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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HELL Matches Found: 153 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD FOR CHRISTMAS-TIDE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: There is a story that hath oft Last Line: Can bridge securely o'er! Subject(s): Christmas; Evil; Heaven; Hell; Lazarus; Poverty; Wealth; Nativity, The; Paradise; Riches; Fortunes A BALLAD OF HELL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A letter from my love today! Last Line: Hell raised a hoarse half-human cheer. Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve Subject(s): Betrayal; Deception; Heaven; Hell; Love; Marriage; Suicide; Paradise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A MAN-MADE HADES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were sent to build a hell Last Line: My hell of indecision. Subject(s): Doubt; Hell; Pain; Punishment; Skepticism; Suffering; Misery A SEASON IN HELL, SELECTION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, long ago - if I remember rightly - my life was a sumptuous feast Last Line: These sparse hideous pages from my notebook of the damned. Subject(s): Hell AENEID: HELL'S GATE, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the utter porch and even in orcus jaws Last Line: The cawse of that confused noise and stir Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Hell AFTER THE FIGHT, by ELISA ALBO Poem Source First Line: She watches him slip out %to the kitchen and open Last Line: Chills and dries out %the bones, ice traps %and preserves forever Subject(s): Hell; Ice; Quarrels AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the council-board of hell, with satan at / their head Last Line: And hell rang with the acclamation of the fiends. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Hell; Monsters; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub ANTICHRIST, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why seems your cheek so pale, young man Last Line: In heaven the gates of hell!' Subject(s): Hell; Malice; Sin 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 ARSENIO, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust devils of wind throw dust up Last Line: Carries it off with the ashes of the stars Subject(s): Death; Hell BARYLY-BREAK; OR LAST IN HELL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We two are last in hell: what may we feare Last Line: We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first. Subject(s): Hell BEATRICE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a hard, burned land of ash, stripped of leaves Last Line: And pitched them, now and then, a lewd caress. Subject(s): Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290); Hell CALIBAN ON ARIEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue is loosed of that most lying slave Last Line: So perfect: they but bid thee -- 'hagseed, hence!' Subject(s): Hell; Slavery; Serfs CONSUMMATION, by JUDE NUTTER Poem Source First Line: In the distance watch tor, yes tor, devil's chair Last Line: And, as if they knew; the nurses coming in to wash you Subject(s): Death; Hell CONTEMPLATING HELL, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Contemplating hell, as I once heard it Last Line: Than the inhabitants of the barracks Subject(s): Hell; London; Los Angeles CYRIL TOURNEUR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sea that heaves with horror of the night Last Line: And over all these one star -- chastity. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Sea; Soul; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean DEL INFERNO, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A world in flames! Last Line: "a world in flames!'" Subject(s): Devil; Fire; Hell; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DIRE: 1. A DEAD KING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go down to hell. This end is good to see Last Line: Here is no room for thee; go down to hell.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hell; Nations; Dead, The DIRE: 16. THE DESCENT INTO HELL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night and death, to whom we grudged him then Last Line: That we have lived to say, the dog is dead. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Dead, The DIRE: 4. PAPAL ALLOCUTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hast thou done? Hark, till thine ears wax hot Last Line: Barks for his advent in the clefts of hell. Subject(s): Hell; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Nations; Sin DIRE: 6. LOCUSTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come close and see her and hearken. This is she Last Line: Praying. There are who say she is bride of christ. Subject(s): Cups; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.) DIRE: 7. CELENO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head Last Line: That triple-headed hound of hell their god. Subject(s): Blindness; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Hell; Nations; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 1, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the journey of our life Last Line: And those other ones you spoke of in their sorrow. %then he set off and I began to follow Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 10, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along a secret track between the ramparts Last Line: Down to a ravine from which there issued %stinks that already brought on nausea Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 11., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then on the upper rim of a deep ravine Last Line: There is the cliff's edge we must reach %to start down from... Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 12., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The way down was steep and mountainous Last Line: Then he turned quickly from us %and slipped back through the narrow pass Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 13, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nessus was not to the other shore as yet Last Line: I made my gallows out of my own rafter Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 13., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nessus had not yet arrived at the other side Last Line: Would surely have done their labors all in vain. %out of my house I made my hanging tree Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 14., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because the love I had for my native place Last Line: These edges form a path that doesn't burn, %above them each flake of falling fire is quenched Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 15., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now we walk along a hard embankment Last Line: At verona, except that of them he seemed %not one who loses,but the one who wins Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 16., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now we had come to where we heard the roar Last Line: And stretching his arms out, drawing in his legs, %makes his way back up to the surface again Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 17., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See now the beast that wears the pointed tail Last Line: Relieved of the live weight on his back, %disappearing like an arrow into the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 18., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In hell there is a great and giving ground Last Line: Now let us turn away from these lost souls %and away from the emptiness they fill Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 19, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, simon magus, you Last Line: And here another valley %was revealed to me Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 2, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daylight was going and the umber air Last Line: This is what I said, and when he moved %I entered on the deep and savage path Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 20, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new pains of hell that I saw next demand Last Line: That, deep in the wood last night, brought you no harm. %even while he spoke the words, we were movi Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 21, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so from bridge to bridge we went, talking Last Line: Which I took for a signal to their leader. %as reply he made a bugle of his ass Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 22, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Think of the cavalry breaking camp to start Last Line: Of birds - by now well cooked inside their skins. %we left the others to clean up the mess Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 23, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We went on alone in silence without them Last Line: And seeing this I left those burdened souls, %following my master in his steps Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 24, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In early spring, when the sun enters Last Line: And every white will be wounded. %there you have it, may you die of grief Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 25, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The thief, when he had done with prophecy Last Line: His form, of the three thieves who earlier came. %the other was he, gaville, who made thee weep Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 26, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Florence rejoice, o, you that are so great Last Line: And drove down the prow, as pleased another, %until the sea was closed over us Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 27, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the flame burned straight upward and was still Last Line: The chasm where the penalty is paid %by those whose load comes from cleaving asunder Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 28, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who could find words, even in free-running prose Last Line: Parted from this, its pitiful stem: mark well %this retribution that you see is mine Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 29, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crowds, the dreadful wounds, so filled my eyes Last Line: You'll remember, if you're who I think you are, %how close my copies came to reality Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 3, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through me it leads to the city sorrowful Last Line: So that all my faculties were stunned %and I fell like man whom sleep has overcome Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 3, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through me come into the city full of pain Last Line: Which downed my senses; and I fell like a man %snared by sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 3. THE GATES OF HELL, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through me the way is to the city of woe Last Line: Like sand within the whirlwind's eddying cage Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 30, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The time when juno, told of semele Last Line: People engaged in like disputes, for to %give them your attention is base and wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 31, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The same tongue first stung me Last Line: Nor did he stay leaning in that place %and like the mast of a ship he lifted up Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 32, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Were there a language dark enough to speak Last Line: And knowing his crimes against you, will speak %of you on earth, if my tongue doesn't wither Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 33, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He lifted his mouth up from the savage feast Last Line: And his soul is bathed in cocytus %though his body is alive and walks the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 4, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A heavy crack of thunder broke Last Line: Out of the quiet, into the trembling air. %and I come to a place where nothing shines Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 5, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then I went down through the first circle Last Line: And I fainted, as if departing this life, %and down I went, as a dead body falls Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 6, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I regain my senses that left me Last Line: And came to the point where it slopes down. %here we found plutus, the greaat enemy Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 7, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pape