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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ETHICS Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE ON ETHICS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the isis to the cherwell in a tone of indignation Last Line: And of man -- at least in summer,' said the easy-going cher. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Morality; Oxford University; Ethics A DULL LIFE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The puritan's tyrannical and very puritanical Last Line: "the puritans are very seldom hung!" Subject(s): Morality; Puritans; Ethics A POEM ON MORAL LEADERSHIP AS A POLITICAL DILEMMA, by JUNE JORDAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Morality; Cherry Trees; Ethics AD ASTRA: 130, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If conscience thro' the world of life doth reign Last Line: Whose sanction was morality in fine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Morality; Ethics AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF A PROPHET, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And a voice like a voice in dreams cried out in the stone wilderness Last Line: Born from his dreaming blood was the red flag of the fifth Subject(s): Morality; Politics & Government; Prophecy & Prophets; Ethics CHOICE, by BARBARA MASTERSON Poem Text First Line: They spend their lives in making sense Last Line: Nor headache on the morning after. Subject(s): Clergy; Morality; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Ethics ETCHING MORALISED; TO A NOBLE LADY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest lady and noble, for once on a time Last Line: With a fine india proof of your metal. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Etching; Morality; Ethics FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism GREATNESS, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great men of ancient times were men of brawn Last Line: To battle when the modern conflicts call. Subject(s): History; Life, Modern; Men; Morality; Strength; Historians; Ethics HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 4. THE MORAL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a world of face values, what Last Line: Into the marrow of your bones? Subject(s): Morality; War; Ethics I; AN ANALYSIS OF A CERTAIN DOCUMENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a prophet, and therefore, of course Last Line: In the realms of an ethical task. Subject(s): Morality; Unfaithfulness; Ethics; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IN MORTEM VENERABILIS ANDREAE PROUT CARMEN, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet upland! Where, like hermit old, in peace sojourd'd Last Line: Not so the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Morality; Rest; Tragedy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Ethics INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips MAN AND THE ASCIDIAN; A MORALITY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancestor remote of man Last Line: Revert to the ascidian. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Morality; Heritage; Heredity; Ethics ME AGAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say I do not realize Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Morality; War; Anti-war Protests; Ethics MORAL ALCHEMY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils of alchemists, whose vain pursuit Last Line: And man's most welcome hymn is grateful cheerfulness. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Grief; Morality; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Ethics MORTALITY, by JESSIE A. MCGRIFF Poem Text First Line: If sin were only black as ink Last Line: Dead right -- dead wrong -- dead slow! Subject(s): Morality; Ethics MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability. Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces MY CONSCIENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes my conscience says Last Line: "and allus think o' me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Morality; Prayer; Ethics NIGHT; AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense Last Line: Alone, than err with millions on thy side. Subject(s): Duty; Facades; Lloyd, Robert (1733-1764); Mankind; Morality; Night; Appearances; Human Race; Ethics; Bedtime NO!, by ALEXANDER BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the quaint maxims come down from our fathers Last Line: He'll soon be a beggar that canna say no. Subject(s): Morality; Ethics OLD CHRISTOVAL'S ADVICE; AND THE REASON HE GAVE IT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thy debtor be poor, old christoval cried Last Line: And remember'd what I might have been. Subject(s): Advice; Christianity; Debt; Humility; Morality; Ethics ONCE SEEN, AND NO MORE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thousands each day passe by, which wee Last Line: Once past and gone, no more shall see. Subject(s): Morality; Ethics 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 PLUS OR MINUS, by ALMA BRAATEN SMITH Poem Text First Line: Are you a plus or minus quantity Last Line: Lend a hand, and be a sport! Subject(s): Morality; Ethics RIGHT AND WRONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Alas! How hardly things go right! Last Line: Will be changed by the love into sunshine again Subject(s): Morality; Ethics ROOT OF EVIL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have got a goodly wad, I say that Last Line: Behind them's strewn with morals gone to seed. Subject(s): Evil; Morality; Ethics SONG OF SOCIAL DESPAIR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ethics without faith, excuse me Last Line: Inevitably on the wrong side looking out. Subject(s): Faith; Family Life; Morality; Belief; Creed; Relatives; Ethics SONNET, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart be brave, and do not falter so Last Line: There is a power making for the right Subject(s): Fortitude; Hope; Morality; Love; Optimism; Ethics STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come Last Line: The grave the inn of rest. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE GOOD MAN HAS NO SHAPE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through centuries he lived in poverty Subject(s): Morality; Ethics THE MORNING MIST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, william, how the morning mists Last Line: Shall beam eternal day. Subject(s): Immortality; Light; Mist; Morality; Morning; Vision; Ethics THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE SEARCHLIGHTS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow by shadow, stripped for fight Last Line: She moves to the eternal goal. Subject(s): Morality; World War I; Ethics; First World War TIRED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go Last Line: And are you shawled against this east wind's chills? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Morality; Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Ethics TO MY LORD VERULAM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Of mankind meanest!' out upon the pen Last Line: The way more sure appearing. Subject(s): Honor; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Ethics TWO HORSES AND A DOG, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without external reference Last Line: Wearing dogtags with scripture on them Subject(s): Honesty; Humility; Morality; Ethics URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THIS STORY MORALIZED, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A freind that heard and not beleeu'd this story Last Line: As a darke foyle best sets a diamond forth. Subject(s): Morality; Ethics |
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