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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONFESSION FOR FORGIVENESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Outstretched on this bed
Last Line: "oh, heavenly king, / for thy pardon I plead"
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun
Last Line: I fear no more.
Variant Title(s): For Forgiveness;to Christ
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Prayer; Religion; Remorse; Repentance; Clemency; Theology; Penitence


A PRODIGAL, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart forgot its god for love of you
Last Line: Back to my god I go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Love; Clemency


A REVEALING PRAYER, by HENRY COFFIN FELLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had not known the price of heaven
Last Line: The falsehood she was guilty of.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 10, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, ere I go, forgive me each least wrong
Last Line: Too wholly gave a love disconsolate.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love - Loss Of; Clemency


AD ASTRA: 67, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, when our passionate hearts have ceased to beat
Last Line: How might we in thy clemency confide?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Hearts; Love; Passion; Clemency


AFTERWARD HE REPENTED, AND WENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, when my heart was whole I kept it back
Last Line: And answer 'give it me.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Sin


AN OFFERING, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suffer me, o my lord, my god, to bring
Last Line: And heard as thou would'st have it sung for thee.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Pain; Praise; Clemency; Suffering; Misery


ANY MOTHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no height, no depth, my own, could set us apart
Last Line: Body of mine and soul of mine, do I not know?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Forgiveness; God; Heaven; Hell; Love; Mothers; Childhood; Clemency; Paradise


APOLOGIA: MEMORY, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love spread its soft
Last Line: On my sleeve, %my history
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love; Memory


APOLOGY, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis true I write and tell me by what rule
Last Line: There's less to be applauded than forgiven
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Forgiveness


APOLOGY TO A LADY, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair sylvia, cease to blame my youth
Last Line: And never settle more!
Subject(s): Beauty; Forgiveness; Love; Women; Youth; Clemency


ARIEL'S REVENGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In olden time sprite ariel would fly
Last Line: T is thou hast freed us, and we love thee well!
Subject(s): Angels; Forgiveness; Humanity; Love; Clemency


ASKING FORGIVENESS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not say, 'yes, we had better part
Last Line: Forgive!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


AT POOL POINT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pool point is where the cumberland
Last Line: "forgive, forgive thy child."
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Grief; Rivers; Clemency; Sorrow; Sadness


BALLAD OF THE GIBBET, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brothers and men that shall after us be
Last Line: Pray god, pardon us out of his grace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


BEING AS I WAS, HOW COULD I HELP, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the noise that drew me first
Last Line: I would give it again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Animals; Forgiveness; Hunger; Tigers; Wolves; Clemency


BRAZEN TONGUE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quick in spite I said unkind
Subject(s): Forgiveness


BY THE TRAIN STATION AT ASTRAPOVA, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pace beside the tracks, a word waiting
Last Line: I would sit by the fire %trance-lit. God, forgive me. %everything
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love - Marital


CATHERINE KINRADE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: None spake when wilson stood before
Last Line: And for a space again there was no voice in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Sin; Clemency


CELESTE: 9. ASKING FORGIVENESS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not know; child, child, I did not know
Last Line: A murdered thing, to nourish them.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


CONDEMNED, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Proffered to sun and moon %on my deserted shore I tell and tell
Last Line: Not to ask forgiveness of my folly %and in the dungeons of silence to end my days
Subject(s): Forgiveness


CONFESSION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having forgiven me my sins, he fell silent
Last Line: Of a hand absently making the sign of the cross
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Forgiveness


CONFESSIONAL, by FRANK BIDART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is she dead?
Last Line: No, I didn't forgive her
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Gays & Lesbians; Clemency; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


CONFESSIONAL, by FRANK BIDART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is she dead?
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Homosexuality


CONSCIENCE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Judge me not as I judge myself, o lord!
Last Line: Forgive the evil I must not forgive!
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Judgments; Clemency


COUNTERBLAST ON PENNY TRUMPET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If mr. Bright retiring does not please
Last Line: As others see us!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Forgiveness; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Law & Lawyers; Clemency


DEAD, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their reward is %they become innocent again,
Last Line: And most of all, she is beyond reach, beautiful.
Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Memory


DELIA VERY ANGRY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poh! Did ever one see such a troublesome bear?
Last Line: "may you call me a fool, sir, as long as I live! / do you think one has nothing to do but forgive?"
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


DON SEBASTIAN, ACT 3: TO ACCOUNT RENDERED, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father's, mother's, brother's deaths I pardon
Last Line: And beg of heaven to charge the bill on me.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Forgiveness; Murder; Parents; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Clemency; Parenthood


