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Subject: MURDER Matches Found: 517 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BABYLON; OR, THE BONNIE BANKS O FORDIE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three ladies lived in a bower Last Line: On the bonnie banks o' fordie Subject(s): Murder "SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (1)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Four and twenty bonny boys Last Line: Sin adam's days begun Subject(s): Jews;murder; Judaism "SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (3)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it was on a may, on a midsummer's day" Last Line: And sound will be my sleep Subject(s): Murder "THE TWA BRETHREN [OR, TWIN BROTHERS] (1)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were twa brethren in the north Last Line: And that will never be Subject(s): Brothers;murder;villains In Literature; Half-brothers A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou must home to shades of underground Last Line: Then tell, o tell, how thou didst murther me Subject(s): Murder A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The child received two bullets in the brain Last Line: Must sew the shrouds of children eight years old. Subject(s): Death - Children; France; Grandparents; Guns; Murder; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); War; Death - Babies; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers A DREAM OF THREE SISTERS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From night rocks, above an ocean alive with yellow kelp Last Line: Being wholly ordinary. Subject(s): Animals; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Dogs; Murder; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets A FORGIVENESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am indeed the personage you know Last Line: The cloak then, father -- as your grate helps now! Subject(s): Murder; Confessions; Revenge; Infidelity A LAY OF ST. GENGULPHUS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gengulphus comes from the holy land Last Line: On the moral enforced by her terrible tale! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Gengulphus, Saint (d. 760); Murder; Revenge; Ghosts A LIFE TERM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was false, and he was true, Last Line: Of the violet. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners A LITANY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember him falling beside me Last Line: Or lay in the shallow spoon. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Fratricide; Murder; Half-brothers; Dead, The A MOMENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The field where my brother died Last Line: The next you're alone in a field. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Fratricide; Murder; Half-brothers; Dead, The A PREACHING FROM A SPANISH BALLAD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies who in chains of wedlock Last Line: Man in metal was the blade. Subject(s): Murder; Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 8, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to barn and stack and tree Last Line: And dinner will be cold.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Murder A STORY OF THE EVIL EYE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came unto an austrian town Last Line: Death drew his viewless veil for ever. Subject(s): Death; Murder; Superstition; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The A TALE OF THE BUSH, by W. J." "B. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was twenty years last autumn since my comrade and I Last Line: Seared upon my heart for ever its dread memory lives on Alternate Author Name(s): "b., W. J.; Subject(s): Death;deserts;food & Eating;murder;pain;suicide;travel;trees; "dead, The;suffering;misery;journeys;trips; A WOMAN'S DEATH-WOUND, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It left upon her tender flesh no trace Last Line: "did I deserve to die this bitterest way?" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Murder; Women; Dead, The AARON LOUDERMILK (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Figured on droppin' outta school Last Line: And a whole lotta cows.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AARON LOUDERMILK (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father and I have never talked much Last Line: I'd like to show him my farm Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AARON LOUDERMILK: MICHAEL PERRIN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Great dance, wasn't it? Last Line: I got some beer in my truck %you drink? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: All those wishing to spend a weekend in Last Line: Stereotypes at the door. Refreshments will %be served Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am not burning out Last Line: Thus my northern adventure Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Just talk into the camcorder, kwame Last Line: The world awaits your words Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was in school myself Last Line: Anyone seen kwame? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Officer erikson? Last Line: Can I see him now? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALBERT GOODSON, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 5 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I must respectfully disagree with the good doctor Last Line: If not, we stand adjourned Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALBERT GOODSON, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 5 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Duly noted, oliver Last Line: Good night, lady and gentlemen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALL THAT TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After the killing, tommy antrim Last Line: Assassinating his ears Subject(s): Aging; Insanity; Murder ALMIGHTY FIREBALL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I won't go shopping. I won't visit friends Last Line: Will scatter them without care, perfumes, or rites Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives ALONG MAIN STREET, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Did you hear 'bout the dance? Last Line: Keep this under your hat, no sense spreading stories. %you bet Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALONG MAIN STREET 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Can you believe it? Last Line: You're about the only one Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: While my friends can't wait to leave town Last Line: Modeling just for me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That's my mother Last Line: My mother will have no time to reach me %then Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother outmaneuvers martha stewart Last Line: It's a wonder to see how she covers everything up Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Tc erickson? %hope I'm not bothering you Last Line: I see that hat practically every day in town Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON: KATIE FUNG, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: See this camera? Last Line: In its proper focus Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AN ASSASSIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat like he creeps along where Last Line: Is sorry when he dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Assassination; Hate; Murder; Night; Bedtime AN ELEGY ON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF THOMAS AYLEWORTH, SLAIN AT CROYDON, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is goodness shortest liv'd? Doth nature bring Last Line: Thou canst not lie without a monument. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Ayleworth, Thomas (d. 1615); Murder; Virtue AN EX-SERVICEMAN MAKES A VOW, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War is a way the statesmen play Last Line: Our world may have peace! Amen. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; God; Murder; Prayer; Social Protest; Soldiers; Veterans; War; Dead, The ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships 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 ANGIE PERRY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Most people in school don't know Last Line: And find a real family of my own Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm sittin' on the bus Last Line: To experience the luxury of complaint Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Z., what do you mean, I can't see him? Last Line: Man, what they're doin' to him is an american tragedy Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY: BECKY BEAUCLAIRE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You eat like that all the time?' Last Line: I'll take my chances.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNETTE MYERS, OR, A MURDER IN ST. JAMES PARK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Another dreadful tale of woe as I will here unfold Last Line: What dreadful tidings to convey unto his family Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I just got tenure Last Line: This is my northern adventure Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let's go, hornets, let's go! Last Line: Let's go, hornets, let's go! Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Do not go to italy, my friends warned me Last Line: I wish I had given my dream lover more to %apologize for Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother believes in total honesty Last Line: I wish she were a little more dishonest Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: How wonderful you all look tonight! Last Line: And may you remember this night for a long, long time Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm young, but I'm old inside Last Line: And dance the night away under the roman stars Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'll score in the nba Last Line: With my dreams Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Friday nights I cruise the avenue Last Line: Puttin' my car and my body into overdrive Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA: BUDDY ERIKSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Boy, this schmuck's a loser; he never says a word Last Line: What can you tell me about her?' %not much.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ARTHUR MERVYN; A TALE OF SOCIAL GRIEVANCES: THE PASSING OF ARTHUR, by SAMUEL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have confessed, and by a recent act Last Line: Three months' confinement in the common jail. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Confessions; Murder; Penance; Animal Abuse; Vivisection ASPECTS OF MELANCHOLIA, THE MURDERER PAUSES, by RICHARD H. W. DILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hand lying on the counterpane Last Line: As the scratched grave of a victim, used and laid away Alternate Author Name(s): Dillard, R. H. W. Subject(s): Melancholy; Murder AT CITOYENNE TUSSAUD'S, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The place is full of whispers - 'mark you, sirs Last Line: They only look so infinitely tired! Subject(s): France; Gossip; Murder; Tussaud's Wax Museum AT LAST WE KILLED THE ROACHES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My hands were blades and it was murder murder %all over the place Subject(s): Blood; Murder BACKSTAGE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The girl standing at the door told me how to do it. She said: you must get Last Line: You whisper bend me backwards and inform me of your concept of god Subject(s): Deception; Girls; Love - Loss Of; Murder BAD SHEPARD, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Someone beat that boy a while. Someone burned that boy alive. Dear Last Line: This is how we kill our boys Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cruelty; Death; Murder BAG-SNATCHING IN DUBLIN, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisley %walked so nicely Last Line: Murderer her for 6/6 Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature BALLAD OF A BARBER, by AUBREY BEARDSLEY Poem Source First Line: Here is the tale of carrousel Last Line: They hanged him in meridian street. %you pray in vain for carrousel Subject(s): Murder BALLAD OF THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER, by BLAKE MORRISON Poem Source First Line: Voice said 'lad, get crackin Last Line: Ah were putty in its ands Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature BALLAD OF WILLIAM BLOAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a mean abode in the shankill road Last Line: For the razor-blade was dublin-made %but the sheet was belfast linen Subject(s): Murder BALLADE OF A SPECIAL EDITION, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes; I hear him up the street Last Line: Your double murder in mile end. Subject(s): Murder; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists BEATEN TO DEATH, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: At depth of night, this thought on home had shone Last Line: Was dying through two hours -- beaten to death. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Death - Babies; Educators; Professors BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've known the same group of kids for so long Last Line: I figure it's time for me and my friends to check %her out Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Nothin' to do in this town Last Line: There's got to be more to life than screwin' around Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: After buddy erikson, my one true love Last Line: When he realizes he ain't gonna find nobody better Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Was who at the dance? Last Line: Personally I couldn't care less Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BEES, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: I had to do it. %they charged and stung the carpenter Last Line: Conceals and covers us and our congenial sleep Subject(s): Bees; Death; Flowers; Insects; Murder BENIGN NEGLECT/WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI, 1970, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose you were dreaming about your family Last Line: Good-bye, johnny. Subject(s): Death; Murder; Slavery; Dead, The; Serfs BILL PAXELL, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My friend ollie, you should stay in your store on %main street Last Line: White bread only. %I vote yes Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BLOODY MURDER, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty and truth may dally together Last Line: This is my body, this is my blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Murder; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants BLOUDIE JACKE OF SHREWSBERRIE; THE SHROPSHIRE BLUEBEARD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Why doth thine eye gleam so bright, bloudie jacke? Last Line: And lose -- more than a shewsberrie cake!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Discretion; Escapes; Pirates; Murder; Fugitives; Piracy; Buccaneers BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fasten the chamber! Last Line: The chamber is there! Variant Title(s): Blue Beard's Closet Subject(s): Murder; Pirates; Silence; Piracy; Buccaneers BOARDMAN AND COFFIN, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told him straight, if he touched me, just once more Last Line: And a wind rushed after them. And that was all Subject(s): Circus; Murder; Suicide BOB, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bob had a nigger woman Last Line: For seven more she cried! ... Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Murder; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRAVE BEN HALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all australian sons with me Last Line: "the widow's friend in poverty - / bold ben hall, good-bye" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;grief;hero-worship;heroism;murder; Sorrow;sadness;heroes;heroines BRIAN PAXELL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Got my first brother when I was eight Last Line: Anyone or anything %to get Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I love the smell of manure in the morning Last Line: And perfectly pick them all off, one by one Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother drags me to box socials Last Line: Another box soial in my life %sorry, mom Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Did I see her at the dance? Last Line: Could have been anyone Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL: TOMMY LA BLANCA, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, tommy, don't this dance suck? Last Line: I just feel like shooting something. Or someone Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIGHTON ROCK BY GRAHAM GREENE, by BILL KNOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pinky brown must marry rose wilson Last Line: And read brighton rock by graham greene. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Reading BROCKET TALE OF MURDER MOST FOUL, by MAE SCANLAN Poem Source First Line: A put-upon butler, re- %proached in the foyer Last Line: The butler's in attica, %nowhere to run Subject(s): Murder BUDDY ERIKSON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was ten Last Line: It's gonna be some time before you're a man,' he said Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BUDDY ERIKSON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father is the town constable Last Line: I know I would Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns CAIN, by VICTOR DOMINGO SILVA Poem Source First Line: Cain brandishes the blood-stained weapon still Last Line: Union from death itself can pluck forth life! Subject(s): Brothers; Cain; Crime And Criminals; Death; Murder CANTO 3, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mythology; Social Commentaries; Murder CAREER CASHIER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I used to live next to this run-down grocery where the motto was: 'cleaner Last Line: Drawer was open, filled with mums Subject(s): Grocers; Mourning; Murder; Retail Trade CID: PART 7, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One true and Last Line: Of his deeds Subject(s): Alfonso V, King Of Aragon (1396-1458); Cid, El (1043-1099); Death; Murder; Tyranny And Tyrants CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE:FALL RIVER HISTORICAL MUSEUM, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know how it is: august, the pears Subject(s): Family Life; Murder; Relatives CLYTAEMNESTRA IN PARIS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I seemed to pace the dreadful corridors Last Line: "how long?"" I cried, ""how long?" Subject(s): Murder; Paris, France; Women COFFEE SHOP TALK, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Of course he did it Last Line: Of course he did it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COLD BLOOD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After murdering his father Last Line: On limber fingers. Subject(s): Burma; Fear; Murder; Punishment; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas CONCERNING THE INFANTICIDE, MARIE FARRAR, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Marie farrar, born in april Last Line: Therefore, I beg you, check your wrath and scorn %for man needs help from every creature born Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder CONSTANT FARMER'S SON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In london there lived a pretty fair maid Subject(s): Murder; Nova Scotia CONTEST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was unarmed, still the cintest was fair Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COOKIE MALDONADO (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Is the camera on? Last Line: Would you like a cookie from cookie, mr. Ziegel? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I think I see her! Last Line: Would anybody like a cookie? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kristen, kristen, %where are you? Last Line: I don't think he's your type Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO: KRISTEN CLARKE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Girl, you think you're fat? Last Line: What's the matter with you, girl? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns CRIME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! You count it horrible that the murder was / committed Last Line: Yes, it is you. Subject(s): Murder; Social Protest CRIME CLUB, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No butler, no second maid, no blood upon the stair Subject(s): Murder CRIME CLUB, by WELDON KEES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No butler, no second maid, no blood upon the stair Subject(s): Murder CRIME WAS IN GRANADA: 2. THE POET AND DEATH, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was seen walking alone with her Last Line: In these breezes of granada, my granada Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder; Poetry And Poets; Tragedy CRIME WAS IN GRANADA: 3, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was seen walking... %friends, carve Last Line: The crime was in granada, in his granada! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Crime And Criminals; Death; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder CRUEL MOTHER (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In new york lived a lady fair Subject(s): Murder CRUEL MOTHER (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She leaned her back unto a thorn Subject(s): Murder CRUEL MOTHER (5), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a duke's daughter lived in york Subject(s): Murder DAVID KHALIL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When we lived in the islands Last Line: Maybe then I can heal the hole in my heart Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DAVID KHALIL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before we arrive, they have asked us Last Line: Just a family atlas? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DAVID KHALIL: JOHNNY NESBITT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My host, johnny, seems nice enough Last Line: Or must I cover my eyes while he drives himself %to drink? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DEAR MINNA, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Catastrophe in a bric-a-brac shop Last Line: The first note in perfection. Subject(s): Murder DEATH AND THE PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the players playing on their stage Last Line: But once in many days! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Indifference; Murder; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The DEATH OF DON PEDRO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Henry and king pedro clasping Last Line: In a christian bosom dwelled Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Murder; Vengeance DEATH OF DON PEDRO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Henry and king pedro clasping Last Line: In a christian bosom dwelled Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Murder; Vengeance DELANEY'S VENDETTA, by R. J. CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: This is the story told to me, in the midst of the desert's glare Last Line: "with god as a ruthless murderer or only a suicide?" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilrooney Subject(s): Murder; Revenge; Suicide; Vendetta; Feuds DIANA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These fair limbs, of size so massive Last Line: Of giovanni of that city. Subject(s): Fear; Murder DOMESDAY BOOK: CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen twenty men hanged, hung myself Last Line: "I tell you what I said to her. It's this:" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Murder; Police; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child, Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The DOMINGA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I was asleep for a long time among Last Line: I carry a daughter inside it Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; El Salvador; Human Rights - Argentina; Murder; Soldiers; Tyranny And Tyrants; War DON SEBASTIAN, ACT 3: TO ACCOUNT RENDERED, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's, mother's, brother's deaths I pardon Last Line: And beg of heaven to charge the bill on me. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Forgiveness; Murder; Parents; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Clemency; Parenthood DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let's be practical here, folks Last Line: Before we show it off to the world. %I vote no Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I walk the streets at night Last Line: And walk with me late at night back to my office Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The boy? %nothing serious, a sprained wrist Last Line: Who did not find a home in our town Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DRACULA ORCHID, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Only a woman with black toenails Last Line: Some new pain opens Subject(s): Death; Grief; Murder; Pain; Women DRIFTER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Home is where my harley roars Last Line: I can take yu away from all this.