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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VERSAILLES, FRANCES Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS TO THE ORANGE-TREE AT VERSAILLES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When france with civil wars was torn Last Line: To heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Oranges; Trees; Versailles, Frances; War AT THE BARRICADE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a living woman there Last Line: "finish your work. Fire once again." Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Fights; Marching & Marches; Versailles, Frances CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take away that star and garter Last Line: That have died in vain for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Courts & Courtiers; Culloden, Battle Of (1746); Death; Love; Scotland - Relations With England; Versailles, Frances; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dea FRANCOIS COUPERIN AT VERSAILLES, by ROGER CALDWELL Poem Source First Line: The rooms seemed infinite; the mirrors Last Line: Of laborious carts to tumbrils %over cobbled streets Subject(s): Travel; Versailles, Frances GREAT PALACES OF VERSAILLES, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing nastier than a white person! Last Line: I need a man who'll protect me %while smoking her cigarette down to the very end Subject(s): Versailles, Frances; Violence; Women JUNE '51, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Versailles! Versailles! Thou shalt not keep Last Line: Her epitaph be graven here. Subject(s): Versailles, Frances LAST SUNDAY AT LES GRANDS EAUX MUSICALES, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Versailles stank, as if its recycled waters Last Line: Coming noisily higher and brighter...? Subject(s): Versailles, Frances LITTLE GREGORY, by THEODORE BOTREL Poem Text First Line: Gregory,' his dam would chide Last Line: "jesu domine!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Versailles, Frances; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES IN 1775, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cygnets dark; their black feet Last Line: And turned his long bill sidewise Subject(s): Animals; Versailles, Frances THE GREAT PALACES OF VERSAILLES, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing nastier than a white person! Subject(s): Versailles, Frances; Violence; Women THE MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES IN 1775, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cygnets dark; their black feet Subject(s): Animals; Versailles, Frances THE NUN AT COURT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what voluptuous and distorted care Last Line: Of luring love, and one that knew not la valliere. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): La Valliere, Francois De (1644-1710); Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Versailles, Frances VERSAILLES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king is dead who planned these terraces Last Line: Abandoned by the long-departed god! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Versailles, Frances VERSAILLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The borders of the countries on the earth's crust Last Line: At the williest hour. You are slovenian, therefore sad Subject(s): Boundaries; Earth; Travel; Versailles, Frances VERSAILLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The borders of the countries on the earth's crust Last Line: At the silliest hour. You are slovenian, therefore sad Subject(s): Geography; Travel; Versailles, Frances VERSAILLES (1784), by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In carnival we were, and supp'd that night Last Line: That drummond fear'd -- artois shall flog the man. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Versailles, Frances |
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