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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FORGIVENESS Matches Found: 186 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 happyI 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: Diedand 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 |
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