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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KNIGHTS & KNIGHTHOOD Matches Found: 150 "THE MER-MAN, AND MARSTIG'S DAUGHTER", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'now rede me, dear mither, a sonsy rede" Last Line: They dance wi' nae sic unco man' Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood A BALLAD OF SIR KAY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, ho? / kay the seneschal Last Line: Are the head of a corpse and the heels of sir kay. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Knights & Knighthood; Arthur, King A BALLAD OF TWO KNIGHTS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two knights rode forth at early dawn Last Line: I ween that each knight smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love A CALL OF DUTY, by REGINALD CHAUNCEY ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: At early morn, a valiant knight Last Line: "for 'duty calls.'" Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood A CHILD'S BATTLES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise of the knights of old Last Line: Take my love. Subject(s): Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Praise A GOTHAMITE IN CAMELOT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now james h. Brown in gotham town Last Line: But that he had awoken! Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Valor; Bravery A KNIGHT-ERRANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though he lived and died among us Last Line: Raised his eyes to god, and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Truth; Dead, The ANSWER TO A KIND ENQUIRY, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Text First Line: O, what can ail thee, knight at arms Last Line: And feel so sick. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Knights & Knighthood; Poetry & Poets ARTHURIAN SONGS: 3. SARRAS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the town of sarras Last Line: Oh! Home to guenevere. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love 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 AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect 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 BALLADE OF YE LOUT AND YE MUSHYE KNYGHTE, by HENRY WILLIAM HANEMANN Poem Text First Line: A recklesse lout sate onne a walle Last Line: Of yt ille-mannyrd lout. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood BRISTOWE TRAGEDIE: OR, THE DEATH OF SYR CHARLES BAWDIN, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feathered songster chaunticleer Last Line: Ynne heav'n godd's mercie synge! Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood CAPTIVE KNIGHT, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent I sit by the prison's high window Last Line: Then my cold face from this visor uncloaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Knights & Knighthood; Prisons & Prisoners; Swords; Convicts DON QUIXOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smiles for him, yes, and tears -- but most of all Last Line: Who wrought so beautifully -- in his dream! Subject(s): Don Quixote; Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Nightmares DON QUIXOTE, by HANNELORE JOSEPH Poem Text First Line: So you died sane, oh jester of the universe Last Line: Of all humanity -- we're all in vain. Subject(s): Death; Don Quixote; Insanity; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness DON RAMIRO, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Donna clara! Donna clara! Last Line: "this day's noontide died ramiro." Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Dead, The DONNA CLARA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening-shaded garden Last Line: "israel of saragossa." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Jews; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Judaism EPIGRAM (1), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To richmond and peterburgh, mat gave his letters Last Line: These were knights of the garter, not knights of the post. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Letters GUINEVERE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it I am waiting for? Last Line: What is it I am waiting for? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Prayer; Arthur, King IN AN AUSTRAL GULLY, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sauntering down the gully, near the meeting waters Last Line: Who won to me the lover that shall be my bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Courtship; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Cultural Differences KNIGHT AND LADY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He lifted his hand to his plumed chapean Last Line: Gave token of wounds which had left their scars. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood KNIGHTS-ERRANT, by MARY CATHERINE (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Death is no foeman, we were born together Last Line: Love, thou wilt break my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): M., S. M. Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O [or, ah] what can ail thee, knight at arms [or, wretched wight] Last Line: And no birds sing. Subject(s): Fairies; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Loss Of; Magic; Supernatural; Elves LA VALLETTE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the bastion of castille Last Line: "must home and love forget." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; War LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 51, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her dark attire thus wearing Last Line: Is ended as soon as you please. Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: PROLOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once lived a knight, who was mournful and bent Last Line: In his poet's low garret unsightly. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love MAIDEN MELANCHOLY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young knight comes into my mind Last Line: On some dear volume playing. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood MODERN CHIVALRY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, with sword and battle-axe Last Line: Or the fee may tumble through. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Chivalry; Knights & Knighthood MONT SAINT MICHEL, by EMILY TAYLOR PERKINS Poem Text First Line: Across the battlements of saint michel Last Line: Have worshiped god beneath saint michel's spire! Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Monasteries; Abbeys OLD HEC'S IDOLATRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-o! Our jolly tilts at new Last Line: Nor heard of him again, nor cared to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Knights & Knighthood; Singing & Singers OLD SQUIERS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Old squiers weighed two hundred pounds Last Line: Must ride up every time. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Knights & Knighthood ON KNIGHTHOOD, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Text First Line: This morn a young squire shall be made a knight Last Line: And all who in that following went with her. Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 9, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Passion of fire that sears my hungry heart Last Line: Letters of gold on god's eternal page. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 2, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While arcite lives in bliss, the story turns Last Line: The knights to combate; and their arms to sing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 3, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day approached when fortune should decide Last Line: And all true lovers find the same success. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Death; Fables; Fortune; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Allegories PALESTINE, 1192-1917, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gallant knights of christendom riding out together Last Line: For lion-heart hath come again to claim you for his own. Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Palestine; War PICTURES ON ENAMEL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When astraled was lying, like to die Last Line: Was gone beyond the hills upon his battle-steed. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: AN EPITAPH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some leave their home for private discontent Last Line: Which was thy good, and true religion. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Exiles; Grief; Home; Knights & Knighthood; Sorrow; Sadness POLYHYMNIA: FRAGMENTS, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These prov'd themselves from pegasus derived Last Line: Perchance, as youthful now as I was then. Subject(s): Horse Racing; Knights & Knighthood; Youth PREVISION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While all the dancing days that pass Last Line: So fare the sons of love? Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love PUZZLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: In days of old, when knights were bold Last Line: When bugs and ants sneaked in! Subject(s): Jokes; Knights & Knighthood; Past QUEENS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red sun stared unwinking at the east Last Line: Than this pale light and dark of cold december. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: TWO KNIGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crapulinski and waschlapski, / poles in poland born and bred Last Line: "and the mighty eselinski." Subject(s): Friendship; Heroism; Knights & Knighthood; Poland; Heroes; Heroines SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Why should we now boast of arthur and his knights? Last Line: Sing honi soit qui mal y pense! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;knights & Knighthood SEMPER IDEM, by H. D. HALE Poem Text First Line: In days gone by brave knights would vie Last Line: Are maidens' hearts as true? Subject(s): Flirtation; Knights & Knighthood SIR EGLAMORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sir eglamore, that valiant knight" Last Line: With his fa la lanctre Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood SIR GAWAINE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Reptilian green the wrinkled throat Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood SIR GUY THE CRUSADER, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir guy was a doughty crusader Last Line: Grew bulky and quitted the stage. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Crusades; Family Life; Knights & Knighthood; Relatives SIR ROLAND; A FRAGMENT, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: The knight with starry shield / chased the gigantic spoiler from the field Last Line: And smote his heart_____ Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood SIR RUPERT THE FEARLESS; A LEGEND OF GERMANY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir rupert the fearless, a gallant young knight Last Line: Beware of the rhine, and take care of the rhino! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Nymphs; Knights & Knighthood SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man that's neither borne to wealth, nor place Last Line: The serving-man to no estate comes short. Subject(s): Civil Service; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; Swords THE ACCOLADE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twist your frown to a smile Last Line: "you won the good knight's accolade when you ""failed." Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Praise THE BLACK KNIGHT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas pentecost, the feast of gladness Last Line: "roses in the spring I gather!" Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE BOKE OF THE PURPLE FAUCON, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yt is a kynge both fyne and felle Last Line: * * * * Subject(s): Chivalry; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE ELECTED KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sir oluf he rideth over the plain Last Line: "now sits the maidens in the high tower, / the youngest sorrows till death" Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE ELF-STROKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sir oluf has ridden far and wide Last Line: "there lay sir oluf, and he was dead" Subject(s): Death;fairies;knights & Knighthood; "dead, The;elves; THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAITHLESS KNIGHT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady she sate in her bower alone Last Line: Ere that steed and its rider return again! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE GILLYFLOWER OF GOLD, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A golden gillyflower today Last Line: Hah! Hah! La belle jaune giroflee. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love THE GLORY OF THE PAST, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed of warriors bold Last Line: In days of long ago. Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Victory THE HAYSTACK IN THE FLOODS, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had she come all the way for this Last Line: Beside the haystack in the floods. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Poitiers, Battle Of (1356) THE HOSTEL OF SLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the hostel of sleep. Come in, come in! Last Line: As you lie at rest in the chamber blue. Subject(s): Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE JUST MADE PERFECT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately music rises on my ear Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way. Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE KING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They rode right out of the morning sun Last Line: And autumn is here again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Seasons; Fall THE KNIGHT ERRANT, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits of old that bore me Last Line: Sight of the dragon soon! Subject(s): Donatello (1386-1466); George, Saint (3rd Century); Knights & Knighthood; Sculpture & Sculptors THE KNIGHT ERRANT, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: He rode at dusk down woodlands strange Last Line: "but white her soul, say I!"";" Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Temptation; Male-female Relations THE KNIGHT IN THE WOOD, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thing itself was rough and crudely done Last Line: Feared to advance, feared to return -- that's all! Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE KNIGHT'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the church which pisa, great and free Last Line: "and love, and music, his inglorious life." Subject(s): Epitaphs; Knights & Knighthood THE KNIGHT'S PLEDGE, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tedious night at length hath pass'd Last Line: And conquer, though we die! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE KNIGHTS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not dust! Not dust the chivalry Last Line: And epic deeds are done again! Subject(s): Courage; Knights & Knighthood; Valor; Bravery THE KNIGHTS AND THE KING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knights rode up with gifts for the king Last Line: To vanquish and to reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 1. REGRET, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How was I to know Last Line: "rot on,"" god saith, ""within the foss of death." Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Regret; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 2. THE KNIGHTS TO CHRYSOLA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crazed for you, aspired and fell for you Last Line: Chrysola! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Love Affairs; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 3. WINTER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the snow, / a frozen barefoot penitent I go Last Line: My sins are scarlet. She was white as snow. Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Snow; Winter; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 4. THE KNIGHT BEAUCLERC TO THE LADY GLORIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that the queen with all her maids came / singing Last Line: Farewell! Farewell! But I have loved you best. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Dreams; Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Roses; Nightmares THE LEPER KNIGHT; A LEGEND OF MALTA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Elmo's walls are high and strong Last Line: Had kept his vow in dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Malta; Muslims; Tyranny & Tyrants; Moslems THE LITTLE KNIGHT IN GREEN, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What fragrant-footed comer Last Line: To perish for my queen. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE LOWER RHINE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Above, in the castle-land Last Line: Are the knights of the modern rhine. Subject(s): Industry; Knights & Knighthood; Rhine (river), Europe THE MASQUE OF QUEEN BERSABE; A MIRACLE PLAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knights mine, all that be in hall Last Line: Et tunc dicant laudamus. Variant Title(s): The Masque Of Queen Bersabe Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Knights & Knighthood; Plays & Playwrights THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who gives him the bath? Last Line: Was sir galahad made—as it might be last week! Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE ONE OBLIGATION, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Care not so much for troth to me Last Line: "a ""very parfait gentle knight." Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE PARLOUS THING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The villainous tract he knew Last Line: . . . Say on, sword, say on! Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; War THE PASTIME OF PLEASURE: THE TRUE KNIGHT, by STEPHEN HAWES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For knighthood is not in the feats of warre Last Line: But for a truth, or for the common's sake. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE COUNT OF GLEICHEN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read that story of the saxon knight Last Line: Is happier for thy sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Love; Tears THE QUEEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen sinned in a dream Last Line: The great gold curls of the queen.) Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE RED CROSS KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "blow, warder, blow thy sounding horn" Last Line: And the feast eat merrily Subject(s): Christianity;knights & Knighthood THE RHYME OF SIR LAUNCELOT BOGLE; A LEGEND OF GLASGOW, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a pleasant place of rest Last Line: Take my leave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Rhyme THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET, by FRIEDRICH RUECKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'I was not born to mope at home in loneliness' Last Line: Wooden lady eleanora von alleyne! Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints; Pain; Selfishness; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness THE RIDER OF THE KNEE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knightly rider of the knee Last Line: Knightly rider of the knee! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Knights & Knighthood; Childhood THE RITTER BANN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ritter bann from hungary Last Line: Of the knight embracing jane. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE ROMAUNT OF THE PAGE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A knight of gallant deeds Last Line: Which, ere it endeth, suits but one? Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE ROSE OF SHARON, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In his chamber sat the rabbi Last Line: "and forgets its olden sorrows." Subject(s): Friendship; Jews; Knights & Knighthood; Judaism THE SHRIVING OF GUINEVERE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still she stood in the shunning crowd Last Line: The noise of wings departing thence. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love; Women - Heroes THE SILVER WAIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: When russet wagons left the lammas field Last Line: An angel walking by a silver wain. Subject(s): Fields; Knights & Knighthood; Plowing & Plowmen; Silver; Wagons; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 17, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now when sir eliduc learnt how it fared Last Line: From that begirt and venerable king. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 19, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So bode his hour, and soon the chance he sought Last Line: Whose glittering plumes the sun of may bedights. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 20, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To the hoar king thus counsell'd eliduc Last Line: And battle shall he have both stark and grim!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 22, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Defeat a brave man will not contemplate Last Line: Urged host on host god's coinage to debase. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Swords THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 23, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now happen'd it as eliduc foresaw Last Line: Yet higher still the next its storm-crests threw! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 24, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Hard put was eliduc to hold in check Last Line: His voice rang out above the battle's roar. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; War THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 25, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Surprised, out-flank'd by this new-breathed force Last Line: Than the soft clash and chime of closing swords! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Swords THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 26, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sir eliduc's bright blade is at his throat Last Line: To dwell with those lost souls in battle slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 27, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thus eliduc won honour of the king Last Line: Who in her cause had won undying fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Victory THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 28, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And maiden pique and womanly constraint Last Line: Who had relieved her from that ruthless hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Knights & Knighthood; Heroes; Heroines THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 29, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So, pleading interest in the prince's death Last Line: Lest he her blithe expectancy outpaced. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Faith; Knights & Knighthood; Belief; Creed THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 3, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In brittany there lived a stainless knight Last Line: In peace his counsel more and more prevail'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 31, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: With fluttering heart she hears his courser's tread Last Line: No more thy peace shall be at thy command! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Cultural Differences THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The knight hath ta'en her stilly hand in his Last Line: On silken couch she stays her trembling knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 39, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And thus to her the sage old counsellor Last Line: Your queenly heart make ready for the king.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 4, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So, meriting a higher confidence Last Line: Enforced the feudal vows each should fulfil. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 42, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What of his knighthood, and his knightly vow? Last Line: Now to a pale and crescent moon gives place. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 47, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His fiery destrier now champing stands Last Line: Now to each glossy flank the spur is press'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 53, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, welladay! They met on many an eve Last Line: What richer could the glowing heavens bestow? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 55, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But swift upon their dream came winged fate Last Line: Pressingly to take ship across the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 56, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Forthwith resolved, he sought the king, her sire Last Line: My homage bids me carry hence my sword.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 57, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: As clouds that gather on the mountain's brow Last Line: Fair guillardun, his bitter news to break. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Friendship; Knights & Knighthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 58, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sir eliduc hath ta'en the maid aside Last Line: Against his breast her burden'd plaint did pour— Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 61, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I may not take you with me, heartes dear Last Line: And seal'd him hers with one long deathless kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Separation; Isolation THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 65, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Twixt scylla and charybdis now of fate Last Line: What pity won gave love but one tear less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 76, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sorely the knight chastised their cowardice Last Line: And with the knowledge her white soul had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 77, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Still masterful, the unruly helm he seized Last Line: Then leaping, landward his pale burden bore. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Sea Voyages THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 79, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And where that hoar recluse was wont to pray Last Line: In utter desolation did he call. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 8, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then, gathering round him zealous knights and true Last Line: Nor bend to fate's untowardly decrees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Vengeance THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 87, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So, ere the first pale flush of day appear'd Last Line: Beauty than marble lovelier and more chill! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 95, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The mists disperse, and lo! Before their eyes Last Line: Proclaim another day of task and strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; War THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 96, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Where kneels the knight, absorbed in silent prayer Last Line: Lo! Yearning toward him leans his lily-maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Old Age THE SONG OF COURTESY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sir gawain was led to his bridal-bed Last Line: Beautiful by courtesy! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Mythology; Arthur, King THE SWAN-WOMAN; A LEGEND OF THE TYROL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told this story once to kaiser max Last Line: And in her bosom white a cross-bow bolt. Subject(s): Comedy; Courtship; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Unrequited THE THREE KNIGHTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here come three knights Last Line: Shall I behold my daughter jane! Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE TRANCE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lulled by la belle dame sans merci he lies Variant Title(s): The Enchanted Knight Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE VIGIL OF ARMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sounding step was heard by night Last Line: "might aid me at the last." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood THE WANDERING PILGRIM, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will piggot must to coxwould go Last Line: Thus william's wishes crown. Subject(s): Fortune; Knights & Knighthood; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Truth THE WATER NYMPHS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waves were plashing against the lone strand Last Line: Continue their loving kisses. Subject(s): Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Moon; Nymphs THE WIFE OF BATH HER TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of old, when arthur filled the throne Last Line: Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Wife Of Bath Her Tale Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Rape; Women; Arthur, King; Allegories THE WILD RIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses Last Line: Thou leadest, o god! All's well with thy troopers that follow! Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Life THE WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a knight once rode from out the sun Last Line: Or came unto the marsh, I never knew. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Forests; Knights & Knighthood; Nightmares; Woods THE WOUNDED KNIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a story of anguish Last Line: Accusing bosom must turn. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Suicide; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THEODORE AND HONORIA, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the cities in romanian lands Last Line: For one fair female, lost him half the kind. Variant Title(s): Ravenna Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Nature; Romania; Allegories; Rumania; Roumania TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD. THE AUTHOR THAN FORTY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lords, knights, and squires, the num'rous band Last Line: When she begins to comprehend it. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Letters; Writing & Writers TO A VICTORIAN KNIGHT, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, not for quest of grail nor trophied shield Last Line: To appraise their worth who shape the world anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Swords TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 2. THE QUEEN'S PLEASANCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night arose the second day Last Line: And all the sea lay subject to the sun. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Morning; Sea; Sun; Ocean TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 2. THE KNIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knight rides forth in blackest mail Last Line: And singing? Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Thoma, Hans (1839-1924) |
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