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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SUFFERING Matches Found: 759 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "LORD, TAKE AWAY PAIN", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cry of man's anguish went up unto god Last Line: The christ on his cross? Subject(s): Pain;prayer; Suffering;misery 90 NORTH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe, Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; North Pole; Pain; Suffering; Misery A BALLAD OF ST. SEBASTIEN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sebastien, sebastien Last Line: O pale-eyed man, art thou the king? Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery 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 BETTER RESURRECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wit, no words, no tears Last Line: O jesus, drink of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Pain; Belief; Creed; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Suffering; Misery A BURNING BOSOM, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in this tea-house Last Line: No, no, a mustard plaster. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Suffering; Misery A CAMEO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a graven image of desire Last Line: Upon whose lock was written peradventure. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Idols; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A CHOPIN PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain chopin prelude once I heard Last Line: With beauty, shaken by magic of that song. Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Songs A COUNTRY CAROL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There the patient oxen were, by the ass's stall Last Line: In the open country-land of my good lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nativity, The; The Resurrection A CRY FOR ZION, by LOUIS SMIRNOW Poem Text First Line: Behold, as I sit here, alone and forlorn Last Line: "here on earth, o return me, return my beth-el!" Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Pain; Zionism; Judaism; Suffering; Misery A DEAD PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her at least: look you have taken Last Line: Even dearer still, -- since I have nothing more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery A FOOLISH TONGUE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Her face is full of silent pain Last Line: Rise up, and cry — 'for shame!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain; Vengeance; Suffering; Misery A GOOD FRIDAY DEVOTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo, even now, the sky's far rim Last Line: Forever more 'tis easter morn. Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; The Resurrection; Virgin Mary A LAMENT, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: In the bosom too often betrayed Last Line: All, all, I have felt or now feel! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Lament; Pain; Suffering; Misery A LAMENTATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath known the ways of time Last Line: Beyond the gods and fate. Subject(s): Lament; Life; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery A LITTLE SWIRL OF VERS LIBRA, by THOMAS RUSSELL YBARRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am numb from world-pain Last Line: Fall flat on my face! Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Suffering; Misery; Thinking A LOVE TOKEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you grieve no costly offering Last Line: Glittering at her side. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; Optimism; Suffering; Misery A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery A MAN-MADE HADES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were sent to build a hell Last Line: My hell of indecision. Subject(s): Doubt; Hell; Pain; Punishment; Skepticism; Suffering; Misery A MISERERE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heart, what means your plaint to-day Last Line: Some great impending woe! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery A MOTHER UNDERSTANDS, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, I hold my hand to take Last Line: The mystery of thy pierced hands—the broken bread. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a fir-tree stark against the sky Last Line: A mystery. Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Rain; Snow; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery A NEW DAY, by MABEL HAMMER Poem Text First Line: I thank thee, lord, for this new day Last Line: To save the world and set it free. Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Thanksgiving A NIGHTMARE, by ELIZA OGILVY Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that I was sick and sore at heart Last Line: And still the pulse beat stronger for the pain. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Pain; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny; Suffering; Misery A PARABLE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone strikes the body, because Last Line: With him until he dies. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery 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 TO DEATH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god's archangel, tarriest thou so late? Last Line: Exquisite silences, forgotten rest. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Prayer; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A PRIEST OF HUMANITY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Of sorrows bitter-strange is wove his fate Last Line: More bitter is the grief that eats his heart! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A RECOLLECTION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we was visitin' a farm Last Line: L laugh at things that isn't jokes. Subject(s): Children; Pain; Childhood; Suffering; Misery A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness A SIGH, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE Poem Text First Line: My wounded heart is sore Last Line: A gentle touch. Subject(s): Gentility; Pain; Sighs; Suffering; Misery A SOLDIER LISTENS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was it came to distress you? Last Line: Who from the clamoring dead? Subject(s): Death; Pain; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A SONG IN THE NIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take this pain, lord jesus Last Line: Thou lovest me! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery A SWEET NOSEGAY: A CAREFULL COMPLAYNT BY THE UNFORTUNATE AUCTOR, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good dido stint thy teares, and sorrowes all resigne Last Line: Ye sisters three dispatch my dayes and finysh all my care. Subject(s): Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery A TALE OF THE BUSH, by W. J." "B. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was twenty years last autumn since my comrade and I Last Line: Seared upon my heart for ever its dread memory lives on Alternate Author Name(s): "b., W. J.; Subject(s): Death;deserts;food & Eating;murder;pain;suicide;travel;trees; "dead, The;suffering;misery;journeys;trips; A THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seen by memory's magic Last Line: Slightly prized to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology A TRANSPOSITION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oyster had an illness. Doom Last Line: His suffering hung on the neck of a girl! Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery A TRUE LENT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a fast, to keep Last Line: And that's to keep thy lent. Variant Title(s): To Keep A True Lent Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Lent; Religion; Theology A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My swirling wants. Your frozen lips Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Pain; Poetry & Poets; Suffering; Misery A VIOL'S PLAINT, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart that dreads what time may bring Last Line: And on thy soft glove left a stain. Subject(s): Language; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery A VISION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy and black are the cypress-trees Last Line: The rain, and the rustling cyprus-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Life; Pain; Vision; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Suffering; Misery ABOVE THE HILLS OF TIME THE CROSS IS GLEAMING, by THOMAS TIPLADY Poem Source Last Line: Till we are gathered to thy home above Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion ACME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, unforgotten sorrow, sleep awhile Last Line: The toughest oak groans long but rends at length. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery AD ASTRA: 10, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Needs must we suffer first to find her fair! Last Line: She lures us to her own most gentle knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Consolation; Pain; Suffering; Misery AD ASTRA: 81, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How stem this cry of universal pain Last Line: Shall disobedience merit instant death? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery AFTER GRIEF, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: At first when thou wert gone, thy memory Last Line: The more my hope and singing, am I free. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery AFTER THE MARTYRDOM, by FEDERICO SCHARMEL IRIS Poem Source First Line: They threw a stone, you threw a stone Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice ALL MAD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is mad as a hare, poor fellow Last Line: We are all of us -- all of us mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Life; Pain; Thought; Youth; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery; Thinking ALL POSSIBLE PAIN, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Feelings seem like made-up things, Subject(s): Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery ALL TOO SLOWLY, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: Like a glacier man advanced Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice AMORIS EXSUL: 4. THE RAT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws at a beam Last Line: He stirs the dust where the feet of my dreams had passed. Subject(s): Pain; Rats; Suffering; Misery AN EASTER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden sun climbs up the sky Last Line: God sends thee easter day! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Prayer; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection AN ITALIAN SONNET-SEQUENCE: 8, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What classic form can hold the restless spring Last Line: "or pain can find no load for you to bear." Subject(s): Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery AN OFFERING, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer me, o my lord, my god, to bring Last Line: And heard as thou would'st have it sung for thee. Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Pain; Praise; Clemency; Suffering; Misery AN OLD PAIN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What old, old pain is this that bleeds anew? Last Line: And all we learn but shows we know the less Subject(s): Pain; Prisons & Prisoners; Suffering; Misery; Convicts ANODYNE: PAIN, by THOMAS KEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since 'tis god's will, pain, take your course Last Line: Beneath his wing's propitious shade. Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Suffering; Misery; Theology APOCALYPTIC, 1915, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our world beyond a year of dread Last Line: Sculptor of immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Chaos; Earth; Pain; War; World; Suffering; Misery APOLOGIA VITAE, by MILICENT LAUBENHEIMER Poem Text First Line: Breathe not again, sweet breath, lest her delicate heart Last Line: Of thorns, that was my rightful heritage. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Pain; Roses; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy letter was a flash of lightning Last Line: This fearful tragedy's conclusion. Subject(s): Fear; Letters; Pain; Peace; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling Last Line: In every language and opened its doors. Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ARCADY LOST, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cherry bloom and robin time of year Last Line: Where once, o comrade mine, we heard them sing. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Singing & Singers; Spring; Suffering; Misery ARES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in dream our mighty hunter ride Last Line: "to storm his paradise." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice ARIADNE TO THESEUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight to the river Last Line: Be mine the sad alloy! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Theseus; Unfaithfulness; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy 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 ATONEMENT, by MARIE LE NART Poem Text First Line: Atonement? Lord, who doth atone today? Last Line: Forgive us—we know not what we do! Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rocky blocks of size gigantic Last Line: Looking like a sickly spider. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery AUGUST, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should this negro insolently stride Last Line: Scarce warms the surface of the deepest pool? Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans; Flowers; Pain; Negroes; American Blacks; Suffering; Misery AVE CRUX, SPES UNICA!, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than two crosses stand on either side Last Line: "remember us, o king!" Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion AWAKE, MY SPIRIT, by L. SWEET Poem Text First Line: Awake, my spirit, bear me swiftly Last Line: No—nor with the aches of man. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all Last Line: Sin' they nailed him to the tree. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Theology BALLADE FOR THE SIXTH HOUR, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Good masters of the market-place Last Line: For such as you my saviour died. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice BALLADE: 14, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That time that mirth did steer my ship Last Line: And should be while that life doth dure. Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hate; Life; Nature; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The joy so short, alas, the pain so near Last Line: That undeserved, causeless to remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Happiness; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 18, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament my loss, my labor, and my pain Last Line: And keep them free from all such pain and care. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Loss; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 21, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To my mishap, alas, I find Last Line: Thus am I warned. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 23, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, how I seek and sue to have Last Line: In joy or pain for to endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 24, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain of all pain, the most grievous pain Last Line: Unto the soul from the body depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make an end of all this strife Last Line: This end to make. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restful place, reviver of my smart Last Line: Wherefore with tears, my bed, I thee forsake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Grief; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 30, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All ye that know of care and heaviness Last Line: That it stunned their song thorough all the wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 32, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being as none is, I do complain Last Line: With 'pity' for 'patience' and 'conscience' for 'wrong'. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where my heavy sighs to hide Last Line: Whose death it is out of thy sight to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pain; Sickness; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Illness BEFORE BATTLE, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have toiled, o lord, with our blood and might Last Line: Our faith in thee. Subject(s): God; Jews; Pain; Praise; Judaism; Suffering; Misery BEFORE PILATE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: What utter loneliness he knew Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice BEFORE THE TEARS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You looked as sad as an eclipsed moon Last Line: So thrust my hand in yours and shook farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Pain; Tears; Parting; Suffering; Misery BELOVED THORN, by CHESTER ANDERS FEE Poem Text First Line: Thorn of silvery dew Last Line: I hear again the christ in agony. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Thorns BETRAYAL, by HESTER H. CHOLMONDELEY Poem Text First Line: Still, as of old Last Line: Himself, not christ. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology BETTER SO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fast asleep, mine own familiar friend Last Line: "of rest, and good the sleep I took"" --?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery BLACKBIRD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Day turns to night Last Line: In a wet march lane. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blackbirds; Happiness; Pain; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BLACKSMITH PAIN, by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM Poem Text First Line: Pain is a blacksmith Last Line: What pain has forged. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery BLESSED ROAD, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three roads led out to calvary Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice BLINDNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our true hearts are forever lonely Last Line: Meet only when pain touches pain. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Pain; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness BLUE WATER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-violins are playing on the sands Last Line: "sea-violins that play along the sands." Variant Title(s): Sea-violins Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean BOAR'S HILL; OCTOBER, 1919, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tall slender beech trees, whispering, touched with fire Last Line: Ere your steps turned home? Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Mountains; Pain; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery BOLT FROM THE BLUE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Bolt from the blue Last Line: And debris—is aftermath. Subject(s): Death; Lightning; Pain; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery BONDAGE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cries death, 'o man, thy liberty Last Line: Thy conquerors -- pain, age, and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Aging; Pain; Suffering; Misery BORROWED THOUGHTS: 2. FROM 'PHANTASIES', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a bitter thought, a snake Last Line: Lest it should hear me and awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Thought; Suffering; Misery; Thinking BORROWED THOUGHTS: 3. FROM 'ALICE', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, dear, our love is slain Last Line: Between us evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BRIER; GOOD FRIDAY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because, dear christ, your tender, wounded arm Last Line: The crown of thorns upon your bleeding brow Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Catholics; Humanity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Selfishness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism BROKEN BONDS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Released! Released! Yes, broken is the chain Last Line: And gains, instead, scorn's stormy crags and night! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain; Suffering; Misery BURIAL ANTHEM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone Last Line: Beside that river blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Burials; Suffering; Misery BURNING-GLASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No map shows my jerusalem Last Line: I am thy long-lost son.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice BY CELIA'S ARBOUR, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By celia's arbour all the night Last Line: But tears of sorrow shed by me! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery BY HIM, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What comfort by him do we win Last Line: Can man forget this story? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion CALLING ME, by RUBY ALORA PEAPLON Poem Text First Line: Mama, dear, I'm going to leave you Last Line: Kiss me as I fall asleep. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery CALVARY, by MARY HALLET Poem Source First Line: A dying figure against the sky Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CALVARY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If he could doubt on his triumphant cross Last Line: My god, my god! Why hast thou forsaken me? Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Calvary; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice CALVARY, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Source First Line: Five thousand followed him for fish and loaves Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CALVARY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow Last Line: Are we to keep christ writhing on the cross! Subject(s): Calvary; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CANZONE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since love will needs that I shall love Last Line: To serve and suffer patiently. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CARAVAN SONG, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Tears for the jasmines, - tears to slake the roses Last Line: Lo, how my task of tears is never done! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Suffering; Misery CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War CAROL NAIVE, by JOHN MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: Was never none other / like our god's mother Last Line: Like our god's mother. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CENSORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twisted hearts, the crumpled brains Last Line: At the moon or the sun! Subject(s): Censorship; Earth; Heaven; Life; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery CENTURION, by HELEN PURCELL ROADS Poem Source First Line: I saw him leave his pagan century Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CERTAIN SATURDAY, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Lost day Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CHILD'S CAROL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked boy, brown boy Last Line: —christ is born! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Childhood; Nativity, The CHRIST BEFORE PILATE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: He is a man - magnanimous broad brow Last Line: Waking - the thorn-crowned to be crucified, - %roman and galilean slow returned Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CHRIST BEFORE PILATE, by ROBERT AB GWILYM DDU Poem Source First Line: Terrible to see him, for no fault of his own Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CHRIST IS CRUCIFIED ANEW, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: Not only once, and long ago Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CHRIST'S RECALL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return, / o wanderer from my side! Last Line: My wrath is turned away, I have redeemed thee. Subject(s): Absence; Jesus Christ; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery CHRISTS SUFFERING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Justly our dearest saviour may abhorre us Last Line: Who hath more suffer'd by us farre, then for us. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice COMFORT IN AFFLICTION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore starts my bosom's lord? Last Line: "to wrap around my head!