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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG TO DAVID, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, that sitt'st upon a throne
Last Line: Determined, dared, and done.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Religion; Strength; Worship; Theology


A THOUGHT FROM NIETSZCHE, by CHARLES JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have been dealt a cruel blow
Last Line: Me stronger than I was.
Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900); Strength; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness


A WHITE BIRCH TREE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would not be a clinging vine
Last Line: It lifts again to meet the sky.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Introspection; Strength


AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the
Last Line: Strength failed me
Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength; Parting


AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the
Last Line: Strength failed me
Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength


ALWAYS THE TIMID, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Always the timid fear the secret heart
Last Line: The crystal springs, the onyx-paneled room.
Subject(s): Courage; Strength; Valor; Bravery


AN UPHILL FIGHT, by MAURICE C. WAUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: You may be ill and you may be sore
Last Line: That comes from winning an uphill fight.
Subject(s): Sickness; Strength; Illness


ANOTHER QUESTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He'd read it hundreds of times before
Last Line: In one luminous moment. For how long?
Subject(s): Books; Strength


ANY WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the pillars of the house
Last Line: Take me not till the children grow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Love; Mothers; Strength; Women; Childhood


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


ATLAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am used to the heft of it
Last Line: To carry everything.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Forests; Labor & Laborers; Strength; Black Heritage; Woods; Work; Workers


AUTHENICATE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: God of the hills, the seas, a granite wall
Last Line: The virtue of unshorn samson ... In the market to bare!
Subject(s): God; Prayer; Strength


BACKSASS, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A southernism generally confined to negative constructions
Last Line: 100% 40-carat backsass
Subject(s): Appalachia; Courage; History; Strength


BE STRONG, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be strong! / we are not here to play, to dream, to drift
Last Line: Faint not -- fight on! To-morrow comes the song.
Subject(s): Religion; Strength; Theology


BE STRONG, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be strong to hope, o heart
Last Line: Thou wouldst be strong!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Religion; Strength; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology


BREAKING GROUND, by LINDA DECICCO ANTONAZZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's never easy being born
Last Line: And gathers you up from your %one long summer
Subject(s): Sacrifices; Strength


CART TO A STAR, by LILLIAN S. RING    Poem Text                    
First Line: She hitched her cart to a star - poor thing
Last Line: Or you're liable to fall rather far!
Subject(s): Strength


COLDEST PLACE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When words knife through you
Last Line: And say the stabbing words aloud?
Subject(s): Language; Strength


CONTEMPLATION OF THE SWORD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
Last Line: Reason will not decide at last: the sword will decide
Subject(s): Swords; Strength; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl
Last Line: And never let them know you remember
Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Strength; Survival


DESERT MOTHER, by BERTA HART NANCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her husband had been gone for weeks
Last Line: That gave her strength to go away.
Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Mothers; Strength; Dead, The


ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the night that covers me
Last Line: I am the captain of my soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce
Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery


ELDRIDGE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The edge %of this
Last Line: Break, or be broken
Subject(s): African Americans; Strength


ENCOURAGEMENT, by ELIZABETH PHELPS ROUNSEVELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am so tired!' I cried
Last Line: But you and I will know.
Subject(s): Strength; Weariness; Fatigue


ENDURE A LITTLE, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord, you called to me
Last Line: And 'endure a little' is a long way
Subject(s): Prayer; Strength


FAITH, by E. DEVILLIERS-HERTZLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I could lay my head upon your heart
Last Line: If I could lay my head upon your heart!
Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Strength; Weariness; Fatigue


FASTING, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What though her face be pale? This onely showes
Last Line: Keeps her stomach fresh for paradise.
Subject(s): Heaven; Humility; Sacrifices; Strength; Paradise


FOR A CERTAIN YOUNGSTER, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never fear, my lad, the dark winter's rages
Last Line: Making from failure all we know of hell!
Subject(s): Children; Fear; Strength


FORCE, by LOUIS ARAGON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have done good they have done evil
Last Line: That we certainly have not wholly wasted our day.
Subject(s): Strength


FORWARD, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Negligent of hurt, / in heroic guise
Last Line: Leave the world behind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Strength


FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they're shunting the cars on the katy a mile off
Last Line: There is too much sun on the lids of my eyes to be listening
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): United States; Challenges; Strength


FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they're shunting the cars on the katy a mile off
Last Line: There is too much sun on the lids of my eyes to be listening
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Poem
Subject(s): United States; Challenges; Strength


FRIENDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I glimpse a black cloud
Last Line: Whose heart refuses to break
Subject(s): Clouds; Friendship; Strength


GANG, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: His shadow looks stronger than he does
Last Line: His way of growing old
Subject(s): Shadows; Strength


GARDEN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing at the window at night
Last Line: A lord of shadows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Shadows; Strength


GREATNESS, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great men of ancient times were men of brawn
Last Line: To battle when the modern conflicts call.
Subject(s): History; Life, Modern; Men; Morality; Strength; Historians; Ethics


HERE IS THE STRONG ONE, THE OTHER ONE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Here is the strong one, the other after
Subject(s): Change; Strength


HERE IS THE STRONG ONE, THE OTHER ONE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Here is the strong one, the other after
Subject(s): Change; Strength


HIS SPEED AND STRENGTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His speed and strength, which is the strength of ten
Last Line: Away, pedaling hard, rocket and pilot
Subject(s): Strength


HIS SPEED AND STRENGTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His speed and strength, which is the strength of ten
Last Line: Away, pedaling hard, rocket and pilot
Subject(s): Strength


HOW STRONG ARE YOU?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I like a lad of muscles big
Last Line: He'll conquer every foe.
Subject(s): Strength


I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am happy, nothing can divide me
Last Line: I see the white stuff and the black stuff and decide
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Humanity; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


IN THIN, WHITE CLOTHES, by ATTILA JOZSEF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I chewed and spat out
Last Line: And my heart doesn't tremble
Subject(s): Love; Strength


JUST FOR TODAY, by MAGGIE BLANCHE MCELHINEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Starting on another day
Last Line: Thy help I implore just for today.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcelhiney, Blanche
Subject(s): Prayer; Strength


LETTER TO PETER LEVI, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Reading your poems I am aware
Last Line: And then it is our world which is fragile: %you toss it like a juggler
Subject(s): Levi, Peter; Poetry And Poets; Strength


LIFE'S PATTERN, by VERDA BORISFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wove a pattern for my life
Last Line: Grey threads of pain.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness


LINES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lines at the corners of her mouth
Last Line: In one so young?
Subject(s): Mouths; Strength; Wrinkles; Youth


MAJESTY, by RUTH L. DROWNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hilltops ranged against the sky
Last Line: Thus to meet adversity.
Subject(s): Strength


MAN, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weak and puny, small and frail
Last Line: Made him master of the world!
Subject(s): Fights; Men; Soldiers; Strength


MEN WORSHIP ME, by VELONA PILCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the stark and silent pine
Last Line: Men worship me.
Subject(s): Solitude; Strength; Worship; Loneliness


MY DAUGHTER, by HABIB JALIB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thinking that it was a toy
Last Line: A living hint of a free tomorrow %gave meaning to my night of sorrow
Subject(s): Daughters; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Strength


MY PRAYER, by CAROLINE MCCARTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me a hard, hard row to hoe
Last Line: And the courage to bear and not show it.
Subject(s): Prayer; Strength


MY TREE, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the cedar--the mother of lingonberry--that is my tree
Last Line: Among all the trees on earth it is nearest to the great snows, %to the blind son of the glacier. I w
Subject(s): Glaciers; Snow; Strength; Trees; Winter


NO EQUAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: His voice is money
Last Line: All defeated but one %'gone!
Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology); Strength; Victory


NOONTIDE, by LOYCE ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We live
Last Line: Is life.
Subject(s): God; Life; Strength


ODE TO HOPE, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend to the wretch whose bosom knows no joy!
Last Line: And never-fading joy in heaven's full glories reign.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Strength; Joy; Delight; Optimism


PRAYER FOR STRENGTH; EVENTIDE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through visions of the night and toils of day
Last Line: Le me forevermore abide with thee.
Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Strength; Theology


RECOVERY #22, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Distant himalayas' orange groves'
Last Line: In private language illness maimed %the poet signs his blessing
Subject(s): Sickness; Strength


RESENTMENT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should you try to crush me
Last Line: But whole and fierce
Subject(s): Strength


RESENTMENT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should you try to crush me
Subject(s): Strength


ROSESUCKER RETABLO: 3, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With a drink of lasting rain I may be clean gone
Last Line: Unpossessed and unforsaken all the way to the end
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Strength


SAMSON, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wherefore was my birth from heaven foretold
Last Line: Himself in bonds under philistine yoke
Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Samson; Strength


SECURITY, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On old interminable strife
Last Line: Comes clattering down in storm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Strength


SHE LIVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After he died
Last Line: Deciding to live. And she lived.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Strength; Survival


SONNET OF SEAMEN'S UNION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time the sea was fraught with fear
Last Line: And the weak learn that union is their strength.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Labor Unions; Sea Pilots; Strength


STRENGTH, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ask of your soul this question, what is strength?
Last Line: Bear up to calvary a cross, alone?
Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Strength


STRENGTH FOR TO-DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strength for to-day is all that we need
Subject(s): Strength


STRENGTH FROM THE HILLS, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up unto the hills! Thy strength is there
Last Line: And god himself more near!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Mountains; Strength; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


