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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HONOR Matches Found: 129 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Disraeli dead! The trappings of late days Last Line: A tear upon the wreath Subject(s): "death;disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881);honor;jews;memory;" "dead, The;judaism; A BOOK OF AIRS SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of life upright Last Line: And quiet pilgrimage. Variant Title(s): The Armour Of Innocence;integer Vitae;justvm Et Tenacem;dovine And Moral Songs: 2 Subject(s): Contentment; Courage; Honor; Masculinity (psychology); Valor; Bravery A PURPLE HEART BADGE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: A soldier's emblem lost for many a year Last Line: Who earned this military badge of fame? Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Victory A TRIBUTE TO DAD, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE Poem Text First Line: My dad, he's a star in the heavens Last Line: Let's give them the honor that's due. Subject(s): Honor; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Work; Workers A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors A TRIBUTE TO MR J. GRAHAM HENDERSON, THE WORLD'S FAIR JUDGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome home to hawick, mr j. Graham henderson Last Line: And to gainsay it there's few people can. Subject(s): Homecoming; Honor; Judges; Praise A TRIBUTE TO THE JEWS, by RUFUS CLEMENT HOPKINS Poem Text First Line: Since terah's son from chaldea went Last Line: In science, literature and art. Subject(s): Bible; Honor; Israel; Jews; Judaism A TRIBUTE TO WILL ROGERS AND WILEY POST, by ROSETTA THORSON BEACHLER Poem Text First Line: Oklahoma mourns her sons today Last Line: To realms of greater glory. Subject(s): Honor; Memory; Oklahoma AARON LEVY GREEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now dimly thro' our tears we see his face Last Line: Us worthy of joining him on high Subject(s): Honor;immortality;jews;memory;rest; Judaism ADDRESS TO THE GARDNER OF BOTHWELL ON COMPLETING 50TH YEAR OF MINISTRY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pastor revered, beloved! The muse would fain Last Line: The choir of heaven with harp and song! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Clergy; Honor; Service; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to the czar alexander! Last Line: Alexander! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Honor; Praise; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet once the spartan's led to fight Last Line: Let caesar live, and carthage be subdu'd! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists AMELIA EARHART, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Speak of her not with dull or careless reference Last Line: Speak of her proudly then, so valiant proved! Subject(s): Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937); Honor; Praise ARMISTICE, 1928, by KENNETH GROESBECK Poem Text First Line: There are not even mounds, any more, where they lie Last Line: And ours the retribution, deserved of our defeat. Subject(s): Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day AT LAST, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Gaze through the opal mist across the main Last Line: Spain's castles crumble into desert sands. Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Mist; Spain; War; Liberty AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines BALLAD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, captain of the moorish hold Last Line: The noblest knight of spain! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Moors (people); Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BARONESS DE ROTHSCHILD, by EMILY MARION HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Though life may fade, love never dies Last Line: Who loved her god; whose god is love. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Immortality; Jews; Love; Dead, The; Judaism BEFORE SENTENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night, though every kind of poison sap Last Line: And thine enslaving amour with the slav! Subject(s): Courage; France; Honor; Justice; Trials; Waiting; Weariness; Valor; Bravery; Fatigue BENJAMIN ARTOM, by RE HENRY Poem Text First Line: With mournful pomp they bore him to the grave Last Line: He loved them—let them comfort her who mourns him most! Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service CENTENARY POEM, RECITED AT BURNS' CENTENARY FESTIVAL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, bard beloved! As pilgrims to thy shrine Last Line: To fame's bright zenith nearer, higher rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Death; Fame; Honor; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Reputation CHOICE OF PRIDES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To tell the truth, it would have its points Last Line: Or the feckless of despair Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Honor; Pride CITIES: 6. TOKIO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mad dogs of war Last Line: To beg from door to door. Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Peace; Tokyo; War; Buddha; Buddhists COULD THEY BUT KNOW (NOVEMBER, 1918), by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Could they but know -- the countless heroes dead Last Line: And vision give our holy dead to-day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; First World War DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides Last Line: Their censers swing in air. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day DEDICATED TO YOU, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the thing you do open a book Last Line: And you loved him who died before you were born Subject(s): Honor; Poetry And Poets EPITAPH ON COLONEL GARDINER, WHO WAS SLAIN IN BATTLE OF PRESTON PANS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While fainter merit asks the powers of verse Last Line: And surely his a glorious road to god. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MR. SIBLEY OF STUDHAM, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies an honest man! Without pretence Last Line: Where, spite of anstis, rots the garter'd knave. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MR. THOMAS STRONG, WHO DIED ON 26 DECEMBER 1736, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In action prudent, and in word sincere Last Line: Thy friends shall answer, weeping, 'here lies strong.' Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Dead, The F.B.C.; CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was our noblest, he was our bravest & best Last Line: Still our bravest and best! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Soldiers; United States - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines FRED PERRY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, dear fred, our task is done Last Line: Whose name was alfred perry. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Monuments; Dead, The FUNERAL SONG FOR THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In its summer pride arrayed Last Line: Lays a garland on thy herse. Subject(s): Blessings; Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Epitaphs; Funerals; Grief; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Honor; Wales; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Welshmen; Welshwomen GLORY AND SHADOW, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who art thou, o glory Last Line: Is waiting for you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Honor; Shadows GOLDEN WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some words are played on golden strings Last Line: Shall answer when you call. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Honor; Language; Love; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary GRANT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Hail, honored hero of the east and west! Last Line: Simple in speech, sublime in common-sense. Subject(s): Freedom; Heroism; Honor; Patriotism; Soldiers; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 1, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: What time, day long, from house to house, from door Last Line: "honour be yours, strong, brave, true, steadfast countrymen." Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Guard Duty; Honor; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery HERE IS MUSIC: SECOND-LIEUTENANT E.T.; IN MEMORRIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Sunlight and shimmering haze Last Line: Whose bouquet works like wine. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Fights; Honor; Patriotism; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War HONOR, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Ambitious sir, take heed Last Line: Who fell full fifty cubits high. Subject(s): Ambition; Honor HONOR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, what is honor? 'tis the finest sense Last Line: Are forfeited; but infamy doth kill. Subject(s): Honor HONORS: 2. THE ANSWER, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Last Line: My work, my work -- farewell! Subject(s): Death; Flutes; God; Honor; Labor & Laborers; Life; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Work; Workers HONOUR, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Me let the world disparage and despise Last Line: Upright and strong, for all the load of blame. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Honor HONOUR, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man and woman together, a man and woman apart Last Line: Give back that gift to the giver, thine heart to the bosom of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Honor HONOUR ITS OWN REWARD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swell, swell the shrill trumpet clear sounding afar Last Line: How vast the reward of the brave! Subject(s): England; Honor; Patriotism; English HONOUR'S MARTYR, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is full this winter night Last Line: If faithful in my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): M. Douglas To E.r. Glenden Subject(s): Honor; Truth; Self HORACE: SONG AT THE END OF ACT 2, by PIERRE CORNEILLE Poem Text First Line: To arms, to arms, the heroes cry Last Line: Were there no honour, there would be no love. Subject(s): Honor IF WE MUST DIE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Last Line: Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Courage; Death; Honor; Social Protest; World War I; Negroes; American Blacks; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind! Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT PENSHURST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are days of old familiar to thy mind Last Line: Lives and shall live, immortalized in song. Subject(s): History; Honor; Immortality; Penshurst, England; Presence; Singing & Singers; Historians INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration ISAAC M. WISE, by WALTER HURT Poem Text First Line: He came into the camp of creed Last Line: To lay upon his hallowed tomb. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Jews; Memory; Wise, Isaac Mayer (1819-1900); Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O say not he is dead Last Line: And say: he lives, we know. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Love; Patriotism; Dead, The LEOPOLD ZUNZ, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: To thee o'er whose fresh-closed tomb Last Line: Nor soon nor yet will bid a last farewell. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism LINES IN PRAISE OF PROFESSOR BLACKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The people's hearts are now full of sorrow Last Line: Worthy of a monument, and your name written thereon in letters of gold. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Honor; Memory; Praise; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Burials LOCAL QUARRELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the nineteenth century hadn't crumbled Last Line: They sat in a common shadow. Subject(s): Duels; Guns; Honor; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements LORD TENNYSON, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER Poem Text First Line: Immortal bard, whose voice is stilled in death Last Line: Although he sleeps in peace. ... Can never die. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron LUCRETIA; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, my father! Good valerius Last Line: (stabs herself.) Subject(s): Honor; Rape; Rome, Italy; Sacrifices; Suicide; Women MEMORIAL DAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After our march from the hudson to the top Last Line: Ticks on its chain. Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Veterans; War; Declaration Day MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had known, dear master, when of late Last Line: And lost its matchless cunning only now. Subject(s): Honor; Jews; Memory; Scholarship & Scholars; Judaism MY LADY'S PRETTY NAME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Sweetness is my lady's name Last Line: Love's celestial treasure. Subject(s): Honor; Names NO MAN'S LAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I've never been on no man's land Last Line: Their numbers are untold. Subject(s): Courage; Honor; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery O NOBLE DEAD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: O noble dead who rest beneath the sod Last Line: And honor thee. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 3, by DOUGLAS GARMAN Poem Text First Line: Set up the statue: dull and staid Last Line: Another civic statue's made. Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Honor; Statues; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron ON HONOUR, by BERNARD MANDEVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the thronged luxurious town, / lives an enchantress of renown Last Line: Unless they first were knocked o' th' head. Subject(s): Honor; Women OURS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where of old was heard Last Line: "our watterson!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Honor; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips PEACE-AND HONOR, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed are the sounds of party-strife Last Line: Not one's nor other's—england's own. Subject(s): Honor; Jews; Peace; Judaism POEM FOR MY FRIEND, CLARE. OR, WITH WHITE STUPAS WE REMEMBER BUDDHA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So when the gods wearing their colored cloaks of nearness Last Line: "here's a beautiful postcard of five white stupas in nepal." Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Memory; Self-criticism; Self-righteousness; Buddha; Buddhists PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A plain-built house, after so long a stay Last Line: Machines and tempests will destroy the new. Subject(s): Fame; Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Theatre Royal, London; Reputation; Dramatists; Stage Life RED GLOW THE ASSES, O ...ER ASHES, O, by DAVID E. JOYNER Poem Source First Line: Red glow the ashes o Last Line: Will proffer satisfaction: o! Subject(s): Death; Drinks And Drinking; Honor; Memory; Praise REMEMBRANCE: GREEK FOLK-SONG, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not unto the forest - not unto the forest, o my lover! Last Line: There is memory in the forest. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Forests; Greece; Honor; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Woods; Greeks REQUIEM FOR PRESIDENT TAYLOR, BOSTON, 1850, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enshrined in glory, as the golden west Last Line: And unborn nations love to speak his fame. Subject(s): Honor; Presidents, United States; Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850) ROBERT BURNS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Large hearted minstrel! From the sphere Last Line: That nestle warmly in each heart! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Honor; Poetry & Poets SIR WALTER'S HONOR, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With drooping sail and shattered mast Last Line: "before dishonor—death!" Subject(s): Honor; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) SONG OF THE AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For the honour of australia, our mother Last Line: Kneel thee down, new made sister - let us pray Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Honor; Roads; Singing And Singers SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ruin'd relique of the ancient pile Last Line: As fancy paints the pomp that once adorn'd thy wall. Subject(s): Bards; Castles; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 18, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I myself be bridled of my mind Last Line: Whereby his absence turneth him to sorrow.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 27 Subject(s): Grief; Honor; Love; Time; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness STRUGNELL'S RUBAIYAT: 7, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another pint! Come, loosen up, have fun! Last Line: Time's spacecraft all too soon will carry you %away - and lo! The countdown has begun Subject(s): Athletes; Drinks And Drinking; Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Honor TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928, by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY Poem Text First Line: Ten years; but what are years to the dead Last Line: But glory and bemedaled scars! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ASHES; FOR WILLIAM GASS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This elderly poet, unpublished for five decades Last Line: Her name known to everyone, safe in her fame. Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Honor; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE BOUT, by EVARISTE BOULAY-PATY Poem Text First Line: Two wrestlers in a ruthless grapple strive Last Line: And even in dying feels his glory kindle. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Wrestling & Wrestlers; Dead, The; Judo; Karate THE BUSTS OF GOETHE AND SCHILLER IN WALHALLA, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is goethe, with a forehead Last Line: And the poet is the king! Subject(s): Death; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Dead, The; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von THE CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas near the begum kothie the battle began Last Line: "and enjoy yourselves, my heroes, while ye are here." Subject(s): Fights; Heroism; Honor; Military; Missions & Missionaries; War; Heroes; Heroines THE CZAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now who is he with lofty mien Last Line: The czar! God save the czar! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE DEBT UNPAYABLE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I given Last Line: (god grant!) all weeds in ours. Subject(s): Army - United States; Death; Honor; Navy - United States; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War - Home Front; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; American Navy THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well done! The statue, on its base of granite Last Line: Still sit supremely, and survive the storm! Subject(s): Honor; Presidents, United States; Statues; Washington, George (1732-1799) THE GRENADIERS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two grenadiers travell'd tow'rds france one day Last Line: "for my emperor hasting to battle!" Subject(s): France; Honor; Soldiers THE HIGHEST GOOD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To attain the highest good Last Line: God with joy will do the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Honor THE LION OF LUCERNE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With equal courage soldier and commander fell Last Line: If rank and title, crowned with glory, live. Subject(s): Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Soldiers THE LORDS' MASQUE: CHORUS (2), by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in thy revels frolic-fair delight Last Line: To heap joy on this ever-honoured night. Subject(s): Honor; Pleasure; Rites & Ceremonies THE PASSING OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: They are bearing him home through the old virginia valley Last Line: Offer a prayer—a tear! Subject(s): Heroism; Honor; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Unknown Soldier; War; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE PASSING OF WOODROW WILSON, PROPHET OF PEACE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more a grieving nation bows its head Last Line: When war forever shall give place to peace! Subject(s): Death; Honor; Peace; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh? Last Line: I pause—and ponder on the days to come. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE PHANTOM REVIEW, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Text First Line: Come phantom feet in the wind tonight and soundless drumbeats roll Last Line: "our pledge, to ease the watch you tread, ""it shall not be again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Honor; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The THE RECANTATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young, saucy, shallow in my views Last Line: From honour's pole diverges. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Honor; Professions THE RIDERS OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare Last Line: And they keep the peace of our people and the honour of british law. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Honor; North West Mounted Police (canada); Canadians; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire THE SOLDIER, by WILLIAM SMYTH Poem Text First Line: What dreaming drone was ever blest Last Line: Thy country and thy duty. Subject(s): Honor; Soldiers; War THE SONG OF 1876, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, voice of the land's devotion! Last Line: As pure as of old for a thousand years! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty THE TEXAS COWBOY AND THE MEXICAN GREASER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I think we can all remember when a greaser hadn't Subject(s): Cowboys;honor;racism;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Racial Prejudice;bigotry;southwest;pacific States THE THINNING RANKS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The bugles sound, the rolling drums Last Line: To honor noble dead. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Declaration Day THE TOMB OF DE BRUCE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And liest thou, great monarch, this pavement below? Last Line: By the chisel of fame on the tablet of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Graves; Honor; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is known to the sun-white majesties Last Line: They are known in the courts of god! Subject(s): Honor; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by ARTHUR B. RHINOW Poem Text First Line: I - they look so solemn and fine. Who are they? Last Line: Myself—ah, the music. Subject(s): Honor; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier; War THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have left all upon the shameful field Last Line: O keep the promise, lord, and take the life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dishonor; Honor; War THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT; A POEM ON THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, by RICHARD SAVAGE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Twice twenty tedious moons have rolled away Last Line: I lose all memory of wrongs and woes. Subject(s): Birthdays; Honor; Poetry & Poets THE WIDOW AND HER CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A widow kept a favourite cat Last Line: Here, towzer! -- do him justice.