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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SWEDEN Matches Found: 35 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CARRIAGE FROM SWEDEN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say there is a sweeter air / where it was made, than we have here Subject(s): Denmark; Sweden; Danes A LETTER TO DOCTOR INGELO, WITH LORD WHITLOCK TO QUEEN OF SWEDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How now, dear exile to the northern zone Last Line: And may our strains, though light, some pleasure bring! Subject(s): Christina, Queen Of Sweden (1626-1689); Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) AN ELEGY UPON THE MOST VICTORIOUS KING OF SWEDEN, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers death Last Line: Whose influence may crown thy glorious war. Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King Of Sweden BESIDE HER DESK IS THE DESK, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: She's listening with her whole body Last Line: In this amicable inexorable grammar %each has his final place Subject(s): Language; Lectures; Schools; Sweden; Teaching And Teachers CALL NOT THE ROYAL SWEDE UNFORTUNATE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In thankful joy and gratulation pure Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Sweden CARRIAGE FROM SWEDEN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say there is a sweeter air %where it was made, than we have here Last Line: Skill, and a surface that says %made in sweden: carts are my trade Subject(s): Denmark; Sweden CRISTINA AND MONALDESCHI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, but how they loved each other, marquis! Last Line: Whence ... 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Subject(s): Christina, Queen Of Sweden (1626-1689); Love - Loss Of ENERGY IN SWEDEN, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those were the days / when there was so much energy in and around me Subject(s): Sweden ENERGY IN SWEDEN, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those were the days %when there was so much energy in and around me Last Line: When the gods give both, a man shouldn't complain Subject(s): Sweden EPISTLE TO KING OF SWEDEN, FROM LADY OF GREAT BRITAIN, SELS., by SUSANNA (FREEMAN) CENTLIVRE Poem Source First Line: To thee - rude warrior, whom we once admired Last Line: But if thy daring folly will proceed, %fate drives thee forward, and thy fall's decreed Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Susanna Subject(s): Sweden FOR NORGE', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "for norway, freedom's fatherland" Last Line: Pledge all that marks the snowy line / where norsemen guard their freedom Subject(s): Freedom;sweden; Liberty GOODBYE, GOTEBORG, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The countries we depart will manage without us Last Line: As if they relish our absence from this eden Subject(s): Sweden GOODBYE, GOTEBORG, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The countries we depart will manage without us Subject(s): Sweden HOIST THE FLAG!, by OSCAR II Poem Source First Line: Hoist the flag to world-wide admiration Subject(s): Flags - Sweden HOW TO BECOME A TREE IN SWEDEN, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look up ahead and see Subject(s): Sweden; Trees I AM STEINKIND IN MY BLACK DRESS, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: And weathers with me, weathers with me into sand Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Sweden IN A SWEDISH GRAVEYARD, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After wearisome toil and much sorrow Last Line: Utter darkness and sleep may be best. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Sweden; Graveyards KING CHARLES'S VISION, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King charles was sitting all alone Last Line: Fled into the gloom of night! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Charles Xi, King Of Sweden (1655-1697) ON THE GOTA CANAL, 1986, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The town hall shines farewell and the canal boat Last Line: With danger. We should pray all boats will dock Subject(s): Rape; Sweden; Women ON THE SAME BEING SENT TO THE QUEEN OF SWEDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O virgin queen of the north, expert in war Last Line: My looks not always stern to royal friends. Subject(s): Christina, Queen Of Sweden (1626-1689) PULTOWA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint in his wounds and shivering in the blast Last Line: And charles beheld, -- nor shuddered at the sight. Subject(s): Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Russia; Pultowa, Battle Of (179); Soviet Union; Russians SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 1.THE COMING OF PRINTZ, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What flag is that? What ships are they Last Line: Where printz's hall is built. Subject(s): Colonialism; Sweden SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 2. PRINTZ'S HALL, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart goes back to rhyme / upon that olden time! Last Line: Nor rival fears nor knows! Subject(s): Colonialism; Sweden SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 3. THE SETTLEMENT, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give, o ye muses of song, a sketch of old days in / new-sweden Last Line: When o'er the delaware floated, unchallenged, the flag of christina. Subject(s): Colonialism; Past; Sweden SONGS OF NEW-SWEDEN: PROLOGUE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing a time when o'er this region waved Last Line: From books scarce-known, take, you who care to read. Subject(s): Delaware; Sweden SONNET UPON A SWEDISH COTTAGE, by JOHN CARR Poem Source First Line: Here, far from all the pomp ambition seeks Subject(s): Sweden; Travel SWEDES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have taken the gable from the roof of clay Last Line: This is a dream of winter, sweet as spring Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Sweden SWEDISH LESSON, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Talk about the mother tongue Last Line: Buried alive in this, their language Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Sweden; United States THE BATTLE OF PULTOWA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vorska's glittering waves Last Line: Now, patkul, may thine injured spirit rest! Subject(s): Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Russia; Pultowa, Battle Of (179); Soviet Union; Russians THE BATTLE-SONG OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, by MICHAEL ALTENBURG Poem Text First Line: Fear not, o little flock! The foe Last Line: World without end! Amen. Variant Title(s): Battle Hymn Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); War; Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King Of Sweden THE CHILDREN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE RING OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, by HENRY S. LOVEJOY Poem Text First Line: Within his tent the gold king of the north Last Line: "and muttered ceaselessly, ""my ring, my ring." Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Yale University; Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King Of Sweden THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; THE 10TH SATIRE OF JUVENAL, IMITATED, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let observation with extensive view Last Line: And makes the happiness she does not find. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Subject(s): Austria; Charles Vii, Holy Roman Emperor; Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Courage; Freedom; Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Laud, William. Archbiship Of Canterbury; Lydiat, Thomas (1572-1646); Pride; Sedle THE WARS IN SWEDEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The streets of stockholm are churning with guerrillas Last Line: Being the conscience of the white race isn't much fun. Subject(s): Social Protest; Sweden; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism UPON THE REPORT OF TE KING OF SWEDEN'S DEATH, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll not believe't; if fate should be so cross Last Line: So great a loss, will choose not to believe. Subject(s): Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King (1595-1632); Gustavus Ii Adolphus, King Of Sweden |
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