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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OBEDIENCE Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ATTEMPT AT THE MANNER OF WALLER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did not thy reason and thy sense Last Line: Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey. Subject(s): Obedience; Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) ANOTHER ON OBEDIENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No man so well a kingdome rules, as he Last Line: Who hath himselfe obaid the soveraignty. Subject(s): Obedience DANCE OF DEATH: KING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw from a silk pillow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Obedience FEAR AND LOVE, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: Fearing my father Last Line: Perhaps wisely. Subject(s): Freedom; Obedience; Liberty FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When charles, from anarchy's retreat Last Line: Fame shall preserve the great, and just. Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Happiness; Obedience; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight FURY; FOR MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember this Last Line: For this woman's sake. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Obedience; Women - Abused; Black Heritage; Wife Beating GOD COMMANDS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In gods commands, ne're ask the reason why Last Line: Let thy obedience be the best reply. Subject(s): Obedience JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feast was spread, the sparkling bowl went round Last Line: "we march to rescue orleans from the foe." Subject(s): Duty; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Love; Man-woman Relationships; Missions & Missionaries; Obedience; War; Heroes; Heroines; Male-female Relations KGB SEX SCHOOL FOR SPIES: MEN CALLED RAVENS, WOMEN SWALLOWS, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: It was either the house of love Last Line: I was sent from the city with my possessions, %and all was slaughter Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Obedience; Prisons And Prisoners LENTEN MUSINGS, by IDA WALDEN THOMAS Poem Text First Line: I am; my maker made me Last Line: But I will trust and pray. Subject(s): God; Lent; Obedience; Religion; Theology NEUTRA'S WINDOW, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the glass barrier by moving her lips Subject(s): Children; Obedience; Language; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary OBEDIENCE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you're told to do a thing Last Line: Must be prompt and ready. Subject(s): Obedience OBEDIENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The power of princes rests in the consent Last Line: Low, and of thrones the ancient majesty. Subject(s): Freedom; Obedience; Liberty OBEDIENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The sun and moon obey his words Last Line: Kings and queens his silences. Subject(s): Obedience OBEDIENCE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bonehead parent say, 'now Last Line: And pat him with my hands! Subject(s): Obedience OBEDIENCE IN SUBJECTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gods to kings the judgement give to sway Last Line: The subjects onely glory to obay. Subject(s): Obedience OBEDIENT GIRL, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The obedient girl %with the patent-leather shoes Last Line: As if her body were a country %of obscure travelers Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Obedience; Silence OLNEY HYMNS: 55. LOVE CONSTRAINING TO OBEDIENCE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No strength of nature can suffice Last Line: And duty into choice. Subject(s): Faith; Obedience; Belief; Creed ON THE FALL OF MAN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's obedience, while in eden blest Last Line: Right reason, scripture, and the love divine. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Obedience; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race OUT OF THE DEPTHS (DE PROFUNDIS), by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Out of the depths comes a voice I hear calling Last Line: Oh thus spake the voice to me. Subject(s): Obedience; Voices PENELOPE'S WEB: SONNET FROM ARIOSTO, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet content that quiets angry thought Last Line: But due obedience worketh this delight. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Obedience; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REWARD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: What compensation, then, hast thou to give Last Line: Then onward, ever onward, still, to strive. Subject(s): Obedience; Rewards ROBERT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was born obedient / without questions Last Line: The color of his life / was nigger Subject(s): African Americans; Obedience; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs ROBERT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was born obedient %without questions Last Line: The color of his life %was nigger Subject(s): African Americans; Obedience; Slavery SAMSON, by RICK BURSKY Poem Source First Line: Whoever said a butterfly couldn't be trained Last Line: And I did. Love creates obedience Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Love; Obedience SORROW OF OBEDIENCE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lieutenant ordered me to ask abdhul Last Line: I was once more left to grieve for my imperfections Subject(s): Obedience STREAMLET FLOWS INTO THE SEA, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea through a brief streamlet seeks to pass Last Line: The violence of the watery father, crowned %with foam and w eeds, in green and white display Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Obedience; Youth THE MODEL KID, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet the child who says, 'I will' Last Line: Dies, no soul in town will mourn. Subject(s): Children Of Migrant Workers; Obedience; Parents; Parenthood THE SORROW OF OBEDIENCE, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lieutenant ordered me to ask abdhul Last Line: I was once more left to grieve for my imperfections Subject(s): Obedience; Army Life; Dogs UNRULY KIDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't like little albert clarence, though Last Line: Who don't obey their parence don't make a hit with me. Subject(s): Obedience |
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