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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELF-ESTEEM Matches Found: 153 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "DO NOT, O DO NOT PRIZE THY BEAUTY AT TOO HIGH A RATE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Through their own delay Subject(s): Beauty;pride;vanity; Self-esteem;self-respect A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A CASE STATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now how shall I do with my love and my pride Last Line: Her spark saying nothing talks better than I. Subject(s): Blood; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A LOAFER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hang about the streets all day Last Line: A phantom voice that cries by rote. Subject(s): Discretion; Idleness; Pride; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect A LYKE-WAKE SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair of face, full of pride Last Line: Nae man kens if ye have been. Subject(s): Death; Pride; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect A MEDAL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it pleasure me, isotta, why? Last Line: Give me my plato. Pray, how stands the hour? Subject(s): Chivalry; Love - Unrequited; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A SONG TO ILLINOIS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: Lift a song to illinois, a song of pride and praise Last Line: Her mighty, marching city, and the lifting hopes of men. Subject(s): Illinois; Praise; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A WARNING-PIECE TO ENGLAND AGAINST PRIDE AND WICKEDNESS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When edward was in england king Last Line: That pride must have a fall. Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the pride for which I once was blamed Last Line: Spite of my worship, thou wilt turn away? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AFFECTATION, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The men of simple manners please; they Last Line: Blamed ridiculous you are! Subject(s): Etiquette; Men; Pride; Manners; Courtesy; Self-esteem; Self-respect AFTER READING WILLIAM BLAKE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Those who cut a worm in twain Last Line: Thrusts the spear into jesus' side. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Jesus Christ; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AN EPITAPH, ON A FOOLISH BOASTER, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here to its pristine dust again is hurl'd Last Line: Flutter a while, fall, and are seen no more. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect AN IDEAL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the gray mists of early dawn Last Line: For that bright morning dream of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Love; Pride; Tears; Self-esteem; Self-respect AN OLD SAW NEWLY RENDERED, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although nor wise nor deep in thought Last Line: Then toot your horn and row your own canoe. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Death; Pride; Proverbs; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Maxims; Adages AS RED MEN DIE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captive! Is there a hell to him like this? Last Line: He bends to death—but never to disgrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Hostages; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Pride; Valor; Bravery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Self-esteem; Self-respect AT THE NAVAL EXHIBITION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What pulse but throbs, what heart but quicker beats Last Line: Only the seamen voiceless are and dumb. Subject(s): England; Patriotism; Pride; Sailing & Sailors; Strength; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect AYLMER'S FIELD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride Last Line: Follows the mouse, and all is open field. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Landscape; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect BARABBAS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he opens the gates of the morning Last Line: Amplias. Perhaps, perhaps! Subject(s): Bible; Generosity; Pride; Religion; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Theology BEFORE THE SOUL'S TRIBUNAL, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The champion of a lawless crew Last Line: And o'er my being reign! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Life; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect BROKEN COLUMN, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are / you / too Last Line: And what ever un-broken marbled do you strain to see Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect BROKEN OFF, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: In the spring-time of youth didst thou bless me Last Line: I leave thee for death. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Pride; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect CANADIAN BORN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We first saw light in canada the land beloved of god Last Line: That they were born in canada beneath the british flag. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Nations; Pride; Canadians; Self-esteem; Self-respect CELEBRATION ODE, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great city of our love and pride Last Line: Newark belongs to the world. Subject(s): New Jersey; Newark, New Jersey; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CENSURE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O no! I'm sure it was presumptous pride Last Line: Hell fears no pride, but is of humble feare afrayd. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CHIQUITA: A LEGEND OF THE WESTERN SEAS, by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Her name? Chiquita. Ah, senor Last Line: Farewell — forever! — Subject(s): Legends; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CONCEIT, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: High in the sky and away so far Last Line: Blinking and twinkling all for me!— Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect CONFIDO ET CONQUIESCO, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fret not, poor soul: while doubt and fear Last Line: So trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; God; Love; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect CONSOLING THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sleep as brutus slept of yore Last Line: Is not a den of murderers roman. Subject(s): Nations; Pride; Sleep; Thought; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was twenty-five years ago Last Line: That you are just as foolish as can be Subject(s): Disasters;jesus Christ;pride;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); Self-esteem;self-respect EARTHLY PRIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride Last Line: Is but an insect's sepulchre at best. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect EPITAPH: 34, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because too proud almost to live or die Last Line: Over this mound of earth stumbled and fell. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect FAME, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fame guards the wreath we call a crown Last Line: But the poor conceit of pride. Subject(s): Fame; Pride; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect GLOUCESTER SPRING, by NATHANIEL EVANS Poem Text First Line: Sequestered from the city's noise Last Line: The world around shall say. Subject(s): Pride; Towns; Self-esteem; Self-respect GODOLPHIN HORNE, WHO WAS CURSED WITH THE SIN OF PRIDE, AND BECAME A BOOT-BLACK, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Godolphin horne was nobly born Last Line: Who blacks the boots at the savoy Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Pride; Coming Of Age; Satire; Social Commentary; Self-esteem; Self-respect HAEC FABULA DOCET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The play seems out for an almost infinite run. Last Line: Are absolutely sure to come to grief Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT ARCHITECTUS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A summer's night Last Line: Symphonic songs in stone. Subject(s): Pride; Self-gratification; Self-esteem; Self-respect HYMN TO INDRA, LORD OF RAIN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who rousest the voice of the thunder Last Line: Hearken, o lord of rain! Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Pride; Singing & Singers; Worship; Self-esteem; Self-respect HYMN: FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY: 1, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room for the proud! Ye sons of clay Last Line: "far from his palace door." Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect I THINK DELILAH HAD A HEART, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: I think delilah had a heart Last Line: Heard the breathless shears snap. Subject(s): Hearts; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect IN THE COUNTRY OF GILBERT WHITE (OBIIT JUNE 26, 1793), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of great men in london town Last Line: We love her servant much! Subject(s): History; London; Nature; Pride; White, Gilbert (1720-1793); Historians; Self-esteem; Self-respect IS AND WAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was whiter than the ermine Last Line: Doing all from self-respect. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Once Subject(s): Love; Past; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect LIBER QUARTUS, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor will ingenious women, free from pride Last Line: That parents nature is most prevalent. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Family Life; Pride; Women; Relatives; Self-esteem; Self-respect LINES; WRITTEN AFTER THE PROMISE OF A REWARD, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Whene'er the muse pleases to grace my dull page Last Line: Nor pegasus rear, till I've taken my ride. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect LOVE'S WOUNDING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the young stag, when lusty spring supreme Last Line: Planted a thousand arrows in my side. Subject(s): Love; Pride; Spring; Wandering & Wanderers; Self-esteem; Self-respect LOVE, PRIDE, AND FORGETFULNESS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet my heart was sweet love's tomb Last Line: What marvel that she died? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect MAKING A CHAMPION, by HENRY E. HORNE Poem Text First Line: While bill was sitting by the door Last Line: A post for fifty pound. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Pride; Wine; Self-esteem; Self-respect MENTAL HORIZONS: 2. MR. BOOSTER-CIVIC PRIDE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: His interest leaps to the city line Last Line: By knocking other boosters down. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect MY HEART AYE WARMS TO THE TARTAN, by THOMAS MILLER (1831-) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scotland, country of my birth Last Line: As dearly as my home! Subject(s): Pride; Scotland; Self-esteem; Self-respect NATURALLY, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since naturally black is naturally beautiful Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 23D PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seem not too conscious of thy worth, nor be Last Line: Whilst they that are above thee fall below. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NEPENTHE: THE UNICORN, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! In the mute, mid wilderness Last Line: Far athwart his lair I run. Subject(s): Pride; Unicorns; Wilderness; Self-esteem; Self-respect NEW SPRING: 44, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey's the sky and every-day like Last Line: See, and weather foul as this is! Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOBLESSE OBLIGE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it the duty of one who is gifted Last Line: Which lifts up the king to the crown's demands. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOR ON BEDS OF FADING FLOWERS, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text Last Line: Eternal bliss for transient pain. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOTUS IGNOTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you sigh for the power you dream of Last Line: Are ever revealed! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Pride; Truth; Nightmares; Self-esteem; Self-respect ODES I, 38. TO HIS ATTENDANT, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the persian's costly pride Last Line: Beneath th' o'erarching vine. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect OLD INDIANY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old indiany, 'course we know Last Line: Of both town and country lots. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Indiana; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON REVISITING HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once engaged the stranger's view Last Line: And blotted out the line for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Harrow, England; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect ON THE CAUSE, CONSQUENCE AND CURE OF SPIRITUAL PRIDE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose a heater burning in the fire Last Line: That casts itself into the holy fire. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence PARAPHRASE; FAILURE AND SUCCESS, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who can tell how hard it is to climb Last Line: Levi bishop. Subject(s): Failure; Pride; Soul; Success; Self-esteem; Self-respect POET'S PRIDE, by IBN AMMAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ben ammar: my repute Last Line: Are ever on the margins penned. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pride; Self; Self-esteem; Self-respect PORTRAIT, by CLAIRE EMERSON Poem Text First Line: You are my breath / ... By daylight Last Line: You've lied. Subject(s): Portraits; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O countess gudel of gudelfeld town Last Line: She smells of garlic -- this gudelfeld! Subject(s): Garlic; Pride; Wealth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Riches; Fortunes PRIDE, by EVELYN HAZLETT HUNT Poem Text First Line: I have a proud flag flying / though none may Last Line: A broken vow. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Pride; Clemency; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To pride, upon its altar, what priceless offerings we bring Last Line: We strive to still the heart's low cries. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one we lay aside Last Line: Receives the ultimate pride of life. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pride should effect your escape Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: To-day / proud cherry blossoms Last Line: Of sordid, humble, cherry-blossoms. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIDE ALLOWABLE IN POETS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thou deserv'st, be proud; then gladly let Last Line: The muse give thee the delphick coronet. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PRIMER LESSON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look out how you use proud words Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PROMOTED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: J. Rufus jinks is stepping high, the light Last Line: "beneath this worst of strokes, and will not pass around the smokes." Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect PSALM: 10, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stand'st thou lord aloof so long Last Line: On vs may tyrannize no more. Subject(s): Curses; God; Hearts; Poverty; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect RENUNCIATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What man doth once with all his heart renounce Last Line: And one to him are joy and woe Subject(s): Abandonment;pride; Desertion;self-esteem;self-respect ROADSIDE POEMS: AFTER THOMAS KEMPIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who follows jesus shall not walk Last Line: Of the one thing needful! Subject(s): God; Humility; Jesus Christ; Knowledge; Life; Pride; Truth; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect ROCK AND HAWK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a symbol in which Last Line: Nor success make proud Subject(s): Hawks; Pride; Stones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Granite; Rocks ROYAL PRIDE, by AL-NASIR Poem Text First Line: Are we not the progeny Last Line: Joy possesses all the earth. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONG, by BERNIECE GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Love is life / things that follow Last Line: Love will keep as his own. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONG TO THE GOD OF FOND DESIRE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day the god of fond desire Last Line: "you drag him at your chariot-wheels." Subject(s): Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 20, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, give this humour over Last Line: Live in far more perfect joy. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Happiness; Pride; Women; Youth; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 5, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let perjured fair amynta know Last Line: That pity ever dwelt with pride. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Pain; Pity; Pride; Suffering; Misery; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONNET: 15, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fairest ganymede, disdaine me not Last Line: Learne for to folde, and to unfold our sheepe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect ST. JAMES PARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas june, and many a gossip wench Last Line: "may be a little altered too." Subject(s): London; Nature; Parks; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect STORY OF A BLACKBIRD, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gather round me, children Last Line: "this comes of being proud." Subject(s): Blackbirds; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect STRASBOURG, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee sombrely enthralled Last Line: Seen thro' glad tears, the tricolors! Subject(s): Flags; France; Happiness; National Songs; Pride; Progress; Strasbourg, France; Victory; Joy; Delight; National Anthems; Self-esteem; Self-respect STRONG I STAND, THOUGH I HAVE BORNE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mankind; Pride; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE BLACK POINT, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When to the sun a man hath raised his eye Last Line: Unblinded face the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Pride; Sun; Youth; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE BRAGGART, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the redwood tree Last Line: "shall his death be dug." Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CITY AT NIGHT, by MARGUERITE AVIS WHITCOMB Poem Text First Line: With light on light the city streets now blaze Last Line: We babel view, and feel our earthborn might. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CITY OF HERITAGE, by ANNA BLAKE MEZQUIDA Poem Text First Line: Down where the swift passaic Last Line: The city men love to-day! Subject(s): Newark, New Jersey; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CONTRAST; THE SUNNY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the nuptial morn. Now hearts are light Last Line: Thy love and peace, and worship ever there! Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CROWN, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently through the dusk my thoughts return to me Last Line: One coronet for both of astral buds and leaves. Subject(s): Children; Crowns; Fear; Flowers; Life; Pride; Childhood; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN SINS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call in the dancers Last Line: Heaven too shall vanish in pale smoke. Subject(s): Anger; Dancing & Dancers; Gluttony; Idleness; Lies; Lust; Pride; Sin; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE DEATH-DAY OF KORNER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the death day of the brave Last Line: With the sword, his bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Courage; Death; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Pride; Singing & Singers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Songs THE ENEMIES OF THE LITTLE BOX, by VASKO POPA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't bow down to the little box Alternate Author Name(s): Popa, Vasco Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL (VERSION 2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was jesus humble or did he Last Line: Or call men wise for not believing Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Humility; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mythology; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FASHION, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: I likewise might inamour'd be Last Line: That, & no other fashion wee'l receive. Subject(s): Facades; Fashion; Pride; Appearances; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FORSAKEN WIFE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Methinks, 'tis strange you can't afford Last Line: I yet superior am to you. Subject(s): Men; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FOUNDERS, by DAVID MACLURE Poem Text First Line: Here where a giant city's pulses throb Last Line: Proud of his home, the city beautiful. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FUR COAT, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked out in my coat of pride Last Line: And sneezed a while; and scratched myself. Subject(s): Fur Trade; Pride; Furs; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GARLAND, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pride of every grove I chose Last Line: The justice of thy chloe's sorrow.' Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GRIEVINGS OF A PROUD SPIRIT, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crime may be clear'd, and sorrow's eyes be dried Last Line: There is no after health -- no hope -- no pardon! Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE KING'S FAVORITES, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A king, once summoned his favorites Last Line: "since I've lost ambition and high-headed pride?" Subject(s): Ambition; Humility; Pride; Prudence; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Caution THE LIBERTY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I be one, of those obsequious fools Last Line: With what reluctance they indure restraints. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Pride; Women; Liberty; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LITTLE TOWN O' TAILHOLT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kin boast about yer cities, and their stiddy growth and size Last Line: But the little town o' tailholt's good enough fer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Pride; Towns; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE OAK AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak said to the forest trees Last Line: Said: in my woods the wind stirreth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ignorance; Life; Mankind; Oak Trees; Pride; Dullness; Stupdity; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PEACE OF GOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We ask for peace, o lord! Last Line: Thou keepest for those hearts who love thee best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Peace; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 78, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man descended from pride Last Line: And never grows tired of meat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Greed; Pride; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PRIDE OF THE KINGS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Two monarchs of the cymry on a hill Last Line: And cleft his skull, and bore the cloak away. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fights; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PROUD, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are the proudest who have met defeat Last Line: The ghost of beauty in an empty breast. Subject(s): Failure; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PROUD FROG, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poor men to expences run Last Line: She raged and puffed, and burst in two. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Frogs; Pride; Size And Shape; Allegories; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PROUD MISS MACBRIDE; A LEGEND OF GOTHAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Terribly proud was miss macbride Last Line: Is subject to irritation! Subject(s): Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PROUD ONE'S DOOM, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen pearl's own equal - nay Last Line: And with her pride did into lethe pass. Subject(s): Nature; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE SERVICE STAR, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Text First Line: She saw in the window a single star Last Line: "he is in fort leavenworth." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Pride; Soldiers; Sons; War; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that midas Subject(s): Gluttony; Pride; Envy; Greed; Lust; Anger;sloth; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Avarice; Cupidity THE SONG OF THE MASK, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: In primal years through infancy of man Last Line: Than the mask removed from his naked soul. Subject(s): Masks; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later when the gloated water Subject(s): Memory; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE TIME TO BE CROSS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The time to be cross is when you have found Last Line: It's time to be cross—with yourself. Subject(s): Anger; Pride; Strength; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE TWO PEACOCKS OF BEDFONT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! That breathing vanity should go Last Line: How they once lived, and wherefore they are there. Subject(s): Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE WAGES OF PRIDE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of wonder, when theology Last Line: He was the children's sport and mockery. Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE WIFE'S APPPEAL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He sat and read. A book with silver clasps Last Line: Frighted with calumny! -- and this is fame! Subject(s): Marriage; Pride; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Self-esteem; Self-respect THERE IS NOTHING IN VAIN: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a mission, no doubt, for the mole in the dust Last Line: And the agents are needed, for god has supplied. Subject(s): Agents; Missionaries & Missions; Pride; Thought; Trust; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking THIS LAND, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Beloved sea, fall gently on this land Last Line: Your loveliness long after I depart. Subject(s): Pride; Sea; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean THREE FRIENDS, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Many the friends you name Last Line: Thrust in my side. Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Hope; Pride; Youth; Optimism; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO A BOASTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall not cover you Last Line: And be forgotten. Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Pride; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean TO A PRODIGY OF SAPIENCE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's an orange - thou hast drained its juice Last Line: Though moon and stars be minced to yield it stuffing. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO A PROUD BEAUTY, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperious fool! Think not because your're fair Last Line: Provoke my pen to write in such a strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Beauty; Pride; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO D. G. ROSSETTI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the darkness cometh never a sound Last Line: And we inherit now its deathless pride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Pride; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO DIANEME (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes Last Line: When all your world of beauty's gone. Subject(s): Admiration; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO FORTUNE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst I in prison or in court look down Last Line: And, wouldst thou have me humbled, make me great. Subject(s): Fortune; Pride; Prisons & Prisoners; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO MADAM BHEN, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam! Permit a muse, that has been long Last Line: Her want of skill, than want of zeal to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Behn, Aphra (1640-1689); Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO MUTIUS, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: A thousand great resolves, as great Last Line: With his eternal doom. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Mutability; Pride; Destiny; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO MY DAUGHTER, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, are they proud, whose leafy pomp outshone Last Line: Strews flowers beneath us, holy stars above. Subject(s): Daughters; Love; Pride; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal bard! Thy graphic pen Last Line: As if you felt the red man's glory. Subject(s): Bards; Pride; Soldiers; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO THE HONOURED EUGENIA, COMMANDING ME TO WRITE TO HER, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair excellence! Such strange commands you lay Last Line: Quarrel with them that give you not your due. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Heaven; Pride; Soul; Paradise; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO THOSE OF MY SISTERS WHO KEPT THEIR NATURALS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! I love you Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Conformity; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TOO PROUD TO PRAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: She was too proud to pray Last Line: What a prayer. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Pride; Male-female Relations; Self-esteem; Self-respect VARIATIONS ON SAPPHO: 35, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gorgo, put the rug in place Last Line: Thy pride upon a ring? Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Variant Title(s): Long Ago: 35 Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Pride; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Self-esteem; Self-respect VICTIM OF HIMSELF, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought he saw a long way off the ocean Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Perception; Pride; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Self-esteem; Self-respect VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time was, and that was term'd the time of gold Last Line: Thriuing in ill, as it in age decayes. Variant Title(s): The Golden Age Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Pride; Sea; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were yesterday polemons natales kept Last Line: With satten sleeues hath grac'd his sackcloth sute. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Names; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The satire should be like the porcupine Last Line: For welthy thames to change his lowly rhene. Subject(s): Nature; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Porcupines; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect WASHINGTON, by EVALYN TERRY BROOKS Poem Text First Line: O washington, the beautiful, our city glorious Last Line: Salute our washington! Subject(s): Cities; Love; Pride; Urban Life; Self-esteem; Self-respect WEEK'S END, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to rest serenely in the gloaming Last Line: Heaps of mon. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pride; Wages; Working Class - United States; Work; Workers; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Salaries WHERE ILIUM WAS PROUD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the sands where ilium was proud Last Line: Only a deathless tale in poets' mouths. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Iliad; Odyssey; Self-esteem; Self-respect WINTER TREES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: Over their stark austerity the trees Last Line: To sing, and winds to stir with passionate words. Subject(s): Birds; Pride; Trees; Winter; Self-esteem; Self-respect WISCONSIN, by CORA BLAKESLEE BEEBE Poem Text First Line: The scotsman rightly sings Last Line: And that is home to me. Subject(s): Pride; Wisconsin; Self-esteem; Self-respect WOMAN PRIDE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of his life she will go quietly Last Line: So softly she will go—in woman pride! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect WOMEN WILL KNOW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My tears ran down Last Line: But women will know the answer well! Subject(s): Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect YOUR HONOR, by PARTHENIA GADDY WILSON Poem Text First Line: When walking down the street Last Line: We lift old glory the u. S. Around. Subject(s): Pride; United States; Self-esteem; Self-respect; America |
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