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DROPOUT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You don't want to know my name Last Line: Nobody knows my name %I'm nobody Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns EASIER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: How peacefully he wipes the bloddy knife Last Line: Is easier than chopping up a man Subject(s): Blood; Butchers; Knives; Lambs; Murder EDITH FROMER, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 3 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Whether we like it or not Last Line: Of course I vote yes Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns EDITH FROMER, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 3 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Do I have any doubts? Last Line: We aren't animals, no doubt about it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns EDWIN IN THE LOWLANDS LOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Young emelye was a lady Subject(s): Murder EPITAPH FOR THOMAS MANNALEY, STABBED AT BROMSGROVE, 1819, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Beneath this stone lie the remains Last Line: And souls to bodies join - that murderer %I hope will see my soul in heaven shine Subject(s): Murder EXAMINATION I, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I saw her Last Line: An unreality with the scent of a camellia Subject(s): Child Molesting; Detective Stories; Murder EXECUTION OF ALICE HOLT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A dreadful case of murder Last Line: On chester's fatal tree Subject(s): Capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;death;murder; "hanging;executions;death Penalty;dead, The; EXECUTION OF ALICE HOLT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A dreadful case of murder Last Line: On chester's fatal tree Subject(s): Murder FAITH, DOGMA, AND HERESY, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was sunday, before dinner. Subject(s): Murder FAMILY MATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That christmas day, he wanted to kill his father Last Line: And confessed everything to the first whore he could find.' Subject(s): Christmas; Confessions; Fathers And Sons; Murder; Prostitution FIVE FRIVOLOUS SONGS: 2. LIP-STICK LIZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lip-stick liz was in the biz Last Line: Oh lip-stick liz! Subject(s): Murder; Prostitution; Women - Abused FLORELLA (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One evening when the moon shone brightly Subject(s): Murder FLORELLA (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Down by a drooping willow Subject(s): Murder FLORELLA (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One evening the moon shone brightly Subject(s): Murder FLORELLA (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The moon and stars shone brightly Subject(s): Murder FLORELLA (5), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Down in the lonely valley Subject(s): Murder FOR ANDY GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER, AND JAMES CHANEY, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three faces Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Murder FOR LIFE AND DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'nought to be done,' - eh?" Last Line: But still he died to save his bitterest foe Subject(s): Death;murder; "dead, The; FOR THE ONE WHO WOULD TAKE MAN'S LIFE IN HIS HANDS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger christ unsheathed his sword Subject(s): Murder; War FOR THE ONE WHO WOULD TAKE MAN'S LIFE IN HIS HANDS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger christ unsheathed his sword Last Line: The infinite task of the human heart Subject(s): Murder; War FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So buckled tight in scaly resolution Last Line: I will no more. Subject(s): Conscience; Curses; Death; Dreams; Ghosts; Murder; Punishment; Revenge; Sleep; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Didst thou not praise me, gaultier, at the ball Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I prithee, rene, charm our ears again Last Line: [falls on paolo's body.] Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Text First Line: Jester, hey, jester Last Line: Sword.] Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FRANK AND MARILYN LANGER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Honey, I know you're tired Last Line: Picking up our package marked 'special delivery.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns FREEDOM, REVOLT, AND LOVE, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They caught them. Subject(s): Love; Murder FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH YOU, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are on a primeval river in a repitilian den Last Line: The tree %not a true palm but of the palm family Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Murder; Police GEORGE AND EMILY GIBSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Honey, I know you're tired Last Line: It'll be all right, you'll see Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind was humid, and barren the land Last Line: "o sun, thou accusing fire!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Murder; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Germans; Songs GLASGERION (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Glasgerion was a king's own son Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;love;man-woman Relationships;murder; Male-female Relations GOD IS A COWBOY WHO RIDES A LAME HORSE, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Burroughs fondled me in the store's back room Last Line: Recuperate my straggling hair, my breached life Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Jealousy; Justice; Murder; Trials; Unfaithfulness GOLEM, by SEAN SINGER Poem Source First Line: ...Who killed the martyred man found reborn in silt and Last Line: The waves creosote resin sea singing who killed Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Martyrs; Murder HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editorial: %at last week's town council meeting, we noted with inter Last Line: Have much to show and tell them. We hope it will be a week- %end they never forget Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editorial %one death, %one life Last Line: The one that did not take care of its children Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editor's note Last Line: Named 'the a tones' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HE FELL AMONG THIEVES, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have robbed,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end' Last Line: Faded, and the hill slept. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Heroism; Murder; War; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Heroes; Heroines HENRY MADDOX, PASTOR, NEW DELIVERENCE CHURCH (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: God loves a cheerful giver.' Last Line: He should be made of whole cloth Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HENRY MADDOX, PASTOR, NEW DELIVERENCE CHURCH (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've come down to the jail to see Last Line: I got a few vcrs to fix, winter's comin' soon Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HER BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: First it was cursive --, Last Line: Through the bare limbs of trees. Subject(s): Bodies; Murder; Secrets HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress adrienne, I have been given a bed with a pink dresser Last Line: Don't hear from you I will try to understand. Chloe. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; American Revolution; Girls; Librarians & Libraries; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Library; Librarians; Educators; Professors HICKS MANOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I sit just north of town Last Line: You can hear me breathing Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HIKING ON THE COAST RANGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skirl of the kingfisher was never Subject(s): Labor Unions; Murder; San Francisco; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts HIKING ON THE COAST RANGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skirl of the kingfisher was never Last Line: There is no %other source than this Subject(s): Labor Unions; Murder; San Francisco; Strikes HINTS OF AN HISTORICAL PLAY TO BE CALLED WILLIAM RUFUS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walter tyrrell, the son of a norman papa Last Line: And -- never shoot elderly people in fun!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Murder; Poison; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100) HO-HO OF THE GOLDEN BELT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful maiden was little min-ne Last Line: With wicked ho-ho of the golden belt! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Justice; Murder HOMICIDES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The artistic assassin copyrights his crime Last Line: A beautiful motive can take the edge off a crime Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Evil; Guilt; Murder HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duke valentine had been in lombardy with the king Last Line: They were strangled in the same manner Subject(s): Italy; Murder; Italians HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=OJCVAAAAYAAJ&PRINTSEC=FRONTCOVER&DQ=ROBERT+BROWNING+THE+RING+AND+TH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you see this ring? Subject(s): Murder; Infidelity; Rome HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Body found in lake Last Line: Down a ravine, killing three and injuring ten Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Manager of grand royale set to leave Last Line: Manager until a replacement for mr. Clarke can be found Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INSERT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Antiques and christmas shop Last Line: It hasn't been made yet.' %lake st Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUGH OF LINCOLN (SHOWING THE CRUELTY OF A JEW'S DAUGHTER), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A' the boys of merry lincoln Last Line: Sir adam's day begun Variant Title(s): Hugh Of Lincoln And The Jew's Daughter Subject(s): Jews;murder; Judaism IF JUSTICE MOVED, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Dante had the right idea Last Line: If ruggiero's neck be yours - %I'd gnaw on it a thousand years Subject(s): Hate; Murder; Revenge IN BEVERLEY MINSTER, YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mysterious was my cause of death Last Line: He soon for murder must appear %before the son of god Subject(s): Murder IN THE OLD STONE AGE: SPREADING THE ALARM, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: Distracted, he would flee to spread Last Line: Among the tribes of vale and hill! Subject(s): Death; Murder; Wilderness; Dead, The INCIDENT, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came Last Line: Of his hands and fingers, we know nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Murder INCIDENT, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came Last Line: Of his hands and fingers, we know nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Murder INSCRIPTION FOUND HANGING ON A TREE IN LOVER'S WALK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lay poor celia, %curses be on holloway Last Line: He'll wish himself away %on the great judgement day Subject(s): Murder INVESTIGATING 1: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I didn't see her all night.' Last Line: Maybe her father picked her up.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns INVESTIGATING 2: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: So what do I have? Last Line: I'll be right down, you just stay put Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the voice of orpheus, o my sire Last Line: Life is more precious than the noblest death! Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Fathers & Sons; Murder J. PAUL GETTY III: TWO SONNETS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Italian flair of one dark moment Last Line: The fading sightless heir might hear %underneath the music with his remaining ear Subject(s): Life Change Events; Murder JASON PALMER (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've known the same group of kids for so long Last Line: I figure it's time for me and my friends to check %her out Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JASON PALMER (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kwame? %what kind of name is that? Last Line: Not that there's anything wrong with that Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JASON PALMER (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The train track Last Line: And he takes the next train back home? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JASPAR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jaspar was poor, and vice and want Last Line: Upon the maniac's soul. Subject(s): Guilt; Murder; Poverty; Sin; Story-telling JEAN RICHEPIN'S SONG, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor lad once and a lad so trim Last Line: "are you hurt, my child, are you hurt at all?" Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Murder; Hearts JEFFREY DAHMER'S BOOTS, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Little red button Last Line: On these, the unmelted Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Murder JEHANE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: In garments gray of sleety rain Last Line: Where they had parted, long ago. Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Childhood JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine Subject(s): Women - Abused; Marriage; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Wife Beating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts JOE FROMER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Happened like this, john Last Line: You gonna arrest anybody soon, john? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOEY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joey seemed better until he started calling everyone Last Line: Pretty good friend to joey Subject(s): Murder JOEY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joey seemed better until he started calling everyone Last Line: Pretty good friend to joey Subject(s): Murder JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My name is john erikson Last Line: But now we are fully awake, screaming bloody murder Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegl, annie Last Line: You have a good time, you hear? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yes? %yes, ned Last Line: Everything'll be all right Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Guess I'll head over to the school Last Line: Wonder if they remembered to turn off the lights in the gym Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Look, I can hold the boy for twenty-four hours Last Line: You better go, ollie. I got work to do Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I don't know if we're speaking the same language Last Line: We got all the time in the world Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (7), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Son, %listen, I have a boy of my own Last Line: He doesn't speak to me either Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (8), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You hear on the news whenever they catch a murderer Last Line: It can't be you, oliver, can it? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (9), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kwame, you can go home now Last Line: Kwame, you aren't guilty of anything. %we are Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE: DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER 4, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Evening, doc Last Line: And see to my new patients Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN HARDY (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John hardy was a desp'rate little man Last Line: Than he did for the rocks in the sea Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;murder JOHNNY NESBITT (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Ms. Gardiner, I really can't take yur history test Last Line: Maybe they should just bring back prohibition Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father used to take me fishing Last Line: He doesn't have the time for it anymore Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My parents split up 'bout three years ago Last Line: It's the first thing we've done together in years Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, it's me and mom here Last Line: Hey, I think I can see the bus coming in now Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOLENE HANKS, OWNER, HUDSON HARDWARE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: To the summer people, looking for the simpler life Last Line: This time they're real Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOLENE HANKS, OWNER, HUDSON HARDWARE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We knew about %the stories that hover over this town like a fog Last Line: And turned the other way Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOSEPH KALLINGER, by JACK K. ISRAEL Poem Source First Line: I was his endless father, endless Last Line: My pale beard framed his face of seeds Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Murder JOSEPH'S LAMENT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My boy, my boy, and art thou dead? Last Line: My murdered boy! ... Woe, woe is me! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Murder; Trees; Dead, The JUSTICE (UNCIVILISED AND CIVILISED), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ling-tso ah sin; on murderer's flat Last Line: For thee, though not for us, ah sin! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Justice; Murder; Sin KAGA-SOTO: THE FATAL ERROR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "with a sorrowful face, and a mystified frown" Last Line: And take care that you don't lose your heart or your head Subject(s): Loyalty;murder;suicide KATIE FUNG (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That's my mother Last Line: Just let my mother try to reach me %there Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KATIE FUNG (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father thinks I am a china star Last Line: There are a lot more stars visible, %shining brilliantly Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KILLING AT THE NEIGHBORS, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never mind what you might think Last Line: And I wait, shadow-breathed, to be freed Subject(s): Murder KNIFE, by LASZLO NAGY Poem Source First Line: Knife, I longed to hold you Last Line: My knife - oh knife Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Knives; Murder KRISTEN CLARKE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I was eight when I lost Last Line: Pick me, pick me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, %I think I hear footsteps Last Line: Do you think im being paranoid? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, daddy, you were worried? Last Line: Oh, daddy, you were worried? %that's so silly Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I chase the horizon once more Last Line: And not limp back, ashamed, to hudson landing, %after nightfall Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: There's not much to do in hudson landing Last Line: Their fragile, sad messages to the world Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When my boyfriend and me make love Last Line: Maybe there'll be a couple of cute guys on it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I bury my head in my studies once more Last Line: And not crawl back, ignorant, to the projects %after nightfall Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I was eight when the fire Last Line: We moved to the projects the next month Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: From the window in my building, high up Last Line: The view from my window, high up Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am not a slave on the niger Last Line: I really hope he is color-blind Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Ja... %son Last Line: Me... %please Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What's up with this? Last Line: I didn't do anything, %I swear it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (7), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegel, you know me, you taught me Last Line: You think I need a lawyer? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (8), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I can go home now? Last Line: I can't wait Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS: JASON PALMER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was in the ninth grade Last Line: Black and white Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LAST HANGING, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Two boys were butchering rabbits Last Line: Coming out of the post office Subject(s): Death; Murder LEGAL MURDER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away with legal murder! Must the man Last Line: This legal murder crime of crimes to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Justice; Murder; Dead, The LEGEND OF STUMPIE'S BRAE, SELS., by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They shorten'd the corp, and they pack'd him tight Last Line: And the ghaist came clattering in Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature LENNIE SWENSON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 6:00 in the super's smell of pine sol Last Line: Lay still on the white tile, his pockets empty. Subject(s): Memory; Murder; Uncles LEX TALIONIS, by FRANCIS MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy crept out of the old box log Last Line: "and his hate kept hot, as it ought to have done." Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Boys; Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Relatives LINES ATTACHED TO A DOOR IN ST. MARY'S CHURCH, 1797, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye wicked people, are these your pranks Last Line: O pray leave off, and go no further, %for god requires no thanks for murder Subject(s): Murder LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it [or, as it] fell upon a holy-day" Last Line: For she came of the better kin Subject(s): Murder LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On a high holiday, on a high holiday Last Line: And tomorrow I must die Subject(s): Murder LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As it fell out on a high holy day Subject(s): Murder LOLITA ROSENBAUM (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It's been a bad week Last Line: I wonder, did thoreau ever have to take the sat's? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LOLITA ROSENBAUM (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I first saw valerie van garp Last Line: I think we're gonna get along just great Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LOLITA ROSENBAUM: VALERIE VAN GARP, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Val, let me tell you about the city Last Line: Sometimes I feel I'm just full of crap Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LONELY CABIN, by JOHN A. SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Some say the cabin fell almost apart Last Line: After she found her son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Despair; Mothers & Sons; Murder; Death - Babies LOOSE WOMAN, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone who well knew how she'd toss her chin Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Murder LORD RANDAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o where hae ye been, lord randal, my son?" Last Line: "for I'm sick at the heart, and I fain wald lie down" Subject(s): Love;murder LORD THOMAS AND FAIR MARGARET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair margaret sat in her bower Last Line: And were joined in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Murder; Supernatural LORD WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No eye beheld when william plunged Last Line: Heard william's drowning scream. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning; Ghosts; Murder; Secrets; Supernatural; Vengeance LOVE, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: In a sudden rage a man kills his wife Last Line: He tells her, she refuses to be comforted Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Murder LOVE AND YOUTH AND WAR, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and youth to the war they sent Last Line: When love and youth to the war have gone? Subject(s): Hate; Love; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady Last Line: Was folded in a pannier. Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean LOVING MURDERER, by IRIN KISS Poem Source First Line: You squeezed the breath out of me Last Line: The only way you can hope %for some trail of love Subject(s): Murder LUCILE SWINTON, PARENTS' COMMITTEE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The students from tower will have a good time Last Line: Too many choices confuse people Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MA BARKER AND HER GANG: HERMAN, ARTHUR, FREDDY, KARPIS (CREEPY) &..., by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: All right, boys, go ahead, I yelled. No teargas bombs will Last Line: We'll die at our posts. Let the damn feds have it. Shoot Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners MACBETH IN VENICE: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: A spiral sun %crossed the spiral stairs Last Line: Beneath a winter shower %in assassin street Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Guilt; Murder; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Unfaithfulness MACBETH, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Murder; Religion; Supernatural MAGNIFICAT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he had suckled there, he began Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Food & Eating; Murder; Mourning; Bereavement MAGUS MUIR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently ye fall, ye summer showers Last Line: My soul might saved be! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Murder; Night; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime MAN ARRESTED IN HACKING DEATH TELLS POLICE HE MISTOOK MOTHER-IN-LAW..., by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning she'd smear something brown Subject(s): Anger; Mothers-in-law; Murder MAN ARRESTED IN HACKING DEATH TELLS POLICE HE MISTOOK MOTHER-IN-LAW..., by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning she'd smear something brown Last Line: And the axe felt good, coming down %on a life like that Subject(s): Anger; Mothers-in-law; Murder MARGRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the small marble-paved platform Last Line: Like a passionate thought. It is very well ordered Subject(s): Murder; Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARY IN THE SILVERY TIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas of this fair young creature Subject(s): Drowning; Murder MELINDA KURTZ (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, well, will you take a look at that? Last Line: Maybe she's got a secret like mine Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I hate the cold Last Line: Maybe my baby will look like kristen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I meet stella Last Line: Forever in hudson landing Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Thank you for the chair, miss carter Last Line: I can't wait to get out on that floor Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ: STELLA CHURCH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, this is so lovely Last Line: Hurry, I don't wanna have this kid in the bathroom Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MEMOIR OF A PROUD BOY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lived on the wings of storm Last Line: Is a leather bag of poems and short stories. Subject(s): Mexico; Murder; Villa, Francisco (pancho) (1878-1923) MEMORIAL, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing prolongs. Neither the bronze plaque Last Line: Fails you and fails. Forgive this second murder Subject(s): Brothers; Murder; Half-brothers METAMORPHOSES: 5. DAPHNE (VIOLETTA VALERY), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All three are men Subject(s): Mankind; Murder; Human Race METAMORPHOSES: 5. DAPHNE (VIOLETTA VALERY), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All three are men Last Line: Dagger to the voice! %and I alone Subject(s): Mankind; Murder MICHAEL PERRIN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother knocks on my door Last Line: You will never know where the road will take you.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MICHAEL PERRIN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegel, I'm having second thoughts about this trip Last Line: Maybe something interesting will happen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MIDDLETOWN MURDER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack hitched up into his sky blue bob Last Line: As much as singing that bad was good Subject(s): Murder MIDNIGHT AT THE MILL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once an angel came and said Last Line: "and I would lovely be!" Subject(s): Angels; Dreams; Murder; Nightmares MILES WEATHERHILL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh give attention, you pretty maidens" Last Line: "may we meet in heaven, my sweet sarah bell" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;grief;love;murder; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; MILITARY DRILL, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the clouds float calm and free Last Line: Gouts of blood burn ghastly bright! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Cruelty; Military; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War MILLY'S EXPIATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are times when all these terrors Last Line: Be restored to god again. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Love; Murder; Trials; Youth MIRRORS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The mirror is a distant precursor of the cinema Last Line: Obscene gesture back at him Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Conscience; Knives; Murder MISERABLE SINNER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I am a child of chance with a window brush Last Line: I draw power. I walk barefoot Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death - Children; Murder; Pregnancy; Rape; Sin MISERY: SORDID SCENE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' the thick vagueness of the vaporous night Last Line: To-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Murder; Police; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When morag of the glen was fey Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MORPHO, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his journey to the jade sea Last Line: The mutilated girl with butterflies upon her Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Murder; Rape MOUNTAIN FROLIC, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: In working clothes with song and whoop and shout Last Line: Shot dead for dancing with his pal's best girl. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Guns; Murder; Music & Musicians; Fairs; Pageants MURDER OF MARIA MARTEN, by UNKNOWN+303 Poem Source First Line: Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me Last Line: For murdering maria marten, I was hang'd upon the tree Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature MURDER OF THE MASTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sat alone in coimbra - the town myself had taken Last Line: Thou art the cause, thou harlot false! In darkness lie thou here' Subject(s): Affliction; Courts And Courtiers; Crime And Criminals; Murder MURDER ON THE DOWNS, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past a cow and past a cottage Last Line: And in the bracken like a bed %the murderee Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature MURDERED GIRL IS FOUND ON A BRIDGE, by JANE HAYMAN Poem Source First Line: Hammerstroke and %hammerstroke and Last Line: Something growing Subject(s): Murder MURDERER, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: In the back yard up north Last Line: Tell %grandma what she's done Subject(s): Murder MURDERER, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: When he enters the room, %the walls darken, Last Line: Drama, romance, disease. Subject(s): Facades; Murder MURDERER, by PAUL PETRIE Poem Source First Line: As the used anger drips from his hands like blood Last Line: The blank, constrictive shade in which he'd live Subject(s): Murder MY FATHER AND I, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father prayed as he drew a bead on the graycoats Last Line: What is the matter? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; God; Murder; Prayer; War MY FOE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gurr! You cochon! Stand and fight! Last Line: Blood-guilty in sight of god. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Murder; Religion; War; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Theology; First World War MY HEART BEATS IN WILD RAPTURE FOR YOU: COME PREPARED TO STAY FOREVER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Like explorers following a trade route Last Line: What china blue eyes you have Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's my last duchess painted on the wall Last Line: Which claus of innsbruck cast in bronze for me! Subject(s): Este, Alfonso Ii D'. Duke Of Ferrara; Jealousy; Love - Marital; Marriage; Murder; Paintings & Painters; Portraits; Villains In Literature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NANTUCKET MURDERS, by CHARLES WEST Poem Source First Line: There was an old man of nantucket who kept Last Line: Gathered the cash and made a mad dash to %catch a plane for rio de janeiro Subject(s): Murder; Nantucket, Massachusetts NED M. CLARKE, MANAGER, GRANDE ROYALE SUPERMARKET (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me to calm down Last Line: And then I'm gonna kill her Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns NED M. CLARKE, MANAGER, GRANDE ROYALE SUPERMARKET (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yes, I know one day you'll leave for college Last Line: Knowing that you are home, sweet home? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns NEGROES LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So always, justice drowsy and hate rising Last Line: Proffering his blood to pleasure antichrist. Subject(s): African Americans; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Lynching; Mississippi; Murder; Negroes; American Blacks; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty NELL COOK; A LEGEND OF THE 'DARK ENTRY': THE KING'S SCHOLAR'S STORY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Listen, mrs. Ingoldsby, - the clock is striking nine! Last Line: And bless us all, both great and small, -- and keep us from nell cook! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Murder; Incest; Ghosts NEWGATE'S GARLAND: BEING A NEW BALLAD, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gallants of newgate, whose fingers are nice Last Line: And every man round me may rob, if he please. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Murder NINE BLACK POPPIES FOR CHAC, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The junta was jubilant around the mortised fountain Last Line: Irrigating pink in the eternal spring rains. Subject(s): Bodies; Faith; Murder; Poppies; War; Belief; Creed NINE STONES: 1. JENNIFER TINNING (12-26-71 TO 1-3-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were the first to feel the soft pillow Last Line: Gone from the planet, synapses, ligaments freed Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 2. JOSEPH TINNING (1-10-70 TO 1-20-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were a cap of bells, a fold at the end Last Line: You were saturday night after calamity Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 3. BARBARA TINNING (5-31-67 TO 3-2-72), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I aided nurses, drove the school bus. Now Last Line: A flea market tip for her sneaking suspicion Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 4. TIMOTHY TINNING (11-21-73 TO 12-10-73), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Suspicion is not a mysterious disease Last Line: His head. Every funeral is a party Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 5. NATHAN TINNING (3-30-75 TO 9-2-75), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Two minutes of force while your father sleeps Last Line: Even my hair casts its shadow Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 6. MICHAEL TINNING ADOPTED (8-3-78 TO 3-2-81), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Not even your mixed skin could keep you Last Line: Gaze at your open casket, overstuffed with toys Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 7. MARY FRANCIS TINNING (10-29-78 TO 2-22-79), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The apnea monitor, left in the armchair Last Line: On platters of baked cookies, in ham casseroles Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NINE STONES: 8. JONATHAN TINNING (11-19-79 TO 3-24-80), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You were the proof of someone's backseat Last Line: That's what we need. Duct tape Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder; Pregnancy NINE STONES: 9. TAMI LYNNE TINNING (8-22-85 TO 12-20-85), by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: No root to a spring frost. No proof Last Line: From elysium has left her dower of resin Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Murder NO QUARTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Spare my life!' a german cried Last Line: "il n'y a pas moyen""so he flew him." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Murder; Soldiers NON DOLET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It does not hurt. She looked along the knife Last Line: And thou not die, how should it hurt indeed? Subject(s): Italy; Love; Murder; Italians NORA CRIONA, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have looked him round and looked him through Last Line: And cut her throat -- and serve her right! Subject(s): Love; Murder OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 15. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE ELEVENTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His late loss the wiveless higs in order Last Line: Hadst no heart I think, I know no liver. Subject(s): Murder; Loss; Marriage OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, I think it's a bad idea Last Line: It' s a bad idea any way you look at it. %I vote no Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before we adjourn for the evening Last Line: He has kept us out of harm's way Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Attention, shoppers: %have your purchases in one hand Last Line: Or I'm bound to be devoured %wholesale Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Heard you got him locked up, john Last Line: Or transfer him over to saratoga? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: John, you want to know why? Last Line: When everything was white? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 - JOHNNY NESBITT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What dance, where? Last Line: Dad, you're just goin' out to get drunk again Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For that my son hath lost his mortal shrine Last Line: Sons of the ruffians who did murder thee. Subject(s): Grief; Murder; Sons; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE INFANTICIDE, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Marie farrar. Birthdate: april Last Line: So, I beg you, don't be angry at her. %each creature needs the help of every other Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by FLOYD HARDIN Poem Text First Line: Help me, o christ, to hold thy sacred cross Last Line: (his head appears!thank god!I've popped my man!) Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War ORTHODOXIES 2, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He is spreading the lilies of jealousy on the ground, a young man Last Line: On a woman with a beaver's belly, another unexpected madness is capped Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Murder PEARL BRYAN (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Young girls, if you'll listen Subject(s): Murder PEARL BRYAN (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now, ladies, if you'll listen, a story I'll relate Subject(s): Murder PEARL BRYAN (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Way down in yonder valley Subject(s): Murder PEDDLER AND HIS WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One day the sun was rising high Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Frontier And Pioneer Life; Murder PENNY MARSDEN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kristen clarke does not have to work Last Line: Or giving it away for free? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns PERIANDER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How died melissa none dares shape in words Last Line: How black his gods behind their marble screens. Subject(s): Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Tyranny & Tyrants; Relatives PHALARIS AND THE BULL: A STORY AND AN EXAMINATION, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: The story Last Line: And which am I Subject(s): Death; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Story-telling; Tyranny And Tyrants POOR NAOMI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come all good people, I'd have you draw near" Last Line: So early next morning the inquest was held; / the jury correctly the murder did tell Subject(s): Murder POOR OMIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You promised to meet me at adam's spring Subject(s): Murder PORPHYRIA'S LOVER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain set early in to-night Last Line: And yet god has not said a word! Subject(s): Murder; Villains In Literature POWELL'S REVENGE, by F. C. URQUHART Poem Text First Line: Swiftly the messenger had sped Last Line: That here was ... Powell's revenge. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Betrayal; Murder; Revenge PRETTY POLLY (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A story, a story, to you I will tell Subject(s): Murder PRETTY POLLY (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pretty polly, pretty polly, come and go with me Last Line: For killin' pretty polly will send my soul to hell Subject(s): Murder PROCLAMATION OF KING HENRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the feet of don henrique now king pedro dead is lying Last Line: Not one remains to cry to god, 'our lord lies murdered here!' Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Tyranny And Tyrants QEBEHSENEUF, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want this poem to be that black Last Line: And it wheels right back where it came from Subject(s): Murder RETRIBUTION, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, you, policeman, just step inside Last Line: Well, let's go. Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Murder; Police; Punishment REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sammy lou of rue / sent to his reward Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Murder REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sammy lou of rue %sent to his reward Last Line: Don't yall forgit to water %my purple petunias' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Murder RITUAL THREE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is quiet for me, now that I have buried the child Last Line: For her to live is to act in terxms of death Subject(s): Child Abuse; Murder; Torture ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH [AND BURIAL] (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When robin hood and little john Last Line: Here lies bold robin hood! Variant Title(s): The Death Of Robin Hood Subject(s): Murder;robin Hood ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH [AND BURIAL] (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I will neuer eate nor drinke,' robin hood said Subject(s): Murder ROPE FOR HARRY FAT, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh some have killed in angry love Last Line: We will not change our policy,' %says harry fat the proud Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Human Rights; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Rope RUBY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor ruby is dead! And before her no more Last Line: When they look at thy hearthrug-'poor ruby is dead!' Subject(s): Accidents; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Murder SACRED RUM TOES, by ED PAVLIC Poem Source First Line: On sundays, %dips her feet in Last Line: The nightly brick %she carries %home Subject(s): Feet; Murder SAM HALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, my name it is sam hall, it is sam hall" Last Line: "all the whores are down in hell, god damn their eyes" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;curses;hate;murder SAN JUAN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stuttering gatling and sputtering / mauser Last Line: To set out for hell in a gentleman's way. Subject(s): Fights; Murder SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 13. ON THE DEATH-BED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell - being past all praying for Last Line: Though it be burning for evermore.' Subject(s): Murder SAVAGES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heathen hailed us from the beach Last Line: Who set thy temple on the hill. Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SAVING PRIVATE RYAN , SELS, by CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS Poem Source First Line: For me, the most difficult scene of many difficult Last Line: Only two. One to kill, one to die. 'wait a second' Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Murder SCARABAEUS, by ELIZABETH SHAW MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: The lady was white as ivory Last Line: Split wide for passion's sake. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Murder SENSIBILITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when a boy, I killed a cat Last Line: O fellow-sinner, be the same. Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Cats; Death; Murder SEVEN HEADS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who bears such heart of baseness, a king I'll never call Last Line: To keep his children company beneath the moorish sod Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Cruelty; Death; Fathers And Sons; Moors (people); Murder SHE CALLED THE POLICE, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: She called the police the night peter disappeared, and the police Last Line: As a child. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine %arm: for love is strong as deat Subject(s): Murder; Police SHOCKING RAPE AND MURDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Jane williams had a lover true Last Line: Cut off when in their prime Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;love;marriage;murder;rape;tears; Weddings;husbands;wives SILENCES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I was there,' he said, 'the night the hitmen done in my friend Last Line: To ask forgiveness of the wind.' Subject(s): Murder; Secrets; Silence SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The rain rins doun through mirry-land toune Subject(s): Murder SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It rained all night and it rained all day Subject(s): Murder SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (5), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It rained all day, it rained all day Subject(s): Murder SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (6), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It rained, it rained in our town Subject(s): Murder SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (7), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It rained a mist; it rained a mist Subject(s): Murder SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (8), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One friday in the month of may Subject(s): Murder SNOW-WHITE DOVE: HAPLESS, HELPLESS, AND FORLORN, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I prepared a tasty coffee for you Last Line: Darling, not in north carolina Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Justice; Murder; Poisons And Poisoning; Trials SNOWMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: This is a poem for tom Last Line: For all of the good providers Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Labor And Laborers; Men; Murder; Self-doubt; Snow SO FAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Ah! Me jewel an' darlin' dublin, me capital star Last Line: Only three murders this weekend, so far Subject(s): Cynicism; Death; Dublin, Ireland; Murder SOLEDAD POEMS: ROAD TO THE YELLOW PRISON, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Are you going %to souldead tonight?' Last Line: Of stone maggots %for teeth Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude SOMEBODY STABBED A GIRL, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: In the forest somebody stabbed a girl Last Line: It is cold and covered with spikes Subject(s): Murder SON OF MEDGAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Medgar isn't %wasn't %won't be Subject(s): Murder; Old Age; Trials SONG OF ODIN, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When odin his buckler had girded on Last Line: As he drinks from the skull of a foeman slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Murder; Soldiers SOUTHERN COP, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us forgive ty kendricks Last Line: And the dying negro moan Subject(s): African Americans; Murder SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM MERRITT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first I suspected something Last Line: As he aimed and fired at my heart. Subject(s): Murder; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 5. DOUBLE SHOOTING, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: I would have quizzed my executioner Last Line: And then the guilt, so I fired again Subject(s): Fire; Guns; Murder STARGAZING, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt %edith Last Line: The bear Subject(s): Minnesota; Murder; Violence STATISTICS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many men, on such a date of may Last Line: Your facts are facts, yet somewhere there is god. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; God; Murder; Rape; Suicide STELLA CHURCH (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm glad I'm away on this trip Last Line: For the next few days Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STELLA CHURCH (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I meet mel Last Line: My new home on the range Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STELLA CHURCH (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before the dance melinda took me to her favorite store Last Line: Isn't that store simply beautiful?' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEPHEN LAWRENCE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold pavement indeed Subject(s): Murder STEREOTYPES 1, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Country kids? They milk cows Last Line: And tell them hicks how city kids live Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEREOTYPES 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: City kids? %they rob people Last Line: And tell those burn't-out losers how real kids live Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEREOTYPES 3, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The city the country Last Line: Copper white Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STRINGYBARK CREEK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A sergeant and three constables set out from mansfield town Last Line: Like outlawed dingowes of the wild until the day they died Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;hunting;murder; Hunters TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town thought me a model woman Last Line: What a horrid thing I was when I got started. Subject(s): Insanity; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Murder; Orphans; Madness; Mental Illness; Foundlings THAT DAY AT BOILING DOWNS, by JACK MATHIEU Poem Text First Line: He was driving irish tandem, but perhaps I talk at random Last Line: "for my nerves were much affected that day out on boiling downs." Subject(s): Insanity; Murder; Story-telling; Madness; Mental Illness THE ARCHERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stripped to the waist his copper-coloured skin Last Line: Transporting into heaven both maid and man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Enemies; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE ATONEMENT OF FERODACH THE KING; FOR LLOYD R. MORRIS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: High in his crystal-lighted grianan Last Line: Clan connla's henchmen, and hacked off his head. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Murder; Dead, The THE AVENGER: INCIDENT IN ITALY, by SAMUEL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The monster seized the shrieking girl Last Line: "been going on from bad to worse." Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Monsters; Murder; Revenge THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He did not wear his scarlet coat Last Line: The brave man with a sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Freedom; Love; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Religion; Sleep; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Convicts; Theology THE BLOOD-RED FOURRAGERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the blackest sight to me Last Line: Our blood-red fourragere. Subject(s): Murder; Paris, France; Rape; War THE BODING DREAMS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lover's ear a wild voice cried Last Line: The murder's done. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Murder; Predestination; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE CATTLE THIEF, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They were coming across the prairie Last Line: And blame, if you dare, the hunger that drove him to be a thief. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Grief; Murder; Native Americans - Wars; Sorrow; Sadness THE CORONATION OF INEZ DE CASTRO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was music on the midnight Last Line: Mightier thou wast and art. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Castro, Ines De (1320-1355); Murder; Peter I, King Of Castile (1334-1369) THE COUNTESS LAMBERTI, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She still was young; but guilt and tears Last Line: "to one long penitence." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Marriage - Forced; Murder; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Marriage - Arranged THE CRIMINALITY OF WAR, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One to destroy is murder by the law Last Line: War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fame; Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; War; Reputation THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man breaking stones Last Line: And a stone is on her face. Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE CRUEL BROTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three ladies played at the ba' Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters;family Life;marriage;murder; Relatives;weddings;husbands;wives THE CRUEL GAMEKEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In buxton town in staffordshire Last Line: All on the gallows tree so high Subject(s): Babies;crimes & Criminals;death;murder;pregnancy; "infants;dead, The; THE CRUEL MOTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She lean'd her back unto a thorn Subject(s): Cruelty;mothers;murder;sons THE CRUEL MOTHER (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She sat down below a thorn Last Line: And the green leaves they grow rarely Subject(s): Mothers;murder THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE DEATH OF BEN HALL, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ben hall was out on the lachlan side Last Line: Than go where that traitor went. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Betrayal; Crime & Criminals; Hunting; Murder; Punishment; Hunters THE DEATH OF HALLIGAN, by ALEXANDER FORBES Poem Text First Line: Ho, men pile up the firewood Last Line: Such deeds of blood and shame. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Justice; Murder; Punishment; Dead, The; Hunters THE DEATH OF MORGAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Throughout australian history no tongue or pen can tell Last Line: "remember this, how true it is, bushranging hath no charms!" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;grief;hunting;murder; Sorrow;sadness;hunters THE DEATH PENALTY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They err who think to silence crime with crime Last Line: And on its ruins build the school. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE DESERTED MANSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Damp and drear the lonely halls Last Line: On the teachings of the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Mansions; Murder; Past THE DIGGER'S GRAVE, by SARAH WELCH Poem Text First Line: He sought australia's far-famed isle Last Line: And wattle-bloom bestrews the digger's grave. Subject(s): Graves; Murder; Tombs; Tombstones THE DONNYBROOK JIG, by WENTWORTH DILLON Poem Text First Line: Oh! 'twas dermot o'nolan m'figg Last Line: "and by me he'll be ne'er kilt again." Alternate Author Name(s): Roscommon, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Murder THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM, THE MURDERER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the prime of summer time Last Line: With gyves upon his wrist. Subject(s): Aram, Eugene (1704-1759); England; Murder; Tragedy; English THE EAGLE AND THE KINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eagle sought the desert's spring beside / a lion's cave Last Line: "and keep the sky." Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eagles; Murder; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE FATIGUE OF OBJECTS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the victim's room Last Line: For the fingerprints of the murderer Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Murder; Dead, The THE GARDENER OF SINOPE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where loud the pontine billows roar Last Line: Two claimed a murderer's reward. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Murder THE GHOST OF HARRIET SLOAN, by WILLIAM JAMES PRICE Poem Text First Line: The slow hours dragged themselves along Last Line: Twas well, perhaps, to end it so! Subject(s): Ghosts; Murder; Supernatural THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round Last Line: From guilt, though not without a hope in christ. Subject(s): England; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Guilt; Murder; Story-telling; English; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE IMMORALIST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Samaden, the julier, tiefenkasten -- the raw egg Last Line: Like the trench of a young couple crossing a lake. Subject(s): Honeymoons; Man-woman Relationships; Murder; Tuberculosis; Male-female Relations; Consumption (pathology) THE INDIGNANT CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleman I chance to know Last Line: And, my! He was malignant! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Cruelty; Militarism; Murder; Soldiers THE INQUEST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took my oath I would inquire Last Line: Perhaps my mother murdered me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Abortion; Child Molesting; Murder; Child Abuse THE KENNIFFS, by JOHN CREEVEY Poem Text First Line: If you wish to hear a story, lads Last Line: If he should chance to fall. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Murder; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Hunters THE KILLCROP, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You squalling imp, lie still! Isn't it enough Last Line: I'll rocket him. (exit.) Subject(s): Children; Devil; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Murder; Superstition; Childhood; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE LABORATORY; ANCIEN REGIME, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly Last Line: Ere I know it -- next moment I dance at the king's! Subject(s): Murder THE LADY ISABELLA'S TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a lord of worthy fame Last Line: The heir to all his land Subject(s): Murder THE LAST MAN: ANTICIPATION OF EVIL TIDINGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear there is some maddening secret Last Line: Telling of murder. Subject(s): Evil; Murder; Secrets THE LAST MAN: RECEPTION OF EVIL TIDINGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this? Did you not see a white convulsion Last Line: There by her murderer crushed into the earth. Subject(s): Death; Messages & Messengers; Murder; Dead, The THE MAN FROM IRONBARK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the man from ironbark who struck the sydney town Last Line: That flowing beards are all the go way up in ironbark. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Barbers; Jokes; Murder THE MAN HE KILLED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had he and I but met Last Line: "or help to half-a-crown." Subject(s): Enemies; Murder; Soldiers; War THE MANIAC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them sitting in the shade Last Line: Oh, hide me! Hide me! Hide me! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Insanity; Jealousy; Murder; Madness; Mental Illness THE MARTYR OF ALABAMA, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lifted up his pleading eyes Last Line: In whirlwinds of god's wrath. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Murder; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE MIDDLETOWN MURDER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack hitched up into his sky blue bob Last Line: As much as singingthat bad was good Subject(s): Murder THE MINSTREL'S CURSE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in olden times was standing Last Line: This is the minstrel's curse. Subject(s): Curses; Minstrels; Murder THE MURDER OF CHEAP WAITRESSES, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From ellen needham, indicted for their slaying Subject(s): Murder; Waiters & Waitresses THE MURDER, FR. MACBETH, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold Last Line: Couldst. Variant Title(s): The Murderers Grew Tired And Rested Under The Trees Subject(s): Murder THE MURDERED TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When spring, to woods and wastes around Last Line: Far down that narrow glen. Subject(s): Travel; Murder; Journeys; Trips THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I paused not to question the devil's suggestion Last Line: By devils and furies! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Confessions; Curses; Life; Murder THE NIGHT BEFORE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look you, dominie; look you, and listen Subject(s): Passion; Adultery; Cuckolds; Anger; Hate; Forgiveness; Murder; Clemency THE NURSE'S STORY: THE HAND OF GLORY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the lone bleak moor, at the midnight hour Last Line: He'll be sure to be caught by a hugh and a cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Murder THE POISONED ARROW, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All wounded sore he lay upon my path Last Line: Within his hand he held a bow unstrung. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Murder; Fair Weather Friends THE RECENT MURDERS; A NEW SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: God prosper long our noble king Last Line: May never more be done Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;crimes & Criminals;murder;singing & Singers THE REVENGE; FROM A FACT, ATTESTED BY THE SPANISH HISTORIANS, by HELEN LEIGH Poem Text First Line: Twas night -- and darkness all around Last Line: To end her wretched days. Subject(s): Ghosts; Graves; Murder; Supernatural; Tombs; Tombstones THE RIDE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I struck him down in sudden wrath / over a trivial word Last Line: Come riding o'er the hill! Subject(s): Friendship; Ghosts; Horseback Riding; Murder; Supernatural; Violence THE RIFLE, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: Tis made of hard, death-tempered steel Last Line: The message men to tyrants speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Assassination; Death; Militarism; Murder; Rifles; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 10. THE POPE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to ahasuerus, that shrewd prince Last Line: Carry this forthwith to the governor! Variant Title(s): The Pope Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome; Popes; Popes; Papacy; Papacy THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 11. GUIDO, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the cardinal acciaiuoli, and you Last Line: Pompilia, will you let them murder me? Variant Title(s): Guido Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 12. THE BOOK AND THE RING, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, were the end, had anything an end Last Line: Linking our england to his italy! Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 2. HALF-ROME, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, you, sir, come too? (just the man I'd meet) Last Line: (you, being his cousin, may go tell him so.) Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 3. THE OTHER HALF-ROME, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day that finds her living yet Last Line: From the common light and air and life of man! Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 4. TERTIUM QUID, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True, excellency - as his highness says Last Line: After my teaching the two idiots here!) Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 5. COUNT GUIDO FRANCESCHINI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks, sir, but, should it please the reverend court Last Line: "hardly misfortune, and no fault at all." Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome; Trials THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 6. GIUSEPPE CAPONSACCHI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Answer you, sirs? Do I understand aright? Last Line: O great, just, good god! Miserable me! Variant Title(s): Giuseppe Caponsacchi Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 7. POMPILIA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am just seventeen years and five months old Last Line: For us I' the dark to rise by. And I rise. Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 8. DOMINUS HYACINTHUS ..., by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my giacinto, he's no ruddy rogue Last Line: "sing ""tra-la-la, for, lambkins, we must live!" Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome THE SAILOR WHO SERVED IN THE SLAVE-TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stopt, -- it surely was a groan Last Line: O god, deliver me! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Murder; Prayer; Regret; Sailing & Sailors; Shame; Slavery; Violence; Clemency; Serfs THE SHOOTING OF DAN MCGREW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A bunch of the boys were whooping it up Last Line: Was the lady that's known as lou. Subject(s): Murder; Yukon Territory THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the funeral march. I did not think Last Line: A mere machine of murder. Subject(s): Fate; Funerals; God; Mortality; Murder; Religion; Soldiers; Destiny; Burials; Theology THE SONG OF AHEZ THE PALE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But this was in the old, old, far-off days Last Line: For this was in the old, old, far-off days. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Murder; Swords THE STOLEN SHEEP, by TOM FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Say, mate, it's a tidy long stretch since we parted near old lambin' flat Last Line: Andwell that was the end of old tommy; so here's to his ashes I say! Subject(s): Accidents; Butchers; Murder; Poverty THE STREETS OF FORBES, by JOHN MCGUIRE Poem Text First Line: Come all you lachlan men Last Line: To show the prize they had! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Hero-worship; Heroism; Murder; Sorrow; Sadness; Heroes; Heroines THE TELEGRAMS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring the hearse to the station Last Line: God next! Subject(s): Death; Hearses; Murder; Telegraph; Dead, The; Telegrams THE TORCHES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Limbs lopped off, the fathers Last Line: (2001) Subject(s): Death; Fire; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Murder; Nicaragua; Dead, The THE TRYST OF QUEEN HYNDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen hynde was in the rowan-wood with scarlet fruit aflame Last Line: "the old king's son, they say; mayhap; he has gillander's eyes." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Love; Murder; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE UNINVITED, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We did not care muchly who, in the murder Subject(s): Murder; Social Commentaries THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp? Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: GOING BACK AGAIN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I walked in italy Last Line: A knife across her throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Check To Song Subject(s): Dreams; Murder; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WHITE DEVIL, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Banished Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Murder; Prostitution; Revenge; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers Last Line: No guilty fear in death. Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WINE PRESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered man, ten miles away Last Line: Thro' a red volcanic sky ... Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Murder; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Wine; First World War THE YOUNG HUNTER AND THE FAWN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far in a wide and silent forest's shade Last Line: "and every wind doth whisper 'murderer!' " Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Deer; Forests; Hunting; Murder; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters THOU SHALT NOT KILL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are murdering all the young men Subject(s): Death; Murder; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Dead, The THOU SHALT NOT KILL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are murdering all the young men Last Line: In your god damned brooks brothers suit, %you son of a bitch' Subject(s): Death; Murder; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) TO A FRIEND WANTING WAR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I trust that when the bugles blow Last Line: To think on death's monotony. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Death; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO A NINE-INCH GUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whether your shell hits the target or not Last Line: Seek bread to fill their mouths again Subject(s): Arms & Armor;guns;krupp (industrial Conglomerate);murder;war TO A YOUNG MURDERESS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair yellow murderess, whose gilded head Last Line: Nay, kiss me, sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Murder; Youth; Dead, The TO JULIAN (WHO IS NOT JULIAN, BUT THAT IS ENOUGH), by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: He does not notice her Last Line: She cuts out their eyes %one by one Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Murder; Suicide; Unfaithfulness TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether you sing or scream Last Line: To no one in particular. Subject(s): Language; Murder; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs TOMMY LA BLANCA (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother put us in the same clothes Last Line: Without his freakin' shadow behind me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns TOMMY LA BLANCA (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My brother, anthony, left me holdin' the bag Last Line: I'll bust your head wide open Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns TOWN BEAUTY, by MAGEMESO NAMUNGALU Poem Source First Line: There she lay in a pool of blood Last Line: Soon the ground was to swallow her Subject(s): Murder TRAGEDIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two kinds there are: the one theatric, bold Last Line: Yet knows the stars shine silvery and high. Subject(s): Murder; Soul; Stars; Tragedy TRILOGY: XV, by PENTTI SAARIKOSKI Poem Source First Line: When raindrops are blood heaven grieves Last Line: Where someone had died, left his pants on a nail Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Murder TWO FABLES FROM THE OCEAN OF STUDY: 2. STORY OF ASTROLOGER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an astrologer who stop at nothing to make money Last Line: He aquired much wealth and returned to his own province Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Murder TWO LIVES, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I remember him Last Line: Cannot be determined Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Murder UP AGAINST IT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wall was white, whitewash lime Last Line: The small leaves trembling with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Dreams; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder; Walls; Nightmares VALERIE VAN GARP (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In the living room, we will welcome my guest Last Line: Divorce is not a spectator sport, even for %honored guests Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VALERIE VAN GARP (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I first saw lolita rosenbaum Last Line: I think we're gonna get along just great Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VALERIE VAN GARP (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Who the hell does she think she is? Last Line: Who the hell does she think she is? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VERSES ON DANIEL GOOD (WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR MURDER), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of all the wild deeds upon murder's black list Last Line: An' we hope that his life we shall ne'er see again Subject(s): Capital Punishment;murder; Hanging;executions;death Penalty VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would now that matho were the satirist Last Line: Mammon himselfe shalbe a citizen. Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Murder; Reading; Dead, The WAR, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: From hill to hill he harried me Last Line: Who'd wronged not mine nor me! Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War WE HAD SEEN A PIG, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One man held the huge pig down Last Line: When we looked. Subject(s): Business; Butchers; Murder; Pigs; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boars; Hogs WEXFORD GIRL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was in the town of waterford Subject(s): Murder; Nova Scotia WHEN I WAS AN EGGSHELL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The garden earth too hard to dig Last Line: And watched me eat from a bowl on the floor Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives WOLVERINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes sir, it's quite a story though you won'r bwlieve it's true Last Line: "I peered into the facemy god! 'twas poor old wolverine." Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Prejudice; Salvation; Trapping & Trappers; Wolves; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bias; Intolerance; Traps; Snares; Trappers WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Nails (body) WOMAN WHO MARRIED THE BEAR, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: There were two women, sisters Last Line: Now that is the end Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans YOU GOTTA TAKE OUT MILT, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ran into miss adventure Subject(s): Murder; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives YOUNG HUNTING (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o lady, rock never your young son young" Last Line: She burnt like holly gren Subject(s): Murder YOUNG HUNTING (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She sharpened her knife both sharp and keen Subject(s): Murder YOUNG HUNTING (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Light down, light down, young henry,' she said Subject(s): Murder YOUNG HUNTING (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Get down, get down, lovin' henry,' she cried Last Line: And there I'd sit and sing Subject(s): Murder YVETTE RONDEAU, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When brian paxell was through with me Last Line: I can find a job in the next town over Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns |
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