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Subject: CONSCIENCE
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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