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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CRY ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity the great with love, they are deaf, they are blind
Last Line: Since oisin's mother fled to the hill a spellbound hind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Greatness; Love; Mothers & Sons; Mythology - Celtic; Pity; Visually Handicapped


A DIALOGUE (TO BE SUNG TO THE VIOL, BY A BASE, AND A TREBLE), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dives: o let thy pitty, gracious sire
Last Line: Will raise him from his sinfull bed.
Subject(s): Abraham; Pity; Sin


A DREAM OF BURIAL, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing was left of me
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Dreams; Self-pity; Nightmares


A LOOK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not stop you on your way
Last Line: Will redeem every sacrifice.
Subject(s): Eyes; Flutes; Foreheads; Pity


A NEW BEING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know myself no more, my child
Last Line: And many a weeping head.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Pity; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


A POOR OLD DOG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old dog
Last Line: Spare, and be spared: -- or who shall plead for thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): A Word For The Dumb
Subject(s): Animals; Pity


A REDOLENCE FOR NIMS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O triple sob - turned forty
Last Line: Back my heart alive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Self-pity


A REFLECTION, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When eve upon the first of men
Last Line: That adam was not adamant!
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Pity; Sin; Women; Eve


AD ASTRA: 114, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sorrow and pain have their love-sanction'd part
Last Line: Until the angel, pity, droops her wing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Pity


AN EXPOSTULATION, by ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When late I attempted your pity to move
Last Line: But--why did you kick me downstairs?
Subject(s): Pity; Women


BE PITIFUL, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be pitiful, be pitiful
Last Line: "the cause is ever drink."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Pity


BIOTHANATOS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O vile ingratefull me
Last Line: Unhappy hearts obdurateness.
Subject(s): Confessions; Self-pity; Sin


BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the shannon meets the sea
Last Line: Pity is born
Subject(s): Birth; Islands; Piety; Pity; Shannon (river), Ireland


CALLED, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rise, I pass; / the feast is on, bright is the board
Last Line: And cover me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Pity


CAROLINE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air is thin here %nothing moves
Last Line: You always end up in the kitchen crying
Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Self-pity


CHILD, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the image of her unknown face
Last Line: Begging forgiveness from a wailing child %that is not yours
Subject(s): Children; Self-pity


CITY BLOOD AND COUNTRY JAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clarence percy smith de vere / was a youth of high degree
Last Line: Pays to learn his name is mud
Subject(s): Country Life;grief;pity;sports; Sorrow;sadness


COLD, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've swallowed a wool sock, and you've got
Last Line: God bless you! My goodness. God bless you!
Subject(s): Cold; Self-pity; Selfishness; Sickness


COMPASSIONATE FOOL, by NORMAN CAMERON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My enemy had bidden me as guest
Last Line: And even as he stabbed me through and through %I pitied him for his small strategy
Subject(s): Pity


CONSULTING THE BOK OF CHANGES: RADIATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each morning you will cup
Last Line: If you do, you will cry forever
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cancer, Breast; Grief; Self-pity; Women


CONTENTMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Urge me no more! The mid-day toil is ended
Last Line: Is all I ask.
Subject(s): Contentment; Evening; Life; Love; Pity; Sunset; Twilight


DIVINE COMPASSION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long since, a dream of heaven I had
Last Line: A heart that still can feel, and eyes that still can weep.
Subject(s): Compassion; Pity; Religion; Theology


DUTY CALL, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On sundays I jus' love to dine
Last Line: An' gives me heaps o' things to eat.
Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Pity; Sabbath; Temperance; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday; Prohibition


EMMA, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stands as firm as a tree stem
Last Line: After life comes death at last.
Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Pity; Dead, The


EPISTLE IN FORM OF A BALLAD TO HIS FRIENDS, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Have pity, pity, friends, have pity on me
Last Line: Your poor old friend, what, will you leave him there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Pity


FORGOTTEN, by EVELYN HUDSON ROWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There goes a man whose life is done
Last Line: There goes a man god doesn't want!
Subject(s): Pity


FRIENDSHIP?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not in the bitterest woes of life
Last Line: To learn that they are not worth our love.
Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Love; Pity; Tears


GOD HAS PITY ON KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So that their happiness will protect us now / and in other days
Subject(s): God; Pity; Children; Love


GOD'S PITY, by LOUISE DRISCOLL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God pity all the brave who go
Subject(s): Pity; Religion


HER PITY, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the room to which she came that
Last Line: Once leap'd my heart, then, dumb, stood still again.
Subject(s): Pity


HOW CAN I DISAPPOINT MYSELF?, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And wrinkled skin? Just one in pieces
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Disappointment; Introspection; Nature; Self; Self-pity


I CRIED AT PITY, NOT AT PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Had god willed differently
Subject(s): Pity; Graves


