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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EVIL Matches Found: 172 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD FOR CHRISTMAS-TIDE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: There is a story that hath oft Last Line: Can bridge securely o'er! Subject(s): Christmas; Evil; Heaven; Hell; Lazarus; Poverty; Wealth; Nativity, The; Paradise; Riches; Fortunes A FALSE GENIUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a spirit by thy side Last Line: He is a demon in disguise! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Duplicity; Evil; Genius; God; Grief; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness A LESSON IN VENGEANCE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dour ages Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Evil A LOYAL WOMAN'S NO, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! Is my answer from this cold Last Line: Take my life's silence for your answer: no! Subject(s): Evil; Freedom; Loyalty; Marriage; Women's Rights; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A MOOD APART, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once down on my knees to growing plants Last Line: That looks in onto a mood apart Subject(s): Evil A PROLEGOMENON TO A THEODICY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This the mortared stone Subject(s): Evil; Justice A SERVIAN LEGEND, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago, ere yet our race began Last Line: "man will I create with a foot like thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Evil; Heaven; Legends; Paradise A SIMPLE PURCHASE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buying flowers Last Line: From take heart, random house. Subject(s): Evil; Flowers; God A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 9, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prayer of noah. The man went forth by night Last Line: The door is shut.' Subject(s): Evil; God; Noah (bible); Prayer A WITCH'S WILL, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the purple ridge the moon rist up Last Line: But where she bode came never shine nor song. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 5. THE TELLING OF STORIES, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Science? It comes from the forehead of the snake Last Line: But within its extravagant realm, in its heights and depths. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Religion; Science; Theology; Scientists ABOVE THE BATTLE'S FRONT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh foolish people, and without understanding Last Line: Thorn-crowned above the water and the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buddhism; Evil; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Hate; Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Saints; Social Protest; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); War; Buddha; Buddhists AD ASTRA: 110, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The devil's weapon, evil, we may find Last Line: The harvest of man's conquests had been stay'd! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Evil AGAIN AND AGAIN I HAVE SEEN LIFE'S EVIL, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Evil AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the council-board of hell, with satan at / their head Last Line: And hell rang with the acclamation of the fiends. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Hell; Monsters; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub APATHY IS ASCRIBED TO THE MODERN MAN, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Source Last Line: Which escapes %the slander of wicked men? Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Evil AVARICE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At six she chewed off Last Line: She counts eight engagement rings %at least twelve times each day Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Evil; Greed; Sadism BAD MOTHER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Drinking peach wine Last Line: A coffin splits deep in a grave Subject(s): Evil; Mothers BAD OLD DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer of nineteen eighteen Last Line: And the misery, and the %anger, and the vow are the same Subject(s): Chicago; Evil; Past; Poverty BLUE BEAD, AGAINST THE EVIL EYE, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: Madness put on a porkpie hat. He ran to the regions where Last Line: Against all sorts of jinx. This little, vagabond imp Subject(s): Evil; Wanderers And Wandering CAELICA: 100, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In night, when colors all to black are cast Last Line: Which but expressions be of inward evils. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): "this Nothing Seen;""in Night When Colours All To Black Are Cast,""; Subject(s): Evil CAESAR AND CHRIST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Proud caesar came in strength of steel Last Line: And he lives. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Evil; Good; Jesus Christ; War; Dead, The CHEAP AND DEAR, by JOHN OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though vice be common, we pay dear for vice Last Line: While virtue, rare, is yet of little price. Subject(s): Evil; Virtue CHRISTIANITY AND WAR, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Talk, if you will, of hero deed Last Line: Of war-like followers of jesus. Subject(s): Christianity; Evil; Good; Hypocrisy; Jesus Christ; Religion; War; Theology CINQUAINS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evil / beware! Subject(s): Evil; Mothers; Spring CONFLICT, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: When I see the falling bombs Last Line: To make a thousand roads converge? Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Soldiers; War CONFLICT BEFORE VICTORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand at gaze upon an autumn knoll Last Line: The mellow magic of october's moon. Subject(s): Earth; Evil; God; Love; Mankind; Victory; War; World; Human Race CONTRASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is roaring down the lake Last Line: Will never bloom again! Subject(s): Evil; Mountains; Soul; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain) DANSE MACABRE, by HUGH WESTERN Poem Text First Line: Here is a morsel, my masters, a tit-bit Last Line: And looking at me? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Evil DEMON FROM WHICH WE HIDE', by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: Like alice's room, this Last Line: The shotgun hushed as a dark anchor Subject(s): Evil DEMONS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There are those why say that pure wild laughter Last Line: Mannerly types. Urbane. Know every trick Subject(s): Art And Artists; Evil DOMEDAY BOOK: MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray asked to go in training Last Line: Who ran the times. Subject(s): Evil; Kisses; Letters; Life; Love DUALITY; FROM ME SPRING GOOD AND EVIL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who gave thee such a ruby flaming heart Last Line: O'erthrown but in the unconflicting spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Character; Evil; Good; Human Abnormalities; Pain; Peace; Deformities; Suffering; Misery ELECTION DAY, 1984, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever see someone coldcock a blind nun? Last Line: If evil could be safer, on the whole. Subject(s): Elections; Evil; Ignorance; Politics & Government; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)); Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Dullness; Stupdity; Feminism EPITAPH: EVIL, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To get the sound take everything that is not the sound drop it Last Line: Then drop the sound. Listen to the difference / shatter Subject(s): Evil EVIL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How often in my dreams have I beheld Last Line: Have tried their best to make a cunning devil! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Evil; Nature EVIL, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: Evil lives in me, in my soul Last Line: Can climb to heaven Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Malice EVIL EASIER THAN GOOD, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere half the good I planned to do Last Line: I had done all, and still had time to spare. Subject(s): Evil EVIL HAS BEEN COMMITTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We will have to fall back on Subject(s): Arabs; Evil; Fasts And Feasts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Yom Kippur EVIL LANDSCAPE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Beach of old bones - the tide gasps / death-knells Last Line: The mushrooms, their stools. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Evil; Landscape EVIL TONGUE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: A worm inhabits the ear of eden Last Line: And we must not look down, or we will fall Subject(s): Change; Evil; Language EVILL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evill no nature hath; the losse of good Last Line: Is that which gives to sin a livelihood. Subject(s): Evil EXORCISM, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It was the archangel michael who chased the evil spirit Last Line: I am here, down on my knees, praying Subject(s): Evil; Exorcism FAMOUS NEW ENGLAND LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the pious and penultimate Last Line: And charming the tiny, painted hearts into bleeding Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Suicide FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wavering shapes, again ye do me enfold Last Line: Ground.) Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun his ancient music makes Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST, SELECTION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who yet may hope to rise Last Line: The crane unresting fares in homeward flight. Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches FAUST, SELS., by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Last Line: To manage witches, this is just the way Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft And Witches FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: COUNTENANCE FOREBODING EVIL, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy gloomy features, like a midnight dial Last Line: Scowl the dark index of a fearful hour. Subject(s): Evil; Faces FROM SHORE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: For a week, we live Last Line: Just enough to have %earned this scene Subject(s): Evil; Mothers And Daughters; Seashore FUHRER, by DIANA JAMES Poem Text First Line: The dead are holy ones and when men die Last Line: But say he was a man who broke the world. Subject(s): Evil; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Sin GIVE US THE ENEMY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Then after the visible beast Last Line: Give us the enemy: name his name. Subject(s): Enemies; Evil; Monsters GOOD AND EVIL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the messenger that stays Last Line: Uncertain shadows here. Subject(s): Evil; Good HEREDITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That swollen paunch you are doomed to bear Last Line: And yet, away, you charnel thing! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Character; Evil; Heritage; Heredity HOMICIDES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The artistic assassin copyrights his crime Last Line: A beautiful motive can take the edge off a crime Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Evil; Guilt; Murder I SIT AND LOOK OUT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression Last Line: See, hear, and am silent. Subject(s): Evil; Social Protest IMPERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Earth vaunts no joy that lasts Last Line: Bliss waits you yet! Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evil; Happiness; World; Joy; Delight IN CHAINS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When blackguards and murderers Subject(s): Evil; Life Choices IN TENEBRIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the lights have been extinguished Last Line: And moves gently toward the deep. Subject(s): Envy; Evil; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness INFELIX, by ADAH ISAACS MENKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the promise of my years Last Line: An exile lingering here. Alternate Author Name(s): Theodore, Philomene Croi; Mccord, Ada Subject(s): Evil; Life INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures. Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE NEW FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where william's kingly power Last Line: Pray for the wicked rulers of mankind. Subject(s): Canada; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Forests; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Prayer; Canadians; Woods JOHN TOD, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He's a terrible man, john tod, john tod Last Line: If e'er he sud leave us, john tod. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Disdain; Evil; Scorn LIGHT AND SHADE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast done well to kneel and say Last Line: Of its most sacred brotherhood. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Good; Life; Love; Soul LO! I AM SAUL, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Creature, begone, nor harrow me with horror Last Line: Or dwell with thee 'midst darkness in the grave. Subject(s): Bible; Evil; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul (11th Century B.c.); Saul Of Tarsus LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 28, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've no belief in the heavens Last Line: And thine evil heart as well. Subject(s): Evil; Hearts; Hell MALZAH SPEAKS, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, weary! I am called the laughing devil Last Line: More gloomy than a trinity of ravens. Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Grief; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness MALZAH' SONG, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a devil and his name was I Last Line: O leave me, creator, tormentor, alone! Subject(s): Evil; God; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Supernatural MASK OF EVIL, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: On my wall hangs a japanese carving Last Line: What a strain it is to be evil Subject(s): Evil METEOROLOGY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl Last Line: Even the best days Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming MISTRESS GLENARE, BY 'MARIAN', by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: A virtuous woman is mistress glenare Last Line: That poor sinful woman ismistress glenare. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Evil; Sin; Women - Secluding NO EVIL COULD, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Used to walk to el Last Line: Could hear or catch me Subject(s): Evil; Motion Pictures NORA'S CHARM, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the fisher's wife at her neighbor's door Last Line: "and lets the evil in!" Subject(s): Fairies; Evil; Good; Charms (magic) NORETORP-NORETSYH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rainy, smoky fall, clouds tower Subject(s): Evil; Social Protest NORETORP-NORETSYH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rainy, smoky fall, clouds tower Last Line: Of the world covets your living flesh Subject(s): Evil; Social Protest ODE TO A BLACKBIRD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Troll out thy passion from yon vantage spray Last Line: Resounding thro' the echoing arbours of my brain! Subject(s): Blackbirds; Earth; Evil; Heaven; World; Paradise ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns Last Line: His glory fills the air. Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON LADY POLTAGRUE: A PUBLIC PERIL, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The devil, having nothing else to do Last Line: To his extreme annoyance, tempted him. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evil, if rightly understood, / is but the skeleton of good Last Line: Will all be paradise again. Subject(s): Evil ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While nature's gifts appear a jarring strife Subject(s): Evil OPTIMUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a deep and subtle snare Last Line: Because it is another's too. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Hearts; Life; Soul ORMAZD AND AHRIMAN; A COSMIC ROMANCE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ormazd, the spirit of light, the spirit of good Last Line: Back to those holds of midnight whence he came. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Evil; Good; Meliorism; Mythology ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN; A CANTATA: PART 1. DAYBREAK, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye interstellar spaces, serene and still clear Last Line: Cease questioning. Have faith. Love reigns supreme Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Mankind; Plays And Playwrights; Religion; Soul ORMUZD AND AHRIMAN; A CANTATA: PART 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the shuddering spaces of the north Last Line: Lift us and love us, though drowned in the surges of darkness and death Subject(s): Evil; Philosophy And Philosophers; Plays And Playwrights; Religion; Singing And Singers OTELLO, SELS., by ARRIGO BOITO Poem Source First Line: Iago. Yes, I believe in god who has created Last Line: And heaven's a foolish tale Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature PACKING THE HEART, by MARY JO BANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evil of exactitude is that a ledge is so wide Last Line: Of course, but no more Subject(s): Evil PACKING THE HEART, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evil of exactitude is that a ledge is so wide Last Line: Pure; I am dead, I cannot allow myself to be so used. A little, of course, %of course, but no more Subject(s): Evil PARABLE, by RALPH WARD DOUBERLY Poem Text First Line: Flowers are such tender things Last Line: And shoulders down the crowded street. Subject(s): Evil; Virtue PATHETIC APHORISMS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: A hanged man and his shadow can function as a sundial Last Line: With lucifer's fall came gravity Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death; Evil PIER, by STANLEY JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: It is pier by his candle, thinking one has called Last Line: You'd say, if you saw him, he was stalking souls. Subject(s): Evil POET RECALLS THE LANDS OF SORIA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Its lanky profile wading in the pool Last Line: Are you not cain again over the planet? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Evil; War POISON, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When this strange world speaks ill of me Last Line: Till every tongue grows sweet and kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Evil; Ill-tempered PROGRESS OF VICE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the gulph of vice and woe Last Line: Ah! Close the scene -- ah! Close -- for dreadful is the sight. Subject(s): Evil PROLEGOMENON TO A THEODICY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This the mortared stone Last Line: The sapphire snow %hryca hryca nazaza Subject(s): Evil; Justice PSALM: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bow downe thine eare Last Line: As with a shield him guard. Subject(s): Evil; God; Israel; Religion; Sin; Theology PYTHONESS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am that serpent-haunted cave Last Line: New sons, new suns, new skies Subject(s): Evil; Hell RAMMON, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, friend that has lived, taking ampler view Last Line: Ay, fable me, those enviable isles. Subject(s): Evil READING THE CARDS: 1. THE TOWER, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The tower is the only manmade structure in the major Last Line: Opening the sheer veil and stepping through to the next Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Evil; Mediums RECOMPENSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For every man that dies, some little one Last Line: Some deed unfolds fair-hearted, like the flowers? Subject(s): Evil; Flowers RESPONSIBILITY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, lying among roses in the garden of the great inn Last Line: "I am dry: leave my soul at the inn." Subject(s): Death; Evil; Good; Soul; Dead, The REVOLUTION, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: I don't blow the trumpet or step up to the speaker's Last Line: And its famous smile Subject(s): Evil; Revolutions REWARD AND PUNISHMENT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are the best and the worst of everything you require Last Line: You shall be for yourself both the praise and the blame. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Praise; Punishment ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 17. EVIL DREAMS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vision once more young and happy, paced I Last Line: As I have hopeless lain for many a year. Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; Kisses; Love; Nightmares ROOSTER, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: This rooster that comes from far off in his song Last Line: That darkness blows as it falls into hell Subject(s): Evil; Hell; Malice 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 SATAN ABSOLVED; A VICTORIAN MYSTERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Satan. To-day is the lord's 'day.' once more on his / good pleasure Last Line: Michael (aside). The anti-christ! Subject(s): Angels; Antichrist; Christianity; Devil; Evil; Heaven; Mystery; Religion & Science; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Paradise SATAN'S ANSWER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Whose son is jesus? Kneel and pray Last Line: The hidden things of heaven or hell? Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub SHADOWS OF CRIME, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His early youth was formed in virtue's way Last Line: The mantle of the tomb is on him cast. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Temptation; Virtue; Youth SKIRTING THE DEMONS, by SYBIL KOLLAR Poem Source First Line: If you spend too much time Last Line: For a glimpse of a heavenly body %exploding across the sky Subject(s): Evil SLEEP-WALKERS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black congo and red amritsar Last Line: Somnambulists who wake in hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Evil; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR CHARMION, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so again an evil darkness falls Last Line: Blind milton waited for another age. Subject(s): Evil; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SSSSSSSS, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep in shape %use to run in the woods Last Line: He is the subject that %stole urbi's jelly beans Subject(s): Animals; Evil; Fear; Snakes STEMMEN UIT AFRIKA: XLVIII, by FRANK MARTINUS ARION Poem Source First Line: Believe me I'm made of mischief Last Line: My creator is mischievous Subject(s): Evil TEMPTATION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the height and saw Last Line: "not peace, o satan, but a sword!" Subject(s): Evil; Temptation THE ACCOLADE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lamp in the tavern yard Last Line: "thou hast made me more of a king!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Tears THE AVENGER: INCIDENT IN ITALY, by SAMUEL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The monster seized the shrieking girl Last Line: "been going on from bad to worse." Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Monsters; Murder; Revenge THE BAD OLD DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer of nineteen eighteen Subject(s): Chicago; Evil; Past; Poverty THE BELL, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The temple bell was out of tune Last Line: Is it well with the heart that had you and none other? Subject(s): Bells; Evil; Peace; Singing & Singers; War THE BOHEMIANS OF BOSTON AND THEIR WAYS; A MEMORY OF THE JACOBEAN CRAZE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'orchids' were as tough a crowd Last Line: "this shocking outrage -- ""beacon h -- ll!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Boston; Clubs (associations); Evil; Police; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THE BOOK BAHIR: ON THE NATURE OF EVIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: And god warned israel Last Line: Anchored the ends of the earth Subject(s): Evil;mysticism - Judaism THE BUSINESS OF LOVE IS CRUELTY, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It scares me the genius we have Subject(s): Evil THE CHERUBS; SUGGESTED BY AN APOLOGUE IN THE WORKS OF FRANKLIN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two spirits reached this world of ours Last Line: The devil himself astounded. Subject(s): Evil; Devil; War; Hypocrisy THE CITY OF DESPAIR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn comes not: / and I have waited Last Line: Above the sodden citadel of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Despair; Evil; Urban Life; Sunrise THE CLAIM OF KINDRED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not one, but many: murmuring through Last Line: The passions of my kindred clasp me still! Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; God; Soul; Nightmares THE DANCE OF THE SEVIN DEIDLY SYNNIS, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off februar the fyiftene nycht Last Line: He smorit thame with smuke. Subject(s): Evil THE DARK SIDE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast done well, perhaps Last Line: And god sees good in all! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Love; Sin; Voices THE DESTROYING ANGEL, OR, THE POET'S DREAM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream the other night Last Line: But, alas, I started up in bed, and behold it was a dream! Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Evil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE DEVIL AND DEATH DEFEATED; ADAPTED FROM THE MIDRASH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The devil wandering up and down Last Line: "of a jealous, vengeful woman!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Devil; Evil; Vengeance; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE DEVIL'S SNUFF BOX, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Now that which for many years I have lived for Last Line: As the sight of devil's snuff-boxes. Subject(s): Devil; Enemies; Evil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE DRAGON, by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evil dragon in the zenith fiercely glowing Last Line: Thou shalt fade, thou evil dragon, thou shalt perish. Alternate Author Name(s): Sologub, Fedor (fyodor) Subject(s): Dragons; Evil; Imagination; Fancy THE ENEMY IN THE GATE; TO BRITANNIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, all this availeth thee nothing Last Line: The captives of drink, on her shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; England; Evil; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; English; Prohibition THE EVIL STAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The star, after beaming so brightly Last Line: A virgin death, a fragrant tomb! Subject(s): Evil; Stars THE FIREFLY WOMAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Men call her evil; she wears fireflies in her hair Last Line: Shall walk forever hand in hand, in firefly light. Subject(s): Evil THE FLAX-BEATER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now give me your burden, if burden you bear Last Line: "that demon was thee!" Subject(s): Death – Children; Mothers; Evil THE GOLDEN APPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She saw on the far bank a golden apple Last Line: With gloss of gold on his ruddy hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Evil; Fruit; Good; Temptation THE GREAT WAGER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If need be, god of the living universe Last Line: Unless it is one you open and tread with us. Subject(s): Beauty; Evil; God; Nature; Universe THE IMPROVISATORE: LEOPOLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle is over; the dews of the fog Last Line: The storm was hushed. Men tell not where he went. Subject(s): Adoption; Betrayal; Blood; Clergy; Death; Despair; Evil; Loss; Love; Violence; War; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold. Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs THE LAST MAN: ANTICIPATION OF EVIL TIDINGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear there is some maddening secret Last Line: Telling of murder. Subject(s): Evil; Murder; Secrets THE LEGENDS OF EVIL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sorrowful story Last Line: "for I came in wid the donkey -- on your honour's invitation." Subject(s): Evil THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer little children to come unto me,' Last Line: The anti-christ of schrecklichkeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Children; Evil; Hell; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Childhood THE LITTLE DEVIL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The sun has his spots, the moon has her shadows Last Line: Of ice and fire 'come here, you little devil!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE LITTLE SISTER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind knocks at the window Last Line: That some evil thing is nigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Evil; Sisters; Dead, The THE ODE OF EVIL, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who shall sing of life and not of ill? Last Line: Of the universe sinks down, and god is all in all! Subject(s): Evil THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear an ancient indian legend told in many a Last Line: "tempest-quelling, stand forever; matchless, changeless, unafraid!" Subject(s): Evil; Legends; Native Americans; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE PHARISEE, by EBENEZER SMITH Poem Text First Line: The incarnation of all evil! Last Line: To find a man so pious there. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Theology THE POTTER AND HIS CLAY, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the potter and the clay Last Line: The glory of his righteousness. Subject(s): Evil; Justice; Pottery And Potters THE PREFACE TO DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS, by ANNE COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Being through weakness to the house confin'd Last Line: Will his and all their works for him defend. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, An Subject(s): Activity; Evil; Grief; Reason; Exercise; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PYTHONESS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am that serpent-haunted cave Subject(s): Evil; Hell THE ROUNDED CATALOGUE DIVINE COMPLETE', by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd Last Line: The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot Subject(s): Evil THE SAINTS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven won't have to do with its multitudes Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; Nightmares THE SAINTS OF NEGATIVITY; FOR ERMA POUNDS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first snow in memory, and Last Line: The earth like a crust of bread absorbed them. Subject(s): Evil; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sabotage; Sculpture & Sculptors THE SHADOW AND THE LIGHT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fourteen centuries fall away Last Line: With heaven's compassion make our longings poor! Subject(s): Evil; God THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 13, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, little wot he of the war and strife Last Line: Thrice vain from those fell hands to expect reprieve! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Evil; War THE TWINS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good and bad are in my heart Last Line: That the other was the best. Subject(s): Evil; Identity; Men; Twins; Virtue THE WITCH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair was gold and warm it lay Last Line: Between the twilight and the sea. Subject(s): Evil; Haunted Houses; Spells; Witchcraft & Witches THREE SISTERS, by LILLIAN DURHAM DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Three sisters walk our village street Last Line: If you let them in they will take your bed! Subject(s): Envy; Evil; Gossip; Sisters TO A MACAW, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Fowl of the nightmare visage, baldly white Last Line: Cloyed with the unconvincing nut and seed! Subject(s): Birds; Evil TO A WELSH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why that neck of marble whiteness Last Line: Ere that thou art old! Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Evil TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boy with honor in your heart Last Line: And leave your world to be undone Subject(s): Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Innocence; Evil TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No room at the crowded inn for you. And why? Last Line: The world itself is too cramped for what's inside you Subject(s): Evil; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TRANSFIGURED, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I watch a ball by rampant feet Last Line: Shall chime eternal praise. Subject(s): Evil; Heaven; Praise; Time; Paradise TWO A.M., by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What evil in the yeast of night Last Line: Or doctor magnus justifies his tonic. Subject(s): Evil; Insomnia; Malice; Sleeplessness VERSES DESIGNED TO BE SENT TO MR. ADAMS, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed, good sir, you're quite mistaken Last Line: What spirits, pray, possess you men? Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Animals; Evil VICE BRUTALIZES, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What use has he made of his soul Subject(s): Evil; Soul VISIONS: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stirs and chafes my madden'd blood? Last Line: She blush'd, well pleased with what she heard. Subject(s): Anger; Dreams; Evil; Nightmares WHAT FOLLOWED, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all happiness and peace of mind Subject(s): Evil WHITE FEATHER, by PHILIP M. HARDING Poem Text First Line: Strike on, great nations, wage new armaments Last Line: To watch your bodies rotting clean again. Subject(s): Evil; Nations; Social Protest; War WHO SHALL MY WANDERING THOUGHTS STEADY & FIX, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And having died thou shalt see all things after Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Evil; Sin WILD PLUM, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are unholy who are born Last Line: Wild plum at night. Subject(s): Evil; Plums; Plum Trees WITH FLOWERS IN OUR HANDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come let us walk thro' their burning hell Last Line: Have to hurt us who carry flowers! Subject(s): Evil; Flowers; Hell; Walking ZAPH DESCRIBES THE HAUNTS OF MALZAH, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jewish king now walks at large and sound Last Line: "satyr or fawn, give chase and call out ""malzah!" Subject(s): Evil; Jews; Supernatural; Judaism |
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