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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REGRET Matches Found: 120 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RENUNCIATION OF THE DESERT PRIMROSE; FOR J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of the black and white photograph Last Line: I have fallen behind... Subject(s): Nuclear War; Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967); Regret; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb ADOREE (ON READING BROWNING'S 'LAST RIDE TOGETHER'), by VIRGINIA WAINRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Onward we go to our destination Last Line: You with a smile, I with a tear? Subject(s): Aging; Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Regret ALL INFLUENCES WERE IN VAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The creature kept so well to heel! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Grief; Regret AN OFFERING FOR MR. BLUEHART, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a place, when I was young Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Orchards; Childhood Memories; Regret AN OLD PRIMA DONNA SPEAKS, by HELEN WIEAND COLE Poem Text First Line: I made my choice: / 'twas children or my voice Last Line: With their remembered praise. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Regret; Solitude; Loneliness ANOTHER FEELING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once you saw a drove of young pigs Subject(s): Pigs; Diability; Regret; Boars; Hogs ANTILAMENTATION, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Regret APOLOGY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, darling, darling, do not frown Last Line: I would break my own to give! Subject(s): Regret; Human Behavior AUTUMN IN THE GARDEN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frosty kiss of autumn in the dark Last Line: Never walk alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Autumn; Regret; Seasons; Fall BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean BRIDAL BALLAD, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ring is on my hand Last Line: May not be happy now. Subject(s): Marriage; Regret; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BY HIS BEDSIDE, by FERN MARY MUNSELL Poem Text First Line: Dear little fellow - you are fast Last Line: Gentleness. Subject(s): Children; Patience; Regret; Wisdom; Childhood BY SMALL AND SMALL: MIDNIGHT TO FOUR A.M, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For eleven years I have regretted it Subject(s): Death; Regret; Dead, The CLOSE BY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So near at hand (our eyes o'erlooked its nearness Last Line: Twas—once so near at hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Longing; Love - Loss Of; Regret CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA. AN APOLOGY, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Expect not, lovely cynthia, yet from me Last Line: But in the hour when jove, or venus reigns. Subject(s): Love; Regret DAVID, MUSING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was I who faced the lion and the bear Last Line: For later -- for her -- for israel -- for my sons Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Faith; Hunger; Introspection; Passion; Regret DEATH IN THE HOME, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When those we love die Last Line: Good with long talks. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Death; Regret; Dead, The DEEP SORRINESS ATONEMENT SONG, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who sold manhattan for a halfway decent bangle Subject(s): Failure; Regret DESTINY, by CHARLOTTE TALLEY Poem Text First Line: Together in youth Last Line: Too late -- it was you! Subject(s): Fate; Regret; Destiny DISILLUSIONMENT, by LOIS E. SANDISON Poem Text First Line: I wonder if you knew, and kept from me Last Line: I never dreamed regret itself would go. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Regret ENOUGH, by GENEVIEVE W. MASON Poem Text First Line: You would not let me get you meat or drink Last Line: And then you went. Subject(s): Regret EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIFTY YEARS SPENT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I passed a girl when my heart cried loud! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Time; Regret FIVE EMOTIONS: THE FIRST -- REGRET, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: If only I had done that instead Last Line: Howling innocently I might be able to endure %this lonely expanse ahead Subject(s): Regret FOR A VAIN REGRET, by HELEN KARIN SIKKENS Poem Text First Line: We must go on - for life will not repeat Last Line: At which we steal a sad and rueful look. Subject(s): Regret GHAZALS: 57, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought it was night but found out the windows were painted Last Line: Were what I truly wanted. So much silence and so many words. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Regret; Nightmares GHAZALS: 61, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wondering what this new light is, before he died he walked Last Line: And we hugged in a dark attic, not knowing how to continue. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Regret; Shame HALL OF REGRETTED THINGS, by GERTRUDE FAITH MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, soft! Tread softly, ye stranger, here! Last Line: To the hall of regretted things. Subject(s): Regret HER APOLOGY & LAMENT, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: I was busy in the kitchen. I didn't hear Last Line: On the porch, in the hall, over floorboards. Subject(s): Lament; Regret HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 15, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time will come, when thy beloved face Last Line: His glorious date, thou wilt recall thy ire. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Regret; Transience; Impermanence I MARRED A DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: I marred a day, a shining day Last Line: The meanness of my other day Subject(s): Regret; Forgiveness ILLUSIVE BEAUTY, by DOLORES B. TOOLE Poem Text First Line: The ugly things are those that stay Last Line: You can't? O why? Subject(s): Regret IN PRAISE OF REGRET, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow the longing we speak of Subject(s): Grief; Regret; Sorrow; Sadness IN RETROSPECT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We regret the sunsets and the flowers are ignored Last Line: For me, and I praise death, his doing too Subject(s): Regret; Death; Dead, The INTERLUDE, by MARGARET FERRELL Poem Text First Line: All night long I lay and thought on thee Last Line: The blue of all eternity was shown. Subject(s): Regret LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Regret LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Last Line: Sometimes these cogitations still amaze %the troubled midnight and the noon's repose Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Regret LAMENT, by WILLIAM G. RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One breathing more, I might have been Last Line: Had throttled blanched infinity! Subject(s): Regret LATE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your street was named for berries Last Line: Today I would answer for all those other things. Subject(s): Aunts; Childlessness; Family Life; Houses; Memory; Regret; Relatives LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 11, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lifelong our stumbles, lifelong our regret Last Line: Mounting to him in love's perpetual fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Regret LETTERS TO YESENIN: 2; TO ROSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't have any medals. I feel their lack Last Line: Steam pipes running along the ceiling. The rope. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Regret; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to feel exalted so I picked up Last Line: Stop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Martyrs; Regret; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am four years older than you but scarcely an unwobbling Last Line: I fed my dying dog a pound of beef and buried her happy in the barnyard. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Desire; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LULLABY FOR REGRET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tuck you in, thin sliver Last Line: And nothing would go wrong. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Regret MARY MORISON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary, at thy window be Last Line: The thought o' mary morison. Variant Title(s): Devotion Subject(s): Love; Regret MEN IMPROVE WITH THE YEARS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am worn out with dreams Last Line: Among the streams. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Men; Regret MINOR MIRACLE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which reminds me of another knock-on-wood Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Regret; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness MR. ROGET'S APOLOGY (1), by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: Not mine is this pong, niff, or reek Last Line: A hummock, pile, clump, or a heap Subject(s): Regret MR. ROGET'S APOLOGY (2), by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: This smell is base, low, and absurd Last Line: A foyson of muck, or a turd Subject(s): Regret MY SECRET, by LEONE B. WATSON Poem Text First Line: A few short hours in the new year's dawn Last Line: We might have drained happiness unafraid. Subject(s): Regret NEVER TOO LATE: THE PENITENT PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom in the winter's rage Last Line: "man is sin, and flesh is grass!'" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Sin; Youth; Male-female Relations O'TOOLE AND MCSHARRY, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: In the valley of the lachlan, where the perfume from the pines Last Line: Always flying from the ghost of con mcsharry. Subject(s): Desire; Fights; Friendship; Regret OF A CHILD WHO WOULD NOT LEARN THE CRIS-CROSS ROW, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little child of mine, come hit her to my knee Last Line: Then the morning touched mine eyelids, and I woke. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Fathers; Regret; Religious Education; Childhood; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ON AND ON, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By long leagues of wood and meadow Last Line: And behind me like regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Regret ON THE THRESHOLD, by LE ROY J. N. BOYD Poem Text First Line: When come the thoughts of things that might have Last Line: For I have only a poor home. Subject(s): Divorce; Longing; Regret POOR PETER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While hans and grettel are dancing with glee Last Line: And sleep until the judgment day. Subject(s): Regret PORT O' DREAMS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a deal o' ports,' said murphy Last Line: "an' the fireflies gleamin' golden in the palms I'll never see!" Subject(s): Harbors; Nostalgia; Regret POSTHUMOUS REMORSE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you shall sleep, my faithless one, under / a monument Last Line: -and the worm will gnaw your flesh like a remorse. Subject(s): Death; Regret; Dead, The REALIZATION, by GRACE WILLWINNS EDDY Poem Text First Line: The saddest words of tongue and pen Last Line: "I love you' and 'I am your friend'." Subject(s): Regret RECOLLECTIONS OF A FADED BEAUTY, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recollect the man who did declare Last Line: Alas! Alas! I always sighed for more Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Regret; Transience RECOMPENSE, by AMY FORBES KING Poem Text First Line: I knew you never asked a worldly thing Last Line: A recompense for all I failed to be. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Regret; Shame; Dead, The; Paradise REGRET, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago I wished to leave Last Line: Would it were mine again! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Regret REGRET, by BOB BROOKS Poem Source First Line: It's like skipping a stone Last Line: Another stone, %sinking Subject(s): Regret; Stones REGRET, by JUANITA DE LONG Poem Text First Line: If you had been demeter, doso named Last Line: And only glimpse, far up, the road I need. Subject(s): Regret REGRET, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thin summer rain on grass and bush and hedge, Last Line: Not all complete, with mist and clouds and rain. Subject(s): Regret REGRET OF THE RANEE IN THE HALL OF PEACOCKS, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This man has taken my husband's life Last Line: Take him away to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Assassination; Duty; India; Passion; Regret REGRETS, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, for I wish to be alone among the tombs Last Line: Finding my ashes' heat more fervent than their lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Nature; Regret; Dead, The ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD TO KING HENRY III, AFTER SHE HAD TAKEN THE VEIL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry, 'its past! Each painful effort o'er Last Line: That even death was weak to end our love. Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Farewell; Henry Iii, King Of England (1207-1272); Love; Nuns; Redemption; Regret; Salvation; Parting SECOND THOUGHTS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were here, ah foolish then Last Line: You are no longer here. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Regret; Separation; Isolation SELF-EXAMINATION, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He might be tethered Last Line: To do with us? – madly flashing in the light. Subject(s): Beauty; Cancer, Breast; Radiology; Regret SELF-PORTRAIT, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I was twenty and in love with life Subject(s): Aging; Regret SENT TO A GENTLEMAN WHO HE HAD OFFENDED, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The friend whom wild from wisdom's way Last Line: Tis thine to pity and forgive. Subject(s): Regret SENT WITH REGRETS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Drink to me with a song, dear friends Last Line: One sweet good night to me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Regret SONG AFTER SAPPHO, by ADELAIDE HINKLE Poem Text First Line: Starlight, warm gold, and a river's flowing Last Line: Heart that is breaking. Subject(s): Regret SONGS WITH PRELUDES: REGRET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that word regret! Last Line: My happier days are not the days when I forget. Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Regret; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Bedtime; Songs 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 SONNET: TO ONE TO WHOM HE HAD BEEN UNJUST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I was angry once that you refused Subject(s): Regret SORRY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is much that makes me sorry as I journey down life's way Last Line: The sorriest things in this life will seem grandest in the next. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Regret STRANGE FEAST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Went to war, returned, found peace Last Line: Likes to walk the streets now, and the desolate beach Subject(s): Love; Memory; Peace; Regret; Solitude; Walking; War STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War STUDENT SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that at the core of it Last Line: For as long as we are here. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Regret; Wisdom SUNSET, by ISABEL WHITEHOUSE TOPPIN Poem Text First Line: In the glory and splendor of sunset Last Line: The ship of my dreams sailed away! Subject(s): Evening; Regret; Sunset; Twilight THE BRAES O' BALLOCHMYLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The catrine woods were yellow seen Last Line: Farewell, farewell! Sweet ballochmyle! Subject(s): Nature; Regret THE CUP, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cup of bitter-sweet I know Last Line: The grey tumultuous waters flow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cups; Love; Regret; Wisdom THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 6, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rider lingered at the fence a moment Last Line: While the brown brook ran on by buried daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Regret; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GROATSWORLD OF WIT: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deceiving world, that with alluring toys Last Line: My time is loosely spent, and I undone. Variant Title(s): A Palinode;a Death-bed Lament;miserrimus Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Regret; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE HEART, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mee! My enigmatik heart Last Line: But life into ye dust breathe once againe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Regret; Temptation THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 1. REGRET, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How was I to know Last Line: "rot on,"" god saith, ""within the foss of death." Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Regret; Dead, The THE LASS THAT MADE THE BED TO ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When januar' wind was blawing cauld Last Line: The lass that made the bed to me. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Regret; Seduction THE LAST QUARREL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay sleeping on my bed Last Line: Wherewith I sped my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Love; Quarrels; Regret; Solitude; Dead, The; Arguments; Disagreements; Loneliness THE MAIN REGRET, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen, too clear and historic within us, our sins of omission Last Line: Back to a half-sloughed life cheered by the mere human tone. Subject(s): Grief; Regret; Sorrow; Sadness THE PATH OF TEARS: 2. THE SILENCE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since thus I have endowed you with the whole Last Line: A load of passionate silence and despair. Subject(s): Despair; Hearts; Love; Passion; Regret THE PENITENT; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I but known some years ago Last Line: Or never courted, or enjoy'd their love. Subject(s): Regret THE PEOPLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I earned for all that work,' I said Last Line: After nine years, I sink my head abashed. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Memory; Regret THE REGRET, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If inclination ruled the hour Last Line: Levi bishop. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Regret; Nightmares; Joy; Delight THE REGRET, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me, dearest, if you were dead Last Line: Sometimes you did not love me when you could. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Regret THE RETREAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy those early days! When I / shined in my angel-infancy Last Line: In that state I came return. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence; Children; Christianity; Faith; Innocence; Nostalgia; Regret; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Belief; Creed THE SAILOR WHO SERVED IN THE SLAVE-TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stopt, -- it surely was a groan Last Line: O god, deliver me! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Murder; Prayer; Regret; Sailing & Sailors; Shame; Slavery; Violence; Clemency; Serfs THE SAILOR'S RETURN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her as she went Last Line: Because so well I love her. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE SNUFF-TAKER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: With melancholy gaze fixed on the distant sails, the poor old crone Last Line: Thereof. Two sous for the eucharist and two to spend for snuff. Subject(s): Life; Love; Regret THE STING OF DEATH, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is sin, then, fair? Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Death; Regret; Sin; Dead, The THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF PETT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which relieved that old person of pett Subject(s): Old Age; Regret THEY SAID, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said your footprints were stamped in blood Last Line: Say what hurts. Subject(s): Hospitals; Police; Regret; Violence THREE HARD WORDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He can memorize long orations Last Line: "those three little words, ""I was wrong." Subject(s): Errors; Regret; Mistakes; Fallacies TO A FRIEND INQUIRING IF WOULD LIVE OVER MY YOUTH AGAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do I regret the past? Last Line: Again to wake in light. Subject(s): Future Life; God; Past; Regret; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO THE DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know thou hast gone to the place of thy rest Last Line: "is born, like the rainbow, in tears" Subject(s): Death;mourning;regret;rest;solitude; "dead, The;bereavement;loneliness; TO THE SIGHING STREPHON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pardon, my friend, if my rhymes did offend Last Line: For it only consists in the word. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Regret TO THE SPIRIT OF SONG; APOLOGY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ever true and comfortable mate Last Line: But at that great price I would have thee mine. Subject(s): Regret TOO LATE, by CLARISSA HILL HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: I never told you of my love Last Line: Had told you so. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Regret; Dead, The VILLANELLE, by PHILIPPE DESPORTES Poem Text First Line: Rosette, because I stayed awaye Last Line: Which shall be first to knowe regret. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Regret VISIONS: 6, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle shepherd, born in arcady Last Line: They never would be foster-fathers more. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Regret VOICES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will never taste cantaloupe Last Line: Ocean shell, chinese button, against the sky. Subject(s): Grandparents; Legacies; Memory; Regret; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WHEN ONE IS OLD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When one is old one may forget Last Line: When one is old. Subject(s): Old Age; Regret WHITE BUTTERFLIES, by ISABELLE A. L. KFOURY Poem Text First Line: My loved one's words on yesterday Last Line: Upon a pool of tears. Subject(s): Regret WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all. Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Idols; Love; Regret; Solitude; Sympathy; Truth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Loneliness; Empathy WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen! Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you. Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War |
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