satan, pape satan, aleppe!,' Last Line: Our eyes on those with mud stuffed down their throats. %eventually we came upon a tower Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 8, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To carry on from there: before we reaached Last Line: Already past that gate, almost to where we are %comes one who'll unlock dis without a key Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO 9, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing me stand there green with fear, my guide Last Line: To the right, we passed between those torments %and the high walls that encircled them Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO. CANTO: 21, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So, crossing from bridge to bridge Last Line: Who trumpeted a fart Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): God; Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 12, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Side by side, as oxen yoked together Last Line: And as he watched me do it my leader smiled Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 16, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The murk of hell and of a night empty Last Line: So he turned back and would hear me no more Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Hell DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 22, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By this time the angel was behind us Last Line: Which the gospel makes apparent to you Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Hell; Purgatory DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 24, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The words neither slowed the walking nor the going Last Line: Does not smoke with too much longing in the breast, %but they hunger only for waht is just Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Hell; Purgatory DOCTOR -., by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rabbi told me: on the day allowed Last Line: I tell it, as the rabbi told it me. Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Hell; Physicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Doctors DON JUAN IN HELL, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night don juan came to pay his fees Last Line: Gazed back, and would not offer one look round. Subject(s): Don Juan; Hell DON JUAN IN HELL, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When don juan, in his netherward descent Last Line: Gazed at the wake through eyes that deigned not see Subject(s): Don Juan; Hell DOWN THE TRAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hell is like this -- first stone Last Line: They must be beautiful Subject(s): Beauty; Hell; Nature DUST TO DUST, by C. MIKAL ONESS Poem Source First Line: It's what we hope for Last Line: And offer us water, offer us water Subject(s): Hell EPIGRAM: 40, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like unto th'eternal fire Last Line: By whom hell may be felt or death assail! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hell; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery FACADE: 27. WHEN SIR BEELZEBUB, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When / sir / beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in hell Last Line: ... None of them come! Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Hell; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron FAUST BOOK: REQUIRES MEPHISTOPHELES TO DESCRIBE HELL ..., by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Tell me, I command you Last Line: Thereof one says but little Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Heaven; Hell FRESCO, by MARIN SORESCU Poem Source First Line: In hell, maximum use %is made of sinners Last Line: And made into mats Subject(s): Hell HADES' PITCH, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could just touch your ankle, he whispers, there Subject(s): Hell HARROWING OF HELL, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Days of hushed waiting; the man Last Line: Alabster faces, led meekly out %into impenetrable light Subject(s): Hell HAVE YE NO WORK FOR A MAN TO DO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By making it sublime? Subject(s): Hell; Labor & Laborers HEAVEN AND HELL, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said there were no thought of hell Last Line: But ah, how few the god that loves! Subject(s): Heaven; Hell; Paradise HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speed not afar, thou wandering wraith Last Line: "for evermore." Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Hell; Religion; World; Paradise; Theology HELL, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah and woe! Last Line: Perish, mankind! Lest here you know perdition Subject(s): Hell; Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Last Line: The least weird guy you know Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality HELL, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: Oh the magnificence of hell! Last Line: Hell is constant and eternal Subject(s): Hell HELL (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hell is no other, but a soundlesse pit Last Line: Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. Subject(s): Hell HELL (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hell is the place where whipping-cheer abounds Last Line: But no one jailor there to wash the wounds. Subject(s): Hell HELL 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Nothing %can you believe here Last Line: Oh! These silent streets Subject(s): Danger; Hell; Human Rights; Silence; Streets; Tyranny And Tyrants HELL A LA MODE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zero hour! / advance! Last Line: The silence of wreckage and ruin and death! Subject(s): Death; Hell; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HELL AND HATE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two demons thrust their arms out over the world Last Line: To the darkness out of sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Hate; Hell HELL FIRE (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire of hell this strange condition hath Last Line: To burn, not shine (as learned basil saith.) Subject(s): Hell HELL FIRE (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One onely fire has hell; but yet it shall Last Line: Boldly in sin, shall feel more punishment. Subject(s): Hell HELL GATE BRIDGE, by TONY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: Funny how an entire era can be summed up by the parabolic arch of the steel Last Line: Nor the evanescent clouds overhead, both of which are in their way more determined %than we are Subject(s): Bridges; Hell HELL'S RESURRECTION, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron-colored stars of hell Last Line: As it had flamed of yore! Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hell; Sin; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub HELL, SELS., by MATYAS NYEKI VOROS Poem Source First Line: Of what avail are palaces in hell Last Line: If an eternal bonfire ends your span Subject(s): Hell HELLHOLE CANYON, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Settlers named it hell creek for the crossing Last Line: It is a place not far from here Subject(s): Hell I STARE AT THE FIRE..., by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source Last Line: We adore you and invoke you Subject(s): Hell INCIDENT IN HELL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ancestors were happy Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Hell INCIDENT IN HELL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ancestors were happy Last Line: The western hemisphere %alas, old chief! Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Hell INITIATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only those whom the glacier-spears Last Line: Can hear the worms whisper beneath the sod. Subject(s): Fear; God; Hell JUNE TWENTY, THREE DAYS AFTER, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy and a man would die Subject(s): Death; Hell; Dead, The LOST SUGAR CUBE WILL PURSUE YOU IN HELL, by BENJAMIN IVRY Poem Source Last Line: To coat the torment of the tabletop Subject(s): Hell; Sugar LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 28, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've no belief in the heavens Last Line: And thine evil heart as well. Subject(s): Evil; Hearts; Hell MADONNA IN FLANDERS, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk as the glamor of disgrace Last Line: Hell's joke is heaven's epitaph. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Paradise; Virgin Mary MALIGNED MORTALITY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In upper space, in the nether abyss Last Line: And that heaven does her right. Subject(s): Heaven; Hell; Paradise MELANCHOLIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Out hideous monster; in thy name Last Line: Which can be sober, yet not dull. Subject(s): Grief; Hell; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness MUCH IN LITTLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just seven little notes Last Line: All passion from hell to heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Hell; Music & Musicians; Passion; Paradise MUSE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the night I await her coming Last Line: Of hell? And she answers: 'I am the one' Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Hell NINE ELEGIES FOR AMY MCCLELLAND: 5., by HUGH STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I was in hell, surrounded by Last Line: While everyone I loved was flung over the edge Subject(s): Death; Hell NOBODY'S HOME, by TOM RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: You know the crowded ship in the underworld? Last Line: He was starting to hear himself think, a bad sign Subject(s): Death; Hell OMEN, by ALICE DUPONT ORTIZ Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream, oh, sweetheart mine,'twas this Last Line: Twas hell, and you, god help me, were a fiend! Subject(s): Dreams; Hell; Nightmares OUR HELLS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Milton unlocked hell for us Subject(s): Hell; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Milton, John (1608-1674) OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise PUNISHMENT IN HELL, by CLAUDIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hither at death all mortal minds descend Last Line: For tatling with eternal silence pays Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus Subject(s): Hell PYTHONESS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am that serpent-haunted cave Last Line: New sons, new suns, new skies Subject(s): Evil; Hell ROOSTER, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: This rooster that comes from far off in his song Last Line: That darkness blows as it falls into hell Subject(s): Evil; Hell; Malice SERMON NOTES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to walk out of hell. But there Last Line: The anti-hell is not heaven but the void Subject(s): Hell SERMON NOTES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to walk out of hell. But there Last Line: The anti-hell's not heaven but the void Subject(s): Hell SIMPLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A man will drink himself to death Last Line: Stroll in Subject(s): Devil; Drinks And Drinking; Hell; Longing; Sleep SIN (6), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone Last Line: Our destination to eternall woe. Subject(s): Hell; Predestination; Sin SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 15, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have cleaved to her who did not dwell Last Line: And now, sweet dreams, sweet lady! -- and good-bye! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Heaven; Hell; Love; Nightmares; Paradise STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War TARTARUS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my mind, so near I stand to the edge Last Line: Lower and lower and lower beelzebub falls. Subject(s): Devil; Hell; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE BALLAD OF THE ANGEL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it knocking in the night Last Line: "of heaven when you die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Dead, The; Paradise THE CLASSIC TOUCH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are the little things Last Line: And that town was nothing to me! Subject(s): Hearts; Hell; Soul; Stars THE DEAD, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have flowed out of ourselves Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Hell THE ENTRANCE TO HELL, FR. THE AENID, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thay walkit furth so derk oneith they wist Last Line: Under ilk leif ful thik they stik and hing. Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Hell; Scottish Translations THE HELL-GOD, by LOUISE MORGAN SILL Poem Text First Line: I am the hell-god, war! Last Line: I am the hell-god, war! Subject(s): Hell; Social Protest; War THE LITTLE CHILDREN, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer little children to come unto me,' Last Line: The anti-christ of schrecklichkeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Children; Evil; Hell; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Childhood THE LOVER IN HELL, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternally the choking steam goes up Last Line: But what a sense of humor god must have! Subject(s): Hell THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 280, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop right now I implore you Last Line: Find the jewel inside your clothes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Hell; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 12, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take these mortal incarnations Last Line: Before they stop telling lies Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Hell; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 19, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When men and women marry Last Line: Bound for the hell of no relief Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hell; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 33, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We slip into tientai caves Last Line: And going for a long long time Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Hell; Caverns THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 47, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world has its know-it-alls Last Line: And see the sun no more Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Hell; Punishment; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots THE PYTHONESS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am that serpent-haunted cave Subject(s): Evil; Hell THE SHIP O' THE FIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh! Where hae ye been, my lang-lost lover" Last Line: And sank her in the sea Subject(s): Absence;hell; Separation;isolation THE STAR OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It dwells not in the skies Last Line: My star of beauty! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hell; Love; Stars THE TWO FIRES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: And surely lord thou knowest best Last Line: For burne we must in one. Subject(s): Hell THE VOYAGE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Could I but be / perpetuallie Last Line: Another voyage make to hell. Subject(s): Explorers; God; Hell; Self; Temptation; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO HELL; AN IRISH LEGEND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Young dermod stood by his mother's side Last Line: And set her beside him there. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Hell; Legends, Irish THREE TRUE ACCOUNTS: HELL, by SHERYL NOETHE Poem Source First Line: A hidden place, like kel, which covers Last Line: Hell has six feet of dirt. That's all Subject(s): Hell TO CHARLES LAMB, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not thine to tread the midmost marl of hell Last Line: These were thy gift, and these outlast the skies. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Hell; Love; Mothers; Muses TRAGEDY OF HOFFMAN, SELS. (AFTER SENECA), by HENRY CHETTLE Poem Source First Line: Hence clouds of melancholy Last Line: Quicken high proiects, with your highest desires Subject(s): Hell TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 7. THE WIFE'S VIGIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But all that year in brittany forlorn Last Line: All round her not of darkness, but of death Subject(s): Brittany, France; God; Hell; Love TRYST, by CATHARINE CATES Poem Text First Line: She walked uphill through dismal wood Last Line: And rising scorched her with its swell. Subject(s): Devil; Hate; Hell; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub TWO, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two possible definitions of hell: Last Line: Two, maybe it's just as well. Subject(s): Apathy; Hell; Silence UNCLE WIGGLY GOES TO TIBET, by MARIAN DE ZEEUW Poem Source First Line: One afternoon three of us played a tibetan board game Last Line: Discovering hell's indescribable pain, heaven's indescribable bliss Subject(s): Games; Heaven; Hell UNHOLY SONNETS: 3, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We crowded in the taxi. It was dawn Last Line: And I knew this was hell and I was dead Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 2 Subject(s): Death; Hell WAR AND HELL, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: The old, old dream of empire - the dream of alexander and caesar ... Last Line: Away with your brutal disorder, and clear the field for the tournament of man. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Hell; Nations; Peace; War WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Down the steps and down the steps Last Line: To where the future in a sea %of screaming children flows Subject(s): Fear; Future; Hell WEST KENTUCKY QUINTET: 4. HELL AND BACK, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: I nearly died once in oxford, mississippi Last Line: But that's all right. I understand. Stay there Subject(s): Death; Hell WHAT HELL IS; MARCH 1985, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has / an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness; Illness WHAT HELL IS; MARCH 1985, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your father sits inside Last Line: In hell, which has %an easy chair Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hell; Sickness WHAT MR. COGITO THINKS ABOUT HELL, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: The lowest circle of hell. Contrary to prevailing opinion it is inhabited Last Line: Board, and absolute isolation from hellish life Subject(s): Hell WITH FLOWERS IN OUR HANDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come let us walk thro' their burning hell Last Line: Have to hurt us who carry flowers! Subject(s): Evil; Flowers; Hell; Walking YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sulky what-ifs Last Line: The norm is always incorrect. If what? Subject(s): Dramatists; Hell; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists |
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