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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PITY Matches Found: 129 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 whinebecause 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 |
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