I TRIED TO THINK A LONELIER THING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Perhaps he pitied me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 532; Poem: 57
Subject(s): Pity


IF I GROW OLD, by ETHEL BERRY ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I grow old let every wrinkle show
Last Line: Is mine. How sweet the chant no noise defiles.
Subject(s): Aging; Pity; Youth


IN A RAILWAY STATION, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How strangely memory serves us! Here tonight
Last Line: "will have gone twenty miles tonight for naught."
Subject(s): Memory; Pity; Railroad Stations; Women - Middle Aged


IN ADMONITION, by GRACE STILLMAN MINCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The heavy drug of sympathy prevents
Last Line: But never, as you love me, let me know!
Subject(s): Pity; Sympathy; Empathy


IN AN ACT OF PITY, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Pity; Male-female Relations


IN PITY AS WE KISS AND LIE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly wrong, we lie and kiss
Last Line: In pity as we kiss and lie
Subject(s): Pity; Love - Erotic


IN PITY AS WE KISS AND LIE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly wrong, we lie and kiss
Last Line: In pity we kiss and lile
Subject(s): Pity


IN PRISON, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: God pity the wretched prisoners
Last Line: May wipe their guilt away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley
Subject(s): Pity; Prisons & Prisoners; Religion; Theology


INHIBITED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could not pity your pain but I pitied the branches
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Mind, The; Sorrow; Sadness


JOE WITH A WOODEN LEG, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joe with a wooded leg comes home
Last Line: Without %pity
Subject(s): Pity


LIFE AND DEATH, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afraid of death?-a quiet sleep
Last Line: And shall be blest.
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Pity; Dead, The


LOVE AND PITY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love came a beggar to her gate
Last Line: May count love's siege and battle done
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;love;pity


MALEDICTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man's not a singing animal
Last Line: Rivet his stone with worms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cold; Curses; Pain; Self-pity; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs


MAN SELLING PENCILS OUTSIDE THE B. DALTON BOOKSTORE, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I blink, but there he sits, unreal
Last Line: Unless we speak, until we touch
Subject(s): Blindness; Booksellers; Pity


ME, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden
Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness


ME, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden
Last Line: I float in the plunging year
Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity


MELANCHOLIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out hideous monster; in thy name
Last Line: Which can be sober, yet not dull.
Subject(s): Grief; Hell; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness


MODERN LOVE: 44, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say, that pity in love's service dwells
Last Line: Or foul hypocrisy for truth atone!
Variant Title(s): The Coin Of Pity
Subject(s): Pity


MY SILVER MOON, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the moon with silver streaming
Last Line: Flood my darken'd soul with light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Moon; Pity


NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief
Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself.
Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


NO CHANCE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who never had a chance, the victim
Last Line: Same old whine—because he hadn't any spine.
Subject(s): Family Life; Men; Pity; Relatives


NO HEIGHTS, by NELLIE GRAY BOURDEAUX    Poem Text                    
First Line: She pities me, this placid friend of mine
Last Line: Have walked a little space in paradise.
Subject(s): Friendship; Pity


OBJECTS OF PITY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Full many a big and brawny youth
Last Line: Who can neither play nor shout!
Subject(s): College Sports; Lament; Pity


ODE TO PITY, by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever musing I delight to tread
Last Line: And quite invisible doth take a peep
Subject(s): Pity


ODE TO PITY, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, the friend of man assigned
Last Line: To hear a british shell!
Subject(s): Pity


ORDEAL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love and pity are pleading with me this
Last Line: Where the dark immortal would shepherd our weeping souls?
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love and honour a poor humble state
Last Line: I'm nothing else but misery and woe.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Salvation; Self-pity; Sin; Human Race


PEACE, by LILLIAN LOWRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: What? Pity her!
Last Line: Her sculptured peace?
Subject(s): Death; Pity; Dead, The


PITIA A DAMONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah non chiamarlo pena
Last Line: Terribile non e
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Pity


PITIE TO THE PROSTRATE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis worse than barbarous cruely to show
Last Line: No part of pitie on a conquer'd foe.
Subject(s): Pity


PITY, by FLORA WARREN BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: It would not hurt me quite as much
Last Line: Lest they might pierce the joy in you.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pity


PITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm always saying, 'where's the time gone?'
Last Line: Why can't a watch have pity %on a man?
Subject(s): Pity; Time


PITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The twinkling mists of green and gold
Last Line: From unknown hollows blew.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy


PITY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They never saw my lover's face
Last Line: Men who have never seen god's face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pity


PITY ASCENDING WITH THE FOG, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He had no past and he certainly
Last Line: Anything but august comedy.
Subject(s): Pity


PITY FOR MARY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now goth sonne under wod
Last Line: "me rueth, mary, thy sonne and thee"
Subject(s): Pity


