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| Searching... Subject: OXFORD UNIVERSITY Matches Found: 142 A DIALOGUE ON ETHICS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the isis to the cherwell in a tone of indignation Last Line: And of man -- at least in summer,' said the easy-going cher. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Morality; Oxford University; Ethics A FISH OUT OF WATER; AN ALLEGORY OF EDUCATION, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a herring long ago Last Line: Slipped through a grating and was drowned. Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Herring; Oxford University A GARLAND (SCHOL. HIST. MOD.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gin a villein meet a villein Last Line: Above the court of common pleas. Subject(s): Oxford University; Scholarship & Scholars A GIRL'S SONG ON HER LOVER, PAIDIN RUADH, by CHARLES BEWLEY Poem Text First Line: The leitrim lads can strike the ball Last Line: Before the priest on easter-day. Subject(s): Oxford University A RHYME, by J. A. DAWE Poem Text First Line: I have seen great beauty Last Line: To let me die, to let me die. Subject(s): Beauty; Oxford University A SONG OF THE HILLS AND MY FRIEND, by GEOFFREY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: There are two things I long for Last Line: Perhaps. I pray him so. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Mountains; Oxford University; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A SONG OF THE LITTLE CITY, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Text First Line: At intervals of tunes Last Line: The little city's king. Subject(s): Oxford University; Towns A SONG OF THE SCHOOLS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I see those sculptured three, above the new schools' gate Last Line: I'll sign myself r. Snooks, b. A., ex aul. Magistri charsley. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University A SONG OF THREE NIGHTS, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You left a kiss upon my mouth Last Line: To burn upon my bed, alone! Subject(s): Oxford University A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rhone and rhine they run so free Last Line: My mortal part in hampton gay! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Cities; Oxford University; Urban Life ABSOLUTE AND ABITOFHELL, by RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In former times, when israel's ancient creed Last Line: To puff your sales, and help another cruise. Subject(s): Oxford University AD LECTIONEM SUAM, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn's winds denude the grove Last Line: Again!' Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University ADVICE TO SCHOLARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The honour school of jurisprudence Last Line: Masters the secret of the fates Subject(s): Oxford University;scholarship & Scholars ALMA MATER, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know you her secret none can utter? Last Line: Touch you, a passer-by. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Oxford University ALMAE MATRES (ST. ANDREWS, 1862; OXFORD, 1865), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Andrews by the northern sea Last Line: That is a haunted town to me! Subject(s): Oxford University; Schools; St. Andrews University (scotland); Youth; Students AN EPIGRAM, by G. N. CLARK Poem Text First Line: Dear fool philosophy, the lady laughter saith Last Line: "come, write a pretty epitaph for faith." Subject(s): Oxford University AN ODE ADDRESSED TO MR. JOHN ROUSE, LIBRARIAN ..., by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My two-fold book! Single in show Last Line: I merit, shall with candour weigh the claim. Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians; Oxford University; Rouse, John (17th Century) AN OXFORD IDYLL, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah little mill, you're rumbling still Last Line: Are twenty-two for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Oxford University; Youth AT A FAIR, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE Poem Text First Line: There in the quivering, golden light of the sun Last Line: To know true love for a little before they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H. Subject(s): Festivals; Oxford University; Fairs; Pageants BALLADE OF THE TEMPTING BOOK, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Sometimes when I sit down at night Last Line: "the oxford book of english verse." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Reading BALLIOL RHYME (1), by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First come I; my name is jowett. %there's no knowledge but I know it Last Line: I am master of this college: %what I don't know isn't knowledge Subject(s): Jowett, Benjamin (1817-1893); Oxford University BALLIOL RHYME (2), by CECIL SPRING-RICE Poem Source First Line: I am the dean of christ church, sir: %there's my wife; look well at her Last Line: She's the broad and I'm the high; %we are the university Subject(s): Oxford University BALLIOL RHYME (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am tall and rather stately, %and I care not very greatly Last Line: What you say, or what you do. %I'm mackail, - and who are you? Subject(s): Mackail, John William (1859-1945); Oxford University BLUES, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bard selects a subject which is suitable to sing Last Line: Is to court the approbation and indulgence of a blue! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University BOAR'S HAD SONG, THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The boares head in hand bear I Last Line: Which on this day to be served is %in reginensi atrio Subject(s): Oxford University CHRIST CHURCH MEADOWS, OXFORD, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often I saw, as on my balcony Subject(s): Oxford University; Students, Foreign CHRIST CHURCH MEADOWS, OXFORD, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often I saw, as on my balcony Last Line: Who cast her, as I told them, on the waters Subject(s): Oxford University; Students, Foreign COMING DOWN FROM OXFORD, by ROBERT SARGENT Poem Source First Line: A young man, having finished college days Last Line: To the churched and storied place of christopher wren, %good old london town Subject(s): Oxford University; Universities & Colleges CONTRAST, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE Poem Text First Line: Down the street, in a crowd Last Line: For this man with the heart of a boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H. Subject(s): Oxford University CUCKOO SONG (FROM THE PERSIAN), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sumurun's a coming in Last Line: Loudly sing, cuckoo! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Oxford University DOLLARES; OUR LADY OF THE WHEAT-CORNER (AFTER A.C.S.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy white shafts and the golden Last Line: Our lady of gain. Subject(s): Materialism; Oxford University; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); United States; America DRAMATIC PROLOGUE FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PLAYERS, by GEORGE NATHANIEL CURZON Poem Source First Line: O, gentle audience, don and undergraduate Last Line: But bid the bride as now the curtain rises %loud welcome to a home beside this isis Subject(s): Oxford University DREAM - COTSWOLD, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Text First Line: Thy little dreaming towns life passes by Last Line: Where the trees have emerald leaves and the streets are gold. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Oxford University; Towns EPIGRAM ON GEORGE I'S GIFT OF BOOKS TO CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN TRAPP Poem Text First Line: King george observing, with judicious eyes Last Line: How much that loyal body wanted learning. Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading EPIGRAM: A WALK IN SURREY, by G. N. CLARK Poem Text First Line: You see no great adventure in the tale Last Line: And every pot of beer a holy grail. Subject(s): Oxford University; Surrey, England EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No poor dutch peasant, winged with all his fear Last Line: We'll boldly back, and say their price is rais'd. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At The Acting Of The 'silent Woman' Subject(s): England; Fear; France; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; War; English; Dramatists EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft has our poet wisht [wished], this happy seat Last Line: Judges so just, so knowing, and so kind. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At Oxford By Mrs. Marshall Subject(s): Muses; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets FLOOD BURIAL, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great arcs spluttered and shifted blue to orange Last Line: "and the cruel god we will tread under our feet." Subject(s): Oxford University FRAGMENT (FROM THE ELIZABETHANS), by W. BRIDGES-ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Paracelsus (entering hurriedly) Last Line: [exit, pursued by a cow.] Subject(s): Oxford University G. W. L. T., by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the unionist party was pining Last Line: Will do just as well Subject(s): Oxford University;politics; Politicians;political Poetry GANYMEDE, by JOHN SPENCER MUIRHEAD Poem Text First Line: From lowland valleys came ganymede Last Line: Blinded, old, and maim. Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Oxford University HENDECASYLLABLES, by D. M. LOW Poem Text First Line: Come children, come away, to where the tawny Last Line: Playing, dancing away the careless evening. Subject(s): Children; Oxford University; Seashore; Childhood; Beach; Coast; Shore HOTEL, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great bestial bulk of it looms into the night Last Line: Till one night lady death fingers the cups ere dawn? Subject(s): Hotels; Oxford University; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses HYSSOP, by MICHAEL T. H. SADLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I built a house of crazy rods Last Line: Of tears for things that might have been. Subject(s): Oxford University I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You shall hear o' sundays now the wind all a quiver Last Line: Stronger, having looked on strength; wiser, having heard. Subject(s): Oxford University IN MARY'S MONTH; TO MY YOUNGER SISTER ON HER BIRTHDAY, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: In mary's month, in mary's month Last Line: As first sweets of the spring. Subject(s): Birthdays; Oxford University; Sisters IN MEMORIAM EXAMINATORIS CUIUSDAM, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, where yon undistinguished grave Last Line: Save b -- (?). Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Examinations; Oxford University INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT OPPOSITE BALLIOL GATEWAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here latimer and ridley in the flames Last Line: And let the future expiate the past. Subject(s): Innocence; Latimer, Hugh (1485-1555); Oxford University; Ridley, Nicholas (1503-1555); Truth LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In every tower, that oxford has, is swung Last Line: And unpersuaded drop the paper down. Subject(s): Education; Letters; Nature; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Spring; Writing & Writers; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] LINES ON A MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I knew geography - for that would tell me why Last Line: From new south wales to paddington the shortest way's the high. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University LISTEN MR. OXFORD DON, by JOHN AGARD Poem Source First Line: Me not no oxford don Last Line: I making de queen's english accessory/to my offence Subject(s): English Language; Immigrants; Oxford University LYRIC, by P. H. B. LYON Poem Text First Line: Leave the moon her white amazing Last Line: God's divinest creature. Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B. Subject(s): Oxford University MALLARD SONG FOR ALL SOULS' NIGHT; ALL SOULS COLLEGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The griffine, bustard, turkey, and capon Last Line: Hough the bloud of king edward, by the bloud of king edward,%it was a swapping swapping mallard Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Oxford University MARGARETAE ABITURAE, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Dearest, when no more we tread Last Line: And your bars dissolve away! Subject(s): Farewell; Oxford University; Parting MEDITATIO DE POSTGATIO, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you ask me why inside Last Line: Postgate has commended me.... Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University; Praise MEDITATION, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diving within myself, I found Last Line: But fell, and vanished into sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677); Reading MEGALOMANIA, BY A FOURTH YEAR MAN (AFTER MILTON), by RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, vain committee meetings Last Line: And I will get a_______in greats. Subject(s): Oxford University MUD, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had missed my mates at drinking by the little inn o' the ship Last Line: From deadly things and hungry things that loiter about the sea. Subject(s): Oxford University 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 NEWS, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: They came, you know, and told me you were dead Last Line: I missed the one beyond laburnum-tree. Subject(s): Death; Oxford University; Dead, The ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ORIEL COLLEGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye antique walls, ye portals old Last Line: Beside the waves of cam! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University; Rhodes, Cecil (1853-1902); Scholarship & Scholars ON OXFORD, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gothic looks solemn Last Line: Then each on a leg or thigh fastens. Variant Title(s): Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford Subject(s): Oxford University ON THE HON. GEORGE NATHANIEL CURZON, COMMONER OF BALLIOL, by JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My name is george nathaniel curzon, %I am a most superior person Last Line: My face is pink, my hair is sleek, %I dine at blenheim once a week Subject(s): Curzon, George, Baron (1859-1925); Oxford University ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could homer come himself, distressed and poor Last Line: "begone! No tramper gets a farthing here!" Subject(s): Hate; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey OVER THE LAKE, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Over the lake is fairyland Last Line: And amethyst. Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came to oxford in the light Last Line: Their golden oxford afternoon. Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over, the four long years! And now there rings Last Line: And those high places, that are beauty's home. Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rake up the fire: the bells that keep Last Line: The morning trembles on the floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD (MAY 30, 1820), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sacred nurseries of blooming youth! Last Line: An eager novice robed in fluttering gown! Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD (MAY 30, 1820) (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shame on this faithless heart! That could allow Last Line: Of these illusions, or they please no more. Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the tow-path past the barges Last Line: You who have fought and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War OXFORD REVISITED IN WAR TIME, by TERTIUS VAN DYKE Poem Text First Line: Beneath fair magdalen's storied towers Last Line: And her heart is free and bold. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War OXFORD SONG FOR AN AMATEUR DRAMATIC BANQUET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The boare is dead! Last Line: Stand for pigg, goose, and custard, %and so ye are welcome all Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The emperors' heads around the sheldonian Last Line: Old england's sky of hurrying gray stones Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The emperors' heads around the sheldonian Last Line: Old england's sky of hurrying gray stones Subject(s): Oxford University OXFORD: A SPRING DAY, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The air shines with a mild magnificence Last Line: Slim spires, hope-coloured fields: these belong to no date Subject(s): Oxford University PARENT'S PRAYER TO THE PROCTORS, OXFORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O proctors, shut the gates at ten Last Line: O close the college gates at ten %to close the gates of hell Subject(s): Oxford University PINDARIC ODE: TO THE UNVERSITY LIBRARY AT OXFORD, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail learning's pantheon! Hail, the sacred ark Last Line: As the best blood of man's employ'd in generation. Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians POEM ABOUT OXFORD, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: City we shared without knowing Subject(s): Oxford University POEM ABOUT OXFORD, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: City we shared without knowing Last Line: It holds us, like that fleae we read about %in the depths of the second world war Subject(s): Oxford University PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What greece, when learning flourished, only knew Last Line: But 'tis your suffrage makes authentique wit. Subject(s): Greece; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Greeks; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poets, your subjects, have their parts assigned Last Line: As what should be beyond what is, extends. Subject(s): Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1680, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thespis, the first professor of our art Last Line: But who disturb'd both bishop and a crown. Variant Title(s): Prologue To Sophonisba;the Prologue At Oxford, 1680 Subject(s): Art & Artists; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (1), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The famed italian muse, whose rhymes advance Last Line: Is forced to turn his satire into praise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muses; Oxford University; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (2), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Discord and plots, which have undone our age Last Line: Oxford's a place where wit can never sterve. Subject(s): England; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; English; Dramatists PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (3), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though actors cannot much of learning boast Last Line: Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, %he chooses athens in his riper age Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Oxford University REINCARNATION, by J. R. I. BROOKE Poem Text First Line: They only saw that he was dying Last Line: Men fear their mother, fear to die. Subject(s): Death; Oxford University; Dead, The RESPITE, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: When we had met within the fields of pain Last Line: "the sword for me,"" I said." Subject(s): Oxford University RETROSPECT, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: One love, till time took it from sight Last Line: Came with the coming in of night. Subject(s): Oxford University ROMANCERO (FROM THE SPANISH); A STUDY IN LOCAL COLOUR, by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fair chandeliero, cascara sagrada Last Line: Ohe! Subject(s): Oxford University; Spain RUBAIYYAT OF MODERATIONS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake! For the nightingale upon the bough Last Line: And thank your stars that there 's an end of it. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University SCHOOL-DAYS, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: I think that, even as then, there must be hours Last Line: The silent air swoons into an august night. Subject(s): Oxford University; Rugby, England; Schools; Students SIC TRANSIT...., by MICHAEL T. H. SADLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is closing in with rain Last Line: To mourn the death of mantua. Subject(s): Oxford University SLOANE SQUARE-; RAIN, by MICHAEL T. H. SADLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the steps of the theatre Last Line: The river lies dreaming. Subject(s): Oxford University; Sloane Square, London SONNET, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Well might john keats have wandered up and down Last Line: To think too closely is to banish him. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets SONNET TO OXFORD, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oxford, since late I left thy peaceful shore Last Line: Thy gentle charms a tenfold power to please. Subject(s): Oxford University SONNET: 15. AT OXFORD, 1786, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bereave me not of fancy's shadowy dreams Subject(s): Oxford University SONNET: ON HAVING DINED AT TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October's flood had all deform'd the lea Alternate Author Name(s): Bamfylde, John Subject(s): Oxford University SPRING SONG, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE Poem Text First Line: Autumn songs in the spring? Last Line: Off with old's on with new. Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H. Subject(s): Oxford University; Seasons ST. FRIDESWIDE'S CHAPEL CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: In this ancient place Last Line: Like a glass window, %like an eye moving behind clouds Subject(s): Churches; Oxford University; Religion SUBALTERNS: A SONG OF OXFORD, by MILDRED HUXLEY Poem Text First Line: They had so much to lose; their radiant laughter Last Line: And find the grail ev'n in the fire of hell. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain SUMMER AND WINTER, by MAURICE ROY RIDLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll rest among hot summer scents Last Line: Of an old folio. Subject(s): Oxford University THE ABIDING BURG (DEDICATION: TO THE SMALL TOWNS OF CHRISTENDOM), by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Text First Line: There lived a man before the altar - flame Last Line: Resting eternally his travelling feet. Subject(s): Christianity; Oxford University; Towns THE BALLAD OF MY FRIEND, by J. D. BEAZLEY Poem Text First Line: There was a man of my country Last Line: Pillowed on gold, ten fathoms deep. Subject(s): Oxford University THE CHAINED CRUSADER, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Text First Line: Between the joustings and the wine Last Line: Dear seed-plots of the rose of heaven. Subject(s): Crusades; Oxford University THE COMING (CHANSON CORSE), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In seventeen hundred and eighty-nine Last Line: "a gunner has travelled, a king to be." Subject(s): France; Oxford University THE CRIMSON BOX, by ROGER HEATH Poem Text First Line: I looked and saw the sun go down upon the western sea Last Line: This was the crimson sun that sunk, and he shall rise again. Subject(s): Oxford University THE FAMILIAR, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mannikin with the tail Last Line: By the new grave to-morrow night. Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W. Subject(s): Oxford University THE FIGHT OVER THE NEWMAN STATUE IN OXFORD, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is bigotry the order of the day? Last Line: One universal faith! One hope! One heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Oxford University; Religious Discrimination; Statues; Religious Conflict THE FRONTIER, by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guns o' position is long and lean Last Line: Than a gunner with guns to lay. Subject(s): France; Oxford University; World War I; First World War THE INFANT SCHOLAR, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a college tutor who resided by the cam Last Line: That I tell you of the tutor and the infant in a pram. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University THE MEGALOPSYCHIAD, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great and good is the typical don, and of evil and wrong the foe Last Line: Behold the large and liberal views of megalopsychus brown!' Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE PROGRESS OF DISCONTENT, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When now, mature in classic knowledge Last Line: And in pursuit alone it pleases. Subject(s): Clergy; Discontent; Life; Oxford University; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dissatisfaction THE RAIDERS' REWARD, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bards of ancient cambria, string your harps anew Last Line: Gave to both the colleges proctors of their own! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE RECORD, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE Poem Text First Line: I have seen, I have seen Last Line: And play with people down below. Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H. Subject(s): Oxford University THE RETURN, by MAURICE ROY RIDLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: South wind over the sea-foam Last Line: Laid him at her feet. Subject(s): Oxford University THE ROAD'S ENOUGH, by SHERARD VINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether to syon or to eldorado Last Line: One more stade before sundown; is't not enough? Subject(s): Oxford University THE SCHOLAR GIPSY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill Last Line: And on the beach undid his corded bales. Subject(s): Gypsies; Hope; Oxford University; Scholarship & Scholars; Gipsies; Optimism THE SPIRES OF OXFORD, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spires of oxford Last Line: Than even oxford town. Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War THE TALENTED MAN, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear alice! You'll laugh when you know it Last Line: He's only a talented man! Variant Title(s): A Letter, From A Lady In London To A Lady At Lausanne Subject(s): Oxford University; Trevelyan, Raleigh (1781-1865) THE VISITOR'S BOOK; HARTLAND QUAY, by RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, echo, shall I find at hartland quay Last Line: Ech. Subject(s): Oxford University THE VISITORS' BOOK; BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER (AFTER LUNCH), by RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The placid windrush running by Last Line: We'll drink all burton out of beer. Subject(s): Oxford University THE WEST COUNTREE, by GEOFFREY DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Now england is a fine countree Last Line: Of the blessed west countree. Subject(s): Devonshire, England; England; Oxford University; English THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still is north hinksey very much the same Last Line: The toiling masses come to try their hand on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Oxford University; Roads; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Paths; Trails TO AN OPTIMIST, by ALEC JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: The dawn was lit with promise of high doing Last Line: These dead-sea fruits of random idleness. Subject(s): Hope; Oxford University; Optimism TO JOHN ROUSE, LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Double book in a single binding Last Line: And catullus admits one at will in the second foot Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Oxford University TO OXFORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New-dated from the terms that reappear Last Line: And undivulged love does overflow. Subject(s): Oxford University TO THE MASTER OF BALLIOL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear master in our classic town Last Line: Stark and dark in his funeral fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Oxford University TO THE OXFORD MEN IN THE WAR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often, on afternoons gray and sombre Last Line: Even the enemy has his share. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain TO THE PRESIDENT OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since now from woodland mist and flooded clay Last Line: Aid better men than I, nor me in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Oxford University TO THE UNION IN NEGLECT, by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gods of the union unrepresentative Last Line: (gully has said it, and gully must know). Subject(s): Debates; Oxford University TURTLE FROM OXFORD, by ALEKSANDER WAT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the eastern sidewalk of magdalen college a small Last Line: The gargoyles of magdalen pursued us with their howling laughter Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander Variant Title(s): Notes To The Books Of The Old Testament; 1 Kings, 1 Subject(s): Oxford University ULYSSES, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: Not yet is all my passion dead Last Line: The old pain and the old surmise. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Oxford University; Ulysses; Odysseus UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, 1970 A.D., by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war is over; waterloo is won: Last Line: That was all. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Future; Oxford University UPON THE CHAIR MADE OUT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S SHIP ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To this great ship, which round the globe has run Last Line: To her in oxford, and to him in heaven. Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians VACATIONAL, by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentlemen lately returned to your colleges Last Line: Sweet are the uses of our university. Subject(s): Oxford University VALE, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Text First Line: In beckley from the high green woods Last Line: As thou hast ever been to me! Subject(s): Oxford University VIRGINIBUS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye somervillian students, ye ladies of st. Hugh's Last Line: The toad beneath a harrow will happier be than you! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University WHIGS AND TORIES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774) Poem Text First Line: The king to oxford sent a troop of horse Last Line: For whigs admit no force but argument. Variant Title(s): Oxford And Cambridge;epigram: The Answer To Trapp's Epigram Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading WINTER IN IRELAND, by CHARLES BEWLEY Poem Text First Line: In winter twilights Last Line: Christ walks again. Subject(s): Ireland; Oxford University; Irish YOUTH'S SECOND - SIGHT, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE Poem Text First Line: They tell me I am over young to know Last Line: Nor faint nor weary till the day is won. Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H. Subject(s): Oxford University; Youth YULETIDE YARNS, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father christmas, fat with gifts Last Line: "should not shine upon a ski." Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. 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