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First Line: Of all the brave captains that ever were seen
Last Line: "in his sleep if such dreadful destruction he makes, / what havoc, ye gods, shall we have when he wa
Subject(s): Courage;great Britain - Wars With France;guns;heroism;soldiers; Valor;bravery;heroes;heroines


534, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For ages you were rock, far below light
Last Line: Of those who speed your launching come to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Queen Mary (ship); Sea; Unemployment; Recessions; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean


A BALLAD FOR A BOY, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When george the third was reigning, a hundred years ago
Last Line: And treat some rescued breton as a comrade and a guest.
Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Farmer, George; Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


A BEAR FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wunzt, 'way west in illinoise
Last Line: Ferever an' ferever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and be doing, all who have a hand
Last Line: So loud for promptness all around outcries!
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; World War I; First World War


A CHANT OF LOVE FOR ENGLAND, by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A song of hate is a song of hell
Last Line: England!
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - Great Britain


A DANISH BARROW; ON THE EAST DEVON COAST, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lie still, old dane, below thy heap!
Last Line: As thou within the mother's breast.
Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Great Britain - Danish Invasions; War; Alfred, King Of Wessex


A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GEORGE AND FOX, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good charly fox, your counsel I implore
Last Line: And france, triumphant, stems the subject main.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fox, Charles James (1749-1806); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Navy - Spain; French Navy; English Navy; Spanish Navy


A DIALOGUE; OVERHEARD IN A VILLAGE NEAR PORTSMOUTH, DURING WAR FRANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says sue to jack, 'the reason why we english wins the day
Last Line: "jabbering beggars, no! Who'd understand 'em if they did?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Prayer; War; French Navy; English Navy


A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu, new-england's smiling meads
Last Line: Of all its pow'r disarms!
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Subject(s): Great Britain; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages; United States; America


A FAREWELL TO POETRY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Arcadian scenes adieu! In cyrrha's vale
Last Line: Tho' ev'ry moving trill be steep'd in tears.
Subject(s): Duty; Farewell; Great Britain; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Parting


A FOUNTAIN, A BOTTLE, A DONKEY€™S EARS, AND SOME BOOKS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old davis owned a solid mica mountain
Last Line: In time she would be rid of all her books
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A HILL SONG, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hills where once my love and I
Last Line: You have lost your oread.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A HOLY HILL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still: be still: nor dare
Last Line: The wrath of stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A LITTLE POCKET, by NINA MANLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a little pocket in the hills!
Last Line: I know a little pocket in the hills! --
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MEMORY OF INTERLAKEN, by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a light in darkness which the soul
Last Line: Circling in music over you white brows.
Subject(s): Alps; Interlachen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MESSAGE TO MICHAEL, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we had found that there is no way to the white mountain
Last Line: Their distance is the span of what we are.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN FANCY; INSCRIBED TO MRS. R.S. STORRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close to each mountain's towering peak
Last Line: Dissolves in tender mists of prayer!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN GATEWAY, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a vale where I would go one day
Last Line: The unworn ritual of eternal things.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN LODGE, by DOROTHY A. KROGMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nestling amid the verdant steep
Last Line: You know protection's care.
Subject(s): Houses; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN PICTURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat within the cabin old
Last Line: By mountain walls surrounded.
Subject(s): Country Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN ROAD, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Capriciously it wound about
Last Line: In wealth of scents and roses.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


A MOUNTAIN STATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought a run a while ago
Last Line: For sale! A mountain station.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cattle; Mountains; Rivers; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAIN VIEW, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No loneliness can come in wood or fell
Last Line: Stilly moves the wilding heart in passion there.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


A MOUNTAIN WIND, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold limbs of the air
Last Line: Brother to grass and stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MOUNTAINGRAVEYARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a sleeping-place is here!
Last Line: This still-shadowed burial ground.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Love; Mountains; Graveyards; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MYSTERY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river hemmed with leaning trees
Last Line: The hills of heaven arise.
Subject(s): Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "john bull, esquire, my jo john"
Last Line: "shots in my locker yet remain, / john bull, esquire, my jo!"
Subject(s): American Civil War;great Britain - Foreign Relations;u.s. - History


A PICT SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rome never looks where she treads
Last Line: And then we shall dance on your graves!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest


A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 3. THE MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And measure not our mountain peaks
Last Line: And trace his signature in stone!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A POLITICAL LITANY, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a junta that labor for absolute power
Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damned, if she will.
Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine - Deliver Us, O Lord
Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics & Government; United States; America


A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S REIGN, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, the ruler over earth and sea
Last Line: In this beginning reign may be fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Coronations; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Rulers; Peace; Prayer


A RETURN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We turned back mad from the mystic
Last Line: But joy as an arctic sun went down.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A ROUNDHEAD'S RALLYING SONG, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful is the battle
Last Line: We whose armour is the armour of the lord!
Variant Title(s): The Rally
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Civil War; Liberty; English Civil War


A SECOND TIME, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the year I cut logs for the new house and roads, roads like veins
Last Line: When they starved out and moved on, they burned their houses down to get the nails back
Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SECOND VIEW OF THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains! When next I saw ye it was noon
Last Line: Ye watched the ages of the world below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Climbing; Mountains; Seven Mountains (siebengebirge), Germany; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SIMPLE PASTORAL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aurora, lady grey, / hides her face in blushes
Last Line: To our falls and risings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; English Navy


A SNOW MOUNTAIN, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I make white enough my thought for thee
Last Line: Our only greatness is that we aspire.
Subject(s): Life; Mountains; Snow; White (color); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SONG OF DEGREES, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


A SONG OF EMPIRE; JUNE 20, 1887, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First lady of our english race
Last Line: Rejoice to-day, and make our solemn jubilee!!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); British Empire; England - Empire


A SONG OF THE HILLS AND MY FRIEND, by GEOFFREY DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are two things I long for
Last Line: Perhaps. I pray him so.
Subject(s): Friendship; God; Mountains; Oxford University; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SONG OF THE MARCHES, by LI TAI PO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tien-shan peaks still glisten
Last Line: May seek their homes again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SONG TO MITHRAS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mithras, god of the morning, our trumpets waken the wall!
Last Line: Mithras, also a soldier, teach us to die aright!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Mithras (persian Mythology)


A STRANGER MINSTREL; TO MRS. ROBINSON BEFORE HER DEATH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As late on skiddaw's mount I lay supine
Last Line: I would, I would that she were here!'
Subject(s): Mountains; Robinson, Mary (1758-1800); Skiddaw (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SUMMER SUNRISE; AFTER LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The master-hand whose pencils trace
Last Line: Go up to bless the new-born day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Mountains; Summer; Sunrise; World; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On stern blencathra's perilous height
Last Line: The things that seek the earth, how full of noise and riot!
Subject(s): Mountains; Saddleback (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A VISIT TO YUAN-CHIU IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth to sylvan retreats I went, a vagabond
Last Line: It was lucid day-break when I spoke of going.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A WALK IN CHAMOUNI, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Together on the valley, white and sweet
Last Line: One neither of supremacy nor rest?
Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ABOVE HALF MOON, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not even a brid can sleep in thin air, a thousand feet higher
Last Line: Shuttered windows, a flower made of timber, whose trail down is a crooked stem
Subject(s): Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ABOVE ST. IRENEE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rested on the breezy height
Last Line: And left the lonely road to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ABOVE THE RIVER, HEAVY ON THE HEART, by SU SHIH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the river, heavy on the heart, thousandfold hills
Last Line: My hill friends will soon be sending poems to call me home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Variant Title(s): Above The River, Heavy On The Heart (1088)
Subject(s): Heaven; Mountains; Paintings And Painters; Yangzi River, China; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin
Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord.
Variant Title(s): Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Conspiracy; Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Hyde, Lawrence. 1st Earl Of Rochester; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Jews; Politics & Government; Scott, James. Duke Of Mon


ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL: PART 2 (IN POEM BY NAHUM TATE), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next these, a troop of busy spirits press
Last Line: And for my foes may this their blessing be, %to talk like doeg and to write like thee
Subject(s): Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Pordage, Samuel (1633-1691); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)


ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL; THE SECOND PART, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since men, like beasts, each other's prey were made
Last Line: Their error and obeyed their lord
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Durfort De Duras, Louis (1641-1709); Fitzroy, Henry. 1st Duke Of Grafton; Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Legge, George. 1st Baron Dartmouth; Somerset, Henry. 3d Marquis Of Worc


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO THE BRITISH NAVY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We do not like to own it
Last Line: Hurrah for johnny bull!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War


AD ASTRA: 120, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And over all the bearing of the host
Last Line: That is the sure presentment of his race.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST, by RICHARD GLOVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As near porto-bello lying
Last Line: And for england sham'd in me.
Variant Title(s): Ballad Of Admiral Hosier's Ghost
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Spanish Armada; English Navy


ADMIRALS ALL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Effingham, grenville, raleigh, drake
Last Line: To nelson's peerless name!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Sea; English Navy; Ocean


AFTERNOON ON A HILL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will be the gladdest thing
Last Line: And then start down!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALASKAN MOUNTAIN POEM #1, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark branches / dark leaves
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALDINGTON KNOLL; THE OLD SMUGGLER SPEAKS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Al'ington knoll it stands up high
Last Line: Cater the marsh and crost the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALFRED THE HARPER, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark fell the night, the watch was set
Last Line: And slew ten thousand foes.
Variant Title(s): King Alfred The Harper
Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Great Britain - Danish Invasions; War; Alfred, King Of Wessex


ALGABAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhine-rentier
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ALGABAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhine-rentier
Last Line: Of the ageless champion
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


ALPHABETICAL SONG ON THE CORN LAW BILL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good people draw near as you pass along
Last Line: They must be muzzled in the dog days for fear they might go mad
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse;corn Laws (great Britain)


ALPINE HEIGHTS, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On alpine heights the love of god is shed
Last Line: On alpine heights a loving father dwells.
Variant Title(s): Mountain And Valley
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


ALPINE SONNETS 1: THE GLACIER, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dawn in silence moves the mighty stream
Last Line: Of sovereign love, and song began to flow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALPINE SONNETS 2: THE SNOW-FIELD, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White death had laid his pall upon the plain
Last Line: To cheer my pilgrim-heart no more alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALPINE SONNETS 3: MOVING BELLS, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair
Last Line: That wander far among the sleeping hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Alps; Bells; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ALPINE SPIRIT'S SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the snow, through the air, to the mountain
Last Line: Earth beneath, and stars above.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


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


AMBOYNA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As needy gallants, in the scrivener's hands
Last Line: As much improper as would honesty.
Variant Title(s): Satire On The Dutch
Subject(s): Cruelty; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Merchants; Plays & Playwrights ; Religion; Dramatists; Theology


AMERICA INDEPENDENT, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To him who would relate the story right
Last Line: Wafting the produce of the rural vale.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Great Britain


AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail! Thou noble land
Last Line: "we are one."
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; United States; America


AMONG THE HILLS, by W. B. HAUGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who would not live among the hills
Last Line: A picture by the master artist -- god?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AMONG THE HILLS, by ETHEL AMBLER HUNTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the valleys, where the slow, brown brooks
Last Line: The far horison, and the sunset light!
Subject(s): Mountains; Wellesley College; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wander on the barren moors
Last Line: And breathes the humid air of death!
Subject(s): Mountains; Loss; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye trees! Whose slender roots entwine
Last Line: Appear to sight still more forlorn.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Convents; Mountains; Ruins; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AN ALPINE DESCENT, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mule refreshed, his bells
Last Line: "along this path to conquer at marengo."
Subject(s): Alps; Marengo, Battle Of; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AN ALPINE PICTURE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand here and look, and softly hold your breath
Last Line: Or is it but the frost-work on the pane?
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In measures solemn as the groans that fall
Last Line: The monuments of their base cruelty.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Great Britain - Civil War; Injustice; Lisle, Sir George (d. 1648); Lucas, Sir Charles; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English Civil War


AN ELEGY UPON THE MOST INCOMPARABLE KING CHARLES THE FIRST, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call for amazed thoughts, a wounded sense
Last Line: If zimri dies in peace that slew his lord.
Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War


AN ODE TO A MOUNTAIN, by VIRGINIA LEPORIN LEACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: O age-old mountain tall and grand
Last Line: As pure and rugged, mount, as thine!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AN ODE WRITTEN IN THE PEAK, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This while we are abroad
Last Line: The muse is still in ure.
Subject(s): Derbyshire, England; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AN OLD ROMAN SHIELD FOUND IN THE THAMES (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drowned for long ages, lost to human reach
Last Line: Our weapons change, we quarrel now as then!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest


AN OLD ROMAN SHIELD FOUND IN THE THAMES (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He drew it home - he heaved it to the bank
Last Line: Push boldly to the shore, the friend of all?
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest


ANCAPAGARI, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning of the tribe this name ancapagari was given to these
Last Line: Tongue. It is the name of the god who has come from among us
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond and yet beyond new beauty calls
Last Line: But oh, unsatisfied, there is no sea.
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Mountains; Sea; Seagulls; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years have gone. It is spring
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ANNUNCIATION, by GEORGES DUHAMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the tall mountain's brow
Last Line: And the man that it will crush.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ANNUS MIRABILIS: THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In thriving arts long time had holland grown
Last Line: And gently lay us on the spicy shore.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Monck, George. 1st Duke Of Albemarle; Navy - Dutch; Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


ARS GUBERNANDI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy subtlest gift is steersmanship, o sea!
Last Line: Skills not that day when rigid moorings break.
Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


ARTEGAL AND ELIDURE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where be the temples, which in britain's isle
Last Line: "he bore the lasting name of ""pious elidure."
Subject(s): Great Britain


ARTHUR AND ALBINA, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me! The yellow western sky turns pale
Last Line: And bowed her humble, grateful head, resigned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest


AT CORUNA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When from these shores the british army first
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


AT GIBRALTAR, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England, I stand on thy imperial ground
Last Line: Peace to the world, from ports without a gun!
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Peace; British Empire; England - Empire


AT THE CONVENT NEAR SAINT GALL, by JAMES COCHRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How sweet that valley, clothed in freshest green
Last Line: Lamenting over creatures so forlorn.
Variant Title(s): Written At The Convent Near Saint Gall
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gall, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AT THE PASSING OF A BELOVED MONARCH, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The everlasting wisdom has ordained
Last Line: That millions yet unborn shall bless her reign.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Crowns; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Memory; Prayer; War; Wisdom; British Empire; England - Empire


AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The path of most insistence
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AT THIS POINT, THE MOON STARTS TO TAKE ON A LITTLE BROWN AND GRAY..., by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the andes / an old peruvian
Last Line: The old peruvian
Subject(s): Mountains; Peru; South America; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AT THOUGHT OF HILLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At thought of hills where streams begin
Last Line: A little hill. ...To ease my mind.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Thought; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Thinking; Journeys; Trips


AT VALLOMBROSA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vallombrosa - I longed in thy shadiest wood'
Last Line: To the fountain whence time and eternity flow.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Violet-colour'd mountain summits
Last Line: "girofflino, girofflette!"
Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AUTUMN (DOUBLE OAK MOUNTAIN - ALABAMA), by IDA DREAM SCHWARTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hushed and old
Last Line: Of stiff white birch stirring like ghost.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Seasons; Fall; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AVE IMPERATRIX, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Set in this stormy northern sea
Last Line: Rise from these crimson seas of war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; British Empire; England - Empire


BACK TO THE LAND!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Acres out of cultivation!
Last Line: Peace in her imperial eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Urban Life; British Empire; England - Empire


BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up over windy wastes and up
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Alfred The Great (849-1899); Great Britain - Danish Invasions


BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'AND WILL YOU NOW TO PEACE INCLINE', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The parliament ('tis said) resolv'd
Last Line: And scour out every member.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament


BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'BUT THAT NE'ER TROUBLES ME, BOYS', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now a fig for th' lower house
Last Line: For spent is his last groat.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament


BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I'LL TELL THEE, DICK, THAT I HAVE BEEN', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And can you think that this translation
Last Line: Than to have none at all.
Subject(s): English Language; French Language; Great Britain - Parliament; Latin Language


BALLADE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair islands of the silver fleece
Subject(s): Australia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies


BATTLE OF BRITAIN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What did we earth-bound make of it? A tangle
Last Line: Their luck, skill, nerve. And they were young like you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Film (photography); Great Britain - History; World War Ii; English History; Second World War


BEACHY HEAD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On thy stupendous summit, rock sublime!
Last Line: Had to some better region fled for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - History; Sussex, England; English History


BEAU NASH AND THE ROMAN, OR THE TWO ERAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In that old pump-room, as I stood alone
Last Line: And little caius cooed on british ground.
Subject(s): "great Britain - Roman Conquest; Nash, Richard (""beau"") (1674-1762);


BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight
Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year.
Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BECKET, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I the man? That rang
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


BELOW FREEZING ON PINELOG MOUNTAIN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crouched in the rusted cab of a junked pulpwood truck
Last Line: Rises like gray smoke through rust holes in the roof.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Appalachia; Guns; Mountains; Rain; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BELOW THE HEIGHTS, by WALTER HERRIES POLLOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat at berne, and watched the chain
Last Line: The rose so quickly faded.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BEN LOMOND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hadst thou a genius on thy peak
Last Line: Of perishable man.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BERKSHIRE HILLS, by WILL H. SKALING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sunrise o'er berkshire hills, hush
Last Line: Sedge in meadows, river lush.
Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BETWEEN SESSION AND SESSION, by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Against wicked men's will
Subject(s): Government; Great Britain - Parliament


BEYOND, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stranger wandering in the switzer's land
Last Line: Lieth thine italy.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


BLACK BUTTE, by PAUL SOUTHWORTH BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Squat on the prairie, scowling, sits black butte, mightiest rock-chief of them
Last Line: And the rock lips break into a long, bitter smile!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BLAKE VISITS THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: I spied, to-day, a crop of newtons ripe
Last Line: A lie! They're bland as clott'd cream in devon
Subject(s): Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain


BLESSED PERMANENCE OF HILLS, by EDITH OGDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could not live where there is not a hill
Last Line: A panacea for littleness that kills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BLEST IS THE TARN, by SARA COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade
Last Line: She yields that dream of bliss to ever welcome sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Lakes; Mountains; Tarns; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BOADICEA, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While about the shore of mona those neronian legionaires
Last Line: Fell the colony, city, and citadel, london, verulam, camulodune.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOADICEA; AN ODE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the british warrior queen
Last Line: "shame and ruin wait for you!"
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Boudica; Boadicea


BOAR'S HILL; OCTOBER, 1919, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall slender beech trees, whispering, touched with fire
Last Line: Ere your steps turned home?
Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Pain; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery


BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am ten, the british quit
Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We made a trade
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Libraries & Librarians; India; English History


BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am ten, the british quit
Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We make a trade
Variant Title(s): Independenc
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Librarians And Libraries


BOILING SAP AT NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our sugarhouse was jest a shack
Last Line: That syrup made at dead of night!
Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating; Mountains; Soup; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me
Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine.
Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife
Last Line: Chorus—
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BOOTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're foot - slog - slog - sloggin' over africa
Last Line: An' there's no discharge in the war!
Subject(s): Army Life; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; British Empire; England - Empire


BORDER HILLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mosaic of topaz, emerald, and mauve
Last Line: And as old.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BOUDICA: 1, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the testicles of bulls, over the seven
Last Line: Our words, speaking only in dreams
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 10, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hymns bawled by the chain-gang. Sweeping
Last Line: Men painted blue, its tattered women who don't come
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 11, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thighs and rumps, mirrors, high-class rugs
Last Line: Under the skin, under the bones
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 12, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far from the sea, by wadi and fjord. Fashionable warriors and firedogs
Last Line: Dictates. Hodge-podge of slogans. Kentoc'h mervel, freedom or %death
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 13, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Packs of black dogs, car-horn concerts, eddies of blood; sub-prefects
Last Line: The goose-egg of aging moons. Another shot, gunboat and pillar of %fire, massacre of the druids, the
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 14, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the roots of the sacred wood, the prophet and his flock. Words
Last Line: Caratacus in the cemetery. Harangue, stiff-necked, grit your%teeth. Bro gozh va zadou!
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 15, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: White hyena, trail of insects. Like a rumor, like an eczema, to burst
Last Line: Foot-to-foot fighting, the molotov cocktail, pain eating at the left %breast
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 16, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man-stealer, arsonist, pope joan of this and of that, if only someone
Last Line: Trash cans of these tatterdemalion champs and support-structure
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 17, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mack truck pin-ups, pasionaria with unsubtle step. O boudica
Last Line: Her face towards the flame in the fireplace. She sloughs off a %world incapable of closure
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 18, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fare-up of oghamic codices. Sufferance on twenty-five acres of
Last Line: Tread of boots up country. Triumph arches and boneyards. %red eagles and wearing forefathers
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 19, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: What region of wild radishes with grinite pipers. Above the
Last Line: Love, till the joints go stiff. Wound and salt. From single solitude %to the solitude of a hundred t
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 2, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the sacred wood to bitter fifedoms
Last Line: Burning beneficent anxiety
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 20, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: What merchandise do the villages throw up
Last Line: Stamp the ground in a ring
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 21, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Toutatis, thanatos, elliptical divinities, biodegradable ...
Last Line: Pickpockets imminent
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 22, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the oppidum girls in shorts and t-shirts
Last Line: Barkers, mobilized, surround her with familial haze
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 23, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dress done up, neck a burnt umber
Last Line: The children of excrement have beaming cheeks
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 24, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Periplus of the salmon, the waterway's
Last Line: We putter around in the ferns and in the furze. Death, my eye
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 25, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nomenclature of rites, tender hands for the
Last Line: Rebel love and business as usual
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 26, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stained glass of an ancient winter
Last Line: Sweat and tears no longer do anybody ill
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 27, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's from here and reveals time past to do
Last Line: With its warm ashes
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 28, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aerial views, soundings, excavations
Last Line: The people burlesqued
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 29, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tough woman tyrannized by so much night
Last Line: The blood of open hands. Tangling sources
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 3, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gaps in the landscape, and a particular way of
Last Line: Good stories that could. The impossible
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 30, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day within night, night within day
Last Line: Wind smites the typewriters
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 31, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Touching the white stones in the clearing
Last Line: The oilcloth, the book wide open
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 32, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's the sky, the broom-field, the four walls
Last Line: Onto that central region
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 33, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: History of the peace after orgasm
Last Line: The luck of not being eternal
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 34, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night of fiction, friction of the stars
Last Line: Boudica vying with angela, anjela
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 35, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: After decapitated bell-towres, nudity
Last Line: Legends of a besieged people
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 36, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A century of needles. The thorns shrink back
Last Line: On the verge of the lips
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 37, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flies and their avatars, in concentric flight
Last Line: Sleeping on her side among the ferns turned to coal, knees t
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 38, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Convene the landscape for the disclosure
Last Line: It must have been intentional
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 39, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: End of winter: from atom to meteor, the thaw
Last Line: Two-edged words, or three-edged
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 4, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Geography of the colonizer, from the fenced-off
Last Line: Tons of mud, the gods bamboozled
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 40, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: From red to violet, meteorological flares
Last Line: Death of the queen, toppled
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 5, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grammarian and philologist, in obscure
Last Line: Racing, courage in spurts
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 6, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faithful wives, unlicked tots, adolescents down
Last Line: Speak out before winter e
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 7, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At carhaix, the cracked mirror, blood-stained
Last Line: Loving them. From old saw to gordian knot
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 8, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: From nantes to carhaix, the savings-and-loan
Last Line: To answer. Powder-barrels. Cities of refuge
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BOUDICA: 9, by PAOL KEINEG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Straight line of jet planes, snake-bright metal
Last Line: Garden / torture garden
Subject(s): Boudicca (d. 60 A.d.); Great Britain - Roman Conquest


BRIDE, by THOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: After the turgid incidence and when
Last Line: "the peak seemed highest, whispering, ""take me there."
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BRITANNIA, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As on the sea-beat shore britannia sat
Last Line: But the rough cadence of the dashing wave.
Subject(s): Free Trade; Great Britain - Foreign Relations


BRITANNIA REJECTA, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where now is britain? - where her laurelled names
Last Line: The yell of deprecation.
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS, SELS., by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO LORD ZOUCH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honour's bright ray
Last Line: A pyramis built to thy memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain; Zouch, Edward, Lord (1556-1625)


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The times are swoll'n so big with nicer wits
Last Line: I am as confident as they are nice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE FIFTH SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In notes that rocks to pity move
Last Line: ^1^idya, the pastoral name of england.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE FIRST SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marina's love, yclep'd the fair
Last Line: Till from the wat'ring we again return.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE FOURTH SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fida's distress, the hind is slain
Last Line: The ever gladsome day shall re-enthrone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE SECOND SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oblivion's spring, and dory's love
Last Line: To tune mine oaten pipe for doridon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE THIRD SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherd's swain here singing on
Last Line: Beauty gone you will repent you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. TO WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not that the gift, great lord, deserves your hand
Last Line: W. Browne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain; Herbert, William, 3d Earl Of Pembroke


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 2. THE FIFTH SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within this song my muse doth tell
Last Line: My muse awhile will here keep holiday.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 2. THE FIRST SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marina's freedom now I sing
Last Line: Shall make the rivers dance and valleys ring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 2. THE FOURTH SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cornish swains and british bard
Last Line: And quickly come, to end the rest, again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 2. THE SECOND SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shepherds on the sea were seen
Last Line: And put my pipes up till another time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 2. THE THIRD SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A redbreast doth from pining save
Last Line: That I ere night may end another song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 3. THE FIRST SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice had the pale-fac'd cynthia fill'd her horns
Last Line: That famous drake and I were born by thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 3. THE SECOND SONG, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good day to all, ye merry western swains
Last Line: For by your sweetness I describe all others.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Great Britain


BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE, 1915, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, down by millwall basin as I went the other day
Last Line: For a tight place is the right place when it's wild weather at sea!
Subject(s): Merchant Marine - Great Britain; World War I; First World War


BRITISH RURAL COTTAGES IN 1842, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scentless rose, train'd by the poor
Last Line: Where is the aged pauper's rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Poverty; Roses


BRITISH WONDERS, SELS., by EDWARD WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In wretched times, when men were given
Last Line: Kept wisely up to vertue's rules
Subject(s): Great Britain - History - 1714-1716


BRITONS, GUARD YOUR OWN, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise, britons, rise, if manhood be not dead
Last Line: We swear to guard our own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain; Sharpshooters; Marksmen


BRUNNEN, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the princely towers of berne
Last Line: With their country's rights to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Alps; Brunnen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BUONARROTI, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No longer cold or dolorous, the gleaming mountains loom
Last Line: Mad angelo still proves that marble lived -- and never dies!
Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BURY HILL, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To this green hill a something dream-like clings
Last Line: And feed my wonder, while the sheep graze on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BY THE ROSANNA, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old grey alp has caught the cloud
Last Line: And tops it in a silver fountain.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CACHE LA POUDRE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole world / (which you said I was
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CALIFORNIA HILLS, by DORIS CALDWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You would not need to flaunt yourself for me
Last Line: Withhold your beauty or my heart will break!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW, by MARY KINZIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains did look in
Last Line: Like a drone instrument / the highway
Subject(s): Mountains; Man-woman Relationships; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Male-female Relations


CANAAN, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They march at god's
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CANAAN, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They march at god's
Last Line: Or a leg like flails
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


CANADA TO THE LAUREATE; IN RESPONSE TO TENNYSON'S LINES, by AGNES MAULE MACHAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: And that true north, whereof we lately heard
Last Line: Whose lustre is thy children's -- is our own!
Subject(s): Canada; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)


CANUTE THE GREAT, SELS., by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England; Great Britain - History


CAPRICE, by IDA STERNFELS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady fleecer
Last Line: "and hold high carnival."
Subject(s): Montana; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CAPTAIN DEATH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The muse and the hero together are fired
Last Line: I ne'er saw rhw fellow of brave captain death
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;pirates; English Navy;piracy;buccaneers


CAPTAINS ADVENTUROUS, by NORAH M. HOLLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Captains adventurous, from your ports of quiet
Last Line: Captains adventurous, the masters of the sea.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War


CASWALLON'S TRIUMPH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the glowing southern regions
Last Line: As a torch to stream through ages!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Cassivelaunus, British Prince; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Cassivellaunus, British Prince; Casawallan, British Prince; Caswallon, British Prince


CATHAIR FHARGUS [FERGUS'S SEAT], by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With face turned upward to the changeful sky
Last Line: And thus I wait till resurrection-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Arran (island), Ireland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CATHEDRAL, by BESSY KERLEE MONROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mountains at morning were like a row
Last Line: "chanting, ""thanks be to god!"
Subject(s): Holidays; Mountains; Thanksgiving; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CHANGE, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mighty mountain pass! From eldest time
Last Line: Pure voice of wind and stream?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CHARGE THAT CAN CHEERILY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now coil up your nonsense 'bout england's great navy
Last Line: Disdaining to strike while a stick is left standing
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Navy - United States; War Of 1812


CHARTIST SONG, by THOMAS COOPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The time shall come when wrong shall end
Last Line: Till goodness shall hold high jubilee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The
Subject(s): Chartism; Great Britain - History; English History


CHILDREN OF THE STREET, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright boys vociferous
Last Line: Some vague philosopher.
Subject(s): Child Labor; Great Britain; Newspapers; Poverty; Journalism; Journalists


CHOICE, by HILARY CORKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have known one bound to a bed by wrist and ankle
Last Line: And what shall I choose, if I am free to choose?
Subject(s): Death; Navy - Great Britain; Sea


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 1. NEW GRANGE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The golden hill where long-forgotten kings
Last Line: Above the cromlech of the vanished gods.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 10. OLD MAGIC, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: As light swings wide the mighty eastern door
Last Line: And vanish up the flaming slopes of morn.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Magic; Druidism; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 11. THE BLIND NUN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A nun green-girdled in a forest tower
Last Line: Across her blindness shone the face of god.
Subject(s): Blindness; Great Britain - History; Nuns; Visually Handicapped; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 12. SAINT BRIDE'S EVE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: At twilight on a lonely cattle trail
Last Line: Her shadow falls, and wild hearts know its peace.
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Great Britain - History; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 13. DUNDAGIL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lonely headlands at a magic cry
Last Line: Beneath the splendor of the dragon star.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 14. SAINT ILLTYD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When fierce caer leon's wars were trumpeted
Last Line: Fair as the star of morning shone the grail.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 15. ARAN MOR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Foam-girdled shores a lost enchantment keep
Last Line: On cross and ruined cairn a rose of light.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 16. THE BLESSING OF SAINT COLUMCILLE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Torqued warriors turned their galley's crimson prow
Last Line: The old gods listened, lonely in the dew.
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 17. SAINT BRENDAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In simple days before the gods were old
Last Line: Upon the burnished edges of the air.
Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Great Britain - History; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 18. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOK, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath bronze chariot wheels the torn earth steamed
Last Line: Led by the lone white warrior of the skies.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 19. SAINT ORAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Saint oran told them while the west grew dim
Last Line: Of that wild fruit of flame whose taste is peace.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Oran, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 20. SAINT COLUMBA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The murmuring tide foams slowly up the sands
Last Line: The well-loved outline of his irish shore.
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 21. CLONARD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: By lost clonard the river meads still hold
Last Line: In morning meadows when the world was young.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 22. THE BURNING OF BAMBOROUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: With thundering wheels the golden war-wains run
Last Line: Far ringing harps on bamborough's starry height.
Subject(s): Aidan, Saint (d. 651); Bamborough, England; Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 23. CAEDMON, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: From feast and song the simple cowherd crept
Last Line: And a new speech was given to the earth.
Subject(s): Caedmon (7th Century); Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 24. SAINT HILDA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In hollow pastures misted with the spume
Last Line: High in her garth above the lonely sea.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Hilda, Saint (614-680); English History; Hild, Saint; Whitby, Abbess Of


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 25. THE FOREST SAINT, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When wolves were conquered by a hermit's bell
Last Line: And houseled odin's warrior christ's armed knight.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 26. OWINI'S VISION, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thane beneath a snowy hawthorn hedge
Last Line: Within the silver circle of their wings.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 28. JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: To wolfish knights with hound and hooded hawk
Last Line: The last great echoes of far greece are borne.
Subject(s): Erigena, John Scotus (810-877); Great Britain - History; Scot, John The (81-877); Eriugena, John Scotus (81-877); English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 29. THE STAG OF CHEDDAR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king rode close behind the royal stag
Last Line: Should rule the abbey of the holy thorn.
Subject(s): Dunstan, Saint (924-988); Edmund I, King Of England (921-946); Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 3. A DRUID TOWN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sunless maze of tangled lanes enfold
Last Line: The golden caer upon the ninth wave's foam.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 30. QUEEN MARGARET'S MISSAL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king stood bowed within the cloister crypt
Last Line: Love and the light-illumined word abide.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Malcolm Iii Macduncan, King Of Scotland; Margaret Of Scotland, Saint (1046-1093); English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 31. THE BRINDLED HARE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: By grange and castle when the fields were cool
Last Line: Bearing against his breast the wounded hare.
Subject(s): Animals; Anselm Of Canterbury, Saint (1033-1109); Great Britain - History; Rabbits; English History; Hares


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 32. SAINT HUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On mountain slopes, whose rocky summits glow
Last Line: Sunward to meet the mystery of god.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 33. A ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A road shines through the forest of the years
Last Line: The ruined roadway still endures and waits.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Roads; English History; Paths; Trails


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 4. CAER SIDI, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone, unarmed, the dragon king must go
Last Line: High in his mighty grasp the star-rimmed bowl.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 5. ARTHUR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind storm-fretted bastions gray and bare
Last Line: The strange gods calling through their mystic horn.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 6. TALIESIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lonely shores where dreams are drifted sand
Last Line: Up toward the dragon city of the sun.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Taliesin; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 7. YNISWITRIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dim watered vale whose clear streams seek the sea
Last Line: Of new songs that shall fill those fallen choirs.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 8. THE HOLY THORN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long centuries past by lonely barrows grew
Last Line: At wintry christ-tide flowers the holy thorn.
Subject(s): Glastonbury Thorn; Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 9. THE FOREST, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In lonely thickets where the wood is deep
Last Line: The light of dawn on his uplifted face.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History


CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Endless london / mourns for that knowledge
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Endless london %mourns for that knowledge
Last Line: Redemption and last %salvo of poppies?
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


CIVIL WARS BETWEEN THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK (AFTER LUCAN), by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing the civil warres, tumultuous broyles
Last Line: The alps and us, the pyrenei and rhene
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War


CIVIL WARS: KING RICHARD II IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A place there is, where proudly raised there stands
Last Line: She must confess, or else deny the light
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War


CLEVEDON CHURCH, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward I watch the low green hills of wales
Last Line: And all his waves complain.
Subject(s): Churches; Clevedon, Great Britain; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Cathedrals


CLEVEDON VERSES: 1. HALLAM'S CHURCH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grassy field, the lambs, the nibbling sheep
Last Line: And spreads itself, and moans upon the roof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Churches; Clevedon, Great Britain; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Cathedrals


CLEVEDON VERSES: 2. DORA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She knelt upon her brother's grave
Last Line: My god, I leave it unto thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies


CLEVEDON VERSES: 3. SECUTURUS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each night when I behold my bed
Last Line: And I would gladly die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies


CLEVEDON VERSES: 4. CUI BONO?, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What comes
Last Line: Who cuts it cuts but rock, or digs the sapless sand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


CLEVEDON VERSES: 5. STAR-STEERING, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, will it ever come again
Last Line: When shall I steer by you again, o stars?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Stars


