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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PENANCE Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PENITENT'S RETURN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's house once more Last Line: Take back the lost and found! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Penance ABSOLUTION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Travel to the great church at cluny, and pope innocent Last Line: In speyer, 1451: in this place is full pardon of all sins Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; God; Penance; Religion 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 IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: THE COURT OF PENANCE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the court of penance. Four gaunt walls Last Line: And the free firmament thy handiwork. Subject(s): Penance; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S SONNET, MADE IN THE PRIME OF HIS PENANCE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sweating brows I long have plough'd the Last Line: I find no time too late for to amend! Subject(s): Penance; Repentance; Youth; Penitence PENANCE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: It was always good friday Last Line: Trying to imagine %the terrible sins of old women Subject(s): Confessions; Penance; Religion PENANCE, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mortal! If e'er thy spirits faint Last Line: And sanctify thy woe. Subject(s): Penance PENANCE, by CHRIS SEMANSKY Poem Source First Line: My head shaved, I take my hair to the witch who lives upstairs Last Line: Only to return, again and again, with every halting breath Subject(s): Penance PENITENTIAL PSALM: 130. DE PROFUNDIS, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From depth of sin, and from a deep despair Last Line: And thus begins the suit of his pretense. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Paraphrase Of The Bible Subject(s): Penance THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE PENITENT, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a dark monastic cell Last Line: When thou commandest, work for joy.' Subject(s): Penance THE PENITENT'S OFFERING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that with pallid cheek Last Line: Thy heart, thy full deep heart, before him laid. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Penance THE POET'S JOURNAL: ATONEMENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst died at midnight Last Line: Without, the sun and snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Penance; Sun; Dead, The TO AELIA; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor antiquated slut, forbear Last Line: The penance expiates the sin. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Penance |
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