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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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