CLEVEDON VERSES: 8. THE BRISTOL CHANNEL, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sulky old gray brute!
Last Line: A lovely ghost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Bristol Channel, Great Britain


COLD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Land, snake, river, %sweeten the loam
Last Line: They sway, they coo, %they put scotch tape where it burns
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta


COLONISATION IN REVERSE, by SIMONE LOUISE BENNETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wat a joyful new, miss mattie
Last Line: Colonizin' in reverse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bennett, Louise
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Jamaica, West Indies; British Empire; England - Empire


CONCERNING INHERITANCE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions
Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield / over the city
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Inheritance & Succession; English History


CONCERNING INHERITANCE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions
Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield %over the city
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


CONNECTICUT HILLS, by MINERVA WRIGHT ROCKWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: For countless centuries these hills have stood
Last Line: Will sleep among these hills, to waken at their bidding.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CONTENT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should be content
Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CONTRA MORTEM: THE MOUNTAIN FASTNESS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond and farther and yet from every vantage
Last Line: The ever and never known the pivot the horizon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CONTRASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is roaring down the lake
Last Line: Will never bloom again!
Subject(s): Evil; Mountains; Soul; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CORN-LAW HYMN, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, call thy pallid angel
Last Line: A sea, a sea of men!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Corn Laws (great Britain); Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


CORRUPTION; AN EPISTLE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Boast on, my friend -- though stripp'd of all beside
Last Line: O england! Sinking england! Boast no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Freedom; Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Liberty; English Revolution, 1688


COURTSHIP AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the woodland pasture
Last Line: Beneath the moonlit sky.
Subject(s): Courtship; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CROCKNAHARNA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the heights of crocknaharna
Last Line: Twenty hundred miles away.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CYCLE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Natural strange beatitudes
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CYCLE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Natural strange beatitudes
Last Line: Do you mean %beatitudes
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DAKOTA HILLS, by H. R. MARTINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hills in the hazy
Last Line: Are leveled in sleep.
Subject(s): Mountains; North Dakota; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DARK-LAND (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these last things reduced
Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Anglican Church; Jews; English History


DARK-LAND (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these last things reduced
Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DARK-LAND (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherein wesley stood
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DARK-LAND (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherein wesley stood
Last Line: Of entailed riches
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DARK-LAND (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aspiring grantham
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DARK-LAND (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aspiring grantham
Last Line: To flagrant mercies
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DAVID, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: David and I that summer cut trails on the survey
Last Line: That day, the last of my youth, on the last of our mountains.
Subject(s): Hiking; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DE ANIMA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salutation: it is as though
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DE ANIMA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salutation: it is as though
Last Line: Ourselves and masters of all %humility
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The people moves as one spirit unfettered
Last Line: The archangel, unseeing, unbowed, %chimes with each stroke
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DER TAG: NELSON AND BEATTY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No doubt 'twas a truly christian sight
Last Line: This grey november morning.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Beatty, David. 1st Earl (1871-1936); Navy - Great Britain; World War I - Naval Actions; English Navy


DESCRIPTION OF A NINETY-GUN SHIP, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst a wood of oaks with canvas leaves
Last Line: And with triumphant navies rule the main!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


DESERT MONTAINS (MEXICAN COAST), by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Their loneliness lies brooding like a cloud
Last Line: Mere spindrift flying in a windy place.
Subject(s): Mexico; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DESPOND WHO WILL - I HEARD A VOICE EXCLAIM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Toss in the fanning wind a humbler plume
Subject(s): Great Britain


DESTROYERS OFF JUTLAND, by REGINALD MCINTOSH CLEVELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: They had hot scent across the spumy sea
Last Line: These hounds that england suckled at the birth.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Jutland; World War I; First World War


DIVIDENT HILL, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pause here, o muse! That fancy's eye
Last Line: Their heaven-built monument.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs.
Subject(s): Heroism; Mountains; Heroes; Heroines; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


DON SEBASTIAN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The judge removed, though he's no more my lord
Last Line: And let him pay his taxes out in writing.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Religious Discrimination; British Empire; England - Empire; Dramatists; Religious Conflict


DRUID CHORUS ON THE LANDING OF THE ROMANS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the dread and viewless powers
Last Line: Gods are gathering -- romans, fly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Anglesey (island), Wales; Druids; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Druidism


DUTCHESS OF MONMOUTH'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER DUKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "loyal hearts of london city, come, I pray, and sing my ditty"
Last Line: "then from her eyes, with fresh supplies, down trickles many a brinish tear"
Subject(s): "cooper, Anthony (1621-1683);great Britain - History;love - Loss Of;scott, James. Duke Of Monmouth (1649-85);" "shaftesbury, 1st Earl Of;english History;


DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIFTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last villeneuve accepts the sea and fate
Last Line: And fiercely the predestined plot proceeds
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark now, and gather how the martial mood
Last Line: Affection ever was illogical
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, yes, I grasp your reasons, mr. Pitt
Last Line: He's staunch. He's watching, or I am much deceived
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our migratory proskenion now presents
Last Line: And if he's not, why, we've a holiday!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldiers, the hordes of muscovy now face you
Last Line: A gauze of shadow overdraws
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur the admiral decres
Last Line: If time's weird threads to weave!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. FORE SCENE. THE OVERWORLD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What of the immanent will and its designs?
Last Line: We may but muse on, never learn
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIFTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Napoleon even now embraces not
Last Line: Over the scene they disappear
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another stranger presses to see you, sir
Last Line: And peoples are enmeshed in new calamity!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether the rain comes in or not
Last Line: Whether ye sigh their sighs with them or no!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The life-guards still insist, love, that the king
Last Line: Will light me in
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird's eye perspective is revealed of the peninsular trace
Last Line: A painless hand
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now he's one of the eighty-first
Last Line: The night closes over
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The portent is an ill one, emperor
Last Line: The woes of moscow
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The view is from a vague altitude over the beautiful country
Last Line: The opera house becomes lost in darkness
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This grateful rest of four-and-twenty hours
Last Line: To leipzig city, and await the blow
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SEVENTH. THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aerial view of the battlefield at the time of sunrise
Last Line: Because it must
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground
Last Line: From to-morrow's mist-fall till time is sped
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo


DYNASTS: 3. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We come; and learn as time's disordered deaf sands run
Last Line: The dawn must find us fording the nivelle!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. AFTER SCENE. THE OVERWORLD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus doth the great foresightless mechanize
Last Line: Concious the will informing, till it fashion all things fair
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


EARLY EVENING IN APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A drift of fragrance down a lane of spring
Last Line: Wistful and delicate and debonair.
Subject(s): April; Evening; Mountains; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 14. GLAD TIDINGS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For ever hallowed be this morning fair
Last Line: And calm with fear of god's divinity.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 26. ALFRED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold a pupil of the monkish gown
Last Line: In sacred converse gifts with alfred shares.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


EDELWEISS, by WARREN PEASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Child of the snowdrift and the storm!
Last Line: Is baby madeleine.
Subject(s): Alps; Babies; Children; Edelweiss; Mountains; Infants; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EIGER, MONCH, AND JUNGFRAU, by NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more of cities, with their proud cathedrals
Last Line: Rimmed as with sculptured silver, sweet chartreuse.
Variant Title(s): The Chartreuse On The Lake Of Thun
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Thun (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EINSIEDELN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid savage rocks, and seas of snow that shine
Last Line: In mute devotion on the thankful breast!
Subject(s): Alps; Einsiedeln, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ELLIOTT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hands off! Thou tithe-fat plunderer! Play
Last Line: A freehold in his grave!
Subject(s): Corn Laws (great Britain); Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)


ENGLAND, by JAMES LINCOLN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who would trust england, let him lift his eyes
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, that sendest out the man
Last Line: Will vibrate to the doom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Great Britain; Patriotism; Liberty


ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES [OR, DOMINIONS], by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands, a thousand wintered tree
Last Line: Perchance may one day call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): Children Of Britain
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; British Empire; England - Empire


ENGLAND AND SPAIN; OR, VALOUR AND PATRIOTISM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too long have tyranny and power combined
Last Line: Eternal haloes round her sainted head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; Spain; War


ENGLAND AND THE S.A. REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be just and generous! Fear not thou
Last Line: The april buds remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - Politics & Government


ENGLAND QUEEN OF THE SEAS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Will you take them into partnership
Last Line: The children of your knees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


ENGLAND TO FREE MEN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of my blood, you english men!
Last Line: Come in—before my clock strikes twelve!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain


ENGLAND'S ENEMY, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands like one with mazy cares distraught
Last Line: Muses how rome of romans was undone.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; World War I - Great Britain; English History


ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle
Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane
Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Canteen
Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers; English Civil War


ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle
Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane
Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Cantee
Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers


ENGLISH HILLS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O that I were
Last Line: Her cool dark loveliness.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EPIGRAM ON THE CHINESE TREATY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our wars are ended - foreign battles cease
Last Line: "still ""mistress of herself though china fall!"
Subject(s): China; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Peace


EPIGRAM ON THE TWO MOUNTAINS OF AMOS-CLIFF AND BILBOROUGH, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold how almias-cliff and bilborough's brow
Last Line: Let them, maria, thy parnassus be!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EPISTLE TO ALBERT DEW-SMITH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Figure me to yourself, I pray
Last Line: Smoke with an unperturbed mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EPITAPH, by DENNIS SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They hanged him on a clement morning, swung
Last Line: Till they pass away.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lynching; British Empire; England - Empire


EPITHALAMIUM, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bee in the field. The house on the mountain
Last Line: Of light: particle to wave. Do you take? I do
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EUROPE A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five windows light the cavern'd man: thro' one he breathes the air
Last Line: Call'd all his sons to the strife of blood.
Subject(s): Bible; Europe; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology


EVENING - MOUNTAINS, by THEODORE DREISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shadowy hills
Last Line: The poem of a star.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EVENING AMONG THE ALPS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft skies of italy! How richly drest
Last Line: And roves the alpine gale o'er solitudes afar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EVENING IN ENGLAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From its blue vase the rose of evening drops
Last Line: I and a marsh bird only make a wail.
Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain


EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the sunset tree!
Last Line: And the reaper's work is done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tyrol, Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't such a bad thing
Last Line: Everyone knows whom the saved envy
Subject(s): Angels; Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EVISA: A SKETCH IN CORSICA, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the rose-red chasms and the gorges
Last Line: Lone upon wide wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Corsica; Drawing; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


EXALTATION, by HILDA WHILT ARCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I climbed the glad hills near our friendly old town
Last Line: That I found 'mongst the silent ones, over the hill.
Subject(s): Montana; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EXPEDITIONAL, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Troops to our england true
Last Line: Fighting in flanders.
Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain


EZEKIEL'S WHEEL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider now the valley
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


EZEKIEL'S WHEEL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider now the valley
Last Line: The bane of judah
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain and the squirrel / had a quarrel
Last Line: Neither can you crack a nut.'
Subject(s): Mountains; Religion; Squirrels; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology


FALKLAND AT NEWBURY, 1643, by FREDERICK JOHN FARGUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now which is wrong or right? Too glib we talk
Last Line: A soldier's death to end a statesman's doubts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Conway, Hugh
Subject(s): Cary, Lucius. 2d Viscount Falkland; Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War


FAMOUS HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS WYATT, SELS., by JOHN WEBSTER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542)


FANCIES IN THE FIRELIGHT, IN THE CONVENT OF SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, it is a joy to gaze
Last Line: Dona eis requiem!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FAREWELL TO ETNA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great mountain, swathed in blue with foamy crest
Last Line: May counsel with my soul to rival his.
Subject(s): Farewell; Mountains; Soul; Tears; Parting; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FIELD OF WATERLOO: A POEM, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair brussels, thou art far behind
Last Line: Best justifies the meed thy valiant sons have won
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852)


FLINT AND STEEL, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountain / mesquite
Last Line: For the little verb that will kindle the fire!
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Smells; Spring; Trees; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


FOR BRITAIN: A SOLDIER'S SONG, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, our britain is a noble realm, as all the nations know
Last Line: While stalwart arms and loyal hearts are to their country true.
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism


FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1698, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Music now thy charms display
Last Line: Happy, happy, past expressing.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Heroism; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines


FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1703, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, how the muses call aloud
Last Line: England's protecting george, and guardian of the main.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Wars With France; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Queen Anne's Lace; Joy; Delight


FOR QUEEN MARY'S BIRTHDAY 1691, by THOMAS SHADWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, welcome, glorious morn
Last Line: And long preserve the blessings thou hast giv'n.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Hymns (as Literary Form); Mary Ii, Queen Of England (1662-1694); British Empire; England - Empire


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1777, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again imperial winter's sway
Last Line: And our great cement be—the public good.
Subject(s): Burke, Edmund (1729-1797); Finality; Great Britain - Rulers; Holidays; New Year


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1718, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh touch the string, celestial muse, and say
Last Line: And britain's festival be thine.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Relations With France; Triplets; United Nations


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1794, by HENRY JAMES PYE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rous'd from the gloom of transient death
Last Line: Sacred to patriot worth, to patriot bosoms dear.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Wars With France; Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to thee, glorious rising year
Last Line: For thee thy people all, for thee the year is blest.'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Wars With France; Holidays; New Year; Odes (as Poetic Form)


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 NEW YEAR 1761, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still must the muse, indignant, hear
Last Line: And albion's dreaded strength secure the world's repose.
Subject(s): Blood; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mourning; Navy - Great Britain; Ruins; British Empire; England - Empire; Bereavement; English Navy


FREE PARLIAMENT LITANY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: More ballads! - here's a spic and span new suppliction
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament


FROM EAGLE ROCK, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who says that eagle rock was not well named
Last Line: Luminous, hushed, a city of the skies!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FROM MOUNTAIN-SLOPES, by NELLIE I. CRABB    Poem Text                    
First Line: I climb through terraced gardens, see below
Last Line: Demand that love prepare their day of peace.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FROM MUCK TO MUCKISH, by JANICE FITZPATRICK-SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fossil rock from the sligo coast, spanish bowls
Last Line: And what we drive toward willingly now
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


FROM PENLAN HILL, CARMARTHEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the town the valley lies
Last Line: Limpid stream and laughing water.
Subject(s): Carmarthen, Wales; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen


FROM THE CABRILLO AT SANTA BARBARA, by EMILY WILSON SANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: One by one the white cohorts advance
Last Line: In the sun, with garlands in her hair.
Subject(s): Mountains; Seashore; Waves; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Beach; Coast; Shore


GALLANT ENGLISH TAR, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There's one whose fearless courage yet has never fail'd in fight
Last Line: Here's to the brave upon the wave, the gallant english tar
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sailors And Sailing


GENERAL ROBERTS IN AFGHANISTAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1878, and the winter had set in
Last Line: He spread death and desolation all along.
Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Great Britain - Norman Conquest; Grief; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


GEO-BESTIARY: 14, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a geezer one grows tired of the story
Last Line: And make your own little pyramids.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GHOSTS OF PAPER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Should you go down ludgate hill
Last Line: As I'm sure you often will!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GLADSTONE, 1885 (DURING THE SOUDANESE WAR), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A skilful leech, so long as we were whole
Last Line: Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sudan; British Empire; England - Empire


GOD MEETS ME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God meets me in the mountains when I climb alone and high
Last Line: God meets me in the canyon when I miss him in the town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): God; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GOD SAVE THE KING, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God save our gracious king!
Last Line: God save the king!
Variant Title(s): National Air: England
Subject(s): National Song - Great Britain; Patriotism; National Anthem - Great Britain


GOING HOME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm goin' 'ome to blighty - ain't I glad to 'ave the chance!
Last Line: Thank gawd for dear old blighty in the mawnin'.
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; England; War; World War I; English; First World War


GOLDAU, by JOHN NEAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: An everlasting hill was torn
Last Line: His desolation mocks the skies.
Subject(s): Alps; Goldau, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GOLDEN ROWAN, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She lived where the mountains go down to
Last Line: Is all we know of her.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GOTHAM, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Far off (no matter whether east or west)
Last Line: I know it duty, and I feel it fame.
Subject(s): Duty; Freedom; Gold; Great Britain - Rulers; Liberty


GRANITE HANDS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The great granite hands of the mountain
Last Line: Strong hands were built for shelter.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GREAT BRITAIN THROUGH THE ICE, OR PREMATURE PATRIOTISM, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I lived in the icy times forlorn
Last Line: Thaw out old dover for the houseless kings?'
Subject(s): Great Britain; Rivers


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


GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honey I'd split your kindling
Last Line: & my dove
Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains; Agriculture; Farmers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


GREENWICH, KENT; INSCRIPTION ON ANSON'S SHIP THE CENTURION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stay, traveller, awhile, and view
Last Line: In ease with dignity appear, %he in the house of lord - I here
Subject(s): Anson, George, Baron (1697-1762); Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles


GUNGA DIN, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You may talk o' gin and beer
Last Line: You're a better man than I am, gunga din!
Subject(s): Army Life; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Heroism; India; Loyalty; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire; Heroes; Heroines


HARD EASTER, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadows from the spruce woods slouch down the hill
Last Line: Open underground.
Subject(s): Death; Montana; Mountains; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HAROLD; A DRAMA, SELS., by ALFRED TENNYSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


HASBEEN HILL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill
Last Line: On the slope of hasbeen hill!
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HATE (TO CERTAIN FOREIGN TRADUCERS OF ENGLAND), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs, if the truth must needs be told
Last Line: Be cloistered and kept virginal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Hate


HAWAII AND OAHU, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hawaii, with thy sea-washed shore
Last Line: Until we meet again.
Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Mountains; Volcanoes; Parting; Oceania; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HEART OF OAK, by DAVID GARRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer
Last Line: Heart of oak etc.
Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Great Britain; Quebec, Battle Of (1759); Valor; Bravery; English Navy


HEMLOCK MOUNTAIN, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: By orange grove and palm-tree, we walked the southern shore
Last Line: For all the summer islands where the gulf tides flow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HEROISM, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a time when aetna's silent fire
Last Line: In britain's isle, beneath a george's reign.
Subject(s): Great Britain; Heroism; Heroes; Heroines


