Last Line: His bellman cockerel crying the first round.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Veterans; English


THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony
Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter!
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English


THE VIKINGS' DAUGHTERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The outrage of these poor each day
Last Line: Wronged thule's daughters shall be heard.
Subject(s): England; Orkney Islands (scotland); Praise; Shetland Islands; Vikings; English


THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive
Last Line: In those red gates of hell?
Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War


THE VOICE OF FRANCIS DRAKE (FROM NOMBRE DE DIOS BAY, 1919), by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh england, mother england, the blue waves
Last Line: Down to death and victory.
Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); England; English


THE VOLUNTEER (1914-1919), by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreams are passed and gone, old man
Last Line: Carry on, old sport, carry on!
Subject(s): England; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War


THE WAGGONER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old waggon drudges through the miry lane
Last Line: As centuries past itself would do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Variant Title(s): The Waggoner, 1919
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Wagons; English


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'CARPE DIEM', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-morrow is a day too far
Last Line: Foresee the men we may be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'MEDIO DE FONTE LEPORUM SURGIT AMARI..', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We walked about at hampton court
Last Line: That pinched me all the while there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: BABYLONIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enough of simpering and grimace!
Last Line: The inmate of eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MATRIMONIAL COUNSELS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are going to marry my pretty relation
Last Line: And your worth not the best of your friends will disparage!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Marriage; Travel; English; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MIDGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is talking aesthetics, the dear clever creature!
Last Line: O you dear clever woman, explain it, I beg!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Flies; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: SEE-SAW, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a harlot, and I was a thief
Last Line: With their hands, bless them all, in the popular purse!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE ALOE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stranger sent from burning lands
Last Line: It never came to blossom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE DEATH OF KING HACON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was odin that whispered in vingolf
Last Line: Shall stand in the battle again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE FOUNT OF TRUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the place by legends told
Last Line: Or -- was it never found?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; Truth; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE LAST TIME THAT I MET LADY RUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some things hard to understand
Last Line: You see I can laugh. That is all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: DEDICATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As, in the laurel's murmurous leaves
Last Line: With thoughts less fond arise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Youth; Memory; England; English


THE WEST COUNTREE, by GEOFFREY DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now england is a fine countree
Last Line: Of the blessed west countree.
Subject(s): Devonshire, England; England; Oxford University; English


THE WEST WIND, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries
Last Line: In the fine land, the west land, the land where I belong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): April; England; English


THE WHITE CZAR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gehazi by the hue that chills thy cheek
Last Line: O white of name and red of hand, with thee
Subject(s): England; English


THE WHITE SHIP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By none but me can the tale be told
Last Line: (the sea hath no king but god alone.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135); Sea Pilots; English History


THE WILD GALLANT, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it not strange to hear a poet say
Last Line: Now spare him, drown him when he comes again.
Subject(s): England; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; English; Dramatists


THE YOUNG GRAY HEAD, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Grief hath been known to turn the young head gray
Last Line: There was an empty place, -- they were but three.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne
Subject(s): England; Tragedy; English


THERE ARE MIRACLES EXTANT IN THIS WORLD, by WILLIAM SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the premier of haydn's 96th, a chandelier
Last Line: Now, I bubble in my grades-mostly a's and b's
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


THOSE OTHERS, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are those others? - the men who stood
Last Line: As the hallowed host goes by!
Subject(s): Death; England; Patriotism; Praise; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War


THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two voices are there; one is of the sea
Last Line: And neither awful voice be heard by thee!
Variant Title(s): Switzerland;on The Subjugation Of Switzerland;england And Switzerland, 1802
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Switzerland; English; Liberty; Swiss


THOUGHTS AFTER VIRGIL, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strength by strength this nation of ours grew surely to greatness
Last Line: But build fraternal charities on righteous enactment.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English


THREE PORTRAITS OF PRINCE CHARLES, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful face of a child
Last Line: O'er the last of the stuart line.
Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Great Britain - History; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; English History


THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 2, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And wherefore feels he thus? Because its shore
Last Line: And fling the foam defiant in his face.
Subject(s): England; Liberty; English


THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 3, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And can it be, - when heaven this deep moat made
Last Line: And perish smothered in a grave of gold!
Subject(s): England; Liberty; English


THRENODY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Watching here alone by the fire whereat last year
Last Line: Take: the best we can give is breath.
Subject(s): Death; England; Life; Night; Dead, The; English; Bedtime


THYRSIS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How changed is here each spot man makes or fills
Last Line: Our scholar travels yet the loved hill-side.
Subject(s): Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861); England; Mourning; English; Bereavement


TIME OF ROSES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clean flows the wind as from its grand source flowing
Last Line: At first that this year grass has brought forth roses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Flowers; Landscape; Roses; English


TO A BANK OF ENGLAND PIGEON, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Descendant of the doves of aphrodite
Last Line: The stern old lady of threadneedle street!
Subject(s): England; Pigeons; English


TO A RIVER IN THE SOUTH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me no more, o gentle stream
Last Line: Old love shall dwell with old delight.
Subject(s): Brooks; England; Rivers; Streams; Creeks; English


TO AMERICA, CONCERNING ENGLAND, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou her child, born in the proud midday
Last Line: Without the crown divine thou might'st have worn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): England; United States; English; America


TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The seed that wasteful autumn cast
Last Line: From age to age, from clime to clime!
Subject(s): England; English


TO AN EX-STUDENT, ON LEARNING SHE IS A WORLD-CLASS GYMNAST, by STEPHEN DALE COREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What routines you must have mounted
Last Line: Your silent sprung flights and twistings show %what the body of his song can be
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TO CAMDEN, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One fayre par-royall hath our iland bred
Last Line: Ech streame should graue thy name vppon his shore
Subject(s): Death; England; Fate; Islands; Sea; Dead, The; English; Destiny; Ocean


TO ENGLAND, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men deemed thee fallen, did they? Fallen like rome
Last Line: Smilingly leaning on thy undrawn sword!
Subject(s): England; English


TO ENGLAND, by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now england lessens on my sight
Last Line: Whate'er is brave and best.
Subject(s): England; English


TO ENGLAND (2), by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand, thou great bulwark of man's liberty
Last Line: Through force or fraud, look westward to your child!
Subject(s): England; War; English


TO ENGLAND AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE BALKAN WAR, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o'er
Last Line: Whose death made missolonghi holy ground.
Subject(s): Balkan Wars (1912, 1913); England; English


TO ENGLAND IN HER SORROW, by ELIZABETH TOUSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wear a quiet garb today
Last Line: With love's memorial flower.
Subject(s): England; Mourning; English; Bereavement


TO ENGLISHMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You flung your taunt across the wave
Last Line: The pirate's skull-bone blazon!
Subject(s): American Civil War; England; Slavery; U.s. - History; English; Serfs


TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY; A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORNONATION, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that wild deluge where the world was drowned
Last Line: With their own peace their childrens happinesse.
Variant Title(s): To His Sacred Majesty Charles The Second;to His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyric On His Coronation
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English


TO HORROR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark horror, hear my call!
Last Line: I will behold and smile by mercy's side.
Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Injustice; Missions & Missionaries; Racism; Slavery; Terror; Vengeance; English; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs


TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.B., by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill! Whose high daring with renew'd success
Last Line: Gild with delight thy father's latter days!
Subject(s): England; War; English


TO MADAME DE DAMAS LEARNING ENGLISH, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though british accents your attention fire
Last Line: For who would teach you but the verb 'I love'?
Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of
Subject(s): English Language; Love


TO MR HARLEY, WOUNDED BY GUISCARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In one great now, superior to an age
Last Line: Enough to thee of grief, and fame is given.
Subject(s): Death; England; Fame; Grief; Nations; Dead, The; English; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness


TO MY LADY BERKELEY, AFFLICTED UPON HER SON ... SEA-SERVICE, by ANNE KILLIGREW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the renowned ithacensian queen
Last Line: Of your high vertue, and his memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne
Subject(s): Children; Navy - Great Britain; Childhood; English Navy


TO ONE WHO RAN DOWN THE ENGLISH, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You make our faults too gross
Last Line: May seem the black ox of the distant plain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): England; English


TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As from an ancestral oak
Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one.
Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819
Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's probity in this
Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep what in repair?
Last Line: The voice of amos / past its own enduring
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Amos (bible); English History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could outbalance poised
Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters?
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); English History


TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: America! I have never breathed thy air
Last Line: Of some vast advent that makes all things new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): England; Kisses; Life; Soul; United States; English; America


TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauties! -- (for, dressed with so much taste
Last Line: A well-dressed english woman.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Beauty; England; Nature; Women; English


TO THE LADY ELIZABETH HARLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When future ages shall with wonder view
Last Line: A fairer column to the father's praise.
Subject(s): England; Future; Praise; English


TO THE MEN OF KENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vanguard of liberty, ye men of kent
Last Line: Ye men of kent, 'tis victory or death!
Subject(s): England; War; English


TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How swiftly they cease to be
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People of england, ye who toil and groan
Last Line: And nurse them from the cradle to the grave ...
Subject(s): England; English


TO THE POLAR EXPEDITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God speed you on your high emprise
Last Line: And plant the flag of england there.
Subject(s): Ambition; England; Flags - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English


TO THE QUEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE, by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not your faire out-side though famous greece
Last Line: And comes to england, though in france he tarrie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hearts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English


TO THE REFORMERS OF ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God bless ye, brothers! In the fight
Last Line: God's blessing on the right!
Subject(s): England; Reform And Reformers; English


TO THE RIVER DUDDON, by NORMAN NICHOLSON                        Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder, duddon, if you still remember
Subject(s): Cumberland, England; Duddon (river), England; England; Rivers; English


TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say it is not faithless
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh
Last Line: Light to the unmoved miraculous / pool of siloam
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Law, William (1686-1761); English History


TOMMY [ATKINS], by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer
Last Line: An' tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that tommy sees!
Variant Title(s): Tommy
Subject(s): Army Life; England; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; English


TOO LATE! DEATH OF GEN. GORDON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the vast soudan was borne
Last Line: Will rest the load of shame
Subject(s): Death;england;heroism; "dead, The;english;heroes;heroines;


TRIUMPHS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by JAMES GILBORNE LYONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now gather all our saxon bards - let hearts and harps be strung
Alternate Author Name(s): Lyons, J. Gilbourne
Subject(s): English Language


TROUBLE WITH WRITING, by SARAH SLOANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A goat ate my pen. Frost grew %all over my computer
Last Line: Under the sound %of each sound
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TUESDAY 8:45, by JOSEPH H. BALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kirsten, %I had forgotten
Last Line: My imagination %can we re-schedule for friday?
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


TWO HISTORIES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two histories there are in england's isle
Last Line: Forbidding civil war to imp its wings.
Subject(s): Butterfield, Herbert (1900-1979); Great Britain - Civil War; History; English Civil War; Historians


UNNATURAL SPEECH, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The game has changed
Subject(s): Chicanos; English Language; Mexican Americans


UPON ECKINGTON BRIDGE, RIVER AVON, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O pastoral heart of england! Like a psalm
Last Line: Turns in her sleep, and murmurs of the spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Variant Title(s): Ode
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Bridges; England; Rivers; English


UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy
Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


VENUS IN ARDEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now love, her mantle thrown
Last Line: With youth whose days three thousand years are done.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rivers; Venus (goddess); English


VER TENEBROSUM: HOME-ROOTEDNESS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot boast myself cosmopolite
Last Line: With cradle-song of her protecting seas?
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): England; English


VICTORY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the strife is o'er, the battle done"
Last Line: Alleluia!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;religion; English Navy;theology


VICTRIX, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How was it then with england?
Last Line: And all is well with england.
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Victory; War; English


VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What happy place we travel through!
Last Line: Whose steps are wounds -- what happy place?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Facades; Landscape; Villages; English; Appearances


VILLAGE GREEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thatched roofs green with moss and grass stand round
Last Line: With trousers daubed in mire and face all black.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Soccer; Villages; English


VITAI LAMPADA, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a breathless hush in the close tonight
Last Line: "play up! Play up! And play the game!"
Variant Title(s): The Torch Of Life;play The Game
Subject(s): Cricket (game); England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; Sports; War; English; British Empire; England - Empire


WALTER OF BATTERSEA, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall commit suicide or die
Last Line: Where it starts and ends.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; England; Dead, The; English


WASTE GROUND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wheat crowds close, the land falls sharp
Last Line: The neighbours of a niche for fable.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


WATCHING MY STUDENTS WRITE, by ROBERT PARHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is why I am here: to watch them work
Last Line: Makes it an appetite, the kindest of all
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


WATER MOMENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver eel slips through the waving weeds
Last Line: The silver death writhes with the chosen one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


WATER SPORT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all who hear our song say yalding bells
Last Line: Shine like an angel to the mill boy's sight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Boats; England; Landscape; English


WEE GEORDIE WI' HIS DAY-DREAMS, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1822-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wee geordie wi' his day-dreams, haith, he's unco soon began
Last Line: "there's wiser men wi' wooden heads than mony wha ha'e brain."
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; War; English Navy


WELCOME TO WINTERDYNE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Francie and willie, welcome to you
Last Line: Now it is welcome to winterdyne!
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overnight-overnight
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


WILDERNESS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On lonely kinton green all day
Last Line: Down to the bull for pipe and glass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


WILDFLOWER COMPOSITION, by MELISSA A. GOLDTHWAITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring: I make a chart, tape every weed
Last Line: Or walking barefoot, testing your own ground
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


WILL O' THE WISP, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From choked morass I leap and run
Last Line: Content in swamps despised to dwell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; English


WINDSHIELD VIPERS (KEEPING TIME), by KATHERINE M. FISCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Careening through snowy %hillsides, the evergreens
Last Line: Small sweetness %of pooling %sap
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats
Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains.
Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History


WINTER NIGHTS; A BACKWARD LOOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange chord! The weir-pool's tussling dance
Last Line: Are the heart's invincible law.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English


WINTER: EAST ANGLIA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a frosty sunset
Last Line: And hard as winter dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English


WORD FOR ME - ALSO, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vowels are a part of the english language. There are five
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): English Language


WORKSHOP PANTOUM, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does anybody want to start this off?
Last Line: Ok, next. Anybody want to start this off?
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


WRESTLE THEORY, by ALICE GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If a) either there are no truly interesting 'ideas' or b) language
Last Line: Move and imagine ourselves moving, or (sharks) we shall %languish in a horrid wet
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dictate, o mighty judge, what thou hast seen
Last Line: While talbot tells the world, where montaigne erred.
Subject(s): Cities; England; France; Judges; Wisdom; Urban Life; English


X, by DOYLE WESLEY WALLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son only wants to type the 'x' on the screen
Last Line: The stars. The way they shine
Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


YORKSHIRE LEGEND OF SEMERWATER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In ancient times, as story tells
Last Line: Until at good old age they died, %and slept in peace by semerside
Subject(s): Legends, English


YORKSHIRE SONG ABOUT MOTHER SHIPTON AND HER PROPHECIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the pretty pantomimes
Last Line: And little fairies tread the green, %call'd forth by mother shipton
Subject(s): Legends, English


YOUNG AMERICA - OLD ENGLAND, by WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What! Shall saxon bonds be sundered
Last Line: Hand-in-hand, not sword to sword!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kent, Charles
Subject(s): England; United States; English; America


YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: 2. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The underpaid young teacher
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: 2. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The underpaid young teacher
Last Line: Could be curled seedlings, could take root, %could develop leaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching And Teachers


YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen!
Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you.
Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War