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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ENGLISH Matches Found: 963 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ROBIN HOOD AND ALLIN-A-DALE [OR, ALAN A DALE]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 pan! 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 thundershe 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 englandthe 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 ittill 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 |
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