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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ABORTION Matches Found: 36 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 70'S, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will be the days Last Line: Having lost some %begun much Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women A COLD FRONT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This woman with a dead face Subject(s): Mothers; Abortion A DEAD MOTHER, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: White-faced mother, what fragrant things Last Line: "to watch till my child appears." Subject(s): Abortion; Mothers ABORTED FETUS, by THOMAS DORSETT Poem Source First Line: My death's a summer closed windows Last Line: Breathing. Lying by an empty bottle %on this sofa, just like you Subject(s): Abortion ABORTION, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: On that sudden trip to new york Last Line: Of blood in the river %growing thinner, washing away Subject(s): Abortion; Mothers ABORTION, by FREDERICK FEIRSTEIN Poem Source First Line: When they met her hands could cradle a fish Last Line: I'm no longer angry, I'm no longer sad. I've just had it, I've honestly had' Subject(s): Abortion ABORTION, by DAVID GALLER Poem Source First Line: She came in, recommended by a friend Last Line: To celebrate the birth.' she wrapped the foetus - %'it's for my collection' - and, winking, tiptoed Subject(s): Abortion ABORTION, by MARK MCCLOSKEY Poem Source First Line: The door-cop holds his thermos like a truncheon Last Line: I cringe beside her like a dozen roses Subject(s): Abortion ABORTION, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody who should have been born %is gone Last Line: Or say what you meant %you coward - this baby I bleed Subject(s): Abortion; God; Religion ABORTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: East, west, north, south Subject(s): Abortion ABORTION CHILD, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought: / you live somewhere Subject(s): Abortion; Imagination; Fancy AFTERLIFE, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm older than my father when he turned Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Abortion BLACKOUT SONNETS, by JOAN LARKIN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Teenagers; Sex; Abortion COMMON WOMAN: 6. MARGARET, SEEN THROUGH A PICTURE WINDOW, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source First Line: After she finished her first abortion Last Line: The common woman is as solemn as a monkey or a new moon Subject(s): Abortion; Women COMPASSION, by ELEANOR MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Would you smash a cocoon %if you already know Last Line: Before it can even know %what its heart is beating for? Subject(s): Abortion; Life EPITAPH ON A CHILD KILLED BY PROCURED ABORTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o thou, whose eyes were closed in death's pale night" Last Line: "love, spite of honour's dictates, gave thee breath; / honour,in spite of love, pronounced thy death Subject(s): Abortion FOR THESE CONDITIONS THERE IS NO ABORTION, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the tongue is only praxis Last Line: Not hangers and quinine and soda. Subject(s): Abortion; Slavery; Social Problems; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating LATER I'LL SAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Listening to %my body breaking Subject(s): Abortion; Childlessness; Death - Children LITERALLY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Abortion was merely a metaphor Last Line: I am now trying my best to ignore Subject(s): Abortion; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LOST BABY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I dropped your almost body down Last Line: My life will keep silent %listening to %my body breaking Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women; Death - Children LOST ONE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A girl forgets one pill, and you step through Last Line: Still survives. I feel glad unaccountably, %and I think, daughter -- is that you? Subject(s): Abortion MAN OF CONSCIENCE, by MAHDY Y. KHAIYAT Poem Source First Line: An advocate %of the rights of the unborn Last Line: We must save our country Subject(s): Abortion NIGHT I MET LITTLE FLOYD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A friday or he would not have come to town--he would have Last Line: Our face like mascara--a big bearded stranger with a book of%poems in his lap Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Abortion; Youth ON THE OCCASION OF THE WIFE'S ABORTION, THE MISTRESS SPEAKS, by GAIL RUDD ENTREKIN Poem Source First Line: I know you are going to Last Line: We are older %and I understand like fire %what we have given away %and what we have taken Subject(s): Abortion PAGE 39, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arrives early for the date Subject(s): Abortion; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness POEM FOR MYSELF AND MEI: ABORTION, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sun / coming unstuffed with yellow light Subject(s): Abortion POEM FOR MYSELF AND MEI: ABORTION, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sun %coming unstuffed with yellow light Last Line: Flutter and cling %all the way home Subject(s): Abortion SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ADDRESSES THE OHIO SUPREME COURT, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One of your law-and-order men, hammurabi Last Line: You must. It's just, the law Subject(s): Abortion THE ABORTION, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody who should have been born / is gone Last Line: Yoiu coward – this baby that I bleed Subject(s): Abortion THE CHOICE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ghost of my pregnancy, a large Subject(s): Abortion THE INQUEST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took my oath I would inquire Last Line: Perhaps my mother murdered me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Abortion; Child Molesting; Murder; Child Abuse THE LOST BABY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I dropped your almost body down Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE LULLABY, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When she had the abortion Last Line: As I washed and put away the dishes. Subject(s): Abortion; Secrets THE MOTHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abortions will not let you forget Last Line: All. Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans; African Americans - Women; Mothers; Negroes; American Blacks UNWANTED, by MARY GORDON Poem Source First Line: Instead of you, I choose the blood Last Line: My neat trick, my sweet genesis. %unbearable. Unborn Subject(s): Abortion WHAT THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT REALLY WANTS, by JAMIE REY Poem Source First Line: Abortion foes rally %from the new york times Last Line: Single drop of blood %on a hopeful fingertip Subject(s): Abortion; Religious Right (political Movement) |
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