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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CADAVERS Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With all our mirth, I doubt if we shall be Last Line: Due to the corpses you have gone and seen to. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Corpses; Morticians; Old Age; Cadavers A MONUMENT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a weak chargray-and-camellia dusk Subject(s): Corpses; Cadavers AD, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harper's and many magazines contain Subject(s): Magazines; War; Soldiers; Corpses; Pictures; Cadavers AFTER DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The four boards of the coffin lid / heard all the dead man did Last Line: "flesh to feed hell's worm upon." Subject(s): Coffins; Corpses; Curses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them laughing, smiling gladly Last Line: The bitterness of this last hour. Subject(s): Corpses; Laughter; Tears; Cadavers BEFORE SEDAN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this leafy place Last Line: Death will not have it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Corpses; France; Tragedy; World War I; Cadavers; First World War CONFESSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The general's men sit at the door. Her eyes Last Line: It has kept you from loneliness like a mob. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Corpses; Mobs; Crowds; Cadavers DIRE: 2. A YEAR AFTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If blood throbs yet in this that was thy face Last Line: Thy mouth to a snake's whose slime outlives the sting, Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Nations; Cadavers; Dead, The DIRE: 9. THE AUGURS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay the corpse out on the altar; bid the elect Last Line: They carve the corpse -- a beast without a heart. Subject(s): Corpses; Leprosy; Nations; Rome, Italy; Cadavers; Lepers EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I; Cadavers; First World War IN AN ANATOMY LABORATORY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Over our bench in the dissecting-room Last Line: "alive or dead." Subject(s): Beauty; Corpses; Death; Science; Cadavers; Dead, The; Scientists IN STATE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the martins or katydids? Last Line: To know that she loves me now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love; Cadavers; Dead, The LENINGRAD CEMETERY, WINTER OF 1941, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That winter, the dead could not be buried Subject(s): Corpses; Leningrad, Siege Of (1941); Cadavers MATHEW BRADY ARRANGING THE BODIES, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a mountain flat with snow Subject(s): War; Corpses; Cadavers MONUMENTAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have ceased to rant and rave, and Last Line: Silent sea, a three-foot slab of slippery elm is plenty good enough for me. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Monuments; Stones; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks MR. WHAT'S-HIS-NAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They called him mr. What's-his-name Last Line: I'll ask for mr. What's-his-name. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Men; Cadavers; Dead, The MY FATHER'S BODY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they take it away, Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers; Corpses; Funerals; Cremation; Cadavers; Burials OBEDIENCE OF THE CORPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midwife puts a rag in the dead woman's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Corpses; Mothers; Stillbirth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Cadavers; Death - Childbirth OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees; Cadavers ON SEEING A CHILD BLUSH ON HIS FIRST VIEW OF A CORPSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good our earliest sympathies to trace Last Line: Saw but an alien footmark and was sad! Subject(s): Children; Corpses; Childhood; Cadavers ON THE TURNING UP OF UNIDENTIFIED BLACK FEMALE CORPSES, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mowing his three acres with a tractor Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Corpses; Cadavers PATIENCE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: With drooping head sweet patience sighs and sees Last Line: And peace return to earth on shining wing. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones QUICK AND DEAD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the trouble and strife of life set free Last Line: "would that I were alive!"" he said." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: PALSGRAVINE JUTTA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The palsgravine jutta, in bark so light Last Line: So sadly are floating the corpses! Subject(s): Corpses; Rhine (river), Europe; Cadavers ROMANTICISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is to emerson I have turned now Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Death - Wives; Loss; Corpses; Cadavers SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar Last Line: They sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares SONG OF RENEWAL: 2, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the fields when morning freshened Last Line: "and ruined spring renews her flower and anxious eyes are once more glad." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fields; Memory; Cadavers; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas STANZAS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep in peace when life is fled Last Line: And stars behold our bones again. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Graves; New York City; Skeletons; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STATEMENT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Durable is flesh when young Last Line: Discourse on all it would not tell. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Grief; Cadavers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THAW, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The empty mocking bird nests Subject(s): Corpses; Death - Children; Cadavers; Death - Babies THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#1): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man can balance a glass of water on his head without trembling Subject(s): Bodies; Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The THE CORPSES (1), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are unhappy in this shut down Last Line: Slippery look. And even a corpse can be a disguise Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The THE DEAD LIEBNECHT, by RUDOLF LEONHARDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All through the city lies the corpse of him Last Line: To smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Leonhard, Rudolf Subject(s): Corpses; Cadavers THE FIRST FUNERAL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole field was so smelly; / we smelt the poor dog first Last Line: And said: 'poor dog, amen!' Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; World War I; Cadavers; First World War THE GRAVE-YARD AT SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Come to this spot among the rocks and pines Last Line: To call her crying children to her breast. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE HEARSE SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The old grey hearse goes rolling by Last Line: And you look like hell when they're through with you Subject(s): Corpses;funerals;soldiers; Cadavers;burials THE IMAM BARA: 2, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come from this tomb of shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Mourning; Silence; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement THE LIVE CONSCIENCE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lay beneath the mold Last Line: And god folds up the sky! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Ghosts; Immortality; Supernatural; Cadavers; Dead, The THE PUNISHED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish Last Line: And make a nightmare of the solitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Corpses; Graves; Punishment; Sin; Cadavers; Tombs; Tombstones THE SHAPE OF THE CORONER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the morn Last Line: In a parlor of day. Subject(s): Corpses; Embalming; Cadavers THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE VAMPYRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a corpse, with golden hair Last Line: From perdition made so fair? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Corpses; Italy; Travel; Cadavers; Italians; Journeys; Trips TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 1, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day she visited the dissecting room Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Cadavers TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 2, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In brueghel's panorama of smoke and slaughter Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Cadavers WHAT A DEAD MAN SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what a dead man said to me Last Line: That the voice of the dead man spoke to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Flowers; Roses; Secrets; Cadavers WILLIE THE MINER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Ghastly and strange was the relic found Last Line: Standing still with her lover dead! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Youth; Cadavers; Dead, The |
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