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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 be—the 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)