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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LAMENT Matches Found: 165 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the twilight, silent smiled Last Line: Since, dear maiden, dead thou art. Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; Lament; Love; Dead, The A LAMENT, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gentle maids of samos' isle Last Line: The sleep that must be slept by all! Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Death; Lament; Dead, The A LAMENT, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: In the bosom too often betrayed Last Line: All, all, I have felt or now feel! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Lament; Pain; Suffering; Misery A LAMENT FOR PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no fading of thy central fire Last Line: It is where it should be -- beside the good and brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Lament; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Dead, The A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan, o ye autumn winds! Last Line: And leave us desolate and earth forlorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Lament; Seasons; Summer; Wind; Dead, The A LAMENTATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath known the ways of time Last Line: Beyond the gods and fate. Subject(s): Lament; Life; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery A LOVER'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my little breath, under the willows by the water-side we" Last Line: "oh, my little breath, now I go there alone in sorrow" Subject(s): Lament;love;memory;solitude; Loneliness A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER DROWNED SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "alas, alas thine empty seat, my son!" Last Line: They hold no love for me. I would go hence Subject(s): Children - Lost;death;drowning;lament;mothers & Sons; "dead, The; A NEW LOVE SONG, WITH THE ANSWER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have travell'd the country both early and late Last Line: To sail to america is my whole design. Subject(s): Lament; Love; Social Classes; Caste A SPRING LAMENT, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: The spring is come; warm breezes blow Last Line: The spring is come. Subject(s): Lament; Spring A WIFE'S LAMENT, by MACKINLAY KANTOR Poem Text First Line: Behind his sharpened axle swords Last Line: Here on the marble seat. Subject(s): Lament; War A WITHERED NOSEGAY, by LOUIS FRECHETTE Poem Text First Line: Here's a posy of poor faded flowers, that I keep Last Line: Shall touch you caressingly even in death. Subject(s): Flowers; Lament; Past; Time AFRICAN LAMENT, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: I heard hesitant, shy, black fingers Last Line: But you could beat the tom! Tom! Subject(s): Lament AGONY, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: To die like thirsty larks Last Line: Like a blinded goldfinch Subject(s): Lament ALCESTIS: LAMENT FOR ALCESTIS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of pelias, with farewell from me Last Line: O' the oar that dips the river, back to day! Subject(s): Lament AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ANDROMACHE'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whither shall I flee for refuge? Last Line: "foully murdered, and the altar of the highest bears the stain" Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.);lament;murder;mythology - Classical;poetry & Poets; Iliad;odyssey ANTIQUE GREEK LAMENT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the blue waters -the restless ocean-waters Last Line: Lonely I wander, weeping for my lost one! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Lament ARABIAN NIGHTS: THE WAZIR DANDAN FOR PRINCE SHARKAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Wise to have gone so early to reward Last Line: Pressed from god's vine Subject(s): Death;lament; "dead, The; AS EARTH BEGINS TO END, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I reach out my hand and it sinks through you like soft fruit Last Line: Or button the body's last, unbuttonable coat Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: LAMENT OF THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The little horse 'mid winter's height, ah, what a gallant heart he Last Line: Is dead without seeing the sunny skies either behind or before. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Lament; Dead, The BALLADS OF THE NIGHT: THE LAMENT OF THE KING AND QUEEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: All in the woodland green, sombrely dight, wandered a king and Last Line: "mundane. . . ." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Lament; Love; Night; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Bedtime BEREAVED, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day as I came down by jarrow Last Line: "ah, soundly she'll sleep by their side!" Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of BETWEEN TWO WARS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember that breakfast one november Subject(s): Lament; Parties; Past BETWEEN TWO WARS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember that breakfast one november Last Line: Over their own fragmented flesh Subject(s): Lament; Parties; Past BONNY BEE HO'M, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: By arthur's dale as late I went Subject(s): Lament;love - Loss Of BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale Last Line: Drowning while showered by the fluid blow of keen insight Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time BUNKER'S HILL, OR THE SOLDIER'S LAMENTATION, by JOHN FREETH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a jolly soldier, / enlisted years ago Last Line: Be destined to the cord. Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fights; Lament; Soldiers CANCION, by ALVARO DE LUNA Poem Source First Line: Since to cry Last Line: For your scorn Subject(s): Lament CANZONE: HIS LAMENT FOR SELVAGGIA, by CINO DA PISTOIA Poem Text First Line: Ay me, alas! The beautiful bright hair Last Line: O death, to let me live when she is dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Sinibaldi, Guittoncino Dei Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Lament; Love CASIDA OF THE LAMENT, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have shut my balcony Last Line: Nothing else is heard but the weeping Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Lament; Performing Arts - Spain CORYDON'S LAMENT AND RESOLUTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wept and I have sighed Last Line: Nor one tear for chloe shed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Love; Marriage; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DAMON'S LAMENT FOR HIS CLORINDA, YORKSHIRE 1654, by LUPERCIO LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Source First Line: November rips gold foil from the oak pines Last Line: To selfless raptures that are all his own? Variant Title(s): An Apology For The Revival Of Christian Architecture In England: Subject(s): Lament DEATH LAMENT OF JOHN O'MAHONY, by DOUGLAS HYDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a foreign land, in a lonesome city Last Line: And this aged, lonely, and whitening head. Subject(s): Lament ECLOGUE: SALICIO AND NEMOROSO, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet lament of two castilian swains Last Line: Did, face to face upbraid her questioned %truth Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Love - Loss Of ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are hearing a distant, almost familiar, french cradlesong Last Line: A white baton flew up! Subject(s): Caves; China; Clergy; Deer; France; Lament; Caverns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 5, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Now, in a bitter or a soft voice, in the lengthened melodies of a lament, in Last Line: Shared with everyone lost like you: do you recognize yourself in this poem? Subject(s): Blood; Death; Lament; Soldiers; War ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY FOR WRIGHT & HUGO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome lived with a community Last Line: He was a saint. It was like that... Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Hugo, Richard (1923-1982); Jerome, Saint (347-419); Lament; Lions; Wright, James (1927-1980); Burros ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The ELEGY, ON THE DEATH OF MR DAVID GREGORY, LATE PROFESSOR OF ST ANDREWS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now mourn, ye college masters a'! / and frae your een a tear lat fa Last Line: As sound's a tap. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Lament ENTRANCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Subject(s): Lament; Life; Relationships ENTRANCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now Last Line: Of the pattern of our lives Subject(s): Lament; Life; Relationships FOR AYE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lilacs wilt beneath the blast Last Line: For aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Past FRAGMENT, by THELMA HILL WARD Poem Text First Line: I keep wondering why I see you Last Line: And there is no meaning in any song— Subject(s): Lament; Longing; Nostalgia; Relationships FROM THE ANTIQUE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a weary life, it is, she said Last Line: Would make and weary and fall asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lament; Life; Women GIFT, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Life, are you keeping something in reserve? Last Line: Evening falls...Hurry to bring your gift? Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Prayer GORCHEANU: THREE LAMENTS: 1, by ANEIRIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I sing what I saw Last Line: Lament too the men came to catraeth %who fostered me Alternate Author Name(s): Aneurin; Neirin Subject(s): Lament GORCHEANU: THREE LAMENTS: 2, by ANEIRIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I sing %rivet studded shields Last Line: Because of the power that makes poetry Alternate Author Name(s): Aneurin; Neirin Subject(s): Lament GORCHEANU: THREE LAMENTS: 3, by ANEIRIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Northman, %you keep me awake Last Line: The deep divide -- %died Alternate Author Name(s): Aneurin; Neirin Subject(s): Lament HELEN KELLER, by WAYNE AREY Poem Text First Line: The lowly of the earth lament -- she hears! Last Line: Though error blinds the human race, she sees! Subject(s): Errors; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lament; Mankind; Mistakes; Fallacies; Human Race HER APOLOGY & LAMENT, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: I was busy in the kitchen. I didn't hear Last Line: On the porch, in the hall, over floorboards. Subject(s): Lament; Regret HERE IS MUSIC: 14. RONDEAU, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Were you but here, this wan, unhappy west Last Line: Were you but here. Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Lament; Memory; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness HIS LAMENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it she lies here Last Line: Could pearl a piece of dust. Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The HOW DOES AN IMPRISONED WOMAN SEE THE LIGHT?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The imprisoned woman on the threshold Last Line: In the midst of laments Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Freedom; Human Rights - Argentina; Lament; Prisons And Prisoners I GO DREAMING ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who could feel you %nailed in his heart.' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roads; Travel IDYLL 3. A PASTORAL ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vales, and doric floods, or fount, or rill Last Line: And from dun night redeem thy sacred shade. Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Flutes; Grief; Lament; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IF I HAD KNOWN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: If I had known this morning Last Line: To change the words of Subject(s): Lament; Love; Mourning; Bereavement ISRAEL'S LAMENT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: And art thou dead? And has thy spirit gone Last Line: Would humbly place my modest wayside flower. Subject(s): Israel; Lament; Mourning; Bereavement ISRAEL'S LAMENT, by HYMAN HURWITZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, israel! Sons of israel, mourn! Last Line: Be thou their comforter, o god! Subject(s): Jews; Lament; Judaism JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All generous hearts lament the leader killed Last Line: The promise of his spirit be fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Lament; Presidents, United States; Dead, The KEENE; OR, LAMENT OF AN IRISH MOTHER OVER HER SON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly the cloud of night comes rolling on Last Line: Silent and dark! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ireland; Lament; Mothers & Sons; Irish LAMENT, by CHANG CHI+(2) Poem Source First Line: We carved our names in a courtyard near the river Last Line: That flutter silently past %the open temple door Subject(s): Lament; Zen Buddhism LAMENT, by GUDMUNDUR GUDMUNDSSON Poem Text First Line: Snows cloaked Last Line: My hopes lay ashen and dead. Subject(s): Lament LAMENT, by ISABELLA HOLT Poem Text First Line: He is gone with his blue eyes Last Line: Till he comes home. Subject(s): Lament LAMENT, by MENG SHU CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Teardrops on my gauze sleeve retrace wet paths Last Line: Only the bright moon through a curtain comforts me at twilight Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Shuqing; Recluse Of Mount Jing Subject(s): Lament LAMENT, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, children: / your father is dead Last Line: I forget just why. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Lament; Poverty; Social Protest LAMENT, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: O yesterday her hands were white Last Line: The music of her voice is gone. Subject(s): Death; Lament; Dead, The LAMENT, by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O let me, as I ought to, grieve Last Line: And thoughts of things I never see. Subject(s): Lament LAMENT, by ELLA E. PRESTON Poem Text First Line: David, the kindly clod has stopped your ears Last Line: And night has more of glory it shall teach! Subject(s): Lament LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All is far %and long gone by Last Line: Stands like a white city Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Lament; Solitude LAMENT, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I was gone, I lost my finches. Subject(s): Birds; Lament LAMENT, by LEONORA CLAWSON STRYKER Poem Text First Line: How all the garden throbs with memory Last Line: Accessible as god, when sought in prayer. Subject(s): Lament LAMENT & PRAISE SONG, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At this hour of unlettered Last Line: & clock of pewter strike %till new leaves redden the quad Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Lament; Praise LAMENT (OF ONE OF THE OLD REGIME), by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O the times will never be again / as they were when we were young Last Line: "to show the ""march of mind." Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Lament; Life; Poetry & Poets; Youth LAMENT FOR A LITTLE CHILD, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am lying in the tomb, love Last Line: O my little child! Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies LAMENT FOR A VIOLIN, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: There lies my broken violin Last Line: It cannot feel. Subject(s): Lament; Tears LAMENT FOR MACRIMMON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mist wreathes stern coolin like a cloud Last Line: Before macrimmon home return! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Lament LAMENT FOR MARSYAS, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Marsyas sleeps. Oh, never wait Last Line: For the singing breath of him -- %sweeter than the violet Subject(s): Lament LAMENT FOR OLD MEN, by VERNE BRIGHT Poem Text First Line: They have such narrow passage between the years Last Line: The strong limbs withered, the gaunt flesh crucified. Subject(s): Lament; Old Age LAMENT FOR PRINCE CHAGOO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Over the dragon rock the moon appears Last Line: Hears her no more Subject(s): Lament LAMENT FOR THE PLUM CONSORT, by ZHANG YINYUAN Poem Source First Line: Lean not again the changmen palaces, sigh not over the bright moon Last Line: But it will never be adopted in the orchestral music of the temporary palace Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Lament LAMENT FOR THE SAILING OF THE CRUSADE, by RINALDO D' AQUINO Poem Source First Line: Past comfort, all despairing Last Line: To lands across the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Rinaldo D'aquino Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lament; Love - Complaints; Sailors