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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ANGER Matches Found: 192 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Misjudged, misread, mistrusted, unappeased Last Line: And stripped of his disguise! Subject(s): Anger; Eyes; Judgments; Passion A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider that instant of anger when to the blow Subject(s): Anger; Russia; Communism; Politics & Government; Soviet Union; Russians A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was angry with my friend Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree. Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 7, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And while he spoke there was a noise without Last Line: The lord rebuke thee.' Subject(s): Anger; God; Jesus Christ; Love AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You said the anger would come back Subject(s): Anger; Theology AN ANGRY WORD, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: An angry word is like a boomerang Last Line: Whose poison doubles after one has spent it. Subject(s): Anger ANGER, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The time is Subject(s): Anger ANGER, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time is Last Line: Be at last the real end of you Subject(s): Anger ANGER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrongs, if neglected, vanish in short time Last Line: But heard with anger, we confesse the crime. Subject(s): Anger ANGER, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: We were arguing Last Line: I am committed %fully %intentionally %to you Subject(s): Anger; Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of ANGER, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We can cut out nemesis's tongue Last Line: We wouldn't be much if thorns %didn't drive light into wet blooms Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Anger; Death; Life ANGER, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anger in its time and place Last Line: The vile snake will always sting you. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Anger ANGER AGAINST BEASTS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hook of adrenalin shoves Subject(s): Anger ANGER AND WRATH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger and wrath my bosom rends Last Line: I find them the errors of the foe Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Mythology ANGER LAY BY ME ALL NIGHT LONG, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source Last Line: Ah no, his honest words are such %that he's my true-lord, and my doom Subject(s): Anger ANGER MEANT NOTHING TO THEM, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their compassion, their honor Subject(s): Anti-intellectualism; Anger ANGER TRIPTYCH, by KRIS CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: Knocking would be too obvious Last Line: Under centuries, inventing leaves Subject(s): Anger ANGER: FIVE PLAYS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A swirling black rose of cloud Last Line: Would be the most beautiful thing in the world Subject(s): Anger; Relationships ANGRY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My love sits angry; see! Last Line: She'd quarrel every day. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Anger ANGRY BRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Six crock bowls the bride smashed Last Line: The balance would seem quite fair Subject(s): Anger; Brides AT AN INTERSECTION, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't take my eyes off Last Line: Unspent, unspendable Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Anger AT THE SIGN OF THE FISH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The man with fish blood Last Line: Stands in the creek thinking, %waiting for darkness Subject(s): Anger; Love BAHIA NOTES: THE WOMEN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Her face a searing sea of questions Last Line: Afraid of her vengeance Subject(s): Anger; Unfaithfulness; Vengeance; Women BE ANGRY AT THE SUN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That public men publish falsehoods Last Line: Yours is not theirs Subject(s): Anger; Social Commentary BLAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Don't blame the city, she said Last Line: And who do you blame, good sir, %for the poisoned irish sea? Subject(s): Anger; Cities; Ireland CASUALTIES: 16. AUGUST AFTERNOON, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the blind noon Last Line: After cats Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Anger; Fights; Terror CHALLENGES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: More challenging than an empty page Last Line: Is a woman's body full of rage. Subject(s): Anger; Women; Writer's Block CHOOSE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The single clenched fist lifted and ready Last Line: For we meet by one or the other. Subject(s): Anger; Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CIVILL WARR, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Untoward passions, peace: I'm wearied quite Last Line: Of mine will help: sweet jesu lend me aid. Subject(s): Anger; Self-consciousness; War COMMINATION, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking my walk the other day Last Line: And I too had a mind to let her. Subject(s): Anger; Girls; Kisses CONCEIT, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother's afraid to get angry Subject(s): Brothers; Anger; Letters; Family Life; Half-brothers; Relatives COUNT TEN, by BONARO OVERSTREET Poem Text First Line: What shall we count to cool our angry pride? Last Line: "was I enraged with you? . . . Well, that is ended. . ." Subject(s): Anger CRIMSON SUNSET, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: A slim and tipsy moon / is dangling in the west Last Line: O'er a mad, topsy-turvy, gaping world. Subject(s): Anger; Courts & Courtiers DAUGHTER'S