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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SIN Matches Found: 399 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ADAM LAY I-BOWNDYN [OR, I-BOUNDEN, OR, Y-BOUNDEN]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "adam lay I-bowndyn, bowndyn in a bond" Last Line: Therefore we may singen / deo gracias Variant Title(s): O Felix Culpa;bless The Time The Apple Was Taken Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;eden;love;religion;sin; Theology "ALL MY LUVE [LOVE], LEAVE ME NOT", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Through thy mercy alone Subject(s): Redemption;sin A BALLAD, SHEWING HOW AN OLD WOMAN RODE DOUBLE AND WHO RODE BEFORE HER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The raven croak'd as she sat at her meal Last Line: Started and screamed with fear. Variant Title(s): The Old Woman Of Berkeley Subject(s): Devil; Exorcism; Old Age; Prayer; Sin; Singing & Singers; Women; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A BEGGAR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I beg of you, I beg of you, my brothers Last Line: Pray for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Love; Pain; Sin; Soul; Suffering; Misery A CHAPLET OF FLOWERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, set the casement open Last Line: Will call my soul away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Love; Sin; Soul A CONFESSION IN BRIEF, by MATHURIN REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since sev'n sins from these our eyes Last Line: Haste and lust that so do win me. Subject(s): Haste; Lust; Sin A DIALOGUE (TO BE SUNG TO THE VIOL, BY A BASE, AND A TREBLE), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Dives: o let thy pitty, gracious sire Last Line: Will raise him from his sinfull bed. Subject(s): Abraham; Pity; Sin A DILETTANTE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friend, be patient: goes the world awry? Last Line: The beauty and the pain are more alike. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): God; Religion; Sin; Theology A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall essenc'd coxcombs who from toilettes Last Line: Own the supreme omnipotence of gold. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Sin; Vanity; Virtue A GOOD RULE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer, who owned a fine orchard, one day Last Line: So, what you're ashamed to do, don't do at all. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Cures; Sin; Conduct Of Life A LEG IN A PLASTER CAST, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When at last he was well enough to take the sun Subject(s): Convalescence; Sin 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 PENITENT TO HIS NEIGHBOURS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Smiling I answer: 'is that all?' Last Line: Then what's your halfpenny? Subject(s): Conscience; Sin A POTION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How brew the brave drink life? Last Line: Then down with the brave drink life! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Moon; Pain; Sin; Wine; Suffering; Misery A PRAYER, LIVING AND DYING, by AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rock of ages, cleft for me, / let me hide myself in thee! Last Line: Let me hide myself in thee! Variant Title(s): A Living And Dying Prayer For The Holiest Believer In The World Subject(s): Sin A PYTHIAN ORACLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come pure in heart before this hallowed fane Last Line: All ocean's water shall not wash away Subject(s): Sin A REFLECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When eve upon the first of men Last Line: That adam was not adamant! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Pity; Sin; Women; Eve A SATYR, by ELIZABETH TIPPER Poem Text First Line: As dungeons are for criminals prepared Last Line: Make me true christian, tho' no satyrist. Subject(s): Life; Prisons & Prisoners; Sin; Women A WOMAN'S FALL, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: She sinn'd-because her very soul took fire Last Line: Is thrown upon the streets, besprent with mire! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sin AD ASTRA: 83, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But god!-can evil live within his sight? Last Line: But only through his grace, so freely given. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Judgments; Sin AFTERWARD HE REPENTED, AND WENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when my heart was whole I kept it back Last Line: And answer 'give it me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Sin ALL-SAINTS, by EDMUND YATES Poem Text First Line: In a church which is furnish'd with mullion and gable Last Line: "oh, where is all-sinners', if this is all-saints'?" Subject(s): Churches; Saints; Sin; Cathedrals AN INVITATION, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me invite you to kiss Subject(s): Sin ANGUS DEI, by VICTOR KINON Poem Text First Line: O lamb of god, o little infant lying Last Line: Drop from thy lips thy syllables of quiet! Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Lips; Sin ANOTHER ON SIN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin is an act so free, that if we shall Last Line: Say, 'tis not free, 'tis then no sin at all. Subject(s): Sin ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord what am I? A worm, dust, vapor, nothing! Last Line: Present me to thy blissfull throne. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The; Nightmares ANTICHRIST, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why seems your cheek so pale, young man Last Line: In heaven the gates of hell!' Subject(s): Hell; Malice; Sin APPELLATE JURISDICTION, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fragments of sin are a part of me Last Line: Shall he? Shall he? Subject(s): Sin ARM AND PEC (THE 2 ADILLOS), by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine was just Last Line: Idea that turns itself %into a skull, meaning to last Subject(s): Sin ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 14, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend Last Line: Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sin; Suffering; Misery AT SIMON'S HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: She seeks her saviour as she is Last Line: Dost thou believe it? Subject(s): Confessions; Sin AUTHOUR'S DREAME, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sinnes are like the haires upon my head Subject(s): Sin BALLAD OF THE LADY IN HELL, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL Poem Text First Line: The devil was bored with the whole affair Last Line: The angel and god and the lady wept. Subject(s): Sin BALLAD OF THE LONG-LEGGED BAIT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The bows glided down, and the coast Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sin; Anglers BALLAD OF THE LONG-LEGGED BAIT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bows glided down, and the coast Last Line: He stands alone at the door of his home, %with his long-legged heart in his hand Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Sin BALLAD OF THE UNSUCCESSFUL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the toilers from whom god barred Last Line: "god, give us another chance!" Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Unsuccessful Subject(s): Failure; God; Labor & Laborers; Life; Religion; Sin; Soul; Success; Work; Workers; Theology 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 BARBARA ROSE WRITES FROM SOUTH UIST, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: It's been cold here and hard, with the war Last Line: Safe, aloft in all that wild blue, untethered Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Saint Kilda (scotland); Secrets; Sin; Writing And Writers BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who standeth at the gate? - a woman old Last Line: And now at length thy sorrow is too late Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kindness; Cruelty; Charity; Faith; Sin BENEATH A PICTURE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Fearfully gazing spirit! Wherefore lies Last Line: Shrouding the brightness of thine angel form. Subject(s): Angels; Devil; Future Life; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BENNY THE BEGGAR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old benny the beggar, pocked, ragged and blind Last Line: And hang himself in her corset strings. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Poverty; Sin BEYOND KNOWLEDGE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rescued world newcomer Last Line: "o child, it is a rescued sin!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Bible; Children; Redemption; Religion; Sin; Childhood; Theology BIOTHANATOS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O vile ingratefull me Last Line: Unhappy hearts obdurateness. Subject(s): Confessions; Self-pity; Sin BROTHERS: 4. IN MY OWN DEFENSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What could I choose Last Line: Could they have failed to hear. Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Sin; Half-brothers CANNOT SWEETEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If that's water you wash your hands in Last Line: Dropping dropping dropping on it Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Blood; Sin; Deception CANTAR TO OUR LADY, by JUAN ALVAREZ GATO Poem Source First Line: Tell me lady, tell, prithee Last Line: Will you then remember me? Subject(s): Forget-me-nots; Judgments; Sin CATHERINE KINRADE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: None spake when wilson stood before Last Line: And for a space again there was no voice in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Sin; Clemency CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CHAPTER AND VERSE, by GONZALO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: It was for this that man came into the world, to fight Last Line: Of old age into another butterfly, %a different one Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Creation; Poetry And Poets; Sin CHLOE, M.A, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Careless rhymer, it is true Last Line: Violet. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Blue (color); Secrets; Sin; Women CHRIST COMPLAINS TO SINNERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With a garlande of thornes kene Subject(s): Sin CHRIST WRITES IN THE SAND, by LUCY CULRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Crafty words and questions at jesus christ were flung Last Line: In flaming letters of forgiveness in our heart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mercy; Sin CHRISTIAN ETHICS: MANKIND IS SICK, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind is sick, the world distemper'd lies Last Line: How sweet a grace, how infinite! Subject(s): Sin CINDERELLA, by RUBY C. SAUNDERS Poem Source First Line: I will be patient while my lord Last Line: All praises are due to allah for the lamb Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sin CLAUD HALCRO'S INVOCATION, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Magnus control thee, that martyr of treason Last Line: Hence pass till hallow-mass!—my spell is spoken. Subject(s): Cross, The; Ghosts; Mass; Saints; Sin; Supernatural CLOSER TO THEE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Closer, closer would I be Last Line: Blessed jesus, let me be! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology CLOWNS' DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother fools from everywhere Last Line: Let us use it soberly. Subject(s): Clowns; Death; Humorists; Jesters; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The COMPANY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, 'how terrible, if I were seen Last Line: "I thought, ""why should I, if the rest are so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CONFESSION (1), by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my poor sins I am set free Last Line: The customary cross repeating. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Confessions; Sin CONFESSIONS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face to face in my chamber, my silent chamber, I saw her Last Line: And no gentler than these.' Subject(s): Sin; God CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tho' cool the hour, a fever blazed within Last Line: Became our choice. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Sin; Truth; Voices; Nightmares CORRUPTION, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, it was so. Man in those early days Last Line: "arise! Thrust in thy sickle''?" Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Eden; Sin COUNSEL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though sin hath marked thy brother's brow Last Line: That christ the saviour died. Subject(s): Sin CREATION, by ZINAIDA HIPPIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou queen of all serenity Last Line: Into oblivion. Subject(s): Guilt; Serenity; Sin DANCE OF DEATH: MONK, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hoped that all sinners who Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Monks; Sin; Solitude 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 DE OLE SEXTON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brudder amos is de sexton Last Line: It am nebber gwine ter fail. Subject(s): African Americans; Future Life; Sin; Negroes; American Blacks; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DEADLY SINS DO YOU STILL DESIRE ME?, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: Can you still work in me? Subject(s): Desire; Sin DEATH SPEAKS, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you? Last Line: I shall bedrench the lowlands of shinar %with the unhappy blood of belshazzar Subject(s): Death; God; Judgments; Religion; Sin DEFIANCE, by JOHN W. BOLDYREFF Poem Text First Line: I am free, I've broken the halter Last Line: But I am in heaven to-day! Subject(s): Freedom; Sin; Liberty 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 DENIAL, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: High heaven denies me to myself. No blame Last Line: That made them me. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Shame; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness DEVIL'S WORKING OVERTIME, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Damn skeeters Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Sin; Slavery DIALECTIC, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Even the sun was expectant Last Line: Rabbi,' I think we understand.' Subject(s): Clergy; Confessions; Sin 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 DIRE: 4. PAPAL ALLOCUTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hast thou done? Hark, till thine ears wax hot Last Line: Barks for his advent in the clefts of hell. Subject(s): Hell; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Nations; Sin DIRIGE VIAS MEAS DOMINE!, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Open thyself, and then look in Last Line: Yet happy who these rules observe. Subject(s): Sin; Worship; Faith DOST THOU DENY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dost thou deny the virgin birth? Last Line: When thou shalt face christ's judgment seat. Subject(s): Devil; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves Last Line: A zone of no %destruction Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women ECLIPSE, by JESSIE HAEFNER Poem Text First Line: My sin / forms an eclipse / coming between my Last Line: Darkness. Subject(s): Eclipses; Fathers; Sin EDEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary and wandering, hand in hand Last Line: Eden must surely win. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Bible; Eden; God; Sin EDEN RETOLD: 5. THE CONFESSION, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on the first day her first word was thou Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Sin; Trees; Food & Eating; Eve EL KHALIL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no chieftain, fit to lead Last Line: Yet in their hearts I rule, a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sin EL MENDIGO, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA Poem Source First Line: Mio es el mundo Last Line: Una limosna Subject(s): Caridad; Pobreza; Refugiados; Sin Hogar EPITAPH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were no hidden motives to his life Last Line: As I have forgiven you / my sins Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Sin; Forgiveness ETERNO AFÁN, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source First Line: En el alma Last Line: Y en sus hondos Subject(s): Memorias De La NiÑez; Sin Hogar EURIPIDES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most. Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; Ocean EUROPA, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May the foemen's wives, the foemens' children Last Line: "henceforth shall bear." Subject(s): Household Employees; Mythology - Classical; Shame; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids EVA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I loved him all too well Last Line: Ye may meet at length in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sin; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness EVEN AS THE DAILY OFFERING, by SOLOMON BEN ABUN Poem Text First Line: Judge of the earth who wilt arraign Last Line: As offerings brought continually. Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Jews; Judgments; Redemption; Sin; Clemency; Judaism EVEN WEEDS, by ESTELLA SHIELDS FAHRINGER Poem Text First Line: The one that sins, judge not Last Line: Reach upward toward the light. Subject(s): Leadership; Sin 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 FAIR/BOY CHRISTIAN TAKES A BREAK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This other speaks of bones, blood-wet Last Line: The removal of what my troubled eyes have seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Carnivals; Children; Memory; Sin; Childhood FAITH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the loves of others close Last Line: Shine jewelled like the seraphim. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Faith; God; Religion; Sin; Belief; Creed; Theology FALLING STARS, by BAYARD DOMINICK JR. Poem Text First Line: Whene'er a man commits a sin Last Line: Bright stars across the skies. Subject(s): Angels; Sin; Stars FALSE SIGNALS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the days of piracy Last Line: Stab the god who comes to save. Subject(s): Sin FIRST CONFESSION, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood thudded in my ears. I scuffed Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Confessions; Sin FIRST CONFESSION, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blood thudded in my ears. I scuffed Last Line: A fresh roost for the holy cross Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Confessions; Sin FOES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank fate for foes! I hold mine dear Last Line: He guards me ever with his hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Enemies; Fate; Hate; Life; Sin; Destiny FOR HENRIETTA POLYDORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the land and on the sea Last Line: Be best beloved and love us best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean FOR THINE OWN SAKE, O MY GOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearied of sinning, wearied of repentance Last Line: I plead thyself with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Sin FUHRER, by DIANA JAMES Poem Text First Line: The dead are holy ones and when men die Last Line: But say he was a man who broke the world. Subject(s): Evil; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Sin FUNERAL OF MAZEEN; THE LAST OF THE ... MOHEGAN NATION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid the trodden turf is an open grave Last Line: And plead for your pale-brow'd brother's guilt. Subject(s): Funerals; Hope; Native Americans; Sin; Soul; Burials; Optimism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GIFTS AND SINS, by EDNA EADES PURYEAR Poem Text First Line: The simplest things are best Last Line: These are the sins of men. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Sin GIRL BEFORE A SHRINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three lilies grew in a garden Last Line: The lily-blooms and me! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Girls; God; Lilies; Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean GOD THE BROKEN LOCK, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've died enough by now I trust Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Sin; Singing & Singers; Songs GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: SOME OF SATAN'S SOPHESTRY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tempter greatly seeks, though secretly Last Line: Bright diamonds? What then in man is sin? Subject(s): Devil; Puritans In Literature; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub GOOD SHEPHERD, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd! Who with thine amorous, sylvan Last Line: Waiting still for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Crucifixion; Prayer; Sin GREED, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: Which of the seven deadly sins is worst? Last Line: And to this end kindly became a father Subject(s): Greed; Sin GROWTH, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: It was such a little, little sin Last Line: Is a hungry giant now. Subject(s): Sin HA! ORIGINAL SIN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity, vanity, all is vanity Subject(s): Sin HANGOVER MASS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the sins of the flesh, that reprobate Last Line: Over sidewalk cracks' imaginary snakes Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life - Ireland; Sin HEAVENLY BLISS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Trouble o'erwhelms us in the world Last Line: And taste a ray of heavenly bliss Subject(s): Death;duplicity;happiness;heaven;sin; "dead, The;deceit;joy;delight;paradise; HELL'S RESURRECTION, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron-colored stars of hell Last Line: As it had flamed of yore! Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hell; Sin; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub HER LAST LETTER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting alone by the window Last Line: Told how she had gone to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Sin; Suicide HIGH WINDOWS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see a couple of kids Subject(s): Sin HIGH WINDOWS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see a couple of kids Last Line: And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows %nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless Subject(s): Sin HOLY SONNET: 5, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a little world made cunningly Last Line: Of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heal. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnets: 15;microcosm;""i Am A Little World Made Cunningly""; Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; Theology HOMELESS, by JORGE HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Los anos se calzan Last Line: De regalarme sus Subject(s): Pobreza; Sin Hogar HORRIBLE DECREE, SELS., by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sinners, abhor the fiend Last Line: Draw all men unto thee Subject(s): Sin 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 HURRY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Mortals! Why this fierce haste Last Line: Enter its lord! Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Religion; Sin; Paradise; Theology HYMN, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When rising from the bed of death Subject(s): Sin HYMN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salt of the earth, ye virtuous few Last Line: And your reward is sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Saints; Sin I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I need thee every hour Last Line: "I need, oh, I need thee." Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology I, LORD, THY FOOLISH SINNER LOW AND SMALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Follow thou me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sin; Judgment Day IF I COULD SHUT THE GATE AGAINST MY THOUGHTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "that peace, and joy, and rest may be within, / and I remain divided from my sin" Subject(s): Sin IMPENITENCE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rejoice that I have sinned Last Line: Who has suffered, who has seen. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Religion; Sin; Clemency; Theology 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 IN A CITY PARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stretch of lawn as smooth as happiness Last Line: A beauty, and a promise, and a dream. Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Parks; Sin; Urban Life IN SILENCE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sees our faces bright and gay Last Line: "the virtue that hath made thee whole." Subject(s): Peace; Silence; Sin; Smiles; Soul IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each for himself is still the rule Last Line: The devil take the hindmost, o! Subject(s): Sin 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 INCIDENT IN EDEN, by CHARLES W. PRATT Poem Source First Line: Where leafy branches twined together Last Line: Dear,' said he, 'you always follow.' Subject(s): Eden; Sin INCONSTANT, by AMY BUFORD COOKE Poem Text Last Line: Death comes at last, and so, -- good-bye. Subject(s): Sin INVITATION, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me invite you to kiss Last Line: Of that fortress where lips of ice have sinned Subject(s): Sin JASPAR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jaspar was poor, and vice and want Last Line: Upon the maniac's soul. Subject(s): Guilt; Murder; Poverty; Sin; Story-telling JEALOUSY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Still, still I finde my heart too much below Last Line: My restless heart with fondly-sweet deceit. Subject(s): Jealousy; Sin JIM, by IRVING GERDY Poem Text First Line: Jim was a sinner, not hard as horn Last Line: Of the other world! Subject(s): Sin JUDGMENT, by FERNAND MAZADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night the true god lists your every crime Last Line: And the true god—I see it all—will pardon you. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUSTICE (UNCIVILISED AND CIVILISED), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ling-tso ah sin; on murderer's flat Last Line: For thee, though not for us, ah sin! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Justice; Murder; Sin KARMA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantom of mystery, older than history Last Line: Deathless associates, -- shadow and soul! Subject(s): Future Life; Love; Past; Sin; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life KET THE TANNER, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ket the tanner hath saddled his mare! Last Line: For rich men make merry, while poor men weep.] Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Sin; Widows & Widowers KING DAVID, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: David sang to his hooknosed harp Last Line: (and the lord is king above all gods!) Subject(s): Bells; David (d. 962 B.c.); Sin KNOWING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the crimson stain of sin Last Line: Because I know that jesus reigns. Subject(s): Sin LA AURORA, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: La aurora de Last Line: Como recien Subject(s): Ciudad Nueva York; Pobreza; Sin Hogar LAVENDER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There's a clump of lavender Last Line: Had such sweet strewings, said he. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Lavender; Linen; Sin LAYS OF FRANCE: SONG (1), by MARIE DE FRANCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, where is the bed we made Last Line: —let us go back once more! Alternate Author Name(s): Shaftesbury, Marie, Abbess Of Subject(s): Love; Sin LET NO SMALL SINNER ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If time should find a wayward stone therein Last Line: Let no small sinner enter the mosaic. Subject(s): Sin; Time LET US REASON TOGETHER, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come now, let us reason together Last Line: We may fly to the bosom of god. Subject(s): God; Reason; Sin; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals LETTER TO THE HON. MRS AUGUSTA PARKER, SELS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: -and my garden is now admirably beautiful, & were it not for the Last Line: The water, where they justly expiate their unpleasant & greedy sins Subject(s): Melancholy; Sin LIKE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sins are like an arrow-flight Last Line: And disavow my god. Subject(s): Sin LIMERICK, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a young lady of lynn Last Line: And straightway went at it ag'in. Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Sin LIMERICK, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish that my room had a floor Last Line: Is getting to be quite a bore. Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Sin LITTLE CUCKOLD, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The cuckold with her smiling face Last Line: Prays no harm may come to these Subject(s): Betrayal; Friendship; Sin LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 1. AFTER THE OPENING, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: There was a last, too-brief interlude in Last Line: Painting, nora? How has it been? Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Sin; Women LITTLE QUAKER SINNER, by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: A little quaker maiden with dimpled cheek and chin Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Ewan, Mrs. Subject(s): Dimples; Friends, Religious Society Of; Sin LITTLE SISTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a girl of presence fresh and fair Last Line: Making her saintly, while they make her dear. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Pain; Sin; Sisters; Soul; Optimism; Suffering; Misery LITTLE WAIFS OF SIN, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Their birthright-sin and sorrow from the first Last Line: In paynim lands ye were not so accurst! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sin LIVING IN SIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had thought the studio would keep itself Subject(s): Jews - Women; Love; Sin LIVING IN SIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had thought the studio would keep itself Last Line: She woke sometimes to feel the daylight coming %like a relentless milkman up the stairs Subject(s): Jews - Women; Love; Sin LORD, WHAT HAVE I TO OFFER? SICKENING FEAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only sift out my sin Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; Prayer LOVE (3), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back Last Line: So I did sit and eat. Variant Title(s): A Dialogue Between God And The Soul Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Eucharist; Faith; Forgiveness; Grace; Jesus Christ; Love; Love - Marital; Religion; Sin; Communion; Belief; Creed; Clemency; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology LOVE IN PATAGONIA; TO CARL VAN VECHTEN, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: Forgetting her mauve vows the fania fled Last Line: And then I danced along the boulevard! Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Sin; Dead, The LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE REBUKER, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Out o'er the windings of a dark side-street Last Line: They heard a stealthy step creep nigher, nigher. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Love; Sin LURE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What bait do you use,' said the Subject(s): Sin LUXURY OF SIN, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A white january sun on fire through the blinds Subject(s): Sin MAGDALEN TO HER POET, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take back thy song; or let me hear what thou Last Line: The pity at whose touch dies every sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARIA BEWELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "attend, young friends, while I relate" Last Line: And he'll forgive the past Subject(s): Sin MASKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain friend of mine, whose daily praise Last Line: Whose common title with the world was saint. Subject(s): Hate; Life; Masks; Sin; Soul MEA CULPA, by MARGARET M. VOLAND Poem Source First Line: We were taught sin was wrong and one Last Line: I was not half as bad as I could have %been Subject(s): Sin MEDITATION, by RUTH L. TEISSEDRE Poem Text First Line: I hear the chapel bell again Last Line: Now a walking prayer to an unknown god. Subject(s): Consolation; Meditation; Remorse; Sin 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 MISTRESS GLENARE, BY 'MARIAN', by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: A virtuous woman is mistress glenare Last Line: That poor sinful woman is—mistress glenare. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Evil; Sin; Women - Secluding MOMENTS THAT COME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am dancing around the plaza with a policeman Last Line: Who passes through softly %on her journey Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Loss; Sin MONSIEUR LE BRUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur le brun (who must not be confused / with the great painter) jointly Last Line: "so put a glass of water to my lips!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Peace; Sin MORE POTENT, LESS PECCANT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that may sin, sins least; leave to transgresse Last Line: Enfeebles much the seeds of wickednesse. Subject(s): Sin MORTAL SINS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: When I was young in the confessional Last Line: To breathe back Subject(s): Confessions; Faith; Sin MORTMAIN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey and ghostly cypresses Last Line: She had a lovely face. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Lips; Sin; Trees; Dead, The MOTHERHOOD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the awful full-orb'd moon Last Line: Around the world, and link these three again. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birth; Love; Mothers; Silence; Sin; Child Birth; Midwifery MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders; Dead, The; Bugs MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Last Line: To die and know it. This is the black widow, death Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders MULTUM DILEXIT, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat and wept beside his feet; the weight Last Line: Make me a humble thing of love and the tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Faith; Sin; Belief; Creed MY LIFE WITH THE VIRGIN MARY, by JOHN SUROWIECKI Poem Source First Line: Always the blue veil the blue sky the blue countenance Last Line: And the light must find her through tiny walls of ice %as blue as forget-me-nots and jittery Subject(s): Faith; Sex; Sin MY SINS AND I, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took my little secret sins Last Line: And they are with me still! Subject(s): Sin MY SOUL, by NETTIE STEPHENSON BOWEN Poem Text First Line: I placed my soul in the sunlight Last Line: Cannot wash those stains away! Subject(s): Sin; Soul NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 26TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So live with man as if god's curious eye Last Line: That must alone both judge and jury be? Subject(s): Sin 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: 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 NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NO ESCAPE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I threw my mantle over my head Last Line: Showed the sin enthroned in my spirit's night! Subject(s): Sin NO RING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it that doth spoil the fair adorning Last Line: Lord, that her judges might receive their sight! Subject(s): Women; Sin NONE FREE FROM FAULT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the world he must, who once comes in Last Line: No man exempted is from death, or sinne. Subject(s): Sin NOTHING BUT LEAVES, by LUCY EVELINA AKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but leaves; the spirit grieves Last Line: "nothing but leaves?" Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology ODE ON THE PASSION, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sable clad, urania come Last Line: And proud captivity an humbled captive led! Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Crucifixion; Death; Passion; Piety; Prayer; Sin; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The ODE TO A THISTLE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Naught in fell or field, I trow Last Line: And salute thee reigning. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Love; Sin; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness ODE: OF OUR SENSE OF SIN, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vengeance will sit above our faults, but till Last Line: Himself knows more. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Sin ODV; FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FATE OF ABRAHAM ISAACS OF IVY LANE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "true 'tis p t, and p t 'tis, 'tis true" Last Line: An s a unto death Subject(s): Alphabets;death;fate;sin; "dead, The;destiny; OLNEY HYMNS: 11. JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, how perfect are thy ways! Last Line: The lord for ever mine. Subject(s): Sin OLNEY HYMNS: 23. PLEADING FOR AND WITH YOUTH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin has undone our wretched race Last Line: "prepare to meet thy god!" Subject(s): Sin; Youth OLNEY HYMNS: 56. THE HEART HEALED AND CHANGED BY MERCY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin enslaved me many years Last Line: "thy sins are done away." Subject(s): Forgiveness; Redemption; Sin; Clemency OLNEY HYMNS: 57. HATRED OF SIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy lord god! I love thy truth Last Line: Will strike all sin for ever dead. Subject(s): Sin ON THE BENEFACTIONS IN THE LATE FROST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, 'tis the time! I cry'd, impose the chain! Last Line: To take the only way to be forgiven. Variant Title(s): Epigram Explained By Carruthers To Refer To The Large Sums Subject(s): Charity; Forgiveness; Hope; Sin; Philanthropy; Clemency; Optimism ON TIME, DEATH, AND ETERNITY, by ROBERT PETER Poem Source First Line: But ah! When first to breathe man does begin Last Line: And more or less his after life annoy Subject(s): Heaven; Sin OOR LOCATION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hunner funnels bleezin', reekin' Last Line: Drink's the king in oor location. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Labor & Laborers; Sin; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Work; Workers ORIGINAL SIN: A SHORT STORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nodding, its great head rattling like a gourd Subject(s): Sin ORIGINAL SIN: A SHORT STORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nodding, its great head rattling like a gourd Last Line: Or it goes to the backyard and stands like an old horse cold in the pasture Subject(s): Sin OUR KIND OF MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kind of a man for you and me! Last Line: Is the kind of a man for you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Love; Sin; Belief; Creed OUR OWN SINNES UNSEEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other mens sins wee ever beare in mind Last Line: None sees the fardell of his faults behind. Subject(s): Sin PAIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am god's eldest: -- I and love are twin Last Line: And lovers' vows and yearnings in the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sin; Suffering; Misery PARADISE LOST (COMPLETE), by JOHN MILTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sin PARADISE LOST (COMPLETE), by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Last Line: They hand in hand with wandering steps and slow, %through eden took their solitary way Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sin PARSON PRITCHETT, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was at protracted meetin', an' the country / church was jammed Last Line: But ole parson pritchett nailed 'em an' I guess they'll stay away. Subject(s): Clergy; Public Worship; Sin; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love and honour a poor humble state Last Line: I'm nothing else but misery and woe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Salvation; Self-pity; Sin; Human Race PATTERNS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you lay a pattern on life and say, thus shall ye live? Last Line: For the only sin is death, and the only virtue to be altogether alive and your own authentic self. Subject(s): Death; Growth; Life; Order; Self; Sin; Dead, The PAUSE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god of truth! Shall man essay Last Line: Behold them only through our tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Sin PEARL FOG, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door now Last Line: Of the laws you have broken. Subject(s): Fog; Sin; Haze 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 PENITENT, by JEREMY TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Lord, I have sinn'd, and the black number swells Subject(s): Sin PEONAGE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How tired the recording angel must begin Last Line: Holding me debtor, while I live, to ill. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Sin PIECECITOS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Piececitos de Last Line: Las gentes! Subject(s): NiÑos; Pobreza; Sin Hogar PIS-ALLER, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is blind because of sin Last Line: For god's sake, believe it then! Subject(s): Sin POEM: 4, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Edward our comely king Last Line: And keþed him in þe berde. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; France; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness POEM: 6, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Towrenay, pow has tight Last Line: And fro all sins vs saue. Amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Sin; War PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A PREMATURELY OLD MAN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even Subject(s): Sin PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A PREMATURELY OLD MAN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even Last Line: Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing Subject(s): Sin PRAYER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask good things that I detest Last Line: Thou lord of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Prayer; Sin 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 PREVARICATING MARY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Mary told a little lie Last Line: He'd lie himself I think! Subject(s): Lies; Sin; Truth 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 PROGRESSIVE PIETY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old-time brimstone preacher, when once Last Line: Vile, or calls me caterpillar, or worm, or crocodile. Subject(s): Cruelty; Sin PSALM: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath not walkt astray Last Line: Runs to decay. Subject(s): God; Religion; Sin; Trees; Theology PSALM: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bow downe thine eare Last Line: As with a shield him guard. Subject(s): Evil; God; Israel; Religion; Sin; Theology PURIFICATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would go down to meet the infinite sea Last Line: O god, o god, shall I be purified? Subject(s): Shame; Sin REAL VISION OF SIN, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a soaking blanket overhead Last Line: For the earth and the sky were a-rotting slow Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Sin RESURRECTION, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: A trivial offense, long years ago Last Line: Restore to life my sense of sin today! Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Sin; Soul; Dead, The RETALIATION, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: A foolish hermit closed his doors and said Last Line: Shuts out much more of god than he shuts in. Subject(s): God; Religion; Sin; Theology REVERSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes it is surely true Last Line: Wish that the holidays came sooner! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Flowers; Geraniums; Graves; Love; Sin; Tombs; Tombstones RIVERS ALREADY SING WITH ENOUGH DESPAIR, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: No one could rip a hymnal out of a sky as gray and sour and scarred as Last Line: Anything it could confess belongs to the lore of local water the ponds and %rivers that sing hymns o Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Confessions; Legends; Sin SACRED HATRED, by FLAVIA VIDAL Poem Source First Line: Oh, my hatred, my majestic hatred Last Line: From the seven towers of the mortal sins! Subject(s): Desire; Love; Sin SALTBUSH BILL'S GAMECOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas saltbush bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way / to town Last Line: Remarked, 'discharged with a clean discharge -- the assault was justified!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Cooking & Cooks; Fate; Sin; Camps; Summer Camps; Destiny SCANDAL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This is god's poorest lambing-time Last Line: Has said 'good-bye', and gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sin SCHOOL, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is a vile, pernicious Last Line: The glorious institution of always being late. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Schools; Sin; Students SCRATCHED INTO THE TREE OF ORIGINAL SIN'S BARK, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: The poem Last Line: Is to let death %in Subject(s): Sin; Trees SEARCH, by CARRIE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: She sneaks out of bed like a tiny thief Last Line: She will be saved. %she believes Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Sabbath; Sin SEVEN DEADLY SINS: COVETOUSNESS, by NATHAN GUEQUIERRE Poem Source First Line: Our grasp revealed, and it turns out to be Last Line: Of gravity relents and calls it down Subject(s): Sin SEVEN STREAMS OF NEVIS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack the blindman, whose violin Last Line: In the heart's hell you have it; call it love Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Human Behavior; Sin; Love; Suicide SHEDDING THE VESTMENTS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was inside her for the first time Last Line: Everyone who's following me %go to hell Subject(s): Life; Sin SIN, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For me the most foul demon still doth plot Last Line: Of gory ruin with her wounds a-gape. Subject(s): Lust; Sin; Temptation SIN, by MARY M. BROWN Poem Source First Line: In the morning Last Line: Our old and lonely mother %in the middle of the night Subject(s): Sin SIN, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have sinned in act, I may repent Last Line: One sinful wish would make a hell of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Variant Title(s): The Unpardonable Sin Subject(s): Sin SIN, by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man-like is it to