And Sailing LAMENT FOR THE TYRONIAN AND TYRCONNELLIAN PRINCES BURIED AT ROME, by OWEN ROE MAC AN BHAIRD Poem Text First Line: O woman of the piercing wail Last Line: The blood of conn! Alternate Author Name(s): Owen Roe Mac Ward Subject(s): Escapes; Ireland; Lament; O'donnell, Rory (1575-1608); Fugitives; Irish LAMENT IN THREE CITIES: 1. EDINBURGH AND INVERNESS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: I picked poppies red as heartbeat Last Line: Like rare metals and are gone Subject(s): Lament; Love; Saint Kilda (scotland) LAMENT IN THREE CITIES: 2. HERE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: As I am always aware of new york to the east Last Line: So you remain present at the periphery, rational as light Subject(s): Lament; Saint Kilda (scotland) LAMENT OF A DESPISED LOVER, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Say, lovelorn heart, that art condemned upon despair to feed Last Line: And thou, poor tortured body, thou art wasted with thy pain Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Lament; Love - Complaints; Tears LAMENT OF A SUBWAYITE, by EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider the many hours spent Last Line: They also pay who only stand and hang.' Subject(s): Lament; Milton, John (1608-1674) LAMENT OF COLUMBINE, by LUCY WINN Poem Text First Line: I am a faithless columbine Last Line: To really believe in just one kiss! Subject(s): Lament; Love LAMENT OF GRANITE, by DAVID ROSS Poem Text First Line: Rather had we been ground Last Line: Than granite remembered of man. Subject(s): Lament; Mills And Millers; Progress; Stones; Granite; Rocks LAMENT OF HSI-CHUN, by HSI-CHUN Poem Text First Line: My people have married me Last Line: And could fly to my old home! Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Lament; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LAMENT OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now nature hangs her mantle green Last Line: Bloom on my peaceful grave! Subject(s): Courage; Lament; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Valor; Bravery; Mary Stuart LAMENT OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: Away from our land Last Line: J. F. Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews; Lament; Zionism; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism LAMENT OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH EXILE, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I want to win me hame Last Line: Ancient history began. Subject(s): Exiles; Ireland; Lament; Irish LAMENT OF THIS GOOD MOON, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lap / of the lord Last Line: There is dancing in a ring. Subject(s): Lament; Moon LAMENTATION FOR CELIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the gate of old granada, when all its bolts are barred Last Line: Let me kiss my celin ere I die -- alas! Alas for celin!' Subject(s): Freedom; Granada, Spain; Lament LAMENTATION OF AN OLD HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My clothing was once linsey wolsey fine Last Line: "it was over hedges, ditches, likewise gates and stiles" Subject(s): Aging;animals;horses;lament LAMENTATION OF AN OLD-GERMAN YOUTH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man on whom virtue smiles is blest Last Line: At cassel a sentry's position. Subject(s): Lament; Youth LAMENTATION, FR. HECUBA, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fair wind blowing from the sea Last Line: To death as my lover and lord. Subject(s): Lament LAMENTATIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War LOVER'S LAMENT, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: I clasp you close and feel your arms entwine Last Line: It would be kinder far to tell me so. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love; Relationships MACKRIMMON'S LAMENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Macleod's wizard flag from the grey castle sallies Last Line: Gea thillis macleod, cha till mackrimmon!' Subject(s): Lament MARY'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my heart it will break, my eyes they will weep" Last Line: For unbroken and still is the sleep on his head Subject(s): Hearts;lament;love;sea;soul; Ocean MONODY ON THE ASTOR HOUSE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, o muse, and heave a suspiration Last Line: Shades of the woolworth tower!—another year! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lament; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York NOCTURNAL LAMENT, by MATTHEW KAMM Poem Text First Line: Sounds of the evening Last Line: That I now hold in my possession. Subject(s): Lament NOTE BOOK OF ROMANCES AND LAMENTS: LAMENT OF THE RUINED CHATEAUX IN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Lusignan, les baux, coucy, white towers in winter's fee, and autumn's king Last Line: Is it not bitter pain life's semblance to retain when death is in the air? Subject(s): Death; Lament; Pain; Winter; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery NOTE BOOK OF ROMANCES AND LAMENTS: THE ITALIAN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Sing, I tell the italian: bring your barrel-organ. Sing.' - to his Last Line: "of shining sand: my voice without me is empty noise. Scrutinize well my face." Subject(s): Lament; Singing & Singers; Songs NOTES OF AN INTERVIEW, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is but little that remaineth Last Line: To the splendour breaking from you, though you veil it. Subject(s): Freedom; Lament; Liberty OBJECTS OF PITY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Full many a big and brawny youth Last Line: Who can neither play nor shout! Subject(s): College Sports; Lament; Pity ODE ON PROCLAMATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With songs and crying