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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NAPOLEON I (1769-1821) Matches Found: 118 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FOREIGN RULER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says, my reign is peace, so slays Last Line: Invades, and drowns them all in tears. Subject(s): Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; Liberty A NIGHT AT ST. HELENA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wants three hours to midnight. Do you hear Last Line: Ninette, ninette, remember the old guard. Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821) A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 1. 1887, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From clee to heaven the beacon burns Last Line: And god will save the queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) A ST. HELENA LULLABY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How far is st. Helena from a little child at play? Last Line: And after all your trapesings, child, lie still! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) ADVICE TO A RAVEN IN RUSSIA, by JOEL BARLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black fool, why winter here? These frozen skies Last Line: Dash him to dust, and let the world repose. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War AFTER THE AMERICAN REBELLION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow lies thick on valley forge Last Line: Bright as the blood they shed Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) AN ISLAND (SAINT HELENA, 1821), by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it away, and swallow it yourself Last Line: God, what a way to die! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) AN ODE ON NAPOLEON; FRAGMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erhung with yew, midway the muses mount Last Line: Usurping power his hands in blood imbrues --' Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) AT ST. HELENA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night encamps around thee. From afar Last Line: Of ocean kindled at the dream of pride? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) AT THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON BEFORE THE ELECTIONS IN AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame Last Line: Know not what greatness is and never can. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) BATTLE OF THE BALTIC, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of nelson and the north / sing the glorious day's reknown Last Line: Of the brave! Variant Title(s): The Battle Of Copenhagen Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Sea Battles; War; Naval Warfare BETRAND AND GOURGAUD TALK OVER OLD TIMES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gourgaud, these tears are tears - but look, this laugh Last Line: Drink to me, clasp my hand, embrace me, friend. Subject(s): France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) BONAPARTISME, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon on st. Helena Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Writing & Writers BONAPARTISME, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon on st. Helena Last Line: If they are mine or another's Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Writing And Writers BONEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Boney was a warrior Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) BUONAPARTE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grieved for buonaparte, with a vain Last Line: True power doth grow on; and her rights are these. Variant Title(s): 1801;i Grieved For Buonaparte Subject(s): Government; Napoleon I (1769-1821) CAMPAIGN: A POEM TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, o my muse, what numbers wilt thou find Last Line: Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) CANTO 34, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oils, beasts, grasses, petrifaction, birds, incrustations Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War CHIMERAS OF SAINT HELENA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One one of his last days (speaking quite seriously) he explained to his Last Line: But we know that before thebes and oedipus the gods already knew how to create sacred monsters Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America CROWNED AND BURIED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon! Years ago, and that great word Last Line: Be worthier, I discern not: angels may. Variant Title(s): Napoleon's Return Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DREAM, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a dale, immovable and choking Last Line: And all his blood became congealed and stale Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIFTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last villeneuve accepts the sea and fate Last Line: And fiercely the predestined plot proceeds Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark now, and gather how the martial mood Last Line: Affection ever was illogical Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, yes, I grasp your reasons, mr. Pitt Last Line: He's staunch. He's watching, or I am much deceived Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our migratory proskenion now presents Last Line: And if he's not, why, we've a holiday! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers, the hordes of muscovy now face you Last Line: A gauze of shadow overdraws Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur the admiral decres Last Line: If time's weird threads to weave! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. FORE SCENE. THE OVERWORLD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of the immanent will and its designs? Last Line: We may but muse on, never learn Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIFTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon even now embraces not Last Line: Over the scene they disappear Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another stranger presses to see you, sir Last Line: And peoples are enmeshed in new calamity! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether the rain comes in or not Last Line: Whether ye sigh their sighs with them or no! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life-guards still insist, love, that the king Last Line: Will light me in Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird's eye perspective is revealed of the peninsular trace Last Line: A painless hand Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now he's one of the eighty-first Last Line: The night closes over Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The portent is an ill one, emperor Last Line: The woes of moscow Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The view is from a vague altitude over the beautiful country Last Line: The opera house becomes lost in darkness Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This grateful rest of four-and-twenty hours Last Line: To leipzig city, and await the blow Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT SEVENTH. THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aerial view of the battlefield at the time of sunrise Last Line: Because it must Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground Last Line: From to-morrow's mist-fall till time is sped Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo DYNASTS: 3. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come; and learn as time's disordered deaf sands run Last Line: The dawn must find us fording the nivelle! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. AFTER SCENE. THE OVERWORLD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus doth the great foresightless mechanize Last Line: Concious the will informing, till it fashion all things fair Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) ELBA, by GERRIT KOUWENAAR Poem Source First Line: I wear a warning bloodcoat Last Line: And st. Helena comes later Subject(s): Cobra Artists; Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821) EVENTS, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of egypt yawned and frowned Last Line: Still as a sea-rock, sat a toad. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Tristram And Isolde EXPIATION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain! Last Line: He heard a voice replying to him: no! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Waterloo FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan Last Line: And bloody faith the foulest birth of time. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) FRANCE, 1870, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We look for her that sunlike stood Last Line: And bleeding head us thro' the troubles of the sea. Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Napoleon I (1769-1821) FROM MUCK TO MUCKISH, by JANICE FITZPATRICK-SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Fossil rock from the sligo coast, spanish bowls Last Line: And what we drive toward willingly now Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) FROM THE FRENCH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must thou go, my glorious chief Last Line: His fall, his exile, and his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON I, by J. H. HAGARTY Poem Source First Line: Cold and brilliant streams the sunlight on the wintry banks of seine Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) GRENADIERS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To france were returning two grenadiers Last Line: The emperor, the emperor defending!' Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) HOHENLINDEN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On linden, when the sun was low Last Line: Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. Variant Title(s): The Battle Of Hohenlinden Subject(s): Hohenlinden, Battle Of; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War HUMBOLDT'S BIRTHDAY; CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the warning chimes of midnight sound Last Line: "hero of knowledge, be our tribute thine!" Subject(s): Humboldt, Alexander Von (1769-1859); Napoleon I (1769-1821) IF I TOLD HIM, A COMPLETE PORTRAIT OF PICASSO, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I told him would he like it. Would he like it if I told him. Subject(s): Portraits; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Language; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Words; Vocabulary IMPRESSION: 1 ('WHEN IT WAS DARK'), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Of stature short. Napoleon-like in brow Last Line: Mirrored, in equal measure, the unwise and kind. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) IMPRESSION: 2, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Domestic tyrant. Dominating all Last Line: "bluffed to the end—inscribed ""invictus"" on his grave!" Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Tyranny & Tyrants INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know we french stormed ratisbon Last Line: Smiling, the boy fell dead. Variant Title(s): Ratisbon;an Incident At Ratisbon Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Napoleonic Wars; Ratisbon [regensburg], Germany INSPIRATION, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say what we will, at times it seems the rarest Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) LAST WORDS: NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it this , then, o world-warrior Last Line: Who serves her truly, sometimes saves the state.' Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); Wellington, Duke Of LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Alive and so bold, o earth? Last Line: Shrouds me, the hopes that from his glory fled.' Variant Title(s): Napoleon Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) MEN WHO MARCH AWAY (2), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We be the king's men, hale and hearty Last Line: Right fol-lol! Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPEOLON'S FAREWELL; FROM THE FRENCH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to the land where the gloom of my glory Last Line: Then turn thee and call on the chief of thy choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: For france and liberty he set apart Last Line: On a lone island 'mid the atlantic waves. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France NAPOLEON, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the world, o soldiers? Last Line: Is I.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War NAPOLEON, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Angel or demon! Thou - whether of light Last Line: More! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cannon his name, / cannon his voice, he came Last Line: Hull down, with masts against the western hues. Subject(s): France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Napoleonic Wars NAPOLEON, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His glance was fixed on power alone Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON, by MIKE TYLER Poem Source First Line: Everybody thinks they're napoleon Last Line: I think I am scorched earth Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Self NAPOLEON AFTER WATERLOO, by JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE Poem Text First Line: Still mightst thou reign, if such had been thy will Last Line: The tyrand falls or dies.--she knows no sepulchre. Alternate Author Name(s): Delavigne, Casimir Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON AND THE BRITISH [OR ENGLISH] SAILOR [BOY], by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love contemplating, apart Last Line: Of bonaparte. Variant Title(s): Soldier And Sailor Subject(s): France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON AND THE SAILOR, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon's banners at boulogne Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON AT GOTHA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walk amid the currents of actions left undone Last Line: "god's purposes were grander: he thrust me from his way!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON AT HELENA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who shall write thine epitaph? Thou man Last Line: "o'er unforgiven injuries, answer'd -- ""none." Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON AT REST, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His falchion flashed along the nile Last Line: The cloud's deep voice, the wind's low sigh. Variant Title(s): The Exile At Rest Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON'S LAST VICTORY, by GEOFFREY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: In the keen wild days when france swept clean Last Line: Napoleon entered in. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Oxford University NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, accept the box a hero wore Last Line: Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Snuff (tobacco); Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON'S TOMB, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the great doors, where paris flowed. Last Line: Beneath the silent, cold, anonymous stars. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France ODE FROM THE FRENCH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We do not curse thee, waterloo! Last Line: Crimson tears will follow yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) ODE INSCRIBED TO W.H. CHANNING, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though loath to grieve / the evil time's sole patriot Last Line: The astonished muse finds thousands at her side. Subject(s): Channing, William Henry (1810-1884); Napoleon I (1769-1821); Social Protest ODE ON THE DELIVERANCE OF EUROPE, 1814, by JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour of blood is past Last Line: The hope-abandon'd chief of elba's lonely isle. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) ODE TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis done -- but yesterday a king! Last Line: To make man blush there was but one! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Napoleon Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) ODE, WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BONAPARTE, IN JANUARY, 1814, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who counsels peace at this momentous hour Last Line: Take vengeance for thyself, and for mankind! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) ON NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once fairly set out on his party of pleasure Last Line: Making balls for the ladies, and bows to his foes. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Escapes; Fugitives ON THE MATERIALS NECESSARY FOR HIS 'LIFE OF NAPOLEON', by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When with poetry dealing Last Line: Ere I grapple, god bless me! With emperor nap. Subject(s): Biography; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Biographers SONNET: BUONAPARTE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought to quell the stubborn hearts of oak Last Line: Perforce, like those whom gideon school'd with briers. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) ST. HELENA, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: On a volcano whose dark throat doth dash Last Line: Lowers the great napoleon to the grave. Subject(s): Exiles; Napoleon I (1769-1821) SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town Last Line: Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything. %o europe! O ton of honey! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821) SYMON AND JANET, by ANDREW SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Surrounded wi' bent and wi' heather Last Line: Gaed bannin' the french again hame. Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE AGE OF BRONZE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 'good old times' - all times when old age good Last Line: This first, you'll have, perhaps, a second 'carmen.' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737) THE APOCRYPHA OF JACQUES DERRIDA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ruptured underbelly of a black horse flew overhead Last Line: Moving over snow. Subject(s): Animals; Derrida, Jacques (1930-2001); Horses; Loss; Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "by the margin of the ocean, one morning in the month of june" Last Line: The deeds of old napoleon we sing the bonny bunch of roses o Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821);nova Scotia THE BRIDGE OF LODI, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When of tender mind and body Last Line: Guesses why and what I sing! Subject(s): Bridges; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War THE BRONZE STATUE OF NAPOLEON, by AUGUSTE BARBIER Poem Text First Line: The work is done! The spent flame burns no more Last Line: And bear upon their backs the stones! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Statues; War THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Half a league, half a league, / half a league onward Last Line: Noble six hundred! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Cavalry; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Duty; Heroism; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Russia; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Soviet Union; Russians THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild was the night; yet a wilder night Last Line: "and left him alone with his glory." Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE DISINTERMENT, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lost lord of song - who grandly gave Last Line: Napoleon's only monument! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE DRUM, by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) Poem Text First Line: I hate that drum's discordant sound Last Line: To fill the catalogue of human woes. Variant Title(s): Ode On Hearing The Drum;report On The Foregoing Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Drums; Musical Instruments; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War; Anti-war Protests THE DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo; Scientists; Battle Of Waterloo THE EVENING OF THE PYRAMIDS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A summer night in the desert is as welcome Last Line: There was a dark room and an empty coffer for a king. Subject(s): Egypt; Mortality; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pyramids THE FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All nature is stiff in the chill of the air Last Line: Mid the people he loved, on the banks of the seine. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Funerals; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Burials THE GRAVE OF BONAPARTE, by LEONARD HEATH Poem Text First Line: On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows Last Line: No sound can awake thee to glory again! Subject(s): Graves; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Peace; Tombs; Tombstones THE LIST OF FAMOUS HATS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat Subject(s): Hats; Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE MARCH TO MOSCOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor nap he would set off Last Line: As there was on the road from moscow. Subject(s): Moscow; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE PASSING OF THE EMPEROR, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: The children romped in the village street Last Line: On the road to waterloo. Subject(s): Children; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Waterloo; Childhood; Battle Of Waterloo THE RETURN OF NAPOLEON FROM ST. HELENA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! City of the gay! Last Line: And what thy god's to thee? Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Paris, France THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light Last Line: Brave. Variant Title(s): Final Curtain;defence Of Fort Mchenry Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fort Mchenry, Battle Of (1814); Fourth Of July; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); National Song - United States; Patriotism; United States; War Of 1812; American Flag; Independence Day; Liberty; American National Anthem; America THE SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Beekeeping; Bugs THE ULTIMATE (1), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the head of a man lies under the sod Last Line: Like mice have scuttled back into the air. Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Rome, Italy; Trees; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE YEAR 1812, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Year well remembered! Happy who beheld thee! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War THOUGHT OF A BRITON ON THE SUBJUGATION OF SWITZERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two voices are there; one is of the sea Last Line: And neither awful voice be heard by thee! Variant Title(s): Switzerland;on The Subjugation Of Switzerland;england And Switzerland, 1802 Subject(s): England; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Switzerland; English; Liberty; Swiss TO ANDREW CROSSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Altho' with earth and heaven you deal Last Line: Philosophers can envy too. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Poetry & Poets; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO B.R. HAYDEN (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haydon! Let worthier judges praise the skill Last Line: And before 'him' doth dawn perpetual run. Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846); Napoleon I (1769-1821) TO THE PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON, AS FIRST CONSUL, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brilliant as lucifer, son of the morning Last Line: Beautiful gem of the larian shore. Subject(s): History; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Portraits; Stars; Time; Historians TWO NIGHTS (SUGGESTED BY LIVES OF NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night was full of rapture and delight Last Line: And the long night of sorrow wore away. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Josephine De Beauharnais; Empress; Napoleon I (1769-1821) YE SONS OF COLUMBIA, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN Poem Text First Line: Ye sons of columbia, unite in the cause Last Line: Till the continent sinks, and the ocean is dry! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); United States - History YEAR 1812, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Year well remembered! Happy who beheld thee! Last Line: That promised corn but ripened into men Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); War |
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