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Subject: GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART (1809-1898)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GOODBYE; BOURNEMOUTH, MARCH 22, 1898, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we see our dear nestor go by?
Last Line: And the land you love!
Subject(s): Farewell; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Old Age; Towns; Parting


CHARADE: 18, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bright and joyous frame of mind
Last Line: A statesman of the present day.
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)


COMPROMISE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Steersman, be not precipitate in thy act
Last Line: Take thou the bend, 't will save thee many a day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)


COUNTERBLAST ON PENNY TRUMPET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If mr. Bright retiring does not please
Last Line: As others see us!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Forgiveness; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Law & Lawyers; Clemency


GLADSTONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: For peace, and all that follows in her path
Last Line: Britannia's wisest, best, and bravest son.
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Peace; War


GLADSTONE, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The saint and poet dwell apart; but thou
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)


GLADSTONE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sturdy bulwark for a sturdy spirit
Last Line: Gladstone the christ's man!
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)


GLADSTONE, 1885 (DURING THE SOUDANESE WAR), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A skilful leech, so long as we were whole
Last Line: Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sudan; British Empire; England - Empire


HAWARDEN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When comes the lighted day for men to read
Last Line: Among us who celestial tasks has done.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Dead, The


IN MEMORIAM; WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, thou hast gained the end
Last Line: Thy crown of pain.
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)


SONNET: TO DEAD GLADSTONE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tribune of peoples! Lover of god and right
Last Line: Thou pulsest in the heart of new-born italy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)


THE BURIAL OF MR. GLADSTONE, THE GREAT POLITICAL HERO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! The people now do sigh and moan
Last Line: You were the greatest politician in your day.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Heroism; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Heroes; Heroines


THE YEAR OF SHAME: GLADSTONE, 1896 (DURING THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak once again, with that great note of
Last Line: With silent footsteps, whither no man knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): The Tired Lion
Subject(s): Armenia; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)