HIGH TIDE, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twilight deepened and one by one
Last Line: Till the frightened tide turned to flee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion
Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


HILL AND VALE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not on the river plains
Last Line: Of stars and clouds allied.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILL TIDES, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: These rolling billows of the hills
Last Line: And wash it golden clean for me.
Subject(s): Mountains; Summer; Tides; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by HILDA CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills are going somewhere;
Last Line: In the time I've watched them . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by SCOTTIE MCKENZIE FRASIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My earliest memories are of hills
Last Line: Or else let me dream -- then die!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never loved your plains!
Last Line: And strength for climbing!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have not lived until you know a hill
Last Line: That strange tree-god that watches over all.
Subject(s): Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a special glory set apart
Last Line: Can turn them to the hills, as friends of old!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS O' MY HEART, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hills o' my heart!
Last Line: Hills o' my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, by CYRUS CASWELL JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I can hear the padres chanting in the early golden air
Last Line: On the hills of california in the morning.
Subject(s): California; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS OF HOME, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Name me no names for my disease
Last Line: "seeking again those hills."
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS OF HOME, by MALCOLM HEMPHREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Yon hills are filled with sunlight
Last Line: And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


HILLS OF OHIO, by GRACE K. EWART    Poem Text                    
First Line: With their heads adorned in splendor
Last Line: Than the hills of old ohio in the fall.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLTOP, by LAURA M. GRADICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The heights are best for vision
Last Line: We can commune with god.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HIS MIRACLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He read how faith, the merest grain
Last Line: "those mountains may remain,"" said he."
Subject(s): Miracles; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HISTORY OF BRITAIN: DIANA'S REPLY TO BRUTUS, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brutus, far to the west, in the ocean wide
Last Line: And kings be borne of thee, whose dreaded might %shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical


HOME IN THE HILLS, by ALTHEA V. DIEHL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Home in the hills, - back where my heart is
Last Line: I'd like a heart you reared and loved come out to welcome me.
Subject(s): Hearts; Home; Mountains; Peace; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HOW ROBIN HOOD RESCUED THE WIDOW'S THREE SONS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


HUDIBRAS: PART 1, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir hudibras his passing worth
Last Line: Already tir'd with other toil.
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Presbyterianism; Liberty; English History


HUDSON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ma-hican-ittuck! / river to the mountains
Last Line: Beats warm and unafraid.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; New York City - Dutch Period; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HYMN OF EMPIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Britons! Salute the rising sun
Last Line: Save for the freedom of the world!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire


HYMN TO ARTEMIS: ALL MOUNTAINS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me all mountains
Last Line: And the towering mountain trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HYMN TO MONT BLANC [IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
Last Line: Earth with her thousand voices, praises god.
Variant Title(s): Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni;chamouny;mont Blanc Before Sunrise;hymn Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni
Subject(s): Alps; Blanc, Mont; Chamonix, France; God; Mountains; Religion; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology


HYMN WRITTEN AMONG THE ALPS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Creation's god! With thought elate
Last Line: Thee, thee, my god, I trace!
Subject(s): Alps; Hymns (as Literary Form); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


I VOW TO THEE, MY COUNTRY, by CECIL SPRING-RICE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Great Britain


IAMQVE VALE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim in the moon wide-weltering humber flowed
Last Line: Dream for the night, but with the morn will go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Humber River, Great Britain


IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Liebe, meine, liebe. I had not hoped
Last Line: How gravely and sweetly the poor touch in the dark
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain
Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe.
Variant Title(s): To Augustus
Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen


IN AMPEZZO, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only once more and not again - the larches
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE ALPS, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who first beholds those everlasting clouds
Last Line: At the first glimpses of fair italy.
Variant Title(s): The Alps
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can the village dead remain so / still
Last Line: And dance in triumph on my crumbling shroud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Mountains; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE CHARMED LAND, by FRANCES HATHAWAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great mountain, white mountain
Last Line: And the rose in snow!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE HIGH HILLS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Height overhead to the deeps
Last Line: The everlasting hills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE PASS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across my road a mountain rose of rock
Last Line: Who do not know the secret of the pass.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Variant Title(s): The Pass Of Ampezzo
Subject(s): Alps; Ampezzo, Austria; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE SIMPLON PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vallombrosa! I longed in thy shadiest wood
Last Line: Of love in the heart made more happy by tears?
Variant Title(s): Stanzas Composed In The Simplon Pass
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IN THE ST. GOTTHARDT PASS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm which shook the silence of the hills
Last Line: They kiss high heaven in all embracing light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


INDIA'S GUEST (H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young heir to an old, old throne! Your wandering prow
Last Line: Of all our wondrous fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Edward Viii, King Of England (1894-1972); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; India; British Empire; England - Empire


INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall
Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . .
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues


INNER HISTORY (APRIL 19, 1775), by LENA HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a mother wise as solomon
Last Line: And wise heart linked to heart, we understand.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Great Britain; Revolutions; United States; America


INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou a patriot, traveller? On this field
Last Line: And quell each angry and injurious thought.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Honor; Travel; English History; Journeys; Trips


INTO THE MIDST OF BATTLE, by CARLA LANYON LANYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mountains are at war; flash and flash again
Last Line: That were before and shall endure beyond all wars.
Subject(s): Mountains; War; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


INTOLERANCE; A SATIRE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Start not, my friend, nor think the muse will stain
Last Line: And feels but half thy loss while grattan lives.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Religious Discrimination; English Revolution, 1688; Religious Conflict


IRISHMAN'S OBSERVATION ON BRITISH POLITICS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh what shall we do with the yankeys
Last Line: For jammy has gave him a smack, %and no ships on the ocean to plunder
Subject(s): Great Britain; Navy - United States


ISLAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daddy neptune one day to freedom did say
Subject(s): Courage; Great Britain; Patriotism


ITALY AND BRITAIN, by JOSEPH ADDISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How has kind heav'n adorn'd the happy land
Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Italy


JANUARY IN THE TREMEZZINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day by day / as if in may
Last Line: In a sweet retreat on the larian lake?
Subject(s): Alps; January; Lakes; Mountains; Peace; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


JOYFUL NEW BALLAD, by THOMAS DELONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: O noble, england %fall down upon thy knee
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Spanish Armada


JUNGFRAU, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The virgin-mountain, wearing like a queen
Last Line: Deafening the region in his ireful mood.
Variant Title(s): The Jungfrau And The Fall Of The Rhine Near Schaffhausen
Subject(s): Alps; Jungfrau (mountain), Switzerland; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


KILIMANDJARO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to thee, monarch of african mountains
Last Line: Father of nile and creator of egypt!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Kilimanjaro, Mount (africa); Mountains; Nile (river); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


KINCHINJUNGA, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O white priest of eternity, around
Last Line: On any shrine is left to tell life's sting.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Future Life; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


KING EDWARD THE THIRD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, to whose fury the nations are
Last Line: "fair albion's shore, and all her families."
Subject(s): Bible; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377); Freedom; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology; Liberty


KING EDWARD THE THIRD, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord audley, whiles our son is in the chase
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp
Last Line: Upon his dying day.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness


KING HENRY VII AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harry, our king in england, from london town is gone
Last Line: That they may keep measure with harry our king and peace in engeland!
Subject(s): Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Navy - Great Britain; Shipbuilding; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry; English Navy


KING RICHARD III, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Mothers; Sea


KING STEPHEN; A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If shame can on a soldier's vein-swoll'n front
Last Line: Can make his june december. Here he comes.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


KING'S MOUNTAIN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all the cities of this year
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


KLICKITAT HILLS, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are no fat
Last Line: With loneliness.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LAKE LEMAN AND CHILLON, by HENRY MORFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the old genevan wharf she lay
Last Line: By a guest with a bad digestion!
Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LAKE URI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From such romantic dreams, my soul, awake!
Last Line: To pilgrims overcome by summer's heat.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Uri (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LAMENT OF RICHARD DURING HIS IMPRISONMENT, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If one in prison may not tell his wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Greifenstein Castle, Austria; Prisons And Prisoners


LANDSCAPE, by CHALLIS SILVAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stalwart old men of earth
Last Line: By some miracle of destiny . . .
Subject(s): Canyons; Landscape; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LAST ECSTASY, by ALETHA CALDWELL CONNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want to go to the hills of oklahoma
Last Line: In the hills of oklahoma!
Subject(s): Mountains; Oklahoma; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LAST OF ENGLAND, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's quiet here among the haunted tenses
Last Line: A planet majestically in the mind
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Great Britain; Migration


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hamlet ballytullagh, small and old
Last Line: Loy, a half-spade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Despair; Mountains; Poverty; Solitude; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away
Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


LAUTERBRUNNEN, by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lowly hut, stone piled and redly stained
Last Line: Gracing their simple lives with natural piety.
Subject(s): Alps; Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the self of my former shadow
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


LIBERTY, SELS., by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Greece; Italy; Roman Empire


LIBERTY: PART 4. BRITAIN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Struck with the rising scene, thus I amazed
Last Line: "and lay the toil of ages in the dust."
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History


LIBERTY: PART 5. THE PROSPECT, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here interposing, as the goddess paused
Last Line: Rush'd the still ruins of dejected rome.
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Liberty


LINES SUGGESTED BY THE STATUE OF ARNOLD VON WINKELRIED STANZ-UNTERWALDEN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inspiring and romantic switzer's land
Last Line: The martyr winkelried's immortal name!
Variant Title(s): Lines Suggested By The Statue Of Arnold Von Winkelried
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Stanz, Switzerland; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LINES WRITTEN IN SURREY, 1917, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sudden swirl of song in the bright sky
Last Line: Of english daisies dancing in english dells.
Subject(s): England; World War I - Great Britain; English


LINES WRITTEN ON THE BANKS OF EDEN, NEAR KIRKBY STEPHEN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From distant moor-land heights descending
Last Line: Eden, to thy dark stream farewell!
Subject(s): Calm; Eden (river), Great Britain; Rivers; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


LINES, ETC., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman should not rule this realm'
Last Line: And guard our coeur de lion still, %in every sacred right!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Women's Rights


LITERARY IMPORTATION, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However we wrangled with britain awhile
Subject(s): Great Britain; United States


LITTLE BRITAIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "in ancient times, no matter where"
Last Line: "where birds escape the fatal gun, / and men alone are shot at"
Subject(s): Debt;great Britain;poverty


LITTLE THINGS, by POLLY CHASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is space in mountains
Last Line: Very brief.
Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


LORD EXMOUTH'S VICTORY AT ALGIERS, 1816, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun looked bright upon the morning tide
Last Line: In glorious victory.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Pellew, Edward. 1st Viscount Exmouth; Sea Battles; English Navy; Naval Warfare


LOUISA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met louisa in the shade
Last Line: To hunt the waterfalls.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LUCERNE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shores of lucerne! Where many a winding bay
Last Line: "a deep, deep sigh, ""avenge, o god, their cause!"
Subject(s): Alps; Lucerne, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LUCERNE, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet there is / within an eagle's flight
Last Line: Why should it ever die?
Subject(s): Alps; Lucerne, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LUDGATE HILL-DECEMBER NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was the heart
Last Line: Over the craters, a banner from the dome.
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no one among men that has not a special failing
Last Line: I choose a place that is unfrequented by men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


MAGNA CARTA, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magna carta! Magna carta!
Last Line: English brothers, we are waiting!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; World War I; English History; First World War


MANDALAY, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the old moulmein pagoda, lookin' lazy [or, eastward to] at the sea
Last Line: Crost the bay!
Subject(s): Army Life; Asia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Mandalay, Burma; Drills & Minor Tactics; Far East; East Asia; Orient; British Empire; England - Empire


MANFRED, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Projected from the bilious childe
Last Line: An after-dinner's indigest.
Subject(s): Alps; Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear to the loves, and to the graces vowed
Last Line: Stilled by the ensanguined block of fotheringay!
Subject(s): Cumbria, England; Derwent (river) Great Britain; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart


MATTERHORN QUESTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As men essay the matterhorn
Last Line: Bids them to climb and do their best.
Subject(s): Alps; Labor & Laborers; Mountains; Pain; Soul; Work; Workers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery


MAY ROAD, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road we followed led us to a hill
Last Line: Somehow, to keep the love that we exchanged.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MEETING THE MOUNTAINS, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He crawls to the edge of the foaming creek
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MELTING OF THE EARL'S PLATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's the gold cup all bossy with satyrs and saints
Last Line: With the shouts of the multitude bringing the king.
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Great Britain - History; English History


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


MEN WHO MARCH AWAY (2), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We be the king's men, hale and hearty
Last Line: Right fol-lol!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


MERCURY; ON LOSING MY POCKET MILTON AT LUSS NEAR BEN LOMOND, by ROBERT ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Luss! Be forever sunk beneath / ben's horrors piled around
Last Line: The laurel never sere.'
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


METIGOSHE, by THONETTE TRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Past the garden, cairn and fountains
Last Line: Metigoshe of the mountains!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Down valley a smoke haze
Subject(s): Mountains; Memory; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MIDNIGHT AT GENEVA, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The azure lake is argent now
Last Line: To the long-sighed-for smile.
Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MIDNIGHT FIRES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The narrow wings of sunset spread and sank
Last Line: Our lights burn low; and so send out their light.
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism


MIDSHIPMAN, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aid me, kind muse, so whimsical a theme
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea


MIRAGE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ethereal mountain
Subject(s): Mirages; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MISERICORD, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory
Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery


MOB CONTRA MOB, OR, THE RABBLERS RABBLED, SELS., by WILLIAM MESTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now of all wars the ecclesiastick
Last Line: Backward in haste unto their lodging
Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Great Britain - Religion


MODERN IDOLATRY, OR ENGLISH QUIXOTISM, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My native shades delight no more
Last Line: And worship wooden monarchs -- out of fear --
Subject(s): American Revolution; Great Britain


MONCH AND JUNGFRAU, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: From a lofty alpine summit look down
Last Line: And they who join in the chorus are surely of heavenly birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius
Variant Title(s): Switzerland
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


MONT BLANC, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rest, my soul, from meteor dreams
Last Line: Rise then, -- to heaven!
Variant Title(s): The Alps
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MONT BLANC AT SUNSET, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas late - the sun had almost shone
Last Line: To walk unstained the elysian shade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Lake Of Geneva
Subject(s): Alps; Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Leman, Lake; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The everlasting universe of things
Last Line: Silence and solitude were vacancy?
Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Sleep; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


MONTCLAIR, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear lovely mountain town, farewell
Last Line: Proud mountain town, montclair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry
Subject(s): Mountains; Towns; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MONTJUICH, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill of jews, says one,
Subject(s): Mountains; Barcelona, Spain; Cemeteries; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Graveyards


MOOSIL'AUK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moosil'auk! Mountain sagamore! Thy brow
Last Line: Lone peak! What realms are thine, above, below!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MORAT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above me are the alps
Last Line: Making kings' rights divine, by some draconic clause.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Murten, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Morat, Switzerland


MORNING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morn on the mountains! Streaks of roseate
Last Line: How good, how wondrous good our god must be.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOSQUITO KINGDOM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The coronation ceremony was held in belize this time
Last Line: The librarians say, and it can't be xeroxed; you touch it and it turns to ashes
Subject(s): Central America; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Nicaragua; Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1843-1899)


MOUNT AGASSIZ, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this mountain bore his well-loved name
Last Line: Went prayer in horeb silence unto god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNT KINGSTON, by EDWIN M. CASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The veil of night-mist drawn aside
Last Line: And look down on a pigmy world.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNT RIGHI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meek virgin mother, more benign
Last Line: Sufficient for the wise.
Variant Title(s): Our Lady Of The Snow
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNT TABOR, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tabor's height a glory came
Last Line: And nothing left but christ alone.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN AIR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me of progress if you will
Last Line: And leave me sun and mountain air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie
Last Line: And prairies too!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


MOUNTAIN INSOMNIA, by ELSA THUESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: All through the black edges of night
Last Line: And I slept again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Night; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime


MOUNTAIN LOVERS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn's pale finger from her eye
Last Line: Their vigils, chant their threnodies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN MOMENT, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out across the morning
Last Line: Birches in the dawn!
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Eyes; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN SPEECH, by HARRY COWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: High over all the loftiest heads of all the valley herds
Last Line: "this morn I do not know!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cowell, Henry
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN TOP, by MARY REEDER WINGARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sky that you so loved has changed its gray
Last Line: Oh, can you share the mountain top with me?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAIN WATER, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have taken a drink from a wild fountain
Last Line: In the feathery green of the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINEER AND POET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The simple goatherd between alp and sky
Last Line: Nor bright because god's glory shines for you.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by LAURA BULMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would not live where the prairies lie
Last Line: Could not be at home on the plain.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's fenced all round with mountains where we live
Last Line: Beyond the hollow, where I had a cousin . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by NORA E. HUFFMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somber ... Mysterious ... I love them
Last Line: And is heard through the heart alone.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rifted mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines
Last Line: Sailing up to holy heaven, like the anthems of a saint.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain seems to guard
Last Line: And take what highways bring.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNTAINS IN THE GRAND CANYON, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each a primeval vastness, shaped by hands
Last Line: Abandoned quarry of the infinite.
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MT. RANIER, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow-garmented, immense, / and holding audience
Last Line: Far-flashing monarch of a dead domain.
Subject(s): Mount Rainier; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MT. STUART, by J. A. LAURIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Riven, rent, and cragged
Last Line: We mountaineers unfurl old glory.
Subject(s): Beauty; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MUSINGS NEAR AQUAPENDENTE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye apennines! With all your fertile vales
Last Line: Rise, and to-morrow greet magnificent rome.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MUSINGS ON A COOL RETREAT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a little hidden pool
Last Line: The woolworth building, in the basement!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY ALPENSTOCK, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Best of artists! Mark for me
Last Line: That my legs are no small beer.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair
Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power.
Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY HILLS, by MARY MAPES KEESHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are but hills that from my window
Last Line: Has reached the skies.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY MOUNTAIN HOME, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees have grown so stout and tall
Last Line: And watch, and wait, and weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY NATIVE MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love my native mountains
Last Line: The fairest types of earth.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MY SHADOW, by W. HODGSON BURNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have a sort of shadow that goes out sometimes with me
Last Line: Had forgotten all about me and had gone to vote instead!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Shadows; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won
Last Line: Transformation-scene-and-curtain, apocalypse-hippodrome!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only
Last Line: At the mercy of door-chimes?
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image
Last Line: But shelve it under mercies
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric
Last Line: Not to be taken down
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset
Last Line: This is also admitted: introit turba
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset
Last Line: This also is admitted: introit turba
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