and sound of acclamations Last Line: The cry thou gavest at heart was only of delight. Subject(s): France; Hope; Lament; Light; Nations; War; Optimism OONA OF THE DARK EYES AND THE CRYING OF WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have fared far in the dim woods Last Line: And the old tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Celtic; Wind; Male-female Relations OUTCRY, by ANNE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Away with loving! Let is all go by Last Line: For what should follow, %but grieving, grieving? Subject(s): Lament; Transience POOR MARTY, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who will scour the pots and pans Last Line: Better off in ease than we, %now poor marty's gone Subject(s): Household Employees; Lament; Virginia (state) POSSESSION, by PEMBERTON GINTHER Poem Text First Line: Only to the night wind will I tell my Last Line: This core of sorrow that is mine alone? Subject(s): Lament QUENA, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Not the gay reed the god was wont to play Last Line: Breath of a breeze that has become a soul Subject(s): Flutes; Lament; Melodies; Peru SHADOW RIVER (MUSKOVA), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stream of tender [or, silver] gladness Last Line: The shadows and the dreaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Dreams; Lament; Rivers; Nightmares SHARP IN MY HEART, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o my love, and lay you down Subject(s): Lament; Love; Love - Complaints SHARP IN MY HEART, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o my love, and lay you down Last Line: I wish I never had seen Subject(s): Lament; Love; Love - Complaints SO SIMPLE YOU WON'T LIKE IT, by SALVADOR ESPRIU Poem Source First Line: Tired of so many verses which give no companionship Last Line: The name of the no-thing Subject(s): Lament; Poetry And Poets SONG: 73, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Complaining, alas, without redress Last Line: Where now for pain I die, I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Lament; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read upon that book Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.' Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONNET: HE LAMENTS THAT HIS LIVE IS DEAD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is dead, dead and in spite of me Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Lament SOPHISTICATION, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked so much of bitter fruit Last Line: —the christian Subject(s): Lament; Life SORROWS OF YAMBA, OR THE NEGRO WOMAN'S LAMENTATION, by HANNAH MORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In st. Lucia's distant isle Last Line: There 'the weary are at rest' Subject(s): Blacks; Lament; Saint Lucia, West Indies; Slavery; Women THE BELLS OF SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate Last Line: From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Drowning; Goddesses & Gods; Lament; Mythology; Solitude; Loneliness THE BOOK OF AHANIA, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fuzon, on a chariot iron wing'd Last Line: Before they see the light. Subject(s): Bible; Lament; Mythology THE DESIRE AND THE LAMENTATION OF COEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, 'tis a good house, and a palace fair, the dun of macha Last Line: And the eyes of fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Lament; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DIRGE OF DESMOND, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Rush, dark dirge, o'er hills of erin! Woe for desmond's name and race! Last Line: The man shall live who fought for god; the man who for his country died. Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions; Lament THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone? Last Line: The city of murias. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians THE ELEGY FOR INTEGRAL DOMAINS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You watched the slender narcissus wilt Last Line: A christmas tree out of the woods found a body. Subject(s): Lament; Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856); Suicide THE EXILE'S LAMENT, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not happy here, mother! Last Line: Where you and lizzie are. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Exiles; Lament; Love; Mothers THE FILE-HEWER'S LAMENTATION, by JOSEPH MATHER Poem Text First Line: Ordained I was a beggar Last Line: And vile offences, swing. Subject(s): Debt; Lament THE FLATTER'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "search, search, search / for a flat that's fit for me" Last Line: Will never come back to me Subject(s): Lament THE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With grief and mourning I sit to spin Last Line: For my innocent days will come back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE HAUNTING DREAM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a melancholy dream Last Line: And that which thou mayst never see! Subject(s): Dreams; Lament; Nightmares THE HIGHLAND WIDOW'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I am come to the low countrie Last Line: Sae wretched now as me. Subject(s): Lament THE INDIAN MAID'S LAMENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Low as the moon on her course through the heavens, so is Last Line: Here came my lover to woo me, manito sent him to woo me. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Mourning; Bereavement THE LAMENT OF AIDEEN FOR OSCAR, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sere woods are quailing Last Line: We are fallen for ever. Subject(s): Lament THE LAMENT OF DARTHOOL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O woods of oona, I can hear the singing Last Line: The cuckoos calling by the murmuring stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Home; Lament; Mourning; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Bereavement THE LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind? Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAMENTATION OF BALVA THE MONK, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balva the old monk I am called: when I was young, balva honeymouth Last Line: "and a voice that whispered ""balva honeymouth, drink, I am thy wine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Monks THE LAMENTATION OF HUGH REYNOLDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my name it is hugh reynolds, I come of honest parents" Last Line: And convey me into heaven to the blessed trinity Subject(s): Capital Punishment;lament; Hanging;executions;death Penalty THE LYRE'S LAMENT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A deep-toned lyre hung murmuring Last Line: To many a human heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Lament THE MOTHER'S LAMENT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale and cold is the cheek that my kisses oft press'd Last Line: And only to wake when ascended to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Lament; Mothers; Death - Babies THE OAK OF OUR FATHERS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for the oak of our fathers, that stood Last Line: In its beauty, the glory and pride of the wood! Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Lament; Oak Trees; Parasites; Dead, The THE OLD LAMENT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What maketh lads so cruel be? Last Line: And never once look back! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Lament; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE PAIUTE LAMENT OF A MAN FOR HIS SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "son, my son! / I will go up to the mountain" Last Line: "what is life to me, now you are departed?" Subject(s): Lament THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 18, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I spur my horse past ruins Last Line: Unnamed in the records of immortals Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Decay; Horses; Lament; Mortality; Ruins; Rot; Decadence THE SANDGATE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was a young maid truly Last Line: And my good days are all done Subject(s): Lament;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES: CHORUS, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now do our eyes behold Last Line: Ev'n to the bourne of all, to the unbeholden land. Subject(s): Death; Lament; Dead, The THE SHEPHERD'S LAMENT, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up yonder on the mountain Last Line: There is no rest for me! Subject(s): Lament; Love; Sea; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Ocean THE SHEPHERD'S LAMENT, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up yonder on the mountain Last Line: There is no rest for me! Subject(s): Lament; Love; Sea; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Ocean THE SINGER IN THE WOODS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where moongrey-thistled dunes divide the woods from the sea Last Line: In the silence I hear my heart sobbing its old woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Lament; Singing & Singers; Strangers; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S LAMENTATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days the evil spirits Last Line: All the sacred art of healing. Subject(s): Disease; Lament THE SQUAW'S LAMENT, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN Poem Text First Line: A blood-red ring hung round the moon Last Line: I hear the loon cry every night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry Variant Title(s): The Indian Maid's Lament Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Native Americans - Women; Separation; Isolation; Squaws THE UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: The brittle privet leaves, the day sleeps Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of THE WARNING WAIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A minstrel old, in feudal hall Last Line: Shut ye the flood-gates, never! Never! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Minstrels; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THRENODY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon your hearse this flower I lay Last Line: How vain the voices of mortality! Subject(s): Lament TO HIS WORSHIPFULL WEL-WILLER, MAISTER EDWARD LEIGH, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Image of that, whose losse is here lamented Last Line: Then will I sweare, that shee is dead indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Worship; Lament UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: Between tremulous, tired fingers Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of WARRANT FOR MY ARREST, by JASPER BERNES Poem Source First Line: Yes I have the right to remain a problem Last Line: You don't know me either. I said I heard you Subject(s): Human Rights; Lament; Problems WEDDING OF THE LADY THERESA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas when the fifth alphonso in leon held his sway Last Line: There she, an aged saint, expired, -- there sleeps she with the dead Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Lament; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Revenge YE WHO MOURN-, by GRACE WILSON EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Ye who mourn Last Line: Weep in anguish ... For the dead living. Subject(s): Lament; Mourning; Soul; Bereavement |
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