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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SWORDS Matches Found: 40 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BROKEN SWORD, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shopman shambled from the doorway out Last Line: Its broken blade. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Swords A SONG OF BATTLE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: How goes it, my brother, with you? Does the Last Line: O you with the weapon of god—life's splendid and terrible sword! Subject(s): Fights; Swords; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators ANCIENT BALLAD: MUDARRA AND RODRIGO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A-hunting went the noble knight %and don ridrigo was he hight Last Line: My father's curse and sancha's foe! %struck home the young mudarra Subject(s): Fights; Knights And Knighthood; Swords BITTER CHOICE, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: I have leant upon a sword Last Line: Blow wild! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Children; Swords; Wind; Weapons; Ammunition; Childhood CAPTIVE KNIGHT, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent I sit by the prison's high window Last Line: Then my cold face from this visor uncloaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Knights & Knighthood; Prisons & Prisoners; Swords; Convicts CHARADE: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The veiling shades of night departed Last Line: For they tamed the pride of the moslem foe. Subject(s): Swords CONTEMPLATION OF THE SWORD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. Last Line: Reason will not decide at last: the sword will decide Subject(s): Swords; Strength; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals GRANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we say of the soldier Last Line: And the driving rain of a nation's tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heroism; Soldiers; Swords; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines IN PRAISE OF A SWORD GIVEN HIM BY HIS PRINCE, by COLMAN MAC LENINI Poem Source First Line: Blackbirds to a swan Last Line: All swords to my sword Subject(s): Swords INDIGNATION; AN ODE, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an anger among men Last Line: O fire, o indignation of the lord! Subject(s): Swords INSCRIPTION FOR THE SCABBARD OF A SWORD OF HONOUR, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Draw me not!Let your laurels round me wreathe Last Line: The soul within you ready to unsheathe! Subject(s): Havelock, Sir Henry (1795-1857); Swords INTERIM, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jewel the sword and grave the shield Last Line: Having learned life's shibboleth. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Death; Swords; Trumpets; Dead, The KAGURA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Silver clasp %on his sword Last Line: Down the royal palace way Subject(s): Swords KAGURA: SWORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sporting a sword Subject(s): Swords QUATRAIN ON ACHILLES, by CATHERINE DES ROCHES Poem Text First Line: Achilles chose a meaner task when he Last Line: The other slits the corde. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Swords SONG OF THE COLLATOR'S SWORD IN THE SPRING BUREAU, by LI HO Poem Source First Line: Elder, inside your casket Last Line: Mother in the autumn wilds Subject(s): Swords SONG OF THE PRINCE OF LANG-YA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I just bought a five-foot sword Last Line: Better by far that a maid of fifteen Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Swords SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: THE SWORD, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: The great sword is broken, beloved Last Line: And walk with me in the way that the sword could not close? Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Pain; Swords; Suffering; Misery SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man that's neither borne to wealth, nor place Last Line: The serving-man to no estate comes short. Subject(s): Civil Service; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; Swords SWORDSMAN, by CHIA TAO Poem Source First Line: Ten long years I've honed this sword Last Line: It's looking for justice Subject(s): Knights And Knighthood; Swords; Zen Buddhism THE AMERICAN SWORD, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sword of our gallant fathers, defender of the brave Last Line: And may god desert her standard when she surrenders thee Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Patriotism; Swords; United States; America THE CAMPEADOR'S SPECTRE HOST, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On leon's towers deep midnight lay Last Line: That more than men had fought for god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fights; Spain; Swords; Dead, The THE DEATH-DIRGE FOR CATHAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the wild hills I am hearing a voice, o cathal! Last Line: O where is cathal mac art, that has tears to water my stillness? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Longing; Swords; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE OLD SWORD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old sword! Tho' dim and rusted Last Line: A wreck of ancient time! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Swords THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 14, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A master of the brush and the sword Last Line: What's left isn't worth saying Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Calligraphy; Chinese Literature; Swords THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 159, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On cold mountain there's a naked bug Last Line: Ready to strike troublesome foes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insects; Swords; Wisdom; Buddha; Buddhists; Bugs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 88, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten thousand miles from home Last Line: The trick is don't be greedy Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Swords; War THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 22, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Defeat a brave man will not contemplate Last Line: Urged host on host god's coinage to debase. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Swords THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 25, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Surprised, out-flank'd by this new-breathed force Last Line: Than the soft clash and chime of closing swords! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Swords THE SONG OF AHEZ THE PALE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But this was in the old, old, far-off days Last Line: For this was in the old, old, far-off days. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Murder; Swords THE SONG OF THE SWORD OF ALAN, FR. KIDNAPPED, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the song of the sword of alan Last Line: Here is your meat. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Swords THE SURPRISE OF ANTIOCH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully beamed the pale moonlight Last Line: The traitor's head away! Subject(s): Blood; Christianity; Crusades; Fights; Swords THE SWORD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: A keen-edged sword in somebody's hand Last Line: For man till he reaches the utmost—god. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Danger; Life; Swords; Weapons; Ammunition THE SWORD DEMANDS, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS Poem Text First Line: The strident shout and surge of marching hosts Last Line: Will force its frightful holocaust of dead. Subject(s): Swords; War THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright Last Line: Proudly and peacefully! Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Patriotism; Swords THE SWORD SONG, by KARL THEODORE KORNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sword, on my left side gleaming Last Line: Hurrah! Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore Subject(s): Swords; War THE WAR-SONG OF THE VIKINGS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let loose the hounds of war Last Line: Swords of valhalla! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Swords; Vikings; War TO A VICTORIAN KNIGHT, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, not for quest of grail nor trophied shield Last Line: To appraise their worth who shape the world anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Swords WAR (ON THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM), by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: They who take the sword Last Line: With the sword they shall be slain. Subject(s): Fights; Swords; Victory; World War I - Belgium WAS IT A SWORD?, by LUCY WHEELER KEGLEY Poem Text First Line: Old symbols bartered for a deeper truth Last Line: Or golden poppies running with the wind? Subject(s): Swords |
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