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Subject: CADAVERS
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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