NATIONAL ANTHEM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God prosper, speed, and save
Last Line: God save the queen!
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism


NATIVES OF ROCK, by GLENWAY WESCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire cut away
Last Line: Spikes, and lap the dew.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NATURE RHYMES: 6. WEATHER RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When juana wears her misty shawl
Last Line: Full well we know that rain will fall
Subject(s): Mountains;weather; Hills;downs (great Britain)


NATURE SAYS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature says, / these craggy hills that front the dawn
Last Line: Charged with my genius forth
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun
Last Line: By god-like boys.
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NAVIGATION, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evergreens have reasons
Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NEAPOLITAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naples seems mostly mountains and mules
Last Line: But to fancy them flies!
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mountains; Naples, Italy; Mules; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NEEDLES ROAD, by GERNIE HUNTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lost on a winding roadway
Last Line: And the curve of needles road!
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


NELSON, by GERALD MASSEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our best belover of all the brave
Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


NEVERSINK, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hills, the pride of all the coast
Last Line: Retirement's blest abode!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NIGHT ON THE CONVOY, ALEXANDRIA - MARSEILLES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck
Last Line: We are going home ... Victims ... Three thousand souls.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War


NIGHT RAIN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What time of night it is
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Night; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime


NIGHT RAIN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What time of night it is
Last Line: We will settle to a sleep of the innocent and free
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Night


NIGHTSONG: CITY, by DENNIS BRUTUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep well, my love, sleep well
Last Line: My sounds begin again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; South Africa - Apartheid; British Empire; England - Empire


NOCTES AMBROSIANAE, by DOROTHEA FRANCES (CANFIELD) FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: From hemlock mountain's barren crest
Last Line: To charles and mary lamb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Canfield, Dorothy
Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Lamb, Mary (1764-1847); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NORDIC, by JOEL ELIAS SPINGARN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rainbows and stardust found no room
Last Line: "has cradled you as well as me."
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rainbows; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NORMAN SAW, FR. IVANHOE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Norman saw on english oak
Last Line: Till england's rid of all the four
Subject(s): Great Britain - Norman Conquest


NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES R. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here earth and sky and thudding hoofs of horses
Last Line: Bringing its elder presence -- and closed eyes.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NOT LOVED ENOUGH, NOR YET QUITE LOST, by SUNITI NAMJOSHI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I am too dear for your possessing
Subject(s): National Health Service (great Britain); Riddles


O, THE PLEASANT DAYS OF OLD!, by FRANCES BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the pleasant days of old, which so often people praise!
Last Line: Blessed times of old!
Subject(s): Contentment; Great Britain - History; English History


ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JONATHAN ODELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When rival nations first descried
Last Line: And ruin all intruding slaves
Subject(s): Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Tyranny And Tyrants


ODE ON LORD MACARTNEY'S EMBASSY TO CHINA, by WILLIAM SHEPHERD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swift shot the curlew 'thwart the rising blast
Last Line: Remember afric's woes—and save your destined land.'
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury the great duke / with an empire's lamentation
Last Line: God accept him, christ receive him!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Let Us Bury The Great Duke
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Great Britain - History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; English History


ODE TO EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, ESQ., by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mr. Gibbon!
Last Line: And has no follower -- I mean no uncle!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Wakefield, Edward Gibbon (1796-1862); British Empire; England - Empire


ODE TO TASTE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave not britannia's isle,since pope is fled
Last Line: Hurl'd wildly to the ground!
Subject(s): Civilization; Great Britain; Poetry & Poets


ODE TO THE RIVER TEIGN, by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh thou! The guardian of each floweret pale
Last Line: Enshroud me, far from men, in deep repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bamfylde, John
Subject(s): Teign, River (great Britain)


ODE, WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BONAPARTE, IN JANUARY, 1814, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who counsels peace at this momentous hour
Last Line: Take vengeance for thyself, and for mankind!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs / blooded with amber
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs %blooded with amber
Last Line: The unsustaining %wondrously sustained
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


OF CONSTANCY AND MEASURE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One sees again how it goes
Last Line: With so much else believed to be fire and air
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


OF ENGLAND, AND OF ITS MARVELS, by FAZIO DEGLI UBERTI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now to great britain we must make our way
Last Line: Which might be fair to tell but which I hide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bonifazio Degli Uberti
Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Salisbury, England; Travel; Journeys; Trips


OF MOUNTAINS, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All through the night I am aware
Last Line: His song!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OFF HELIGOLAND, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ghostly ships in a ghostly sea
Last Line: Stands the spirit, all silver-bright.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War


OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, by ETTA MERRICK GRAVES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The grand old man of the mountain
Last Line: Through speeding time will reach!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OLD VERMONT ROADS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old-time roads, they used to run
Last Line: Them roads the fathers used to travel.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ON A FIRST VIEW OF THE GROUP CALLED THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I saw ye, mountains, the broad sun
Last Line: While peals resistless shook the trembling world!—
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Mountains; Seven Mountains (siebengebirge), Germany; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON A FLOWER FROM THE FIELD OF GRUTLI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence art thou, flower? From holy ground
Last Line: Which all high thoughts obey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Grutli, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON A HILLSIDE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A friendly mountain I know
Last Line: Than all the world beside.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns
Last Line: His glory fills the air.
Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this, when I was stationed at hsun-yang
Last Line: And am pleased with anyone who is even remotely human!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON BOOT HILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the prairie and through the pines
Last Line: And a star-speckled range to ride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Mountains; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


ON CHICATAWBUT HILL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: On chicatawbut hill I climbed
Last Line: On chicatawbut hill.
Subject(s): Memory; Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the bleak pass huge alps their shadows throw
Last Line: Pure as yon snow that cleaves the vault of heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON DUTY'S KNOB, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flush of a beautiful sunrise
Last Line: As I looked at it that day.
Subject(s): Dawn; Mountains; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON FLINT ROCK HILLS, by FRANCIS GALATIA YEOMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: On flint rock hills the twilight lies
Last Line: On flint rock hills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON HEARING THE RANZ DES VACHES ON THE TOP OF THE PASS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I listen - but no faculty of mine
Last Line: And joys of distant home my heart enchain.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON HIS MAJESTY'S CONQUESTS IN IRELAND, by THOMAS SHADWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How great a transport is a brave man in
Last Line: And that shall crown your arms, and they your love.
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Protestantism; Soldiers; Victory; War; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702)


ON LUXURY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, ye profuse, has nature work'd in vain
Last Line: Too deeply bosom'd in the branching wood.
Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Pleasure; Vanity


ON MALVERN HILL, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind is brushing down the clover
Last Line: Quiet are the clan and chief, and quiet %centurion and signifer
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest


ON REACHING HONH KONG, by HUANG TSUN-HSIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The waters are those of yao's time
Last Line: Yet on the great flags I do not see %our yellow dragon
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Hong-kong; Imperialism


ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh far away ye are, ye lovely hills
Last Line: Let its dark portals open -- let me die!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON TAKING FROM THE TOP TO BROADEN THE BASE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roll stones down on our head!
Last Line: To broaden its base
Subject(s): Mountains; Avalanches; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For years unblest, all hope of rest forbidden to his feet
Last Line: And pour into the hebrew's ear the lead of a debate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Jews; Judaism


ON THE BELFRY TOWER; A SKETCH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look down the road. You see that mound
Last Line: Poor child! The last of all his race.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War


ON THE BRITISH COMMERCIAL DEPREDATIONS, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As gallant ships as ever ocean stemm'd
Last Line: And plunder'd countries, to make commerce free
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Prisons And Prisoners; Ships And Shipping; Tyranny And Tyrants


ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (1), by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So then - the vandals of our isle
Last Line: The burning of his own.
Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading


ON THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY (2), by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When wit and genius meet their doom
Last Line: The honey on his tongue.
Subject(s): Books; Great Britain - Gordon Riots (1780); Murray, William. 1st Earl Of Mansfield; Vandalism; Reading


ON THE CAPTURE OF THE GUERRIERE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long the tyrant of our coast
Last Line: Dacre and the guerriere!
Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; English Navy; Naval Warfare


ON THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain fair auburn weeps her desert plains
Last Line: Till thou desert the muse and scorn her smile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Great Britain


ON THE DOWNS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A faint sea without wind or sun
Last Line: Time's deep dawn rise.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE BOER REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whilst we debate upon their overthrow
Last Line: But do thou justice first and last of all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Boer War; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Patriotism; South African War


ON THE HILLS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep your brooding sorrows for dewy-misty hollows
Last Line: In the brooding hollows where no breezes are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When from this mighty mountain's top
Last Line: Its sudden fall or rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The top of the world and an empty
Last Line: We are so little and oh, so wise!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


ON THE MOUNTAINS, by ALCMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, on the mountain peaks high up
Last Line: A round of silver-bright cheese-cake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE NEW FORCES OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because you have thrown off your prelate lord
Last Line: New presbyter is but old priest writ large.
Variant Title(s): On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - Parliament; Presbyterianism; Liberty


ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills
Last Line: But when will the earth respond?
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


ON THE PROSPECT FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, MARCH 1750, by ELIZABETH TOLLET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Caesar! Renowned in silence as in war
Last Line: And last of all resign thy julian year.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Westminster Bridge, London


ON THE RIGHI, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the righi kulm we stood
Last Line: Till we climb to heaven again!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Righi, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE SETTING FORTH OF ... PRICESS ELIZABETH & THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can we wish you that you have not won
Last Line: And safe returning crown your journey done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh (b. 1921); Travel; British Empire; England - Empire; Mountbatten, Philip; Journeys; Trips


ON THE SIERRA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the glorious mountains, proud and bleak
Last Line: So far from heaven, that sight of god is lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON THE WOMEN ABOUT TOWN, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too long the wise commons have been in debate
Last Line: Must be damned in the cup like unworthy receivers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Women


ON THE WYE IN MAY, by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the perfect moment of the year
Last Line: Where first and best and last shall be the same.
Subject(s): Spring; Wye (river), Great Britain


ONCE MORE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more by the brook the alder leaves
Last Line: Snorting and bounding heavily before me
Subject(s): Deer; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ONE NIGHT AT VICTORIA BEACH, by GABRIEL OKARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind comes rushing from the sea
Last Line: But the rushing wind killed the budding words.
Subject(s): Aladuras (christian Sect); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Rites & Ceremonies; British Empire; England - Empire


ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY; A POEM, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wretched b--, jealous now of all
Last Line: And one man's honesty redeem the land.
Subject(s): Great Britain; Politics & Government


OPENING OF THE INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION BY THE QUEEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, welcome with one voice!
Last Line: Britons, hold your own!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


OUR BIRTH-CORD, by KOFI ANYIDOHO    Poem Text                    
First Line: A piece of meat lost in cabbage stew
Last Line: The maimed panther is no playmate for antelopes
Variant Title(s): Soul In Birthwaters (suite For The Revolution) 1. Our Birth-cord
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Revolutions; British Empire; England - Empire


OUR HILL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Teddy and jock and I play on a hill all day
Last Line: But it wouldn't be safe for you!
Subject(s): Children; Climbing; Danger; Mountains; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OUR LADS TO THE FRONT! EMBARKATION CANADIAN CONTINGENT SOUTH AFRICA, by AGNES MAULE MACHAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ring out the british cheer
Last Line: To fight in britain's name!
Subject(s): Boer War; Canada; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies


OUR VALLEY, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in july and august
Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OVER THE MOUNTAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like dreary prison walls
Last Line: O beating heart, be still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Mountains; Dead, The; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What alters you, familiar lawn and tower
Last Line: To mask the riches of her bleeding heart.
Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain


PAID ON BOTH SIDES: A CHARADE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trudy: you've only just heard
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War


PARACHUTE MEN, by LENRIE PETERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Parachute men say / the first jump
Last Line: We are always at the starting point
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Parachutes; British Empire; England - Empire


PARENTALIA (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The here-and-now finds vigil transfiguring
Last Line: In the faint rasp of dry autumnal flowers
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PARENTALIA (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go your ways, as if in thanksgiving
Last Line: The other harvest
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, listen, mary mine
Last Line: And the apennine walks abroad with the storm.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PASSING T'IEN-MEN STREET IN CH'ANG-AN AND .. DISTANT VIEW OF CHUNG-NAN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow has gone from chung-nan; spring is almost come
Last Line: Turns his head and looks at the mountains, -- not one man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PAX BRITANNICA, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind her rolling ramparts england lay
Last Line: Watchful she leaned.
Subject(s): Calm; Great Britain - Relations With France; Nations; Peace; Retirement; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


PERKIN WARBECK, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Studies have of this nature been of late
Last Line: And often find a welcome to the muses.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Impostors & Imposture; English History; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry


PHANTASY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a temple of the toes
Last Line: The song of sevilla's barber.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


PIKE'S PEAK, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Throned on the west this naked patriarch
Last Line: With longing for his errant bride, the sea.
Subject(s): Mountains; Pikes Peak, Colorado; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PISGAH, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


PISGAH, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then
Last Line: Perhaps I too am a shade
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


POEM LEFT IN SOUGHDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I the poet gary snyder
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stones in my heart
Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe.
Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks


PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are you, lady? - naught is here
Last Line: Were half as silent as their pictures!
Variant Title(s): Every-day Characters: Portrait Of A Lady
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Portraits; Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain; World's Fairs; Expositions


POSSESSION, by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me are given many things
Last Line: "the calm and peace of eventide."
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Nature; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


POSTCARDS ON MY WINDOW LEDGE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He's there, yes with hardy, larkin heaney
Last Line: My face, tiny, watching him
Subject(s): Great Britain; Soccer; Writing & Writers; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Childhood Memories


POSTLUDE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


POSTLUDE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac
Last Line: Swallow their parturitions
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PRAISE OF PRINCESS MARY, by JOHN HEYWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If all the world were sought full far
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by ANONYMOUS - NATIVE AMERICAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: "young man, chieftain / reared within the mountain"
Last Line: Spirit of the mountains
Subject(s): Mountains;native Americans - Religion;prayer; Hills;downs (great Britain)


PRESIDIO HILL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sabre and cross on this historic crown
Last Line: On old presidio hill.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; San Francisco; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PRINCES IN THE TOWER, by THOMAS HEYWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How does your lordship?
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PRINCESS VICTORIA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And art thou a princess? -- in sooth, we may well
Last Line: Is -- god keep the crown long from that innocent brow!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics


PRO PATRIA, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England, in this great fight to which you go
Last Line: Our fortunes we confide.
Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain


PROPHECY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These mountains long to show their worth
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PSALMS OF ASSIZE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I strike you with my name
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


PSALMS OF ASSIZE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I strike you with my name
Last Line: With the elect justified %to his right hand
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


QUEEN ELIZABETH, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dying, and loth to die, and long'd to die
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


QUEEN MARY; A DRAMA, SELS., by ALFRED TENNYSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Love


QUEEN MOUNTAIN, by BLANCHE BROWNE BRYANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I marvel as you chameleonize
Last Line: That's when I like you best.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


RALEIGH'S CELL IN THE TOWER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here writ was the world's history by his hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


RAVENSHILL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On ravenshill the snows lie long
Last Line: That we must walk on ravenshill
Subject(s): "ravenshill, Great Britain;


RECESSIONAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God of our fathers, known of old
Last Line: Thy mercy on thy people, lord!
Variant Title(s): Lest We Forget!
Subject(s): Faith; God; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humanity; Imperialism; Patriotism; Prayer; Religion; Soldiers; Wealth; Belief; Creed; British Empire; England - Empire; Theology; Riches; Fortunes


REID AT FAYAL, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cliff-locked port and a bluff sea wall
Last Line: In tale and song.
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


REQUIEM FOR THE PLANTAGENET KINGS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores
Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers


REQUIEM FOR THE PLANTAGENET KINGS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores
Last Line: Across daubed rock evacuates its dead
Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers


REQUIESCAT IN PACE!, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O my heart, my heart is sick a-wishing and awaiting
Last Line: And veil thy breast with icicles, and thy brow with snow!
Subject(s): Family Life; God; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


RESPUBLICA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The srident high
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


RESPUBLICA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The srident high
Last Line: Back from the dead
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


REST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills call, the dew-glad morning hills
Last Line: The mother hills where weary men find sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Mountains; Rest; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


RETALIATION, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Of old, when scarron his companions invited
Last Line: He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Paintings & Painters; English History


RICHMOND PARK, by ROWLAND THIRLMERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The thorns were blooming red and white
Last Line: And a yaffle laughed in richmond park.
Subject(s): Richmond Park, England; World War I - Great Britain


RITORNELLI, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angel of tones
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


RITORNELLI, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angel of tones
Last Line: With sounds of joy
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


ROAD AND HILLS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall go away
Last Line: Here, in this light, there is no end. . . .
Subject(s): Mountains; Wanders And Wandering; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ROYAL SPONSORS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The king and the queen will stand to the child
Last Line: At the font that day.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers


RUNNING THE BLOCKADE, by NORA PERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the french fleet lay
Last Line: Who had run the blockade!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston Harbor, Blockade Of (1778); Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; French Navy; English Navy