TANTRUMS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: What is the matter with mary jane? Last Line: What is the matter with mary jane? Subject(s): Anger; Daughters DEATH OF POETRY, by LIVIA CANDIANI Poem Source First Line: Sweet poems Subject(s): Anger; Women's Rights DISADVANTAGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Any man who has not had Last Line: The sudden, sourceless ferocities %of a lover's rage Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Anger; Insanity DOMESDAY BOOK: ANTON SOSNOWSKI, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anton sosnowski, from the shakespeare school Last Line: And what makes poverty and waste in lives: Subject(s): Anger; Faces; Hate; War EDEN RETOLD: 1. THE SICKNESS OF ADAM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, at every step, he turned Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Longing; Anger; God; Eve ENOUGH, by JUDY DIGREGORIO Poem Source First Line: Suddenly the crying stopped Last Line: And booted him out the door Subject(s): Anger EPIGRAM, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To give reproof in anger, to be sure Last Line: The sick his potion scalding hot to drink? Subject(s): Anger EVIL WOMAN, by ODEH IGBANG Poem Source First Line: The matter is indeed following the way of the past! Last Line: It will irritate your throat! Subject(s): Anger; Igede (african People); Marriage FALL RIVER, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Basketball; Family Life; Anger; Relatives FELLOWSHIP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of grafton street Last Line: I'd rather not advertise the fact Subject(s): Anger FIRST INTERLUDE, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: With a dirty shoe, thrown from a Last Line: Don't be afraid, he just wants company Subject(s): Anger FOR THE MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will be alone at last Last Line: They will say you are well Subject(s): Anger; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness FOR THE MAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will be alone at last Last Line: You will not be better but %they will say you are well Subject(s): Anger; Insanity FORMA BONUM FRAGILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a frail thing is beauty! Says baron le cras Last Line: She dropped the eye, and broke it. Subject(s): Anger; Beauty; Eyes FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: AN AUTUMN MORNING IN SKOKOKU-JI, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night watching the pleiades Subject(s): Anger; Pleiades (constellation) FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: AN AUTUMN MORNING IN SKOKOKU-JI, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night watching the pleiades Last Line: The first time I have %ever seen them close Subject(s): Anger; Pleiades (constellation) GHAZALS: 23, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagined her dead, killed by some local maniac who Last Line: Sack in my teeth. At the dump I pause to snarl at a rat. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Drinks & Drinking; Relationships; Wine GHAZALS: 29, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For my horse, brotherinlaw, who had no character Last Line: A fresh trout, salt, honey, and healing music. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Imaginary Conversations GHAZALS: 50, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boot called botte sauvage renders rattlers harmless but they Last Line: Edges are jagged; when cold, the skin peels off the tongue at touch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Snakes; Women; Serpents; Vipers GODS ANGER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God can't be wrathfull; but we may conclude Last Line: That without wrath, which wrath doth force us to. Subject(s): Anger GOODBYE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She stood at the window> there was Subject(s): Anger; Farewell; Parting HAG NIGHT, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: La, what a night! The hag has sworn Last Line: And not a blink her booby cheereth! Subject(s): Anger; Night; Bedtime HALBERT AND HOB, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a thing that happened. Like wild beasts whelped, for den Last Line: That a reason out of nature must turn them soft, seems clear! Subject(s): Anger; Hate HOKUSAI, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger is a bitter lock Last Line: Or crashed / together Subject(s): Anger; Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) HOSTILE STUFF, by DANIEL KANE Poem Source First Line: He almost shaved his ball-hair off Last Line: What do you think %he did asshole Subject(s): Anger HUNDRED ACRES OF HATE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Crowned at the top of the long green hill Last Line: Links in a chain around his neck Subject(s): Anger; Barns; Hate; Solitude IN ORDER TO SPEAK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In order to revitalize the roaring of phosphenes Last Line: To the point of firevomiting / its mouth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Speech; Anger INDIGNATION, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Blurred in a whirlwind, a mighty cloud of dust Last Line: I blotted out your light Subject(s): Anger; Wind INDIGNATION OF A HIGH-MINDED SPANIARD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can endure that he should waste our lands Last Line: That he has power to inflict what we lack strength to bear. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Anger LILIES: 8, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: It is not anger; could'st thou seeit so Last Line: But burning vast intolerable love. Subject(s): Anger LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of newry Last Line: Within twenty miles' distance of newry Subject(s): Anger; Ill-tempered; Old Age MAD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got mad at my mother Subject(s): Anger; Mothers MALE RAGE POEM, by PIER GIORGIO DI CICCO Poem Source First Line: Feminism, baby, feminism. %this is an anti-feminist poem Last Line: Take it like a man Subject(s): Anger; Men; Women's Rights MAN ARRESTED IN HACKING DEATH TELLS POLICE HE MISTOOK MOTHER-IN-LAW..., by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning she'd smear something brown Subject(s): Anger; Mothers-in-law; Murder MAN ARRESTED IN HACKING DEATH TELLS POLICE HE MISTOOK MOTHER-IN-LAW..., by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning she'd smear something brown Last Line: And the axe felt good, coming down %on a life like that Subject(s): Anger; Mothers-in-law; Murder MARIANSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Marianson, my beauteous dame" Subject(s): Anger;death;jealousy;marriage;unfaithfulness; "dead, The;weddings;husbands;wives;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy; MIRACLE BABY, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: She was born with a cunt and a brain Last Line: To make it up %as I go along Subject(s): Anger; Male Chauvinism; Man-woman Relationships MISSED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He fumed from the kitchen Last Line: Hers are black frost Subject(s): Anger; Family Life; Fights; Knives MORE THAN STARS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You did it Subject(s): Anger MURDERER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pull a knife but it is to protest Last Line: For the grief and anger %I have given Subject(s): Anger MURRAY'S RIDE, by C. J. DENNIS Poem Text First Line: I seldom get to hatin' men, nor had much cause to hate Last Line: As we took poor ben murray up an' carried him away. Subject(s): Anger; Revenge; Suicide MY FATHER'S VOICE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as I rage, I see my daughter Last Line: Weathers the shaping blast. Subject(s): Anger; Children; Discipline; Fathers; Childhood NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 22D PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reprove not in their wrath incensed men Last Line: No man gives physic in the midst o' th' fit. Subject(s): Anger NO TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: From room to room he roared and strode Last Line: A barkin' dog has no time to bite Subject(s): Anger; Family Life; Fathers; Fear NORMAL BEHAVIOR OF THE FAMAS, by JULIO CORTAZAR Poem Source First Line: It happened that a fama was dancing respite and dancing Last Line: And the fama understood, and his solitude was less %embittered Subject(s): Anger; Human Behavior; Solitude NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He throws a fifty-lire piece in the fountain Last Line: Rain through the roof of a pagan temple on this gentle soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood in the burning house. Set it up Last Line: Never allow words to occur. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green green grass of home is owned by another now Last Line: And I'm not allowed on the property for my ounce of sentiment. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Second sighting: / she was up on the roof when I went up to check Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake. A dab of numero uno in the smoking Last Line: And their eyes are pink with hopeless energy. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the montana whorehouse the madam yells 'burma' Last Line: He thinks. I'll miss supper and fishing the evening hatch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Start with seven for luck Last Line: Feet deep. Nothing need be forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The announcement said get to the high ground Last Line: Their teethhold on the stomach. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For five days the moon was red from the dust storm Last Line: Established a white bladder-shaped object in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grease density Last Line: The midwest barren without good shellfish Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Third sighting: / is she the black-crowned night heron Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He became humbler with his journalism, bought a porkpie hat Last Line: His left ear as his only visible rebellion. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crudities: / implausible as this brilliantly cold Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the great shattering cold waves Last Line: It and would not trade it for all your princely heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail is beautiful, nearly persian. Do we dwell in Last Line: But delicately with her lips. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phenomenon. Agonies. Mostly unshared. Dear friends Last Line: Place a kitten near a candle when bored. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I saw spicer's body hanging from a hundred feet Last Line: Spread and are they peaceful on the bottom? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are these horses less wonderful for my daughter having to shovel Last Line: Horse eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oooooooo, he said to himself. That night of wonderment Last Line: Afterward didn't seem to care. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More mad dogs and fewer streetlights, mr. Nixon. That advice Last Line: To throw stones at streetlights. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my puppy is over her kidney infection, diagnosed Last Line: Let her wounds become my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First sighting: she was up in the apple tree with one leg hanging Last Line: I thought her bare feet were cloven a bit too obviously. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning my body bumped against the ceiling Last Line: Rather, earth lost to me as she doesn't know me well. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember her cheers? How you loved the cheerleader far beyond Last Line: No longer love the cheerleader. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sang I'm talking through a hat that isn't mine. It's Last Line: Small, treated themselves like garbage. Sanctus detrius redivivus Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt myself floating toward the shadow of the dreamer I once Last Line: In our dreams. There were poems before books on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stewardess said you're a poet? Last Line: Around all day humming got a date with a daydream. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fat & sexless life Last Line: This fat & sexless life. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mourned portia's unfair operation. Then the horse Last Line: Happened to be rex. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must not think of our country as a ten-trillion-dolllar Last Line: Blowjob no matter how the idea tempts us. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overheard story in montana bar: she thought when she lost Last Line: With ambivalent affection for guns & ewes, mares & drudgery. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NOT HEAVING FROM MY RIBB'D BREAST ONLY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs Subject(s): Despair; Anger O CHRISTMAS TREE, by WILLIAM AIKEN Poem Source First Line: The holly of life has ripped me to the bone Last Line: I'm the guy who knocks down %the orange cones along the road Subject(s): Anger; Christmas O HADA CIBERNETICA: 7, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Cold fear because looking at you Last Line: With a thousand transfigured eyes Subject(s): Anger ORIGIN OF BASEBALL, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had been walking in and out Last Line: So he wanted to throw something %and he picked up a baseball Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Sports OUR LADY EXAMINES HER ANGER, by NITA PENFOLD Poem Source First Line: Like a foreign object Last Line: The closest she had ever come %to loving herself Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women PARTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had fortune parted us Last Line: For thee beloved. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Anger; Fortune; God; Love PAST AND PRESENT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll never forgive you! I said Last Line: As I seek to harden my heart? Subject(s): Anger; Death; Forgiveness; Past; Dead, The; Clemency PERSON MEANS CITY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Sleep crumpled us, our Last Line: The time episode of you Subject(s): Anger; Memory; Relationships; Sleep PHENOMENOLOGY OF ANGER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The freedom of the wholly mad Last Line: Is an unnatural act Subject(s): Anger; Women's Rights POEM ENDING WITH A LINE FROM DANTE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow coming in parallel to the street Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Anger; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness POEM ENDING WITH A LINE FROM DANTE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow coming in parallel to the street Last Line: And I have told you this to make you grieve Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Anger; Grief PORTRAIT OF A FIGURE NEAR WATER, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebuked, she turned and ran Last Line: Then water enters, though it makes / no sound Subject(s): Anger PROVERBS, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Anger; Religion PROVERBS: HE THAT IS SLOW TO ANGER, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty Last Line: And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city Subject(s): Anger; Calm QUESTION OF SINGING-PART II, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I like how you come and sit with me Last Line: Hoping to make song again Subject(s): Anger; Singing And Singers; Women RADFORD SCALE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: On the radford scale Last Line: Short of %danger Subject(s): Anger RAGE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In a flash %I am out of the car Last Line: Bring her back to me Subject(s): Anger; Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of RAGE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In me there is a rage to defy Subject(s): Anger RAGE RADIO!, by CARL STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: Go do not go gentle into twilight prime time or the rush hour dawn! Last Line: Into any dialogue with them. Rage, rage, rage! Subject(s): Anger; Hate; Talk Radio REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes! Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers ROADSIDE POEMS: HE HEEDED NOT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of whispering trees the tongues to hear Last Line: An earnest, fearless, hopeless face. Subject(s): Anger; Calm; Children; Grace; Humility; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Childhood ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: INTRODUCTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When vex'd by slander's treacherous breath Last Line: Will bleed to death sweetly. Subject(s): Anger; Defamation; Faith; Slander; Libel; Belief; Creed ROUNDED WITH A SLEEP, by KRISSY BRADY Poem Source First Line: They're coarse and dry Last Line: And how they will be remembered in this %illusion of left or right Subject(s): Anger; Character; Fathers; Memory SAPPHICS AGAINST ANGER, by TIMOTHY REID STEELE Poem Source First Line: Angered, may I be near a glass of water Last Line: If not the holiest of powers, sustaining %only if mastered Subject(s): Anger; Humanity SEASON OF ANGER, by RENE DEPESTRE Poem Source First Line: I made myself into armored concrete against the worms that gnaw at us Last Line: Goodness as life's only season Subject(s): Anger; Blacks; Racism SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harden now thy tyred hart, with more then flinty rage Last Line: Too oft, I feare, thou wilt remember me. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Second Book Of Airs: 3 Subject(s): Anger; Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SEVEN VIALS HOLD THY WRATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Behold its shadow in the deed he did Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Anger; Worship; Prayer SNAKE BLOOD, by FRANCINE TOLF Poem Source First Line: When I was his secretary, I imagined Last Line: He snapped his fingers at me, twice Subject(s): Anger; Love Affairs SOLVITUR, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without this anger it is clear Last Line: No. / solvitur Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Anger SONG FOR PUTTING ASIDE ANGER, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four walls open to the sky. You are Subject(s): Anger SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 16, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, amynta, we must part Last Line: Because thou hadst my love. Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Charm; Cruelty; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONNET: OF BECCHINA IN A RAGE, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI DA SIENA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold becchina in a rage Last Line: It's time I got my valor to grow big. Subject(s): Anger SOUTH-DOWN MUTTON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If men, when in a rage, inspected Last Line: "I thought you meant to dine down stairs!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Anger; Food & Eating; Temperance; Prohibition SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 11, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Away! Go! Mad woman! Last Line: That anyone can ring Subject(s): Anger SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 19, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the way you get angry Last Line: Just by the wind Subject(s): Anger SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 21, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I dreamt last night Last Line: Looking at me angrily Subject(s): Anger; Dreams STORMS, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: In the basin of the fountain, after the storm Last Line: There is no such peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Anger; Emotions; Storms TALKING TO GRANDPA EASTMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: What do you think, restless one? Last Line: I won't dig up this dirt again Subject(s): Anger; Daughters; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Mothers; Sex; Unfaithfulness TEMPER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seed, in its grave Last Line: Clear through to the center. Subject(s): Anger THE ANGER OF BEETHOVEN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This night the enchanting musicians rendered a trio of beethoven Last Line: And in art supreme, immortal, the infamous arrows of fortune. Subject(s): Anger; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians THE ANGER THAT BREAKS THE MAN INTO CHILDREN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Owns one deep fire against two craters Subject(s): Anger THE ANGRY MAN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six o'clock and caleb pulls up, out of breath from his eight block trip Last Line: Just driven it into the upper lever of the bleacher seats Subject(s): Anger; Revenge THE ANGRY MAN, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The other day I chanced to meet Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Anger THE ANGRY ONES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are the smashers of harsh traditions Last Line: A thunderbolt from the hand of god! Subject(s): Anger; Fights THE COLLAR, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I struck the board and cried, no more Last Line: And I replied, my lord. Subject(s): Anger; Christianity; Despair; Faith; God; Revolutions; Belief; Creed THE COMET, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye of the demon on albion was turned Last Line: The fire-brand of yamen shall dazzle in vain. Subject(s): Anger; Devil; England; Envy; Floods; Weather; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; English THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN SINS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call in the dancers Last Line: Heaven too shall vanish in pale smoke. Subject(s): Anger; Dancing & Dancers; Gluttony; Idleness; Lies; Lust; Pride; Sin; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FIGHTING WORD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a calm and placid person and my temper seldom rises Last Line: "while I bellowed out ""whoisthis?"" on the phone!" Subject(s): Anger; Temperance; Prohibition THE FOUR HUMOURS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wondered if the rumors got to her Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Anger; Melancholy; Cancer (disease); Doctors; Illness; Dejection THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE NEIGHBOR, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man stomping over my bed in boots Subject(s): Neighbors; Anger THE NIGHT BEFORE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look you, dominie; look you, and listen Subject(s): Passion; Adultery; Cuckolds; Anger; Hate; Forgiveness; Murder; Clemency THE OFFICIAL SCORER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He sits down in the press-box, knowing well Last Line: Is general derision and the razz! Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Labor & Laborers; Sports; Work; Workers THE OGRES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the palisade of silver birch-trees Last Line: By any gust of anger or despair. Subject(s): Anger; Giants; Men THE ORIGIN OF BASEBALL, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had been walking in and out Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Sports THE PASSING OF MALONEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chill of anaemic december when the snow on / the ditchway lay Last Line: When nature was yelling in anguish and the turbulent tempest was loud. Subject(s): Anger; Bars & Bartenders; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Arguments; Disagreements THE PIG AND THE HEN, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pig and the hen / both got in one pen Subject(s): Hens; Pigs; Relationships; Anger; Friendship THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 155, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the hundred years of human life Last Line: Listen to the lion's roar Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Anger; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Compassion; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 89, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anger is a fire in the mind Last Line: Forbearance keeps anger away Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Anger; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists THE POET RELATES HOW HE STOLE A LOCK OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be the day accurst that gave me birth! Last Line: "you stupid puppy—you have spoil'd my wig!" Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4 Subject(s): Anger; Crime & Criminals; Despair; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Wigs; Male-female Relations; Toupees; Hairpieces THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that midas Subject(s): Gluttony; Pride; Envy; Greed; Lust; Anger;sloth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Avarice; Cupidity THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: SECOND ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two shepherds here complain the wrong Last Line: And clouds distil in rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Shephers And Shepherdesses; Anger THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: THE HUNTING OF PAU-PUK-KEEWIS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full of wrath was hiawatha Last Line: "he is gathering in his harvest!" Subject(s): Anger THE SPUR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think it is horrible that lust and rage Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age; Lust; Anger THE STORM, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: A sudden gleam of anger in her eyes Last Line: She smiles, and all the world is bright again. Subject(s): Anger THE THREE LAWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is the golden law Last Line: Joining for aye! Subject(s): Anger; Justice; Love THE TIME TO BE CROSS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The time to be cross is when you have found Last Line: It's time to be cross—with yourself. Subject(s): Anger; Pride; Strength; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF ABINGTON, by HENRY PORTER Poem Text First Line: Gentlemen, I come to ye like one that lacks and would borrow Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Anger; Marriage; Neighbors; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHISPERER, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was round Last Line: To write this strain! Subject(s): Anger; God THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF DOWN, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He alarmed all the people of down Subject(s): Anger; Ill-tempered; Old Age THIS RAGE, by SILVIA BATISTI Poem Source First Line: This rage is not aroused Subject(s): Anger; Women's Rights THIS WEDNESDAY FULL OF WOE, by DIANE VANCE Poem Source First Line: Turn your anger into poetry, her advice to me after the tuesday night Last Line: Not at all -- you -- I -- know what -- I know Subject(s): Anger; Poetry And Poets; Quarrels TIS STRANGE, YOU THINK, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange, you think, that I remember Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Anger; Memory TO HELEN IN A HUFF, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, lady, one frown is enough Last Line: Nay, lady, smile! Subject(s): Anger TO MY SISTER ANNE KING, WHP CHID ME IN VERSE FOR BEING ANGRY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear nan, I would not have thy counsel lost Last Line: Thou'lt rhyme me back again into my wits. Subject(s): Anger; Sisters TO ONE STEEPED IN BITTERNESS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nail the rose Subject(s): Anger TO ONE STEEPED IN BITTERNESS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nail the rose Last Line: And your lips dry Subject(s): Anger TRAVERSE CITY ZOO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw a wolf tread a circle in his cage Last Line: Of dope. He grew smaller and sputtered into sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Prisons & Prisoners; Zoos; Convicts TROUBLE WITH ANGER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Because I couldn't %hate %them Subject(s): Anger; Arabs; Emotions; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRUTH TOLD AT LAST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says pontius in rage, contradicting his wife Last Line: You're a cuckold, says she; do I tell you truth now?' Subject(s): Anger; Life; Marriage; Truth; Unfaithfulness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy VISIONS: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stirs and chafes my madden'd blood? Last Line: She blush'd, well pleased with what she heard. Subject(s): Anger; Dreams; Evil; Nightmares WINTER MOON, by TAGAKI KYOZO Poem Source First Line: I hit my wife and went out and saw Last Line: The moon like a thousand lanterns Subject(s): Anger; Love YOUNG BULL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bronze ring punctures Last Line: Against the slats wanting to murder me. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Bulls; Pity; Strength |
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