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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 is—mistress 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