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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GREAT BRITAIN - PARLIAMENT Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'AND WILL YOU NOW TO PEACE INCLINE', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The parliament ('tis said) resolv'd Last Line: And scour out every member. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'BUT THAT NE'ER TROUBLES ME, BOYS', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now a fig for th' lower house Last Line: For spent is his last groat. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I'LL TELL THEE, DICK, THAT I HAVE BEEN', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And can you think that this translation Last Line: Than to have none at all. Subject(s): English Language; French Language; Great Britain - Parliament; Latin Language BETWEEN SESSION AND SESSION, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Against wicked men's will Subject(s): Government; Great Britain - Parliament FREE PARLIAMENT LITANY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: More ballads! - here's a spic and span new suppliction Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament MY SHADOW, by W. HODGSON BURNETT Poem Text First Line: I have a sort of shadow that goes out sometimes with me Last Line: Had forgotten all about me and had gone to vote instead! Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Shadows; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) ON THE ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For years unblest, all hope of rest forbidden to his feet Last Line: And pour into the hebrew's ear the lead of a debate. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Jews; Judaism ON THE NEW FORCES OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you have thrown off your prelate lord Last Line: New presbyter is but old priest writ large. Variant Title(s): On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Parliament; Presbyterianism; Liberty ON THE WOMEN ABOUT TOWN, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too long the wise commons have been in debate Last Line: Must be damned in the cup like unworthy receivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Women SONG, FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, 28 MAY 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy flowery garlands by Last Line: Than the bloom of all thy roses. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Parliament; Jacobites; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: YE NATIONS, TREMBLE! PARLIAMENT HAS MET, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frown you? Frown on; your hour is past! Last Line: And not abash'd shrink back into their graves. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: FEBRUARY. UNDER THE SPEAKER'S GALLERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all the comedy of human things Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament THE PARLIAMENT OF ROSES TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt the roses one time went Last Line: The maide of honour unto thee. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 13. 1867, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the year of the great crime Last Line: To the gray secret lingering in the east. Subject(s): Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881); Freedom; Great Britain - Parliament; Liberty VERSES ON SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, mr. Speaker! It's surely fair Last Line: Sleep, mr. Speaker; sleep, sleep while you may! Variant Title(s): Stanzas To The Speaker Asleep Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Politics & Government WILFRED OWEN'S PHOTOGRAPHS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When parnell's irish in the house Last Line: The motion was passed Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament |
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