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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ROYALTY Matches Found: 304 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a princely chamber sat Last Line: For him is set for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF TANNHAUSER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hardy, tattered wretch is that Last Line: Tannhäuser and the queen of love. Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Paganism & Pagans; Redemption; Rome, Italy; Shame; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three damsels in the queen's chamber Last Line: Bring us to thy son's eyes. Amen. Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs A DEAD YEAR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took a year out of my life and story Last Line: "and so dost thou." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hearts; Life; Nations; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The A DIRGE CONCERNING THE LATE ... KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT Poem Text First Line: And so our royal relative is dead? Last Line: To write of one who loved his fellow men! Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A. Subject(s): Cannibals; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fame; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Reputation A KING AND NO KING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That prince, who may doe nothing but what's just Last Line: Rules but by leave, and takes his crowne on trust. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A LADY TO A YOUNG COURTIER, by HENRY HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Love thee! Good sooth, not I Last Line: Who can deny such blades a bit! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A MASQUE OF DEAD QUEENS, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Queens parade down avenues of memory Last Line: Remains to be said -- ! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Ghosts; Helen Of Troy; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Supernatural; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A MORNING AFTER MOURNING, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me no longer presse your gentle eies Last Line: Saints triumph, princes wed; and court and country feaste's. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE QUEEN, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou great commandress, that dost move Last Line: The water, earth, and air inspire. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE KING, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look back, old janus, and survey Last Line: In his blest reign the temple door. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A PURIM POEM, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: You know the tale of queen esther Last Line: "the story of esther the ""star." Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; Judaism A QUEEN IN THE SEA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous flood Last Line: With our good boats brave the tempestuous sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A QUEEN'S LAMENT, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: What shall I do with my elaine, edith, alys Last Line: I who dare not tell them how I walked the same way! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Independence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A RIBBON TWO YARDS WIDE....., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wind a thousand soldiers round the king Last Line: To feed the faithful eye with superstition. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Soldiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A VISION OF THE GODS: HALOES, NOT HATS, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: Around the gods, each seated on a throne Last Line: And sparkled in their grand majestic heads. Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A VOTE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the misconst'ring world should chance to say Last Line: Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day. Variant Title(s): A Wish;of Myself Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening; Law & Lawyers; Nature; Teaching & Teachers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Attorneys; Educators; Professors ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark Last Line: Down to the lord of hell. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement AMBOYNA: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet once the spartan's led to fight Last Line: Let caesar live, and carthage be subdu'd! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists AN ADDRESS TO THE PLEBIANS, SELECTION, by JOHN LEARMONT Poem Text First Line: Poor crawlin' bodies, sair neglectit Last Line: An' safest shield. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Graves; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones AN ANCIENT CHESS KING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haply some rajah first in the ages gone Last Line: And murmurs of the dark majestic town. Subject(s): Chess; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN ARGUMENT FOR DAVID'S BELIEF OF A FUTURE STATE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If david knew not of a future life Last Line: Now give as plain an answer thereupon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Future Life; Salvation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR AS IT WAS SUNG BEFORE HIS MAJESTY, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lift up thy hoary head, and rise Last Line: Britannia is a brunswick's care. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Government; Politics & Government; South Sea Islands; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave o my soul this baser world below Last Line: Allelujahs to heavens king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heaven; Life; Soul; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Paradise BAD PRINCES PILL THEIR PEOPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like those infernall deities which eate Last Line: And leave their subjects but the starved ware. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens 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 BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: THE QUEEN AND THE KING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: My master dear, my king, dost thou know how much they love, my Last Line: Weathercocks where the wind pipes all day! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BALLADS OF THE NIGHT: THE LAMENT OF THE KING AND QUEEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: All in the woodland green, sombrely dight, wandered a king and Last Line: "mundane. . . ." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Lament; Love; Night; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime BBC, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Here is the news, and someone is reading it Last Line: Here is grump's grievance, and grump himself growling it. Subject(s): British Broadcasting Company; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; B.b.c.; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness BEAUTIES ECLIPSED, by FRANCIS LENTON Poem Text First Line: Ladies who gild the glittering moon Last Line: Since charles and mary lost their beams. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BEING RETIRED, COMPLAINS AGAINST THE COURT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from court, where after toil we get Last Line: Vanquish'd, I triumph; fighting, peace I find. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Retirement; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BELSHAZZAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight hour was coming on Last Line: Was slain by his servants, -- a ghastly sight. Subject(s): Babylon; Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The BLAME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In battailes what disasters fall Last Line: The king he beares the blame of all. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BLAME THE REWARD OF PRINCES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among disasters that discention brings Last Line: If ill, then kings, not souldiers beare the blame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BOOK OF VISIONS: HENRY III, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The chairs and tables sleep. The tapestries are drawn. At times the Last Line: Saint-germain-l'auxerrois sonorous midnight beats. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Henry Iii, King Of France (1551-1589); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BOTHWELL: PART 1, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold - cold! The wind howls fierce without Last Line: That rise to madden me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 2, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is bright, the day is warm Last Line: Above the kirk-of-field. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 3, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That gaoler hath a savage look Last Line: The felon now for evermore!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 4, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a woman's weakest mood? Last Line: Wilt thou do this?' 'your hand -- I will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 5, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascension morn! I hear the bells Last Line: The sword that darnley wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 6, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that I were a mountaineer Last Line: Come, death; and I will welcome thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts CARMEN SYLVA, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not even once have I looked on thy face Last Line: Because the earth and heaven in thee tryst keep. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CASTLES AND DISTANCES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From blackhearted water colder Subject(s): Walruses; Hunting; Courts & Courtiers; Hunters; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CAUTION IN COUNCELL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know when to speake; for many times it brings Last Line: Danger to give the best advice to kings. Subject(s): Advice; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doe not repyine fayre sun to see these eyne Last Line: An eden both indeede and name Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Faces; Scotland; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ioye that alone with better bayes Last Line: And vse to loue the best. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dancing & Dancers; Home; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs CHANSON D'OR, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: I shall have a gold room Last Line: With a gold sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Slavery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take away that star and garter Last Line: That have died in vain for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Courts & Courtiers; Culloden, Battle Of (1746); Death; Love; Scotland - Relations With England; Versailles, Frances; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dea CHRISTENING THE PRINCE: A STATE OCCASION, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: One circle round our sun - and o'er Last Line: Edward beheld his bride, happy and free. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Togetherness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight CLEMENCY IN KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kings must not only cherish up the good Last Line: But must be niggards of the meanest bloud. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CLOWN AND KING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoop-la, hey! Cried the clown in the ring Last Line: Life's woven good-and-ill. Subject(s): Clowns; Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepheards boy (best knowen by that name) Last Line: Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Homecoming; London; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COMING TO THE KING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came from very far away to see Last Line: Within the fair pavilion of thy presence blest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COMPLAINS OF THE COURT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a great court, near a fam'd river's side Last Line: Grieve for one loss, and straight another spy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CONCERNING EMPERORS: 1. GOD SENT THE REGICIDE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the lying rulers of the world Last Line: God send the regicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CONCERNING EMPERORS: 2. A COLLOQUIAL REPLY - TO ANY NEWSBOY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you lay for iago at the stage door with a brick Last Line: Yet I chase the thing he stands for with a brickbat in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; First World War CORONATION, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the king's gate the subtle noon Last Line: Slave in his father's stead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The CRISTINA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She should never have looked at me Last Line: This world's use will have been ended. Subject(s): Infatuation; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens CRUELT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a dog-like madnesse in bad kings Last Line: So kings by killing doe encrease their foes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens DANGERS WAIT ON KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As oft as night is banish'd by the morne Last Line: So oft, we'll think, we see a king new born. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DUTY TO TYRANTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good princes must be pray'd for: for the bad Last Line: To strike him dead, that but usurps a throne. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EL CAMINO REAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's highway is thronged with folk Last Line: But, oh, the by-roads and their song! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism; Songs EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark inheritor of woe Last Line: Of saints, with fairies in loud antiphon. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark, the widowed, the disconsolate Last Line: Melusine's cries against the moaning of the saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jackals prowl, the serpents hiss Last Line: Think what a lovely time they had! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPIGRAM: 33, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In court to serve decked with fresh array Last Line: In prison joys, fetter'd with chains of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EPILOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Graves they say are warm'd by glory Last Line: Such as homer sang is zero. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Graves; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones EPILOGUE TO MITHRIDATES, KING OF PONTIUS, BY MR. N. LEE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a pair of faithful lovers die Last Line: And women fight, like swizzers, for their pay. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Dramatists EPISTLE TO THE LORD HENRY HOWARD, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise, if it be not choice, and laid aright Last Line: And though it hath not hap, it shall have fame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Howard, Henry (1540-1614); Praise; Truth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ESTHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face more vivid than he dreamed who drew Last Line: Honor no second place for truth can keep. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fear; Hearts; Jews; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism ETAIN THE QUEEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see with the eye of my mind where a lady sitteth Last Line: For poets had honour and praise of kings when the world was young. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Marital; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EXAMPLES, OR LIKE PRINCE, LIKE PEOPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Examples lead us, and wee likely see Last Line: Such as the prince is, will his people be. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens EXIT NIGHTINGALE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghastly contrast, god's grim joke! Last Line: Is wiped out in city mud. Subject(s): Suicide; Labor & Laborers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes FABLES: 1ST SER. 33. THE COURTIER AND PROTEUS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er a courtier's out of place Last Line: And never forc'd to leave his lyes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FALLEN MAJESTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face Last Line: Whereon a thing once walked that seemed a burning cloud. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Royalty FIRMILIAN; A TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours of study - and what gain thereby? Last Line: Curtain descends. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Churches; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Magic; Plays & Playwrights ; Cathedrals; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: 20. A HAPPY MARRIAGE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and joan [or, jacke and jone], they think no ill Last Line: Securer lives the silly swain. Variant Title(s): Fortunati Nimium;rustic Joys Subject(s): Class Struggle; Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Simplicity; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR BERENICE, by PIERRE BENOIT Poem Text First Line: Berenice, your sister, the edomite queen Last Line: Resembles the marshes of tyre and of sidon. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sisters; Twins; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE INVESTITURE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today bells ring, bands play, flags are unfurled Last Line: One song, one prayer—god bless the prince of wales. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Castles; Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Songs; Welshmen; Welshwomen FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1723, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hail to the lov'd, returning, glorious day! Last Line: Britannia! Ever blest, if they. Subject(s): Birthdays; Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When charles, from anarchy's retreat Last Line: Fame shall preserve the great, and just. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Happiness; Obedience; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR THE QUEEN MOTHER, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are your people Last Line: Who chose you as his bride. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bowes-lyons, Elizabeth FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO THOMAS MOORE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What say I? - not a syllable further in prose Last Line: With majesty's presence as those she invited. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind was humid, and barren the land Last Line: "o sun, thou accusing fire!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Murder; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Germans; Songs GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrangled in dream with the emperor thus Last Line: "o emperor, come thou quickly!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Germany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas late at night when I reach'd cologne Last Line: His foolish fond subjects, the poor men! Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Courts & Courtiers; Legends; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GHOST OF THE BEAUTIFUL PAST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ghost of the beautiful past, of the days long gone, of a Last Line: In glory! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GOD, AND THE KING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How am I bound to two! God who doth give Last Line: The mind; the king, the meanes whereby I live. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GREAT BRITTAINES SUNNES-SET, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soule ore-laden with a greater summe Last Line: My phœbus in his rest hath hid his heav'nly brow. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain; Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GUERDON, by LENA L. JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: I sat on the doorstone of heart's desire Last Line: My heart's desire is there. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens HEROES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, I read of heroes, kings Last Line: "nor heroes, when they drew so near." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heroism; Saints; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heroes; Heroines HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six hundred years ago, in dante's time Last Line: Let us not fail to pay the grateful thanks we owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Household Employees; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the melancholy that is made Last Line: And something more. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Forgetfulness; Jerusalem; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IF I WERE QUEEN, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, boy, I wish I were a queen Last Line: You only have to ask me, eddie. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN A BALCONY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now! / not now! Last Line: Con. Kiss! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN PHARAOH'S TOMB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In pharaoh's tomb the darkness reigns Last Line: "vision's not what you wanted." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones IN PRAISE OF THE KING, by IBN AMMAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pass round the bowl; the breeze of morn Last Line: The brazier of my thought? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IN SHUSHAN, by E. YANCEY COHEN Poem Text First Line: O'er lordly shushan's terrac'd walls Last Line: "of the deep-bosom'd, endless blue!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Israel; Jews; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism IN THE KING'S PRAISE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When louis the king is louis the man Last Line: Is louis the man, is louis the man! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens JESUS WEPT, by FRANCIS BROOKS Poem Text First Line: At eve he rested there amidst the grass Last Line: And was consoled — then to his shelter crept. Subject(s): Consolation; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Jesus Christ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Destiny JUBILEE HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of disillusion Last Line: Ring out loud the jubilee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Music & Musicians; Performing Arts - Spain; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: June in the grass! Last Line: Summer is here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens K IS FOR KINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Love's touch is soft, and death Last Line: David and solomon. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Variant Title(s): Crowns Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KING COPHETUA'S WOOING; A SONG DRAMA IN ONE ACT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I but keep my beggar's staff Last Line: Blue and low. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists KING EDWARD VII, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: He died in harness': the impending stroke Last Line: Makes time obey him while he holds command. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KING HAROLD HARFAGAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great king harold harfagar Last Line: With loving kisses replying. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares KINGS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, covet not the throne and crown Last Line: Outweigh the pomp of kings. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens KINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men are not born kings, but are men renown'd Last Line: Chose first, confirm'd next, & at last are crown'd. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Revolutions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LINES ON CARMEN SYLVA, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trembling old men are stamm'ring Last Line: An ode to humanity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Humanity; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism LITTLE GREGORY, by THEODORE BOTREL Poem Text First Line: Gregory,' his dam would chide Last Line: "jesu domine!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Versailles, Frances; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens LOVE POEM OF THE ROMAN DAYS: 7. ISABELLA'S TREE, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the courtyard, isabella's apricot Last Line: Dauphin into king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; Hearts; Isabella, Infanta Of Parma; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros MAJESTY IN MISERY; OR, AN IMPLORATION TO THE KING OF KINGS, by CHARLES I Poem Text First Line: Great monarch of the world, from whose power springs Last Line: Yet, though we perish, bless this church and state. Subject(s): Adversity; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MALZAH SPEAKS, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, weary! I am called the laughing devil Last Line: More gloomy than a trinity of ravens. Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Grief; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness MAROZIE, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the shady terrace where her beauty wells Last Line: For a friendly look from her eyes of sprinkled gold. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muslims; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Moslems MEMOIR OF A QUEEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her name, before she was a queen, boots not Last Line: Whose reign was greater or more blest than hers. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MODERATION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In things a moderation keepe Last Line: Kings ought to sheare, not skin their sheepe. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Moderation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MOLLY MOOR, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Tully, the queen of beauty's boast Last Line: When she is up to ceres gone. Subject(s): African Americans; Courts & Courtiers; Negroes; American Blacks; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MORDECAI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make friends with him! He is of royal line Last Line: Not his, comes from the gallows cubits high. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism MY PIPE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fig for your flagons of sour old wine Last Line: I'm content with this old pipe of mine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Solitude; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Loneliness MY SWEET LITTLE LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: By easy stages, my sweet little louis xi from nantes to his little Last Line: To tickle the dame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens NUPTIAL ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pass from the earth,deep shadows of the night Last Line: And holiest silence seal the marriage night! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); England; Wedding Song; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Epithalamium OLYMPIA, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Paintings & Painters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the thing that's most uncommon / (envy be silent and attend!) Last Line: The woman 's deaf, and does not hear! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Modesty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR IN PRADO, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen / a portrait of this mary Last Line: Of tudor blood turned acid in the veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mary I, Queen Of England (1516-1568); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON SEEING A BUTTERFLY IN THE STREET, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daft gowk, in macaroni dress, / are ye come here to shew your face Last Line: That dip their spoons in ither's kail. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fools; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Idiots ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON THE CYDNUS, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the glorious sky, where the sun low rings Last Line: The divine and infant twain, desire and death. Subject(s): Babies; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Infants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON THE MONUMENT OF THE MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who in impious times untainted stood Last Line: To earth were meant for ornaments to heav'n. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Monuments; Paulet, John. 5th Marquis Of Winchester; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Pawlett, John; Poulett, John; Powlett, John ON THE PICTURE OF THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE; CUT AND SOLEN, MAY, 1867, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By none could her charms be surpass'd in their day Last Line: Her charms are cut out, and her canvass is lost! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Portraits; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens 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 PALESTINE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn Last Line: "who died, who lives, triumphant o'er the grave!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Messiah; Palestine; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PASSING BY, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day is dying! Day is dying Last Line: Day is dying—day is dead! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The PENELOPE'S WEB: BARMENISSA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stately state that wise men count their good Last Line: With patience lows thee quiet and delight. Variant Title(s): Content Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; Happiness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight PERSEVERANCE D'AMOUR; A LITTLE PLAY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty pass Last Line: From the window-sill. Its wings clatter in the stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 5. HOMAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye songs! O my trusty numbers! Last Line: By her who last govern'd thy kingdom. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PISIDICE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daughter of the lesbian king Last Line: To dreamless rest, pisidicê! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen? Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime POLLICIE IN PRINCES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That princes may possess a surer seat Last Line: Tis fit they make no one with them too great. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens POLYHYMNIA: DEDICATION TO THE COUNTESS OF LINDSEY, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This laureat nymph, one of the daughters nine Last Line: While fame has breath her ivory trump to sound. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Family Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives POLYHYMNIA: VERSES TO LORD NORREYS, SELECTION, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O true nobilitie, and rightly grac'd Last Line: Appearance. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Norreys, Francis. 3d Lord (1574-1603); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens POWER AND PEACE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis never, or but seldom knowne Last Line: Power and peace to keep one throne. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PRINCE ARTHUR: THE CRYSTAL PALACES, by RICHARD BLACKMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious illuminations, made on high Last Line: Which from th' eternal battlements were flung. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Crystallization; Physics; Sky; Universe; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PRINCES AND FAVOURITES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Princes and fav'rites are most deere, while they Last Line: When these can aske, and kings can give no more. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (1), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 PROSE POEM, by JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay in the hall of mirrors Last Line: Processional sadness. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Mirrors; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PROSOPOPOIA, OR MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the month, in which the righteous maide Last Line: And bad her tongue, that it so bluntly tolde. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens PURIM, by LABEL Poem Text First Line: Queen esther-so the scriptures say Last Line: On purim. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism QUEEN BATH, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Shrine of the healing waters, peerless bath Last Line: To be the beauteous city of a dream. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The QUEEN MARY'S LETTER TO BOTHWELL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful gods! Have pity on my passion Last Line: And his the victory who most shall venture. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations QUEEN OF HER HEART, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: The little rag doll is queen Last Line: It stands in her heart alone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dolls; Household Employees; Solitude; Toys; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness REGINA MENDOSENA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I'm regina mendosena, queen of all of shanty town Last Line: For I lay aside me titles and me very ancient name. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Ireland; Nationalism - Ireland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Irish REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: ODE TO PISSEFONTAINE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Muses, I dub myself, despite each rival claim, with haughty heraldry Last Line: Stentorian tread the rhythm of my lay? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens RIDDLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From belsen a crate of gold teeth Subject(s): Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: CHARLES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the charcoal-burner's hut in the wood Last Line: "my dear little headsman, sleep proudly!" Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Courts & Courtiers; Death; God; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: RHAMPSENITUS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the king rhampsenitus Last Line: In his reign was quite surprising. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Laughter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile Last Line: In the land of andalusia. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE POET FERDUSI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of gold, and men of silver Last Line: That the dead ferdusi bore to his tomb. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heroism; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE WHITE ELEPHANT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mahawasant, of siam the king Last Line: Was by way of suez, and overland. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elephants; India; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: SPANISH LYRICS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on hubert's day - the year was Last Line: Ask'd: had we enjoy'd our dinner? -- Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The ROSAMOND: KING HENRY'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish Last Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; King, Henry (1592-1669); Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs ROSAMUND: ROSAMOND'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From walk to walk, from shade to shade Last Line: Fly to my arms, my monarch, fly! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs SECRET LOVE, OR THE MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who writ this, not without pains and thought Last Line: Are bankrupt gamesters, for they damn on tick. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists SELIMUS: KINGS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, my lords, until I call you / forth Last Line: That thinks a sceptre is a pleasant thing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Leadership; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes SELIMUS: SOLILOQUY OF SELIMUS, USURPER AND TYRANT, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, selimus, consider who thou art Last Line: Unless old bajazet do die the death. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dictators SEMITIC INTERLUDE; A SONNET SEQUENCE, by MARTIN FEINSTEIN Poem Text First Line: Pharaoh is mighty on his throne Last Line: But hears the bright voice of the blinded bird. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Jews; Moses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism SEVIRE DEO REGNARE EST, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the things I sigh'd for so, before? Last Line: But those who serve our common sovereign. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SIGISMONDA AND GUISCARDO, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While norman tancred in salerno reigned Last Line: And on their monument inscrib'd their fate. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Tyranny & Tyrants; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Allegories; Dictators SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue? Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.' Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs SONNET DEDICATORY, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like royal galleys be my verse here written Last Line: It bears thy dear name on, o royal-hearted! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET TO THE KYNGE, by THEODORE AGRIPPA D' AUBIGNE Poem Text First Line: Sire, your dogge lemon, once your bed-fellowe Last Line: On your devotion waits a like rewarde. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Dogs; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET TO ZOE KING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf after leaf, like a magician's book Last Line: 02/29/24 Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SPERANZA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England puts on her purple, and pale, pale Last Line: And every soul of man be satisfied.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hope; Life; Sleep; Wind; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Optimism ST AETHELBURGA; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen, saint, evangelist; sweet, patient, fain to wait Last Line: She enters through that gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Aethelburga Of Kent (d. 647); Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Kent, England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SUITE TO FATHERS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that night's our balance Last Line: Finding him as the bones of a fish in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Fathers; Ghosts; Levertov, Denise (1923-1997); Love; Night; Supernatural; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories; Bedtime TARQUIN AND THE AUGUR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gingerly is good king tarquin shaving Last Line: Rodgers' name engraved upon the blade. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Shaving; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE AFRICAN PRINCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a king in africa Last Line: One hope within his heart. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Africa; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ALBION QUEENS, ACT 1: THE WONDER, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Your grace is welcome from the queen of scotland Last Line: Cecil. My lord, you make me blush. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Pity; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE AUDIENCE (AN OLD FABLE), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll let not my children, like pharaoh, be drown'd Last Line: No more of his children's intrusion. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Drowning; Herwegh, Georg (1817-1875); Nature; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BATTLE OF LANGSIDE, by JOHN BROWN (1810-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds sit on leafy bowers in langside wood Last Line: Are felt on hill and grove near langside wood. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BIRTHDAY ODE, 1743, SELECTION, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of fields, of forts, and floods, unknown to fame Last Line: Sing, britons, tho' uncouth the sound. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Odes (as Poetic Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE CHALLENGE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To one fair lady out of court Last Line: With a fa. Variant Title(s): The Court Ballad Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Townshend, Charles, 2d Viscount; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE CHILD OF FRANCE; ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exhausted, faint, and pale Last Line: Our country, and our god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; France; Inheritance & Succession; Child Birth; Midwifery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heirs THE COUNTRY LIFE, TO THE HONOURED M. END. PORTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet country life, to such unknown Last Line: Caetera desunt-- Subject(s): Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Porter, Endymion (1587-1649); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE CZAR PASSES, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: One july noon when I was twelve Last Line: After the czar had passed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Russia; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Soviet Union; Russians THE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING OF SPAIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Earth and horizons round Last Line: Alas! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Love; Singing & Singers; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT KINGS AND SUBJECTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt kings and subjects ther's this mighty odds Last Line: Subjects are taught by men; kings by the gods. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE DOUBLE CROWNING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Lavish roses carpeted the ways for him Last Line: The shouting of the people -- the silence of the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our play's a parallel; the holy league Last Line: Pull down the master, and set up the man. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Nations; Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists THE EAGLE AND THE KINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eagle sought the desert's spring beside / a lion's cave Last Line: "and keep the sky." Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eagles; Murder; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EAGLE AND THE LION, by GEORGE FREDERICK Poem Text First Line: Alone on his rock nigh a hundred years Last Line: Of earth, and of sea, and of air. Subject(s): Animals; Blood; Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EMPEROR OF CHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a dreadful bore Last Line: And join in shouting hosanna! Subject(s): China; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ENTRANCE INTO ROUEN OF CHARLES THE BOLD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Counts, barons, captains, chevaliers, all gentlemen of lineage high Last Line: Flattering buzz of hushed applause through all the galleries. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Upper Classes; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EPIPHANY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three kings went upon their way Last Line: Unto thee our hearts we bring! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Epiphany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Twelfth Night THE FIELD OF GILBOA, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the morning looked forth from his throne Last Line: Thy flocks to decay and thy forests to wither. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE GROTTO; WRITTEN UNDER THE NAME OF PETER DRAKE, A FISHERMAN, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu awhile, forsaken flood Last Line: A woman wise men canonize. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Houses; Richmond Park, England; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE HARP OF DAVID, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: When the night her vision is weaving Last Line: Is a youthful poet again! Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE HEROIC RESISTANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUVAIS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: It seemed that master tristan l'ermite was not deceived. Burgundy Last Line: And performers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; France; Heroism; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE ILIAD: PARIS AND DIOMEDES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth of his ambush leapt, and he vaunted him, uttering thiswise Last Line: Rotting, round him the birds, more numerous they than the women.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers; Trojan War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE FIRST FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dank is the air and dusk the sky Last Line: Amid the mazy paths of song. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE KING, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: O sham, who sittest boldly on the throne Last Line: "its tardy homage and all cry, ""the king!" Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Mansions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KING OF NORMANDY, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: In normandy there reigned a king Last Line: Oh was n't he a noble king?' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Normandy, France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KING'S CONSORT, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone Last Line: When you were king of egypt—dear, and I was egypt's queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Love; Memory; Nostalgia; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were ten maidens in the green corn Last Line: The pains of hell for the king's daughter. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KINGS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man said unto his angel Last Line: "die, driven against the wall!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KINGS, by HENRY WILLIAM HOYNE Poem Text First Line: Three kings riding forth of old Last Line: You have wandered from your star! Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Social Protest; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology THE KINGS PROPHECY, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stoick could his steely brest containe Last Line: Sawe too fewe dayes, to see too many yeares. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; Treason & Traitors; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism THE LAST MAN: LIFE'S UNCERTAINTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king looks well, red in its proper place Last Line: B. Nought: let her hatch. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE MAIDENS OF ENGLAND; ON PRESENTATION OF A BIBLE TO PRINCESS ROYAL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the pathless ocean waters Last Line: Joy-imparting holy dove! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good servant! Up, and saddle quick Last Line: And mute and silent be. Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up, boy! Arise, and saddle quick Last Line: But never speak a word. Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE MIRACULOUS CATCH, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The tidings seemed so heaven-sent, - an uncle dead so a propos Last Line: And about their floats the little fish waltzed as sweetly as heart could wish. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE MOURNING-GARMENT: THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What is love! It is a pretty thing Last Line: What lady would not love a shepherd swain? Variant Title(s): Love In Arcady;the Shepherd And The King;happy As A Shepherd Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NIGHT COURT, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call rose costara!' / insolent, she comes Last Line: Call each and all! Call us! And then call her! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Novels & Novelists; Social Protest; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE NO-LONGER-MERRY ANCIENT MONARCH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old king cole was a merry old soul Last Line: And called for his fiddlers three. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Old Age; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE OLD COUPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of oldsters, humble folk, come straying Last Line: Behold them -- king and queen! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eyes; Faith; Flowers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Belief; Creed THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the golden city and the sea Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE PARK, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a park where oaks of atlas girth Last Line: Lest on time's pitiless road I fall and faint! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Parks; Time; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PITEOUS BATTLE OF MONT-L'HERY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: After many a round-about they encountered man to man Last Line: Beads beguiled he blessed the holy name, most happy and most mild. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Nations; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PRESENTATION AT COURT, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: The king asked / the queen, and Last Line: "I do like a little bit of beauty in my debs!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE PRINCE IS DEAD, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A room in the palace is shut. The king Last Line: The prince is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Nations; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE PROLOGUE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! How they push! The pit is crowded now Last Line: (they go forth.) Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Tragedy; Actresses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Stage Life THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love." Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny THE QUEEN FORGETS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What came before and afterward Last Line: On the chill blade. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN IN FRANCE; AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH BALLAD, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It fell upon the august month Last Line: And no thae puddock-pies!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF CLOUDS, by KIANG KANG-HU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen of clouds riding down from her jade city Last Line: O queen of clouds! Alternate Author Name(s): Jiang Kangh Subject(s): Clouds; Courts & Courtiers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My charlotte is a peerless gem Last Line: Than others' smiles, I ween! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE QUEEN OF THE SEA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea, calm, sleeping sea! Awake and tell Last Line: Till her face again be seen.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE RETURN OF JEANNE D'ARC, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the vales of paradise Last Line: It is her voice! Jeanne d'arc! Jeanne d'arc! Variant Title(s): The Return Of Joan D'arc Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Paris, France; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE RICHEST PRINCE, by ANDREAS KERNER Poem Text First Line: All their wealth and vast possessions Last Line: "thou art wealthier far than we!" Subject(s): Contentment; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares THE ROYAL CROWN, by ISRAEL ABRAHAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I know that those who plead Last Line: Israel abrahams. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE RUINED HEART, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: My heart was as a roman palace fair Last Line: An humble hut from ruins of my pride. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Rome, Italy; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 1, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's coming through this street Last Line: Tis bacchus' son who walks below. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 2, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you sleep these dark hours, maiden Last Line: And ends in those two eyes of blue. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 2, SCENE 1, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocently thought, / and worthy of thy youth! I should not say Last Line: Was but a drop in the world-melting flood. - Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SONG OF THE MANY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We broke the yoke of the aryan kings Last Line: We are the many and wear not the chain. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SORCERESS OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its gates are griffin-guarded gates Last Line: The sorceress of the moon! Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Guard Duty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations THE STORM-KING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back! Stand back / from my giant track! Last Line: I am monarch, and earth must obey! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Earth; Storms; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; World THE STORY OF LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Louis xi, for trifles fain, I love you, curious man. Dear chafferer in Last Line: About his tattered hood ran a silver hem of moonlight fair. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TASK: BOOK 5. THE WINTER MORNING WALK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morning; and the sun with ruddy orb Last Line: And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Morning; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TINY HAT UPON THE BROW, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That elfin crown, so light and neat Last Line: Not diadem upon the brow. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the mummied kings of egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold Last Line: To fulfil thought's yearning tension upward through eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Graves; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter nights enlarge / the number of their hours Last Line: They shorten tedious nights. Variant Title(s): Winter Nights Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Night; Parties; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime THOUGHTS AFTER VIRGIL, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Strength by strength this nation of ours grew surely to greatness Last Line: But build fraternal charities on righteous enactment. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 3, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunne that had himselfe a courtier beene Last Line: How much you fauour vs, wee honour you. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TIME'S CHANGES, FR. THE ART OF POLITICS, by JAMES BRAMSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like south-sea stock, expressions rise and fall Last Line: Can there be any trusting to our words? Subject(s): Comedy; Courts & Courtiers; London; Politics & Government; Towns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TIMOUR'S COUNCILS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Emirs and khans in long array Last Line: "on wild chabanga's frozen plain!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Middle East; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Near East; Levant; Dictators TO A CHILD, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: O bright-eyed child whose laughter Last Line: The intense immense soft dense sweet mist that round her strays.— Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Life; Love; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO A MAID OF THIRTEEN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: How blithe you are, and tall Last Line: So tall, and unafraid! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Envy; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids TO BESSIE HAWES, MAY QUEEN, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Now wouldn't I like to be there to see Last Line: And it's maytime always to think of you. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA), by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that the golden lyre divine Last Line: Still unredeemed? Subject(s): Compassion; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism TO HIS FAITHFULL FRIEND, MASTER JOHN CROFTS, CUP-BEARER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all thy many courtesies to me Last Line: Here to be paid; ile pay't I'th'world to come. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY; A PANEGYRIC ON HIS CORNONATION, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that wild deluge where the world was drowned Last Line: With their own peace their childrens happinesse. Variant Title(s): To His Sacred Majesty Charles The Second;to His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyric On His Coronation Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness TO THE DUKE OF YORK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May his pretty duke-ship grow Last Line: Through the world, but writ in gold. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE KING OF THULE, by HENRI ALLORGE Poem Text First Line: O thou, whose name is as a sigh exhaled Last Line: O king of thule, it is thine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Tears; Thule (island); Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE KING, TO CURE THE EVIL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To find that tree of life, whose fruits did feed Last Line: Mine is the evill, but the cure, the kings. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE KINGS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you've fulfilled the measure of your pride Last Line: And shake your kingdoms with its irony! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Irony; Skulls; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The TO THE QUEENE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goddesse of youth, and lady of the spring Last Line: And be both princesse here, and poetresse. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO THE QUEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE, by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not your faire out-side though famous greece Last Line: And comes to england, though in france he tarrie. Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Hearts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TOURNIQUET, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: He danced for the king; for his courtiers; the clown Last Line: Over his heart ... To stifle its cry. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TRUE ROYALTY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was never a queen like balkis Last Line: Rudyard kipling. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWELFE NIGHT, OR KING AND QUEENE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, now the mirth comes Last Line: As when ye innocent met here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO CROWNS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The king of glory Last Line: Is king of kings. Subject(s): Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO FRESCOES, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down there where europe's arms Last Line: Rose over africa. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Africa; Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO GENERATIONS, by ZENOBIA CRUTCHER FEINEMAN Poem Text First Line: Crowned with silver braids - her evening Last Line: And rock it to a military beat. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 1, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king of china's daughter, / she never would love me Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Cultural Differences; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 2, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king of china's daughter / so beautiful to see Last Line: Has yet caught me. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens UNCROWNED, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: The ogre leaps with massing hands Last Line: And no blood-basted armies fish it back. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens UPON THE KING'S SICKNESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sickness, the minister of death, doth lay Last Line: Shows a good king is sick, and good men mourn. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sickness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Illness URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO LADY PENELOPE DYNHAM, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This muses story, that a princes cares Last Line: William basse. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Kindness; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VASHTI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all great shushan's palaces was there Last Line: "he will but bless me when he doth repent!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Love; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism VASHTI, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far- / off land I used to know Last Line: Served low at her feet. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Memory; Slavery; Separation; Isolation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs VERSAILLES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day at versailles the great louis survey'd Last Line: "is remov'd, as we see, but the wind is there still." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Windmills; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VERSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES & AKEXANDRA OF DENMARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would sing a song of gladness Last Line: Britain's daughter, albert's wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Denmark; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Marriage; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Danes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Welshmen; Welshwomen VERSES TO BEE SETT OVER THE ROSE AND THISLE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Devynelie did your royall moate presage Last Line: The goulden senten fostred in your brest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens VERSIFICATION OF THE SPEECH OF GEOORGIN TO BEYUN, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seest thou yon shelter'd vale of various dye Last Line: To great khi-kusroo's court a turkish fair! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, and that was term'd the time of gold Last Line: Thriuing in ill, as it in age decayes. Variant Title(s): The Golden Age Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Sea; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old driueling lolio drudges all he can Last Line: Brasse gentlemen, and caesars laureate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Prisons & Prisoners; Schools; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Convicts; Students VISIONS IN VERSE: 4. CONTENT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man is deceiv'd by outward show Last Line: And inconsistent dreams of day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Friendship - False Friends; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Fair Weather Friends VISIONS OF JESUS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In bethlehem a babe I see Last Line: Before that throne on judgment day. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Theology VITA; AN ALLEGORICAL DRAMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O most mighty, most glorious Last Line: With their arms entwined.) Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists WHOM THE GODS LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom the gods love die young . Ah, do not doubt of it Last Line: Laughing her gay girl's laughter, glad through eternity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens WINTER SUNSET, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Not in a cringing way Last Line: Goes down to die. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The WITH ETERNITY STANDING BY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I bid you good-bye Last Line: With eternity standing by. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Future Life; Love; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ZINNIAS, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Stiff ladies in ruff and fardingale Last Line: Sooth, his grace the earl of liecester. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 2. DEATH OF ALTHEETOR, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon over meles' grave the wild flower dropt Last Line: With all her house; and seeks her own acacia grove. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jews; Love; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives |
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