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| Searching... Subject: GREAT BRITAIN - HISTORY Matches Found: 167 A SONG OF DEGREES, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History AD ASTRA: 120, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And over all the bearing of the host Last Line: That is the sure presentment of his race. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History ALGABAL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rhine-rentier Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History ALGABAL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rhine-rentier Last Line: Of the ageless champion Subject(s): Great Britain - History AT CORUNA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When from these shores the british army first Subject(s): Great Britain - History BATTLE OF BRITAIN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What did we earth-bound make of it? A tangle Last Line: Their luck, skill, nerve. And they were young like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Film (photography); Great Britain - History; World War Ii; English History; Second World War BEACHY HEAD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thy stupendous summit, rock sublime! Last Line: Had to some better region fled for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - History; Sussex, England; English History BECKET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Am I the man? That rang Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - History BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am ten, the british quit Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We made a trade Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Libraries & Librarians; India; English History BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I am ten, the british quit Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We make a trade Variant Title(s): Independenc Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Librarians And Libraries BRITISH WONDERS, SELS., by EDWARD WARD Poem Source First Line: In wretched times, when men were given Last Line: Kept wisely up to vertue's rules Subject(s): Great Britain - History - 1714-1716 CANAAN, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They march at god's Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CANAAN, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They march at god's Last Line: Or a leg like flails Subject(s): Great Britain - History CANUTE THE GREAT, SELS., by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England; Great Britain - History CHARTIST SONG, by THOMAS COOPER Poem Text First Line: The time shall come when wrong shall end Last Line: Till goodness shall hold high jubilee! Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The Subject(s): Chartism; Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 1. NEW GRANGE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The golden hill where long-forgotten kings Last Line: Above the cromlech of the vanished gods. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 10. OLD MAGIC, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: As light swings wide the mighty eastern door Last Line: And vanish up the flaming slopes of morn. Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Magic; Druidism; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 11. THE BLIND NUN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: A nun green-girdled in a forest tower Last Line: Across her blindness shone the face of god. Subject(s): Blindness; Great Britain - History; Nuns; Visually Handicapped; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 12. SAINT BRIDE'S EVE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: At twilight on a lonely cattle trail Last Line: Her shadow falls, and wild hearts know its peace. Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Great Britain - History; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 13. DUNDAGIL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: On lonely headlands at a magic cry Last Line: Beneath the splendor of the dragon star. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 14. SAINT ILLTYD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: When fierce caer leon's wars were trumpeted Last Line: Fair as the star of morning shone the grail. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 15. ARAN MOR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Foam-girdled shores a lost enchantment keep Last Line: On cross and ruined cairn a rose of light. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 16. THE BLESSING OF SAINT COLUMCILLE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Torqued warriors turned their galley's crimson prow Last Line: The old gods listened, lonely in the dew. Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 17. SAINT BRENDAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: In simple days before the gods were old Last Line: Upon the burnished edges of the air. Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Great Britain - History; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 18. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOK, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Beneath bronze chariot wheels the torn earth steamed Last Line: Led by the lone white warrior of the skies. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 19. SAINT ORAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Saint oran told them while the west grew dim Last Line: Of that wild fruit of flame whose taste is peace. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Oran, Saint; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 20. SAINT COLUMBA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The murmuring tide foams slowly up the sands Last Line: The well-loved outline of his irish shore. Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 21. CLONARD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: By lost clonard the river meads still hold Last Line: In morning meadows when the world was young. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 22. THE BURNING OF BAMBOROUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: With thundering wheels the golden war-wains run Last Line: Far ringing harps on bamborough's starry height. Subject(s): Aidan, Saint (d. 651); Bamborough, England; Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 23. CAEDMON, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: From feast and song the simple cowherd crept Last Line: And a new speech was given to the earth. Subject(s): Caedmon (7th Century); Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 24. SAINT HILDA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: In hollow pastures misted with the spume Last Line: High in her garth above the lonely sea. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Hilda, Saint (614-680); English History; Hild, Saint; Whitby, Abbess Of CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 25. THE FOREST SAINT, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: When wolves were conquered by a hermit's bell Last Line: And houseled odin's warrior christ's armed knight. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 26. OWINI'S VISION, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: A thane beneath a snowy hawthorn hedge Last Line: Within the silver circle of their wings. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 28. JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: To wolfish knights with hound and hooded hawk Last Line: The last great echoes of far greece are borne. Subject(s): Erigena, John Scotus (810-877); Great Britain - History; Scot, John The (81-877); Eriugena, John Scotus (81-877); English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 29. THE STAG OF CHEDDAR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The king rode close behind the royal stag Last Line: Should rule the abbey of the holy thorn. Subject(s): Dunstan, Saint (924-988); Edmund I, King Of England (921-946); Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 3. A DRUID TOWN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: A sunless maze of tangled lanes enfold Last Line: The golden caer upon the ninth wave's foam. Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 30. QUEEN MARGARET'S MISSAL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: The king stood bowed within the cloister crypt Last Line: Love and the light-illumined word abide. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Malcolm Iii Macduncan, King Of Scotland; Margaret Of Scotland, Saint (1046-1093); English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 31. THE BRINDLED HARE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: By grange and castle when the fields were cool Last Line: Bearing against his breast the wounded hare. Subject(s): Animals; Anselm Of Canterbury, Saint (1033-1109); Great Britain - History; Rabbits; English History; Hares CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 32. SAINT HUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: On mountain slopes, whose rocky summits glow Last Line: Sunward to meet the mystery of god. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 33. A ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: A road shines through the forest of the years Last Line: The ruined roadway still endures and waits. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Roads; English History; Paths; Trails CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 4. CAER SIDI, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Alone, unarmed, the dragon king must go Last Line: High in his mighty grasp the star-rimmed bowl. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 5. ARTHUR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Behind storm-fretted bastions gray and bare Last Line: The strange gods calling through their mystic horn. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 6. TALIESIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: On lonely shores where dreams are drifted sand Last Line: Up toward the dragon city of the sun. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Taliesin; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 7. YNISWITRIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Dim watered vale whose clear streams seek the sea Last Line: Of new songs that shall fill those fallen choirs. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 8. THE HOLY THORN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Long centuries past by lonely barrows grew Last Line: At wintry christ-tide flowers the holy thorn. Subject(s): Glastonbury Thorn; Great Britain - History; English History CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 9. THE FOREST, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: In lonely thickets where the wood is deep Last Line: The light of dawn on his uplifted face. Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Endless london / mourns for that knowledge Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Endless london %mourns for that knowledge Last Line: Redemption and last %salvo of poppies? Subject(s): Great Britain - History COLD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Land, snake, river, %sweeten the loam Last Line: They sway, they coo, %they put scotch tape where it burns Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta CONCERNING INHERITANCE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield %over the city Subject(s): Great Britain - History CYCLE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natural strange beatitudes Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History CYCLE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Natural strange beatitudes Last Line: Do you mean %beatitudes Subject(s): Great Britain - History DARK-LAND (1), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are these last things reduced Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh Subject(s): Great Britain - History DARK-LAND (2), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherein wesley stood Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History DARK-LAND (2), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wherein wesley stood Last Line: Of entailed riches Subject(s): Great Britain - History DARK-LAND (3), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aspiring grantham Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History DARK-LAND (3), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aspiring grantham Last Line: To flagrant mercies Subject(s): Great Britain - History DE ANIMA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salutation: it is as though Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History DE ANIMA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Salutation: it is as though Last Line: Ourselves and masters of all %humility Subject(s): Great Britain - History DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The people moves as one spirit unfettered Last Line: The archangel, unseeing, unbowed, %chimes with each stroke Subject(s): Great Britain - History DUTCHESS OF MONMOUTH'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER DUKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "loyal hearts of london city, come, I pray, and sing my ditty" Last Line: "then from her eyes, with fresh supplies, down trickles many a brinish tear" Subject(s): "cooper, Anthony (1621-1683);great Britain - History;love - Loss Of;scott, James. Duke Of Monmouth (1649-85);" "shaftesbury, 1st Earl Of;english History; ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 14. GLAD TIDINGS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ever hallowed be this morning fair Last Line: And calm with fear of god's divinity. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 26. ALFRED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold a pupil of the monkish gown Last Line: In sacred converse gifts with alfred shares. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History ENGLAND, by JAMES LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: Who would trust england, let him lift his eyes Subject(s): Great Britain - History ENGLAND'S ENEMY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stands like one with mazy cares distraught Last Line: Muses how rome of romans was undone. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; World War I - Great Britain; English History EZEKIEL'S WHEEL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consider now the valley Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History EZEKIEL'S WHEEL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Consider now the valley Last Line: The bane of judah Subject(s): Great Britain - History FAMOUS HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS WYATT, SELS., by JOHN WEBSTER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) FIELD OF WATERLOO: A POEM, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair brussels, thou art far behind Last Line: Best justifies the meed thy valiant sons have won Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852) HAROLD; A DRAMA, SELS., by ALFRED TENNYSON Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - History HISTORY OF BRITAIN: DIANA'S REPLY TO BRUTUS, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brutus, far to the west, in the ocean wide Last Line: And kings be borne of thee, whose dreaded might %shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical HOW ROBIN HOOD RESCUED THE WIDOW'S THREE SONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Great Britain - History HUDIBRAS: PART 1, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir hudibras his passing worth Last Line: Already tir'd with other toil. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Presbyterianism; Liberty; English History INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou a patriot, traveller? On this field Last Line: And quell each angry and injurious thought. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Honor; Travel; English History; Journeys; Trips KING EDWARD THE THIRD, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord audley, whiles our son is in the chase Subject(s): Great Britain - History KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness KING RICHARD III, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Mothers; Sea KING STEPHEN; A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If shame can on a soldier's vein-swoll'n front Last Line: Can make his june december. Here he comes. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History LAMENT OF RICHARD DURING HIS IMPRISONMENT, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If one in prison may not tell his wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Greifenstein Castle, Austria; Prisons And Prisoners LIBERTY, SELS., by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poet's Biography Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Greece; Italy; Roman Empire LIBERTY: PART 4. BRITAIN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struck with the rising scene, thus I amazed Last Line: "and lay the toil of ages in the dust." Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History MAGNA CARTA, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Magna carta! Magna carta! Last Line: English brothers, we are waiting! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; World War I; English History; First World War MELTING OF THE EARL'S PLATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the gold cup all bossy with satyrs and saints Last Line: With the shouts of the multitude bringing the king. Subject(s): Cavaliers; Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won Last Line: Transformation-scene-and-curtain, apocalypse-hippodrome! Subject(s): Great Britain - History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only Last Line: At the mercy of door-chimes? Subject(s): Great Britain - History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image Last Line: But shelve it under mercies Subject(s): Great Britain - History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric Last Line: Not to be taken down Subject(s): Great Britain - History MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset Last Line: This also is admitted: introit turba Subject(s): Great Britain - History NELSON, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our best belover of all the brave Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Great Britain - History O, THE PLEASANT DAYS OF OLD!, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the pleasant days of old, which so often people praise! Last Line: Blessed times of old! Subject(s): Contentment; Great Britain - History; English History ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bury the great duke / with an empire's lamentation Last Line: God accept him, christ receive him! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Let Us Bury The Great Duke Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Great Britain - History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; English History OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs / blooded with amber Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs %blooded with amber Last Line: The unsustaining %wondrously sustained Subject(s): Great Britain - History OF CONSTANCY AND MEASURE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One sees again how it goes Last Line: With so much else believed to be fire and air Subject(s): Great Britain - History PARENTALIA (1), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The here-and-now finds vigil transfiguring Last Line: In the faint rasp of dry autumnal flowers Subject(s): Great Britain - History PARENTALIA (2), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go your ways, as if in thanksgiving Last Line: The other harvest Subject(s): Great Britain - History PERKIN WARBECK, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639) Poem Text First Line: Studies have of this nature been of late Last Line: And often find a welcome to the muses. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Impostors & Imposture; English History; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry PISGAH, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History PISGAH, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then Last Line: Perhaps I too am a shade Subject(s): Great Britain - History POSTLUDE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History POSTLUDE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac Last Line: Swallow their parturitions Subject(s): Great Britain - History PRAISE OF PRINCESS MARY, by JOHN HEYWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all the world were sought full far Subject(s): Great Britain - History PRINCES IN THE TOWER, by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How does your lordship? Subject(s): Great Britain - History PSALMS OF ASSIZE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I strike you with my name Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History PSALMS OF ASSIZE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I strike you with my name Last Line: With the elect justified %to his right hand Subject(s): Great Britain - History QUEEN ELIZABETH, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Dying, and loth to die, and long'd to die Subject(s): Great Britain - History QUEEN MARY; A DRAMA, SELS., by ALFRED TENNYSON Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Love RALEIGH'S CELL IN THE TOWER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here writ was the world's history by his hand Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Great Britain - History RESPUBLICA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The srident high Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History RESPUBLICA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The srident high Last Line: Back from the dead Subject(s): Great Britain - History RETALIATION, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of old, when scarron his companions invited Last Line: He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Paintings & Painters; English History RITORNELLI, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of tones Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History RITORNELLI, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Angel of tones Last Line: With sounds of joy Subject(s): Great Britain - History SCENES WITH HARLEQUINS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Distance is on edge Last Line: Foreknowledge-I forget- %in 'retribution' Subject(s): Great Britain - History SIMON DE MONTFORT, EARL OF LEICESTER, by JAMES LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: Born and bred in a castle of france Subject(s): Great Britain - History SOBIESKI'S SHIELD, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackberry, white Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History SOBIESKI'S SHIELD, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blackberry, white Last Line: And what they have about them dark to dark Subject(s): Great Britain - History SONG OF DEGREES, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word Last Line: To his blind faith Subject(s): Great Britain - History SONNET: 16. TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL, MAY 1652, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud Last Line: Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw. Variant Title(s): To The Lord General Cromwell;to Lord General Cromwell, May 1652, On Proposals Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Great Britain - History; English History SORREL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History SORREL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow Last Line: Salvation's troth-plight, plumed, of the elect Subject(s): Great Britain - History ST. DAVID'S HEAD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salt sprays deluge it, wild waves buffet it, hurricanes rave Last Line: I hold the measure of you all. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; St. David's Head, Wales; English History STRAFFORD; A TRAGEDY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I say, if he be here Last Line: Straf. O god, I shall die first -- I shall die first! Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Wentworth, Thomas. Earl Of Strafford; English History THAT MAN AS A RATIONAL ANIMAL, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Abiding provenance I would have said Last Line: Innocence of first inscription Subject(s): Great Britain - History THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence THE BARONS BOLD, by WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX Poem Text First Line: The barons bold on runnymede Last Line: Our wrongs shall all be righted. Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Liberty; English History THE BATTLE OF ATBARA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain, pray list to me Last Line: And to annihilate barbarity, and to establish what is right. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - History; Rifles; War; Dead, The; English History THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain! Come join with me Last Line: And to establish what's right wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Great Britain - History; Military; Victory; War; Dead, The; English History THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory. Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In westminster's royal halls Last Line: Rests the city of our god! Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Westminster Abbey; Liberty; English History THE DAY IS COMING, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither lads and hearken Last Line: And forth the banners go. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Great Britain - History; Peace; English History THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy, joy in london now! Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god! Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight THE DIAMOND JUBILEE; AN ODE. JUNE 20, 1897, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice, give thanks for all the centuries Last Line: And bless with heart and voice this fair auspicious day. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Great Britain - History; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); English History THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate Last Line: Hail to the coming time! Subject(s): England; Great Britain - History; Wealth; English; English History; Riches; Fortunes THE FORESTERS: NATIONAL SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no land like england Last Line: Cho. -- for the french, etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - History; National Song - England; English History; English National Anthem THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN: BRUTUS' PRAYER TO DIANA, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess of shades, and huntress, who at will Last Line: Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical; English History THE HISTORY OF INSPIDS; A LAMPOON, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chast, pious, prudent, charles the second Last Line: Prove wretched, king'd by storks and loggs. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Great Britain - History; English History THE JACOBITE ON TOWER HILL, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tripped up the steps with a bow and a smile Last Line: With the life of the bravest of any that bled. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Jacobites; Patriotism; English History THE OLD CAVALIER, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For our martyr'd charles I pawn'd my plate Last Line: "with my son on worcester plain." Subject(s): Cavaliers; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - History; English History THE PEOPLE'S PETITION, by WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lords! O rulers of the nation! Last Line: Give us our daily bread! Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old england! Thy name shall yet warrant thy fame Last Line: Neath the red cross of england—the flag of the brave. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Marines - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; War; Waterloo; English History; Seamen; Sails; Battle Of Waterloo THE RED KING, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king was drinking in malwood hall Last Line: Shall england never bide again. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; New Forest, England; Tirel, Sir Walter; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100); English History; Tyrell, Sir Walter THE THREE TROOPERS DURING THE PROTECTORATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the devil tavern Last Line: "god send this crum-well-down!" Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Great Britain - History; English History THE TRAITOR, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Didst bid him come Last Line: There is no stay in proud mortality. [exeunt. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most grave opinion! Last Line: Yet with your smiles shall be restored again. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Masques; Peace; English History THE WHITE SHIP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By none but me can the tale be told Last Line: (the sea hath no king but god alone.) Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135); Sea Pilots; English History THREE PORTRAITS OF PRINCE CHARLES, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful face of a child Last Line: O'er the last of the stuart line. Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Great Britain - History; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; English History TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be Last Line: The abrupt rainbow's errant visitation Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where's probity in this Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where's probity in this Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep what in repair? Last Line: Past its own enduring Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who could outbalance poised Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters? Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swiftly they cease to be Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How swiftly they cease to be Last Line: Quenched in a cloud Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I say it is not faithless Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I say it is not faithless Last Line: Awed by its own predation Subject(s): Great Britain - History TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh Last Line: Pool of siloam Subject(s): Great Britain - History WAT TYLER'S ADDRESS TO THE KING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: King of england %petitioning for pity is most weak Subject(s): Great Britain - History WHETHER MORAL VIRTUE COMES BY HABITUATION, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is said that sometimes even fear Last Line: The processionals of seared array Subject(s): Great Britain - History WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Overnight-overnight Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Overnight-overnight Last Line: The tree of heaven Subject(s): Great Britain - History WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History |
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