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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COWARDICE Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF A COWARD, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpets pealed; the echoes sang Last Line: And happy and amazed fell dead. Subject(s): Cowardice; Death; Family Life; Redemption; War; Dead, The; Relatives A COWARD THOUGHT ADMONISHETH: BEHOLD, by VINCENZO MONTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: "watching how earthly glory fades, I smile ! "" " Subject(s): Cowardice ARISTODEMUS AT PLATAEA, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have darkened mine honor and branded my name Last Line: And the desolate hope of the death unadorned. Subject(s): Cowardice; Heroism; Persian Wars; Plataea, Greece; Heroes; Heroines; Laspi EPIGRAM, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave l-, so says a knight of the pen Last Line: Have exposed themselves fully as much as their king. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Cowardice EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE COWARD, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not look on death, which being known Last Line: Men led me to him, blindfold and alone. Subject(s): Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War FAINT HEART, by HARLAN COLBY PEARSON Poem Text First Line: My lady fair / her golden hair Last Line: When I'm a little braver. Subject(s): Cowardice; Hearts GERONTION, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am, an old man in a dry month Last Line: Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Decay; Emptiness; Old Age; Estrangement; Outcasts; Rot; Decadence MARTIN RELPH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather says he remembers he saw, when a youngster long ago Last Line: Of water I wanted: and now I can walk, get home by myself, I think. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Cowardice; Pardons And Pardoners; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MEN WITHOUT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a coward, and I have grown Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Fathers & Sons; Love; Estrangement; Outcasts MY DREAMS ARE OF A FIELD AFAR, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But they, when I forgot and ran, remembered and remain Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Cowardice PHILIP, KING OF MACEDON, by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unwept, unburied, traveller, we lie here Last Line: But philip, that brave soul, ran quicker still. Subject(s): Cowardice; Philip V, King Of Macedon (238-179 B.c.) SONGS OF SOULS THAT FAILED, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come from the war-swept valleys Last Line: To cover our grief and rest. Subject(s): Cowardice; Fights; Riots; War; Weariness; Fatigue SPRING COWARDICE, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am afraid to go into the woods Last Line: I am a coward, a coward, I know! Subject(s): Cowardice; Spring THE BLIND BOXER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He goes with basket and slow feet Last Line: Thy working face and pity thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Blindness; Boxing & Boxers; Cowardice; Pity; Visually Handicapped THE COWARD, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies before my wounded feet Last Line: The thing upon the ground. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Cowardice THE COWARD, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, weeping wide atg war, weep with me now Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Cowardice; War THE COWARD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ave you seen bill's mug in the noos today? Last Line: Wot's the matter with bill! Subject(s): Army - Great Britain; Cowardice; War; World War I; First World War THE COWARD EVER SINGS NO SONG, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To build the lofty rhyme Subject(s): Cowardice THE DESERTER FROM THE CAUSE, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is gone: better so. We should know Last Line: Than live like the coward, and die like the slave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Abandonment; Cowardice; Desertion THE SULTAN'S REMONSTRANCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It suits thee well to weep Last Line: For which thou dar'dst not die. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cowardice TO A COWARD, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have no right to spoil the sun Last Line: You will not dare to curse the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Cowardice VAIN FEARS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I fear the hour of going? I'll Last Line: Natural; why have the willies? It's no excuse for fear or woe. Subject(s): Cowardice; Fear |
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