SABRINA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Isle of the ocean, say, whence comest thou?
Last Line: Thou spark from the fallen one's wide flaming wing.
Subject(s): Azores; Islands; Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


SAINT GEORGE OF ENGLAND, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint george he was a fighting man, as all the tales do tell
Last Line: He'll come home to rest in england where the golden willows blow!
Subject(s): George, Saint (3rd Century); World War I - Great Britain


SAINT GOTHARD PASS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the edge of the chasm is a slippery track
Last Line: He gilds it always, he warms it not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Alps
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SCENES WITH HARLEQUINS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Distance is on edge
Last Line: Foreknowledge-I forget- %in 'retribution'
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SHADY HILLS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shady hills, long shady hills there be
Last Line: Fingers the valley with unshadowed light.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SHOP AND FREEDOM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though with the north we sympathize
Last Line: "free trade, or sable brothers free? / oh, will we choose the latter"
Subject(s): American Civil War;free Trade;great Britain - Foreign Relations;u.s. - History


SIMMENTHAL, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far off the old snows ever new
Last Line: The imperishable child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Simmenthal, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SIMON DE MONTFORT, EARL OF LEICESTER, by JAMES LINCOLN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born and bred in a castle of france
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SNOW VISITS MAGGIORE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Luckily the sun isn't out and the snow
Last Line: Be many a body bereft of its soul!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Snow; Winter; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SNOWY MOUNTAINS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Higher and still more high
Last Line: The mists that dance and drive before the sun.
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SOBIESKI'S SHIELD, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blackberry, white
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


SOBIESKI'S SHIELD, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blackberry, white
Last Line: And what they have about them dark to dark
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO (THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF MARINES), by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I was spittin' into the ditch aboard o' the crocodile,
Last Line: Soldier an' sailor too!
Subject(s): Marines - Great Britain; Sea; Ocean


SOLITUDE, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, mountain, wearing diadem of stars
Last Line: Dark mountain, where pale dogwood waits for spring.
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Mountains; Solitude; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


SOLOTHURN, by HEINRICH VON LAUFENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where, below the steep of jura
Last Line: Print of satan's fingers ten.
Variant Title(s): Saint Verena
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Soleure, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Solothurn, Switzerland


SONG OF DEGREES, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word
Last Line: To his blind faith
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SONG FOR THE NAVY LEAGUE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O where be all those mariners bold who used to control the sea
Last Line: With his yo, heave ho, and his s h ts, and a master of arts degree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Beresford, Charles. 1st Baron; Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


SONG OF AN ALPINE GUIDE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On zurich's spires, with rosy light
Last Line: Around me their great requiem.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONG ON SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, it is a pleasure rare
Last Line: Floats in triumph o'er the crag!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONG TO THE MOUNTAINS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mountains loom upon the path we take
Last Line: Resting there at last we sing our song
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing;mountains; Hills;downs (great Britain)


SONG, FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, 28 MAY 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay thy flowery garlands by
Last Line: Than the bloom of all thy roses.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Parliament; Jacobites; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water
Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair!
Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


SONGS OF TRAVEL: 16, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the highlands, in the country places
Last Line: Life and death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNET TO A SONNET, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rare composition of a poet-knight
Last Line: "thy phrase ""sweet enemy"" applied to france!"
Subject(s): Chivalry; Great Britain - Relations With France


SONNET TO THE RIVER OTTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear native brook! Wild streamlet of the west
Last Line: Ah! That once more I were a careless child!
Variant Title(s): To The River Otter
Subject(s): Landscape; Otter (river), Great Britain; Rivers


SONNET: 1. A MOUNTAIN SPRING, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet
Last Line: Whose likeness is the faithless face of rose.
Subject(s): Mountains; Springs (water); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns
Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind!
Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNET: 16. TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL, MAY 1652, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud
Last Line: Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw.
Variant Title(s): To The Lord General Cromwell;to Lord General Cromwell, May 1652, On Proposals
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Great Britain - History; English History


SONNET: 7, by ANNA SEWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By derwent's rapid stream as oft I strayed
Last Line: And softest silence broods o'er all the dale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Derwent (river) Great Britain


SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain
Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before.
Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 1., by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of her whose face, and lofty name
Last Line: Toward him spurring over bosworth field.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Alps; Daughters; Death; England; Mountains; Dead, The; English; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNETS: 6. THE BERNINA SNOW-MOUNTAINS FROM THE VALE OF ROSEG, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vista seen, like truth down glooms of thought
Last Line: Beacons thy eternal snow's refulgent shield.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Soul; Truth; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONS OF THE EMPIRE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear motherland! Dear motherland! Home of the / brave and free
Last Line: When the bugles of britain blow shrill behind us!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


SORREL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


SORREL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow
Last Line: Salvation's troth-plight, plumed, of the elect
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SPRING IN THE ALPS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowers are at their bacchanals
Last Line: Between the earth and sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Spring; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ST. DAVID'S HEAD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Salt sprays deluge it, wild waves buffet it, hurricanes rave
Last Line: I hold the measure of you all.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; St. David's Head, Wales; English History


ST. GEORGE'S DAY - YPRES, 1915, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To fill the gap, to bear the brunt
Last Line: It is st. George's day.
Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain


ST. MARTIN'S WALL, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Welcome, ye hearts of tyrol, which beat
Last Line: To stir a quicker heart-beat in every tyrolese!
Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tyrol, Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STANZ, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature's bulwarks, built by time
Last Line: With her children scattered round.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Stanz, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STANZAS; BRITAIN AGAINST THE WORLD, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the good of our country before us
Last Line: "be it ""britain against all the world."
Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Patriotism


STORIED SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The weary traveler, who, all night long
Last Line: His weak steps slide, he shrieks, he sinks -- he dies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Alps; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STORM IN THE HILLS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Close on the heel of night there came
Last Line: I saw the moonlight on her tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D.
Subject(s): Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STORM ON SAINT BERNARD, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O heaven, it is a fearful thing
Last Line: Melt out the music of my lyre.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STRAFFORD; A TRAGEDY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say, if he be here
Last Line: Straf. O god, I shall die first -- I shall die first!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Wentworth, Thomas. Earl Of Strafford; English History


STRENGTH FROM THE HILLS, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up unto the hills! Thy strength is there
Last Line: And god himself more near!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Mountains; Strength; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming back over the col between
Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SUBALTERNS: A SONG OF OXFORD, by MILDRED HUXLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: They had so much to lose; their radiant laughter
Last Line: And find the grail ev'n in the fire of hell.
Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain


SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the sea, which is their sky, they rise
Last Line: The intolerable thought none can ignore.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


SUNSET AMID THE BUFFALO MOUNTAINS (N.E. VICTORIA), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the boulder'd majesty
Last Line: Dreamlike steals over each dim range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SUNSET ON THE CUNIMBLA VALLEY, BLUE MOUNTAINS, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat upon a windy mountain height
Last Line: Of mountain life is worthy his twenty-four.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SUNSET ON THE ORANGE MOUNTAINS, by ADRIAN BERKOWITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apollo, homeward bound
Last Line: Their gloom o'er hill and dale.
Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SWATHED ROUND IN MIST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swathed round in mist and crown'd with cloud
Last Line: Is palpable to sense and sight.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SWITZERLAND AND ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the switzer's varied land
Last Line: Unscathed, for art is not of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


SYMON AND JANET, by ANDREW SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Surrounded wi' bent and wi' heather
Last Line: Gaed bannin' the french again hame.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


SYNOPSIS OF A FAILED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every simile is elegy
Subject(s): Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TAKING TO THE HILLS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If walking, like wine, only abets a sad mood
Subject(s): Walking; Nature; Mountains; Love; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TALK, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many were there talking that I heard
Last Line: Her nobleness the indignity of defence.
Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain


TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE; A METRICAL EPISTLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord! Though your lordship repel deviation
Last Line: To pause, and resume the remainder to-morrow.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Great Britain - Relations With France; Grenville, William Wyndham (1759-1834); Talleyrand, Charles (1754-1838)


TEJUNGA VALLEY IN JUNE, by BESSIE PRYOR PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stand with me, nanette
Last Line: Sense but the sweetness—of the thing called life!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, by WOLE SOYINKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The price seemed reasonable, location
Last Line: See for yourself?'
Subject(s): Blacks; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


THANK GOD FOR MOUNTAINS, by ACHSA W. SPRAGUE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see them in their beauty once again
Last Line: No more forever.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THAT MAN AS A RATIONAL ANIMAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Abiding provenance I would have said
Last Line: Innocence of first inscription
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


THE AGE OF BRONZE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The 'good old times' - all times when old age good
Last Line: This first, you'll have, perhaps, a second 'carmen.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737)


THE ALPINE FLOWERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meek dwellers mid yon terror-stricken cliffs!
Last Line: And freer dreams of heaven.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ALPINE SHEPHERD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In scenery sublime and rude
Last Line: Far from his native mountain-home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ALPS, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: E'en now, where alpine solitudes ascend
Last Line: Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ALPS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains of this glorious land
Last Line: What my offence hath been.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ALPS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've roamed amongst the eternal alps
Last Line: Thus hecla, etna feel; and all, save ye, around.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ALPS AT DAYBREAK, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunbeams streak the azure skies
Last Line: Perched, like an eagle's nest, on high.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ALPS; SEEN FROM MARENGO, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glory of a cloud -- without its wane
Last Line: Untainted by his life—untrusted with his grave?
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ARMSTRONG AT FAYAL, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the sun sets red, the moon shines white
Last Line: Of the yankee privateer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy


THE ASHANTEE WAR: THE FALL OF COOMASSIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1874, and on new year's day
Last Line: And the reception they received was very grand.
Subject(s): Enemies; Failure; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; War; British Empire; England - Empire


THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust
Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible
Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence


THE BACCHAE: CHORAL SONG, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the mountains wild 'tis sweet
Last Line: The bacchanal goes forth and treads the echoing ground.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BALLAD OF JOHN PAUL JONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He hath masted the flag of the crimson bars
Last Line: By the sweep of the moonlit steel!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); New York City - Revolutionary Period; British Empire; England - Empire


THE BALLAD OF THE CLAMPHERDOWN, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was our war-ship clampherdown
Last Line: And as it still shall be.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; English Navy; Naval Warfare


THE BARDS; TO THE SOLDIERS OF CARACTACUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Valiant sons of freedom's land
Last Line: Free as the light, the wave, the wind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Bards; Caratacus (1st Century); Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Patriotism; War


THE BARONS BOLD, by WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: The barons bold on runnymede
Last Line: Our wrongs shall all be righted.
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Liberty; English History


THE BARREN HILL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my home, a long straight hill
Last Line: Than ever it could give.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BATTLE OF ABU KLEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of mars, come join with me
Last Line: Then the square was re-formed and the battle was o'er.
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Praise; Soldiers; Victory; War


THE BATTLE OF ATBARA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of great britain, pray list to me
Last Line: And to annihilate barbarity, and to establish what is right.
Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - History; Rifles; War; Dead, The; English History


THE BATTLE OF CRESSY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 26th of august, the sun was burning hot
Last Line: And he thanked jack for capturing the bohemian standard during the fight.
Subject(s): Blood; Cressy, Battle Of (1346); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Victory; War


THE BATTLE OF DUNDEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on the mountain-side the battle raged, there was no stop nor stay"
Last Line: That ''twas the english fought the dutch' at the battle of dundee
Subject(s): "dundee, Scotland;navy - Great Britain;war;" English Navy


THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of great britain! Come join with me
Last Line: And to establish what's right wherever they go.
Subject(s): Death; Fights; Great Britain - History; Military; Victory; War; Dead, The; English History


THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In july, when the bees swarmed thick
Last Line: But where the austrian rabble fled a thunder-storm rolled black.
Variant Title(s): The Death Of Winkelried
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Sempach, Battle Of (1386); Switzerland - Wars; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Sempach, Switzerland


THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gallants, attend and hear a friend
Last Line: They'll make their boasts and brags, sir.
Variant Title(s): British Valor Displayed
Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Great Britain - Civil War; Machinery & Machinists; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; English Civil War; American Navy


THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF PENICUIK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills
Last Line: And drink the pure water from their crystal rills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE BECKONING HILLS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a motto that hangs by my desk I can read
Last Line: The peace that my nature would find.
Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: One evening when the sun was low
Last Line: In the big rock candy mountains
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills;downs (great Britain)


THE BLUE HILLS OF MILTON, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have travelled o'er our country
Last Line: Near boston by the sea.
Subject(s): Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BONNIE SIDLAW HILLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie clara, will you go to the bonnie sidlaw hills
Last Line: Chorus—
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE BRECON BEACONS AND THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair, shining mountains of my pilgrimage
Last Line: While I so spring, as if I could not fade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The frontispiece fixes as / british
Subject(s): Great Britain; History; Landscape; World War Ii; Historians; Second World War


THE BRITISH GRENADIERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "some talk of alexander, and some of hercules"
Last Line: "with a tow, row, row, row, row, row, for the british grenadiers"
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain


THE BRITISH PRISON-SHIP, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid these ills no tyrant dared refuse
Last Line: And his last efforts more than damn the first.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Hospitals; Navy - Great Britain; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea Battles; English Navy; Convicts; Naval Warfare


THE BUGLER FROM THE PEAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this cry that sudden seems to shake
Last Line: The bull-elk bugles midst the topmost peaks!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Night; Snow; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime


THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory.
Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore
Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History


THE C.S.A. COMMISSIONERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ye jolly yankee gentlemen, who live at home"
Last Line: That brains are sometimes northward found as well's in c.S.A
Subject(s): "confederate States Of America;great Britain - Foreign Relations;mason, James Murry (1798-1871);slidell, John (1793-1871);" Confederacy


THE CALL, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under what spell are we debased
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; War; British Empire; England - Empire


THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just!
Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys


THE CAPTAIN; A LEGEND OF THE NAVY, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He that only rules by terror
Last Line: With one waft of the wing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea; English Navy; Ocean


THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year 1762 that france and spain
Last Line: And the londoners applauded the british for the honours they had won.
Subject(s): Battleships; Fights; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Havana, Cuba; Victory


THE CASTLE OF CHILLON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair lake, thy lovely and thy haunted shore
Last Line: The heart thy fuel, and the grave thy shrine.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE CHAMOIS HUNTERS, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away to the alps
Last Line: The wild hunters sleep.
Subject(s): Alps; Chamois; Hunting; Mountains; Hunters; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, SEEN FROM THE LAKE OF LUGANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sacred pile! Whose turrets rise
Last Line: Of fatal austrian spears.
Subject(s): Alps; Churches; Lugano (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Tell, William; Winkelried, Arnold Von (d. 1386); Cathedrals; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE CLIFFS OF DOVER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rocks of my country! Let the cloud
Last Line: To live and die for thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Dover, England; Great Britain; Patriotism


THE COL DE BALM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunshine and silence on the col de balm
Last Line: In the deep calm of love and everlasting light?
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE COMFORT OF THE HILLS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here have I wandered oft these many years
Last Line: God's angelus, is sighing in the trees.
Subject(s): Comfort; God; Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE CORONATION, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At westminster, hid from the light of day
Last Line: Clamour dogs kingship; afterwards not so!'
Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Great Britain - Rulers


THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun
Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray!
Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE COWARD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ave you seen bill's mug in the noos today?
Last Line: Wot's the matter with bill!
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War


THE CRUISE OF THE 'ROVER', A.D. 1575, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They sailed away one morning when sowing-time was over
Last Line: Then kissed each other silently, and hand in hand they died.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Sea Battles; Ships & Shipping; English Navy; Naval Warfare


THE CRYSTAL HUNTERS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er mountains bright with snow and light
Last Line: O'er mountains bright, etc.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In westminster's royal halls
Last Line: Rests the city of our god!
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Westminster Abbey; Liberty; English History


THE DAY IS COMING, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither lads and hearken
Last Line: And forth the banners go.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Great Britain - History; Peace; English History


THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy, joy in london now!
Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight


THE DIAMOND JUBILEE; AN ODE. JUNE 20, 1897, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice, give thanks for all the centuries
Last Line: And bless with heart and voice this fair auspicious day.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Great Britain - History; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); English History


THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF A YOKOHAMA LEAF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each train that passes
Last Line: By the delightful discovery drugstore.
Subject(s): Leaves; Mountains; Trees; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DISTANT ALPS, by FLORENCE SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: But I must leave thee, italy! Today
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DOWNS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely
Last Line: He masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DOWNS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the downs high to the cool sky
Last Line: And the scent of the parching grass!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo; Scientists; Battle Of Waterloo


THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever justice with her iron hand
Last Line: Debauch'd, like danäe, with a golden show'r?
Subject(s): Deception; Great Britain; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Justice; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Revenge


THE ENGLISH FLAG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winds of the world, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro
Last Line: "ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there!"
Variant Title(s): The Flag Of England
Subject(s): Courage; Flags - Great Britain; Valor; Bravery


THE EXILE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I have lost the mountains, I
Last Line: I see the mountains in my dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Exiles; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE EYE IN THE ROCK, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A high rock face above flathead lake
Last Line: Painted this eye that the rock might see.
Subject(s): Admiration; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Stones; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Granite; Rocks


THE FAIR ISLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of the fair isle! Forget not the time
Last Line: Who died for the crown of the beautiful isle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Great Britain; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE FALL OF THE AAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the fierce aspect of this river
Last Line: These humbler adorations will receive.
Subject(s): Alps; Handeck (falls), Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE FAMOUS FIGHT AT MALAGO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all you brave sailors that sails on the main
Last Line: Because with five frigates we did them destroy
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;sea;sea Battles; English Navy;ocean;naval Warfare


THE FAR MOUNTAINS, by ARTHUR JONSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The far mountains have a crown of white
Last Line: As they tramp the delectable solitudes.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the story to your sons
Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore!
Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America


THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by CHARLES DICKENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate
Last Line: Hail to the coming time!
Subject(s): England; Great Britain - History; Wealth; English; English History; Riches; Fortunes


THE FLAG OF OLD ENGLAND, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail to the day when the britons came over
Last Line: Chorus—hail to the day, &c.
Subject(s): Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); Flags - Great Britain; Halifax, Canada; Nova Scotia


THE FLEET, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, you, if you shall fail to understand
Last Line: But then too late, too late.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Navy - Great Britain; British Empire; England - Empire; English Navy


THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: WITH A YO, HO, HO, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O could I sing as you have fought
Last Line: How to battle, to conquest, to glory, we dart!
Subject(s): Battleships; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Sailing & Sailors; Victory


THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: YE NATIONS, TREMBLE! PARLIAMENT HAS MET, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frown you? Frown on; your hour is past!
Last Line: And not abash'd shrink back into their graves.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament


THE FORESTERS: NATIONAL SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no land like england
Last Line: Cho. -- for the french, etc.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; National Song - England; English History; English National Anthem


THE FORESTS OF THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lone waumbek methna! Who dares to profane
Last Line: What the red man has hallowed the white man will keep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; New Hampshire; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE FORTUNES OF BRITAIN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My britain, they cavil and sneer
Last Line: When all else is dust.
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism


THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1776, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When england's king put english to the horn
Last Line: On england with more honour to her name.
Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain; World War I - United States


THE FREED ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A few brief years have passed away
Last Line: "to new-world tyrants, old-world kings!"
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; West Indies; Antislavery Movement - United States; British Empire; England - Empire; Caribbean Islands


THE FUTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After ten thousand centuries have gone
Last Line: And, if akin to him, akin in vain.
Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE GHOSTS OF OXFORD, by WILBERT SNOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went walking up and down
Last Line: The darkened streets of oxford town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber
Subject(s): Oxford, England; World War I - Great Britain


THE GRANITE MOUNTAIN, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a mountain, lone it lies
Last Line: Find a refuge for the night.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, long long"
Last Line: And the grass on the mountain
Subject(s): Grass;mountains;native Americans; Hills;downs (great Britain);indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE HILL TOP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The burly driver at my side
Last Line: The whole round world beside!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILL-FLOWERS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moving through the dew, moving through the dew
Last Line: Moving through the dew, moving through the dew.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILL-VALLEYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hill-valleys, the cool valleys, valleys that I / know
Last Line: To your dear love waiting and your own home light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS, by RAY D. BLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw the hills in childhood years
Last Line: Against a changeless sky.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no joy of earth that thrills
Last Line: Clad on with sleep and memory.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my soul, let us go unto our hills
Last Line: O my soul, let us go unto our hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS, by A. J. PATCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Born of the ice, the children of the ancient
Last Line: Till the shadows of the twilight steal along the old hill-trail.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS OF CARRARA, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst a vale of springing leaves
Last Line: Responsive to the charm of those who -touch it well!
Subject(s): Carrara, Italy; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HILLS OF WALES (TO MEMORY OF THOMAS ELLIS & M. LLEWELYN WILLIAMS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly the ages come and go
Last Line: The hills remain.
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE HILLS WE LOVE, by GRACE LOWE BROADHEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are hills down near the south seas
Last Line: Are the only hills we love.
Subject(s): Home; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN: BRUTUS' PRAYER TO DIANA, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddess of shades, and huntress, who at will
Last Line: Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical; English History


THE HISTORY OF INSPIDS; A LAMPOON, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chast, pious, prudent, charles the second
Last Line: Prove wretched, king'd by storks and loggs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Great Britain - History; English History


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 70. THE HILL-SUMMIT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This feast-day of the sun, his altar there
Last Line: And the last bird fly into the last light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: FEBRUARY. UNDER THE SPEAKER'S GALLERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all the comedy of human things
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament


THE ILLUMINATION OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS AT PORTSMOUTH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks to those festal fires! Mankind shall be
Last Line: And how the bells of welcome pealed and chimed!
Subject(s): Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Peace; Portsmouth, England; French Navy; English Navy


THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE; AN ODE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With soaring voice and solemn music sing!
Last Line: Laud them, rejoice, peal forth: worthy are they of praise!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); British Empire; England - Empire


THE JACK O' THE UNION, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Talk not of our fathers' fears!
Last Line: Break out the jack! Let it boom to the buffeting breeze!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


THE JACOBITE ON TOWER HILL, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He tripped up the steps with a bow and a smile
Last Line: With the life of the bravest of any that bled.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Jacobites; Patriotism; English History


THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1), by ALICE LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother england, mother england, 'mid the / thousands
Last Line: England say!
Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia
Subject(s): Exiles; Great Britain - Civil War; Heroism; Jews; Right To Asylum; Soldiers; English Civil War; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism


THE JOY OF THE HILLS, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ride on the mountain tops, I ride
Last Line: My body's a bough in the wind, my heart a bird!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE KNIGHT AND THE FRIAR: PART 1, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In our fifth harry's reign, when 'twas the fashion
Last Line: Beats all that I can say upon it.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Love; Melancholy; Dejection


THE LAKE AT ZURICH, by JAMES COCHRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Richmond, dost thou remember rapperschwyl
Last Line: Nor is of eden feelings all bereft.
Variant Title(s): On The Lake Of Zurich
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LAKE OF CONSTANCE, by GUSTAVE SCHWAB    Poem Text                    
First Line: The horseman rides in the valley's glow
Last Line: A grave on the shore of the lake he found.
Variant Title(s): The Horseman And The Lake Of Constance
Subject(s): Alps; Constance (lake), Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LAKE OF GENEVA, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain then, clad with eternal snow
Last Line: Licks from their cloudy magazine the snows.
Variant Title(s): Switzerland
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


THE LAKE OF ZURICH, by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair is the majesty of all thy works
Last Line: Elysium all the vale.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Zurich (lake), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern sky of azure hue
Last Line: From out the mountain lake.
Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Trees; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LAST BERKSHIRE ELEVEN: THE HEROES OF MAIWAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas at the disastrous battle of maiwand, in afghanistan
Last Line: Until the last man in the arms of death stiff and stark lay.
Subject(s): Afghanistan; Berkshire, England; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Heroism; Massacres; War; Heroes; Heroines


THE LAUNCH OF A FIRST-RATE; WRITTEN ON WITNESSING THE SPECTACLE, 1840, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England hails thee with emotion
Last Line: Nail thy colors to the mast.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Shipbuilding; English Navy


THE LILY AND THE ROSE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nymph must lose her female friend
Last Line: They reign united there.
Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Lilies; Roses


THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew
Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill.
Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE HILL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, here the air is sweet and still
Last Line: I think I am its mother!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE HILL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a little hill, a round green hill, in my own country
Last Line: For the song I knew in the dusk and dew and the little green hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Memory; Mountains; Irish; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LITTLE PATH, by SALLIE P. FITZHUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It winds across a little hill
Last Line: To the haven of my heart.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LONESOME HILL, by LILLIAS C. NEVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low I hear the night wind
Last Line: Past the lonesome hill.
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE LONG HILL, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must have passed the crest a while ago
Last Line: The rest of the way will be only going down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The long trail calls!
Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG WAY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two miles of ridin' from the school, without a bit of trouble
Last Line: That sunset fadin' yellow through the notches of the hills?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE LORDS OF THE MAIN, by JOSEPH STANSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When faction, in league with the treacherous gaul
Last Line: The first-born of neptune are lords of the main!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


THE LOSS OF H.M.S. VICTORIA, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let england mourn for these her gallant sons
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Shipwrecks


THE LUCKFLOWER, by HARVEY W. FLINK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon a rugged hill-side
Last Line: Upon the mountain sides.
Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Flowers; Mountains; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LURE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw night leave her halos down
Last Line: When south-east winds are blowing low.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MAYOR OF QUEENBOROUGH [QUINBOROUGH], by THOMAS MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What raynulph, monk of chester can
Last Line: From the convulsions it hath long endured. [exeunt.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Politics & Government; Tanners And Tanning


THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men that fought at minden, they was rookies in their time
Last Line: Ho! Run an' get the beer, johnny raw!
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Minden, Germany; World War I; First World War


THE MODERN PATRIOT, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rebellion is my theme all day
Last Line: Then farewell british freedom.
Subject(s): Great Britain; Revolutions


THE MONASTERY OF MARIA EINSIEDELN, by JAMES COCHRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas eventide in summer's glorious prime
Last Line: Before me thus, all unexpected, brought!
Variant Title(s): On First Seeing The Monastery Of Maria Einsiedeln
Subject(s): Alps; Einsiedeln, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOST-SACRED MOUNTAIN, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Space, and the twelve clean winds of heaven
Last Line: In the white windy presence of eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whosoever shall say to thee
Last Line: Swallow thee.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain held the town as in a shadow
Last Line: Gave them their marching orders and was moving.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A golden cloud slept for her pleasure
Last Line: Down to the desert still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain heaves before me, green and gray
Last Line: Within this loftier sphere where ye do reign.
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Altar whereon the lordly sacrifice
Last Line: As sings the ocean to the listening shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN, by EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What wrecks of time and storm are crumbling here!
Last Line: To faiths that blaze immaculately bright.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN BOY, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherd of the alps am I
Last Line: The mountain boy am I!
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If, the rude mountain turf adorning
Last Line: And had bloom'd and died unseen.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE MOUNTAIN HEART'S-EASE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting
Last Line: Thy face is shining still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN LILAC, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the hills
Last Line: Upon the hills.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN MAID, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the mountain maid, new hampshire!
Last Line: Is the rarest of them all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN MAIDENS; A CANTATA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars die out, and the moon grows dim
Last Line: We are safely home at last!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN OF SKELETONS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain strikes into a clouded sky
Last Line: In what forgotten war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Mountains; Skeletons; Soldiers; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LOVERS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love scorns degrees! The low he lifteth high
Last Line: Thro' the long years cold harborage found therein.
Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN SQUATTER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Herein my mountain home
Last Line: All west of gundagai!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Horses; Mountains; Sheep; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN STORM, by MILLARD FILLMORE BUMGARNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stand up on high, ye crags and peaks
Last Line: And sunshine paints the crags again.
Subject(s): Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAIN TO THE PINE, by CLARENCE HAWKES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou tall, majestic monarch of the wood
Last Line: And the infinite stars in heaven are old to me.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAINEER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, at the eagle's height
Last Line: And god is alone with him.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): God; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAINS, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind blows upon them salt-edged from the ocean
Last Line: And the dipper all alone in the north!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAINS OF BERNE, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I turn the pages and recall
Last Line: The colors which the soul holds fast!
Variant Title(s): A Swiss Guide-book
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


THE MOUNTAINS OF GLAMORGAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains of glamorgan
Last Line: That look towards the sea.
Subject(s): Mountains; Mystery; Nature; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE MOUNTAINS OF MERAN AT SUNRISE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like snow-white tents, their tapering forms
Last Line: Bloom in the crystal air.
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Mountains; Sun; Sunrise; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MOUNTAINS STOOP TO HILLS ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains stoop to hills and hills to stones
Last Line: Whose stones and water carve a symphony.
Subject(s): Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


THE NIGHT OF THE LION, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their day was at twelve of the night
Last Line: His freedom shall not end.
Subject(s): Admirals; Animals; Eyes; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lions; Night; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime


THE OLD CAVALIER, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For our martyr'd charles I pawn'd my plate
Last Line: "with my son on worcester plain."
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - History; English History


THE OLD WARSHIP ABLAZE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Founder, old battleship; thy fight is done
Last Line: Dips out ironical that ship new moon.
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English Navy


THE PAGAN SAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this rock-girdled hight / these twenty barren years
Last Line: And, ah, it may not be! ...
Subject(s): Dawn; Memory; Mountains; Prayer; Solitude; Sunrise; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE PAPS OF DANA, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains stand, and stare around
Last Line: Taught a little modesty!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE PARLIAMENT OF ROSES TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt the roses one time went
Last Line: The maide of honour unto thee.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament


THE PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ST. GOTHARD. TO MY CHILDREN, by GEORGIANA (SPENCER) CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye plains, where threefold harvests press the ground
Last Line: And more -- o transport! -- reach its home and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Devonshire, Duchess Of
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE PASSING MOON, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my loggia bright I watch to-night
Last Line: Yet sail another sea.
Subject(s): Life; Moon; Mountains; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


THE PATRIOT ENGINEER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs! May I shake your hands?
Last Line: The glory freedom radiates!
Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE PEASANT OF THE ALPS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where cliffs arise by winter crown'd
Last Line: And love and happiness are mine no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Alps; Avalanches; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE PEOPLE'S PETITION, by WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lords! O rulers of the nation!
Last Line: Give us our daily bread!
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History


THE PLAYMATES, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wye and the severn are offspring
Last Line: On dark plinlimmon's side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Severn (river), England; Wye (river), Great Britain


THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been to tientai
Last Line: Only brings men pain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Buddha; Buddhists; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 1, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Towering cliffs were the home I chose
Last Line: What good are empty names
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 10, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the cliffs I sat alone
Last Line: The moon is the hub of the mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Caverns; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 131, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born thirty years ago
Last Line: To lie in a stream and wash out my ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Retirement; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 133, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I can't bear to watch birds play
Last Line: And heading south for cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 157, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain has so many wonders
Last Line: Unless it's clear you can't get through
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 16, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People ask the way to cold mountain
Last Line: You would be here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 169, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I escaped to cold mountain
Last Line: I'm happy here in the cliffs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Happiness; Mountains; Quiet Life; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 175, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The place where I've retired
Last Line: When I first feel the sun's heat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 191, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cinnabar hills rise up to the clouds
Last Line: Vine linked to vine stream joined to stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 199, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On ancient rocks are ancient tracks
Last Line: No need to ask if it's east or west
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 203, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above cold mountain the moon shines alone
Last Line: Buried in the skandhas submerged in the body
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Moon; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 205, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My true home is on cold mountain
Last Line: I can go anywhere everywhere is perfect
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 207, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tientai mountains are my home
Last Line: The joys of roaming free are wonderful indeed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Freedom; Happiness; Mountains; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 213, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hiked yesterday to the summit
Last Line: Is now a pile of ashes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hiking; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 219, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People who wander among clouds
Last Line: In spring the birds kuan-kuan
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 224, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I enjoy the simple path
Last Line: Until the moon comes up cold mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 226, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see tientai summit
Last Line: I've always loved friends of the way
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Buddha; Buddhists; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 256, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where cold mountain dwells in peace
Last Line: Resting on a perilous ledge
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 259, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the joys of the mountains
Last Line: Looks like a lone-flying crane
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Freedom; Mountains; Quiet Life; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 26, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I came to cold mountain
Last Line: Heaven and earth can crumble and change
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Comfort; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 261, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The floodplain river is wide
Last Line: Everywhere spreads its fame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 263, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rising beyond the sky
Last Line: Tientai stands unrivaled
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 274, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold cliff's remoteness is what I like
Last Line: But the pearl of my mind stays safe
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Old Age; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 278, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I sat before the cliffs
Last Line: A mind without a care
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 282, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a lofty mountain peak
Last Line: A song in which there is no zen
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Zen Buddhism; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 287, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is nothing but clouds
Last Line: He remains a man beyond form
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 290, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Relaxing below cold cliff
Last Line: Reading the poems of the ancients
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 297, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is a leakproof cliff
Last Line: I'm content to laugh and sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 300, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On cold mountain road
Last Line: What are my signs
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 301, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain is so cold
Last Line: An old man survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 302, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain I live on
Last Line: It's always deserted
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 303, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold mountain's remoteness
Last Line: He would know the tune
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 304, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among high cliffs / there's plenty of breeze
Last Line: A white-haired old man
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Old Age; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 31, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain man lives under thatch
Last Line: A shelf full of nothing but books
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Books; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Mountains; Reading; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 32, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who takes the cold mountain road
Last Line: And sit with me in the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 35, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trail to cold mountain is faint
Last Line: Year after year no spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Roads; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 4, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking for a refuge
Last Line: He forgot the way he came
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Taoism; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 44, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I usually live in seclusion
Last Line: The spring is dry but not the stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 48, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath high cliffs I live alone
Last Line: My dipper on a branch click clack
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Calm; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Quiet Life; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I reached cold mountain
Last Line: Suddenly both eyes filled with tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 6, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains are so cold
Last Line: Looks in vain for the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cold; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 71, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone lives in a mountain gorge
Last Line: He stands alone steadfast
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hermits; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 9, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I longed to visit the eastern cliff
Last Line: And slept with a cloud for a pillow
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 17, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have millions of gathas
Last Line: All you'll see is mountains
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 45, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up high the trail turns steep
Last Line: To wait for that lone crane once more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE POLITICAL BALANCE; OR THE FATES OF BRITAIN & AMERICA ..., by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deciding fates, in homer's stile, I shew
Last Line: "a curse to mankind -- and a blot on the ball."
Subject(s): Great Britain; United States; America


THE PRELUDE: BOOK 6. CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves were fading when to esthwaite's banks
Last Line: Spread round my steps like sunshine o'er green fields.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old england! Thy name shall yet warrant thy fame
Last Line: Neath the red cross of england—the flag of the brave.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Marines - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; War; Waterloo; English History; Seamen; Sails; Battle Of Waterloo


THE RED KING, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The king was drinking in malwood hall
Last Line: Shall england never bide again.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; New Forest, England; Tirel, Sir Walter; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100); English History; Tyrell, Sir Walter


THE RIDERS OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare
Last Line: And they keep the peace of our people and the honour of british law.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Canada; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Honor; North West Mounted Police (canada); Canadians; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire


THE RIVER AND THE HILL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And they shook their sweetness out in their sleep
Last Line: "of that hard and senseless hill!"
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE RIVER EDEN, CUMBERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eden! Till now thy beauty had I viewed
Last Line: Not sought, because too near, is never gained.
Subject(s): Eden (river), Great Britain


THE ROAD TO APPENZELL, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green sunny road that skirts the foot
Last Line: The yellow-coated pumpkins grow!
Subject(s): Alps; Appenzell, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain road goes up and down
Last Line: The lonely road to gundagai.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Australia; Kisses; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails


THE SALUTE OF THE 'IMMORTALITE', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coming dawn flung out her pennants grey
Last Line: Till anglo-saxon peace shall lead the world.
Subject(s): Battleships; Manila, Philippines; Navy - Great Britain; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); English Navy


THE SECOND ADVICE TO A PAINTER FOR DRAWING HISTORY .. NAVAL BUSYNESSE, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay painter, if thou dar'st design that fight
Last Line: Kings are in war but cards: they're gods in peace.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Sea Battles; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Naval Warfare


THE SILENCE OF THE HILLS, by WILLIAM PRESCOTT FOSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The windy forest, rousing from its sleep
Last Line: In god's great day, when all that sleep shall wake!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SIN OF DAVID, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, sirs, that we have sought the lord in prayer
Last Line: [exeunt slowly, with bowed heads.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; English Civil War


THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed
Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears!
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SLEEPING GIANT, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O for some language from on high
Last Line: Still looking up to god.
Subject(s): Mountains; Yellowstone National Park; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun
Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SNOW ON SADDLE MOUNTAIN, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The only thing that can be relied on
Subject(s): Mountains; Snow; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SNUG LITTLE ISLAND, by THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daddy neptune, one day, to freedom did say
Last Line: But not a bit more of the island.
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism


THE SONNET OF THE MOUNTAIN, by MELLIN DE SAINT-GELAIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from afar these mountain tops I view
Last Line: In them the snows, in me the fires abide.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SOUL OF BRITAIN, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thro' the dark of the night we have trodden
Last Line: Must sink again to the prison, of party and place and creed.
Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Civil War; Heaven; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; English Civil War; Paradise


THE STYRIAN ALPS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In steyermark, green steyermark
Last Line: In the beechen groves of steyermark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Variant Title(s): Steyermark
Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE SUMMITS, by VICTOR DE LAPRADE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will go and drink the waters pure that feed the rolling river
Last Line: Shall never guess the wayfarer returned is even he.
Subject(s): Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE THIRD ADVICE TO A PAINTER, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sandwich in spain now, and the duke in love
Last Line: To woods and groves what once she painted sings.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Politics & Government; Sea Battles; Naval Warfare


THE THREE SCARS, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This I got on the day that goring
Last Line: And carried it off in my foraging bag.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Civil War; War; English Civil War


THE THREE TROOPERS DURING THE PROTECTORATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the devil tavern
Last Line: "god send this crum-well-down!"
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Great Britain - History; English History


THE THRUSH AND POLYPHEMUS, by JACK MERTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A mountain oak core-riven by a gale
Last Line: "I see, polyphemus, where your rocks miss hitting."
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE TRAITOR, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Didst bid him come
Last Line: There is no stay in proud mortality. [exeunt.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most grave opinion!
Last Line: Yet with your smiles shall be restored again.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Masques; Peace; English History


THE TROOPERS (1778), by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We clattered into the village street, and up to the rose and crown
Last Line: "but death to a thing like a tyrant king, and his vassal, my great lord howe!"
Subject(s): American Revolution; Great Britain - Rulers; Howe, Richard. Earl Howe (1726-1799); Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE UNION OF HEARTS; AN ODE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spaniard has fallen! Has fallen!
Last Line: Till all the future of mankind is peace!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


THE VANISHED MOUNTAINS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Miles upon miles they toss, the wrathful waves
Last Line: For here the snowy peaks are seen no more.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE VIGIL, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England! Where the sacred flame
Last Line: Forth! And god defend the right!
Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain


THE VOLCANO HOUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Near mauna loa's mountain top
Last Line: That wonder land doth seem.
Subject(s): Hawaii; Mountains; Volcanoes; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE VOLUNTEER, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in that memorable year
Last Line: A martial epigram.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Soldiers


THE WEIRD OF MICHAEL SCOTT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild wind moaned: fast waned the light
Last Line: A black corpse tossing on the tide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Fire; Mountains; Soul; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE WEST, by PEARL V. DODDRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In space, unlimited and wide
Last Line: The heart with song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hadley, Pearl V.
Subject(s): Mountains; Serenity; West (u.s.); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Southwest; Pacific States


THE WHITE SHIP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By none but me can the tale be told
Last Line: (the sea hath no king but god alone.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135); Sea Pilots; English History


THE WINDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O weary fa' the east wind
Last Line: And let my ae love be.
Subject(s): Marines - Great Britain; Nature; Wind


THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Goody bull and her daughter together fell out
Last Line: "but thanks to my friend here, I've humbled your pride"
Subject(s): "great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies;pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806);u.s. - Colonial Period;" British Empire;england - Empire


THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that
Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere
Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THR DEATH OF CAPTAIN HUNT, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The watch on board the unicorn
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Sea Battles; Great Britain - Navy; Death; Naval Warfare; Dead, The


THREE HILLS, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a hill in england
Last Line: To souls in jeopardy.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Mountains; Soldiers; War; World War I; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


THREE PORTRAITS OF PRINCE CHARLES, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful face of a child
Last Line: O'er the last of the stuart line.
Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Great Britain - History; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; English History


TILL THE DAY BE DONE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From your island sloth awake you!
Last Line: Of britain's sea-flung fires!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


TO A MOUNTAIN, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee, o father of the stately peaks
Last Line: There rolls the grand hymn of the deathless wave.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty and health do companion thee, friend
Last Line: Born of an impulse divine.
Subject(s): Beauty; Brooks; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO ARMS!, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now let the cry, 'to arms! To arms
Last Line: And her ironclads the sea!
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humility; Trafalgar, Battle Of; War; Waterloo; Weapons; Ammunition; British Empire; England - Empire; Battle Of Waterloo


TO HER MAJESTY CAROLINE ON HER ACCESSION TO THE THRONE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An english muse shall close the solemn scene
Last Line: And rocks, and clouds, and trees, in little landskips rise.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Courts & Courtiers; Creative Ability; Great Britain; Love; Praise; Inspiration; Creativity


TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While secret-leaguing nations frown around
Last Line: When france insults, and spain shall rob no more.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations


TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be
Last Line: The abrupt rainbow's errant visitation
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO LORD VISCOUNT STRANGFORD, ABOARD THE PHAETON FRIGATE, OFF AZORES, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet moon! If like crotona's sage
Last Line: Is one, whose heart remembers thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): The Moon, A Tablet
Subject(s): Azores; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO MERAN'S NORTHERN MOUNTAINS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breathe on my soul your everlasting calm
Last Line: Retain, as well, the sweetness of the rose.
Subject(s): Fate; Life; Mountains; Soul; Destiny; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO MRS. MACMARLAND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Im schnee der alpen - so it runs
Last Line: The ashes of a bad cigar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO MY LADY BERKELEY, AFFLICTED UPON HER SON ... SEA-SERVICE, by ANNE KILLIGREW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the renowned ithacensian queen
Last Line: Of your high vertue, and his memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne
Subject(s): Children; Navy - Great Britain; Childhood; English Navy


TO MY MOTHER FROM THE APENNINES, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight the lone mountains on
Last Line: I'm dark without thy constant love.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mothers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO MY MOUNTAIN, by MAHDAH PAYSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O my mountain, my mountain
Last Line: Can you hear?
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO PATRIOTISM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genius of britannia's land
Last Line: Consigned to everlasting glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism


TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT ON HIS SPEECH DELIVERED IN PARLIAMENT, AUGUST 7, 1832, RESPECTING THE FOREIGN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Burdett, enjoy thy justly foremost fame
Last Line: That lick the tyrant's feet, and smile upon his crimes!
Subject(s): Burdett, Sir Francis (1770-1844); Great Britain - Foreign Relations


TO THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your peaks are beautiful, ye apennines!
Last Line: Pine silently for the redeeming hour.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Italy; Mountains; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO THE BLUE, HIGH MOUNTAIN, by REBECCA EMERY MORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The japanese have fujiyama, we
Last Line: White-capped above a sea of amethyst!
Subject(s): Mountains; Pikes Peak, Colorado; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO THE FIRST OF AUGUST, by ANN PLATO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Britannia's isles proclaim
Last Line: That they may not depart.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Serfs


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's probity in this
Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's probity in this
Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep what in repair?
Last Line: The voice of amos / past its own enduring
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Amos (bible); English History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep what in repair?
Last Line: Past its own enduring
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could outbalance poised
Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters?
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); English History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could outbalance poised
Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters?
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO THE METROPOLIS OF GREAT BRITAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As perhaps I am the first who ever presented a work of this nature to the
Last Line: Men, so is by none more passionately desired than by %the greatest of your admirers, %and most humbl
Subject(s): Cities; Great Britain; Nations; Praise; War


TO THE MOUNTAINS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And when the sun puts out his lamp
Last Line: With unexplored grace and savage frowns.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How swiftly they cease to be
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How swiftly they cease to be
Last Line: Quenched in a cloud
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO THE OXFORD MEN IN THE WAR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often, on afternoons gray and sombre
Last Line: Even the enemy has his share.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain


TO THE POLAR EXPEDITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God speed you on your high emprise
Last Line: And plant the flag of england there.
Subject(s): Ambition; England; Flags - Great Britain; Ships & Shipping; English


TO THE RIVER ARVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not from the sands or cloven rocks
Last Line: Among the blossoms at their feet.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO THE RIVER DERWENT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the mountains were we nursed, loved stream!
Last Line: Upon the proud enslavers of mankind!
Subject(s): Derwent (river) Great Britain


TO THE RIVER GRETA, NEAR KESWICK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Greta, what fearful listening! When huge stones
Last Line: To a grieved heart, the notes are benisons.
Subject(s): Greta (river), Great Britain


TO THE RIVER TRAUN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is in a mountain mood
Last Line: Have sat beside the banks of traun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Trapping; Traun (river), Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strange erratum in all the editions
Last Line: In all that he has writ
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Royal Academy Of Arts, Great Britain


TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 13. 1867, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the year of the great crime
Last Line: To the gray secret lingering in the east.
Subject(s): Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881); Freedom; Great Britain - Parliament; Liberty


TO VALERIA (A ROMAN LADY BURIED AT CAERLEON DURING ROMAN OCCUPATION), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How came you to this misty, northern isle
Last Line: This isle, these mountains and this healing rain.
Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen


TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say it is not faithless
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say it is not faithless
Last Line: Awed by its own predation
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh
Last Line: Light to the unmoved miraculous / pool of siloam
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Law, William (1686-1761); English History


TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh
Last Line: Pool of siloam
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. EMPIRE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind, fooled, and staggering from her throne, I saw her fall
Last Line: Tis better he should die.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. FORMS ETERNAL AS THE MOUNTAINS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, when for an instant my friends (and I myself)
Last Line: Those other forms that move not from their place.
Subject(s): Friendship; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TANZBODELI, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on a rock that juts above the lauterbrunnen valley
Last Line: Forming a circle, dance—till the mountains too wheel round us.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tanzbodeli (mountain), Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BRITISH, A.D. 1901, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the light descends to drown and redeem the world
Last Line: Knew more and possessed more even than them all.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


TRAFALGAR DAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He leads: we hear our seaman's call
Last Line: Till setting of her sun.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean


TROOPIN', by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea
Last Line: As a time-expired man.
Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; War


TRUE SONS OF BRITAIN, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In its true grandeur, in its rare completeness
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; British Empire; England - Empire


TUNE IN, AMERICAN TYPE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, to be set and printed in
Last Line: Squeezed flat from british pulp. He non- %ny nonny, etc
Subject(s): Books; Great Britain; Printing And Printers; Typesetting


TWELVE SONGS: 11, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the heather the wet wind blows
Last Line: I shall do nothing but look at the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Variant Title(s): Roman Wall Blue
Subject(s): Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Hadrian's Wall (great Britain); War


TWO AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, by JAMES RORTY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should hasten or cry out
Last Line: See, I bring you gifts of silence, and cool snows.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Landscape; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TWO HISTORIES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two histories there are in england's isle
Last Line: Forbidding civil war to imp its wings.
Subject(s): Butterfield, Herbert (1900-1979); Great Britain - Civil War; History; English Civil War; Historians


TWO MOUNTAINS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Monadnock looms against the pale blue dome
Last Line: Like emerson midst shifts of humankind.
Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Mountains; New England; Sky; World; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell
Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught!
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


UNION JACK, by JEANNIE KIRBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This little flag to us so dear
Subject(s): Flags - Great Britain


UNTERWALDEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now couch thyself where, heard with fear afar
Last Line: Shouts from the echoing hills with savage joy.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Unterwalden, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UNTO THE HILLS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lift my eyes unto the friendly hills
Last Line: My eyes, my voice, to thank him for this gift.
Subject(s): Holidays; Mountains; Thanksgiving; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UP ON THE MOUNTAIN, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up on the mountain, where nobody comes
Last Line: "and the wild bee hums --"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


UPLANDS, by GLORY E. SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The memory of the hills / is in my eyes
Last Line: To seek their loved immensity.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPLANDS IN MAY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder as of old things
Last Line: The great strong hills are humble.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPON LEAVING THE BLACK HILLS, by A. JEAN HOLMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beautiful hills, beneath whose shadows
Last Line: God, greater far, we trembling strive to feel.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPON THE HILL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan
Last Line: How many thousand times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is dead?
Subject(s): Mountains; Time; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPON THE MOUNTAIN'S DISTANT HEAD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VALUE IN MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are those to whom value is a weapon
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VER TENEBROSUM: OUR EASTERN TREASURE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere in cobwebb'd corners I can hear
Last Line: A splendour blotted from that far-watched brow?
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; India; British Empire; England - Empire


VERSES ON SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, mr. Speaker! It's surely fair
Last Line: Sleep, mr. Speaker; sleep, sleep while you may!
Variant Title(s): Stanzas To The Speaker Asleep
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Politics & Government


VERSES TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF YORK, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam, when for our sakes your hero you resigned
Last Line: And round him the pleas'd audience clap their wings.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Hyde, Anne. Duchess Of York (1637-1671); James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460)


VICTORY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the strife is o'er, the battle done"
Last Line: Alleluia!
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain;religion; English Navy;theology


VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a green isle needs must be
Last Line: And the earth grow young again.
Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VIRGINIA, by VIRGINIA STAIT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know not how her trees compare
Last Line: Me, resurrection's spring!
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Trees; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VITAI LAMPADA, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a breathless hush in the close tonight
Last Line: "play up! Play up! And play the game!"
Variant Title(s): The Torch Of Life;play The Game
Subject(s): Cricket (game); England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; Sports; War; English; British Empire; England - Empire


WAR IS KIND: 18, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: In the night / grey heavy clouds muffled the valleys
Last Line: And the peaks looked toward god alone.
Variant Title(s): The Peaks
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago
Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet.
Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


WASHINGTON, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think if I should die
Last Line: Once more to washington.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Washington (state); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


WAT TYLER'S ADDRESS TO THE KING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King of england %petitioning for pity is most weak
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


WATCHMEN OF THE NIGHT, by CECIL EDRIC MORNINGTON ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lords of the seas' great wilderness
Last Line: For sons who guard thee night and day!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; World War I; First World War


WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind
Last Line: To write his name
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WATERSHED, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the land is tilted / like a gambrel roof. The world
Last Line: The knife that cuts the rain in two, the lie
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WEE GEORDIE WI' HIS DAY-DREAMS, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1822-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wee geordie wi' his day-dreams, haith, he's unco soon began
Last Line: "there's wiser men wi' wooden heads than mony wha ha'e brain."
Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; War; English Navy


WESSEX HEIGHTS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some heights in wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand
Last Line: And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wessex, England; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WHERE THE MOUNTAIN SIPS THE SEA, by CHARLES JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the mountain sips the sea
Last Line: Heed it, and you will rejoice.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


WHETHER MORAL VIRTUE COMES BY HABITUATION, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said that sometimes even fear
Last Line: The processionals of seared array
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overnight-overnight
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overnight-overnight
Last Line: The tree of heaven
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


WHITESIDE MOUNTAIN, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you calling me, my mountain
Last Line: Calling coaxingly to me.
Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Mountains; Valleys; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WILDCAT LEDGE (COLORADO), by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The platte, long wandering but caught at last
Last Line: "with their exultant cry: ""the hills! The hills!"
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Platte River; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WILFRED OWEN'S PHOTOGRAPHS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When parnell's irish in the house
Last Line: The motion was passed
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament


WILLIAM TELL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chains may subdue the feeble spirit, but thee
Last Line: For the great work to set thy country free.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


WILLIAM TELL, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smile-dimpled lake woo'd to bathe in its deep
Last Line: [music, and the curtain falls.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Alps; Freedom; Mountains; Switzerland; Tell, William; Liberty; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats
Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains.
Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History


WINTER MOUNTAIN, by MARIANA BACHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mount taylor is a grandma in her cap
Last Line: Her cup held pure; while we mix gold with dross.
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WITH THE CATTLE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The drought is down on field and flock
Last Line: Their heroes from the overland who brought the cattle home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cattle; God; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WITH THE MAJESTY OF MOUNTAINS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winds cry to the peaks; trees hush, elate
Last Line: My stript soul is lifted ... A new tongue I speak.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hills and waters fostered you
Last Line: Its kingdom in the thought of man.
Subject(s): Eyes; Mountains; Time; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WRITTEN AMONG THE BASSES ALPS, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you in heaven no hope -- on earth no care
Last Line: Breathe in this human dust its living soul.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mariners of england / that guard our native seas!
Subject(s): Great Britain – Navy


YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A broken moon on the cold water
Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ZENITH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We watched the gradual rising of a star
Last Line: Beneath the king's own smile, -- perpetual zenith thine.
Subject(s): Alps; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mountains; Night; Stars; Nativity, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime


ZERMATT: TO THE MATTERHORN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty-two years since, up against the sun
Last Line: When darkness filled the earth till the ninth hour.
Subject(s): Matterhorn; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)