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Honor; Mice; Widows & Widowers; Allegories TO A FLORENTINE BUST, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perfect, as 'twere through very lack of art Last Line: Remainest undefiled. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Honor TO A TRIUMPHER, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chisel upon thine arch, great king, a knot Last Line: And mar his blade upon thy glory humbled. Subject(s): Honor; Time TO A YOUNG GIRL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Do not forget, / when you are old Last Line: "once and for aye enshrined you as her lover." Subject(s): Aging; Death; Honor; Love Affairs; Youth; Dead, The TO CHARLEY, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou the poet-gift? Thou hast Last Line: A sheridan—without his shames! Subject(s): Brothers; Canada; Epigram (as Literary Form); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Half-brothers; Canadians TO DELIA: 30 (3), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft do I muse whether my delia's eyes Last Line: Your sweet aspect on him that honors you. Subject(s): Eyes; Honor TO HARRY WAKELYN SMITH, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Not as that other man who, slow to see Last Line: They set your altar in the heart of youth! Subject(s): Altars; Friendship; Honor; Service TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind Last Line: Loved I not honour more. Variant Title(s): Going To The Wars;song Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Duty; Heroism; Honor; Love; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Heroes; Heroines TO MASTER HENRY FIELDING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I' faith, good hal, you have a saucy wit Last Line: From storks to weeds and willows! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Honor; Passion; Inspiration; Creativity TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 27. SUBSERVIENCY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: No man may accept a gift with honor-- Last Line: And by acceptance would their honor cast aside. Subject(s): Honor; Men TO MY LORD VERULAM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Of mankind meanest!' out upon the pen Last Line: The way more sure appearing. Subject(s): Honor; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Ethics TO ONE WHO PASSED: WOODROW WILSON, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: Great men have passed Last Line: Thy vision still shall lead. Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The TO THE AMERICANS OF THE UNITED STATES, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of this passing age! Whose noble deeds Last Line: And both will please us well, -- if both will read Subject(s): Americans; Honor TO THE FRIENDLIEST OF POETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Chaucer, kind heart, who with the score and ten Last Line: Your frank and winsome rhyme! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom TO THE HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS LADY, THE LADY TASBURGH, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That when encrease of age and learning sets Last Line: William bas. Subject(s): Basse, William (1583-1653); Gratitude; Honor; Mothers TO THE MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN, by CHARLES NORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset of their youth they strode Last Line: When lads before them paced to pave the ground. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Memory; Military; Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; Youth; Dead, The TO THE WIFE OF THE CORREGIDOR, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: For primates old, pale incense eddying round Last Line: Awake thy comrades! 'tis the hour. March on!' Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Monuments; Stones TO WEBSTER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I've never drunk wine before, sir, but I tell you what Last Line: With lips still wet I place the bet you are dartmouth's biggest man. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Honor; Memory; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) TOLD BY A BRAHMIN, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold weighed 'gainst honor is naught in the scale Last Line: "that triumph no robber from me can take." Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Honor UPON HONOUR, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Honour, I say, or honest fame Last Line: And kings can neither take nor give. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fame; Honor; Reputation URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO LADY PENELOPE DYNHAM, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This muses story, that a princes cares Last Line: William basse. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Kindness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VATES PATRIAE, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a woman in the night Last Line: On his gray head to-night! Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Honor; Poetry And Poets VICTORY AND FAILURE, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the day of victory Last Line: To die along with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Failure; Honor; Soldiers; Victory; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvho say's these romish pageants bene too hy Last Line: When his new rage would aske no narrower rooms? Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Laughter; Valentine's Day |
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