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Subject: ADVERSITY
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First Line: Where are the swallows fled?
Last Line: And angels' silver voices still the air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Adversity


A ROUGH RHYME ON A ROUGH MATTER; THE ENGLISH GAME LAWS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The merry brown hares came leaping
Last Line: On the side of the white chalk hill.
Variant Title(s): The Bad Squire
Subject(s): Adversity; Hunting; Justice; Hunters


ADVERSITY, by RUTH SMELTZER    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the thorns of life I'm more indebted
Last Line: And often drive me to my knees.
Subject(s): Adversity


ADVERSITY (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is maintain'd by wealth; when all is spent
Last Line: Adversity then breeds the discontent.
Subject(s): Adversity


ADVERSITY (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adversity hurts none, but onely such
Last Line: Whom whitest fortune dandled has too much.
Subject(s): Adversity


AFAR IN THE DESERT, by THOMAS PRINGLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afar in the desert I love to ride
Last Line: Saying, -- man is distant, but god is near!
Subject(s): Adversity; Africa; Consolation


BALD-HEADED MAN, HIS PATE, by BHARTRIHARI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: There do adversaries follow him
Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari
Subject(s): Adversity; Baldness


BALLAD, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring it is cheery
Last Line: What can an old man do but die?
Subject(s): Adversity; Old Age


BALLAD, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She's up and gone, the graceless girl
Last Line: To meet her father's will!
Subject(s): Adversity; Old Age


BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by JOHN WHITAKER WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow
Last Line: With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow!
Subject(s): Adversity; Snow


BLEAK SEASON WAS IT, TURBULENT AND BLEAK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To question us, “whence come ye? To what end?”
Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Adversity


COMPENSATION, by E. M. BRAINARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who never wept knows laughter but a jest
Last Line: The sweetness and the peace of real content.
Subject(s): Adversity


DANIEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have learned / some few things
Last Line: Even in the lion's den
Subject(s): Daniel (bible); Adversity


GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She stood at the bar of justice
Last Line: "and tenderly led from the court-room, / himself, the 'guilty' child"
Subject(s): Adversity;trials


HYMN TO ADVERSITY, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of jove, relentless power
Last Line: What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.
Subject(s): Adversity


LA RONDE DU DIABLE, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we go round the ivy-bush
Last Line: Does it matter at all that we don't know why?
Subject(s): Adversity; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


LONDON CHURCHES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood, one sunday morning
Last Line: She sighed, and crept away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Adversity; Churches; London; Cathedrals


MAJESTY IN MISERY; OR, AN IMPLORATION TO THE KING OF KINGS, by CHARLES I    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great monarch of the world, from whose power springs
Last Line: Yet, though we perish, bless this church and state.
Subject(s): Adversity; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER BIRTH, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What different dooms our birthdays bring
Last Line: Of lord althorp's -- now earl spencer.
Variant Title(s): Diversity Of Fortunes
Subject(s): Adversity; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity


ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
Last Line: Fled is that music: -- do I wake or sleep?
Subject(s): Adversity; Birds; Immortality; Life; Mortality; Nightingales


OLD, by RALPH HOYT    Poem Text                    
First Line: By the wayside, on a mossy stone
Last Line: By the wayside, on a mossy stone.
Subject(s): Adversity; Aging


ON MAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his own image the creator made
Last Line: The present hour was ever marked with shade!
Variant Title(s): Man
Subject(s): Adversity; Consolation


ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis time this heart should be unmoved
Last Line: And take thy rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Byron's Farewell;on Completing My Thirty-sixth Year;hail And Farewell;byron's Latest Verses
Subject(s): Adversity; Missolonghi, Greece; War; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece


OVER THE HILL TO THE POOR-HOUSE, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudging my weary way
Last Line: That you shall never suffer the half I do to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): Adversity


PERISHED; CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE, by MARY LOUISE RITTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wave after wave of greenness rolling down
Last Line: "look on me, I am dead!"
Subject(s): Adversity


REVERSE CANNOT BEFALL THAT FINE PROSPERITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could mar it — if it found
Subject(s): Adversity


SOMEBODY'S DARLING, by MARIE LA CONTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into a ward of the whitewashed halls
Last Line: " somebody's darling slumbers here."
Alternate Author Name(s): La Coste, Marie
Subject(s): Adversity; Patriotism; War


STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is warm, the sky is clear
Last Line: Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet.
Subject(s): Adversity


THE BEGGAR'S PETITION, by THOMAS MOSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man!
Last Line: O, give relief, and heaven will bless your store.
Variant Title(s): The Beggar
Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars


THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One more unfortunate, / weary of breath
Last Line: Her sins to her savior!
Subject(s): Adversity; Drowning; Mourning; Suicide; Bereavement


THE END OF THE PLAY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The play is done; the curtain drops
Last Line: To men of gentle will.
Variant Title(s): Be Each A Gentleman
Subject(s): Adversity; Christmas; Worship; Nativity, The


THE FEMALE CONVICT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She shrank from all, and her silent mood
Last Line: The convict has found in the green sea a grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Adversity; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts


THE LAST LEAF, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw him once before
Last Line: Where I cling.
Subject(s): Adversity; Melville, Major Thomas; Old Age


THE LAST LEAF, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've overlived aspirings
Last Line: The last leaf left behind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Adversity


THE LATE SPRING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood alone amidst the april fields
Last Line: "I am his own, -- doth not my father care?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Variant Title(s): The Spring Is Late
Subject(s): Adversity; Spring


THE LIFE OF MAN, by FRANCIS BACON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man
Last Line: For being born, or, being born, to die?
Alternate Author Name(s): Verulam, Baron
Variant Title(s): The World;on The Life Of Man;life
Subject(s): Adversity


THE LITTLE MATCH-GIRL, by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little gretchen, little gretchen wanders up and down the street
Last Line: How much of happiness there was after that misery.
Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve
Subject(s): Adversity; Girls


THE OLD TRAMP, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In this dark ditch my life shall pass away
Last Line: The poor old tramp now dies your bitter foe.
Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE OLD VAGABOND, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in the ditch my bones I'll lay
Last Line: The aged beggar dies your bitter foe!
Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE, by AMELIA OPIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, lady, stay, for mercy's sake
Last Line: Your happy, happy orphan boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Adversity; Orphans; Foundlings


THE ORPHANS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My chaise the village inn did gain
Last Line: "your steps to guide, your hearts to cheer"
Subject(s): Adversity;orphans; Foundlings


THE PAUPER'S DRIVE, by THOMAS NOEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a grim one-horse hearst in a jolly round trot
Last Line: Though a pauper, he's one whom his maker yet owns!
Subject(s): Adversity; Poverty


THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With fingers weary and worn
Last Line: "she sang this ""song of the shirt!"
Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Social Protest; Liberty; Work; Workers; Theology


THE TOILER'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "not in the laughing bowers,"
Last Line: Thus do I dream
Variant Title(s): The Dreamer;the Dreamer
Subject(s): Adversity;labor & Laborers


THE VANITY OF THE WORLD, by FRANCIS QUARLES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: False world, thou lyest; thou canst not lend
Last Line: Can these bring cordial peace? False world, thou ly'st.
Variant Title(s): The World's Fallacies;wilt Thou Set Thine Eyes
Subject(s): Adversity; Social Protest


THE VOICELESS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We count the broken lyres that rest
Last Line: As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!
Subject(s): Adversity; Women


THEY'RE DEAR FISH TO ME', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The farmer's wife sat at the door
Last Line: What breaking hearts might swell the cry: / 'they're dear fish to me'
Subject(s): Adversity;death;fish & Fishing; "dead, The;


THREE GRAINS OF CORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother
Last Line: Mother! Dear mother! Ere I die, %give me three grains of corn
Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland


THREE GRAINS OF CORN; THE IRISH FAMINE, by AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother
Last Line: Give me three grains of corn.
Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland; Irish


THRENOS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O world! O life! O time!
Last Line: No more, -- o nevermore!
Variant Title(s): A Lament
Subject(s): Adversity


TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares
Last Line: And now I live, and now my life is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tychborn, Chidiock; Ticheborne, Chidiock
Variant Title(s): Retrospect;elegy;lines Written By One In The Tower;verses Written In The Tower;poem Written On The Eve Of Execution;elegy For Himself;lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution
Subject(s): Adversity; Capital Punishment; Death; Mourning; Remorse; Self-pity; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Bereavement


TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the prison cell I sit
Last Line: Of freedom in our own beloved home.
Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; Prisons & Prisoners; War; Liberty; Declaration Day; Convicts


TWO WOMEN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows lay along broadway
Last Line: By man is cursed alway!
Variant Title(s): Unseen Spirits;broadway
Subject(s): Adversity; Broadway, New York City; New York City - 19th Century


UNDER THE CROSS, by WILLIAM CAREY RICHARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot, cannot say
Last Line: "and say, ""thy will be done!"
Subject(s): Adversity


WINGS OF ADVERSITY, by ROSE JANE WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Adversity confronts the weary world
Last Line: Resist, america! Resist its clutch!
Subject(s): Adversity; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness