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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: And—well 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 face—my 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