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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WESTMINSTER ABBEY Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REFUSAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the grave dean of westminster Last Line: That I ensconce swinburne! Subject(s): Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Westminster Abbey AT TENNYSON'S GRAVE (WESTMINSTER ABBEY, LONDON, NOV. 16, 1892), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All round is silence! And a withering wreath Last Line: Shall not be worn by any mightier now! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Westminster Abbey; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron DAY AT THE TATE, by DEIRDRE DWYER Poem Source First Line: Everything is rendered Last Line: And a landscape in which we can lie down %and sleep Subject(s): Afternoon; Westminster Abbey DRYDEN AND THACKERAY (HISTORICAL CONTRAST), by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When one whose nervous english verse Last Line: Makes the pantheon where he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day EPITAPH FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heroes and kings! Your distance keep Last Line: Let horace blush, and virgil too. Subject(s): Twickenham, England; Westminster Abbey EPITAPH INTENDED FOR MR. ROWE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy relicks, rowe, to this fair urn we trust Last Line: What a whole thankless land to his denies. Subject(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ.; IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Statesman, yet friend to truth! Of soul sincere Last Line: Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the muse he lov'd. Subject(s): Craggs, James (1657-1721); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH ON MR. GAY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of manners gentle, of affections mild Last Line: Striking their pensive bosoms -- here lies gay. Variant Title(s): On Mr. Gay Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH ON MR. ROWE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy reliques, rowe! To this sad shrine we trust Last Line: That holds their ashes and expects her own. Subject(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH ON SIR GODFREY KNELLER IN WESTMINSTER-ABBY 1723, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kneller, by heav'n, and not by a master, taught Last Line: Her works; and dying, fears herself may die. Subject(s): Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Westminster Abbey; Kniller, Gottfried IN HENRY VII'S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O holy heart of england! Inmost shrine Last Line: Save god and such as she. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Westminster Abbey; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry IN POET'S CORNER, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When first the clamorous poets sang, and when Last Line: Of various tone, farewell! Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Westminster Abbey; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tread softly here; the sacredest of tombs Last Line: And one by one the stars in heaven pale! Subject(s): Westminster Abbey IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take this other glove off Subject(s): Westminster Abbey; World War Ii; Second World War IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take this other glove off Last Line: And now, dear lord, I cannot wait %because I have a luncheon date Subject(s): Westminster Abbey; World War Ii MEMENTO FOR MORATALITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mortality, behold and fear! Last Line: The proud man beat it from his thought - %yet to this shape all must be brought Subject(s): Westminster Abbey ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT [IN WESTMINSTER], by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While butler, needy wretch, was yet alive Last Line: He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. Variant Title(s): On The Setting-up Of Butler's Monument In Westminster Abbey Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Westminster Abbey 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 ROBERT BLAKE; ENGRAVED ON THE BRASS IN ST, MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kingdom or commonwealth were less to thee Last Line: Rest here! Our abbey keeps no worthier dust! Subject(s): Admirals; Blake, Robert (1599-1657); Westminster Abbey ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sacred relics, which your marble keep Last Line: His pious widow consecrates this tomb. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fairborne, Sir Palmes (1634-1680); Graves; Westminster Abbey; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mortality, behold and fear Last Line: The proud man beat it from his thought, %yet to his shape all must be brought Variant Title(s): A Memento For Mortalit Subject(s): Westminster Abbey ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mortality, behold and fear Last Line: Buried in dust, once dead by fate. Subject(s): Death; Westminster Abbey; Dead, The ON VISITING WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by AMANDA MCKITTRICK ROS Poem Source First Line: Holy moses! Have a look Last Line: What about them? Now -- they're not Subject(s): Westminster Abbey POET'S CORNER, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand within the abbey walls Last Line: That never will be dumb. Subject(s): Graves; Poetry & Poets; Westminster Abbey; Tombs; Tombstones SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not here! The white north has thy bones Last Line: Toward no earthly pole. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Westminster Abbey; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TENNYSON (WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1892), by THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me my dead Last Line: And whisper softly: all must fall asleep. Subject(s): Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Westminster Abbey; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In westminster's royal halls Last Line: Rests the city of our god! Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Westminster Abbey; Liberty; English History WESTMINISTER ABBEY; FOR WILLIAM LAWRENCE, D. 1621, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With diligence and trust most exemplary Last Line: Wherein he lyes so geometricall: %art maketh some, but thus will nature all Subject(s): Westminster Abbey WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ADIN BALLOU Poem Source First Line: Out of that heaven your gothic towers sought Subject(s): Westminster Abbey WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abbey broods beside the turbid thames Last Line: Of peers -- whose dust a fool refused to cherish here. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Westminster Abbey |
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