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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CASTLES Matches Found: 83 A CASTLE IN THE AIR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I built myself a castle Last Line: Only -- I looked beyond. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Grief; Hope; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A DECSRIPTIVE ODE, ... UNDER THE RUINS OF RUFUS'S CASTLE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaotic pile of barren stone Last Line: With legal toils to drag me to my fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Castles; Portland (penisula), England; Ruins A RUINED CASTLE ON THE RHINE; FORMERLY BELONGING TO TEMPLARS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the dark heights that overlook the rhine Last Line: Whose noblest victories are yet unwon. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Castles; Rhine (river), Europe; Templars (knights) ADDRESS TO KILCHURN CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child of loud-throated war! The mountain stream Last Line: Lost on the aerial heights of the crusades! Subject(s): Castles AIR CASTLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I'd build an air castle for thee, love, and me Last Line: This world would but usher love's eternity. Subject(s): Castles; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion AN OLD CASTLE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray arch crumbles Last Line: And silence sits in the banquet hall. Subject(s): Castles BALMORAL CASTLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful balmoral castle Last Line: And thee dark river dee. Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL BALMERINO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful balmerino on the bonnie banks of tay Last Line: They can walk along the braes o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BELVOIR CASTLE; WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF DUCHESS OF RUTLAND, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When native britons british lands possess'd Last Line: "and say, ""it long has stood, -- still honour'd let it stand.""'" Subject(s): Castles BOTHWELL CASTLE, by WILLIAM CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By bothwell castle's ruin'd towers Last Line: Still, thou art noble in decay. Subject(s): Castles BOTHWELL CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Immured in bothwell's towers, at times the brave Last Line: How little that she cherishes is lost! Subject(s): Castles; Scotland BROUGHTY FERRY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient castle of broughty ferry Last Line: From the top the ships sailing on the silvery tay. Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips CASTLE, by JAMES DOYLE Poem Source First Line: Along corridors the old king Last Line: He will carry into the night Subject(s): Castles; Courts And Courtiers CASTLE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She forgot. She has to make one for her class Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Castles; Educators; Professors CASTLE 'BILL', by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Down on gov'nors island Last Line: "down in castle ""bill." Subject(s): Castles CASTLE BY THE SEA, by JUSTINUS KERNER Poem Source First Line: Hast thou seen that lordly castle Last Line: No maiden was by her side' Subject(s): Castles; Courts And Courtiers; Love - Marital CASTLE FROM A DREAM, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city was castelike, compact, dense, multilayered, like the Last Line: Drinkers, oh, to be thus restored to the senses, only that and %nothing else Subject(s): Castles; Dreams CASTLE GORDON (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud blaw the frosty breezes Last Line: And bonnie castle gordon. Variant Title(s): Young Highland Rover Subject(s): Castles CASTLE GORDON (2), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streams that glide in orient plains Last Line: By bonnie castle gordon. Subject(s): Castles CASTLE WILLIAM, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Where buttermilk channel doth seek to beguile Last Line: "down in the casemates of old ""castle bill." Subject(s): Castles; Soldiers CASTLES, by ABRAHAM GLANTS-LEYELES Poem Source First Line: Castles built of iron and granite Last Line: Never fall, never fall, never fall Subject(s): Castles CASTLES, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: A lonely soul in every breast Last Line: As though they still might thrive by war. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers CASTLES IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON Poem Text First Line: I builded a castle in the air Last Line: And the whole darn thing fell down. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Castles; Crowns; Stones; Temples; Granite; Rocks; Mosques CID AND THE FIVE MOORISH KINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With fire and desolation the moors are in castile Last Line: And sent him lordly tribute, from their moorish realms afar Subject(s): Castles; Cid, El (1043-1099); Courts And Courtiers; Spain COMPOSED AMONG THE RUINS OF A CASTLE IN NORTH WALES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through shattered galleries, 'mid roofless halls Last Line: A soothing recompence, his gift, is thine! Subject(s): Castles; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen CRAIGNETHAN CASTLE; A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud of years is upward rolled Last Line: Awakes them, and they live again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Castles; Memory; Past CRUXTOUN CASTLE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou grey and antique tower Last Line: To those who make, like me, this pilgrimage! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Castles; Scotland EMPTY AIR CASTLES, by MARGUERITE GIANELLA Poem Text First Line: I have closed the doors of my castle Last Line: When love was no more by my side. Subject(s): Castles FAIRY CASTLES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Upon my window-pane at night Last Line: Somebody beckoning to me. Subject(s): Castles; Children; Fairies; Fantasy; Childhood; Elves 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 prayergod 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 FROM AN OLD, OLD CASTLE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I would lie down and launch my pain Last Line: Sorry enough at sight of me!) Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Castles FROM DELPHI TO CAMDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From delphi to camden - little hoosier towns Last Line: On this reckless road to ruin or to fame was -- dr. Smith! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Castles; Delphi; Forests; Robin Hood; Castri; Woods FROM HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I've always dreaded this kind of dislocation Last Line: Upon my back, with words (now pray) my hoist and mortar Subject(s): Castles; Scotland; Tourists; Travel FROM THE CASTELLO, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My window is a frame for one dark tree Last Line: I shall possess thee now for all my days! Subject(s): Castles; Cypress Trees; Flowers; Lilacs; Vision GLOAMING, by ROBERT GEMMELL Poem Text First Line: O gloaming, thou art all supreme! Last Line: Which at the end of our brief time, alone gives joy and peace. Subject(s): Castles GOLD, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a castle on a hill Last Line: Was gold, and gold, and gold. Subject(s): Castles; Gold HARLECH CASTLE, by JOHN CORBEN Poem Source First Line: Here, decayed, an old Last Line: Bones; their blood its bread Subject(s): Castles HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE HOUSE OF MESSER SCONFORTO, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the solarium can be found Last Line: Facing it is his masterpiece: the shrug Subject(s): Art And Artists; Castles; Courts And Courtiers; Death; Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Sanctuaries HENRY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In canossa's castle courtyard Last Line: "of my sorrows with his war-axe." Subject(s): Castles; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime IF I EVER HAVE TIME FOR THINGS THAT MATTER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Source Subject(s): Castles; Time IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 16. CASTLE KEEP, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three hundred feet above the lake, the fort Last Line: Climbs that would make a sane man dizzy. We run %the trails that lead us to more than ruins Subject(s): Castles; Italy IVY SONG; ON RECEIVING IVY LEAVES .. CASTLE OF RHEINFELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! How could fancy crown with thee Last Line: And all is thine at length! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Castles; Germany; Ivy; Ruins; Time; Germans LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 65, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream-god brought me to a castle vast Last Line: Blended with sternness, I awoke from sleep. Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness MARMION: CANTO 1. THE CASTLE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day set on norham's castled steep Last Line: Which gave again the prospect fair. Subject(s): Castles; Christmas; Courage; Faith; Flodden Field, England; Love; Nativity, The; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed MORNING AT BRODICK, by WILLIAM THOMSON MCAUSLANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair brodick castle by the sea Last Line: Pardon is found and rest is sweet. Subject(s): Castles; Morning; Religion; Theology MUSINGS AT TARBERT, LOCHFYNE, by WILLIAM THOMSON MCAUSLANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun shines brightly on lochfyne Last Line: Have given place to net and barge. Subject(s): Castles; Muses MY CASTLE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spanish castle long ago I built Last Line: But I forgot that love, himself, grows old. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Castles; Love MY CASTLE IN SPAIN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a castle in spain, very charming to see Last Line: I might live the year round in my spanish chateau! Subject(s): Castles; Spain MY HIDING PLACE AND ME, by BARBARA BROOKS BIXLEY Poem Text First Line: Sh - big sister's going by Last Line: My hiding place and me! Subject(s): Castles; Silence ODE TO LUDLOW CASTLE, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud pile! That rearest thy hoary head Last Line: The remnant of the storm. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Castles; Ludlow, England; Ruins OLD CASEMENTS; A SONNET CYCLE, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: We know old homes on lomea, weathered ... Gray Last Line: From our forsaken casements . . . Weathered, gray. Subject(s): Castles ON LIEN-CH'ANG PALACE, by YUAN CHEN Poem Source First Line: Lien-ch'ang palace was overgrown with bamboo Last Line: Let's spare no effort to put an end to all wars Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih Subject(s): Castles ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The captive bird was gone - to cliff or moor Last Line: That animate my way where'er it leads! Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish ON SEEING BLENHEIM CASTLE, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O ask not me of blenheim's marble halls Last Line: Chilled by the frown of dull unsocial state. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Blenheim Park, England; Castles ON VISITING THE CASTLE AND CHURCH OF GRUYERE IN SWITZERLAND, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where gruyere's castle, rearing still on high Last Line: Alone uncared for, crumbling to decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Castles; Churches; Poverty; Switzerland; Wealth; Cathedrals; Swiss; Riches; Fortunes ORGAN SONGS: THE OLD CASTLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brother knew well the castle old Last Line: Like the diamond shine! Subject(s): Brothers; Castles; Prisons & Prisoners; Half-brothers OUTLAWS' CASTLE, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: We go there when the wood ant nests Last Line: Who was smith? I say. You do not reply Subject(s): Castles; Play PLEA FOR 'CASTLES IN THE AIR', by JACOB GOUGH Poem Text First Line: Amid the myriad troubles that meet us day by day Last Line: "for all are kings and conquerors in ""castles in the air." Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Nightmares SAND CASTLE, by RICHARD ALLEN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Perhaps your theory is correct Last Line: Huge waves rising in the distance Subject(s): Castles; Love; Romance; Seashore; Waves SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ruin'd relique of the ancient pile Last Line: As fancy paints the pomp that once adorn'd thy wall. Subject(s): Bards; Castles; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SPOKEN AT A CASTLE GATE, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before you touch the bolt that locks this gate Last Line: Perhaps you'll find, -- but never come back again. Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Nightmares THE CASTLE BY THE SEA, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou seen that lordly castle Last Line: "no maiden was by their side!" Subject(s): Castles; Sea; Ocean THE CASTLE OF GATHORE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place none knows but I Last Line: And the castle of gathore! Subject(s): Castles; Death; Home; Love; Soul; Trees; Dead, The THE CASTLE OF MAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient castle of the mains Last Line: To hear the birds singing and the humming of the bee. Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CASTLE OF TIME; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the full moon in a heaven of blue Last Line: And heaven's o'erarching dome, eternal and sublime! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Castles; Memory; Past; Time THE CASTLE RUINS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A happy day at whitsuntide Last Line: The sky wer lightless to their tweil. Subject(s): Castles THE DUNOLLY EAGLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew Last Line: That clings to slavery for its own sad sake. Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish THE GARDEN WASN'T A GARDEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: And put him safe to bed Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Castle THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more. Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness 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 OLD CASTLE, by JOHN FULLERTON Poem Text First Line: Shelter'd 'mong the dark fir trees Last Line: Save the fretting tide. Subject(s): Castles THE OLD CASTLE ON THE HILL, by BORGHILD BREKKE ZANINI Poem Text First Line: Surrounded by poplars, it stands there still Last Line: The night is gone, not a ghost remains. Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural THE PARK OF KELBURN CASTLE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely eve! Though yet it is but spring Last Line: By dwelling on the tranquil and serene! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Castles; Scotland THE POOR SINGING DAME, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath an old wall, that went round an old castle Subject(s): Castles; Singing & Singers THE QUEEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queen sinned in a dream Last Line: The great gold curls of the queen.) Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Love THE ROCK OF CASHEL, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Royal and saintly cashel! I would gaze Last Line: Or thebes half buried in the desert sand. Subject(s): Cashel, Ireland; Castles THE RUINED CASTLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Let me sigh to think this ruined pile Last Line: While forms of heroes animate her dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Castles; Ruins TO A CERTAIN RICH MAN IN A CASTLE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN Poem Text First Line: These lovely things you never quite posess Last Line: Remains one door your gold has never swung! Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew Subject(s): Castles TOLQUHON CASTLE, by MARGARET TOMS Poem Source First Line: Old, the curator wields his heavy Last Line: Of dead loves, old wars; %and the boy - %of engines Subject(s): Castles; War TWO CASTLES, by LAURA E. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: I built a castle in the air Last Line: I could not enter alone. Subject(s): Castles; Love VISIT TO ENNISKILLEN, by TADHG DALL O HUIGINN Poem Source First Line: God help who looks upon enniskillen Last Line: It lures all men from no matter where. %god help who looks upon its like Subject(s): Castles YOLANDA OF CYPRUS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the balm, the balm Last Line: Pity should be as strong as love or death Subject(s): Castles; Death; Love; Marriage; Plays And Playwrights; Women |
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