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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ESCAPES Matches Found: 93 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BEDLAM: A POEM ON HIS MAJESTY'S HAPPY ESCAPE, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What mean these loud aerial cracks I hear? Last Line: "to see thy towering temple shine so fair / through the night-flaming, elemental air" Subject(s): Escapes;freedom;guard Duty; Fugitives;liberty ABSTRACTION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came that morning, in gowns of pale green and white Last Line: Unprovisioned and naked, had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Escapes; Forests; News; Secrets; Soldiers; Fugitives; Woods ADVICE OF THE DREAM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: The dream that escaped the dream Last Line: Able to be everywhere in the world. Subject(s): Advice; Dreams; Escapes; Freedom AFTER, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing happened after. For three days Subject(s): Danger; Escapes; Fugitives AFTERNOON BLUES AND AN ACCIDENTAL LIFE, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: An accidental life came through the window Last Line: That forgot where they'd been walking Subject(s): Escapes; Music And Musicians; Single Parents AGAMEMNON: CHORUS RECALLING HELEN'S FLIGHT, by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a dream through sleep she glided Last Line: On those soft silent wings that walk the ways of sleep Subject(s): Escapes AN AMERICAN SCENE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I reach beyond the laboratory brain. The brass Last Line: The brain glowed in the dark above us. Subject(s): Escapes; Lust; Science; Fugitives; Scientists AN ESCAPE, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A swift dark dream from the outer lands Last Line: I wonder what he died of. Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Escapes; Dead, The; Fugitives BABYLEAVES THAT KILL THE RAVEN OR THE POSION TREE, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He ran away on a steamboat, a jalopy but quick. Playing Last Line: When children and school openings collide. In mitsrayim Subject(s): Escapes; Exiles; Ravens BLOUDIE JACKE OF SHREWSBERRIE; THE SHROPSHIRE BLUEBEARD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Why doth thine eye gleam so bright, bloudie jacke? Last Line: And lose -- more than a shewsberrie cake!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Discretion; Escapes; Pirates; Murder; Fugitives; Piracy; Buccaneers CASUALTIES: 10. LEADER OF THE HUNT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He who began it all Last Line: Though I stare the sun in the face Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Escapes; Hunting; Prisons And Prisoners CASUALTIES: 15. EXODUS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They flee the altar who in Last Line: The miracle of a generation Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Escapes; Farewell CLIMBING TO REACH THE COSTLY HEARTS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He ran away from earth Variant Title(s): Poem: 1566; Poem: 162 Subject(s): Escapes CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Last Line: I placed her %between my clothes in my packed suitcase. %that is how we left him %forever Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence DEMETER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The first thing you know Last Line: Ignoring the dreams of wallpaper Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Escapes; Parents DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT THE DOOR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And hemlocks bow to god Variant Title(s): Poem: 475; Poem: 71 Subject(s): Escapes DR. EGG: 7 DR. EGG ON INDEFINITE LEAVE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: He takes off Last Line: His young children %marooned in their sleep Subject(s): Escapes; Psychology EL SALVADOR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Eva tells me %that she is from el salvador Last Line: Not even the jews Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Escapes; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Immigrants; Memory; War ENTANGLED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood as one enchanted Last Line: Fled down the mossy way. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Forests; Birds; Voices; Fear; Escapes; Freedom; Woods; Fugitives; Liberty ESCAPE, by JACQUES GEORGES CLEMENCEAU LE CLERQ Poem Text First Line: Just a little while to wait,' she said, 'and I'll be back' Last Line: "she may come again or stay away, I shall not care at all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Tanaquil, Paul Subject(s): Escapes; Love - Loss Of; Fugitives ESCAPE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, let me go where no children are! Last Line: Help me to go where no children are! Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Escapes; Stars; Fugitives ESCAPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I was dead, an hour or more Last Line: O life! O sun! Subject(s): Death; Escapes; World War I; Dead, The; Fugitives; First World War ESCAPE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After so many hours spent in the room, Subject(s): Houses; Escapes; Fugitives ESCAPE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is too much with us Last Line: That only we need understand? Subject(s): Escapes ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep pools there are, pools quiet and still Last Line: And yet cannot escape from you? Subject(s): Escapes; Lakes; Memory; Moon; Stars; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds ESCAPE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When foxes eat the last gold grape Last Line: The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Escapes; Fairies; Fugitives; Elves ESCAPE IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE, by LYNN KOZMA Poem Source Subject(s): Escapes ESCAPE IS SUCH A THANKFUL WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon this trusty word Variant Title(s): Poem: 1347; Poem: 136 Subject(s): Escapes ESCAPE OF COUNT FERNAN GONZALEZ, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They have carried afar into navarre the great count of castile Last Line: Their swords shine bright, infanta, -- and every blade is thine' Subject(s): Escapes; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) EXODUS, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: They came from the terror and tumult Last Line: On a soil that yesterday was a country Subject(s): Escapes; Immigrants FOR ME AT SUNDAY SERMONS, THE SERPENT, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming lightly, perfectly Last Line: The ticket out Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives FOR ME AT SUNDAY SERMONS, THE SERPENT, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming lightly, perfectly Last Line: The spark, the road, %the ticket out Subject(s): Escapes GET OUT OF TOWN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get out of town before it's too late Last Line: A thousand miles from water and as far from wood Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives GETAWAY GIRL, by TERRY ANN THAXTON Poem Source First Line: Inside the house, peak-roofed Last Line: After dress %out of the branches Subject(s): Escapes; Girls HARRY DALE AND OLAF CUBB, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two men I knew met in a pub Last Line: And out of it by coach that night. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Betrayal; Crime & Criminals; Escapes; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Fugitives HIMMY'S OUTING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Himmy went to market Last Line: For his breakfast food. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Escapes; Forests; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives; Woods HIPPOLYTUS: CHORUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for wings Last Line: And keep her spirit inviolate. Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives HOUDINI, by ELI W. MANDEL Poem Source First Line: I suspect he knew that trunks were metaphors Last Line: With all his chains singing around his feet %like the bound crowds who sigh, who sigh Subject(s): Escapes; Houdini, Harry (1874-1926) HOW SHALL I SAVE YOU FROM DROWNING?, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: The answer is always the same. %- no-one Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Escapes; Man-woman Relationships IN HEAVEN'S ALLEY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tap the double drop Last Line: The limb of a birch %stitch another white sail in the rain Subject(s): Cities; City Traffic; Escapes IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset: a smattering of rain Last Line: Has something important to sing about %and all the warm night to sing it in Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Escapes; Nature; Vacation LAMENT FOR THE TYRONIAN AND TYRCONNELLIAN PRINCES BURIED AT ROME, by OWEN ROE MAC AN BHAIRD Poem Text First Line: O woman of the piercing wail Last Line: The blood of conn! Alternate Author Name(s): Owen Roe Mac Ward Subject(s): Escapes; Ireland; Lament; O'donnell, Rory (1575-1608); Fugitives; Irish LAY OF THE CID: THE CID'S PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They spake these words and starightway the tent ungathered then Last Line: Most solemnly that I will chant a thousand masses here Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Escapes; Horseback Riding; Travel LIFE THAT TIED TOO TIGHT ESCAPES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If he is caught at all Variant Title(s): Poem: 1535; Poem: 155 Subject(s): Escapes LONG JIM, by R. HOLT Poem Text First Line: We'd made a lively start away when 'mulga' had cut-out Last Line: "it's time, I think,"" said mayne, ""for us to clear." Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8 Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Escapes; Fights; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Fugitives MAD ATTACK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Bless them that curse you, he said Last Line: Of rain. She dodged and danced and walked away %with her good name. Subject(s): Curses; Escapes; Walking MANGOES AND HONEY, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: We met at the junction of Last Line: Down by street and street Subject(s): Escapes; Lies; Love - Cultural Differences MARION LEE, by BERNARD ESPINASSE Poem Text First Line: To 'the wanderer's rest at the foot of the rise Last Line: And they say 'tis the ghost of poor marion lee. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Deception; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters MORGAN, by EDWARD HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When morgan crossed the murray to peechelba and doom Last Line: "should heed the boobook's warning: ""go back, go back, go back!" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Escapes; Prudence; Dead, The; Fugitives; Caution NO ESCAPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A form of aggression towards yourself %--pema chodron Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Escapes; Grief; Loss; Self ON A LARK WHICH HAD ESCAPED FROM HIS CAGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cherish'd captive, ere thy tender wing Last Line: Thy voice, thy pinion, for the skies unfit? Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Birds; Escapes; Larks; Fugitives; Skylarks ON NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once fairly set out on his party of pleasure Last Line: Making balls for the ladies, and bows to his foes. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Escapes; Fugitives OUT OF BABYLON, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stole out of babylon beyond the stolid warders Last Line: Dreaming of earth's loveliness, happy to be free! Subject(s): Babylon; Escapes; Faith; Freedom; Morality; Music & Musicians; Fugitives; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Ethics PARISH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: God only knows what he'd been doing. Painting or sewing? Last Line: Of them vanishing into the hills. Subject(s): Death; Escapes; Morticians; Dead, The; Fugitives PLAY IN WHICH DARKNESS FALLS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two girls runaway from the home. They have a revolver Subject(s): Roussel, Raymond (1877-1933); Girls; Escapes; Death; Fugitives; Dead, The POSSUM SONG (A WARNING), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simmons ripenin' in de fall Last Line: Run, brudder 'possum, run! Subject(s): Escapes; Hunting; Fugitives; Hunters REWARD, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Run away from this sub- / scriber for the second time Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Escapes; Black Heritage; Serfs; Fugitives RUN-AWAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The hospital has brought her back Last Line: It looks like when you're in the a place %like this, you're forgotten Subject(s): Escapes RUNAWAY, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: Sara breaks eggs on the empty day ahead Last Line: The blackest wave waits with sharp teeth Subject(s): Escapes RUNNED AWAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sis: I wrote this noat to say I've been an Last Line: Hiding in the stable. Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Escapes; Family Life; Letters; Sisters; Half-brothers; Childhood; Fugitives; Relatives RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was so certain yesterday Last Line: I'll hurry home to mother now. Subject(s): Children; Escapes; Fear; Solitude; Childhood; Fugitives; Loneliness RUSH HOUR, by BRUCE A. JACOBS Poem Text First Line: My honda drops Subject(s): Automobiles; Escapes; Family Life; Racism; Cars; Fugitives; Relatives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SAVING MY SKIN FROM BURNING, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a hole in the ground once; there was a manhole Last Line: Into a pillow; I lay on my back recovering Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives SAVING MY SKIN FROM BURNING, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a hole in the ground once; there was a manhole Subject(s): Escapes SOME ARROWS SLAY BUT WHOM THEY STRIKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Too trackless for a tomb Variant Title(s): Poem: 1565; Poem: 166 Subject(s): Escapes SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup. Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism THE CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Fugitives THE ESCAPE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another yard! Another foot! And then another inch! Last Line: Then melted in another way than girls are wont to melt. Subject(s): Escapes; Man-woman Relationships; Fugitives; Male-female Relations THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dreadful city's roar Last Line: Far from these clattering stones. Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds THE ESCAPED GORILLA, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he walked out in the park that early evening Subject(s): Apes; Escapes; Zoos; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're my friend Last Line: Amen! Subject(s): Marriage; Escapes; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Fugitives THE HOUR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark, thick branch in the last light is like Last Line: Go fireflies striking their soft, yellow lights. Subject(s): Activity; Dusk; Escapes; Evening; Hope; Exercise; Fugitives; Sunset; Twilight; Optimism THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 2. HERMAN THE BASTARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died alone, herman the bastard Last Line: Ach ja, child, he says, humanity! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Escapes; Relationships; Story-telling; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Fugitives THE INHABITANTS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early night and the evening bus Subject(s): Escapes; Fugitives THE JANITOR'S BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy Last Line: "with the janitor's red-haired boy." Subject(s): Escapes; Janitors; Love - Beginnings; Fugitives THE KELLY GANG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, paddy dear, and did you hear" Last Line: I'll bid you all farewell Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;escapes;heroism;hunting; Fugitives;heroes;heroines;hunters THE LEAP FROM THE LONG BRIDGE; AN INCIDENT AT WASHINGTON, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now rest the wretched. The long day is past Last Line: And her sorrow and bondage are o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Escapes; Slavery; Washington, D.c.; Fugitives; Serfs THE LOVER'S ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden through the favouring night Last Line: Says for manuel's soul a prayer. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Escapes; Granada, Spain; Love; Moors (land); Dead, The; Fugitives THE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF ROBERT ALLAN, THE FIREMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on october the fourteenth day Last Line: And be sure to escape the pains of hell. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Escapes; Fire; Firefighters; Heroism; Fugitives; Heroes; Heroines THE PRICE OF A KISS, by ELISE ESPINASSE Poem Text First Line: Where the ranges dip down to the plain at their base Last Line: Tis the smile he bought, maybe, that's still on his lips! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters; Convicts THE REBEL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I must look to see where I can run Last Line: You are free. Subject(s): Escapes; Prisons & Prisoners; Revolutions; Fugitives; Convicts THE RUNAWAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Ya, I'm a runaway wife. God's truth, which I don't deny Last Line: I'll see you in hell before I'll go backmy girl is american born. Subject(s): Escapes; Peasantry; Police; Russia; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Fugitives; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUNAWAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall Last Line: "ought to be told to come and take him in." Subject(s): Animals; Escapes; Horses; Fugitives THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology THE WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON Poem Text First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow! Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery THOSE WHO FLEE INTO THE NIGHT...', by JOSE-FLORE TAPPY Poem Source Last Line: By the cowl of thorns Subject(s): Escapes; Night TO A YOUNG WRITER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cry, if you will. I'd say, though, rather than Last Line: The knifey bunch are out to cut you down. Subject(s): Escapes; Smiles; Tears TWO LINES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM; FOR LARRY AND JUDY RAAB, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we must get up quickly Last Line: Move about, lighting the stove. Subject(s): Escapes; Fairy Tales; Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (1785-1863); Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859); Fugitives UNBUNGLING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He unbungled his wife and hit the road Last Line: Several familiar %children of god. Subject(s): Escapes; Marriage UNCLASSIFIED POEM: 1, by CAO ZHI Poem Source First Line: High on the terrace are sad strong winds Last Line: But its shape and shadow were suddenly gone, %its swift wingbeats wound my heart Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Escapes WALKAWAY, by GREG RAPPLEYE Poem Source First Line: Bobby runs from the day room Last Line: The endless stupid drone of it Subject(s): Escapes; Freedom; Sickness WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab YOU WOULD KNOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you, father, are 'in my mind' Last Line: What I was, happy, maybe am, you would know. Subject(s): Escapes; Fathers & Sons; Happiness; Past; Fugitives; Joy; Delight |
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