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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CONSCIENCE Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CASE OF CONSCIENCE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two college professors, - I won't give their names Last Line: "for I have a conscience as well as yourself!" Subject(s): Conscience A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I ride into the mountains on my little broncho Last Line: When thar ain't nobody near him, 'ceptin' god. Subject(s): Conscience; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States A MERRY HEART: THE GHOSTLING, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: I had a little ghostling Last Line: Whate'er results might be! Subject(s): Conscience; Imagination; Thought; Fancy; Thinking A PENITENT TO HIS NEIGHBOURS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Smiling I answer: 'is that all?' Last Line: Then what's your halfpenny? Subject(s): Conscience; Sin BLESSED CONSCIENCE; FRAMED PAPERS AT HOGHTON TOWERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Apollo with his radiant beams Last Line: Confessor,' then, let us him call. %o blessed conscience Subject(s): Conscience CLEAN CONSCIENCE NEVER RELAXES, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an emotion to which we are most of us adduced Last Line: The kremlin ought to work out some plan for taking it away from those who have it and giving it to t Subject(s): Conscience; Remorse CONSCIENCE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The man of power rejoicing cries, 'I can' Last Line: Thy law is ever on us and we must. Subject(s): Conscience CONSCIENCE, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For though the judge conscience makes no show Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Conscience CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Breathes there a man with soul so dead Last Line: He still feels glad he wasn't caught Subject(s): Conscience CONSCIENCE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A knocking at my heart - and what art thou? Last Line: "I am your angel of forgiveness now." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Conscience; Lazarus CONSCIENCE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace prattler, do not lour [lowre] Last Line: Is both my physick and my sword. Subject(s): Conscience CONSCIENCE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although upon the shore I seem Last Line: Pass downward to the silent grave. Subject(s): Conscience CONSCIENCE, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Text First Line: Head bowed beneath the burden of the beams Last Line: All they thought dead pursued them. Subject(s): Conscience CONSCIENCE, by EDWARD SHERBURNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Internal cerberus, whose griping fangs Subject(s): Conscience CONSCIENCE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conscience is instinct bred in the house Last Line: To cheer god along. Subject(s): Conscience CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye,' I said to my conscience Last Line: "remorse sits in my place." Subject(s): Conscience; Religion; Theology CONSCIENCE DOTH MAKE COWARDS OF US ALL, by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boldest man with something on his conscience Last Line: Is turned by knowledge of it to a coward. Subject(s): Conscience CONTRARY EXPERIENCE, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cry as the gull cries Last Line: Rises and sings Subject(s): Conscience DANGER, by JULIO FLOREZ Poem Source First Line: They say that once a proud and sinful king Last Line: May rise and swallow you. Keep wide awake! Subject(s): Conscience; Punishment; Sin FOUND WANTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belshazzar had a letter Last Line: On revelation's wall. Subject(s): Bible; Conscience; Religion; Theology FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So buckled tight in scaly resolution Last Line: I will no more. Subject(s): Conscience; Curses; Death; Dreams; Ghosts; Murder; Punishment; Revenge; Sleep; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I landed in the republic of conscience Subject(s): Conscience; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Human Rights; Nationalism - Ireland FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I landed in the republic of conscience Last Line: But operated independently %and no ambassador would ever be relieved Subject(s): Conscience; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Human Rights; Nationalism - Ireland I'M THINKING OF YOUR SEX, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Odumodneurtse! Subject(s): Conscience IN PRAISE OF FEELING BAD ABOUT YOURSELF, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buzzard never says it is to blame. Subject(s): Conscience INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only people who should really sin Last Line: And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all Subject(s): Conscience L'HEURE DU TIGRE (EXTRACT 1), by MATHIAS TSCHABOLD Poem Source First Line: I am not of your iron century Last Line: Since your napalm innocence acts as your consciense Subject(s): Conscience MAYBE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF MADNESS, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Read it to me quietly, quietly Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Conscience; Human Rights; Insanity MIRRORS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The mirror is a distant precursor of the cinema Last Line: Obscene gesture back at him Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Conscience; Knives; Murder MONITOR, by MARTHA LINSLEY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: A long time ago Last Line: "from having lived so many years in a heated apartment." Subject(s): Conscience; Memory NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright. Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime PROVERBS OF THE MIDLE WORLD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect swan upon the perfect lake Last Line: The courts of lust shall judge the innocent Subject(s): Conscience; Judges; Proverbs; Maxims; Adages PUFFING LIKE MIDGETS, LIFE'S WEARY TRAIN, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: It tells us when one word is still enough Subject(s): Conscience REFLECTION ON THE FALLIBILITY OF NEMESIS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who is ridden by a conscience Last Line: His fun and income soon quadruples Subject(s): Conscience SOCIETY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Historic be the survey of our kind Last Line: They spring another flood of fangs and claws. Subject(s): Conscience; Law & Lawyers; Upper Classes SONNET: 151, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Love is too young to know what conscience is Last Line: Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall. Variant Title(s): "love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is""; Subject(s): Conscience SPIRIT, by ALBERT W. MAYER Poem Text First Line: Within the chamber of my soul Last Line: Of this godlike voice within. Subject(s): Conscience TALE: 14. THE STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A serious toyman in the city dwelt Last Line: Thou art, oh! Woe for me, his deadliest foe!' Subject(s): Conscience THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE COMBAT, BETWEENE CONSCIENCE AND COVETOUSNESSE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now had the cole-blacke steedes, of pitchie night Last Line: At sight hereof, foorthwith I did awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Conscience; Covetousness THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man. Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POWER O' CONSCIENCE, by ANDREW CRAWFURD Poem Text First Line: Aye we may busk wi' rosie wreath Last Line: An' gar us ruefu' weep. Subject(s): Conscience THE WORLD TO THE SOUL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul! That may'st have been divine Last Line: Death may give thee peace, not I. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Conscience TO HIS CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I not sin, but thou wilt be Last Line: So I'll not fear the judge or thee. Subject(s): Bible; Conscience; Religion; Theology TO HIS WORSHIPFULL GOOD FRIEND, MAISTER JOHN STEVENTON, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith conscience (long since) is exilde the citty Last Line: O let her finde, some favour yet of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Conscience TUTELARY, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a fuckup you are Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Skulls; Dead, The TUTELARY, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a fuckup you are Last Line: Praise for your skill Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Skulls TWO MIRRORS, by RAMON DE CAMPOAMOR Poem Source First Line: Into my mirror's glass I gaze Last Line: And in my conscience - worse! Subject(s): Conscience |
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