PITY ME NOT, by KATHLEEN M. RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the last good-bye, when you are gone
Last Line: This grant--when I have smiled and set you free, %hate, if you will, but never pity me
Subject(s): Hate; Pity


PITY ME!, by FU HSUAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity me!! My body is female
Last Line: Love once severed is remote as antares and orion
Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiu-i; Fu Xuan
Subject(s): Love; Pity; Women


PITY OLD WOMEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity old women who sit at windows
Last Line: Waiting at windows 'til life ends.
Subject(s): Aging; Life; Pity; Women


PITY THE POOR POET, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poet burns, the whole night through
Last Line: The poet burns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Pity; Poetry & Poets


PITY THIS POOR ANIMAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And has no need for fire
Subject(s): Racism; Fear; Pity; Blacks


PITY; AN ALLEGORY, VERSIFIED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that blest age when never care annoyed
Last Line: And he and joy for ever re-unite.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Pity


POOR KINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: God's pity on poor kings
Last Line: On some poor king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Pity


RED DUST, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This harpie with dry red curls
Subject(s): Self-pity; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


RESPITE, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo, to-night / pity lords it over pain
Last Line: Let your sleeping sorrow say.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


REVERSE PITY, by GEORGIA BLANEY SKAER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your life so full of joyous things
Last Line: Tis I who pity you.
Subject(s): Pity


SACRED LYRIC, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When sorrow, blinded with her tears
Last Line: O lord of hosts! To comfort me.
Subject(s): God; Jews; Pity; Judaism


SECOND SIGHT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thoughts, I fear, run less to right
Last Line: "lord god be praised!"" I answered with ""amen."
Subject(s): Pity; Death; Repentance


SELF-PITY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never saw a wild thing
Last Line: Without ever having felt sorry for itself
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Self-pity


SELF-PORTRAIT AT TWENTY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood inside myself
Last Line: And the rain came.
Subject(s): Introspection; Self-hate; Self-pity


SHE IS MORE TO BE PITIED THAN CENSURED, by WILLIAM B. GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: At the old concert hall on the bowery
Last Line: No -- he asked for god's mercy and said:
Subject(s): New York City; Pity; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


SIGN, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first white hair coils in my hand
Subject(s): Aging; Hair; Self-pity


SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, you cannot befriend me, with all your love's tender persistence!
Last Line: Under the spell of our life's innermost mystery, pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 106, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone musing / remember
Last Line: From her never to depart?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Life; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 40, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pass forth, my wonted cries
Last Line: Which is a just reward.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pity


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 27, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some kind angel, gently flying
Last Line: E'er shall shake my constant mind.
Subject(s): Angels; Faces; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 5, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let perjured fair amynta know
Last Line: That pity ever dwelt with pride.
Subject(s): Fever; Love; Pain; Pity; Pride; Suffering; Misery; Self-esteem; Self-respect


SONNET TO JULIET: WHO WOULD COMFORT HIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not ask your pity, dear. Your zeal
Subject(s): Pity; Grief; Comfort; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET TO REFLECTION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye
Last Line: In darkness glimmering to disclose a tomb.
Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Regret; Self-pity; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism


SUITE TO QU TUNES: 1. ZUI XI SHI, by ZHULIAN XIV    Poem Source                    
First Line: Recalling with care the romantic elegance of former times
Last Line: This is the time to sorrow
Subject(s): Self-pity


SUITE TO QU TUNES: 2. BINGTOU LIAN, by ZHULIAN XIV    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind is weak
Last Line: Listless, I climb the loft for evening toilet
Subject(s): Self-pity


SUITE TO QU TUNES: 3. SAI GUANYIN, by ZHULIAN XIV    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flowers bud with smiles
Last Line: Broken heart, the xiang river, about to reach their end
Subject(s): Self-pity


SUITE TO QU TUNES: 4. YU FURONG, by ZHULIAN XIV    Poem Source                    
First Line: When will the loneliness end?
Last Line: I'd still be a romantic ghost
Subject(s): Self-pity; Solitude


TELL HER, SWEET THRUSH!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou sweet bird in the hazel tops
Last Line: And love for evermore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Pity


THE ALBION QUEENS, ACT 1: THE WONDER, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your grace is welcome from the queen of scotland
Last Line: Cecil. My lord, you make me blush.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Pity; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE BLIND BOXER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: He goes with basket and slow feet
Last Line: Thy working face and pity thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Blindness; Boxing & Boxers; Cowardice; Pity; Visually Handicapped


THE BLIND LADY, by MAX JACOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blind lady with bloodshot eyes chooses her expressions
Last Line: So she'll laugh and she'll laugh and then she'll bellow.
Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Pity; Visually Handicapped


THE COMPASSIONATE FOOL, by NORMAN CAMERON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My enemy had bidden me as guest
Subject(s): Pity


