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| Searching... Subject: FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789) Matches Found: 40 AN ODE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heard'st thou yon universal cry Last Line: First ever of the first and freest of the free! Subject(s): Bastille (paris); French Revolution (1789); Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts ANARCHY; PARIS, FEBRUARY 5, 1894, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is blinded with rain Last Line: "that they killed marie antoinette." Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; French Revolution (1789) BARRICADES, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I, the france of the marseillaise Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) FEELINGS OF A FRENCH ROYALIST, ON THE DISINTERMENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear reliques! From a pit of vilest mould Last Line: Of justice sent to earth from highest heaven! Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) FOR THE NEW YEAR 1791, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the bosom of the mine Last Line: Unbought by scenes of woe, and undefil'd with blood. Subject(s): Explorers; French Revolution (1789); Holidays; New Year; Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Seashore; Trade; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FRANCE IN '93, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The onward heavy tread Last Line: But the people -- they hold carnival! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) FRANCE, 1870, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We look for her that sunlike stood Last Line: And bleeding head us thro' the troubles of the sea. Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Napoleon I (1769-1821) FRANCE: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye clouds! That far above me float and pause Last Line: O liberty! My spirit felt thee there. Subject(s): France - Invasion Of Switzerland (1798); Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Liberty FRENCH REVOLUTION, by ERASMUS DARWIN Poem Source First Line: Long had the giant-form on gallia's plains Last Line: And gathers in its shade the living world Subject(s): Freedom; French Revolution (1789) FRENCH REVOLUTION; AS IT APPEARED TO ENTHUSIASTS AT ITS COMMENCEMENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Pleasant exercise of hope and joy! Last Line: We find our happiness, or not at all! Variant Title(s): The Prelude': Book Xi, 105-143 Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) GIRONDINS, by PERE ALEXANDRE DUMAS Poem Source First Line: When with the cannon's mighty voice Last Line: When for our native land - for liberty - we bleed Subject(s): Freedom; French Revolution (1789) IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Portentous change when history can appear Last Line: The sacred limits of humanity. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who ponders national events shall find Last Line: Is to control and check disordered powers? Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long-favoured england! Be not thou misled Last Line: Not scourge, to save the people -- not destroy. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians JOHNNY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny had a golden head Last Line: She sobbed as if her heart must break. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) LA CARMAGNOLE, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All honest folk throughout the land Last Line: We'll dance the carmagnole, & etc Subject(s): Freedom; French Revolution (1789) LA TRICOTEUSE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fourteenth of july had come Last Line: Knit, smiling, in the sun. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) LE REVEILLE, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the lark - not the nightingale Last Line: We'll achieve in the light of the morning! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) LES CHATIMENTS: 1. TO PASSIVE OBEDIENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sons of the year two! Wars waking epic chords! Last Line: With finger towards the skies. Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Patriotism; Soldiers; War LINES WRITTEN ... ONE WHO HAD WATCHED .. AMERICAN & FRENCH REVOLUTIONS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As an almighty night doth pass away Last Line: From the pale temples of the awakening world. Subject(s): American Revolution; French Revolution (1789) LOUIS XV, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king with all his kingly train Last Line: How came it that the peasants died. Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Louis Xv, King Of France (1710-1774) LOUIS XV, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king with all the kingly train had left his pompadour behind Last Line: Then spurred to ask of pompadour, how came it that the peasants died. Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Louis Xv, King Of France (1710-1774) MARIE ANTOINETTE'S LAMENTATION, IN HER PRISON OF THE TEMPLE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on my bosom evening's ruby light Last Line: And snatch one victim from the last despair? Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France MONUMENT AT LUCERNE, by JOHN KENYON Poem Text First Line: When maddened france shook her king's palace floor Last Line: Of courage, faith, and honorable death. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Lucerne, Switzerland ODE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God save the rights of man Last Line: Her hearts of oak! Subject(s): Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Genet, Edmond Charles (1763-1834); Soldiers; Liberty ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefs that bow to capet's reighn Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) ON THE EXPECTED GENERAL RISING OF THE FRENCH NATION IN 1792, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, mighty nation, in thy strength Last Line: And rise -- the model of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Variant Title(s): To A Great Nation Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) PRISONERS' EVENING SERVICE; SCENE OF FRENCH REVOLUTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was our doom, my father? -- in thine arms Last Line: In life, in death, we yield thee boundless trust! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Prisons & Prisoners; Public Worship; Convicts; Church Attendance SONG OF THE SEPTEMBRISEURS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is dearth Last Line: Is ours to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE; A METRICAL EPISTLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord! Though your lordship repel deviation Last Line: To pause, and resume the remainder to-morrow. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Great Britain - Relations With France; Grenville, William Wyndham (1759-1834); Talleyrand, Charles (1754-1838) THE EMIGRANTS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow in the wintry morn, the struggling light Last Line: The reign of reason, liberty, and peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Exiles; French Revolution (1789) THE FEMALE EXILE. WRITTEN AT BRIGHTELMSTONE IN NOVEMBER 1792, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: November's chill blast on the rough beach is howling Last Line: I can warm the cold heart of the wretched no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Brighton, England; Exiles; French Revolution (1789) THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead brood over europe: the cloud and vision descends over cheerful france Last Line: Morning's beam. Subject(s): Bible; French Revolution (1789); Mythology THE HERO OF THE COMMUNE, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Garcon! You, you / snared along with this cursed crew? Last Line: "ha! France will hear of him yet one day!" Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) THE MARSEILLAISE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A band a-playing a few sooty rods Last Line: Not france alone, but man! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; France; French Revolution (1789); Hope; Justice; National Songs; Optimism; National Anthems THE MIDNIGHT MASS; AN INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light lay trembling in a silver bar Last Line: Their saviour face to face. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Catholics; French Revolution (1789); Roman Catholics; Catholicism THE SUN AND THE BATS, &C.; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis aesop tells how certain bats Last Line: I'll smile, and more refulgent smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Politics & Government TO A YOUNG LADY, WITH A POEM ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much on my early youth I love to dwell Last Line: From flattery's night-shade: as he feels he sings. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) TO DR. MOORE, IN ANSWER TO POETICAL EPISTLE BY HIM IN WALES, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While in long exile far from you I roam Last Line: And strives to utter what it feels, in vain. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Moore, Dr. John (1729-1802); Travel; Journeys; Trips VERSAILLES (1784), by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In carnival we were, and supp'd that night Last Line: That drummond fear'd -- artois shall flog the man. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Versailles, Frances |
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