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Subject: JUDGMENTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Misjudged, misread, mistrusted, unappeased
Last Line: And stripped of his disguise!
Subject(s): Anger; Eyes; Judgments; Passion


AD ASTRA: 83, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But god!-can evil live within his sight?
Last Line: But only through his grace, so freely given.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Judgments; Sin


AUTOCHTHON, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a rude country some four thousand miles
Last Line: O leader in a commonwealth of thought!
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Judgments; Life; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


BODY AND SOUL: A METAPHYSICAL ARGUMENT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Body, from the arrogance
Last Line: Yet both together ye make man.
Subject(s): Judgments; Metaphysics


CANTAR TO OUR LADY, by JUAN ALVAREZ GATO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me lady, tell, prithee
Last Line: Will you then remember me?
Subject(s): Forget-me-nots; Judgments; Sin


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


DEATH SPEAKS, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you?
Last Line: I shall bedrench the lowlands of shinar %with the unhappy blood of belshazzar
Subject(s): Death; God; Judgments; Religion; Sin


EVE SPEAKS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pause, god, and ponder, ere thou judgest me
Last Line: Pause, god, and ponder ere thou judgest me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): God; Judgments


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


HAMMER AND ANVIL, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look forth and tell me what they do
Last Line: Men's hammers break, god's anvil stands.
Subject(s): Fights; Judgments


IF CHRIST SHOULD COME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If christ should come to my store to-day
Last Line: In our daily toil we would do our best.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgments; Second Advent; Second Coming Of Christ


JUDGMENT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they removed the bandages
Last Line: On them -- for what they couldn't say -- they wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Blindness; Cold; Eyes; Judgments; Solitude; Visually Handicapped; Loneliness


JUDGMENT SEATS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O little flower, / o tiny golden sun
Last Line: Some judgment seat!
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Judges; Judgments; State Rights; Secession


KILLING THE ANTS, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flies are shooed from my house, spiders coaxed
Last Line: Acid drifts like an acrid perfume
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Judgments; Trials


LES NOYADES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever a man of the sons of men
Last Line: To burn for ever in burning hell
Subject(s): Death; France; Judgments; Love; Dead, The


MARKS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband gives me an a
Subject(s): Judgments; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MARKS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband gives me an a
Last Line: I pass. Wait 'til they learn %I'm dropping out
Subject(s): Judgments; Marriage


SUITE TO APPLENESS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you love me drink this discolored wine
Last Line: Her mountains strewn and crushed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Apples; Christianity; Drinks & Drinking; Fruit; Judgments; Temptation; Wine


THE BEST JUDGMENT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Get up, my little handmaid
Last Line: Is he who judges best.
Subject(s): Judgments


THE BUILDER AND HIS TOOLS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nations arise and fall
Last Line: The question and the answer might be heard.
Subject(s): Judgments; Law & Lawyers; Missionaries & Missions; Attorneys


THE BURNING OF THE LAW, by MEIR BEN BARUCH OF ROTHENBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ask, is it well, o thou consumed of fire
Last Line: Thy darkness bright.
Subject(s): Jews; Judgments; Judaism


THE CITY OF THE GILDED TEAR, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Babylon, o babylon
Last Line: City of the gilded tear?
Subject(s): Babylon; Cities; Judgments; Urban Life


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away
Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together.
Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling


THE JUDGEMENT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The master himself, the great judge, he hath spoken
Last Line: That in service to others, christ's love doth abound.
Subject(s): Judgments; Sin


THE JUDGEMENT OF TIRESIAS, by HILDEBRAND JACOB    Poem Text                    
First Line: When willing nymphs and swains unite / in quest of amorous delight
Last Line: That party best obtains its end.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judgments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE JUDGES, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you that dare to judge?
Last Line: What atonement she shall pay?
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Judgments


THE JUDGMENT OF VENUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When kneller's works of various grace
Last Line: Or venus must to hyde.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judgments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


THE JUDGMENT-BOOK, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The book was opened! Men in wonder stood!
Last Line: Then passed into the dark — his page was white!
Subject(s): Books; Judgments; Soul; Reading


THE KERCHIEF, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I 'gan to know thee, dear
Last Line: To find the faults I found.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Failure; Judgments


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 113, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My writing and judgment aren't that bad
Last Line: Just might score a hit
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Judgments; Writing & Writers


THE SECOND COMING, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clutching their bosomed wealth, they made their cry
Last Line: Grew dark with sneers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Judgments; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE TWO DOMES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are those domes? You asked in clerkenwell
Last Line: This is the deep unhappiness of our race.
Subject(s): Guilt; Judgments; Prisons & Prisoners; Sin


THE WHEAT AND THE TARES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Satan hath with devil's cunning
Last Line: Tares are tares, and wheat is wheat.
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Judgments; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THEIR EMBASSIES, HE SAID, WERE EVERYWHERE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For who is
Last Line: Unless it be in the full sense of the night %and in the full severity of mercy
Subject(s): Human Rights; Judgments; Punishment


THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Judge tenderly — of me
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Judgments


TO JUDGMENT: AN ASSAY, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You change a life
Subject(s): Judgments; Love


TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone is always trying to feel something
Last Line: Although I drink it anyway for something to do?
Subject(s): Judges; Youth; Conduct Of Life; Judgments