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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GREAT BRITAIN - RULERS Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POLITICAL LITANY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a junta that labor for absolute power Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damned, if she will. Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine - Deliver Us, O Lord Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics & Government; United States; America A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S REIGN, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, the ruler over earth and sea Last Line: In this beginning reign may be fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Coronations; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Rulers; Peace; Prayer FOR THE NEW YEAR 1777, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again imperial winter's sway Last Line: And our great cement bethe public good. Subject(s): Burke, Edmund (1729-1797); Finality; Great Britain - Rulers; Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOTHAM, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Far off (no matter whether east or west) Last Line: I know it duty, and I feel it fame. Subject(s): Duty; Freedom; Gold; Great Britain - Rulers; Liberty LINES, ETC., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman should not rule this realm' Last Line: And guard our coeur de lion still, %in every sacred right! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Women's Rights PRINCESS VICTORIA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou a princess? -- in sooth, we may well Last Line: Is -- god keep the crown long from that innocent brow! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics REQUIEM FOR THE PLANTAGENET KINGS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers REQUIEM FOR THE PLANTAGENET KINGS, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores Last Line: Across daubed rock evacuates its dead Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers ROYAL SPONSORS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king and the queen will stand to the child Last Line: At the font that day. Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers THE CORONATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At westminster, hid from the light of day Last Line: Clamour dogs kingship; afterwards not so!' Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Great Britain - Rulers THE TROOPERS (1778), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We clattered into the village street, and up to the rose and crown Last Line: "but death to a thing like a tyrant king, and his vassal, my great lord howe!" Subject(s): American Revolution; Great Britain - Rulers; Howe, Richard. Earl Howe (1726-1799); Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) |
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