EPITAPH, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were no hidden motives to his life
Last Line: As I have forgiven you / my sins
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Sin; Forgiveness


EVEN AS THE DAILY OFFERING, by SOLOMON BEN ABUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Judge of the earth who wilt arraign
Last Line: As offerings brought continually.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Jews; Judgments; Redemption; Sin; Clemency; Judaism


EVENSONG, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun has set, grey shadows darken slowly
Last Line: Forgive -- for jesus' sake!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FANNY; OR, THE BEAUTY AND THE BEE, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fanny, array'd in the bloom of her beauty
Last Line: "go forth and be happy—I blame you no more."
Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Forgiveness; Insects; Beekeeping; Clemency; Bugs


FAST AS YOU CAN COUNT TO TEN, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FATHER! IF WE MAY WELL ENDURE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As hot as in your own may run
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Islam; Forgiveness


FOLLOWING A BEE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Of primrose boys
Last Line: I followed a bee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVE, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh god! My sins are manifold; against my life they cry
Last Line: "forgive!"" the voice of thunder spake, ""or never be forgiven!"
Variant Title(s): Hymn: Twenty-second Sunday After Trinity
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVE AND FORGET, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive - forget! I own the wrong!
Last Line: I do forgive -- I will forget you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVE AND FORGET, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive and forget! Why the world would be lonely
Last Line: If heaven refused to forgive and forget.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVE, O LORD, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive, o lord, my little jokes on thee
Last Line: And I’ll forgive thy great big one on me
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVE, O, LORD, by AGNES I. EASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forgive, o lord, the men who walk
Last Line: Outsiders who do not.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981)    Poem Text                    
First Line: You left me when the weary weight of sorrow
Last Line: And told me, dear, that you were glad to come!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day after my father died
Last Line: In our eyes, make every day blaze alive
Subject(s): Desire; Family Life; Forgiveness; Marriage; Parents


FORGIVENESS, by THORA MACCLARRAN BURGESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I loved a man; he was to me
Last Line: Are clay feet, too.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, thou who dost the sinner meet
Last Line: "go thou, and sin no more!"
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stung by a spiteful wasp
Last Line: More difference.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That saturday, he forgave them all their sins
Last Line: Four dark walls whispered pardon
Subject(s): Clergy; Confessions; Drinks And Drinking; Forgiveness


FORGIVENESS, by HENRY FRANCIS LYTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When at thy footstool, lord, I bend
Last Line: And let that blood my pardon buy!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When man goes astray, a demon from lowest hell
Last Line: And love divine plants sweet forgiveness where he lies.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Repentance; Clemency; Penitence


FORGIVENESS, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now god be thanked that roads are long and wide
Last Line: Now god be with you in your wandering!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgiveness is not an abstraction for
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mother, with her darling
Last Line: Would be in our hearts that day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Mothers & Sons; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart was heavy, for its trust had been
Last Line: Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVENESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Must I forgive till seven times seven?'
Last Line: And mightier is his quest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion; Clemency; Theology


FORGIVENESS LANE, by MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forgiveness lane is old as youth
Last Line: And blessed forgiveness lane!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVING MY FATHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is friday. We have come
Last Line: And no accounting will open them up
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Forgiveness; Clemency


FORGIVING MY FATHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is friday. We have come
Last Line: You lie side by side in debtors' boxes %and no accounting will open them up
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Forgiveness


FUTURE FORGIVENESS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long wilt thou be silent, lying there?
Last Line: And thou -- didst thou not love thou wouldst not live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love; Clemency


GOD AND HIS MARTYRS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Text                    
First Line: For I have hither come, o ye dead bones
Last Line: And mourn myself upon your graves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Jews; Martyrs; Clemency; Judaism


GODS PARDON, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I shall sin, pardon my trespasse here
Last Line: For, once in hell, none knowes remission there.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


GOOD FRIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good friday is a heavenly day
Last Line: Died—and forgave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Easter; Forgiveness; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Clemency


GUILTY, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never cut my neighbor's throat
Last Line: O costly valor never won!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion; Clemency; Theology


HIS WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you but lying cold and dead
Last Line: While lights were paling one by one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Aedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Death


HOLY SONNET: 9, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If poisonous [or poysonous] minerals, and if that tree
Last Line: I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.
Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnet: 5
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mercy; Clemency


