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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FAILURE Matches Found: 67 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALONE I SAT -- THE SUMMER DAY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Failure BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes BALLAD OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the toilers from whom god barred Last Line: "god, give us another chance!" Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Unsuccessful Subject(s): Failure; God; Labor & Laborers; Life; Religion; Sin; Soul; Success; Work; Workers; Theology BEAUTY OF FAILURE, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A shimmering comet burns out above the woods and water Last Line: To shepherd so that the milky way would once again appear Subject(s): Failure CASSANDRA, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am locked away %wrapped in the fillets of a priestess Last Line: How you will fall %and who will take you down? Subject(s): Failure; Hero And Leander; Violence DEEP SORRINESS ATONEMENT SONG, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who sold manhattan for a halfway decent bangle Subject(s): Failure; Regret DEFEAT, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: They, too, have quaffed the bitter cup Last Line: And I—met you! Subject(s): Failure; Loss EACH DEFEAT, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please! Keep / reading me Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Friendship; Relationships; Death - Animals; Failure ELLIPTICAL, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Failure; Language; Relationships; Words; Vocabulary FABLE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However the man had got himself there Last Line: Besides, you'd have fallen anyway.' Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Failure; Suicide FAILURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the lord, who fashioned my hands for working" Last Line: Maybe will pity their strife and loss Subject(s): Failure;life FAILURE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are much bound to them that do succeed Last Line: Its power is in the look which costs him all Subject(s): Failure; Success FAILURE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this success, this bitter fruit Last Line: And ever out of reach, the sky. Subject(s): Failure FAILURE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o arm of the lord! Last Line: But the failure of the lord! Subject(s): Failure; Farewell; God; War; Parting FAILURE, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like slime / inside a / stagnant tank Subject(s): Failure FAILURE, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like slime %inside a %stagnant tank Last Line: Than success %is in general Subject(s): Failure FAILURE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Failure is a rocky hill Last Line: Fuse it to a diamond soul! Subject(s): Failure FAILURE IS AN OPTION, by JOHN+(2) NORTON Poem Source First Line: All tourists are lost Last Line: The powerful create monuments %to ensure salvation Subject(s): Failure; Tourists FAILURES IN INFINITIVES, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I doing this? Failure Subject(s): Failure; Language; Conduct Of Life; Words; Vocabulary FAMILY ROMANCE, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister once of weeds & a dark water that held still Subject(s): Family Life; Marriage; Failure; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRE AND SLEET AND CANDLELIGHT, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this you've striven Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Failure FOOTSTEPS, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have never arrived Last Line: Slave up, slave down Subject(s): Failure HOPE IN FAILURE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Though now thou hast failed and art fallen Last Line: The heart of whose shining is bright with the light of the ancient of days. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Failure; Hope; Optimism I GO BACK TO MAY 1937, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges Subject(s): Parents; Marriage; Failure; Parenthood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives INSOMNIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it's really fear you want to talk about Subject(s): Insomnia; Conduct Of Life; Fear; Failure; Sleeplessness JOHN SUTTER, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the patriarch of the shining land Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Sutter, John (1803-1880); Failure; Gold Rush; Forty-niners JUST TENNIS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: You leap and twist, you skip and flop Last Line: An awful mark at tennis! Subject(s): Failure; Tennis LANGLEY'S FOLLY', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Honor to langley, from humble and great! Last Line: Honor to langley, the king of the air Subject(s): Langley, Samuel Pierpont (1834-1906); Avilation & Aviators; Failure LOST, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When christ is lost, man's pentecost Last Line: And death's eternity. Subject(s): Death; Failure; Dead, The MATER IN EXTREMIS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand between them and the outer winds Last Line: I am about to fall. Subject(s): Failure; Shields MOON & OTHER FAILURES, by F. D. REEVE Poem Source First Line: The stones of paris smell of books Last Line: No one remembers the moon and other failures Subject(s): Failure; Moon MY GARDEN OF BLIGHTED HOPES, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I sowed in the hours of life's morning Last Line: In my garden of blighted hopes. Subject(s): Death; Failure; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Optimism MYSTERIOUS LIFE, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: O life, o mysterious life Last Line: "so before, ""oh, beware,"" I say." Subject(s): Failure; Life NOT NOW, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path of duty I clearly trace Last Line: "oh, not to-day: not now!" Subject(s): Duty; Failure ONE: 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody loses all the time Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Poem Subject(s): Failure ONE: 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody loses all the time Last Line: And started a worm farm Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): Poe Subject(s): Failure PARAPHRASE; FAILURE AND SUCCESS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who can tell how hard it is to climb Last Line: Levi bishop. Subject(s): Failure; Pride; Soul; Success; Self-esteem; Self-respect PLAUDITS FOR THOSE WHO FAIL, by THOMAS STEPHEN Poem Text First Line: Reserve your plaudits for the man Last Line: God bless them for what they endure. Subject(s): Courage; Failure; Heroism; Poverty; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines PREFACE, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sonja henie,' the young girl Last Line: Darnel, ragweed, wortle Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Failure; Poetry & Poets; Weeds QUESTION AND ANSWER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What has availed Subject(s): Success; Failure SCHOOL OF DREAMS, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: It is an afternoon Last Line: Failure's in your veins %red as any ink Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Children; Failure; Fear STATE OF THE UNION: 1. HERE NOTHING WORKS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here nothing works. Service taken Last Line: To our soil that is not different from other lands Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Drought; Failure; Harvest; Labor And Laborers; Poverty SUCCES COMES TO COW CREEK, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on the tracks Subject(s): Railroads; Failure; Railways; Trains SUCCESS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Success is counted sweetest / by those who never succeed Last Line: Break, agonized and clear. Subject(s): Failure; Success THE ASHANTEE WAR: THE FALL OF COOMASSIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1874, and on new year's day Last Line: And the reception they received was very grand. Subject(s): Enemies; Failure; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; War; British Empire; England - Empire THE CHESS-PLAYER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I played at chess with lasker, but to lose Last Line: As I played lasker, so I challenge life! Subject(s): Chess; Failure; Life; Strength THE CIRCLE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grief comes back after an interval Last Line: And feel the weight of my old sorrow's chain. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Failure; Grief; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness THE DOWNFALL OF DELHI, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of september Last Line: And will be handed down to posterity. Subject(s): Delhi, India; Failure; Loss; War THE DREAMER, by JOHN D. MCMASTER Poem Text First Line: When he was young he wanted to be / bold Last Line: His life a failure and his soul a song. Subject(s): Failure; Old Age THE FAILURES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills are bare of verdure, the valleys clogged with snow Last Line: We'll know ourselves for failures and cowards after all! Subject(s): Failure THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 95. THE VASE OF LIFE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the vase of life at your slow pace Last Line: Stands empty till his ashes fall in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Failure; Life; Success THE KERCHIEF, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I 'gan to know thee, dear Last Line: To find the faults I found. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Failure; Judgments THE PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher stands upon the hill, his pose is won- Last Line: "aw take him out! For mikes' sake, take him out!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 119, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this poor dreamer Last Line: He doesn't dare to look Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Failure; Job Hunting THE PROUD, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are the proudest who have met defeat Last Line: The ghost of beauty in an empty breast. Subject(s): Failure; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE QUITTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It ain't the failures he may meet Last Line: You've got to quit your quittin' ! Subject(s): Doubt;failure; Skepticism THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares THE SPANISH ARMADA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear shone the morn, the gale was fair Last Line: Shall bear good tidings home. Subject(s): Ambition; England; Failure; Spanish Armada; English THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FAILURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen those that wore heaven's armor worsted Last Line: Last sentence! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Failure; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THERE'S NO SUCH WORD AS FAIL, by ALICE B. NEAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The proudest motto for the young! Last Line: "there's no such word as fail." Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Alice; Bradley, Emily Subject(s): Failure TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Now all the truth is out Last Line: That is most difficult. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Failure TO ONE WHO FAILED, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you failed, because you failed Last Line: To brute men, dowered with dying hearts. Subject(s): Errors; Failure; Friendship; Love; Marriage; Mistakes; Fallacies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THOSE WHO'VE FAIL'D, IN ASPIRATION VAST, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Quench'd by an early death Subject(s): Failure TOO MUCH COUE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher stood upon the mound Last Line: And then the maddened umpire spoke—and gave them both the gate! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports VICTORY AND FAILURE, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the day of victory Last Line: To die along with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Failure; Honor; Soldiers; Victory; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WEIGHTS, by EDNA IVERNE HOVE Poem Text First Line: At each new enterprise - lost hopes! Last Line: And look on, sorrowfully shaking their heads. Subject(s): Failure YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen! Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you. Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War |
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