fall into sin Last Line: God-like is it all sin to leave. Alternate Author Name(s): Golaw, Salomon Von; Logau, Frederick Von Subject(s): Sin SIN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sin! Sin! Sin! Last Line: Go, and contribute a man... Subject(s): Sin SIN, by G. B. SENANAYAKE Poem Source First Line: Lord %rise up and forgive my sin, lord Last Line: I returned; and %throwing myself on the bed %shut my eyes Subject(s): Sin SIN, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin! / o only fatal woe! Last Line: Within! Subject(s): Sin SIN (1), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Last Line: One cunning bosom-sin blows quite away. Variant Title(s): Life's Lessons;bosom Sin Subject(s): Sin SIN (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin leads the way, but as it goes, it feels Last Line: The following plague still treading on his heels. Subject(s): Sin SIN (2), by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that I could a sin once see! Last Line: So devils are our sinnes in perspective. Variant Title(s): Sin Subject(s): Sin SIN (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin once reacht up to gods eternall sphere Last Line: And was committed, not remitted there. Subject(s): Sin SIN (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin no existence; nature none it hath Last Line: Or good at all, (as learn'd aquinas saith.) Subject(s): Sin SIN (4), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no evill that we do commit Last Line: Drawes out th' elixar of true penitence. Subject(s): Sin SIN (5), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin never slew a soule, unlesse there went Last Line: Along with it some tempting blandishment. Subject(s): Sin SIN (6), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone Last Line: Our destination to eternall woe. Subject(s): Hell; Predestination; Sin SIN (7), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no constraint to do amisse Last Line: Whereas but one enforcement is. Subject(s): Sin SIN AND DESPAIR HAVE SO POSSESS'D MY HEART, by ANNE VAUGHAN LOCKE Poem Source Last Line: But still uphold th' assurance of thy love Subject(s): Sin SIN CITY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cynthia was feeling sinful in cincinnati. Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Sin; Poetry & Poets SIN SEEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When once the sin has fully acted been Last Line: Then is the horror of the trespasse seen. Subject(s): Sin SIN SEVERELY PUNISHT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God in his own day will be then severe Last Line: To punish great sins, who small faults whipt here. Subject(s): Sin SIN'S ROUND, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorry I am, my god, sorry I am Last Line: Sorrie I am, my god; sorrie I am. Subject(s): Sin SINNER'S RUE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked alone and thinking Last Line: The flower of sinner's rue. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Sin SINNERS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sinners confounded are a twofold way Last Line: Or when, for sins, men suffer punishment. Subject(s): Sin SINS LOATH'D, AND YET LOV'D, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shame checks our first attempts; but then 'tis prov'd Last Line: Sins first dislik'd, are after that belov'd. Subject(s): Sin SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good catholic girl, she didn't mind the cleaning Last Line: Beat it to st. Anne's where she took the veil Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Sin SO FOUL IS SIN AND LOATHSOME IN THY SIGHT, by ANNE VAUGHAN LOCKE Poem Source Last Line: And from my sin, lord, cleanse me once again Subject(s): Sin 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 SONG OF THE SINNER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just a bit of ashes Last Line: Pray, sweet virgin, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Sin SONNET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I have seen again the marvellous child - it seemed Subject(s): Prayer; Sin; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 94, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They that have power to hurt, and will do none Last Line: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Variant Title(s): "the Life Without Passion;""they That Have Pow'r To Hut And Will Do None""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Hypocrisy; Sin; Villains In Literature; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ST. DOROTHY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hath been seen and yet it shall be seen Last Line: That I may one day see her in the face. Subject(s): God; Mythology - Classical; Saints; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women ST. MARY OF EGYPT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong to suffer, strong to sin Last Line: Self the sacrifice of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary Of Egypt, Saint (344-421); Sin STAINS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The three ghosts on the lonesome road Last Line: "brother, my brother." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Sin STANZAS IMITATED FROM PSALM 99, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, how shall thoughtless, easy-natur'd youth Last Line: Thy name to honour, and thy law to love. Subject(s): Bible; Forgiveness; God; Prayer; Sin; Clemency STUDIES FOR PICTURES: 4. IN THE MORNING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamps were thick; the air was hot Last Line: Your evil spirits flee away. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Morning; Sin SUPPLICATION, by R. JOSE BEN JOSE Poem Text First Line: Our sins are many, and we sigh Last Line: Thy mercy is for ever sure! Subject(s): Jews; Mercy; Redemption; Sin; Judaism SURELY THERE IS AN ACHING VOID WITHIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They were not equal to our sin-stained face Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sin; Pride T.Y.S.O.N., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the queensland border line Last Line: That's t.Y.S.O.N.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Sin; Soul TENT REVIVAL, by JEFF DANIEL MARION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Almost a carnival, canvas Last Line: Here on this side of paradise Subject(s): Preaching And Preachers; Religion; Sin THE ALDERMAN'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom are they ushering from the world, with all Last Line: Dropping upon his urn their marble tears. Subject(s): Christianity; Funerals; Generosity; Sin; Strangers; Towns; Wealth; Burials; Riches; Fortunes THE ARMY OF THE LORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To fight the battle of the cross, christ's Last Line: "o grave, where is thy victory! O death, where is thy sting!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Religion; Sin; Soul; War; Dead, The; Theology THE AUTHORS CONFESSION, SELECTION, by ELIZABETH MAJOR Poem Text First Line: Old age -- the eternal son of god for sin did die Last Line: O let not any intice thee time to waste. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Love; Seasons; Sin; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE AWAKENING, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am soul-sore and bended and weary Last Line: The wrongs that I wrought yesterday. Subject(s): Prayer; Sin 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 BALLAD OF THE JUDAS TREE, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blossom is on the judas tree Last Line: The frost that burns eternally. Subject(s): Betrayal; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Sin THE BARGAIN OF FAUST, by HAZEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: Shall a man, then, not own his own soul? Why Last Line: She hers in heaven, but you yours in hell. Subject(s): Faust; Future Life; Love; Sin; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BIRTH OF VENUS': SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come with us and play Last Line: It is forbidden! Subject(s): Sin; Lust THE BLACK RIDERS: 33, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There was one I met upon the road Last Line: "poor soul!"" he said." Subject(s): Sin THE BLACK RIDERS: 9, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood upon a high place Last Line: "and said, ""comrade! Brother!" Subject(s): Sin THE BLACKSMITH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the tamer of iron Last Line: Whence issued the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Fire; Furnaces; Sin; Kilns THE BLIND WEAVER, by HELEN GOLTRA Poem Text First Line: My soul is like a weaver, who though blind Last Line: The pattern of the whole seem doubly fair? Subject(s): Sin; Truth; Youth THE BURDEN-BEARER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, if thy hand, with swift, indignant sweep Last Line: I, trembling, or, o burden-bearer, thou! Subject(s): Sin THE CHEAT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Sweet beguilings, / cruel smileings Last Line: Their own funeral fires. Subject(s): Sin THE CHILDREN OF KENSINGTON GARDENS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strings of shells whose lively convolutions Last Line: Hold one dear hand ere I, too, be past! Subject(s): Sin; Youth THE CHRISTIAN'S CONFIDENCE, by CHARLES H. MCLEAN Poem Text First Line: I sought him and found him Last Line: Flooded my soul. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHURCH IN 1849, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty mother, hearken! For thy foes Last Line: A fisher on the lake of galilee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Sin; Cathedrals THE CONTINUOUS IS BROKEN, AND RESUMES, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam made the world Last Line: Anyone is out there, listening. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Earth; Sin; World THE CONVERTED CANNIBALS, by G. E. FARROW Poem Text First Line: Upon an island, all alone Last Line: However ornamental. Subject(s): Cannibals; Islands; Pacific Ocean; Sin 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 DARK SIDE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast done well, perhaps Last Line: And god sees good in all! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evil; Love; Sin; Voices THE DEMON DRINK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do well to be angry, even unto death,' Last Line: Leaving want, woe, and shame, desolation and gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Mothers; Sabbath; Sin; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sunday; Prohibition THE DESIRE TO DEPART, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Not to escape the ills of life Last Line: Forever, blessed lord, with thee. Subject(s): Problems; Sin THE DOOM OF YS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the bell? 'tis a silver chime Last Line: It rings o'er the town that the deep sea hides!' Subject(s): Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DRUM-MAJOR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old drum-major it is that we see Last Line: The old man is your father! Subject(s): Drums; Grief; Musical Instruments; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE DUELLIST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globe Last Line: The happy choice their dam had made. Subject(s): England; Freedom; Loyalty; Martin, Samuel; Patriotism; Sin; Warburton, William (1698-1779); English; Liberty THE FAST OF TEBETH, by JOSEPH BEN SAMUEL BONFILS Poem Text First Line: Lo! I recall the siege which fell on me Last Line: "who saith: ""ye waves, but so far shall ye come." Alternate Author Name(s): Tob Elem, Joseph Bar Samuel Subject(s): Affliction; Jews; Sin; Judaism THE FORSAKEN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy mother of god, merciful mary, hear me Subject(s): Premarital Sex; Sin; Pregnancy; Death; Dead, The 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: 16. THE WOMAN THAT WAS A SINNER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face, his words, her heart awoke Last Line: Lord, make no difference! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Sin; Women THE GREATEST SIN, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: My friend would guard my treasures as his own Last Line: He robbed me of my faith in god today. Variant Title(s): The Greater Sin Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; Friendship; God; Religion; Sin; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Theology 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 INN OF THE FIVE CHIMNEYS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It had five chimneys, had that inn Last Line: And rumor said it was soiled with sin! Subject(s): Hotels; Sin; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE JESTER CONDEMNED TO DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One of the kings of scanderoon Last Line: "I'll die, so please you, of old age." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Jesters; Sin; Dead, The THE JUDGEMENT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The master himself, the great judge, he hath spoken Last Line: That in service to others, christ's love doth abound. Subject(s): Judgments; Sin THE KING AND THE PEASANT, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once, at the self-same point of time Last Line: "once only in a hundred years!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Peasantry; Sin; Paradise THE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling snow, like grief for one just dead Last Line: Ah, do you hear the knocking at the door? Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAY OF THE BROWN ROSARY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Onora, onora,' - her mother is calling Last Line: O reader, breathe (the ballad saith) some sweetness out of each! Subject(s): Brides; Rosary; Sin THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DEATH OF SIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is sin? Last Line: Black as a wind over the forests Subject(s): City & Town Life; Sin THE MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, the sun hath risen Last Line: Satisfied with hopeful rest, and replete with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Martyrs; Religion; Sin; Tears; Paradise; Theology THE MODERN SAINT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her time with equal prudence silvia shares Last Line: An artful woman makes a modern saint. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Saints; Sin THE NARROW WAY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: At sunset the young monk leaned from the wall Last Line: "go pray, father -- go pray." Subject(s): Desire; Monks; Sin THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF AN UNHAPPY MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Once on a time, it was the new year's night Last Line: The golden years can never more return. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Old Age; Sin; Youth THE NUN: A CANTATA, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of constance holy legends tell Last Line: The righteous find comfort in death.' Subject(s): Chastity; Clergy; Lust; Nuns; Religion; Sin; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE OPENED FOUNTAIN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I have wounded thee - oh, wounded thee Last Line: That thy perpetual cleansing I may fully know. Subject(s): Sin THE OVIPAROUS TAILOR, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, wee tailor, / nobody was paler Last Line: Wee, wee tailor. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Devil; Pain; Sin; Tailors; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery; Dress Makers THE PARDONED SIN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Up the worn steps and through the ivied porch Last Line: "have washed away all record of thy sin!" Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Confessions; Forgiveness; God; Sin; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Clemency THE PENITENT, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mourn with thee, and yet rejoice Last Line: "but ""there is joy in heaven!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Sin 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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 187, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the saddest thing in the world Last Line: With moonlight and wind for his home Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Sin; Virtue; Buddha; Buddhists THE PROFLIGATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! I must go Last Line: And husks for swine. Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Life; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Sin; Belief; Creed; Parting 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 RECOVERY (2), by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sin! Wilt thou vanquish me! Last Line: Shall thee destroy; heal, feed, make me divine. Subject(s): Sin THE RELAPSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Wert thou not what thou art Last Line: Sett ope, & bleed out every thing but thee. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Self-pity; Sin; Clemency THE 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 ROSE OF SHARON AND THE LILY OF THE VALLEYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou hearken to thy saviour Last Line: That the souls redeeméd know! Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology THE ROYAL CROWN, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I stand before thee, lord, and I am Last Line: Before thy might in awe I stand, bowed low unto the ground! Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; God; Jews; Sin; Eve; Judaism THE SCARS OF SIN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My smile is bright, my glance is free Last Line: Scar-seam'd and crippled still. Subject(s): Sin THE SIFTING OF PETER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In saint luke's gospel we are told Last Line: No longer. Subject(s): Devil; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Theology THE SIN, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, I will not crawl away Last Line: That broke the sod. Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology THE SIN EATER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark ye! Hush ye! Margot's dead! Last Line: Freshly bowed with sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Sin; Dead, The THE SIN OF OMISSION, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the thing you do, dear Last Line: At the setting of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Variant Title(s): At Sunset Subject(s): Religion; Sin; Theology THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 97, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Love, guillardun! This vision christ assign'd Last Line: Ere thou withdraw'st the heaven-light of thine eyes!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sin THE SLEEPING CITY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A princess in the eastern tale Last Line: Its latest life beyond recall. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Sin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen Last Line: To seek the happy isles! Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si THE SONG OF THE LOST, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What will be left when the siren city Last Line: "the nightly wail of a sleepless woe?" Subject(s): Poverty; Sin THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 1, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the world's imperishable desire Last Line: The man reclaims his liberty of god! Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Life; Sin THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 2, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My face lives always in the quenchless light Last Line: I watch the last-born laughing in mine eyes! Subject(s): Death; Faces; Sin; Youth; Dead, The 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 THE STRANGER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When trouble haunts me, need I sigh? Last Line: . . . . Subject(s): Sin; Strangers THE THREE BEST THING: 2. LOVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me but love my love without disguise Last Line: And let me find in loving thee, my best. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Love; Sin THE TRAITOR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Fain would I drive away the image of the spring. Each day of lilacs Last Line: Thee? Subject(s): Betrayal; Hearts; Sin; Spring THE TWO DOMES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are those domes? You asked in clerkenwell Last Line: This is the deep unhappiness of our race. Subject(s): Guilt; Judgments; Prisons & Prisoners; Sin THE TWO QUESTIONS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A riddling world!' one cried Last Line: "the flail, the chaff, the tares." Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Sin THE ULTIMATE NATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once babylon, by beauty tenanted Last Line: She makes his ways her ways eternally? Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Fate; God; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sin; Dead, The; Destiny THE UNPARDONABLE SIN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sin against the holy ghost Last Line: To set the face and make the heart a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Sin; War; Theology 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 VISION OF SIN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a vision when the night was late Last Line: God made himself an awful rose of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Sin THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lonely stream afar in a lone dim land Last Line: Along that silent strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Redemption; Silence; Sin; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WEEPING SAVIOUR, HYMN 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus' friend had ceased to be Last Line: Thy very tears had flowed in vain. Subject(s): Sin THE WHITE AND SCARLET THREAD; THE MESSAGE OF ATONEMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "turn, o israel, turn and live" Last Line: "sinner, pray and god will hearken" Subject(s): Jews;prayer;sin; Judaism THE WILD GALLANT, REVIVED: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some raw squire, by tender mother bred Last Line: For ought I know, he may turn taile for ever. Subject(s): Life; Love; Sin THE WORLD ASLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waking by night, a great and tender thought Last Line: One in the father's watch and ward of love. Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Sin; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime THREE FATALL SISTERS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three fatall sisters wait upon each sin Last Line: First, fear and shame without, then guilt within. Subject(s): Sin THREEFOLD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of grace and mercy Last Line: I leave, my queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Love; Pain; Past; Sin; Suffering; Misery TIME, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I saw a giant armed with many lashes Last Line: Of sin that never could be cleansed by resting? Subject(s): Sin TIMOR MORTIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In what estate so ever I be / timor mortis conturbat me Last Line: And from the fiend he us preserve. / timor mortis conturbat me Subject(s): Forgiveness;prayer;sin; Clemency TO A BLIND NAZARENE, by EVELYN SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Secure in blind and perfect night Last Line: Something ruthless vision ought to mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Metcalfe, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Jesus Christ; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Sin; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery TO A FRIEND FOR HER NAKED BREASTS, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "madam I praise you, cause you'r free" Last Line: And punish you for what's within Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Breasts;hearts;sin TO DELIA: 26 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in the trace of my tormented thought Last Line: I in my love, or thou in thy disdain. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sin; Dead, The TO MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Source First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one Last Line: Forever, to the skies Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women - Bible; Women And Religion TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SQUINANCY-WORT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I done? Last Line: Perhaps in his infinite mercy god will remove this man! Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Sin; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. GRACIOUS MOTHER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gracious mother, in thy vast eternal sunlight Last Line: In ash-heaps for salvation. Subject(s): Healing; Salvation; Sin; Cures TRULY YOUR FORGIVENESS I IMPLORE', by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From all the faucets - ink was pouring Last Line: I was rubbing and scrubbing stubbornly, endlessly, %the blood off the floor Subject(s): Forgiveness; Sin TWIN-BORN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who possesses virtue at its best Last Line: Twin-born I hold great evil and great good. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion; Sin; Sympathy; Empathy 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 SINS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sin I did for love's sake Last Line: The eyes that fain would see. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Hate; Lies; Love; Sin 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 UNSHRIVEN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have paid well for every sin Last Line: About my dying bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sin; Supernatural; Dead, The VERSE-FRAGMENTS FROM THE PROSE WORKS, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Balsame, pure wax, and chrismas-liquor clear Last Line: But who shall helpe them to a hempen string? Subject(s): Hearts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Sin; Theology VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a green isle needs must be Last Line: And the earth grow young again. Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) VIRGIN, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: O were it but a venial sin, and I asleep Last Line: To my own arms and there all sins recite Subject(s): Sin VISTAS OF LABOR: 3. IN A SWEATSHOP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pent in, and sickening for one wholesome draught Last Line: That on the morrow they must meet again. Subject(s): God; Home; Justice; Sin; Soul; Sweatshops; Sweating System WAR IS KIND: 28, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There was one I met upon the road Last Line: "poor soul,"" he said." Subject(s): Sin WHAT FATHER LEAHY DIDN'T SAY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: After I entered the confessional Last Line: Around which the body of the poem turns Subject(s): Clergy; Confessions; Sin WHAT IS THIS ABOVE THY HEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sinner, — or saint Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints; Sin; Life Choices WHAT WE NEED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does our country need? Not armies standing Last Line: These are our country's pride, our country's need. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Sin; Soul; Truth; Youth WHEN CHILDREN SLEEP, by LEON GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: When cradled by their mothers' side Last Line: Their angels visit them no more. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Sin; Sleep; Childhood WHO SHALL MY WANDERING THOUGHTS STEADY & FIX, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And having died thou shalt see all things after Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Evil; Sin WHY ARE THEY SHUT?, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why are our churches shut with jealous care Last Line: Why are they shut? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sabbath; Sin; Soul; Cathedrals; Sunday WICKED GIRL (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Young people who delight in sin Subject(s): Sin WORST SIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He sings as he has always sung Last Line: Small though it be %it's the one for me. Subject(s): Laughter; Self; Sin; Singing And Singers |
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