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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TYRANNY & TYRANTS Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 A SONG OF THE WELSH, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a race in an island place which rose in the morning gleam Last Line: In a home that is ever the harp of song and legend and fairy tale. Subject(s): Fights; Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Wales; Waterloo; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen; Battle Of Waterloo A TALE FROM THE TALMUD, by WILLIAM DEARNESS Poem Text First Line: In judah, in the days of story Last Line: Her hero dames shall bloom amain. Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism; Dictators AD ASTRA: 121, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O who can view such scenes indifferently? Last Line: The realm of earth, the commonwealth of air. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Tyranny & Tyrants AD OLUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call me not rebel though in what I sing Last Line: Set free thy slave; thou settest free thyself. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Revolutions; Slavery; Tyranny & Tyrants; Serfs AN EPISTLE TO CURIO, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice has the spring beheld thy faded fame Last Line: And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear. Subject(s): Freedom; Roman Empire; Slavery; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Serfs; Dictators ARMAGEDDON, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is growing weary of its emperors and / kings Last Line: The devil having ridden on the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Theology AT 'GOVETT'S LEAP', by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Symbol of hate and hell and despot-power Last Line: Bear witness: and god marked, and keeps the account. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants BEYOND THE BARS, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Within my cell are singing sounds - a robin's call, afar Last Line: "and still I muse, in chains that chafe: ""will there be prisons then?" Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Tyranny & Tyrants; Convicts; Dictators BLOOD V. BULLION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "well then, it now appears you need my help" Last Line: Hath a dog money?'' blood's response is-'nay!' Subject(s): Jews;jews - Persecution;russia;tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism;soviet Union;russians CAMPAIGN THUNDER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friends, when I'm elected, the people Last Line: Elected a change will be detected—no man will have to work! Subject(s): Elections; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; Voting; Voters; Suffrage COLONEL LINDBERG, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tear the wings from his shoulders Last Line: Now let us forget. Subject(s): Dishonor; Nazis; Tyranny & Tyrants; National Socialism DESPOTISMS, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: I would know not the despotism Last Line: No stitch there must be in a shroud! Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants DICTATOR, by KATHARINE BROWN BURT Poem Text First Line: Sparrow with militant glitter in your eye Last Line: Since none will challenge, none now envy you! Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators EPILOGUE TO JULIUS CAESAR, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmothers, mothers, aunts and sisters dear Last Line: Depend upon't, not one of us will back him. Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants EPITAPH ON A TYRANT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; Dictators FALLEN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country! By our fathers reared Last Line: Retrace the path that ends in shame! Subject(s): Heroism; Nations; Past; Tyranny & Tyrants; Heroes; Heroines FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism HUMAN DEBASEMENT; A FRAGMENT, by EDWARD RUSHTON Poem Text First Line: In early days / if kings were made by men Last Line: All, all these works are thine! Subject(s): Freedom; Humanity; Men; Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Theology IMPRESSION: 2, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Domestic tyrant. Dominating all Last Line: "bluffed to the end—inscribed ""invictus"" on his grave!" Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Tyranny & Tyrants KINGS AND TYRANTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known Last Line: Kings seek their subjects good: tyrants their owne. Subject(s): Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators LITANY FOR DICTATORSHIPS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all those beaten, for the borken heads Last Line: Our children know and suffer the armed men Subject(s): Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators LORD ROBERTS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nestor of happy warriors, blest was he Last Line: Shall come hereafter for comparison. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Paradise; Dictators LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG OF JEALOUSIE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What state of life can be so blest Last Line: Thou tyrant of the mind! Variant Title(s): Jealousy, The Tyrant Of The Mind Subject(s): Death; Jealousy; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Songs; Dictators MEN OF THE NORTH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Conquering nations all come from the north Last Line: Men of the north! You are welcome to all. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; North, The; Tyranny & Tyrants; British Empire; England - Empire NIETZSCHE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some worshipped and some bantered, when Last Line: Be servile to the muse of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900); Tyranny & Tyrants; War OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by A. A. IMBERMAN Poem Text First Line: Here lies giovanni Last Line: Sic transit gloria mundi. Subject(s): Death; Italy; Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dead, The; Italians; Dictators ON ISSUING A RESIDENTIAL CERTIFICATE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Text First Line: This piece of paper with the seal on it Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): China; Tyranny & Tyrants PERIANDER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How died melissa none dares shape in words Last Line: How black his gods behind their marble screens. Subject(s): Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Tyranny & Tyrants; Relatives POL POT, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn. Leni riefenstahl Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Riefenstahl, Leni (1902-2003); Tyranny & Tyrants PRESENTED TO THE KING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye careful angels, whom eternal fate Last Line: Averted darts of rage, and pointless arms of death. Subject(s): Angels; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Night; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Destiny; Bedtime RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the dauntless spirit Last Line: And the despot's rule shall die. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Russia; Tyranny & Tyrants; Soviet Union; Russians 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 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 SOLON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eye Last Line: To make the plagues afflicting us things past. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Tyranny & Tyrants SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 2, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither would my passion run Last Line: So each will equal triumph share. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Loss; Passion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The SONNET ON THE SUBMISSION OF THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Dastardly slaves! And is it - can it be Last Line: And weep that thou producest things like these. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF 27 B.C., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sins ancestral, o thou guiltless roman Last Line: And gosh! Our kids are getting even worse! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators THE LEPER KNIGHT; A LEGEND OF MALTA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Elmo's walls are high and strong Last Line: Had kept his vow in dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Malta; Muslims; Tyranny & Tyrants; Moslems THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS, by R. A. LEVY Poem Text First Line: A wail comes o'er the swelling seas Last Line: "how long, our father, o! How long!" Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Massacres; Tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism; Dictators THE RIDDLE FOR MEN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This riddle rede or die Last Line: Their souls behowl the plain. Subject(s): Riddles; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One fairest of the ripe unwedded left Last Line: Yet lowly over morning's pure grey eyes. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Age Differences; Tyranny & Tyrants THE TRUMPET OF LIBERTY, by JOHN TAYLOR (1750-1826) Poem Text First Line: The trumpet of liberty sounds through the world Last Line: Fall, tyrants, fall! Etc. Subject(s): Freedom; Mankind; Trumpets; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Human Race THE TYRANT, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the festival; we will inter hope Last Line: Will cover you with dust and ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Religion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Theology THE TYRANT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One comes with foot insistent to my / door Last Line: "o tyrant death!" Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants THE TYRANT AND THE CAPTIVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was midnight when I listened Last Line: "has the strength of love and death." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Tyranny & Tyrants; Voices; Dead, The THE VICEROY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of nero, tyrant, petty king Last Line: Thou ne'er wilt be de-witted. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Guilt; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants 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 TIRIEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And aged tiriel stood before the gates of his beautiful palace Last Line: He ceast outstretchd at har & hevas feet in awful death Subject(s): Bible; Insanity; Mythology; Tyranny & Tyrants; Madness; Mental Illness; Dictators TO A FRIEND IN LOVE DURING THE RIOTS, by WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text First Line: In times like these, when widows, orphans weep Last Line: Glow at a smile and sicken at a frown! Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Fire; Riots; Tyranny & Tyrants; Mobs; Crowds TO AN ANTIQUE STILETTO, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What grim adventures has this dagger known! Last Line: In pittsburgh, pennsylvania, u.S.A. Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators TO DELIA: 46 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As to the roman that would free his land Last Line: But happier yet, if thou wouldst change thy mind. Subject(s): Errors; Fame; Tyranny & Tyrants; Mistakes; Fallacies; Reputation; Dictators TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As from an ancestral oak Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one. Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819 Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone brought them to palma Last Line: Impossible to bury them Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators TYRANNY, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This one I feared is powerless become Last Line: The taunt of silence takes my life -- my life. Subject(s): Fear; Love; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators VALERIAN, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: There's a plant, valerian Last Line: Left to mere valerian? Subject(s): Farewell; London; Tyranny & Tyrants; Parting; Dictators WHERE TYRANTS PERISH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail on, columbus! Sail right onward still Last Line: Where tyrants perish and all men are free. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Tyranny & Tyrants; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America WRONG CHANNEL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old ez / more prophetic than he knew Last Line: Future planet / needs good tyrants Subject(s): Tyranny & Tyrants |
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