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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REPENTANCE Matches Found: 96 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COMMENT ON COMMENT IN GENERAL CONFESSION OF SINS, IN CHURCH LITURGY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to thy promises - hereby Last Line: What god, thro' him, rejoices to restore. Subject(s): Confessions; Prayer; Repentance; Penitence A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun Last Line: I fear no more. Variant Title(s): For Forgiveness;to Christ Subject(s): Forgiveness; Prayer; Religion; Remorse; Repentance; Clemency; Theology; Penitence A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND: USURY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Groaning in conscience, burdened with / my crimes Last Line: Die, reprobate, and hie thee hence to hell.' Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Repentance; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence A MAN'S REPENTANCE (INTENDED FOR RECITATION AT CLUB DINNERS), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight when I came from the club at eleven Last Line: I know how a murderer feels to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Unrequited; Repentance; Supernatural; Penitence A PENITENT'S PLEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a child that is lost Last Line: And give me thy peace! Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence A PENITENTIAL SOLILOQUY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Tho' no objects strike upon the sight Last Line: And worship god in spirit and in truth. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence A POSITION IN THE HEBREW DIVINITY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One man repentant is of more esteem Last Line: With god, then one, that never sin'd 'gainst him. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence AD ASTRA: 68, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In sole reliance on thy saving grace Last Line: And faith that shall not doubt thee at the last! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence ADVENT, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have tested and tasted too much, lover Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Repentance AFTER A FRUITLESS ARGUMENT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why of the truth could I persuade you not? Last Line: And in a kindly life our hearts may meet. Subject(s): Repentance; Truth; Penitence AN EPITAPH, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie I, once a witty fair Last Line: My noon was penitent. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Guilt; Mourning; Repentance; Shame; Bereavement; Penitence APOLOGY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I became a woman Last Line: I praise you %I grieve my whiteful ways Subject(s): Repentance APOLOGY (TO THE PANTHERS), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I became a woman Last Line: I grieve my whiteful days Subject(s): Repentance; Black Nationalism; Penitence ARCHPOET'S CONFESSION, by UNKNOWN+148 Poem Source First Line: Boiling over inwardly Last Line: Lay upon me my penance due, %I will freely do it Subject(s): Repentance ASH WEDNESDAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, my god, have mercy on my sin Last Line: To tell it in. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Repentance; Penitence AT SAINT PATRICK'S PURGATORY, by DONNCHADH MOR O'DALA Poem Source First Line: Pity me on my pilgrimage to loch derg! Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Repentance DEAD UNTO SIN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried me out of the land of sin Last Line: I am the man who was born to-day Subject(s): Death; Repentance 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 DISCIPLINE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throw away thy rod Last Line: Throw away thy wrath. Subject(s): Discipline; Repentance; Penitence EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE CID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was when from spain across the main the cid had come to rome Last Line: To curse ruy diaz de bivar, god's scourge upon the moor Subject(s): Christianity; Cid, El (1043-1099); Repentance; Sin FORGIVENESS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When man goes astray, a demon from lowest hell Last Line: And love divine plants sweet forgiveness where he lies. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Repentance; Clemency; Penitence GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred dove Last Line: My want of tears with store of bloud. Variant Title(s): Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve Not The Holy Spirit, Etc. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 14, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How much, azile, thou hast scorn'd my tears Last Line: But call to mind, and in that mind repent. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Disdain; Repentance; Scorn; Penitence HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence I DO REPENT ME OF DEPARTED DAYS, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: My hopes that in no other temple dwell Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Repentance IMPROVISATION #2: CHARLIE PARKER DIES FOR OUR SINS, by PAULETTE BEETE Poem Source First Line: Exhale a blue dream and follow it up Last Line: God himself will remind you that %the wages of sin are death Subject(s): Repentance; Sin JOYCE'S REPENTANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am a sinful man of men Subject(s): Repentance JUDAS TREES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Is this the emblem for betrayal Last Line: Saying breath-of-love, if I can Subject(s): Apostles; Betrayal; Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Repentance KEEN THYSELF, POOR WIGHT, by GEOFFREY KEATING Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Ceitinn, Seathrun Subject(s): Repentance 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 MASS IS OVER, THEY HAVE GONE IN PEACE, by SARA BERKELEY Poem Source Last Line: My twenty easters wash me in their milky sun Subject(s): Repentance MEXICO CITY BLUES (241ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And how sweet a story it is Last Line: - charley parker, lay the bane, %off me, and every body Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Repentance MORA SPONSI, THE STAY OF THE BRIDEGROOME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time the bridegroom stayes from hence Last Line: Is but the time of penitence. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S SONNET, CALLED HIS PARTING BLOW, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reason, that long in prison of my will Last Line: Subscribes to thee, and takes the better way. Subject(s): Love; Repentance; Sin; Youth; Penitence NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S SONNET, MADE IN THE PRIME OF HIS PENANCE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sweating brows I long have plough'd the Last Line: I find no time too late for to amend! Subject(s): Penance; Repentance; Youth; Penitence O LORD, I AM ASHAMED TO SEEK THY FACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy mercy's all-amazing monument Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Repentance; Shame OH BABBLE NOT TO ME, GRAY EILD, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Youth's dreams of sweet content Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Youth; Repentance OLNEY HYMNS: 9. THE CONTRITE HEART, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord will happiness divine / on contrite hearts below Last Line: And heal it if it be. Variant Title(s): "the Lord Will Happiness Divine""; Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence ON HIMSELFE (15), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Il'e write no more of love; but now repent Last Line: And that my dust was to the earth commended. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence PENITENCE (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who after his transgression doth repent Last Line: Is halfe, or altogether innocent. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence PENITENCE (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctors, in the talmud, say Last Line: More worth, then heav'ns eternitie. Subject(s): Jews; Repentance; Judaism; Penitence PENITENCE OF DON RODERICK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was when the king rodrigo had lost his realm of spain Last Line: Washed from offence, his spirit hence to god its flight hath taken Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Repentance; Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711); Sin PENITENCIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mans transgression god do's then remit Last Line: When man he makes a penitent for it. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence PRAISE AND PRAYER, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise is devotion fit for mighty minds Last Line: And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence PRAYERS OF A REPENTANT GENTLEMAN: 1 WHEN THE DEVIL HAUNTS ME, PROCLAIM, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: Lord, rust my forks Last Line: May there be peace, amen Subject(s): Repentance; Sin PRODIGAL SON, by SADIE FULLER SEAGRAVE Poem Text First Line: I had gone clothed in tatters all my days Last Line: Shall break the brittle hardness of your mouth. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence PRODIGALS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, in the book of books, today Last Line: "and he lives who once was dead." Subject(s): Repentance; Homecoming; Forgiveness PROVIDENCE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone upon the wayside seed that fell Last Line: Opened to god's good sunshine, like a flower. Subject(s): Repentance RECONCILIATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I begin through the grass once again to be bound to the lord Last Line: On the laugh of a child I am borne to the joy of the king. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence REPEAT ONE DAY BEFORE THY DEATH, by RABBI ELEAZAR Poem Text First Line: Hold thou thy friend's honor dear as is Last Line: Rabbi eleazar. Subject(s): Jews; Repentance; Judaism; Penitence REPENTANCE, by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His most kind sister all his secrets knew Subject(s): Repentance REPENTANCE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Once I prayed to the lord of battles Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Repentance REPENTANCE, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Poet to morfudd am I Last Line: And great turmoil, and the virgin mary %forgive my wrong ways, %amen, and I'll sing no more Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim Subject(s): Repentance REPENTANCE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I confesse my sinne is great Last Line: Fractures well cur'd make us more strong. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence REPENTANCE, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When muses smote, at god's command Subject(s): Repentance REPENTANCE, by SION CENT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Now I turn my thoughts to prayer Subject(s): Repentance REPENTANCE, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dictates of nature prove school-knowledge weak Last Line: Be henceforth repentance a stranger to love. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence REPENTANCE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, since thou didst in this vile clay Last Line: And through his merits, make thy mercy mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence REPENTANCE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hot tears of anger wash my cheek like rain Last Line: With my own hands I clutch the cup of gall! Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence REPENTANCE, by FLORENCE RALSTON WERUM Poem Text First Line: When heavy sorrow weighs the heart Last Line: Too blind to see god's brooding eyes. Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence REPENTANCE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Last sunday at st. James's prayers Last Line: By half so much repent Subject(s): Public Worship;repentance; Church Attendance;penitence REPENTANCE OF KING RODERIGO, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is, I hear, a poor half-ruined cell Last Line: And held them, like a treasure, with claspt hands. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 7, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring Last Line: The bird of time has but a little way %to fly - and lo! The bird is on the wing Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Repentance SECOND SIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts, I fear, run less to right Last Line: "lord god be praised!"" I answered with ""amen." Subject(s): Pity; Death; Repentance SO LITTLE AND SO MUCH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that I have so greatly failed thee, lord Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Repentance SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, I'll reform, I will, I swear!" Last Line: And die a cuckold and a saint Subject(s): Repentance;women; Penitence SONG, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever, chloe, I begin / your heart, like mine, to move Last Line: A holy day in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Errors; Repentance; Sin; Singing & Singers; Mistakes; Fallacies; Penitence THE BALLAD OF EPHRON, PRINCE OF TOPERS, by IMMANUEL OF ROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to a merry song about a merry / wight Last Line: Nor he, nor we, shall crave in vain for water! Alternate Author Name(s): Immanuel Ben Solomon Of Rome; Immanuel Di Roma Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Repentance; Sin; Water; Judaism; Penitence THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven. Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence THE CROSSE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this strange and uncouth thing? Last Line: With but foure words, my words, thy will be done. Variant Title(s): The Cross Subject(s): Cross, The; Repentance; Penitence 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 MAID AND THE PALMER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The maid she went to the well to wash Last Line: Then thou'st come a maiden home Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence THE PELICANS AT WHITE HORSE KEY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you follow the spiral Last Line: Set out to float on the sea of repentance Subject(s): Pelicans; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Repentance THE PENITENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god of goodness, thou my hope and stay Last Line: Have wander'd far to feed on husks of swine. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): God; Prodigal Son; Repentance; Sin; Penitence THE PENITENT, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come to thee blind, despairing Last Line: These my tears on thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Mary Magdalen; Repentance; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Penitence THE PENITENT, by WILLIAM PETER Poem Text First Line: With guilt and shame opprest Last Line: And e'en to sinners yield a refuge from despair. Subject(s): Faith; Repentance; Belief; Creed; Penitence THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 3, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see someone short on sense Last Line: And be a fool no more Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Fools; Repentance; Idiots; Penitence THE RING AND THE CASTLE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Benjamin bailey, benjamin bailey, why do you wake Last Line: "trees let me lie." Subject(s): Love; Repentance; Sin; Unfaithfulness; Penitence; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 7, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence THE SECOND THANKSGIVING, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have considered it, and finde / there is no dealing with thy mighty passion Last Line: The man who once against thee fought. Variant Title(s): The Reprisal Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence THE SONG OF PENITENCE; UNFINISHED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He passed from earth Last Line: . . . . . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence THE SONG OF REPENTANCE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir ulrich rides in the forest so green Last Line: "he'll repeat it sentence by sentence." Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence; Songs THE STORM, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If as the windes and waters here below Last Line: They purge the aire without, within the breast. Subject(s): Repentance; Storms; Penitence THE TROUBLES OF MATTHEW MAHONEY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little town in devonshire, in the mellow september moonlight Last Line: And matthew mahoney dearly does her love. Subject(s): Distrust; Love; Marriage; Repentance; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Penitence THE VENUSBERG, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have burned my garments of gold, and my violin Last Line: There'll be no one to sing in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Religion; Repentance; Sin; Theology; Penitence THE WASTED DAY, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Another day let slip! Its hours have run Last Line: Yet he was happier, though he did not know. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence THE WORME OF LAMBTON, by J. WATSON Poem Text First Line: It is the joyful easter morn Last Line: And the solemn prayer was made. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence THOUGH WE REPENT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we repent, can any god give back Last Line: The dear, lost days we might have made so fair? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence THRUST & PARRY, by GREG DELANTY Poem Source First Line: You're sure you heard something break. Something snap Last Line: But this time of fawning words & flowers, %and her breakfast in bed for at least a week Subject(s): Repentance TO GOD (14), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, who me gives a will for to repent Last Line: When I have done true penance here for it. Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence TO THE DEAD CARDINAL OF WESTMINSTER, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not perturbate Last Line: Lest my feet walk hell. Subject(s): Manning, Henry Edward (1808-1892); Repentance; Penitence TOLSTOI'S REPLY TO THE RUSSIAN CHURCH, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: You urge me to repent--aye, and of what Last Line: I've nothing to repent.—you must repent. Subject(s): Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian; Repentance; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Russian Church; Penitence TURBINES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The planet repenting is the planet cracking Last Line: By fatigue. The earth is nervous, but the mind is spinal Subject(s): Repentance TWO SINNERS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, it was said one time Last Line: "but the world said, frowning, ""we shall not call." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Men; Repentance; Sin; Women; Penitence TWO WOMEN, SELECTION, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night is a midnight meeting, and the earl is in the chair Last Line: I'd rather be that drowned harlot than the beautiful countess may. Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Repentance; Sin; Penitence VAIN REPENTANCE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do we not say, forgive us, lord Last Line: Not my rebellious will, but thine! Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence |
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