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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GREAT BRITAIN Matches Found: 1100 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SIR DILBERRY DIDDLE, CAPTAIN OF MILITIA; EXCELLENT NEW SONG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 inbefore 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 bethe 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 phbus 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 woesand 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 sweetnessof 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 lifeuntrusted 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: Chorushail 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 englandthe 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, dancetill 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) |
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