STRONG MEN, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They dragged you from the homeland
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Slavery; Social Protest; Strength; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs


STRONG MEN, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They dragged you from the homeland
Last Line: The strong men gittin' stronger %strong men %stronger
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Slavery; Social Protest; Strength


SUPPLICATION, by MARY PUTNAM GILMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou god of right
Last Line: To save the weak!
Subject(s): God; Strength


THE BROKEN SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The broken soldier sings and whistles day to dark
Last Line: The bird caught in the cage whistles its joyous stave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Soldiers; Soul; Strength; Women; World War I; First World War


THE BURDEN, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I writhed beneath my burden, fumed and groaned
Last Line: "to be the burden than bear it, and pity me!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Strength


THE BURDEN, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let night shut out the cares of day
Last Line: That bent thee yesterday.
Subject(s): Strength


THE BURDEN OF STRENGTH, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If that thou hast the gift of strength, then know
Last Line: A hopeless wrestler shall thy soul contend.
Subject(s): Strength


THE CHESS-PLAYER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I played at chess with lasker, but to lose
Last Line: As I played lasker, so I challenge life!
Subject(s): Chess; Failure; Life; Strength


THE HERO, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Learn to endure
Last Line: Themselves engage.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE KEEPERS OF THE TREASURE, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because we dare behold the sun
Last Line: Of an unguessed awakening.
Subject(s): Spring; Strength; Treasures


THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who looked strong? That was years ago. That was me
Subject(s): Strength; Divorce; Solitude; Transience; Impermanence


THE RIVER RUNNING TO THE SEA, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river running to the sea
Last Line: To front the larger sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Rivers; Sea; Strength; Tides; Water; Ocean


THE ROAMER: BOOK 1, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harken, o outcast race, to man outcast, / into the desert driven in his youth
Last Line: Crying, and on its forehead was a star.
Subject(s): Strength; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE STRENGTH OF WEAKNESS, by MARY ELIZABETH B. CROUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How often do the clinging hands, though weak
Last Line: Clasp round strong hearts that otherwise would break.
Subject(s): Strength


THE SUGAR-CANE: ADVICE TO SLAVE-OWNERS, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Must thou from afric reinforce thy gang?
Last Line: From each some blood, as age and sex require.
Subject(s): Africa; Disease; Slavery; Strength; Serfs


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 WEAKLING, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Confined within the walls of a grey world
Last Line: What all those iron years had done to me.
Subject(s): Strength


THE WINGED VICTORY, by LORAINE S. BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Headless, the nike dominates the hall
Last Line: Her vital body's there to claim our trust!
Subject(s): Freedom; Strength; Victory; Liberty


THEIR LOVE LETTERS, by JEANNINE HALL GAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't know what you see in me, he wrote
Last Line: You are my shelter she wrote, my balance %my strong pair of hands
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Strength


TO MARY WOLSTONECRAFT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lily cheek, the 'purple light of love'
Last Line: To offer, nor unworthy thy regard.
Subject(s): Godwin, Mary Wollenstonecraft (1759-79); Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Poetry & Poets; Strength; Victory; Women's Rights; Wollenstone, Mary (1759-79); Feminism


TRIUMPHAL MARCH, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the long strike
Last Line: What did it matter we'd lost?
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Strength; Strikes; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


TRY YOUR STRENGTH, by RICHARD KELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone, supine, each of us left in peace
Last Line: Longing to fall asleep and never wake
Subject(s): Strength


TURTLE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As you lie on the operating table, mother
Last Line: Where you need to go
Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Love; Strength


VI ET ARMIS, by ANDREW DOWNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis an ancient roman proverb
Last Line: You can conquer if you will!
Subject(s): Courage; Life; Strength; Victory; Valor; Bravery


VIA DOLOROSA: 5. THE ORDER OF RELEASE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou canst not give it. Grace enough is ours
Last Line: Has brought forth better comfort, strength more strong.
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Strength; Optimism


WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great roads the romans built that men might meet
Last Line: The walls are fallen, but the roads endure.
Subject(s): Strength


WHICH PATH SHALL YOURS BE?, by RAY D. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is there in living when one has lost all
Last Line: Which of them shall yours be — the weak or the strong?
Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Roads; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Paths; Trails


WORLD TREES, by ERICH FRIED    Poem Source                    
First Line: You world-trees: %your reaper
Last Line: Who was the stronger? %even death %is dead
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Strength


WRESTLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas my lord / how should I wrestle all the livelong night
Last Line: Hold thou us fast, and give us sleep till day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Love; Prayer; Strength


YOUNG BULL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This bronze ring punctures
Last Line: Against the slats wanting to murder me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Bulls; Pity; Strength