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Subject: FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ODE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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