THE COMPLAINT UNTO PITY, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pite, that I have sought so yore agoo
Last Line: With herte sore, and ful of besy peyne.
Subject(s): Pity


THE FOUNTAIN OF PITY, by HENRY BATAILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears are within us. There is security
Last Line: And the tears weep also, as they flow away.
Subject(s): Children; Consolation; Fountains; Pity; Tears; Childhood


THE FRENCH OF VICTOR HUGO: BENEATH A CRUCFIX, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come to this god, ye mourners, for he weeps
Last Line: Come, all who pass: christ waits, and will remain.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery


THE LAST PITY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I have seen your face
Last Line: With pity which is all your own
Subject(s): Pity


THE LOVER AND THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a budding grove, / in april's ear sang every bird his best
Last Line: Most comforting and gentle thoughts I had.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Nature Of; Pity; Sensibility; Tears


THE LUCKLESS MAN, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a fellow say, this morn, 'I've had
Last Line: Luck he's had, since he was but a knee-high lad!
Subject(s): Blindness; Pity; Visually Handicapped


THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings
Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery


THE REBEL SURPRISE NEAR TAMAI, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 22nd of march, in the year 1885
Last Line: Just equally the same as in a foreign land.
Subject(s): Fights; Pity; Revolutions; Sea Battles; War; Naval Warfare


THE RELAPSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wert thou not what thou art
Last Line: Sett ope, & bleed out every thing but thee.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Self-pity; Sin; Clemency


THE SELF-CRUEL, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cast off, for shame, ungentle maid
Last Line: Thou wouldst not pity, pity thee.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pity


THE SONG OF THE SLATTERN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing me a song of the sloven
Last Line: As she erred, so will many another fool err.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Self-pity; Solitude; Women; Loneliness


THE SUNDERLAND CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the town of sunderland, and in the year of 1883
Last Line: To aid and comfort the bereaved parents in their grief.
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Despair; Grief; Pity; Philanthropy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


THE THREE RULERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a ruler take his stand
Last Line: Rose up, and drove him from the land!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery


THE VEILED AVENGER; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am he
Last Line: His own bitter infinite cry we hear him cry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Dreams; Pity; Redemption; Spiritual Life; Nightmares


THE WEAK, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever the same - this love of the weak
Last Line: Who cannot say this, loving the weak?
Subject(s): Kindness; Pity


THERE IT IS!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let it go, then; let it go!
Last Line: Loving you, to doubt you!
Subject(s): Life; Love; Pity; Spring; Winter


TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares
Last Line: And now I live, and now my life is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tychborn, Chidiock; Ticheborne, Chidiock
Variant Title(s): Retrospect;elegy;lines Written By One In The Tower;verses Written In The Tower;poem Written On The Eve Of Execution;elegy For Himself;lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution
Subject(s): Adversity; Capital Punishment; Death; Mourning; Remorse; Self-pity; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Bereavement


TO A CERTAIN SHOP GIRL, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She should be buying pearls and persian brass
Last Line: And casts a glamour on her prison-place!
Subject(s): Beauty; Pity; Shopping; Youth


TO THE MUSE OF PITY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Mistress of the melancholy song
Last Line: "to thee my fondest early vows belong."
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Pity


TOM THE PORTER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As tom the porter went up ludgate hill
Last Line: Took up his load and trudged into the city.
Subject(s): Fights; Indifference; London; Pity; Revolutions


TRANSLATION OF A SONNET, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In those eyes that glisten as in pity for my pain
Last Line: "on my lips the breath is fleeting - can it, will it long remain?"
Subject(s): Fate;pity; Destiny


TREASURES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me count my treasures
Last Line: Whom I know at last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Faith; Pain; Pity; Soul; Treasures; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery


TRIUMPH, by SALLIE MACON GARLAND PIPPEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You pity me, you strong who go your ways
Last Line: Pity me not!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pippen, Sally Macon Garland
Subject(s): Pity


UNPOSSESSED POSSESSIONS, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose are windsor and hampton, the pride of the land
Last Line: To be only a poor unpatrician bard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Pity; Thames (river)


UPON A COMELY, AND CURIOUS MAIDE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If men can say that beauty dyes
Last Line: Will tell thee pitie thou hast none.
Subject(s): Pity


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: House-keeping's dead, saturio: wot'st thou where?
Last Line: I din'd at virro his owne boord to day?
Subject(s): Life; Pity


WANTON, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strip her of her silken clothes
Last Line: Love has made her very wise.
Subject(s): Love; Nudity; Pity; Wisdom; Nakedness


WRITTEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: However high, however cold, the fair
Last Line: Who must not speak, and therefore cannot live!
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


YOUNG BULL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This bronze ring punctures
Last Line: Against the slats wanting to murder me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Bulls; Pity; Strength