HOW I WALKED WITH A WOMAN ACROSS THE MAUMEE, by GEORGE LOONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dream a sad river, if you have to. Dream
Last Line: For bitterness. To forgive yourself, %love every waitress and learn the foot
Subject(s): Forgiveness


HOW TO FORGET, by REBECCA FORESMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you were busy being kind
Last Line: Because he's busy being wrong.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


I MARRED A DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I marred a day, a shining day
Last Line: The meanness of my other day
Subject(s): Regret; Forgiveness


I THINK JUST HOW MY SHAPE WILL RISE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I drop my heart — unshriven!
Subject(s): Forgiveness


I WAILED AS ONE WHO SCARCE CAN BE FORGIVEN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The signal of a star
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Forgiveness


I'VE NOTHING TO OFFER, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But forgiveness
Last Line: Of earth, air and water
Subject(s): Forgiveness


IDYLL, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord, forgive me if I do not look for you
Last Line: Whom one foresees
Subject(s): Convents; Forgiveness; Nuns


IF THOU BE DEAD, FORGIVE AND THOU SHALT LIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And be forgiven
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Forgiveness


IF THOU HAST LOST A FRIEND, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let pride no more be heard
Subject(s): Friendship; Pride; Loss; Forgiveness


IMPENITENCE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rejoice that I have sinned
Last Line: Who has suffered, who has seen.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion; Sin; Clemency; Theology


JACK ROSE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With crafty brooding life turned to jack rose
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Use; Hate; Death; Forgiveness; Dead, The; Clemency


LA ROCHELLE, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lightly the land-locked waves slide in the harbor
Last Line: Forgive us our treachery
Subject(s): War; Forgiveness; Courage


LADY ALMUCS, WITH YOUR PERMISSION, by ISEUT DE CAPIO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That he'll refrain from doing further injury
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Troubadours


LADY ISEUT, IF HE SHOWED SOME CONTRITION, by ALMUCS DE CASTELNAU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Still, if you can get him to repent his perfidy %you'll have no trouble in converting me
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Troubadours


LAST CONFESSIONAL, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For all ill words that I have spoken
Last Line: Forgive me, love, forgive me, death.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


LE PERE SEVERE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: King louis on his bridge is he
Last Line: Than give my true love up for thee'
Subject(s): Forgiveness;hearts;love - Complaints; Clemency


LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do
Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship; Cathedrals; Relatives; Clemency


LEAVING CHURCH EARLY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What, I wonder, were we hurrying to do
Last Line: We had no time, of course, we have no time %to do all the forgiving that we must do
Subject(s): Churches; Family Life; Forgiveness; Worship


LEST WE FORGET, by LOIS M. EISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When death shall curtain them about
Last Line: There's no forgiveness after death.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Forgiveness; Funerals; Dead, The; Clemency; Burials


LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As long as we stay
Subject(s): Mourning; Love; Forgiveness


LET'S BE FRIENDS AG'IN, by FAY CARPENTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: So now, ye're my enemy, air ye
Last Line: Holy jasus! You're claspin' my hand!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Friendship; Clemency


LIFE FOR A LIFE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis but a phantom of the weary brain
Last Line: This time shall mercy, justice rule, and I for once forgive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Forgiveness; Mothers; Clemency


LINES, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been cherish'd and forgiven
Last Line: Your praise to my great father.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Heaven; Clemency; Paradise


LINGER LONGER, by BILLIE FRANCIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me kiss the tear drops from your cheek
Last Line: Linger longer.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Love; Clemency


LIVES OF THE SAINTS, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old osiris! I reached as far as the wall
Last Line: Was enough to convince me, nothing, nothing
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Saints


LO, NOW, MY GUEST, IF AUGHT AMISS WERE SAID, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which is the parent and the child of sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Forgiveness


LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back
Last Line: So I did sit and eat.
Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology


LOVE 20 CENTS THE FIRST QUARTER MILE, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and
Subject(s): Desire; Forgiveness; Love; Clemency


LOVE 20 CENTS THE FIRST QUARTER MILE, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and
Last Line: And ask a few reporters, if anything should break
Subject(s): Desire; Forgiveness; Love


LOVE NOTE: 2. FLAGS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, it is dear defiance now to carry
Last Line: Or like the tender struggle of a fan
Subject(s): African Americans – Military; Forgiveness


LOVE POEM TO BE READ TO AN ILLITERATE FRIEND, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have had to write this down
Last Line: "which must find you
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


LOVE'S FORGIVENESS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do forgive you for the pain I bear
Last Line: Will rest most quietly, and turn to stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


