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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PUNISHMENT Matches Found: 247 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ON GILES COREY, EXECUTED AS A WIZARD, 17TH CENTURY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Giles cory was a wizard strong Last Line: And he did no confession make; / but wickedlie he dyed Variant Title(s): Giles Corey Subject(s): "capital Punishment;corey, Giles;salem, Massachusetts;witchcraft & Witches;" Hanging;executions;death Penalty 700 CHICKENS DIED HERE FOR YOUR DINNER, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm standing in a dusty yard by a bloody stump Last Line: Submit to this and we'll proceed. %it's your decision Subject(s): Chickens; Punishment A BOY'S MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother she's so good to me Last Line: An' love him purt' nigh much as ma. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Love; Mothers; Punishment; Childhood A HANGING, ZOMBA CENTRAL PRISON, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poet's Biography First Line: His pendulous body tolled Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Police States; Prisons & Prisoners; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Convicts A LEGEND, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day, long, long ago Last Line: Thus dionysus spoke. Subject(s): Greece; Kidnapping; Legends; Mythology; Punishment; Sea; Greeks; Ocean A LETTER FOR MARIAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit musing, ten minutes from the jap Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Politics & Government; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A LONDON FETE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night fell hammers, shock on shock Last Line: Went forth to fight, with murderous faces. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A MAN-MADE HADES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were sent to build a hell Last Line: My hell of indecision. Subject(s): Doubt; Hell; Pain; Punishment; Skepticism; Suffering; Misery A PARENT REPRIMANDED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think 'at parunts does Last Line: Ist wite where ma she said it's at! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Parents; Punishment; Parenthood A PARTY OF PLEASURE UP THE RIVER TAMER, by FRANCES TALBOT Poem Text First Line: The clock strikes nine -- nor has the sun Last Line: Tis better starve than steal. Alternate Author Name(s): Morley, Countess Of Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Pleasure; Punishment; Rivers A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 47. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the hangman stops his cart Last Line: Live, lads, and I will die.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Theology A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 9, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On moonlit heath and lonesome bank Last Line: A hundred years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A WOMAN, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They loved each other, in joy or grief Last Line: A bumper of wine and still gaily laughed. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Laughter; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Male-female Relations A WOMAN'S EXECUTION (PARIS, 1817), by EDWARD KING Poem Text First Line: Sweet-breathed and young Last Line: "vive la commune!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Paris, France; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A.E. HOUSMAN AND A FEW FRIENDS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When lads have done with labour Last Line: Even for housman's verse.' Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AD ASTRA: 84, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why to the jews?-why to the jews alone Last Line: Why were the gentiles in gross darkness chain'd? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Punishment AGAINST [OR, AGANIS] THE THIEVES OF LIDDESDALE, by RICHARD MAITLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Of liddesdale the common thiefis [thieves] Last Line: Hing on a tree whill they be deid. Alternate Author Name(s): Lethington, Lord Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Lynching; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ALL LIFE IN A LIFE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father had a large family Subject(s): Family Life; City & Town Life; Wealth; Social Protest; Capital Punishment; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AMONG PHILISTINES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AMONG PHILISTINES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes Last Line: As searing, the twin picks hissed in his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson AMONG THE PINES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: A gallows light traverses the pines. The disfigured fog with its brumous Last Line: The sunken paving stones Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In measures solemn as the groans that fall Last Line: The monuments of their base cruelty. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Great Britain - Civil War; Injustice; Lisle, Sir George (d. 1648); Lucas, Sir Charles; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English Civil War ANDRE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where andre met that death Last Line: Had been his name, -- if that, indeed, could be! Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; Soldiers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the fear of death Last Line: By a soldier's death! Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial ARTEMIS, by RITA BOUMI PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: This road I'm taking is long and bright Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women ARTISTE MANQUEE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tatyana is unhappy Last Line: Tatyana is lowered into the tank Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death ASOLANDO: MUCKLE-MOUTH MEG, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frowned the laird on the lord: 'so, red-handed I catch thee?' Last Line: "to muckle-mouth meg in good earnest!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Marriage; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT ELY; JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF WORCESTER, D. 1470, by ANTHONY THWAITE Poem Source First Line: Among the floating passengers below Last Line: Who at another time, alone, knelt down %and felt the axe descend on tower hill Subject(s): Capital Punishment AT SUNRISE, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They pushed him straight against the wall Last Line: Against the bedroom wall. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AWAITING THE GUILLOTINE, 1794, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: As a last zephyr, or the last warm ray Last Line: For you alone to live has any worth. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Chenier, Andre Marie De (1762-1794); French History - Reign Of Terror; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty BALLAD OF YOUNG MAN THAT WOULD READ UNLAWFUL BOOKS & HOW HE WAS PUNISH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelius agrippa went out one day Last Line: How in a conjurer's books they read. Subject(s): Books; Devil; Magic; Punishment; Reading; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub BALLADE OF THE MEN WHO WERE HANGED, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men who come along now, we Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty BALLADE OF THE MEN WHO WERE HANGED, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men who come along now, we Last Line: O pray to god that he show grace to us Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment BALLADE: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mourning wise since daily I increase Last Line: Pray for the souls of those be dead and gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mourning; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Bereavement BATHSHEBA, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King david, from his house-top / saw one whose only dress Last Line: "are flies, in the web of craft!" Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); Capital Punishment; Lust; Marriage; Women; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLACK DEATHS, by ROBERT HAY MORRISON Poem Source First Line: We do not hang them now, but still they hang Last Line: In some far noose another lost one dies, %and one of the surviving lost remembers Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Despair; Human Rights BOB HOLLY, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two men a 'pipe' had in a 'show' Last Line: And none have seen him from that date. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Exiles; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs CASUALTIES: 11. CONVERSATIONS AT ACCRA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The situation may change Last Line: In the wind spell no design Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hunting; Leadership CENSORS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Censors are dead men Last Line: Breathing of the dead men, %the censors, breathing with relief Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Censorship; Human Rights CENTRAL PRISON, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sign passed on her way to work Last Line: So she could eat a berry and fly away, gone home Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women; Prisons & Prisoners CLEVER TOM CLINCH GOING TO BE HANGED, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As clever tom clinch, while the rabble was bawling Last Line: Who hung like a hero, and never would flinch. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty 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 COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision." Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism COUNSEL FOR KINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be, like a noble prince, in love with fame! Last Line: God's justice, higher than thou, should punish thee. . . . Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fame; Love; Punishment; Virtue; Reputation CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights; Movies; Cinema; Feminism CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Last Line: A lousy move, he remarked. Then, his arm gently guided by wife %nancy, he cut the cake Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by PAUL LAKE Poem Source First Line: I close the book on crime and punishment Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Punishment CUNCTATION IN CORRECTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lictors bundl'd up their rods: beside Last Line: They might escape the lash of punishment. Subject(s): Punishment DANGER, by JULIO FLOREZ Poem Source First Line: They say that once a proud and sinful king Last Line: May rise and swallow you. Keep wide awake! Subject(s): Conscience; Punishment; Sin DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DARK ROOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Darkness waits for me Last Line: In the dark room %distant, blurred, delirious Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners DEATH FOR THE DARK STRANGER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The knave of darkness, limber in the leaves Last Line: So again the miraculous thunder of discovering wings is heard Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Police; Punishment; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals DEATH OF DAMIENS OR L'APRES-MIDI DES LUMIERES, by ROBERT FRANCIS BRISSENDEN Poem Source First Line: The man's left leg Last Line: The dying madman's hair %has all gone white Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Damien, Father (1840-1889); Death; Human Rights DEATH SENTENCE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold as no plea Last Line: The law allows it %and the court awards Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners DEMI-MONDAINE, by FRANCES M. LIPP Poem Text First Line: I do not think your sin as grave Last Line: This, worse than sin! Subject(s): Punishment; Sin; Soul DIFFICULT, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: What I could not do in life Last Line: I will not. Clickity. Clack Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Devil; Repentance; Sin DISGRACE CORNER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: In our kitchen there's a corner that reserved for naughty Last Line: There's a secondary value to this corner of disgrace. Subject(s): Children; Dishonor; Punishment; Childhood EIGHT O'CLOCK, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood, and heard the steeple Last Line: Its strength, and struck. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The ELECTROCUTION, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sudders - feeling on the shaven spot Last Line: Whose soul, expanding in white agony, %had fused in flaming circuit with the night Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment ELEGY ON THE URGENCY OF FAXES AND PHONECALLS AGAIN, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: Drums and chants grow silent Last Line: Live like the forests with momentary %permission Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Fax (facsimile Telegraphy); Nigerian Civil War; Telephones EPIGRAM ON A ROPE-MAKER HANGED, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a man much wronged in his hopes Last Line: For he liv'd by the rope, and died by the halter Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty EPISTLE TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, upon casting an attentive look Last Line: The bishop, and us all! I am, sir,—yours. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Gentlemen; Heaven; Life; Spiritual Life; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Paradise EPITAPH IN BALLADE FORM, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O brother men that live when we have end Last Line: But praye godde to absolve us of our doome. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; God; Prayer; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The EXECUTION, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: The black and white photo has a grainy Last Line: Before each dawn, for time to come Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Photography And Photographers EXECUTION, by ELEMER (GEORGE) HORVATH Poem Source First Line: Look, I take every revolution to heart Last Line: As you when you first kissed me Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Martyrs; Revolutions 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 FELICE ORSINI, MARCH 13TH, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day to be remembered Last Line: The red rose crown is thine %for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Assassination; Capital Punishment; Italy - Revolutions; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Orsini, Felice (1819-1858) EXECUTION OF MR. CARP, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Carp were garbage eaters Last Line: The depth and weight of peace as it descends Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death EXPLANATION, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: You say, I am playing Last Line: ..... And light another. Subject(s): Fire; Punishment FACT, by ISHIHARA YOSHIRO Poem Source First Line: What is there %is there Last Line: And %it's even snickering Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Punishment FIVE MEN, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: They take them out in the morning Subject(s): Capital Punishment FOR ETHEL ROSENBERG, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Europe 1953: / throughout my random sleepwalk Last Line: With secrets she has never sold Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Capital Punishment; Communism; Mccarthyism; Rosenberg Case; Nuclear Freeze; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1794, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rous'd from the gloom of transient death Last Line: Sacred to patriot worth, to patriot bosoms dear. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Wars With France; Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty FOUR ROADS, by ALICE M. GREENE Poem Source First Line: Four roads lead out of the town Last Line: Blest are the dead, the noble dead, %the dead who die in the lord! Subject(s): Capital Punishment 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 FRIAR LAURENCE O'FARRELL: LONGFORD, 1651, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The van of ireton's troops at morning broke Last Line: By ireton gave it formal burial Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Clergy; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology GAUNTLET, by KENT REYNOLDS DIXON Poem Source First Line: Normally a single boy was made Last Line: Every other boy, brothers in a world of hurt Subject(s): Boys; Punishment 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 GUILT, by KOFI ANYIDOHO Poem Source First Line: And they opened up his wound Last Line: But they hanged him all the same Subject(s): Africa - Neocolonialism; Capital Punishment HANGING DAY: PROCESSION, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging day. A hollow earth Last Line: But here, alone the solitary deed Subject(s): Capital Punishment HANGING, ZOMBA CENTRAL PRISON, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His pendulous body tolled Last Line: Before the sandbags dragged his compressed body %into the dark hole, into total oblivion Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Police States; Prisons And Prisoners HANGMAN, by GUNNAR EKELOF Poem Source First Line: Hangman %what will you do with my arms? Last Line: Does this give you pleasure? Subject(s): Capital Punishment HANGMAN'S NOOSE ON EXHIBIT, by EDWARD EVERETT ROLS Poem Text First Line: Did the doomed man know Last Line: And given him another hour of breath? Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty 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 HON. MR. SUCKLETHUMBKIN'S STORY: THE EXECUTION; A SPORTING ANECDOTE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My lord tomnoddy got up one day Last Line: So -- my lord tomnoddy went home to bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty HOW SIR RICHARD DIED, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately as bridegroom to a feast Last Line: And bowed his head -- and so he died. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty HUMANE REVENGE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Where doth that beutie & that sweetnes lie Last Line: Not trust with him, thy self how canst thou trust? Subject(s): God; Punishment; Sin I AM FRANCOIS, TO MY DISMAY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: My neck'll learn what my arse may weigh Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Self; Capital Punishment I STARTED SUBSCRIBING, by TRISH REEVES Poem Text First Line: To the christian science monitor Subject(s): Buses; Capital Punishment; Gays & Lesbians; Photography & Photographers; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty IMAGERIE D'EPINAL, by ALEKSANDER WAT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The executioner yawned. The blood was still dripping from his axe Last Line: Happiness for all--to enemies death.' Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Communism IN THE CORNER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elsie was bad as bad could be Last Line: May lead you close to the father's heart. Subject(s): Punishment IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR'S HARNESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One man hauls all the darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Nature IN THE STONE JUG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old days are gone Last Line: Too shall come in with me out of the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Sin; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The INTERNMENT, by VINCENT BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: They have him squeezed into the square room Last Line: Patrick shivers %a mouthful of water after five days Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights IX, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: What a trap: the stone the light Last Line: From whose hands we can receive bread Subject(s): Exiles; Punishment; Whips JEMIMA (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a little girl, she wore a little hood" Last Line: She took ans she did whip her most emphatic Subject(s): Punishment;tomboys JEMIMA (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a little girl, who had a little curl" Last Line: "and spanked her, most emphatic" Subject(s): Girls;punishment JOHN BROWN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown died on the scaffold for the slave Last Line: Freedom reigns to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The President's Proclamation Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs JONES'S SELECTION, by G. H. GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You hear a lot of new-chum talk Last Line: The land don't get on yous. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark; Gibson, George Herbert Subject(s): Death; Environment; Punishment; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation JUSTICE, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Source First Line: You expect, puss-in-boots Last Line: Over the corpse of achilles Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Punishment KIM'S STORY, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: One hundred and sixteen blew up %above the andaman sea. The bomb Last Line: With a pearl, touching up my mouth, %inventing my perfections Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Danger; Prisons And Prisoners; Terrorism; Women - Captives KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp Last Line: Upon his dying day. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness KING NASTY, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sketch it out for you Last Line: How do you like your bourbon? Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Courts And Courtiers; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Suicide KRINIO, by RITA BOUMI PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Aim straight at my heart Last Line: Not even in a dream Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women L'ENFANT GLACE, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When baby's cries grew hard to bear Last Line: Our darling's now completely frappe! Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Punishment LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: PUNISHMENT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Although greed has ready Last Line: Let's forget the old man!' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Brothers; Pain; Punishment LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old Last Line: The word of god, be ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs LEACHED, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: In france they martyred one progenitor Last Line: Heroes set forth in a menagerie. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; France; Martyrs; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English 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 LXXXVI, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: I wane with the moon Last Line: To never-resurrection Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners MAMMA, WHERE DID PAPA GO?, by HENRY A. START Poem Text First Line: Manuel and little juan Last Line: "mamma, where did papa go?" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Children; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Childhood MARGRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full 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 MARIE HAMILTON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Marie hamilton's to the kirk gane Last Line: The lands I was to travel in / or the death I was to die Variant Title(s): The Queen's Marie;mary Hamilton Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging;executions;death Penalty MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE; AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the messenger returned? Last Line: The gory head rolls down the giant steps! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Conspiracy; Falier, Marino (1274-1355); Venice, Italy MARRYING THE HANGMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARTIN RELPH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather says he remembers he saw, when a youngster long ago Last Line: Of water I wanted: and now I can walk, get home by myself, I think. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Cowardice; Pardons And Pardoners; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARY HAMILTON (VERSION A), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Word's gane to the kitchen Last Line: There was marie seton, and marie beton, %and marie carmichael, and me Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death - Children; Guilt; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587) MARY HAMILTON (VERSION B), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were ladies, they lived in a bower Last Line: Ye should na shamed me here Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death - Children; Guilt; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587) 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 MONTROSE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is said he went gaily to that scaffold Last Line: Such for the consummation of her marriage Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl And 1st Marquis Of MUMFORD: THE MARTYR OF NEW ORLEANS, by INA MARIE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Where murdered mumford lies Last Line: Our colors wave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Mumford, William B.; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty NATHAN HALE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1776, by JOHN MACMULLEN Poem Text First Line: Come all alumni gather round Last Line: Amidst the patriot band. Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); Memory; New York City; Patriotism; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NAUGHTY CLAUDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little claude was naughty Last Line: "I'm much obleeged to you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Punishment; Childhood 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 NO SPEECH FROM THE SCAFFOLD, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will no speech from Last Line: As he rests there, while %he is still a human Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights NOT QUITE SOCIAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of you will be glad I did what I did, Last Line: And pay a death-tax of farily polite repentance Subject(s): Punishment NURSERY REMINISCENCES, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, I remember Last Line: Must be whipp'd and sent to bed!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Punishment; Relatives ON HIMSELF, UPON HEARING WHAT WAS HIS SENTENCE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let them bestow on every airth a limb Last Line: And confident thou'lt raise me with the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): His Metrical Prayer;verses Composed On The Eve Of His Execution Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl & 1st Marquis Of; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Graham, James (1612-165); Theology ON THE EVE OF HIS EXECUTION, by OTSU Poem Source First Line: The golden crow lights on the western huts Last Line: Whose is the house I go to tonight? Subject(s): Capital Punishment ON THE LORD DERBY, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what a formidable greatness grown Last Line: Cut your own throats, despair, and die, and damn. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Stanley, James. 7th Earl Of Derby; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ON THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comely and capable one of our race Last Line: Brought to derision! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ONLY A JEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the land of brittany, and long ago" Last Line: "''twas only a jew,' the folk said, 'only a jew!'" Subject(s): Capital Punishment;jews; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;judaism OOM GERT'S STORY, by C. LOUIS LEIPOLDT Poem Source First Line: My boy, what do you think that I can tell you? Last Line: (sweetheart, just pass me back the sugar-bowl, %and pour another cup for cousin klaas! Subject(s): Capital Punishment ORTHODOXIES 19, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He entered houses from the back doors, a chained prisoner Last Line: Hand had made the signal necessary by his by-laws saint trembles in rags Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Punishment OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how he came Last Line: And the fool killers had a laugh Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Native Americans; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America OUR TONGUES SLAPPED INTO SILENCE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was five years old, the youngest and smallest in my class Last Line: Made sure our tongues were drowned in the murky waters of assimilation Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Culture Conflict; Language; Native Americans; Native Americans - Education; Navajo Indians; Punishment; U.s. - Race Relations PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence PATHETIC APHORISMS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: A hanged man and his shadow can function as a sundial Last Line: With lucifer's fall came gravity Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death; Evil PERSECUTIONS PURIFIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God strikes his church, but 'tis to this intent Last Line: Tis not to poyson, but to make thee pure. Subject(s): Punishment PITTIE, AND PUNISHMENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God doth embrace the good with love; & gaines Last Line: The good by mercy, as the bad by paines. Subject(s): Punishment PRAISE OF DISEASES, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, in your courtesy Last Line: And I have slain you for villainy Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Punishment; Sickness PROGRESS?, by EDITH O'HARA Poem Text First Line: O cain, how didst thou feel at sight of brother abel at thy feet? Last Line: Sin! Subject(s): Cain; Punishment; Sin PUNISHMENT, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can feel the tug Subject(s): Mummies; Punishment PUNISHMENT, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can feel the tug Last Line: And tribal, intimate revenge Subject(s): Mummies; Punishment PUNISHMENT, by KIM KWANG-SUP Poem Source First Line: I, number 2,223 %draped in the garb of a prisoner Last Line: As for me, though you give me your country, I'll spurn it Subject(s): Human Rights; Identity; Prisons And Prisoners; Punishment PUNISHMENT, by KATHERINE VARNES Poem Source First Line: As soon as he was old enough to read Last Line: And cutting a narrow pathway to her heart Subject(s): Children; Dictionaries; Punishment REMARKS ON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled? Last Line: "and whitehead grasp th' exacuating fife." Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Punishment; Whitehead, William (1715-1785); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Doctors 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 REWARD AND PUNISHMENT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are the best and the worst of everything you require Last Line: You shall be for yourself both the praise and the blame. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Evil; Good; Praise; Punishment REWARD AND PUNISHMENTS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things are open to these two events Last Line: Or to rewards, or else to punishments. Subject(s): Punishment; Rewards RICHARD'S REFORMATION, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss lucy was a charming child Last Line: And since has better grown. Subject(s): Boys; Punishment RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea Last Line: Going. He calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English 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 SARAH THREENEEDLES (BOSTON, 1698), by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the grim grace of the puritans she had been Last Line: Her food was more divine. Subject(s): Infanticide; Capital Punishment' Puritans SEVEN HONEST MEN, by MARTIN BENSON Poem Text First Line: Their faith in one another it was wonderfully great Last Line: They panned-off half a pennyweight, those seven honest men. Alternate Author Name(s): Sun, Ben Subject(s): Deception; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment SHAMEFUL DEATH, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were four of us about that bed Last Line: And for alice, his wife, pray too. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The SKELETON, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Once again, huge rock! Whose front sublime Last Line: And breathe a requiem to thy nameless dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Graves; Punishment; Saint Michael's Mount (england); Skeletons SMART, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stripes justly given yerk us (with their fall) Last Line: But causelesse whipping smarts the most of all. Subject(s): Punishment SNOW IS STORMING, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Like the poor, %like the prisoners-of-war Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Snow; Winter SOME FRENCHMEN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette Last Line: Developed just in time for bed Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing & Writers; Hanging; Exec SOME FRENCHMEN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing And Writers SONG, FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, 28 MAY 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy flowery garlands by Last Line: Than the bloom of all thy roses. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Parliament; Jacobites; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 14. ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS .., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth Last Line: And feel god flow forever through his breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 15. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once hardly in a cycle blossometh Last Line: At the next beating of the infinite heart. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 16. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love of all things springs from love of me Last Line: An old man faithless in humanity. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 17. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet cannot strive for despotism Last Line: But widens to the boundless perfectness. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 18. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore think not the past is wise alone Last Line: Save in the forethought of the eternal one. Variant Title(s): Wisdom Of The Eternal One Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 19. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far 'yond this narrow parapet of time Last Line: Undimmed by clouds of weak mortality. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty STACKALEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you sporty fellows Last Line: "or they'll hang you in the jail, / like they did that bad man stackalee" Subject(s): Capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals; Hanging;executions;death Penalty STERN PARENT, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father heard his children scream Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Subject(s): Fathers; Punishment STYLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The morning larry rainbow hanged himself Last Line: This was the style he liked. This was what he asked for. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Suicide SWEET KISS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was little and had Last Line: Been crying as she punished me Subject(s): Kisses; Mothers; Punishment TELL ME NEWS, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: Tell me of a brother Last Line: Of a mangled corpse %not begun to sit on your conscience Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights; Immortality; Prisons And Prisoners THE ANCESTRESS; A DRAMATIC SKETCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in this we differ; I would seek Last Line: Castle hide the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Guilt; Punishment; Heritage; Heredity 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 BATTLE OF CHARLESTOWN, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh palms for the old dominion! Last Line: There's an end of old john brown! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Serfs THE BEWITCHED HAND, SELS, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning of his execution, eustace bouteron Last Line: Reached the window sill where maitre gonin was waiting for it. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Magic; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE BIRCHED SCHOOLBOY: CONCLUSION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I would my master were a wat (a hare) Last Line: What availeth me though I say nay? Subject(s): Children;punishment;whips; Childhood THE BITTER WITHY (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it fell out on a holy day Last Line: "oh! The withy, it shall be the very first tree / that perishes at the heart" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;punishment THE BRANDED HAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome home again, brave seaman! Last Line: In the van of freedom's onset, the coming of that hand? Subject(s): Freedom; Punishment; Sailing & Sailors; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs 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 BUSHRANGERS, by EDWARD HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four horsemen rode out from the heart of the range Last Line: The ghosts of the kellys still ride from the range. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Memory; Punishment THE CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO LORDS AT THEIR EXECUTION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As crowds attended when the fatal blow Last Line: "and balmerino call, ""a valiant martyr." Subject(s): Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord; Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746); Kilmarnock, William Boyd, Earl Of; Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE CULPRIT, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night my father got me Last Line: And I have none. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty 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 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 DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rage of babylon is roused Last Line: Alas, more dreadful thy remember'd guilt! Subject(s): Babylon; Christianity; Guilt; Prophecy & Prophets; Punishment; Repentance; Penitence THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Men, brother men, that after us yet live Last Line: But pray to god that he forgive us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): Ballade Of The Gibbet Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE EXECUTION OF JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of may Last Line: In a short space of time, which cannot be equalled in story Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl And 1st Marquis Of; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE EXECUTION OF MAXIMILIAN, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muskets triggered a white smoke Last Line: Like friends long unseen, now returned. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Maximilian, Emperor Of Mexico (1832-67); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE FALL; A GREAT FAVORIT BEHEADED, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bloody trunk of him who did possess Last Line: Much doctrine lies under this little stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE GALLOWS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The suns of eighteen centuries have shone Last Line: Abhorred of earth and heaven, a pagan brotherhood! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Clergy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE GOOD FURIES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From time to time I meet with those who cry Last Line: And carry there their flowers -- and grieve no more! Subject(s): Mythology; Punishment; Sin; Soul THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 13. THE WOMAN IN THE TEMPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still dark joy! A sudden face! Last Line: Oh, wash them clean again! Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Shame; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING, by JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: I bind the soul that fathered me Last Line: I hang, behead, electrocute.; Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Law & Lawyers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING MAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Torture; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING OF BLACK CUDJO (1780); A DIALECT BALLAD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, maussa! If you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true Last Line: "but sabe dat gab to stuff de years of de next fool you meet!'" Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Marion, Francis (1737-1795); Slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Serfs THE HANGING TREE, by GEORGIA PERLE SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: A gnarled old tree trunk with shoots Last Line: "forgives and saves the soul." Alternate Author Name(s): Schmidt, G. Perle Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Trees; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HUMAN SACRAFICE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from his close and noisome cell Last Line: God's angel cries, forbear! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty 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 LAMENTATION OF HUGH REYNOLDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my name it is hugh reynolds, I come of honest parents" Last Line: And convey me into heaven to the blessed trinity Subject(s): Capital Punishment;lament; Hanging;executions;death Penalty THE LOST MOMENTS OF A. DALMAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The solemn bell for me is tolling Last Line: "dalmas, you must prepare to go" Subject(s): Bells;capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;grief; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;sorrow;sadness THE LULLABY OF A FEMALE CONVICT TO HER CHILD...TO EXECUTION, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, baby mine, enkerchieft on my bosom Last Line: For never more thou'lt press a mother's breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE NEGATIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dig in the soft earth all Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Capital Punishment; Homecoming; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE NIGHT BEFORE LARRY WAS STRETCHED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and at darkly we waked him in clover, / and sent him to take a ground sweat" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging;executions;death Penalty THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 238, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hear about the ministers of state Last Line: And all because of ignorance Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Ignorance; Punishment; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 240, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have six brothers Last Line: Everybody praises Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Punishment; Shame; Half-brothers; Relatives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 38, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two turtles aboard an ox cart Last Line: Acting kindly they got stung Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hospitality; Punishment; Turtles; Tortoises THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 59, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a girl to the east Last Line: They'll reap their judgment in tears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Punishment; Wealth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 76, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They don't walk the noble path Last Line: How will they deal with disaster Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Punishment; Virtue THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 20, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one type of person Last Line: And all his wrongs return Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Punishment; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 30, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Committing crimes behind closed doors Last Line: You're the victim of your deeds Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Crime & Criminals; Punishment; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 47, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world has its know-it-alls Last Line: And see the sun no more Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Hell; Punishment; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots THE PUNISHED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish Last Line: And make a nightmare of the solitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Corpses; Graves; Punishment; Sin; Cadavers; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, edith! Spare the rose; it lives, it lives Last Line: And fill with eden odours all the air. Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; God; Grace; Innocence; Prayer; Punishment; Roses; Salvation THE RUNAWAY BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst I sassed my pa, an' he Last Line: I won't run away no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Punishment; Wandering & Wanderers; Relatives THE SASH, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma had ordered ann, the maid Last Line: To whip her, there's no doubt. Subject(s): Girls; Punishment THE SQUATTER, THREE CORNSTALKS, AND THE WELL, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a squatter in the land Last Line: "and sor-r-r-r-rer!" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Punishment THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How say'st thou? Die to-morrow? Last Line: Knelt by the corse -- alone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Confederacy THE TRIAL OF MAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ordinary milkman brought that dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE UNJUSTLY PUNISHED CHILD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child screams in his room. Rage Subject(s): Punishment THEIR EMBASSIES, HE SAID, WERE EVERYWHERE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For who is Last Line: Unless it be in the full sense of the night %and in the full severity of mercy Subject(s): Human Rights; Judgments; Punishment THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF PISA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Round the walls of the city of pisa Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age; Punishment THEY HANGED HIM, I SAID DISMISSIVELY, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Now, it is still easiest to say, they hanged him %dismissiv ely Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Capital Punishment THINK, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I will never understand what made our father think Last Line: In a spill of ink, bottle %numb migraine Subject(s): Children; Parents; Punishment THREE CROSSES, by EVA WARNER Poem Text First Line: Three ancient crosses on a hill Last Line: Their victims (dust now) challenge still. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crucifixion; Injustice; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion 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 GENTLEMAN WHO DISORDERED A LADY'S HANDKERCHIEF, ... CUT HIS THUMB, by ELIZABETH TEFT Poem Text First Line: Your punishment is just, you must confess Last Line: Lest serpents sting you, when you next intrude. Subject(s): Punishment; Rudeness; Bad Manners TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 10. THE TOYS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little son, who looked from thoughtful eyes Last Line: I will be sorry for their childishness.' Subject(s): Children; Punishment; Childhood TORTURE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing has changed Last Line: While the body is and is and is 5and has no place to go Subject(s): Bodies; Capital Punishment; Pain TWELVE GOOD MEN AND TRUE, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rusty key has whined in the lock, the rickety door is fast Last Line: They're tired, now, and they want their tea, the twelve good men and true! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Creation; God; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty TWO FUNERALS: 2., by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Facing a cold and sneering sky Last Line: Are laughing still. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Funerals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Burials TWO SUNSETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair morning of his life Last Line: And strikes the holiest feelings dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Evening; Hearts; Life; Punishment; Sunset; Twilight TWO TAKEN, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In iran, the table of allah Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Iran; Capital Punishment - Minors; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Persia UNCLE DISNEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when I bin bad Last Line: As baddest little childs! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Punishment UNDER SENTENCE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off! Off! No treacherous priest for me! Last Line: Fair chance for all to see me die! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty UNJUSTLY PUNISHED CHILD, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child screams in his room. Rage Last Line: He is stronger. The long impurification %has begun this morning Subject(s): Punishment UPON THE GALLOWS HUNG A WRETCH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh, what a livid boon! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mothers & Sons VERSE RECITED BY CLERK OF ST. SEPULCHRE'S BEFORE EXECUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Imprimis john gonne for the dethe of a mane in westm' all moste xx yeres paste Last Line: Robert hyll servynmane for murdre. %thomas jenyns bocher for dett Subject(s): Capital Punishment; London 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 VICTOR GALBRAITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the walls of monterey Last Line: "of victor galbraith!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Galbraith, Victor; Military Justice; Monterey, Mexico; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial VILLON'S EPITAPH , by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men, who after us still live Last Line: But pray to god that he absolve us all Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of The Hange Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mercy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty WE SHALL OVERCOME, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Poem Source First Line: A man walks calmly on his legs in the grass Last Line: Stiff words %in a book Subject(s): Capital Punishment WIT PUNISHT, PROPERS MOST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dread not the shackles: on with thine intent Last Line: Good wits get more fame by their punishment. Subject(s): Punishment WRITTEN FOR MY SON, AND SPOKEN BY HIM IN SCHOOL, UPON HIS MASTER'S FIRST BRINGING IN A ROD, by MARY BARBER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our master, in a fatal hour Subject(s): Schools; Punishment; Students |
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