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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHILDREN - ILLEGITIMATE Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FRIEND OF MINE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, lizzie anderson! Seventeen men and Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards BASTARD, by MERLE LEMBECK Poem Text First Line: Afar to the luring west Last Line: A man-made sun of fire.— Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards BASTARDS, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those bastards in their mansion Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards BASTARDS, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those bastards in their mansion Last Line: Me, I stick to the shadows, carry a gun Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate BASTARDS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bastard-children are but like to plate Last Line: Made by the coyners illegitimate. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards FULFILLMENT, by NELL FARRINGTON MYERS Poem Text First Line: She never felt new life, of her a part Last Line: And motherhood's sweet immortality. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Mothers; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards IN THE PARISH REGISTER, CREDITON, DEVON, 1565, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John warren and jone cooke Last Line: The fruit of hys adultery %the 20th daye of march Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate POLYGAMY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When an official goes upcountry Last Line: His name green as unreaped fantasy. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Polygamy; Thailand; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But hear, if you stay, and the child be born Last Line: Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame.' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Love - Marital; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 2, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pressed my baby to my throbbing breast Last Line: Some wish, the bitter grief he caused me, to console! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Grief; Mothers - Unwed; Seduction THE BALLAD OF A DAFT GIRL, by DOROTHY ALDIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old lay's son Last Line: Eyes and died. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Girls; Pregnancy; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE ILLEGITIMATE, by JOHN A. STOVER Poem Text First Line: A tainted thing it came into the world Last Line: As though it were an angel undefiled. Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE INQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the rose of keenest thorn Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Under The Rose; %'the Iniquity Of The Fathers Upon The Children' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Flowers; Roses; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE NATURAL CHILD, by HELEN LEIGH Poem Text First Line: Let not the title of my verse offen Last Line: Who, in such depths of misery, plunge the fair? Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE WEDDING MORNING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tabitha dressed for her wedding Last Line: "she can have him. I shall not mourn!" Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Bill is visiting on spring break. As we talk on the drive home form the Last Line: Get home in time to watch ourselves on the six o'clock news Subject(s): Abandonment; Adoption; Boys; Child Custody; Children - Illegitimate; Orphans; Stepfathers; Stepmothers |
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