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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LONDON Matches Found: 420 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BETHLEHEMS BEAUTY, LONDONS CHARITY, AND THE CITIES GLORY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Story no more shall antient fabricks boast Last Line: "free citizens o' th' new jerusalem, / to raign with him was born in bethlehem" Subject(s): Charity;hospitals;london Fire (1666); Philanthropy;great Fire Of 1666 "TROIA REDEVIVIA, OR THE GLORIES OF LONDON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When my parnassus vanisht quite away Last Line: And may your happy days with good presage / equal in length the grecian nester's age Subject(s): London;london Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM), by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, london! London! Our delight Last Line: And no man sails to babylon. Subject(s): London A BALLAD OF WHITECHAPEL, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's mercy shines Last Line: Into strange sunlit bliss. Subject(s): London; Sickness; Death; Love A COCKNEY WAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The great pacific journey I have done Last Line: And seek in books the true american Subject(s): London A DESCRIPTION OF LONDON, by JOHN BANCKS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Houses, churches, mixed together, / streets unpleasant in all weather Last Line: This is london! How d'ye like it? Subject(s): London; Thames (river); Travel; Journeys; Trips A DESCRIPTION OF THE SPRING IN LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now new-vamped silks the mercer's window shows Last Line: "in gray vauxhall now saunter beaux and belles, / and happier cits resort to sadler's wells" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers;london;poverty A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell! Last Line: And so may starve with me. Subject(s): London; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Tonson, Jacob (1656-1736) A LONDON IDYLL, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On grass, on gravel, in the sun Last Line: That will compare with this? Subject(s): London A LONDON PLANE-TREE, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green is the plane-tree in the square Last Line: On city breezes borne. Subject(s): London; Plane Trees; Sycamores A LONDON THOROUGHFARE, 2 A.M., by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have watered the street Subject(s): London; Moon A MARCH DAY IN LONDON, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The east wind blows in the street to-day Last Line: Of hopes that yet shall flower again. Subject(s): London; March (month) A PLAIN DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In london once I lost my way Last Line: And all round the square. Subject(s): London; Travel Directions A POEM ON THE BURNING OF LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We owne no muses now; what now inspires Last Line: "then shall it's harmony our thebes advance, / and make rude stones into a city dance" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A POEM, BEING AN ESSAY ON THE RUINS IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: Was it a vain curiosity or no? Last Line: A beauty grow out of deformity? Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 A PORCH IN BELGRAVIA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, after dawn, the lordly houses hide Last Line: Which cannot not have been for evermore. Subject(s): London A QUADRUPLE ACROSTICK ON LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: L-o! What a chaos this unhappy fall Last Line: "n-othing but clouds appear, the sun is go" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A RETORT UNCOURTEOUS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where london's city skirts the thames Last Line: "a never-was-er like yourself." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): London; Quarrels; Women; Arguments; Disagreements A SATIRE ON LONDON, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London, hast thou accused me Last Line: Immortal praise with one accord. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): London A SHORT AND SERIOUS NARRATIVE OF LONDONS FATAL FIRE, by SAMUEL WISEMAN Poem Text First Line: When the black chamberlain of gloomy night Last Line: In humble manner now their scornful feet. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 A SINGULAR EXHIBITION AT SOMERSET HOUSE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On that first saturday in may Last Line: "david shan't send next year except a very little calf." Subject(s): Somerset House, London A SONG FOR THE RAGGED SCHOOLS OF LONDON; WRITTEN IN ROME, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am listening here in rome Last Line: Let us take them into pity. Subject(s): London; Schools; Students A SONG OF FLEET STREET, by ALICE WERNER Poem Text First Line: Fleet street! Fleet street! Fleet street in the morning Last Line: "and good to love the race of men a little ere we go." Subject(s): Fleet Street, London A SONG OF LONDON, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's on the pavement Last Line: They're all the world to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): London A SONG OF TOWN, by RAOUL LOVEDAY Poem Text First Line: Sing now of london Last Line: Soon dead too. Subject(s): London A SWEET NOSEGAY: AUTHOR MAKETH HER WILL & TESTAMENT: A COMMUNICATION ., by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time is come I must departe Last Line: Of that I leave them tyl. Subject(s): London; Wills A SWEET NOSEGAY: AUTHOR MAKETH HER WILL & TESTAMENT: THE MANNER OF ..., by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I whole in body and in minde Last Line: No longer can I tary. Subject(s): London; Wills A TALK ON WATERLOO BRIDGE; THE LAST NIGHT OF GEORGE BORROW, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We talked of 'children of the open air' Last Line: Leave never a meadow outside paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Borrow, George (1803-1881); London; Wandering & Wanderers A WEDDING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come up the broad river, the thames, my dane Last Line: As may suit with my mother's fame. Subject(s): Danube (river); London; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Thames (river); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs AD ASTRA: 122, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Interminable streets of london town! Last Line: Unloved, tho' many a loving heart be nigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): London ADDRESS SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE DRURY-LANE THEATRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one dread night our city saw, and sighed Last Line: Still may we please -- long, long may you preside! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life AFTER LONDON, by J. D. C. PELLOW Poem Text First Line: London bridge is broken down Last Line: With a gay lady. Subject(s): London AFTER READING 'THE GOLDEN TREASURY' IN THE GREEN PARK, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off piccadilly with its pavement cries Last Line: We too, much-wandering, hail this hour of peace! Subject(s): Green Park, London; Poetry & Poets AFTERJACKS, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: What terrified me, will terrify others. - mary shelley Last Line: But soft! Here come my executioners. - richard iii Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) AFTERNOON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies who are interested in assyrian art Last Line: Towards the unconscous, the ineffable, the absolute Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums AMERICA AT ST. PAUL'S, by MARGARETTA BYRDE Poem Text First Line: Destiny knocked at the door Last Line: "and this is our war!" Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I - United States AN APPEAL FOR SAINT GEORGE'S HOSPITAL IN LONDON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard here in london / I have seen Last Line: Where the pigeons pair. Subject(s): Hospitals; London AN AUTUMN PICTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lovers sit in a shadowy park Last Line: Amid the sodden, rotten leaves. Subject(s): London; Love AN ELEGY ON SIR THOMAS OVERBURY; POISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had not thy wrong, like to a wound ill cur'd Last Line: An antidote against the silent grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613); Poisons & Poisoning; Tower Of London AN ELEGY UPON THE L. BISHOP OF LONDON, JOHN KING, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad relic of a blessed soul! Whose trust Last Line: The resurrection for his epitaph. Subject(s): King, John. Bishop Of London (d. 1621) ANNUS MIRABILIS (1902), by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daylight was down, and up the cool Last Line: And nightingales at battersea! Subject(s): London ANTICIPATIONS, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When still in the season Last Line: Of london this way! Variant Title(s): The Argument Subject(s): London ARCADES AMBO, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why are ye wandering aye 'twixt porch and porch Last Line: And gaze, and gazing think, how base a thing am I. Subject(s): Burlington Arcade, London ARMISTICE DAY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with three comrades in parliament square Last Line: A cold bugle calls, and the city moves on Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Holidays; London; Veterans Day AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poet, come you haunting here Last Line: Passed to the dim. Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets AT PICCADILLY CIRCUS, by VIVIAN DE SOLA PINTO Poem Source First Line: I wander through a crowd of women Subject(s): London AT ST. PAUL'S, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Text First Line: Not since wren's dome has whispered with man's prayer Last Line: And christ, not odin, is acclaimed the lord. Subject(s): Prayer; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I; First World War AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I turn the page and read Last Line: About the cleft battlements of can grande's castle.... Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys AT THE MEETING OF THE DAYS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Veiled in night's cloak a silent moment came Last Line: For sleep had left them blind and deaf and dumb. Subject(s): London AUSTRALIA IN LONDON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the battle over Last Line: We fought, as you, to be free. Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Kisses; London; Youth; Liberty AUTHORS IN LONDON, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: If shakespeare is the abbey, a shrine and shell Last Line: It shall be—where the shining horse guards are. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; London AUTUMN SUNSET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening and the clear sun Last Line: Fair and foolish dreams. Subject(s): Evening; London; Sunset; Twilight BACK STREETS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You that have gazed long on the city's splendour Last Line: And the earth is as if it ne'er had been. Subject(s): Greed; London; Avarice; Cupidity BACK TO LONDON: A POEM OF LEAVE, by JOSEPH JOHNSTON LEE Poem Text First Line: I have not wept when I have seen Last Line: Lord, may we hold it fast! Subject(s): London; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War BALLAD OF CAMDEN TOWN, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with maisie long years back Last Line: So much, I can't forget. Subject(s): Camden Town, London BALLAD OF THE LONDONER, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening falls on the smoky walls Last Line: Where flowers are pale and few. Subject(s): London; Love BAR OFF PICADILLY, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: In london you can hear Last Line: Shining above the muddy river running Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Piccadilly, London BATTERSEA PARK, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Oh, brickbat park I name it Last Line: And help the bill of fare. Subject(s): London; Parks BEAUCHAMP TOWER, TOWER OF LONDON; EPITAPH FOR A GOLDFINCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where raleigh pin'd, within a prison's gloom Last Line: But death, more gentle than the law's decree, %hath paid my ransom from capitivity Subject(s): Tower Of London BLOOMSBURY, by WILFRED WHITTEN Poem Text First Line: For me, for me, these old retreats Last Line: In bloomsbury. Subject(s): Bloomsbury, London BOND STREET, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Lavender fresh are your looks Last Line: Getting a hat! Subject(s): London; Streets; Avenues BREATH OF HAMPSTEAD HEATH, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind of hampstead heath still burns my cheek Last Line: Until the breath of hampstead touched his face. Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers Last Line: The guttural sorrow of the refugees Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War BUTCHER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Kosminski, schminsli. Schloski. A meaterialist from an island Last Line: Yet her hole was equal to the sum of my pants, its snakey girth Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) CAPT. JOHN MILLET MARINER; IN THE CHURCH OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Many a storm and tempest past Last Line: Who least his vertues dye unknowne %committ his memory to this stone Subject(s): London. St. Bartholomew-the-great Church; Sailors And Sailing CENTRAL LONDON TIME, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We made love early and walked by the thames Last Line: Waiting inside a train as the buffalo passed Subject(s): London; Relationships CHAINS INVISIBLE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies in my garden grow Last Line: To steal the world's delight from me! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Country Life; London; Socialism CHANGES IN LONDON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The presence of perpetual change Last Line: Will yet have passed away. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Change; London CHANGES IN THE TEMPLE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cry is at thy gates, thou darling ground Last Line: Echo, and ivy, and the loitering moon. Subject(s): London CHARLES I, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was going to charing cross Last Line: "oh dear, my heart was ready to burst!" Subject(s): "charing Cross, London;charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); CHRISTMAS OUT OF TOWN, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For many a winter in billiter-lane Last Line: That nobody now spends his christmas in town. Subject(s): Christmas; London; Nativity, The CITIES, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: As there are books on beehives Last Line: A book indeed Subject(s): Boston; China; Cities; London; New York City; Paris, France CITIES: 1. LONDON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a shawl of fog thrown over her shoulders Last Line: Remembering her youth, in the rain. Subject(s): Buses; Fog; London; Rain; Haze CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY; BRITISH MUSEUM, CASE NO. 6807, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A heap of crumbling bones Last Line: More fair than she. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Mummies; Museums; Art Gallerys CLUBS, by THEODORE HOOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any man loves comfort and has little cash to buy it, he Last Line: For clubs are what the londoners have clearly set their hearts upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Hook, Theodor Subject(s): Clubs (associations); London COAL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A valley, narrow as the pit Last Line: Coal. Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Labor & Laborers; London; Work; Workers COINS OF MIST, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who's the little old man selling matches? Last Line: Where's the light in the sky -- and who watches? Subject(s): Flowers; London; Numismatics; Thames (river); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepheards boy (best knowen by that name) Last Line: Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Homecoming; London; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English CONTEMPLATING HELL, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Contemplating hell, as I once heard it Last Line: Than the inhabitants of the barracks Subject(s): Hell; London; Los Angeles CORSICAN DROVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How chang'd the scene of late has been Last Line: And drove them back from paris Subject(s): France;immigrants;london; Emigrant;emigration;immigration COTTAGE LEFT FOR LONDON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The covert walk, the mossy apple-trees Last Line: Water unfit to drink and air to breathe. Subject(s): Country Life; London COUNTRYMAN'S RETURN, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Embracin' low-falutin' %london Last Line: One rich stredet with hunger in it Subject(s): London CURRICULUM MORTIS, by SUE NEVILL Poem Source First Line: You always ask about my life, she said Last Line: Very smoothly. %really Subject(s): Life; London CZECH REFUGEE IN LONDON, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a very short, black velvet skirt Last Line: Every year I discover: I have no defense Subject(s): London; Refugees DAUGHTERS OF JOY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, subtle-floating, the choir Last Line: While man knows not of love, and cannot curb his fever. Subject(s): London; Love - Nature Of; Women DAWN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rends the long veils of smoke, and the fogs Last Line: Along the track of ancient unreality. Subject(s): Dawn; London; Sunrise DAWN IN ITALY AND IN LONDON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the sombre cypresses Last Line: And the slum of grim despair. Subject(s): Despair; Italy; London; Italians DESCENSUS ASTRAEAE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, lovely lords, and you, my lord, behold Last Line: Guided by grace and heaven's immortal hand. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Festivals; London; Webbe, Sir William (fl 1568-1591); Fairs; Pageants DESCRIPTION OF LONDON, by JOHN+(2) BANKS Poem Source First Line: Houses, churches, mixed together Last Line: Many a bargain, if you strike it: %this is london! How d'ye like it? Subject(s): London DESCRIPTIVE JOTTINGS OF LONDON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon london bridge and viewed the mighty throng Last Line: Mr spurgeon was the only man I heard speaking proper english I do declare. Subject(s): London; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips DEVICE OF THE PAGEANT BORNE BEFORE WOLSTAN DIXIE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From where the sun doth settle in his wain Last Line: From whom our peace and quietness proceeds. Subject(s): Dixie, Sir Wolstan (16th Century); Festivals; London; Fairs; Pageants DOCTOR GALL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of the organs and fibres Last Line: Of craniological gall. Subject(s): Cupid; London; Physicians; Singing & Singers; Truth; Eros; Doctors DOVES, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, if man's boast and man's advance be vain Last Line: "god keeps,"" I said, ""our little flock of years." Subject(s): Doves; London EAST LONDON, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas august, and the fierce sun overhead Last Line: Thou mak'st the heaven thou hop'st indeed thy home. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; London ECCLESIA RESTAURTA; .. REBUILDING OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: What beauteous tumor's this, with royal grace Last Line: And beauty, equals their magnificence. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 ELEGY: OF HIS LADIES NOT COMING TO LONDON, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That ten-years-travel'd greek return'd from sea Last Line: So would I not have you but come away. Subject(s): Absence; London; Separation; Isolation ENGLAND'S PASSING BELL, by THOMAS GILBERT (1613-1694) Poem Text First Line: I am no prophet, no, nor prophet's son Last Line: And let her ruins be under thine hand. Subject(s): Bells; Death; London Fire (1666); Dead, The; Great Fire Of 1666 ENVOI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Here lies a wretch, arterially ill Last Line: Now still he sits in sight of southern tides. Subject(s): Cemeteries; London; Memory; Graveyards EPIGRAM ON THE STATUE OF MINERVA OUTSIDE ATHENAEUM CLUB, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye travellers who pass by, jyst stop and behold Last Line: That minerva herself is left out in the cold, %while her owls are all gorging within Subject(s): London; Minerva EPILOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though what our prologue said was sadly true Last Line: A troop of frisking monsieurs to succeed. %(you know the french sure cards at time of need) Subject(s): Theater And Theaters; Theatre Royal, London EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ..., by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within this church sir philip sidney lies Last Line: Souldiers, their martyr; lovers, their saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); St. Paul's Cathedral, London EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep with me, all you that read Last Line: Heaven vows to keep him. Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Salomon Pavey, Child Actor In Queen's Revels Co.;epitaph On Salathiel Pavy, A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel;epitaph: On Solomon Pavy, Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death - Children; London; Actresses; Death - Babies EROS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through all the roar and strife of sun-smit day Last Line: And god, fixed ever in the thought of death. Subject(s): London; Pleasure FACTORY CHIMNEYS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Motionless blood-hued styluses that scrawl on the infinite Last Line: In hieroglyphs rolling and tumbling, red, black, purple and gold. Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; London; Smoke FLEET STREET, by ARTHUR HENRY ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Beneath this narrow jostling street Subject(s): London FLEET STREET, by SHANE LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never see the newsboys run Last Line: About their brave unwearied feet. Subject(s): London; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists FOG, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like bodiless water passing in a sigh Last Line: Full in thy look, tho' the dark visor's down. Subject(s): Fog; London; Haze GAME LIFE, LONDON 1967 (TO COLIN MACINNES), by CALVIN C. HERNTON Poem Source First Line: In london %I do not know what a poem is Last Line: London is a lovely shrine Subject(s): London GOING UP TO LONDON, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I went up to london Subject(s): London GOSPORT BEACH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On gosport beach I landed Last Line: "sweet lass, I'll marry you" Subject(s): London;seashore; Beach;coast;shore GREAT BRITAINS GLORY, by THEOPHILUS" "PHILALETHES [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "my muse advance, flye to parnassus hill" Last Line: Who was the founder of / great brittain's glory Alternate Author Name(s): "philalethes, Theophilus; Subject(s): "london Fire (1666);royal Exchange, London;" Great Fire Of 1666 GREAT BRITTAINS BEAUTY; OR, LONDON'S DELIGHT, by GEORGE ELIOTT Poem Text First Line: Go view earth's globe, take eagles wings and fly Last Line: Thoul't be the worlds chief metropolitan. Subject(s): London; London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 GREAT FETISHES, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hardwood sheathing Last Line: And the gaze shining like a bugle Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE CHRYSTAL PALACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In great hyde park, like lots of larks Last Line: The exhibition of all nations Subject(s): Chrystal Palace, London HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 1. THE SEA'S SALUTATION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The immense life of the sea, out of remote horizons Last Line: Passing, under the clatter of wheels and of crowding feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Tides; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 3. THE LOOM OF LONDON, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange far lives, manifold, each from the other Last Line: "and again whispers to the walls of the unheeding city ""life." Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore HIS RETURN TO LONDON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dull confines of the drooping west Last Line: Give thou my sacred reliques buriall. Variant Title(s): A Return To London Subject(s): London; Old Age HOMAGE TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a supreme god in the ethnological section Last Line: And grant his reign over the entire building. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Homage & Respect HOMAGE TO WREN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sea in the dome of st. Paul's Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Wren, Christopher (1632-1723) HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 1. E.P. ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For three years, out of key with his time Last Line: No adjunct to the muses' diadem. Variant Title(s): Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre: E.p. Ode Subject(s): London; Poetry & Poets HYDE PARK, by FLORENCE HOATSON Poem Source First Line: Two fairies live in hyde park Subject(s): Hyde Park, London HYDE PARK, by KATIE LOUCHHEIM Poem Source First Line: One early april evening Subject(s): Hyde Park, London HYDE PARK, by ROY MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: Memorialising trees %interpret light to dark Last Line: His forward gesture pointing to yesterday Subject(s): Hyde Park, London HYDE PARK AT NIGHT, BEFORE THE WAR: CLERKS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have shut the doors behind us, and the velvet flowers of night Last Line: On our stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Hyde Park, London I'VE NEVER BEEN TO WINKLE, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: I've never been to winkle, but Last Line: London pride. Subject(s): Flowers; London IMPRESSION DU NUIT: LONDON, by ALFRED BRUCE DOUGLAS Poem Source First Line: See what a mass of gems they city wears Subject(s): London IN CITY STREETS, by ADA SMITH Poem Text First Line: Yonder in the heather there's a bed for sleeping Last Line: Through the peaty soil and tinkling heather-bells. Subject(s): Country Life; Homeless; Homesickness; London IN LADY STREET, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day long the traffic goes Last Line: On gloucester lanes in lady street. Subject(s): London IN LONDON ON SATURDAY NIGHT, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not pleasant to wander Last Line: In london on saturday might. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): London IN MEMORY OF A GROVE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town about my house upon the hill Last Line: Who fells a london grove? Subject(s): Change; Comfort; Forests; London; Nature; Woods IN PRISON [AT LINN] (WRITTEN WHEN A PRISONER DURING CROMWELL'S REVOLT), by ROGER L'ESTRANGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beat on, proud billows; boreas blow Last Line: Disgrace to rebels, glory to my king. Variant Title(s): Loyalty Confined;mr. Le Strange His Verses Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); L'estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704); Prisons & Prisoners; Tower Of London; Convicts IN REGENT'S PARK, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Dear friends of feather, fin and fur Last Line: A special dinner too. Subject(s): Animals; Gardens & Gardening; Regent's Park, London; Zoos IN RERUM NATURA (WHILE SITTING BEFORE A LONDON FIRESIDE), by CARLTON KENDALL Poem Text First Line: In a city of tolling bells Last Line: Whence comes your laughter; where goes your tear?' Subject(s): London; Men IN ST. PAUL'S A WHILE AGO, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer and winter close commune Last Line: An epilept enthusiast. Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you see in that time-touched stone Last Line: The voice of paul.' Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Art Gallerys; Saul Of Tarsus IN THE CITY AT NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towards the end of night Last Line: Suck in our helpless lives, destroy this dreadful spot! Subject(s): London; Night; Bedtime IN THE COUNTRY OF GILBERT WHITE (OBIIT JUNE 26, 1793), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of great men in london town Last Line: We love her servant much! Subject(s): History; London; Nature; Pride; White, Gilbert (1720-1793); Historians; Self-esteem; Self-respect IN THE DOCKS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the bales thunder till the day is done Last Line: A sick mind follows into eden air. Subject(s): London IN THE MILE END ROAD, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like her! But 'tis she herself Last Line: My only love was dead. Subject(s): London IN THE OCTAGONAL ROOM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To see / blake's earth Last Line: Rests Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blood; Cruelty; Pain; Tate Museum, London; Suffering; Misery IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praised be the moon of books! That doth above Last Line: While in this liberal house thy face is bright. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Librarians & Libraries; Museums; Library; Librarians; Art Gallerys IN THE STRAND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midst of the busy and roaring strand Last Line: It preaches its mystical promise of life. Subject(s): Graves; Hope; Strand, London; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the picture gallery wall Last Line: Unpitying along Subject(s): Trafalgar Square, London INSCRIPTION IN CHEAPSIDE FOR JAMES I'S PROGRESS ... LONDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Life is a dross, a sprarkle, a span Last Line: A bubble: yet how proud is man! Subject(s): London INSCRIPTION IN GRACECHURCH STREET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All in this world's exchange do meete Last Line: But when death's burse-bell rings, away ye fleete Subject(s): London INSCRIPTION IN ST. MARY OVERIE, LONDON, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the damask rose you see Last Line: The sun he sets, the shadow flies, %the gourd consumes, and man he dies Variant Title(s): Hos Ego Versiculo Subject(s): London INTERLUDE IN LONDON, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We hibernate among the bricks Last Line: And broken flutes at garret windows Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): London INTRODUCTION TO THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: For months the night stalker Last Line: Avatar of conscience Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) IVY LANE (A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LOVE SONG), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivy lane in devon Last Line: That's the place for me! Subject(s): Cities; Devonshire, England; London; Love; Urban Life JACK LONDON, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teeth meet on a jugular, pause, and bite Last Line: And exercise our song, from the island world Subject(s): London, Jack (1876-1916) JACK LONDON AND O.HENRY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both were jailbirds; no speechmakers at all Last Line: Who knew the hearts of these boozefighters? Subject(s): London, Jack (1876-1916); O. Henry (1862-1910); Drinks & Drinking JACK LONDON NUTHOUSE, by SAMUEL MAIO Poem Source First Line: A stranger looks across the bay at spires Last Line: That only memory could bring him back Subject(s): London, Jack (1876-1916) JOHNNY, by VLADIMIR KORNILOV Poem Source First Line: Jack london once told the story Last Line: Of cares %work %and family Subject(s): London, Jack (1876-1916) JOY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a street-organ stands a minstrel bawling Last Line: And the dirt of life, and the flies, and the women squabbling. Subject(s): London; Poverty JUNE IN LONDON (WITH PUPILS), by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Books and heat, the dullard mind Last Line: For her heart on this bright june morning! Subject(s): London; Summer KENSINGTON CATS, by DOROTHY DUERSON HORN Poem Source First Line: When the sun slants low over london town Last Line: Then ho! For a night on the tiles Subject(s): Animals; Cats; London LINES TO A DICTATOR, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: London shall perish - arch and tower and wall Last Line: And cry, amazed, 'the towers are overthrown, %the walls have crumbled - but the city stands!' Subject(s): London; World War Ii LITTLE COUNTRY BOX YOU BOAST, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tis only london out of town Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): London LODGINGS FOR SINGLE GENTLEMEN, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Who has e'er been in london, that overgrown place Last Line: "but I'd rather not perish, while you make your bread." Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants; London LONDON, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I remember correctly, %london is a very queer place Last Line: Mighty queer Subject(s): London LONDON, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a goodly sight through the clear air Last Line: And time fast wending to eternity Subject(s): London; Time LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic Last Line: & took a 9:06 train up to cambridge Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Air Travel; London LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Air Travel; London LONDON, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I returned from school I found we'd moved Subject(s): London LONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black in the midnight lies the city vast Last Line: England's ideal life alone survives! Subject(s): England; London; Past; English LONDON, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the sky a lowly sigh Last Line: The heart of london beating warm. Subject(s): London LONDON, by FRANCIS (FRANK) STEWART FLINT Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: London, my beautiful Last Line: By the wind. Subject(s): London LONDON, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let shepherds carol of the pearly mead Last Line: The human soul not yet regenerate. Subject(s): Cities; London; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Urban Life LONDON, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old london's time-encrusted walls Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): London LONDON, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: God! Let me take a south-bound train Last Line: Remains to be love's cenotaph Subject(s): London LONDON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Temptation, oh, temptation, sang the singers Subject(s): London LONDON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Temptation, oh, temptation, sang the singers Last Line: And london bridge is falling, falling, falling, %scaled, and crossed Subject(s): London LONDON AT NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the river squats and towers Last Line: Its splendour, terrible, august. Subject(s): London; Night; Bedtime LONDON AT NIGHT, by JOHN GAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night first bids the twinkling stars appear Subject(s): London LONDON BRIDGE, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: London bridge is falling down Last Line: Silence is shapely. Make no sound Subject(s): Bridges; London LONDON BRIDGE, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud and lowly, beggar and lord Last Line: Until the river no more shall run. Subject(s): Life; London; Mankind; Human Race LONDON BY LAMPLIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There stands a singer in the street Last Line: That throngs the shameless song this night! Subject(s): Cities; London; Singing & Singers; Urban Life LONDON CHURCHES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood, one sunday morning Last Line: She sighed, and crept away. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Adversity; Churches; London; Cathedrals LONDON CROSSFIGURED, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): London, England; Models LONDON EVENING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city is like a vague dream-tapestry Last Line: Watching my sorrow find in night relief. Subject(s): Evening; London; Sunset; Twilight LONDON FEAST, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O where do you go, and what's your will Last Line: "of london feast." Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): London LONDON IN JULY, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails my senses thus to cheat? Last Line: That is enough for me. Subject(s): London; Summer LONDON LICKPENNY [OR, LYCKPENNY], by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To london once my stepps I bent Last Line: For who so wantes mony with them shall not spede. Subject(s): London LONDON LYRICS: PROLOGUE, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ look upon us in this city Subject(s): London LONDON RAIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of london Last Line: Falling asleep I listen %to the falling london rain Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): London; Rain LONDON RAIN, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it rained in devon Subject(s): London; Rain LONDON ROSES, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rowses, rowses! Penny a bunch! They tell you Last Line: Roses of london perfumed with a thousand years Subject(s): Flowers; London; Roses LONDON SEAGULLS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons of the abbey, the pigeons of saint paul's Last Line: As they did on london river two hundred years ago. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; London; Seagulls LONDON SECOND TEARS, by JOHN CROUCH Poem Text First Line: Thou queen of cities, whose unbounded fame Last Line: Shall rise a fairer phoenix after death. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON SNOW, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When [or, while] men were all asleep the snow came flying Last Line: At the sight of the beauty that greets them, for the charm they have broken. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): London; Snow LONDON SONG: 1967, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: The city sifts the mist, Last Line: In a shark-infested thames. Subject(s): London; Thames (river) LONDON STUDIES: AFTER THE STORM IN MARCH, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the wind sighs out of sight Last Line: Spring for to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): London; Spring LONDON STUDIES: OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day it rained, but now the air Last Line: Is grey as these. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): London; Rain LONDON SURVEYED AND ILLUSTRATED, by JOHANNEM ADAMUS Poem Text First Line: What dire calamities have enforced me Last Line: Of londons trophies and our time and tense. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON UNDONE; OR A REFLECTION UPON THE LASTE DISTEROUS FIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: No more historians your surmise recant Last Line: "then you'll conclude with me, the flames were kind, / she was not so much ruin'd, as refin'd" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON VOLUNTARIES: 1. GRAVE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Margaret's bells Last Line: But, being dead, we shall not grieve to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): London LONDON VOLUNTARIES: 2. ANDANTE CON MOTO, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the dust and din Last Line: Forgiveness of the majesty it braves. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): London LONDON VOLUNTARIES: 3. SCHERZANDO, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the ancient strand Last Line: And memories of gold and golden dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): London LONDON VOLUNTARIES: 4. LARGO E MESTO, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the poisonous east Last Line: To the black job of burking london town? Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): London LONDON VOLUNTARIES: 5. ALLEGRO MAESTOSO, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring winds that blow Last Line: Wanton and wondrous and for ever well. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): London LONDON WIND, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows, the wind blows Last Line: And the clouds are atoss in the sky! Subject(s): London; Wind LONDON'S FATAL-FALL; BEING AN ACROSTICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: L o! Now confused heaps only stand Last Line: Y ield us more blessings unto those before Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON'S INDEX; OR SOME REFLECTIONS ON NEW BUILT MONUMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What strange idea can present Last Line: "london, built so nigh heaven, is chamber to the king" Subject(s): "fire Monument, London;london Fire (1666);" Great Fire Of 1666 LONDON'S SUMMER MORNING, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not waked to list the busy sounds Last Line: To paint the summer morning. Subject(s): London; Summer LONDON'S VOICES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all my work, in all the children's play Last Line: But, while these fight, I dare not turn away. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): London; Socialism LONDON, 1802 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O friend! I know not which way I must look Last Line: And pure religion breathing household laws. Variant Title(s): Written In London, September, 1802;the Times That Are;in London, Setpember 1802;london, 1802 Subject(s): London; Milton, John (1608-1674); Social Protest LONDON, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wander thro' each charter'd street Last Line: And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. Variant Title(s): London Subject(s): Bible; Corruption In Politics; London; Mythology; Poverty; Voices LONDON, GREATER LONDON (AFTER SATIRE 3), by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Source First Line: Well, it really hurts, to think of him going away Last Line: That's what he said. I thought he put it frightfully well Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): London LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 1944, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: I am old london with my waste of weeds Last Line: Flow all the prouder this september morn? Subject(s): London LONDON; ANAGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "though now I am unwilling, woes attend" Last Line: Unto 'em such other in the end Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS NONSUCH; OR, THE GLORY OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, by HENRY DUKE Poem Text First Line: Well done deare, honest, ehver kynd Last Line: For he is ehver kynd. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Merchants; Royal Exchange, London; Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS REMAINS, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: All you whose cheeks my londons obsequies Last Line: More glorious by your overthrow. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS RESURRECTION, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: My salamander-muse, which newly sprung Last Line: Ev'n so to die, that so she might arise. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDONS STATELY NEW BUILDINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O thrice illustrious famous city london Last Line: "rich london cryes, vail bonnet unto me" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 LONDRES, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apres avoir aime de yeux dans burlington arcade Subject(s): London MIDWINTER MOON OVER THE CITY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tarnished moon spins upward like a piece Last Line: Which, to this land of tears, the gods have sent. Subject(s): London; Moon MINSTRELS IN BLOOMSBURY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To covent garden people stream Last Line: Sing on for us who stay! Subject(s): Covent Garden, London; Minstrels MISS HAMILTON IN LONDON, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would not be true to say she was doing nothing Last Line: And dark rust carried along her blood Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): London MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CROSS OF ST. PAUL'S, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man that pays his pence, and goes Last Line: Though I should stand upon the cross, and ball! Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London MOUNT STREET GARDENS, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): London MOUNTAINS OF MOURNE, by PERCY FRENCH Poem Source First Line: Oh, mary, this london's a wonderful sight Last Line: So I'll wait for the wild rose that's waitin' for me - %where the mountains o' mourne sweep down to Subject(s): London MY MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ill-busied man! Why shouldst thou take such care Last Line: There is but one, and that one ever. Subject(s): King, John. Bishop Of London (d. 1621); Mortality NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: Among the stuffed royals, great minds Last Line: The faces the public owns, the private life Subject(s): London; Museums; Portraits NEW LONDON, by FRANCES M. CAULKINS Poem Text First Line: When this fair town was nam-e-aug Last Line: Laid deep for us these firm foundations. Subject(s): New London, Connecticut NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOURS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife and I live, comme il faut Last Line: Their neighbours' faults and failings. Subject(s): London; Marriage; Neighbors; Peace; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NOBODY IN TOWN, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand upon my island home Last Line: When there was nobody in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): London NOONDAY REST, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The willows whisper very, very low Last Line: As she, even she, her child. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London NOVEMBER BLUE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heavenly colour, london town Last Line: The throng go crowned with blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Electricity; England; London; Street Lights; English NOW THE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the children are old enough to see what there is to see Subject(s): Children; London, England; City Traffic; Swimming & Swimmers OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 21. ST. PAUL'S, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One time from that grey close I did emerge Last Line: Of healing virtue, round the minster's verge. Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London ODE TO THE INHABITANT OF A WELL-KNOWN DIRTY SHOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who but has seen (if he can see at all) Last Line: Clear from thy house accumulated dirt, %new-paint the front and wear a cleaner shirt? Subject(s): London; Retail Trade OLD MAY DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in london, thirty years ago" Last Line: "for milkmaids, and their dance, are banish'd" Subject(s): London - 19th Century;may Day ON AN INN WINDOW, FETTER LANE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Should you ever chance to see Last Line: Be sure he owns a diamond %and his parents own an ass Subject(s): London ON BOW-CHURCH AND STEEPLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Look how the country-hobbs with wonder flock Last Line: "to you who steeple upon steeple set, / cut my cocks-comb, if e're to heaven you get" Subject(s): London;london Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 ON FIRST ENTERING WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy of england! Since my light is short Last Line: Above the oval sea of ended kings. Subject(s): London; Westminster Abbey ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the green flame of the hawthorn-tree Last Line: Beneath her purple feather. Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London ON LONDON STONES; RONDEAU, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On london stones I sometimes sigh Last Line: On london stones! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): London ON MY LEAVING LONDON, JUNE THE 29TH, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What cross impetuous planets govern me Last Line: And be to all the busy world as lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Fate; London; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery ON THE BURNING OF WHITEHALL IN 1698, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This pile was raised by wolsey's impious hands Last Line: On this day tyrants executed-one Subject(s): Whitehall Palace, London ON THE OPENING OF THE ALBERT HALL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O people of this favoured land Last Line: That know no end and no despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Albert Hall, London; London 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 QUEEN'S REPAIRING SOMERSET HOUSE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god (the cause to me and men unknown) Last Line: With her son's fabricks the rough sea is fill'd. Subject(s): Catherine Of Bragnza, Queen Of England; Somerset House, London ON THE REBUILDING OF LONDON, by JEREMIAH WELLS Poem Text First Line: What a devouring fire but t'other day Last Line: And heavens obliged while he is implor'd. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 ON THE THAMES EMBANKMENT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hush of the midsummer night Last Line: Of life, and fate, and death, and the dark swallowing sea. Subject(s): London PARANTHETICAL ADDRESS, BY DR. PLAGIARY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When energizing objects men pursue Last Line: My next subscription-list shall say how much you give! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London PARLIAMENT HILL, by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen the lights of london how they twinkle Last Line: Bending like a finger-tip, and beckoning to you Subject(s): London PEEP AT THE CORONATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "at home in our village, when we'd done our daily labour" Last Line: I'd lose another sovereign to see another coronation Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;crimes & Criminals;london PETER PAN, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Among the joys that winter brings Last Line: Of hyacinths and daffodils! Subject(s): London; Seasons PHILOMEL IN LONDON, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not within a granite pass Last Line: Bound for purer woods and skies. Subject(s): London PHOENIX PAULINA, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: I, he whose infant-muse did heretofore Last Line: Down to whose soul even heaven itself descends. Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London PHYSICIAN, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Evil: this 'philosophical problem' is a germ Last Line: Death was immediate Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) PICCADILLY, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the hub of empire little eros stands Subject(s): Piccadilly, London PICCADILLY, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Piccadilly! Shops, palaces, bustle and breeze Last Line: Let us turn one more turn ere we quit piccadilly. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Piccadilly, London PICCADILLY CIRCUS AT NIGHT: STREETWALKERS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When into the night the yellow light is roused like dust Last Line: Sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Piccadilly, London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels PIGEONS AT CANNON STREET, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ye pigeons of the station with your loveliness of hues Last Line: Lost the verdant county acres and the freedom of the blue! Subject(s): Cities; London; Pigeons; Urban Life PLEASURE'S AWAKENING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day men walk the city up and down Last Line: To grasp the city in her long, curved claws. Subject(s): London PLOWDEN HALSEY; 1812, by CAROLINE FRANCES ORNE Poem Text First Line: Live the name of plowden halsey Last Line: Plowden sleeps below. Subject(s): Disasters; New London, Connecticut; Shipwrecks POET, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Horses clop-jop and the stones clap back Last Line: O that I was a lit-tle %ti-ny boy Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) PRIEST, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: This sacrifice, of what I most love Last Line: Who can say? At the base of the brain, %something %starts Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) PRIMROSE HILL, by OLIVE CUSTANCE Poem Source First Line: Wild heart in me that frets and grieves Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred Subject(s): London PRINCE, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Her smell! First so enticing. When I raised Last Line: Are you not 'amused'? Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOUSE, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A plain-built house, after so long a stay Last Line: Machines and tempests will destroy the new. Subject(s): Fame; Honor; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Theatre Royal, London; Reputation; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes Last Line: And truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Dramatists; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Theatre Royal, London; Dramatists PSYCHIC, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: As I said to the chief inspector Last Line: Cut him down on the spot like a dog Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RAMBLE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Last Line: And may no woman better thrive %that dares prophane the cunt I swive! Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Aretino, Pietro (1492-1556); Obscenity; Poetry And Poets; Sanderson, Lady Bridget (1592-1682); St. James Park, London; Sutton, Sir Edward (d. 1695) REJECTED ADDRESSES: A TALE OF DRURY LANE, BY W. S., by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Survey this shield, all bossy bright Last Line: So high she soars, so vast, so quick! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) REJECTED ADDRESSES: DRURY LANE HUSTINGS, BY A PIC-NIC POET, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Jack, your address, says the prompter Last Line: Tol de rol, &c. Subject(s): Drury-lane Theatre, London REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE BEAUTIFUL INCENDIARY, BY THE HON. W. S., by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sobriety, cease to be sober Last Line: Be stacked with defunct lady mugg! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Diaries; Drury-lane Theatre, London; Spencer, William Robert (1769-1834) REPLACEMENTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack london drinking his life away while Last Line: The life so dying of %thirst Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; London, Jack (1876-1916) RIPPER: A MEMOIR OF THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that title every night for years Last Line: Right now. And if I die before I sleep--stop asking why-- %I will Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO ANNIE, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Poe thought nothing would ever part him Last Line: But I love you and love what you loved Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO CATHY AND LIZ, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: The juwes are not the men that will be blamed Last Line: Each night in this land of angels like devils like us Variant Title(s): Jacks To Open: Jack To Cathy And Li Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO EMMA SMITH, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: The first time I cut off a whore's ear Last Line: I left her alive, I don't know Variant Title(s): Jack The Ripper Poems: To Emma Smith, 3 April 1888; Jacks To Open: Jack To Emma Smit Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO MARTHA TABRAM, STABBED 39 TIMES, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Martha once I believed the magic Last Line: For her. Say a charm dear it's over %with this Variant Title(s): Jack The Ripper Poems: To Martha Tabram, Stabbed 39 Times; Jacks To Open: Jack To Martha Tabram, Stabbed 39 Time Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO POLLY NICHOLS, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: I too can't stay home. I am driven out nights Last Line: I'll say -- %call me jack Variant Title(s): Jack The Ripper Poems: To Polly Nichols, 21 August 188 Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) RIPPER: JACK TO THE YARD, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: You will not discover in mary kelly's retinal impressions Last Line: Hers by the yield %of a kidney-truth's vein Variant Title(s): Jacks To Open: Jack To The Yar Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) ROOM 28; NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembered as octagonal, dark-panelled Last Line: Here on the cusp, in neither century Subject(s): National Portait Gallery, London ROSIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There's a rosie show in derry Last Line: Thon day—thon day! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; London; Love; Memory; Roses ROTTEN ROW, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hope I'm fond of much that's good Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): London SATURDAY NIGHT IN FLEET STREET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where for six long days the traffic whirled Last Line: The hair of sorrow falls, in long, dark streams. Subject(s): City Traffic; Fleet Street, London; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SATURDAY NIGHT: HORSES GOING TO PASTURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Through the city, quiet, cool, and starred Last Line: To green-clad silent pastures in the sun. Subject(s): London SCENES IN LONDON: 1. PICCADILLY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is on the crowded street Last Line: Which leave themselves behind. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Piccadilly, London SCENES IN LONDON: 2. OXFORD STREET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life in its many shapes was there Last Line: How strangely do ye meet! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Oxford Street, London SCENES IN LONDON: 3. THE SAVOYARD IN GROSVENOR SQUARE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stands within the silent square Last Line: Than ours is for each other. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Grosvenor Square, London SCENES IN LONDON: 4. THE CITY CHURCHYARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee lay me not to rest Last Line: Give loveliness to death. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Churchyards; Funerals; London; Burials SCRATCHED ON A WINDOW AT HOLLAND HOUSE, KENSINGTON, 1811, by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May neither fire destroy nor waste impair Last Line: Nor time consume thee till the twentieth heir, %may taste respect thee and may fashion spare Subject(s): London SEAGULLS IN LONDON, JANUARY, 1940, by RUTH PITTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stormed upon me like catastrophe Last Line: If this be folly, o forgive it me! Subject(s): Birds; Forgiveness; Gulls; London; Clemency; Seagulls SEASONABLE THOUGHTS IN SAD TIMES, by JOHN TABOR Poem Text First Line: The war still slaughters, & the plague destroys Last Line: The cause, the cure we shall the better know. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 SEPTEMBER, 1939, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purple asters lift their heads Last Line: The aching grief of england's war. Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): London; World War Ii; Second World War SERMON TO THE REBELS AT BLACKHEARTH, by JOHN BALL Poem Source First Line: I johon schep, som tyme seynte marie prest of Last Line: Who was thanne a gentil man? Subject(s): Ball, John (d. 1381); Blackhearth, London; Clergy; Freedom; Revolutions SHAKSPERE'S WILL (SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON), by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: I sought through shakspere's city far and wide Last Line: More precious grown than mine of golden ore. Subject(s): Dramatists; London; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SITTING BARD, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow, you have no flair for art, I fear Last Line: Squeeze him for tuppence, saying, 'here sat one %on june the fifth and parleyed with apollo' Subject(s): St. James Park, London SLOANE SQUARE-; RAIN, by MICHAEL T. H. SADLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the steps of the theatre Last Line: The river lies dreaming. Subject(s): Oxford University; Sloane Square, London SOMEWHERE IN LONDON, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain's falling somewhere in london Last Line: And joyful - bceause you are gone Subject(s): London SONG OF A NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I lay disgusted, sick at heart Last Line: My soul and hers are as the same to god. Subject(s): London; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SONG OF A SEABOOT STOCKING, by O. I. WARD Poem Text First Line: Knit, knit, knit, in the watches of the night Last Line: While overhead the fire guard keep their watch o'er london town. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Knitting; London; World War Ii; Second World War SONGS IN ABSENCE: 2, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flags of piccadilly Last Line: You were underneath me now! Subject(s): Homesickness; London SONNET: 8. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Captain or colonel, or knight in arms Last Line: To save the athenian walls from ruin bare. Variant Title(s): Arms And The Muse;sonnet 8 Subject(s): London SPARROW SHELTERING UNDER A COLUMN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conceived first by whom? By the greeks perfected Last Line: And that, though perhaps cold, he is at home there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Scholarship And Scholars; Statues SPRING IN OXFORD STREET, by GLADYS SKELTON Poem Source First Line: A dash of rain on the pavement Subject(s): London SPRING SONG IN THE CITY, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who remains in london Last Line: All is light and motion! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): London; Spring SPRING WIND IN LONDON, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I blow across the stagnant world Last Line: It will not come again Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): London; Wind ST. JAMES PARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas june, and many a gossip wench Last Line: "may be a little altered too." Subject(s): London; Nature; Parks; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect ST. JAMES'S STREET (A GRUMBLE), by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. James's street, of classic fame Last Line: For this old street before me. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): St. James Street, London ST. MARY'S, BATTERSEA; FOR SIR EDWARD WYNTON, D. 1636, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alone, unarm'd, a tyger he oppress'd Last Line: Singly on foot; some wounded, some he slew, %dispers'd the rest. What more could samson do? Subject(s): London ST. PAUL'S CHRISTMAS BELLS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Ye paltry petty tocsins of the town Last Line: Heard not in dread, but joy of christmastide. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Nativity, The ST. PAUL'S CHURCH; OR, THE PROTESTANT AMBULATORS, SELS., by EDWARD WARD Poem Source First Line: That crown saint paul's without a grain Last Line: May follow your devout example Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London ST. PAUL'S DAY, 1925, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Londoners all and citizens of empire Last Line: Sworn to uphold him. Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London ST. PAUL'S RENOVATED, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Shine, june on paul's Last Line: For work well done. Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London ST. PETER-AD-VINCULA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too well I know, pacing the place of awe Last Line: Add to these aisles one other broken heart. Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; London STREET LANTERNS, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Country roads are yellow and brown Last Line: Topaz, and the ruby stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Light; London; Roads; Paths; Trails STRIKE OF THE LONDON CABMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Here's a great and glorious row Last Line: All through the strike of the cabmen Subject(s): Driving & Drivers;labor Unions;london;strikes; Labor Disputes;lockouts STRIKERS IN HYDE PARK, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woof reversed the fatal shuttles weave Last Line: The other's rote of evil and of change. Subject(s): Hyde Park, London; Labor Unions; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FULHAM PALACE, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunday afternoon in late september, one of the last Last Line: And ask, once more, to enter that innocent first world. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; London; Nuclear Freeze SUNDAY AT HAMPSTEAD, SELS., by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mellow moonlight warm Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London SUNDAY CHIMES IN THE CITY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the bridge, where in the morning blow Last Line: Deploys her white and steady wing, alone. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; London; Cathedrals SUNDAY ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH, by GEORGE WOODCOCK Poem Source First Line: Underfoot on the hill the water spurts Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London SUNKEN EVENING, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green light floods the city square Last Line: The slow night trawls its heavy net %and hauls the clerk to surbiton Variant Title(s): Sunken Evening In Trafalgar Squar Subject(s): London SUSPECTS: FACTS AND THEORIES, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Even the number of victims is uncertain. Many murders, some more Last Line: Had they truly caught the riper? Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) TABLE TALK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To weave a culinary clue Last Line: Of these narcotic numbers. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; London; Marriage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TALBOT ROAD (WHERE I LIVED IN LONDON 1964-5), by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the pastel boutiques Last Line: To climb down into its live current Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): London THAMES GULLS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful it is to see Last Line: And inaccessible as dido's phantom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; London; Seagulls THE BALLAD OF HAMPSTEAD HEATH, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From heaven's gate to hampstead heath Last Line: And fell asleep again. Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London THE BANNERS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like ruddy or tawny masses of torn flame Last Line: Veils of the dawn, where red stars flicker grim! Subject(s): London THE BARREL-ORGAN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street Last Line: Come down to kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from london!) Subject(s): Kew Gardens, London; Organ-grinders; Hurdy-gurdy Men THE BELLS OF LONDON, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gay go up and gay go down Last Line: Here comes a chopper to chop off your head. Variant Title(s): London Bells Subject(s): Bells; London THE BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the hive-like dome the stooping haunted readers Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; War; Art Gallerys THE CAPTAIN, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solemn he paced upon that schooner's deck Last Line: Riding at anchor, by a meeting-house. Subject(s): New London, Connecticut; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE CHOIRE, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: Th' almighty architect forms in mankind Last Line: Twas fiction then, but now we see it, here. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Great Fire Of 1666 THE CITZEN'S JOY FOR THE REBUILDING OF LONDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "london lies grovelling on the earth, yet beggs" Last Line: "no discontent, but all replete with joy; / london's rebuilding now, vive le roy" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE CLOUDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky Last Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky. Subject(s): Clouds; London THE CONFLAGRATION OF LONDON, POETICAL DELINEATED, by SIMON FORD Poem Text First Line: What ayls the poet? What unwonted fire? Last Line: That's such an one, and let him stand for me. Subject(s): Langham, Sir John (1584-1671); London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE CUPULO, by JAMES WRIGHT (1643-1713) Poem Text First Line: Westward from fair augusta's city, lies Last Line: And many copper-smiths will do thee right. Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London THE DEATH OF THE CITY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Year on year, and day on day Last Line: None cursed her, none for her did pray. Subject(s): London 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 DEER IN GREENWICH PARK, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pathetic in their rags, from far and near Last Line: Bondman, or brute that dies? Subject(s): Deer; London; Parks THE DESERTED FACTORY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stands apart, forlorn, grotesque, immense Last Line: Amid the dust once stirred by workmen's feet. Subject(s): Factories; London THE DOMINANT CITY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the city of night, of drunkenness, and of dream Last Line: That has crushed and is devouring its mad dream. Subject(s): London THE DREADFUL BURNING OF LONDON, by JOSEPH GUILLIM Poem Text First Line: While urgent sleep our heavy eyes did close Last Line: Another, vvhose high tovvers may urge the skies. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE FIRE SIDE; A PASTORAL SOLILOQUY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice happy, who free from ambition and pride Last Line: Direct to st. J[ame]s's and takes up the s[eal]s. Subject(s): Fire; St. James Park, London; Wisdom THE FIRST SPRING DAY IN LONDON, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On rainbow-rifted clouds, / on dingy-hearted crowds Last Line: Eternal life, sets free earth's spell-bound thralls. Subject(s): London; Love; Spring THE FORCES AT WORK IN THE CITY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like crystal torrents perfect in desire Last Line: In new invincible violence of desire! Subject(s): London THE GONDOLA OF LONDON, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give to me, love, our london town Last Line: Give me my love in london town! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London THE HOARDINGS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When into the town I go Last Line: Fresh from out the teeming earth! Subject(s): Greed; London; Avarice; Cupidity THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: MAY. THE LONDON SEASON, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I still love london in the month of may Subject(s): May (month); London THE IDLER'S CALENDAR; MAY: THE LONDON SEASON, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I still love london in the month of may Last Line: "and you, have you no juliet in the masque?" Subject(s): London THE IMAGE BOY, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er has trudged, on frequent feet Last Line: "and his, poor boy, are on it!" Subject(s): London; Memory; Mythology; Poetry & Poets THE LEES AND THE LAWSONS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you call on the lees, north of bloomsbury-square Last Line: Is not the right road to his bosom. Subject(s): Life; London; Singing & Singers THE LEPER OF LONDON, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In euston road in london town Last Line: The realms of after-hell. Subject(s): Leprosy; London; Pain; Lepers; Suffering; Misery THE LIGHTS OF LONDON, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evenfall, so slow on hills, hath shot Last Line: Her tear by day, her fevered smile by night. Subject(s): London THE LITANIES OF THE CITY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed be thou, my city, for thy day Last Line: Be blessed, -- be accurst -- for evermore! Subject(s): London THE LONDON ALMOND TREE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In desolate streets of london town Last Line: Beneath a london almond-tree. Subject(s): Almond Trees; London; Trees THE LONDONERS LAMENTATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let water flow from every eye Last Line: "if we still hate each other thus, / god never will be friends with us" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 THE MAGICIANS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the wet, gleaming footway, over wide and deep-echoing squares Last Line: To fashion toys from them, for man's desire undying. Subject(s): City Planning; London THE MISFORTUNES OF ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Could we consult th' eternal mighty fates Last Line: "till then, we'll not disgrace the name of paul; / but thee misfortunes hieroglyphic call" Subject(s): "london Fire (1666);st. Paul's Cathedral, London;" Great Fire Of 1666 THE NIGHT OF PLEASURE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With pleasure-seeking folk Last Line: Or at least give them sleep! Subject(s): London; Night; Pleasure; Bedtime THE ORANGE-PEEL IN THE GUTTER, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, unto myself I said Last Line: A glory that is all divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): London; Poverty; Women THE PALACE, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come, they come, with fife and drum Last Line: Though they bring grist to the lessees. Subject(s): London; Tourists THE POET OF FASHION, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His book is successful, he's steeped in renown Last Line: The poet of fashion dines out in barge yard. Subject(s): London; Poetry & Poets THE PRINCE AND THE CZAR, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prince and the czar ride into the streets Last Line: Let the wild wars cease and the nations rest!' Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Freedom; History; Leadership; London; Liberty; Historians THE REPLACEMENTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack london drinking his life away while Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; London, Jack (1876-1916); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE STATUE AT CHARING CROSSE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be the mystery why charing crosse Last Line: To behold ev'ry day such a court, such a son. Subject(s): Charing Cross, London; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Osborne, Thomas. 1st Earl Of Danby; Statues THE TOWN, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: This is a dead man's town. It is his will Last Line: And not remember who built the quaint clock tower. Subject(s): Memory; Tower Of London; Towns THE TWO LOVES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I have two loves, and one is dark Last Line: Whose windows look cross-eyed at shadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life; London THE UPAS IN MAYBORNE LANE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tree grew in java, whose pestilent rind Last Line: And hew down the upas in marybone-lane. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; London; Upas Trees THE WHARF ON THAMES-SIDE: WINTER DAWN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day begins: cold and misty on soiled snow Subject(s): Morning; Winter; London; Wharves; City & Town Life; Piers TIBER, NILE, AND THAMES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The head and hands of murdered cicero Last Line: Breadless, with poison froze the god-fired breath? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); London; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy TIME'S CHANGES, FR. THE ART OF POLITICS, by JAMES BRAMSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like south-sea stock, expressions rise and fall Last Line: Can there be any trusting to our words? Subject(s): Comedy; Courts & Courtiers; London; Politics & Government; Towns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO AN UNKNOWN BUST IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who were you once? Could we but guess Last Line: Forgotten more profoundly! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Statues; Art Gallerys TO GERON, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: So prudent and so young a wife! / old geron, thou art blest for life Last Line: That you may leave to her—or me. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; London; Money; Wealth; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Riches; Fortunes TO JACK LONDON, by JOSE BOSLEY Poem Text First Line: Your ashes lie high on our sacred sonoma hills Last Line: While youth is still on earth. Subject(s): London, Jack (1876-1916) TO LALLIE (OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM), by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up those museum steps you came Last Line: What does it matter ? Subject(s): British Museum, London; Love; Museums; Art Gallerys TO MY BROTHERS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brothers, who must ache and stoop Last Line: A pansy for mayfair! Subject(s): London TO ORANGES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You thousand yellow worlds from spain Last Line: Along the babel length of strand! Subject(s): London; Oranges TO THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN, ON .. ENLARGEMENT OUT OF THE TOWER, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, my lord, that I am come so late Last Line: And rather be your friend, then be your slave. Subject(s): Tower Of London; Williams, John. Archbishop Of Canterbury TO THE CARYATID (IN THE ELGIN ROOM, BRITISH MUSEUM), by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long ago, and day by day Last Line: They are as sweet as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Caryatids; Museums; Women; Art Gallerys TO THE CITY OF LONDON, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London, thou art of townes a per se Last Line: London, thou art the flour of cities all. Variant Title(s): In Honour Of The City Of London;london Subject(s): London TOM THE PORTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As tom the porter went up ludgate hill Last Line: Took up his load and trudged into the city. Subject(s): Fights; Indifference; London; Pity; Revolutions TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A SCENE IN LONDON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both of them deaf, and close on eighty years old Last Line: And she nods her blind head and gives a raucous screech in answer. Subject(s): London; Love; Old Age TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. S. JAMES PARK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An island ringed with surf Last Line: Of human life forever on this shore. Subject(s): St. James Park, London TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A TRADE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little stinking shop, hardly seven feet square Last Line: "with my wife now. She's a regular bad 'un!" Subject(s): London; Markets; Trade; Supermarkets TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How lovely Last Line: Be still, o soul, and know that thou art god. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Art Gallerys TRAFALGAR SQUARE, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not also feel, as here we gaze Subject(s): Trafalgar Square, London; Crowds TRAFALGAR SQUARE, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the dawn a magic paleness drew Subject(s): Trafalgar Square, London TRAFALGAR SQUARE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fool that I was! My heart was sore Last Line: Sailing the sky with one arm and one eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Trafalgar Square, London; World War I - Casualties TRAFALGAR SQUARE, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Behold this quarry of human history Last Line: Was at trafalgar? What would nelson reply? %turn a blind eye to the wheeling sky? Subject(s): Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Trafalgar Square, London TRAFFIC, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This life in london - what a waste Last Line: Am deafened to my very thoughts. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): City Traffic; London TRAGIC NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, and a glare of lamps set in the rain Last Line: But living holds hell's infinite distress. Subject(s): Despair; London; Night; Bedtime TRIUMPHANT NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once I wandered lonely in the night Last Line: And sweep away the swarm of stars above us. Subject(s): Despair; London; Night; Bedtime TWENTIETH CENTURY PSALTER, SELS., by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): London TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 2, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city is astir ere dawn has come Last Line: The city is astir, ere dawn has come. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; London; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise UPON REBUILDING THE CITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "nor could prometheus, when he would have stole" Last Line: "if not, I'le say no more, but this will swear, / bedlam and bishopsgate neer neighbours are" Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 UPON THE LATE LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT OF FIRE ..., by JOHN ALLISON (1645-1683) Poem Text First Line: Awake proud man, and take a view Last Line: It begun strangely, and it ended so. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Great Fire Of 1666 UPON THE STATELY STRUCTURE OF BOW CHURCH AND STEEPLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Look how the country hobbs with wonder flock Last Line: Dragons of old gace oracles at rome %then prophesy their day, their date, and doom! Subject(s): London VALERIAN, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: There's a plant, valerian Last Line: Left to mere valerian? Subject(s): Farewell; London; Tyranny & Tyrants; Parting; Dictators VAUXHALL, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, come, I am very / disposed to be merry Last Line: I go from vauxhall! Subject(s): Vauxhall Gardens, London VAUXHALL GARDENS, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, beneath the evening star Last Line: And chasten'd pleasures foots it there! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Boston; Gardens & Gardening; Vauxhall Gardens, London VERSE CATALOGUE OF LONDON SEASON FEASTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At yule we wonten gambol dance to carol and to sing Last Line: Rock and plough monday games shall gang with saint feasts and kirk sights Subject(s): Food And Eating; London VERSE RECITED BY CLERK OF ST. SEPULCHRE'S BEFORE EXECUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Imprimis john gonne for the dethe of a mane in westm' all moste xx yeres paste Last Line: Robert hyll servynmane for murdre. %thomas jenyns bocher for dett Subject(s): Capital Punishment; London VERSES .... ATTACHED TO THE FIGURE OF A NAKED 'MOOR', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In vain, poor sable son of woe Last Line: The first won't eat you 'till you're dead, %the last will do't alive! Subject(s): London VERSES AT THE DEVIL TAVERN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome all that lead or follow Last Line: To the oracle of apollo. Variant Title(s): Inscription Over The Door At The Entrance Into The Apollo;over The Door At The Entrance Into The Apollo Subject(s): London VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (2), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One that should be a saint Last Line: Pray grant us admittance, and shut out miles davies. Subject(s): Davies, Miles (1662-1719); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Tower Of London; Mortimer, Earl Of VERSES ON THE BUILDING OF ADELPHI, LONDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Four scotchmen by the name of adams Last Line: Quoth john in sulky mood to thomas %'have stole the very river from us' Subject(s): London VICTIMS: ANNIE CHAPMAN TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: I am not your annabel lee. I've read poe Last Line: Like mournful and never-ending %remorse Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: CATHY AND LIZ TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Because he paired us, both slain in one night Last Line: Care to give %a girl a light?' Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: EMMA SMITH TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Why did his face change Last Line: Or some bogeyman %will come Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: MARTHA TABRAM TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Sisters, sisters, we all are witches here. Brewing Last Line: We can discovr, who can see now we be blind Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: MARY KELLY TO THE YARD AND JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: You will not discover in my dying body's kidney's yield, who Last Line: And the scream of us all, %all, all Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VICTIMS: POLLY NICHOLS TO JACK THE RIPPER, by CARL JAY BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: 42 years old. I've got five of 'em. My husband used to give Last Line: Are you finished %yet? Subject(s): Jack The Ripper; Serial Murders; Whitechapel (london, England) VIDE COLLINS HASSAN-OR THE CAMEL DRIVER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreary silence down the bustling road Last Line: When first from bowman's lodge they bent their way Subject(s): Grief; London; Nonsense; Poverty VOEUX DU POETE, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lorsque je serai mort depuis plusieurs annees Subject(s): London VOX CIVITATIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what news, my neighbours of the riming trade?" Last Line: "I in my glorious sons, you in your mother. / licenced. R.L.E'strange" Subject(s): London Fire (1666);old Age;women; Great Fire Of 1666 WATCH-PAPER VERSE USED BY ADAMS OF CHURCH STREET, HACKNEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow! You'll repent Last Line: And you'll believe that day too soon will be %when more tomorrow's you're denied to see Subject(s): London WELSHMAN AT ST. JAMES' PARK, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am invited to enter these gardens Last Line: In the pocket's emptiness; my ticket %was in two pieces. I kept half Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): St. James Park, London WEST LONDON, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched on the pavement, close by belgrave square Last Line: And points us to a better time than ours. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Freedom; London; Liberty WHAT IS LONDON'S LAST NEW LION?, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is london's last new lion? Pray, inform me if you can Last Line: What is london's last new lion? Pray, inform me if you can. Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Animals; Lions; London WHITMONDAY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their feet on london, their heads in the gray clouds Last Line: The quiet (thames' or don's or salween's) waters by Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): London YESTERDAY IN OXFORD STREET, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fairies; London YORK STAIRS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a musing eye returns to thee Last Line: Barter is god, while beauty perisheth. Subject(s): London |
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