MAILMAN, by MARK STRAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is midnight
Last Line: You shall forgive
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Postal Service


MAKING AMENDS, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Making amends to the host
Last Line: But in the morning I'd be making amends
Subject(s): Forgiveness


MAYBE MY SOUL FELL FROM ITS HIGH ESTATE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who am so far from god, so near to death
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness


MEN HAVE FORGED, by JAY G. SIGMUND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He wrote in the sand - the wind-blown sands
Last Line: Of scabbard and of hilt.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Jesus Christ; Modern Man; Redemption; Clemency


MESSENGER, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The messenger awaited a desperately long time
Last Line: And in the last moment everyone longs to be pardoned
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Human Rights; Messengers


MUNTU #003, by GEORGE GOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We must not stand alone
Last Line: With things that have never been
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Parents


O FOOLISH SOUL! TO MAKE THY COUNT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Save thee, o foolish soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Soul; Forgiveness; Jesus Christ


ODE: ON THE MESSIAH, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When man had disobey'd his lord
Last Line: In visions of eternal day.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Jesus Christ; Clemency


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 20, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


OF GOD WE ASK ONE FAVOR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We reprimand the happiness %that too competes with heaven
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1601; Poem: 167
Subject(s): Forgiveness


OF ONE FLESH, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man he was who loved the good
Last Line: He was thy brother, and was mine!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Conduct Of Life; Forgiveness


OLD NOVELIST'S CHANGE OF STYLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forgive me, darling. Yes, I am guilty
Last Line: I promise never again to make love %in a flea-pit.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Guilt


OLE BULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The minstrel's mystic wand
Last Line: That now is thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Minstrels; Clemency


OLNEY HYMNS: 56. THE HEART HEALED AND CHANGED BY MERCY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sin enslaved me many years
Last Line: "thy sins are done away."
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Redemption; Sin; Clemency


ON THE BENEFACTIONS IN THE LATE FROST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, 'tis the time! I cry'd, impose the chain!
Last Line: To take the only way to be forgiven.
Variant Title(s): Epigram Explained By Carruthers To Refer To The Large Sums
Subject(s): Charity; Forgiveness; Hope; Sin; Philanthropy; Clemency; Optimism


ONE OF THE NINE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I meant to go back, but well you may guess
Last Line: Had I only gone back! Had I only gone back!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


ORGAN SONGS: A PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I look back upon my life nigh spent
Last Line: A fool I bring thee to be made a child.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Life; Prayer; Redemption; Clemency


ORGAN SONGS: EVENING HYMN, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, whose daylight leadeth down
Last Line: Go wandering toward thee.
Subject(s): Evening; Forgiveness; God; Prayer; Sunset; Twilight; Clemency


OUR BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty; Clemency


OUR BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You drink breakfast. The cemetery's damp earth
Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty


OUR DAILY BREAD, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breakfast is drunk down...Damp earth
Last Line: Here, in the oven of my heart...!
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Forgiveness; Hearts; Hunger; Poverty


PARDON, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God pardons those, who do through frailty sin
Last Line: But never those that persevere therein.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


PARDON, by GUSTAVE KAHN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall set bracelets on your arms
Last Line: And the assent of beauty's queen.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


PAST AND PRESENT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll never forgive you! I said
Last Line: As I seek to harden my heart?
Subject(s): Anger; Death; Forgiveness; Past; Dead, The; Clemency


PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 15. AL-GHAFFAR, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, it is written, abraham, 'god's friend'
Last Line: Forgiven, if thou wert as we?
Variant Title(s): Abraham's Offense
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Islam; Clemency


PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 32. AL-KHABIR, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning in medina walked our lord
Last Line: To-morrow, nów, and long ago.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Islam; Clemency


PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 78. AL-BARR, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity! For he is pitiful; - a king
Last Line: Ya barr! Good god! Show clemency.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Islam; Clemency


POEM WITHOUT FORGIVENESS, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The husband wants to be taken back
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


POMEGRANATE, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the scrawny winter branches
Last Line: Already your fierce ache has lessened
Subject(s): Forgiveness


PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, I have sinned in that a bitter seed
Last Line: To be forgiven and to be forgiving
Subject(s): Forgiveness


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 26, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My noble lord, thy nothing servant I
Last Line: Its michtam-david: with sweet joy within.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Puritans In Literature; Clemency


PRIDE, by EVELYN HAZLETT HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have a proud flag flying / though none may
Last Line: A broken vow.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Pride; Clemency; Self-esteem; Self-respect


