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Subject: SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REBUKE TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by A LADY [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "yes, southey, yes, I to the house of prayer"
Last Line: "to meet, with kindred man, the parent god"
Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady
Subject(s): "churches;public Worship;southey, Robert (1774-1843);" Cathedrals;church Attendance


A SATIRE ON SATIRE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If gibbets, axes, confiscations, chains
Last Line: Far better than to make innocent ink --
Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION], by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bob southey! You're a poet -- poet-laureate
Last Line: Is it not so, my tory, ultra-julian?
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan; Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


EPITAPH ON A WELL-KNOWN POET (ROBERT SOUTHEY), by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath these poppies buried deep
Last Line: Than did his quartos upon us!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


FATHER WILLIAM [QUESTIONED], FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are old, father william,' the young man said
Last Line: Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis
Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Youth


INSCRIPTION FOR THE DOOR OF [BROWNRIGG'S] CELL IN NEWGATE, by GEORGE CANNING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For one long term, or e'er her trial came / here brownrigg linger'd
Last Line: When france shall reign, and laws be all repealed!
Variant Title(s): Imitation Of Southey
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Convicts


MORNING HAZE ON DERWENTWATER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft through a veil of amethystine mist
Last Line: To beauty and to praise.
Subject(s): Derwentwater (lake), England; Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


ON SOUTHEY'S BIRTHDAY, NOV 4, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No angel borne on whiter wing
Last Line: Show us thy light and point the way.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends! Hear the words my wandering thoughts would say
Last Line: And, shattered by the fall, I stand alone.
Subject(s): Death; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Dead, The


ON THE DEATH OF SOUTHEY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the last struggles of the sun
Last Line: God now does that, the god thy whole heart loved.
Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


QUINTESSENCE OF ALL THE DACTYLICS, by WILLIAM GIFFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Wearisome sonneteer, feeble and querulous
Last Line: "dactylics, call;st thou 'em? -- ""god help thee, silly one!"
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE REBUILDING, BY R. S., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a blessed glendoveer
Last Line: "no, thank you! One tumble's enough!"
Subject(s): Death; Fire; Law & Lawyers; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Tears; Dead, The


SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 10. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Southey! They melodies steal o'er mine ear
Last Line: The imag'd rainbow on a willowy stream.
Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


THE BATTUE OF BERLIN, by HARRY GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a winter's morning / the kaiser's sport was done
Last Line: That 'twas a famous morning's sport!
Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D.
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); War


THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER, by GEORGE CANNING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Needy knife-grinder! Whither are you going?
Last Line: And universal philanthropy.)
Variant Title(s): Sapphics
Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


THE POETRY OF SOUTHEY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keen as an eagle whose flight towards the dim empyrean
Last Line: Lo! The grand epic advances, unfolding the humanest truth.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


THE VISION OF JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint peter sat by the celestial gate
Last Line: I left him practising the hundredth psalm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Laurel'd bard, how can I part
Last Line: Or life's warm quivering pulse is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A.
Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


TO SOUTHEY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are who teach us that the depths of thought
Last Line: Proclaiming this shall live, and this shall die.
Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843)


TO SOUTHEY, 1833, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Indweller of a peaceful vale
Last Line: Showered upon my low head from thy most lofty lays.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843)