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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HYPOCRISY Matches Found: 57 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DOUBLE STANDARD, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you blame me that I loved him? Last Line: In man's cannot be right. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Hypocrisy A DUAL PERSONALITY, by MARTHEDITH FURNAS Poem Text First Line: My father comes from quaker stock Last Line: And has the devil in it! Subject(s): Dual Personalities; Hypocrisy; Religion; Theology A MESSAGE OF PEACE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a pirate, greedy and bold Last Line: A pious example of christian peace! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; War; Peace Movements A PARODY, by FREDERICK DOUGLASS Poem Text First Line: Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell Last Line: "and this goes down for union." Alternate Author Name(s): Bailey, Frederick Augustus Washington Subject(s): Clergy; Hypocrisy; Slavery; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Serfs ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye wha are sae guid yoursel Last Line: But know not what's resisted. Variant Title(s): To The Unco Guid Subject(s): Freedom; Hypocrisy; Liberty AMERICAN HEARTBREAK, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the american heartbreak Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Hypocrisy; Negroes; American Blacks AMERICAN HEARTBREAK, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the american heartbreak Last Line: The great mistake %that jamestown %made long ago Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Hypocrisy AMORET, by WILLIAM CONGREVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair amoret is gone astray Last Line: She is the thing that she despises. Variant Title(s): A Hue And Cry After Fair Amoret Subject(s): Hypocrisy AN IRREGULAR SUPPLICATORY ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMIES, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye learned wights, who all the heights Last Line: That arcanum -- perpetual motion. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lectures; Perpetual Motion; Scholarship & Scholars; Science; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Scientists AT THE BACK OF PROGRESS ..., by TASLIMA NASRIN Poem Source First Line: The fellow who sits in the air-conditioned office Last Line: Over a couple of green chilis or a handful of cooked rice Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women - Abused BALLAD OF BADMEN, by OWEN DODSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a band of men hwo roam this land Last Line: My god, my god, my god for more Subject(s): Hypocrisy BALLADE D'UNE GRANDE DAME, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven shall forgive you bridge at dawn Last Line: It shall not be forgiven you Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Villains In Literature BALLADE OF THE PAID PURITAN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain with whip and knotted cord Last Line: God needs not you to work his will. Subject(s): Hypocrisy BASE DETAILS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath Last Line: I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Soldiers' Writings; Villains In Literature; World War I; First World War CANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What cant, oh, what hypocrisy Last Line: Get everlasting bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Hypocrisy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CHRISTIANITY AND WAR, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Talk, if you will, of hero deed Last Line: Of war-like followers of jesus. Subject(s): Christianity; Evil; Good; Hypocrisy; Jesus Christ; Religion; War; Theology CHURCHGOING, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lutherans sit stolidly in rows; Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Christianity; Slavery; Hypocrisy; Serfs EPIGRAM ON SEEING A PAIR OF SCALES IN A LAWYER'S OFFICE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo here's the place where law prevails Last Line: "a sign that justice there is sold." Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Hypocrisy; Law & Lawyers FAIR DAYS: OR DAWNS DECEITFUL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair was the dawn, and, but e'en now, the skies Last Line: As men, the heavens have their hypocrisie? Subject(s): Distrust; Hypocrisy FROM WAR, 1919, by ARTHUR FIELD Poem Text First Line: Honour is the bondage of a fool Last Line: Its virtue is, it must go underground. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Night; Religion; Bedtime; Theology HIPPOCRATES TO THE AMBASSADORS OF ARTAXERXES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return, and tell your sire, the persian king Last Line: "and greece regards him as a worthy son!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Artaxerxes I, Persian King (d. 425 B.c.); Gifts & Giving; Hippocrates (460-377 B.c.); Hypocrisy; Artaxerxes Longimanus HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that [or, wha] in the heavens does dwell! Last Line: Amen, amen! Variant Title(s): Prayer Of Holy Willie, A Canting, Hypocritical Kirk Elder Subject(s): Calvinists; Hate; Hypocrisy; Prayer; Self-righteousness HUMAN RELATIONS, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON Poem Source First Line: My mind is so evil and unjust Last Line: While the other imaginatively rifles your drawers Subject(s): Hate; Hypocrisy HYPOCRISY, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrisy will serve as well Last Line: As well as eggs to make hens lay. Subject(s): Hypocrisy HYPOCRITE WOMEN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women HYPOCRITE WOMEN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak Last Line: With what frivolity we have pared them %like toenails, clipped them like ends of %split hair Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women JOHN CHRISTIAN, by WALTER HENDRICKS Poem Text First Line: John christian knew the bible page by page Last Line: By killing christ and spilling human blood. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Theology LITANIES OF THE ROSE, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite flower / flower of silence Last Line: Flower of silence. Subject(s): Flowers; Hypocrisy; Roses MAHOMET, by VOLTAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thinkest thou thy friend will ever bend the knee Last Line: And to be worshipped never must be known. Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Religion; Mahomet; Mohammed; Theology MODERN LOVE: 17, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dinner, she is hostess, I am host Last Line: Dear guests, you now have seen love's corpse-light shine! Variant Title(s): "the Family Skeleton;guests For Dinner;hiding The Skeleton;""at Dinner, She Is Hostess, I Am Host""; Subject(s): Hypocrisy MOTHER'S DAY, by BERYL V. THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: With hosiery, gloves, and bright bouquet Last Line: Them drop in once a month for tea. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hypocrisy; Mother's Day OFFICIAL PIETY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pious magistrate! Last Line: Whining a prayer for help to hide the key! Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Law & Lawyers; Piety; Slavery; Serfs ON HAYLEY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To forgive enemies h-- does pretend Last Line: Do be my enemy -- for friendship's sake Subject(s): Bible; Hayley, William (1745-1820); Hypocrisy; Mythology; Villains In Literature ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can there be anything more mean Last Line: When he praises michael angelo Subject(s): Bible; Hypocrisy; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792); Villains In Literature QUATRAIN, by MAHSATI Poem Source First Line: Better to live as a rogue and a bum Last Line: Their lives; risk yours, or you're not going to make it Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women SENATE HEARINGS, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: It is almost beautiful when fraud and hypocrisy Last Line: And the nightmares of goya Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Politics; U.s. - Congress - Senate SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gr-r-r - there go, my heart's abhorrence! Last Line: Ave, virgo! Gr-r-r -- you swine! Subject(s): Hate; Hypocrisy; Villains In Literature SONNET: 94, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They that have power to hurt, and will do none Last Line: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Variant Title(s): "the Life Without Passion;""they That Have Pow'r To Hut And Will Do None""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Hypocrisy; Sin; Villains In Literature; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TELEVANGELIST, by MAHDY Y. KHAIYAT Poem Source First Line: The preacher stands Last Line: To sustain their beliefs Subject(s): Clergy; Hypocrisy THANKSGIVING FOR VICTORY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye hypocrites! Are these your pranks Last Line: God won't accept your thanks for murther! Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Patriotism THE ANARCHIST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The district attorney snaps his jaws Last Line: No, not more graft. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Injustice; Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE APOSTATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, hypocrite harry, that hamburg hand-kisser Last Line: Bless the poet, heinrich, as he blesses you. Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Hypocrisy; Jews; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Judaism; Feminism THE AUTHOR, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Accursed the man, whom fate ordains, in spite Last Line: And will, though poor without, have peace within. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Christianity; Education; Hypocrisy; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Virtue THE CHERUBS; SUGGESTED BY AN APOLOGUE IN THE WORKS OF FRANKLIN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two spirits reached this world of ours Last Line: The devil himself astounded. Subject(s): Evil; Devil; War; Hypocrisy THE GOOD MAN OF ALLOA, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you never hear of a queer auld man Last Line: "he proved a hypocrite!" Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Charity; Hypocrisy; Kindness; Philanthropy THE HUMAN ABSTRACT, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity would be nor more / if we did not make somebody poor Last Line: There grows one in the human brain. Subject(s): Bible; Cruelty; Hypocrisy; Mythology THE HYPOCRITE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text Last Line: "thou hypocrite!" Subject(s): Hypocrisy; War THE HYPOCRITES REWARD, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When came his final judgment Last Line: He wore them in god's name. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE LATEST DECALOGUE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt have one god only; who Last Line: More than thyself to love thy neighbour. Subject(s): Bible; Calvinists; Hypocrisy; Religion; Social Protest; Ten Commandments; Theology THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED; OR, HYPOCRISY DETECTED, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus says the prophet of the turk Last Line: Till quite from tail to snout 'tis eaten. Subject(s): Hypocrisy THE NEW SERMON ON THE MOUNT, by RALPH B. URMY Poem Text First Line: Gentle jesus, meek and mild Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Prayer; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War TIBBIE, I HAE SEEN THE DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tibbie, I hae seen the day Last Line: O tibbie, I hae seen the day, &c. Subject(s): Social Classes; Hypocrisy TO A YOUNG POET, by DAVID GRAY (1870-1968) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sting my soul to madness with your fault Last Line: Poet be praised, your songs are only human! Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Sturge, Joseph (1793-1859) TO MARINA, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plague to thy husband, scandal to thy sex Last Line: Vesuvius' noise and flame has less of hell than thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lust TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Last Line: He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics; United States; World War I WE WEAR THE MASK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We wear the mask that grins and lies Last Line: We wear the mask! Subject(s): African Americans; Grief; Hypocrisy; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Sorrow; Sadness; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry |
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