PRIDE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowned with a feathered helmet
Last Line: Overlooking narcissus's pond %choked with a memory of lilies
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Forgiveness


PRODIGALS, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again, in the book of books, today
Last Line: "and he lives who once was dead."
Subject(s): Repentance; Homecoming; Forgiveness


QUATRAIN: FORGIVE ME NOT, by LILLA CABOT PERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive me not! Hate me and I shall know
Last Line: On dead volcanoes only lies the snow.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


REBECCA'S AFTER-THOUGHT, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday, rebecca mason
Last Line: Lov'd her better, and forgave her.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Girls; Clemency


REMORSE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Where have you been, my pale, pale son, all night in the winter storm?
Last Line: (peace, the bells sing, is god's reckoning.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


REVENGE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! I could curse them in my woe
Last Line: Tis sweeter to forgive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Revenge; Clemency


SEAGULLS IN LONDON, JANUARY, 1940, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They stormed upon me like catastrophe
Last Line: If this be folly, o forgive it me!
Subject(s): Birds; Forgiveness; Gulls; London; Clemency; Seagulls


SONG: 76, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Defamed guiltiness by silence unkept
Last Line: From doing amiss, will I live again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Betrayal; Forgiveness; Guilt; Trust; Clemency


SONNET TO MANON: ON HER FORGIVENESS OF A WRONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not virtue. To forgive were great
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


SONNET: TO ONE EXCUSING HIS POVERTY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Love, impute it not to me a sin
Subject(s): Poverty; Forgiveness; Love; Clemency


SORRY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear parents, %I forgive you my life
Last Line: Wounding itself %with questions you had not asked
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Parents


SORRY!, by BERNADETTE HIGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a long time now I have %wanted to apologise for
Last Line: Except I'm very glad that %you now know the truth
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Poetry And Poets; Truth


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 112, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your eyes know how to laugh
Last Line: And not how to forgive
Subject(s): Forgiveness


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELMER BARR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What but the love of god could have softened
Last Line: Repent, ye living ones, and rest with jesus.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


STANZAS IMITATED FROM PSALM 99, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, how shall thoughtless, easy-natur'd youth
Last Line: Thy name to honour, and thy law to love.
Subject(s): Bible; Forgiveness; God; Prayer; Sin; Clemency


SUNBEAM AND SHADOW, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunbeam was a lovely child
Last Line: Like two fair flowers together, and so the story ends.
Subject(s): Change; Children; Cousins; Forgiveness; Good; Rudeness; Childhood; Clemency; Bad Manners


TEN YEARS AND MORE, by MIRIAM DWORKIN WADDINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my husband %lay dying a mountain
Last Line: And I was asking him %to forgive me too
Subject(s): Forgiveness


THAT DAY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stand by the river where both of us stood
Last Line: Go, -- be clear of that day!
Subject(s): Infidelity; Forgiveness; Clemency


THE BANKRUPT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Despise him not, though he / a bankrupt be
Last Line: For pardning part, will all remitt to thee.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Poverty; Clemency


THE CONFESSION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We were both wrong
Last Line: And both are right.
Subject(s): Doubt; Errors; Forgiveness; Love - Complaints; Skepticism; Mistakes; Fallacies; Clemency


THE DOOR, by FLORENCE HINDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wish she'd open wide the door
Last Line: Could see her standing in the door!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Peace; Clemency


THE FEET OF JUDAS, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ washed the feet of judas!
Last Line: Christ washed the feet of judas.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Clemency


THE FUN OF FORGIVING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I'm almost glad to hear when I get
Last Line: A lot of joys we'd miss at night -- forgiving them is so much fun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 6. THE SINS OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive me the sin of mine eyes
Last Line: O pardon the sin of my heart!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Hearts; Love; Clemency


THE GOOD SON, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If god had come to me and said,
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mothers & Sons; Death; Clemency; Dead, The


THE KAISER'S FEAST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kaiser feasted in his hall
Last Line: At the kaiser's feast that night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Louis Iv, King Of Germany (1283-1347); Women; Clemency


THE LOVER ASKS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF HIS MANY MOODS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this importunate heart trouble your peace
Last Line: The odorous twilight there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Michael Robartes Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods
Subject(s): Moods; Forgiveness


THE MAILMAN, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is midnight
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Postal Service; Clemency; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAN WITH THE HOE OUTWITTED, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He drew a circle that shut me out
Last Line: We drew a circle that took him in!
Variant Title(s): Outwitted
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Labor & Laborers; Clemency; Work; Workers


