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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EUROPE Matches Found: 96 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BACCHIC ODE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine - bring wine! Last Line: Poured by the hebe, poesy. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Wine A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genius of raphael! If thy wings Last Line: And proud jerusalem! Subject(s): Germany; Jews; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans; Judaism A MONUMENT FOR SCUTARI, AFTER THE CRIMEAN WAR, SEPT. 1855, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cypresses of scutari Last Line: But from the spirit's slavery. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Scutari (lake), Europe A RUINED CASTLE ON THE RHINE; FORMERLY BELONGING TO TEMPLARS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the dark heights that overlook the rhine Last Line: Whose noblest victories are yet unwon. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Castles; Rhine (river), Europe; Templars (knights) A THOUGHT FROM THE RHINE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard an eagle crying all alone Last Line: The eagle, hates the vineyard slopes below. Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe AIDED BY THE LANGUAGE OF MORNING, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The gruff, throaty complaints of blue jays Last Line: And my mind which seeks to recover my history, %my splintered past Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Childhood Memories; Immigrants; Language ALL OVER REHAVIA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And all the children %have gone back to school Subject(s): Arabs; Europe; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine 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 BOHEME, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of fields in blossom-this grey rain! Last Line: With all our conquering visions ranged below. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Fields; Spain; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CALEDONIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair caledonia! Honoured name Last Line: And freedom bless and crown our isle! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Islands; Scotland; Victory; Liberty CALEDONIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy name, caledonia! Queen of the north! Last Line: Tis the spirit of evil incarnate in drink. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Islands; Scotland; Victory; Liberty DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people moves as one spirit unfettered Last Line: To consecrate the liberties of maastricht? Subject(s): Europe DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebb and flow Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel EPITAPH: EUROPE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once live x-rays stalked the hills as if they were Last Line: Tattering on the daywall Subject(s): Europe EUROPA: 3. THE EUROPEAN UNION, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: All england knows the penalty of peace Last Line: They tear the sutures from the lying maps Subject(s): Europe; Nations EUROPE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At that dread season when th' indignant north Last Line: "but spain, the brave, the virtuous, shall be free." Subject(s): Europe; War EUROPE A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five windows light the cavern'd man: thro' one he breathes the air Last Line: Call'd all his sons to the strife of blood. Subject(s): Bible; Europe; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology EUROPE ELEGY, by FIAMA HASSE PAIS BRANDAO Poem Source First Line: I love those mouths of hunger with their lips Last Line: With the images of its images, %perverse eternal laboratory Subject(s): Europe EUROPE; THE 72ND AND 73RD YEARS OF THESE STATES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves Last Line: He will soon return, his messengers come anon. Subject(s): Europe EVENING ON THE MOSELLE, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What colour are they now, thy quiet waters? Last Line: In thy clear crystal Subject(s): Mosel (river), Europe FIELDS BEYOND ROSEWELL, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Heat rises from the wide resplendent fields Last Line: Unstinting fields. We pick them anyhow Subject(s): Cattle; Europe; Fields; Harvest; Saint Kilda (scotland) FOR ANA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Ana grows. %squirrels cavort Last Line: A spike for mountain climbing and a sled have hearts. %a kiss, %dummy Subject(s): Europe; Nations FOR MARJORIE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: We live between emergencies, you said, Last Line: Against the pink and shaded pall of lamps. Subject(s): Death; Europe FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1718, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh touch the string, celestial muse, and say Last Line: And britain's festival be thine. Subject(s): Birthdays; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Relations With France; Triplets; United Nations FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when I came to the bridge o'er the rhine Last Line: "farewell, we shall meet hereafter." Subject(s): France; Germany; Musset, Alfred De (1810-1857); Rhine (river), Europe; Germans HARMATAN, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday also has its leaves, newspapers Last Line: Of the earth ceaselessly emptying itself Subject(s): Europe; Immigrants; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Protestantism; Racism; Refugees; Sahara Desert; Solitude; U.s. - Foreign Population IMPENDING WAR BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The impatient dogs of war Last Line: The thunder-cloud, the storm of war! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Austria; Europe; War IN CASTLE LAND, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Within yon ivied tower on the hill Last Line: She waited for him here beside the rhine. Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe IN CENTRAL EUROPE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When you cross through the grass in central europe, you see Last Line: When the bamboo grows, %when the bamboo reaches the sipapuni%when each ring reaches the sipapuni %th Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Europe; Forests; Grass; Roads; Travel IN THE HEART OF EUROPE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farmers hereabouts, for generations now Last Line: Like love's delicacy or its quiet assurance Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Europe; Farm Life; Landlords And Tenants; Property IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All along the valley, stream that flashest white Last Line: The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Pyrenees (mountains), Europe INHERITED ESTATE; TO MIKE KITAY, AN AMERICAN IN EUROPE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mansion, string of cottages, a farm Last Line: That swell with time and tree, no dreams, %no ornaments, but tallies for your work Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Americans In Europe JUNGFRAU, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin-mountain, wearing like a queen Last Line: Deafening the region in his ireful mood. Variant Title(s): The Jungfrau And The Fall Of The Rhine Near Schaffhausen Subject(s): Alps; Jungfrau (mountain), Switzerland; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LINES WRITTEN ON THE BIRTH OF THE YEAR 1853, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Infant year, fresh from the womb of time Last Line: This gift be yours, to crown the new-born year. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Holidays; New Year; Time LITANY OF NATIONS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aeons of old were wandering down the seas Last Line: What have we squandered? Subject(s): Ambition; Europe; God; History; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Historians LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 11, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the rhine, that beautiful river Last Line: Resemble my mistress fair. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Rhine (river), Europe MERCY FOR ARMENIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Last Line: To play the good samaritan for god. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Armenia; Europe; Torture; Turkey; War NATIVE TOURIST IN HUNGARY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: My daughter is asleep with her chin propped in her palm Last Line: In my clandestine homeland Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Hungary; Tourists; Travel ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 11. TO THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled? Last Line: And train her valiant youth, and watch around her shore. Subject(s): Europe OKTOBER, by D. E. STEWARD Poem Source First Line: Tree swallows in the hudreds feed in a quarter mile of sky off the Last Line: It is the way things always are so close to italy Subject(s): Birds; Europe; Migration; Winter OLD LOVERS, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Is not the contrast fortunate? Last Line: My pipe, as you. Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe 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 REFUSAL OF AID BETWEEN NATIONS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that the earth is changing. O my god! Last Line: That the earth falls asunder, being old. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Europe ON THE LOWER RHINE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By dusseldorf the singing rhine-stream bends Last Line: And passionately soughtest thy mother-sea! Subject(s): Dusseldorf, Germany; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets; Rhine (river), Europe; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON THE RHINE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vain is the effort to forget Last Line: Their joy is in their calm. Subject(s): Love; Rhine (river), Europe ON THE RHINE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morn, and beautiful the mountain's brow Last Line: Nor heeds how fast the prospect winds away. Variant Title(s): The Rhine Subject(s): Inland Waters; Rhine (river), Europe ON THE RIVER TEPL, WRITTEN AT THE FREUNDSCHAFT SAAL, CARLSBAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friendless I came, but friendless now no more Last Line: Still hastening onward to eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Tepl (river), Europe ON THE RUSSIAN WAR IN THE CRIMEA: 1854-55, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold with awe, and high adoring wonder Last Line: Britannia wars to loose, not bind the chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Europe; Russia; War; Soviet Union; Russians PERSIA TO EUROPE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You scorn us? You dream we are ready to yield Last Line: By ormuzd and allah — our rule shall not die! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Europe; God; Iran; Soldiers; Persia PHANTASY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a temple of the toes Last Line: The song of sevilla's barber. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips PICTURES OF THE RHINE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of romance dies not to those Last Line: And bridal vines drink in his juices on each side. Subject(s): Nature; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Journeys; Trips POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak not thus in tones of gladness Last Line: God of right, the right defend! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Nations; Patriotism; Poland POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words cannot come, tears will not flow Last Line: That conquers only to devour. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Nations; Patriotism; Poland POSTCARDS FROM EUROPA, by KIMBERLY LYONS Poem Source First Line: Dial a red telephone and meow Last Line: Ponder %accelerating universe Subject(s): Europe; Memory; Travel PRAY FOR POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not unwept, unsung thy wrongs have been Last Line: Who reigns, and rules, and lives for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Poland; Russia; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians REFUGEES, by FLORENCE KREEGER HUNTING Poem Text First Line: Under cold stars they passed me by Last Line: "father, forgive this wrath that knows not what it does." Subject(s): Europe; Refugees RHEIN-WEIN LIED, FR. THE HOUSE OF ASPEN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What makes the troopers' frozen courage muster? Last Line: Oh, blessed be the rhine! Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe RHINE SONG OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS AFTER VICTORY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the rhine! Our mountain vineyards Last Line: Lift up thy voice, o rhine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Rhine (river), Europe; Victory ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KNAVE OF BERGEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusseldorf castle on the rhine Last Line: Though now they all underground are! Subject(s): Faces; Masks; Night; Rhine (river), Europe; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: PALSGRAVINE JUTTA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The palsgravine jutta, in bark so light Last Line: So sadly are floating the corpses! Subject(s): Corpses; Rhine (river), Europe; Cadavers ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE APOLLO GOD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The convent stands high on the rocky steep Last Line: "head-dress, they 'the green sow' call her." Subject(s): Apollo; Clothing & Dress; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Singing & Singers; Songs SMALL WAR, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: They brought anti-tank mines, useless Last Line: All emblematic, immemorial Subject(s): Death - Children; Fights; Pyrenees (mountains), Europe; War SOMEWHERE-IN-EUROPE-WOCKY, by F. C. HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: Twas brussels, and the loos liege Last Line: And the tsing-tau namur. Subject(s): Europe SONG: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hill and castle fair are glancing Last Line: Kind and gentle can she seem. Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe SONNET: AUTHOR'S VOYAGE DOWN THE RHINE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The confidence of youth our only art Last Line: Features which else had vanished like a dream. Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe SONNET: EUROPE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Europe rejoice! The uprising south awakes Last Line: Swept darkly down time's unreturning stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Europe SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: And the old families close the windows Subject(s): Communism; Europe SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: First, there is the memory of the dead priest in norway Last Line: With its ice water, blue spikes of lupine, and morphine. Subject(s): Europe; Klee, Paul (1879-1940); Paintings & Painters; Sickness; World War Ii; Illness; Second World War THE BALANCE OF EUROPE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now europe's balanc'd, neither side prevails Last Line: For nothing's left in either of the scales. Subject(s): Europe THE BELL FROM EUROPE, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tower bell in the tenth street church Last Line: As the sound of a dead europe hangs in the streets Subject(s): Bells; Nostalgia; Europe THE BROOK RHINE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small current of the wilds afar from men Last Line: On to the distant toil, the distant rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe; Switzerland; Swiss THE CARNIVAL OF 1848, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ever seen the carnival, at paris Last Line: That the sovereigns of the last year are the harlequins of this! Subject(s): Carnivals; Europe THE CHAMELEON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the chameleon, who is known Last Line: And lies with those he never saw. Subject(s): Chameleons; Colors; Europe; Law & Lawyers; Wisdom THE CHRISTIAN TOURISTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No aimless wanderers, by the fiend unrest Last Line: The righteousness of heaven! Subject(s): Europe; Tourists THE COAST OF BOHEMIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like some still angel who, in toilless might Last Line: Of sea flamed loose -- and then we saw those isles. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Sea; Ocean THE GOLDEN AGE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: O country mine! Thy golden age shall be Last Line: And it should be humanity's best home. Subject(s): Europe; Patriotism; Peace THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rhine is running deep and red Last Line: The passage of the scot. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Islands; Rhine (river), Europe; Scotland - Relations With England THE LITANY OF NATIONS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If with voice of words or prayers thy sons Last Line: O mother, hear us, Subject(s): Europe; God; Nations; Praise THE LOWER RHINE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Above, in the castle-land Last Line: Are the knights of the modern rhine. Subject(s): Industry; Knights & Knighthood; Rhine (river), Europe THE MAMMOTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the deluge ceased to pour Last Line: A second mammoth dies. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Europe; Life; Dead, The; World THE MOSEL, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: I passed a day on mosel river Last Line: To think upon the mosel river? Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Mosel (river), Europe; Moselle (river) THE PEACE OF EUROPE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great peace in europe! Order reigns' Last Line: Repent! God's kingdom draweth near! Subject(s): Europe; Peace THE SECOND COMING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour came. With trembling lips Last Line: "so much for calvary!"" he said." Subject(s): Europe; Religion; Second Advent; Theology; Second Coming Of Christ THE SIGHING OF THE BOEHMER WALD, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morn I read the brief memorial lines Last Line: The forest's dying voice across the seas. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Storms THE WATCH ON THE RHINE, by MAX SCHNECKENBURGER Poem Text First Line: A voice resounds like thunder peal Last Line: Firm stand thy sons to watch the rhine! Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans THE YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your pale faces, ye children of sorrow Last Line: Then patriots, heroes, strike! God for our land! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Europe; Ireland - Rebellions; Revolutions THE YEAR OF SHAME: EUROPE AT THE PLAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O languid audience, met to see Last Line: The feet of nemesis how sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Europe TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courage yet, my brother or my sister! Last Line: And that death and dismay are great. Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Revolutions; Liberty TO COLE, THE PAINTER, DEPARTING FOR EUROPE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes shall see the light of distant skies Last Line: But keep that earlier, wilder image bright. Variant Title(s): Sonnet--to An American Painter Departing For Europe Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Cole, Thomas (1801-1848); Paintings & Painters TO EMILY; WITH A FLASK OF RHINE WATER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old catholic city was still Last Line: That the rhine seemed all eau de cologne! Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Rhine (river), Europe TO THE WOMEN OF EUROPE, by MURIEL NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, between the fighting and the crying Last Line: "seek,"" said the master, ""seek, and ye shall find." Subject(s): Europe; Women TORSO, by IWAN GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Europe, you shuddering torso! Last Line: Europe, you crumbling torso, you rump of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Europe; World War I; First World War WINNETOU OLD, SELS., by PIERRE JORIS Subject(s): Europe WRITTEN ON THE RHINE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly we sail along thy stream Last Line: Doze down the summer hours. Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe |
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