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Subject: DISHONOR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COLONEL LINDBERG, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tear the wings from his shoulders
Last Line: Now let us forget.
Subject(s): Dishonor; Nazis; Tyranny & Tyrants; National Socialism


DENIAL OF PETER, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: This was your true calling, peter
Last Line: I do not know the man
Subject(s): Dishonor; Lies


DISGRACE CORNER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In our kitchen there's a corner that reserved for naughty
Last Line: There's a secondary value to this corner of disgrace.
Subject(s): Children; Dishonor; Punishment; Childhood


HEART'S COUNSEL, by HASSOLDT DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look, lord judas, here, in the diligent brain
Last Line: A cross's width between.
Subject(s): Dishonor; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Tears; Nightmares


IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: HONOUR DISHONOURED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Honoured I lived e'erwhile with honoured men
Last Line: Fences our weakness from the wolves of old!
Subject(s): Dishonor; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


LETRILLA, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Riches will serve for titles, too
Last Line: That's a lie, that's a lie!
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Dishonor


LYING, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In that you can have any number of opponents this can be a very difficult
Last Line: A strong sense of modesty
Subject(s): Dishonor; Lies


ON THE SUDDEN RESTRAINT OF ROBERT CARR, EARL OF SOMERSET, by HENRY WOTTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dazzled thus with the height of place
Last Line: But proves at night a bed of down.
Variant Title(s): Upon The Sudden Restraint Of The Earl Of Somerset, Then Falling From Favor
Subject(s): Carr, Robert. Earl Of Somerset; Dishonor; Rochester, Viscount (159-1645)


POOR BUT HONEST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "she was poor, but she was honest"
Last Line: It's the rich as gets the pleasure - / ain't it all a bleeding shame!
Subject(s): Dishonor;seduction;villains In Literature;wealth; Riches;fortunes


RAKE' WINDERMERE, by LEONARD POUNDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Disgrace he'd broght on an ancient name
Last Line: Then with a head erect, but without a sound, %'rake' windermere stepped out
Subject(s): Dishonor


RICHARD PIGOTT, THE FORGER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Richard pigott, the forger, was a very bad man
Last Line: And an honest, true-hearted gentleman be it told.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dishonor; Duplicity; Forgery; Pigott, Richard (1828-1889); Deceit


THE CHEAT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had cheated the vineyard. The wagemaster came
Last Line: At the blood on the money I dared not refuse!
Subject(s): Dishonor


THE IDEAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Cheat me always at the bend
Last Line: As eager as the sun.
Subject(s): Dishonor


THE MAID'S TRAGEDY, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rest are making ready, sir
Last Line: But cursed is he that is their instrument. [exeunt.
Subject(s): Dishonor; Regicide; Vengeance


THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have left all upon the shameful field
Last Line: O keep the promise, lord, and take the life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dishonor; Honor; War