THE MIRACLE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear brother, dearest friend, when I am dead,
Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Dead, The; Clemency


THE NIGHT BEFORE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look you, dominie; look you, and listen
Subject(s): Passion; Adultery; Cuckolds; Anger; Hate; Forgiveness; Murder; Clemency


THE PARDONED SIN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up the worn steps and through the ivied porch
Last Line: "have washed away all record of thy sin!"
Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Confessions; Forgiveness; God; Sin; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Clemency


THE PENITENT ANOINTING CHRIST'S FEET, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a mournfulness in angel eyes
Last Line: For thee, the child won back, the penitent forgiven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Women In The Bible; Clemency


THE RELAPSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wert thou not what thou art
Last Line: Sett ope, & bleed out every thing but thee.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Self-pity; Sin; Clemency


THE RIGHTFUL ONE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard my son burst out of his room
Last Line: Was gone and left a power to feel free
Subject(s): Sons; Sickness; Forgiveness


THE SAILOR WHO SERVED IN THE SLAVE-TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stopt, -- it surely was a groan
Last Line: O god, deliver me!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Murder; Prayer; Regret; Sailing & Sailors; Shame; Slavery; Violence; Clemency; Serfs


THE SEVEN WORDS, by GEORGE WILLARD BONTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come - come, get up, we must be off
Last Line: "may god have mercy on my soul."
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Soul; Clemency


THE SONG OF THE FLAGS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We loved the wild clamor of battle
Last Line: "forgive, but ah, never forget."
Variant Title(s): On The Return Of The Confederate Flags By Congress
Subject(s): Flags - Confederate States Of America; Forgiveness; Southern States; Clemency; South (u.s.)


THOSE DICKINS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I s'pose you think it queer, an' 't ain't no common thing, I know
Last Line: She'll know her husband sent 'em, an' wants -- to be -- forgiven.
Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Marriage; Reading; Clemency; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TIMOR MORTIS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In what estate so ever I be / timor mortis conturbat me
Last Line: And from the fiend he us preserve. / timor mortis conturbat me
Subject(s): Forgiveness;prayer;sin; Clemency


TO CLARISSA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clarissa, when you passed me by
Last Line: I fain would sin again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


TO FORGIVE HER, by HILDRED CRILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was born on your doorstep
Last Line: Look before you. She wears %the siple face of one day
Subject(s): Children; Forgiveness; Future


TO FORGIVE IS DIVINE, by M. L. R. BRESLAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Father of mercies, and all human love
Last Line: M. L. R. Breslar.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Jews; Clemency; Judaism


TO MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one
Last Line: Forever, to the skies
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women - Bible; Women And Religion


TO MY MOTHER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mother, who, months before my birth
Last Line: In life, those first few, fair years ... Your son forgives the rest!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mothers & Sons; Clemency


TO THE BLACK MADONNA OF CHARTRES, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend or no friend
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


TO THE PUBLIC, by JANET LITTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the dull confines of a country shade
Last Line: Give but a little, and she'll rest content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Public Opinion; Clemency


TODAY AND TOMORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Withhold all eulogies when I am dead
Last Line: My mother gave me.
Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Religion; Dead, The; Clemency; Theology


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. I ACCEPT YOU, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I accept you altogether - as the sea accepts the fish that swim in it
Last Line: And beyond my boundaries you cannot go.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


TRULY YOUR FORGIVENESS I IMPLORE', by NINA CASSIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From all the faucets - ink was pouring
Last Line: I was rubbing and scrubbing stubbornly, endlessly, %the blood off the floor
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Sin


UNFINISHED SONG: 14, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me forgive you and love you
Last Line: I will be compensated
Subject(s): Forgiveness


WE ALL HAVE MANY CHANCES, by BARBARA JORDAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forgiveness: a simple bandage
Last Line: Watching shadows cross the lawn %and black spoons lifting among the leaves %in the evening
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion


WHAT GOES THROUGH IT, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all places, tonight you're by the ocean
Last Line: You can forgive yourself.
Subject(s): Fathers; Forgiveness; Pennsylvania; Relationships


WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He tells me his mother carries his father's ashes
Last Line: The relative comfort of silence.
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cremation; Forgiveness; Legacies; Child Abuse; Clemency


WORD TO THE WISE, by OCTAVIO ARMAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: If on your walks you have moved some stones
Last Line: So have I
Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Language; Poetry And Poets; Wisdom


WORDS WRITTEN NEAR A CANDLE, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could begin anything
Last Line: I am with you
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please
Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever.
Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips