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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE ON ETHICS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the isis to the cherwell in a tone of indignation
Last Line: And of man -- at least in summer,' said the easy-going cher.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Morality; Oxford University; Ethics


A FISH OUT OF WATER; AN ALLEGORY OF EDUCATION, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught a herring long ago
Last Line: Slipped through a grating and was drowned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P.
Subject(s): Herring; Oxford University


A GARLAND (SCHOL. HIST. MOD.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gin a villein meet a villein
Last Line: Above the court of common pleas.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Scholarship & Scholars


A GIRL'S SONG ON HER LOVER, PAIDIN RUADH, by CHARLES BEWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The leitrim lads can strike the ball
Last Line: Before the priest on easter-day.
Subject(s): Oxford University


A RHYME, by J. A. DAWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have seen great beauty
Last Line: To let me die, to let me die.
Subject(s): Beauty; Oxford University


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


A SONG OF THE LITTLE CITY, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: At intervals of tunes
Last Line: The little city's king.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Towns


A SONG OF THE SCHOOLS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whene'er I see those sculptured three, above the new schools' gate
Last Line: I'll sign myself r. Snooks, b. A., ex aul. Magistri charsley.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University


A SONG OF THREE NIGHTS, by SHERARD VINES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You left a kiss upon my mouth
Last Line: To burn upon my bed, alone!
Subject(s): Oxford University


A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rhone and rhine they run so free
Last Line: My mortal part in hampton gay!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Cities; Oxford University; Urban Life


ABSOLUTE AND ABITOFHELL, by RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In former times, when israel's ancient creed
Last Line: To puff your sales, and help another cruise.
Subject(s): Oxford University


AD LECTIONEM SUAM, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When autumn's winds denude the grove
Last Line: Again!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University


ADVICE TO SCHOLARS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The honour school of jurisprudence
Last Line: Masters the secret of the fates
Subject(s): Oxford University;scholarship & Scholars


ALMA MATER, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know you her secret none can utter?
Last Line: Touch you, a passer-by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Oxford University


ALMAE MATRES (ST. ANDREWS, 1862; OXFORD, 1865), by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Andrews by the northern sea
Last Line: That is a haunted town to me!
Subject(s): Oxford University; Schools; St. Andrews University (scotland); Youth; Students


AN EPIGRAM, by G. N. CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear fool philosophy, the lady laughter saith
Last Line: "come, write a pretty epitaph for faith."
Subject(s): Oxford University


AN ODE ADDRESSED TO MR. JOHN ROUSE, LIBRARIAN ..., by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My two-fold book! Single in show
Last Line: I merit, shall with candour weigh the claim.
Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians; Oxford University; Rouse, John (17th Century)


AN OXFORD IDYLL, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah little mill, you're rumbling still
Last Line: Are twenty-two for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Youth


AT A FAIR, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There in the quivering, golden light of the sun
Last Line: To know true love for a little before they die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H.
Subject(s): Festivals; Oxford University; Fairs; Pageants


BALLADE OF THE TEMPTING BOOK, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes when I sit down at night
Last Line: "the oxford book of english verse."
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Reading


BALLIOL RHYME (1), by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First come I; my name is jowett. %there's no knowledge but I know it
Last Line: I am master of this college: %what I don't know isn't knowledge
Subject(s): Jowett, Benjamin (1817-1893); Oxford University


BALLIOL RHYME (2), by CECIL SPRING-RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the dean of christ church, sir: %there's my wife; look well at her
Last Line: She's the broad and I'm the high; %we are the university
Subject(s): Oxford University


BALLIOL RHYME (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am tall and rather stately, %and I care not very greatly
Last Line: What you say, or what you do. %I'm mackail, - and who are you?
Subject(s): Mackail, John William (1859-1945); Oxford University


BLUES, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the bard selects a subject which is suitable to sing
Last Line: Is to court the approbation and indulgence of a blue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University


BOAR'S HAD SONG, THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boares head in hand bear I
Last Line: Which on this day to be served is %in reginensi atrio
Subject(s): Oxford University


CHRIST CHURCH MEADOWS, OXFORD, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often I saw, as on my balcony
Subject(s): Oxford University; Students, Foreign


CHRIST CHURCH MEADOWS, OXFORD, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often I saw, as on my balcony
Last Line: Who cast her, as I told them, on the waters
Subject(s): Oxford University; Students, Foreign


COMING DOWN FROM OXFORD, by ROBERT SARGENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A young man, having finished college days
Last Line: To the churched and storied place of christopher wren, %good old london town
Subject(s): Oxford University; Universities & Colleges


CONTRAST, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down the street, in a crowd
Last Line: For this man with the heart of a boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H.
Subject(s): Oxford University


CUCKOO SONG (FROM THE PERSIAN), by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sumurun's a coming in
Last Line: Loudly sing, cuckoo!
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Oxford University


DOLLARES; OUR LADY OF THE WHEAT-CORNER (AFTER A.C.S.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavy white shafts and the golden
Last Line: Our lady of gain.
Subject(s): Materialism; Oxford University; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); United States; America


DRAMATIC PROLOGUE FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PLAYERS, by GEORGE NATHANIEL CURZON    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, gentle audience, don and undergraduate
Last Line: But bid the bride as now the curtain rises %loud welcome to a home beside this isis
Subject(s): Oxford University


DREAM - COTSWOLD, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy little dreaming towns life passes by
Last Line: Where the trees have emerald leaves and the streets are gold.
Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Oxford University; Towns


EPIGRAM ON GEORGE I'S GIFT OF BOOKS TO CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN TRAPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: King george observing, with judicious eyes
Last Line: How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading


EPIGRAM: A WALK IN SURREY, by G. N. CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: You see no great adventure in the tale
Last Line: And every pot of beer a holy grail.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Surrey, England


EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No poor dutch peasant, winged with all his fear
Last Line: We'll boldly back, and say their price is rais'd.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At The Acting Of The 'silent Woman'
Subject(s): England; Fear; France; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; War; English; Dramatists


EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft has our poet wisht [wished], this happy seat
Last Line: Judges so just, so knowing, and so kind.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At Oxford By Mrs. Marshall
Subject(s): Muses; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets


FLOOD BURIAL, by SHERARD VINES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great arcs spluttered and shifted blue to orange
Last Line: "and the cruel god we will tread under our feet."
Subject(s): Oxford University


FRAGMENT (FROM THE ELIZABETHANS), by W. BRIDGES-ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Paracelsus (entering hurriedly)
Last Line: [exit, pursued by a cow.]
Subject(s): Oxford University


G. W. L. T., by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the unionist party was pining
Last Line: Will do just as well
Subject(s): Oxford University;politics; Politicians;political Poetry


GANYMEDE, by JOHN SPENCER MUIRHEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: From lowland valleys came ganymede
Last Line: Blinded, old, and maim.
Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Oxford University


HENDECASYLLABLES, by D. M. LOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come children, come away, to where the tawny
Last Line: Playing, dancing away the careless evening.
Subject(s): Children; Oxford University; Seashore; Childhood; Beach; Coast; Shore


HOTEL, by SHERARD VINES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great bestial bulk of it looms into the night
Last Line: Till one night lady death fingers the cups ere dawn?
Subject(s): Hotels; Oxford University; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


HYSSOP, by MICHAEL T. H. SADLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I built a house of crazy rods
Last Line: Of tears for things that might have been.
Subject(s): Oxford University


I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES, by SHERARD VINES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You shall hear o' sundays now the wind all a quiver
Last Line: Stronger, having looked on strength; wiser, having heard.
Subject(s): Oxford University


IN MARY'S MONTH; TO MY YOUNGER SISTER ON HER BIRTHDAY, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD    Poem Text                    
First Line: In mary's month, in mary's month
Last Line: As first sweets of the spring.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Oxford University; Sisters


IN MEMORIAM EXAMINATORIS CUIUSDAM, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, where yon undistinguished grave
Last Line: Save b -- (?).
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Examinations; Oxford University


INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT OPPOSITE BALLIOL GATEWAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here latimer and ridley in the flames
Last Line: And let the future expiate the past.
Subject(s): Innocence; Latimer, Hugh (1485-1555); Oxford University; Ridley, Nicholas (1503-1555); Truth


LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In every tower, that oxford has, is swung
Last Line: And unpersuaded drop the paper down.
Subject(s): Education; Letters; Nature; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Spring; Writing & Writers; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.]


LINES ON A MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I knew geography - for that would tell me why
Last Line: From new south wales to paddington the shortest way's the high.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University


LISTEN MR. OXFORD DON, by JOHN AGARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Me not no oxford don
Last Line: I making de queen's english accessory/to my offence
Subject(s): English Language; Immigrants; Oxford University


LYRIC, by P. H. B. LYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Leave the moon her white amazing
Last Line: God's divinest creature.
Alternate Author Name(s): L., P. H. B.
Subject(s): Oxford University


MALLARD SONG FOR ALL SOULS' NIGHT; ALL SOULS COLLEGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The griffine, bustard, turkey, and capon
Last Line: Hough the bloud of king edward, by the bloud of king edward,%it was a swapping swapping mallard
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Oxford University


MARGARETAE ABITURAE, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dearest, when no more we tread
Last Line: And your bars dissolve away!
Subject(s): Farewell; Oxford University; Parting


MEDITATIO DE POSTGATIO, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you ask me why inside
Last Line: Postgate has commended me....
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Praise


MEDITATION, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Diving within myself, I found
Last Line: But fell, and vanished into sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W.
Subject(s): Books; Oxford University; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677); Reading


MEGALOMANIA, BY A FOURTH YEAR MAN (AFTER MILTON), by RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, vain committee meetings
Last Line: And I will get a_______in greats.
Subject(s): Oxford University


MUD, by SHERARD VINES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had missed my mates at drinking by the little inn o' the ship
Last Line: From deadly things and hungry things that loiter about the sea.
Subject(s): Oxford University


NAPOLEON'S LAST VICTORY, by GEOFFREY DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the keen wild days when france swept clean
Last Line: Napoleon entered in.
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Oxford University


NEWS, by GODFREY ELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They came, you know, and told me you were dead
Last Line: I missed the one beyond laburnum-tree.
Subject(s): Death; Oxford University; Dead, The


ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ORIEL COLLEGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye antique walls, ye portals old
Last Line: Beside the waves of cam!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Rhodes, Cecil (1853-1902); Scholarship & Scholars


ON OXFORD, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gothic looks solemn
Last Line: Then each on a leg or thigh fastens.
Variant Title(s): Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford
Subject(s): Oxford University


ON THE HON. GEORGE NATHANIEL CURZON, COMMONER OF BALLIOL, by JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My name is george nathaniel curzon, %I am a most superior person
Last Line: My face is pink, my hair is sleek, %I dine at blenheim once a week
Subject(s): Curzon, George, Baron (1859-1925); Oxford University


ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could homer come himself, distressed and poor
Last Line: "begone! No tramper gets a farthing here!"
Subject(s): Hate; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey


OVER THE LAKE, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the lake is fairyland
Last Line: And amethyst.
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I came to oxford in the light
Last Line: Their golden oxford afternoon.
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over, the four long years! And now there rings
Last Line: And those high places, that are beauty's home.
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rake up the fire: the bells that keep
Last Line: The morning trembles on the floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W.
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD (MAY 30, 1820), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sacred nurseries of blooming youth!
Last Line: An eager novice robed in fluttering gown!
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD (MAY 30, 1820) (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shame on this faithless heart! That could allow
Last Line: Of these illusions, or they please no more.
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD IN WAR-TIME, by WILBERT SNOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the tow-path past the barges
Last Line: You who have fought and died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber
Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War


OXFORD REVISITED IN WAR TIME, by TERTIUS VAN DYKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath fair magdalen's storied towers
Last Line: And her heart is free and bold.
Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War


OXFORD SONG FOR AN AMATEUR DRAMATIC BANQUET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boare is dead!
Last Line: Stand for pigg, goose, and custard, %and so ye are welcome all
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The emperors' heads around the sheldonian
Last Line: Old england's sky of hurrying gray stones
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The emperors' heads around the sheldonian
Last Line: Old england's sky of hurrying gray stones
Subject(s): Oxford University


OXFORD: A SPRING DAY, by DAVID GASCOYNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air shines with a mild magnificence
Last Line: Slim spires, hope-coloured fields: these belong to no date
Subject(s): Oxford University


PARENT'S PRAYER TO THE PROCTORS, OXFORD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O proctors, shut the gates at ten
Last Line: O close the college gates at ten %to close the gates of hell
Subject(s): Oxford University


PINDARIC ODE: TO THE UNVERSITY LIBRARY AT OXFORD, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail learning's pantheon! Hail, the sacred ark
Last Line: As the best blood of man's employ'd in generation.
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians


POEM ABOUT OXFORD, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: City we shared without knowing
Last Line: It holds us, like that fleae we read about %in the depths of the second world war
Subject(s): Oxford University


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What greece, when learning flourished, only knew
Last Line: But 'tis your suffrage makes authentique wit.
Subject(s): Greece; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Greeks; Dramatists


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1674, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poets, your subjects, have their parts assigned
Last Line: As what should be beyond what is, extends.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1680, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thespis, the first professor of our art
Last Line: But who disturb'd both bishop and a crown.
Variant Title(s): Prologue To Sophonisba;the Prologue At Oxford, 1680
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (1), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The famed italian muse, whose rhymes advance
Last Line: Is forced to turn his satire into praise.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Muses; Oxford University; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (2), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Discord and plots, which have undone our age
Last Line: Oxford's a place where wit can never sterve.
Subject(s): England; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; English; Dramatists


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1681 (3), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though actors cannot much of learning boast
Last Line: Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, %he chooses athens in his riper age
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Oxford University


REINCARNATION, by J. R. I. BROOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They only saw that he was dying
Last Line: Men fear their mother, fear to die.
Subject(s): Death; Oxford University; Dead, The


RESPITE, by GODFREY ELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When we had met within the fields of pain
Last Line: "the sword for me,"" I said."
Subject(s): Oxford University


RETROSPECT, by GODFREY ELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: One love, till time took it from sight
Last Line: Came with the coming in of night.
Subject(s): Oxford University


ROMANCERO (FROM THE SPANISH); A STUDY IN LOCAL COLOUR, by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fair chandeliero, cascara sagrada
Last Line: Ohe!
Subject(s): Oxford University; Spain


RUBAIYYAT OF MODERATIONS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake! For the nightingale upon the bough
Last Line: And thank your stars that there 's an end of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University


SCHOOL-DAYS, by GODFREY ELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think that, even as then, there must be hours
Last Line: The silent air swoons into an august night.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Rugby, England; Schools; Students


SIC TRANSIT...., by MICHAEL T. H. SADLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night is closing in with rain
Last Line: To mourn the death of mantua.
Subject(s): Oxford University


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


SONNET, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well might john keats have wandered up and down
Last Line: To think too closely is to banish him.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets


SONNET TO OXFORD, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oxford, since late I left thy peaceful shore
Last Line: Thy gentle charms a tenfold power to please.
Subject(s): Oxford University


SONNET: 15. AT OXFORD, 1786, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bereave me not of fancy's shadowy dreams
Subject(s): Oxford University


SONNET: ON HAVING DINED AT TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: October's flood had all deform'd the lea
Alternate Author Name(s): Bamfylde, John
Subject(s): Oxford University


SPRING SONG, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn songs in the spring?
Last Line: Off with old's on with new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Seasons


ST. FRIDESWIDE'S CHAPEL CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, by LUCI SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this ancient place
Last Line: Like a glass window, %like an eye moving behind clouds
Subject(s): Churches; Oxford University; Religion


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


SUMMER AND WINTER, by MAURICE ROY RIDLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll rest among hot summer scents
Last Line: Of an old folio.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE ABIDING BURG (DEDICATION: TO THE SMALL TOWNS OF CHRISTENDOM), by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There lived a man before the altar - flame
Last Line: Resting eternally his travelling feet.
Subject(s): Christianity; Oxford University; Towns


THE BALLAD OF MY FRIEND, by J. D. BEAZLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man of my country
Last Line: Pillowed on gold, ten fathoms deep.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE CHAINED CRUSADER, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Between the joustings and the wine
Last Line: Dear seed-plots of the rose of heaven.
Subject(s): Crusades; Oxford University


THE COMING (CHANSON CORSE), by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In seventeen hundred and eighty-nine
Last Line: "a gunner has travelled, a king to be."
Subject(s): France; Oxford University


THE CRIMSON BOX, by ROGER HEATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I looked and saw the sun go down upon the western sea
Last Line: This was the crimson sun that sunk, and he shall rise again.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE FAMILIAR, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mannikin with the tail
Last Line: By the new grave to-morrow night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE FIGHT OVER THE NEWMAN STATUE IN OXFORD, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is bigotry the order of the day?
Last Line: One universal faith! One hope! One heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890); Oxford University; Religious Discrimination; Statues; Religious Conflict


THE FRONTIER, by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Guns o' position is long and lean
Last Line: Than a gunner with guns to lay.
Subject(s): France; Oxford University; World War I; First World War


THE INFANT SCHOLAR, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a college tutor who resided by the cam
Last Line: That I tell you of the tutor and the infant in a pram.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE MEGALOPSYCHIAD, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great and good is the typical don, and of evil and wrong the foe
Last Line: Behold the large and liberal views of megalopsychus brown!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors


THE PROGRESS OF DISCONTENT, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When now, mature in classic knowledge
Last Line: And in pursuit alone it pleases.
Subject(s): Clergy; Discontent; Life; Oxford University; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dissatisfaction


THE RAIDERS' REWARD, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bards of ancient cambria, string your harps anew
Last Line: Gave to both the colleges proctors of their own!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE RECORD, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have seen, I have seen
Last Line: And play with people down below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE RETURN, by MAURICE ROY RIDLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: South wind over the sea-foam
Last Line: Laid him at her feet.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE ROAD'S ENOUGH, by SHERARD VINES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether to syon or to eldorado
Last Line: One more stade before sundown; is't not enough?
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE SCHOLAR GIPSY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill
Last Line: And on the beach undid his corded bales.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Hope; Oxford University; Scholarship & Scholars; Gipsies; Optimism


THE SPIRES OF OXFORD, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the spires of oxford
Last Line: Than even oxford town.
Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I; First World War


THE TALENTED MAN, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear alice! You'll laugh when you know it
Last Line: He's only a talented man!
Variant Title(s): A Letter, From A Lady In London To A Lady At Lausanne
Subject(s): Oxford University; Trevelyan, Raleigh (1781-1865)


THE VISITOR'S BOOK; HARTLAND QUAY, by RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What, echo, shall I find at hartland quay
Last Line: Ech.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE VISITORS' BOOK; BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER (AFTER LUNCH), by RONALD ARBUTHNOTT KNOX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The placid windrush running by
Last Line: We'll drink all burton out of beer.
Subject(s): Oxford University


THE WEST COUNTREE, by GEOFFREY DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now england is a fine countree
Last Line: Of the blessed west countree.
Subject(s): Devonshire, England; England; Oxford University; English


THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still is north hinksey very much the same
Last Line: The toiling masses come to try their hand on thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Oxford University; Roads; Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Paths; Trails


TO AN OPTIMIST, by ALEC JOHNSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dawn was lit with promise of high doing
Last Line: These dead-sea fruits of random idleness.
Subject(s): Hope; Oxford University; Optimism


TO JOHN ROUSE, LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Double book in a single binding
Last Line: And catullus admits one at will in the second foot
Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Oxford University


TO OXFORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New-dated from the terms that reappear
Last Line: And undivulged love does overflow.
Subject(s): Oxford University


TO THE MASTER OF BALLIOL, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear master in our classic town
Last Line: Stark and dark in his funeral fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Oxford University


TO THE OXFORD MEN IN THE WAR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often, on afternoons gray and sombre
Last Line: Even the enemy has his share.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Oxford University; World War I - Great Britain


TO THE PRESIDENT OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since now from woodland mist and flooded clay
Last Line: Aid better men than I, nor me in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Oxford University


TO THE UNION IN NEGLECT, by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gods of the union unrepresentative
Last Line: (gully has said it, and gully must know).
Subject(s): Debates; Oxford University


TURTLE FROM OXFORD, by ALEKSANDER WAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the eastern sidewalk of magdalen college a small
Last Line: The gargoyles of magdalen pursued us with their howling laughter
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Variant Title(s): Notes To The Books Of The Old Testament; 1 Kings, 1
Subject(s): Oxford University


ULYSSES, by GODFREY ELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not yet is all my passion dead
Last Line: The old pain and the old surmise.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Oxford University; Ulysses; Odysseus


UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, 1970 A.D., by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The war is over; waterloo is won:
Last Line: That was all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Future; Oxford University


UPON THE CHAIR MADE OUT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S SHIP ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To this great ship, which round the globe has run
Last Line: To her in oxford, and to him in heaven.
Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians


VACATIONAL, by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentlemen lately returned to your colleges
Last Line: Sweet are the uses of our university.
Subject(s): Oxford University


VALE, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In beckley from the high green woods
Last Line: As thou hast ever been to me!
Subject(s): Oxford University


VIRGINIBUS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye somervillian students, ye ladies of st. Hugh's
Last Line: The toad beneath a harrow will happier be than you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University


WHIGS AND TORIES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king to oxford sent a troop of horse
Last Line: For whigs admit no force but argument.
Variant Title(s): Oxford And Cambridge;epigram: The Answer To Trapp's Epigram
Subject(s): Books; Cambridge University; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Oxford University; Reading


WINTER IN IRELAND, by CHARLES BEWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In winter twilights
Last Line: Christ walks again.
Subject(s): Ireland; Oxford University; Irish


YOUTH'S SECOND - SIGHT, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They tell me I am over young to know
Last Line: Nor faint nor weary till the day is won.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Youth


YULETIDE YARNS, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father christmas, fat with gifts
Last Line: "should not shine upon a ski."
Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P.
Subject(s): Christmas; Oxford University; Nativity, The