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Comfort; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery COMMUNION, by PHOEBE SMITH BACHELDER Poem Source First Line: Not to the twelve alone Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice COMPANIONSHIP, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linger by me in the toils of life Last Line: But take the cross in sunshine and in rain. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery COMPENSATION, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: I plucked a rose from out a bower fair Last Line: The song was made. Subject(s): Pain; Thorns; Suffering; Misery COMPENSATION, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When once, in 'merrie england' Last Line: Cruel ones are brief. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CONQUEST, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Though rulers spend a million men Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CONSOLING BILLY, by EVA STEEL Poem Text First Line: There now, billy, stop your crying Last Line: You'll forget him after a while. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Consolation; Grief; Pain; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CONSTANCY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perdy! I said it not Last Line: Within my heart for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Canzone: 4 Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Life; Love; Pain; Faithfulness; Constancy; Suffering; Misery CONTEMPORARY, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: Then to emmaus with him I, too, walked Last Line: It threw a cross of shadow on the room. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice CONTENT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are exiles? As for me Last Line: In the rapture of the fire. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery CONTRAST, by CHARLES GRANVILLE HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: And it was in the winter Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice COSMISM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs Last Line: But never refute its innocence. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sea; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Ocean COST, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because heaven's cost is hell, and perfect joy Last Line: For those he came to save, to the accursed tree, - %for this I know that christ indeed is christ Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by THOMAS BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Our saviour's cross, begilt with guiltless blood Last Line: Of the vast world, and from the four winds should %christ's flock be fetched to his thrice-blessed f Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by CHARLES S. BRADEN Poem Source First Line: A cross? That? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by DONALD EARL EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: I saw it in a shell-torn town Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not of justice Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS, by RUBY WEYBURN TOBIAS Poem Source First Line: Charlemagne carried it far Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CROSS AND THE TREE, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: A tree is such a sacred thing Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Trees CROWD, by IRENE MCKEIGHAN Poem Source First Line: Always he feared you Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CRUCIFIX, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Pitted and pock-marked by a roving gun Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CRUCIFIXION, by HUGH O. ISBELL Poem Source First Line: Golgotha's journey is an ancient way Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CRUCIFIXION, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, must I bear the whole of it Last Line: "only the spear-point in a broken heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion CRUCIFIXION, by CARL S. WEIST Poem Source First Line: Had I been there that cruel day Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CRUCIFIXUS PRO NOBIS: 3. CHRIST IN HIS PASSION, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What bruises do I see Last Line: Sigh out a groan, weep down a melting tear. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice CRUSTS, by WALTER SHEA Poem Source First Line: How cruel they! The cause of all Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CUP, by FREDERICK T. ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: If now unto my lips be raised Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice CURE FOR TOOTHACHE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why you should suffer so much pain Last Line: "as ma does,—in a basin?" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches DAILY CROSS, by EARL BIGELOW BROWN Poem Source First Line: Calvary was just one more Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DEAD, by HAZEL FERN CRAYTOR Poem Text First Line: Only god feels what I undergo - Last Line: When love grows cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Cecile Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate! Fortune! Chance! Whose blindness, hostility or kindness Last Line: Death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Fate; Fortune; Pain; Dead, The; Destiny; Suffering; Misery DEATH IN LIFE, by THOMAS VAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can the tree but waste and wither away Last Line: That feels each pain and knows no joy at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrowden, 2d Baron Vaux Of Variant Title(s): No Pleasure Without Some Pain Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery DEATH OF CHRIST, by ARTHUR RAYMOND MACDOUGALL JR. Poem Source First Line: Pilate made report to rome Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DEBTS, by ADA NEILL CLARK Poem Text First Line: I'll never be able to pay Last Line: Who died on the tree. Subject(s): Debt; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice DEDICATION TO 'A VILLAGE TRAGEDY', by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A jewelled tale, an antique historie Last Line: The obscure cry of toiling, suffering man. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): History; Pain; Tragedy; Historians; Suffering; Misery DELIVER US FROM ..., by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Is there no greater good than health and ease? Last Line: Where stands unchanging a forgotten cross! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Prayer DERELICTION, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen morning break within his eyes Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DISSENTER, by LILLIAM M. SWENSON Poem Source First Line: Before the altar in his heart he knelt Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DO YOU BLAME HER?, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ne'er lover spake in tenderer words Last Line: I should give him the self-same answer. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery DOLORES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Last Line: Our lady of pain. Subject(s): Cruelty; Kisses; Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery DOMESTIC LIFE: 2. SOMETHING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is burning inside you Last Line: Of smoke on the snow. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery DR. WILLIAM MORTON, by CHARLES H. HOWE Poem Text First Line: Such pain men knew before he came to them Last Line: Gave holy, peaceful sleep when pain would prey. Subject(s): Pain; Sleep; Suffering; Misery DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow Last Line: Beneath those silent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery DREAM OF THE ROOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark! Of a matchless vision would I speak Last Line: Had dwelt in glory; when their ruler came, %almighty god, into his fatherland Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DREAM OF THE ROOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hwaet! %a dream came to me Last Line: It was they who girt me with gold and silver Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice DREAM-LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, friend, and I will tell you Last Line: And, indeed -- I never know. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DREAMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for dreams! I, desolate and lone Last Line: Thank god, thank god for dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Kisses; Pain; Soul; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery DRIFTING DOWN, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wild desire throbbed in my breast Last Line: I wandered in a bitter dream. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DUALITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never pass a human house Last Line: Awake, as in its sleep? Subject(s): Death; Duplicity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DUALITY; FROM ME SPRING GOOD AND EVIL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who gave thee such a ruby flaming heart Last Line: O'erthrown but in the unconflicting spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Character; Evil; Good; Human Abnormalities; Pain; Peace; Deformities; Suffering; Misery DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died Last Line: I could not see to see. Subject(s): Death; Flies; Labor & Laborers; Mourning; Pain; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery DYING, by JESSIE HOLT Poem Source First Line: Beauty goes out to meet a greater beauty Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice EARTH WORSHIPED!, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: A crown of thorns men gave to christ Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice EARTH'S BURDENS, by ERNEST CHARLES JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why groaning so, thou solid earth Last Line: "tis therefore that I groan." Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery EASTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O soul, be still! Scourge not thyself with doubt Last Line: "recurrent resurrection is eternal life." Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection EASTER CHORDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ the lord is risen to-day! Last Line: And earth and heaven together meet in ecstasies of glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; The Resurrection EASTER DAY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Christ the lord is risen today Last Line: Hail him lord this easter day! Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Resurrection, The; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER REVELATION, by CLARA EMELIA ULLMAN Poem Text First Line: No mortal yet knows how the white lily grows Last Line: Life, and love never-failing and true. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Lilies; The Resurrection 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 ECSTASY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years it was in sex and I thought Last Line: Of the most shining and singular sensual gratification. Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Pleasure; Sex; Suffering; Misery EMILY BRONTE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sacramental hurt that brings / the terror of the truth of things Last Line: Black sea, and curved uncouth sea-bitten shore. Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery ENDURANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I too could face death and never shrink Last Line: Thousands taste the full cup; who drains the lees? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery ENDURING, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I have cause to weep, I will not let Last Line: And I shall be the stronger through this pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Pain; Perseverance; Suffering; Misery ENTRANCE INTO HEAVEN, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down the white steps of heaven christ came to meet him Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice EPIGRAM: 21, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lead a life unpleasant, nothing glad Last Line: Plain or rejoice who feeleth weal or wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 88 Subject(s): Life; Pain; Singing & Singers; Truth; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 31, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my breast I never thought it gain Last Line: That list to blow retreat to every train. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Pain; Truth; Liberty; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 39, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wilful riches I have found poverty Last Line: In a paradise I suffered all this pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Pain; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 40, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like unto th'eternal fire Last Line: By whom hell may be felt or death assail! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hell; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of carthage he, that worthy warrior Last Line: At monzon thus I restless rest in spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 81 Subject(s): Carthage; Pain; Peace; Spain; War; Suffering; Misery EPISODE OF HANDS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unexpected interest made him flush Last Line: The two men smiled into each other's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Hands; Industrial Accidents; Pain; Suffering; Misery EUTHANASIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a world of pain Last Line: Ah, the pain again -- it will never be! Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Memory; Pain; Rain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EVEN UNTO DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To think one thought a hundred hundred ways Last Line: These are the signs of love -- love even to death. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faith; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery EXCEPT YE REPENT', by J. FRANKLIN PINEO Poem Source First Line: Christ, forgive us Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice EXPECTATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's three daughters stood on ... Terrace Last Line: "is the loneliest depth of human pain." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Life; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery FABLE: NEPTUNE AND THE MARINERS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When sore calamities we feel, Last Line: The gallant george in safety rides. Subject(s): Fables; Fortitude; Pain; Perseverance; Allegories; Suffering; Misery FAINT MUSIC, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery FAITH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the thrush and blackbird sing Last Line: I must believe, I will believe. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Grief; Pain; Spring; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery FATHER'S SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday, against admonishment Last Line: She tries to teach me risk. Subject(s): Children; Pain; Parents; Prudence; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood; Caution FEAR, by HAZEL COLLISTER HUTCHINSON Poem Text First Line: Not only this golden moment's wine Last Line: And there is nothing for you but the taste of the grapes! Subject(s): Fear; Grapes; Pain; Suffering; Misery FELLOWSHIP, by ELINOR LENNEN Poem Source First Line: Caiaphas, pilate and herod Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FINDING CYNTHIA IN PAIN, AND CRYING; A SONNET, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, idol of my heart, these mournful cries Last Line: May'st to thy constant martyr pity show. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery FIRES, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: Beside the orange spatterings of fire Last Line: We turned to go, in silent, sudden pain. Subject(s): Pain; Storms; Suffering; Misery FLAME ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind without that moans and cries, o dark Last Line: Mid dirges of white shapes that plunge and sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Wind; Suffering; Misery FOCUS OF THAT FACE, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: Peter denied, but jesus did not scold Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FOLLOW ME!, by SHELDON SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: In the name of him who died Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FOLLOWER, by DAISY CONWAY PRICE Poem Source First Line: I might have climbed up calvary Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FOR ME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Under an eastern sky Last Line: To thee Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice FOR THE MASTER'S SAKE, by MINNIE MASON BEEBE Poem Text First Line: I sat in the gathering twilight Last Line: That we lived for the master's sake. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion FOTTAGE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How goofy and horrible is life. Just Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery FREE ENTERPRISE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Source First Line: Three workmen fashioning a cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice FRIEND, by HELEN HAYS HUTTON Poem Text First Line: The friend / who waits beside Last Line: Is death. Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Sympathy; Suffering; Misery; Empathy GAMBLER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And sitting down they watched him there Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Variant Title(s): He Was A Gambler To Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GARFIELD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Brave sufferer, pausing betwixt life and death Last Line: "and die, if there be need, for mine and me?" Subject(s): Heaven; Pain; Prayer; Paradise; Suffering; Misery GETHSEMANE'S GIFT, by KATHERINE MARIE CORNELIA BREGY Poem Source First Line: When is he is nearest to all of us Last Line: But I would not forget what the olive-trees heard - %his one unanswered prayer! Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion GHOST ARMIES, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: There's a tramping tramping, tramping Last Line: For all wars of ancient days and wars to be. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Pain; Soldiers; War; Suffering; Misery GLOOMY RAIN, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: Gloomy rain, I hear you on my window pane Last Line: There's gladness in my domain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Pain; Rain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GLUKUPIKRON; TO SAPPHO, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word you created / which we translate Last Line: Your word for love. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Pleasure; Words; Vocabulary; Suffering; Misery GOLGOTHA, by KATHERINE GREENLEAF PEDLEY Poem Source First Line: They did not crucify the lord Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GOLGOTHA'S CROSS, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the cross on golgotha to me Last Line: Golgotha's cross is the road to heaven. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY, by VINCENT HOLME Poem Source First Line: Gall is the taste of life when we Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY, by ALICE B. JURICA Poem Source First Line: The son of god am I,' he humbly said Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a stone, and not a sheep Last Line: And smite a rock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice GOOD FRYDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But now ye sceen is chang'd, chang'd is ye day Last Line: Who turnes ye crosse into so sweet a thing. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Pain; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean GRAVES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both of us had been close Last Line: All the time. ... Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; God; Graves; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology GREAT WAGER, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How is it proved? Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GREATER GUILT, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: They gave his flesh the sting of knout Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice GREATER LOVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red lips are not so red Last Line: Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War GRIEF, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient enemy have I Last Line: To conquer mine old enemy! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Enemies; Grief; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GUILTY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loathe this room, for it seems to blab Last Line: The spirit indwelling is mine, is mine! Subject(s): Fear; Guilt; Pain; Secrets; Soul; Suffering; Misery GYPSY CHEER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gypsy whose journeys and ventures had failed Last Line: There's always the wind on the heath and the sun!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Gypsies; Pain; Gipsies; Suffering; Misery HAIKU: 6, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The falling snow flakes Subject(s): Snow; Pain; Suffering; Misery HALF DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ the life, look on me where I lie Last Line: It was not they died for us, it was thou. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice HANDICAPPED, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis in a measure easy not to plan Last Line: And gather what my body has not seen. Subject(s): Boredom; Pain; Ennui; Suffering; Misery HENRY HARDIMAN, AGED 55, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction sore long time he bore Last Line: And ease him of his pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Pain; Physicians; Soul; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Doctors HER HEART BREADS SILENCE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Because that thou art pale and cold and still Last Line: His holiest honour in this faithful breast! Subject(s): Knowledge; Love; Pain; Secrets; Winter; Suffering; Misery HER SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sings the blues in a voice that is partly Last Line: For in her song no one can be redeemed. Subject(s): Ireland; Pain; Redemption; Singing & Singers; Irish; Suffering; Misery; Songs HERITAGE, by BLANCHE LEE Poem Text First Line: I have been down the long twisting road of pain Last Line: I know the road the wizards built for elfin lads and lasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Lee-adams, Blanche Ruby Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pain; Roads; Tears; Heritage; Heredity; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails HIS GARMENTS, by ESTHER LLOYD HAGG Poem Source First Line: He gave his life upon a cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HIS HANDS, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: The hands of christ Last Line: Hands hold fast. Subject(s): Hands; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice HIS LADY'S HAND, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O goodly hand Last Line: And rid it out of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 43 Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery HIS PASSION, by GEORGE CONRAD PULLMAN Poem Source First Line: A heap of stones lay at his command Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HIS REWARD, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With serving still / this have I won Last Line: To be undone! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 90 Subject(s): Fortune; Pain; Suffering; Misery HIS SAVIOURS WORDS, GOING TO THE CROSSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have, have ye no regard, all ye Last Line: Had he not drank them up for you. Subject(s): Christianity; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HOLIER NIGHT, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: A star looked down on bethlehem Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HOLY SATURDAY, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I, in truth, the judas who betrays? Last Line: Rise christ! Give these feet wings! My need is exigent. Subject(s): Betrayal; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion HOLY WEEK, by PHOEBE SMITH BACHELDER Poem Source First Line: And having taken bread, he broke it Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HOLY WEEK, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Source First Line: I cannot wax ecstatic with the throng Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice HOSPITAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone is screaming almost in morse Last Line: Screaming three longs, one short, three longs? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Pain; Pregnancy; Suffering; Misery HOSPITAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside or out, the key is pain. It holds Subject(s): Hospitals; Pain; Suffering; Misery HYMN: GOOD FRIDAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh more than merciful! Whose bounty gave Last Line: Nor let thy glorious blood be spilt in vain. Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 5, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our lord became a servant Last Line: His 'peace be unto you.' Subject(s): Harvest; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Labor & Laborers; Love; Peace; Work; Workers I AM THE CROSS, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice I FOLLOWED THEE, MY GOD, I FOLLOWED THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Me also bear thy cross Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Crucifixion; Worship I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: The crown of empire - must thou yield it now? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice I SAW DEATH SLAIN, by WILLIAM CAPELL Poem Source First Line: Call me no more the cursed tree Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice I SHALL KNOW WHY, WHEN TIME IS OVER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That scalds me now – that scalds me now! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) I SOUGHT THE LIVING GOD IN ANCIENT LORE, by JOHN CALVIN SLEMP Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice IF I SHOULD SAY MY HEART IS IN MY HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor to have lived nor to have died in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Jesus Christ – Suffering & Sacrifice IF YOU WERE HERE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: These flowers would lose their wistfulness Last Line: If you were here! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery IMMUNITY, by THOMAS A KEMPIS Poem Text First Line: Think you to escape Last Line: Than this—the royal pathway of the holy cross. Alternate Author Name(s): Hammerken, Thomas Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice IN A TROUBLED WORLD, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Vainly we crave for some divine redeemer Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice IN A U-HAUL NORTH OF DAMASCUS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what are the sins Last Line: To believe in new beginnings? Could I be moved? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Pain; Popular Culture - United States; Suffering; Misery IN AN AUTUMN WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, too, o bronze-eyed darling of the feast Last Line: I love thy loveliness that hears no cry. Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Fall; Suffering; Misery IN CONNEMARA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes all untroubled she laughs as she Last Line: As high as theirs her spirit, as high will be her doom. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Laughter; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery IN GETHSEMANE, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eden was the arbor of delight Last Line: And christ, from bitter venom, would again %extract life out of death, and pleasure out of pain Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion IN GREY DAYS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measures of oil for others Last Line: Death, will be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Suffering; Misery IN PRAISE OF PAIN, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IN SHADOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreaded that first robin so, / but he is mastered now Last Line: Of their unthinking drums. Subject(s): Pain; Spring; Suffering; Misery IN THE DARK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O in the depths of midnight Last Line: And wait for me somewhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Pain; Rain; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery IN THE GARDEN, by JOHN SAMUEL BEWLEY MONSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sins, my sins, my savior Last Line: That told thy sorrow there. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, why break in idle pain Last Line: This thing that hath no grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Pain; Waves; Wind; Suffering; Misery IN THE OCTAGONAL ROOM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To see / blake's earth Last Line: Rests Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blood; Cruelty; Pain; Tate Museum, London; Suffering; Misery IN THE STORM, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I see, against a storm-whipped sky Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice IN THINE OWN HEART, by JOHANNES SCHEFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though christ a thousand times Last Line: Alone can make thee whole Alternate Author Name(s): Silesius, Angelus Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion INJUSTICE, by SHELDON SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: I heard the verdict, stern and grim Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice INTERPRETATION, by SHELDON SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: The cross that bears my master slain Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice INTO THY HANDS MY SPIRIT I COMMEND, by LOREN W. BURCH Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice INTOLERANCE, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: A jet form swaying in the morning mist Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice INTROSPECTIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish it were over the terrible pain Last Line: But I will not groan when I bite the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Ocean INVINCIBLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fate, betwixt the grinding-stones of pain Last Line: Save bitter buds of doom. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery INVOCATION, by S. A. DETHALL Poem Text First Line: Christ with the crown of thorns Last Line: Send me your strength for a while. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hate; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Social Protest; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will waken the wind for me? Last Line: Who will waken the wind? Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery INVOCATION TO MISERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, be happy! - sit near me Last Line: Where I am -- where thou hast been? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Pain; Suffering; Misery IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery IS WHAT SHE SEES OF THEM...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now what can she peer forward to again Last Line: Who greets in them some trait of hers or his? Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IT HURTS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Please come when it happens Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IT IS ENOUGH, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is enough! Cease thine assailing Last Line: It is enough! Oh, grant me peace! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IT IS NOT FINISHED, LORD, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice JESUS OF NAZARETH, by ERNEST CADMAN COLWELL Poem Source First Line: Would you see the marks of the roman scourge Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice JESUS OF THE SCARS, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we never sought, we seek thee now Last Line: And not a god has wounds, but thou alone. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice JESUS' KINGSHIP, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Twere well the soldiers stripped the finery Last Line: And own thee king in thy great sacrifice. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology JUDAS, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Source First Line: And one that dips with me the sop.' - 'not I!' Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice JUDAS ISCARIOT, by MARGARET NICKERSON MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Judas was I! Ah, the mockery! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) JUDGE ME, O LORD!, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I had been in palestine Last Line: To think my life dared not stake %and beard the romans for his sake Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice JUDGMENT, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: They hailed him, trembling, to the judgment seat Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice KINGDOMS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The kingdoms of the earth go by Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice KYRIE ELEISON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In joy, in pain, in sorrow Last Line: Kyrie eleison! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Theology LA COQUETTE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You look at me with tender eyes Last Line: Receive the whirlwind for your gain! Subject(s): Flirtation; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery LACRIMAE RERUM, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Rossetti walked his sorrow to a field Last Line: And sorrow, and this cause for sorrow, die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery LAST HILL, by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Source First Line: You who have raised Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LEGACY, by RUTH WINANT WHEELER Poem Source First Line: My lord, when he went back Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LEGEND OF GETHSEMANE, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: O, what is this that seeks at night Last Line: Too late. Moved by remorse forever, %the grasses shake, the aspens quiver Subject(s): Gethsemane; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LENT, by JANE MCKAY LANNING Poem Source First Line: To search our souls Last Line: These are things %god meant Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion LENTEN THOUGHTS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Yet many were offended in him Last Line: Must jesus be crucified anew? Subject(s): Catholics; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology LIFE, by E. DEVILLIERS-HERTZLER Poem Text First Line: How shall the heart measure its rich content Last Line: Without the gauge of storm and fears? Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery LILI'S PARK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no menagerie, I trow Last Line: I must be free! Myself will force my freeing! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LINES GIVEN WITH A PENWIPER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have compassion on the carpeting Last Line: And save your spine from a continual curve. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Compassion; Pain; Suffering; Misery LINES ON FORTUNE, A SKILFUL MECHANIST, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune, my foe, why dost thou frown on me? Last Line: I'll walk, I'll mount -- I'll be a man again. Subject(s): Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery LITANY, by MARIE LE NART Poem Source First Line: Oh, by thy cross and passion, by thy pain Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice 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 LONELY CHRIST, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Many now had left him, melting fast Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice LONG DELAYED, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I search'd the weary world in vain Last Line: With multitudes of leaflets green and soft. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Pain; Solitude; Time; Waiting; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness LOST FOR A ROSE'S SAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I laved my hands Last Line: That my love marie / might love me yet Subject(s): Hearts;love - Complaints;pain; Suffering;misery LOVE DEFENDED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who extols a wilderness Last Line: Great is its relief. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery LOVE IS DEAD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A form across my threshold lies Last Line: The only way love ever dies. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery LOVE IS OF GOD, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, let us love: love is of god Last Line: Beloved, let us love: for only thus %shall we behold that god who loveth us Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion LOVE'S ACCOUNTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunburnt summer less devours Last Line: Love, for love of you. Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Summer; Woods; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S HEALING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My chosen one - you to whom I have said Last Line: And wander there beside him in love's wood. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S SOLICITUDE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou at this moment, love? - what doing Last Line: Light of mine eyes, blood of my veins, my love. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery LUMBAGO, by DANIEL CARMICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If horror's cup is no yet full Last Line: I'll back lumbago. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches MADRIGAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April eyes, april eyes / alight with laughter Last Line: Love is a rover. Subject(s): April; Eyes; Laughter; Love; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery MALCHUS, by IDA NORTON MUNSON Poem Source First Line: We crossed brook cedron to gethsemane Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice MALEDICTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's not a singing animal Last Line: Rivet his stone with worms. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Curses; Pain; Self-pity; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have pleasures for a friend Last Line: When neither can hinder the other. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst alexis lay prest Last Line: The nymph dy'd more quick, and the shepherd more slow. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MARTYR, by NATALIE FLOHR Poem Source First Line: And all the while they mocked him and reviled Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice MARY, by W.+(1) B. Poem Source First Line: Beside the empty sepulcher she lingered Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice MATER DOLOROSA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, brooding ever, dwells amidst the hills Last Line: Peace hath she not and therefore cannot give. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Silence; Tears; Suffering; Misery MATTERHORN QUESTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As men essay the matterhorn Last Line: Bids them to climb and do their best. Subject(s): Alps; Labor & Laborers; Mountains; Pain; Soul; Work; Workers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery MAURINE: PART 5, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A visit to a cave some miles away Last Line: E'en to the dregs, this bitter cup of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Caves; Hope; Love; Pain; Caverns; Optimism; Suffering; Misery MAY DAY, by ADELAIDE A. ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Oh, world, sometimes I cannot bear the load Last Line: If I can see a may day born again. Subject(s): May (month); Pain; Rebirth; Suffering; Misery MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: FRIDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With hearts deep rooted in love's holy ground Last Line: To god's good pleasure, with a christ-like mind. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Theology MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN PASSION WEEK: TUESDAY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saviour died, according to our faith Last Line: Pain is its cure, and it exists no more. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Faith; Healing; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Belief; Creed; Cures; Theology MEMORY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light / of the white night Last Line: Might still. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery MEN FOLLOW SIMON, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They spat in his face and hewed him a cross Last Line: O master, master—into the sun! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' ECOLOGUE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What need compare where sweet exceeds com- / pare? Last Line: My pain too old, although my years be young. Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery MID-MAY, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hand clamped to desk, / and eyes on task undone Last Line: When pan is at the door? Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery MISERICORD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery MISERIES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though hourly comforts from the gods we see Last Line: No life is yet life-proofe from miserie. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MISERY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath not met with home-made bread Last Line: A flint with a parish hammer! Subject(s): Despair; Pain; Suffering; Misery MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the grey wild seas Last Line: To-day and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean MOMENTARY (1), by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest song was ever sung Last Line: One light of everlasting joy. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery MOON-WROUGHT TIDES, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING Poem Text First Line: How often have I prayed that I might cease Last Line: I almost long to live and love again. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery MOTHER'S PETITION, IN WARTIME, by HELEN M. BURGESS Poem Source First Line: Mary mother, heart sublime Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery MUSIC MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o music, why the bliss you bring Last Line: "born to be beautiful -- but born to die." Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pain; Suffering; Misery MY BIRDEEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bonnie birdeen Last Line: My passion, my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery MY FAVORITES, by ESTHER WOLLAM Poem Text First Line: Inordinately fond am I Last Line: And often nurse a lingering ache. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery MY FRIEND, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My verse to thee I'm dedicating Last Line: So closely are we bound. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery MY LEMAN ON THE ROAD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When I see by the road Last Line: If only I can, %if only I can Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Nostalgia; Tears MY LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Dearest, there is no one above thee that Last Line: Unto the rich-crown jeweled seat of paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery MY MASTER, by HARRY LEE Poem Source First Line: My master was so very poor Last Line: So very rich my master was, %he gave his all and knew no loss Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion MY MUSE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear muse, the world will never guess Last Line: "I am thy soul." Subject(s): Hearts; Muses; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery MY SHATTERED DREAMS, by C. CELESTE DE SILVA Poem Text First Line: The dream of my life has been shattered Last Line: And god may there on them smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Pain; Tears; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery NAILS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So, you're stretched on the planks, you schemer Last Line: Left him up, let the show begin. - %which was the nail, friend, that you drove in? Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NAMELESS PAIN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my nostrils the summer wind Last Line: And scatter its nameless pain! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery NAMELESS PAIN, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should be happy with my lot Last Line: If any other lot were mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Pain; Women's Rights; Suffering; Misery; Feminism NEW CRUCIFIXION, by EARL BIGELOW BROWN Poem Source First Line: Now, around the world, the mills Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NEW CRUCIFIXION, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: He arose from the dead Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NIGHT AND THE MERRY MAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neath my moon what doest thou Last Line: Laughs as loud as I can do? Subject(s): Moon; Ambition; Night; Pain; Memory; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery NO PAIN, NO GAIN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If little labour, little are our gaines Last Line: Mans fortunes are according to his paines. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery NOT ALL THE CROSSES, by LUCILE KENDRICK Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NOT READY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of our pain and struggle Last Line: The goodness which brims the days! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religious Education; Worship; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools NOT YOURS BUT YOU', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died for me: what can I offer him? Last Line: As thou hast loved me even to bitter death Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ – Suffering & Sacrifice NOTE BOOK OF ROMANCES AND LAMENTS: LAMENT OF THE RUINED CHATEAUX IN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Lusignan, les baux, coucy, white towers in winter's fee, and autumn's king Last Line: Is it not bitter pain life's semblance to retain when death is in the air? Subject(s): Death; Lament; Pain; Winter; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery NOTRE DAME DE ROUEN, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, as the vesper chant Last Line: Victor and king! Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology NOW SLEEPS THE LORD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now lies the lord in a most quiet bed Last Line: Now lies the lord serene, august, apart Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice NUNC DIMITTIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dying; but what of that? Last Line: That I've found you -- at the last. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery O CHRIST, WHO DIED, by JOHN CALVIN SLEMP Poem Source First Line: O christ, who died upon the cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 27. TRACES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something of sorrow am I not denied Last Line: And sands bear record of the sedulous tide. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arm'd with hyacinthine rod Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Pain; Drinks & Drinking; Suffering; Misery; Wine ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die? Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery OF OUR LORD'S PASSION, SELS., by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In thine hour of holy sadness Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice OF THE MISERIES ATTENDING MANKIND, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mis'ry of mankind! For at the bar Last Line: That we had ne'er been born: or soon as born had died. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery OF THINGS NOT SEEN, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: Theirs is the courage of flesh and bone Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery OLD SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is many a simple song one hears Last Line: The tender magic of bygone things. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Passion; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs ON A HEADACHE, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When stretch'd on one's bed Last Line: For our friends and our souls to provide. Subject(s): Headaches; Pain; Suffering; Misery ON A ROCOCO CRUCIFIX, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guarded by bursts of glory, golden rays Last Line: While god groaned in the dark night of his soul? Subject(s): Betrayal; Cavalry; Crucifixion; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judah (bible); Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology ON MY LEAVING LONDON, JUNE THE 29TH, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What cross impetuous planets govern me Last Line: And be to all the busy world as lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Fate; London; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery ON RESIGNATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, know this, that he who gave thee breath Last Line: And trust in god thro' his beloved son. Subject(s): Affliction; Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Pain; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ON THE PASSION OF CHRIST, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What rends the temple's veil, where is day gone? Last Line: Nature must needs be sick, when god can die. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice ON THE WAY TO CHURCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one I know. I see her sometimes pass Last Line: Nor kneel, god's robber, near that angel face. Subject(s): Deception; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Women; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery ONE APRIL DAY, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: Who could be sad in april Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice ONE OF THE SOLDIERS WITH A SPEAR PIERCED HIS SIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah lord, we all have pierced thee Last Line: Let mercy overrun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice ONE ONLY AIM AND THOUGHT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature formed cassandra, who should move Last Line: No aim or knowledge but the thought of her. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Love; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, by FLOYD HARDIN Poem Text First Line: Help me, o christ, to hold thy sacred cross Last Line: (his head appears!—thank god!—I've popped my man!) Subject(s): Christianity; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War OPEN WINDOWS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the window a sea of green trees Last Line: Who speak with wonder face to face. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery ORGAN SONGS: COME UNTO ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come unto me, the master says Last Line: And that will make thee well. Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures; Suffering; Misery ORGAN SONGS: WRITTEN FOR ONE IN SORE PAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, on before thy sheep Last Line: Thou wilt miss me—and wilt find! Subject(s): God; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Sickness; Cures; Suffering; Misery; Illness OUT OF GROTIUS HIS TRAGEDY OF CHRISTES SUFFERINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O thou the span of whose omnipotence Last Line: Heav'n, earth, and sea, my triumphs. What remain'd %now but the grave? The grave it selfe I tam'd Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice PAIN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man that hath great griefs I pity not Last Line: The joy that is more ancient than the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by FLORENCE FOSTER HALL Poem Text First Line: This week has aged me, love, a thousand years Last Line: The perfect master of my gentle herd! Subject(s): Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: The darkness of night is broken Last Line: Than complete release from pain? Subject(s): Despair; Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mystery that walks the earth Last Line: Thou feelest that I am! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Despair; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More faithful / than lover or husband Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by ELSIE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Why must I be hurt? Last Line: Opportunity, a privilege, a challenge -- to the god that gropes within me. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men have made them gods of love Last Line: Yet his soul within is sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Pain; Suffering; Misery 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 PAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gardener to weed Last Line: And, for the fruit, to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waves are the sea's white daughters Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain flattens the world - its bubbles Last Line: Pain leads us to consider anew Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN IN PLEASURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thought ay like a flower upon mine heart Last Line: And they will all prove sad enough to sting! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN OR JOY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! That's the nightingale Last Line: Throbs in each throbbing vein? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery PAIN WROUGHT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain, pain, the creator pain Last Line: And because I suffer, I sing. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAINE AND PLEASURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God suffers not his saints, and servants deere Last Line: Gives them by turnes their grief and jollitie. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAINE ENDS IN PLEASURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afflictions bring us joy in times to come Last Line: When sins, by stripes, to us grow wearisome. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAINED UNTO DEATH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One life I knew was a psalm, a terrible psalm of pain Last Line: And was and was not of this under earth. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PALESTINE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O land, a-stoop with penitential years Last Line: O god! To kneel upon the self-same earth! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Cavalry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice PALM SUNDAY AND MONDAY, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: They pluck their palm branches and hail him as king Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTHUS: GRIEF, by MARY SIDNEY WROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Griefe, killing griefe, have nott my torments binn Last Line: Burning my hart who had him kindly warmd. Alternate Author Name(s): Wroth, Mary, Lady; Montgomery, Countess Of Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PARALYTIC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happens. Will it go on? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Pain; Estrangement; Outcasts; Suffering; Misery PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14, by BARNABE BARNES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, ten times worse tormented than before Subject(s): Pain; Endurance; Suffering; Misery PASSED BY, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: "the pangs you dealt outvie!" Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAUL ELUARD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been reading about paul eluard tonight Last Line: He lived on love, cold water, and poetry. Subject(s): Books; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Suffering; Misery PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day Last Line: And her madness passed away. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PEACE WROUGHT BY PAIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over that pallid face were wrought Last Line: The gold it wins, is gold from heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Suffering; Misery PEBBLES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One whined, o why into this wide and / lonely Last Line: Of voices in a wood of april buds. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PENDULUM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have swung to the uttermost reaches of pain Last Line: On the rapturous swing of an infinite kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Kisses; Pain; Suffering; Misery PENT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is falling steadily Last Line: And flood it as the sea!! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PERU: CANTO 5, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did e'er the human bosom throb with pain Last Line: Is wrapt in wonder, or dissolv'd in love. Subject(s): Healing; Love; Pain; Cures; Suffering; Misery PHANTASUS, by ARNO HOLZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its roof among the stars projected Last Line: A dreamer and a prodigal. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PLAINT, by LUCIEN PATE Poem Text First Line: I have told my pain to the wood Last Line: My heart so a-fevered with woe? Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grief; Nature; Pain; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PLEASURE AND PAIN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can determine the frontier of pleasure? Last Line: For pain has its heaven and pleasure its hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery PLEASURE BECOMES PAIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot count the changes of my heart Last Line: Till the heart saith of pleasure, it is pain. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery POSTSCRIPT; TO MAXIME KUMIN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear max. I call you that because Last Line: "here, it hurts." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Disasters; Kumin, Maxine; Lightning; Pain; Trees; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery PRAYER FOR A WORLD HURT SORE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, we lift to thee Last Line: Made whole again! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Pain; Salvation; War; World; Suffering; Misery PRAYER OF A MODERN THOMAS, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If thou, o god, the christ didst leave Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA Poem Text First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream Last Line: Long grass. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PROVENCE, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is a fine and buoyant face Last Line: And of tall grass made tenderer. Subject(s): Faces; Lips; Pain; Smiles; Suffering; Misery PSALM 69, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Save me o god, o save my drowning soul Last Line: No other seate may need. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PSALM XIII, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Offended majesty! How long Last Line: And rapture swells my song. Subject(s): Faith; God; Pain; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery PSALM: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let mee not lord Last Line: And fly with sudden shame. Subject(s): God; Pain; Praise; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the light; - and then Last Line: To earth or sea or sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Light; Pain; Wind; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery QUATRAIN, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delve not so deep Last Line: Against a star, and climb eternally. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice QUATRAIN, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Christ bears a thousand crosses now Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice QUERY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Is it not possible that our million of years Last Line: "but perhaps this is the wrong approach?" Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery QUESTION, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Source First Line: I wonder if that cypress tree Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice QUESTION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the son of god go by Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice RAIN INTERS MAGGIORE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rains and then it rains and still it rains Last Line: That wars to finish hatreds have undone! Subject(s): Pain; Rain; Suffering; Misery REINCARNATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He slept as weary toilers do Last Line: (oh! The sad secrets of that orb of white.) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery REMEMBRANCE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: The sun lay warm on tawny fields Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice RENUNCIATION, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have we given up thy spell, renunciation? Last Line: Then in her arms she held him: he was hers... Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery RESIGNATION, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, you will triumph, dear & noble friend! Last Line: Will sooth away the tears I cannot hide. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery RESIGNATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sadder moments of a wearied hope Last Line: Into the calm majestic life of god. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Grief; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery RESIGNATION, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER Poem Source First Line: He prayed by the stone Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice REVEALMENT, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Source First Line: They planned for christ a cruel death Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice REVENGE, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Revenge is a naked sword Last Line: Thou may'st find it sheathed in thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): Blood; Pain; Revenge; Suffering; Misery REVISITED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely road I tread again Last Line: "that tells me ""pain is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery RIDE NOT TOO FAST WITH BEAUTY, by ELSIE TWINING ABBOTT Poem Text Last Line: From its chain. Subject(s): Earth; Pain; World; Suffering; Misery RIDING THROUGH JERUSALEM, by MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I thought it strange he asked for me Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wildly-beauteous form Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: GEOFFRY RUDEL AND MELISANDA OF TRIPOLI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chateau blay still see we Last Line: On the wall, in shy confusion. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Spring; Voices; Suffering; Misery SACRED EPIGRAM: AND THEY SPAT UPON HIM, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What so soully will not the wrath of this cruel sea dare! Last Line: Who owes to your spittle the fact that he himself sees Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DAY OF THE MASTER'S PASSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should I be so gloomy? Away with fasts! I have Last Line: See there is what cuts the strength of the wine, water Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SACRED EPIGRAM: THE ACCUSED CHRIST ANSWERS NOTHING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says nothing: o precious silence of that holy tongue! Last Line: Saying no word, now remakes all things Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SACRIFICE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no wine unless the grape is crushed Last Line: Through sorrow and the body's pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Bread; Drinks & Drinking; Pain; Sacrifices; Wine; Suffering; Misery SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweep over me, o lovely winds Last Line: Face down, and calls on you. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Rain; Sanctuaries; Wind; Suffering; Misery SAPPHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh Last Line: Unwept, untended and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Pain; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SATISFACTION FOR SUFFERINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all our workes, a recompence is sure Last Line: Tis sweet to thinke on what was hard t' endure. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SAY NOT GOOD-BYE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if we shall meet again? Last Line: Say not good-bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Fear; Hearts; Love; Pain; Parting; Suffering; Misery SECOND COMING, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Christ came to earth again, and made his plea Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SEEKING REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother said: the child is changed Last Line: And think and weep alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Rest; Seasons; Suffering; Misery SENTIMENT, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since we can die but once, what matters it Last Line: All to one common dissolution tends. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SHE LIVES WITH HER OWN GRANNY DEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Cries william when first come from sea Last Line: "grenadier! Did you say, etc" Subject(s): Grandparents;laughter;pain; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers;suffering;misery SHOES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Here I sit with hard eyes looking at my child Last Line: To suffer torture indian-gauntlet-runner never knew. Subject(s): Native Americans; Pain; Poverty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Suffering; Misery SIMON AND JUDAS, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Text First Line: How dare we look askance at these two men Last Line: Nor followed even at a great way off! Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) SIMON AND JUDAS, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: At these two men will may we churchmen scoff Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.) SIMON OF CYRENE, by GEORGIA HARKNESS Poem Source First Line: I walked that day out to the death-marked hill Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SIMON THE CYRENIAN SPEAKS, by GLEN BAKER Poem Source First Line: Look not on me with scorn because Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SINGING THE PAIN BACK INTO THE WOUND, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crouch naked at the wound's edge Last Line: Bundle on its back. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SO RUNS OUR SONG, by MARY EVA KITCHEL Poem Source First Line: A dozen sandaled saints I see Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SODOMA'S CHRIST SCOURGED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in siena pictures Last Line: The gray-walled street received me; %on peace I mused no more Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, you cannot befriend me, with all your love's tender persistence! Last Line: Under the spell of our life's innermost mystery, pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery SOLITUDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh and the world laughs with you Last Line: Through the narrow aisles of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The World As It Is;laughter;companionship;the Way Of The World;life's Magnet Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Pain; Solitude; Time; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery SOME DAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pathway thou art walking now Last Line: Again to thee -- some day. Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SOME LATE LARK SINGING, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: These are my songs. As all men sing Last Line: Me up, and far below, some late lark sings! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Pain; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Suffering; Misery; Songs SOMEDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someday: - so many tearful eyes Last Line: Bring round to them, someday. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Pain; Soul; Summer; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What trees were in gethsemane Last Line: In gardens, late at night. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice SONG, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have the years left us? Last Line: Sorry we came. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice SONG, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, in one semester Last Line: Which face is all your own? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice SONG, by ELIZABETH WILMOT Poem Text First Line: Nothing adds to loves fond fire Last Line: Your love, fond fugitive, to gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, Countess Of; Malet, Elizabeth Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG (4), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her; she was lovely Last Line: And hailed the coming day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery SONG A THE DOCK'S END, by JOSEPH ELDRIDGE LOFTUS Poem Text First Line: Wan moon of hope, the drenching fog has closed Last Line: Inertia is death!! And I am death. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG AT DAWN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Where then is my pain? I have no more pain. Where then is my Last Line: Of the sun. Subject(s): Dawn; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG OF THE DESPERATE ONE, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the days and down the years Last Line: Over every joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG OF TO-MORROW, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, o harp of being, set Last Line: Thou shalt never moan again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Suffering; Misery SONG: 10, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wish and want and not obtain Last Line: What may it avail me? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Despair; Fortune; Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 101, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 102, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, all my welfare Last Line: Of my great grief the great excess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Love; Pain; Seduction; Truth; Belief; Creed; Parting; Suffering; Misery SONG: 105, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all of change / must be my song Last Line: To quit the craft that me beguiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Time; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 111, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love doth again Last Line: She shall my heart obtain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 112, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I as well within my song belay Last Line: Causeless because that I have suffered smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 16, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cause accord or to agree Last Line: That are impossible. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After great storms the calm returns Last Line: And me also the most happy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Hope; Pain; Storms; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 22, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, poor man, what hap have I Last Line: To love above my poor degree. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG: 29, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that chance hath chosen me Last Line: And other have that I deserve. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 34, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since ye delight to know Last Line: For to repent your cruelness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 72 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 44, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was never nothing more me pained Last Line: Alas the while! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 46, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All heavy minds / do seek to ease their charge Last Line: Is clean in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 49, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If with complaint the pain might be expressed Last Line: Since if ye list ye may my woe restrain? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 58, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love, loved, and so doth she Last Line: To love so well and leave in smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG: 59, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suffering in sorrow, in hope to attain Last Line: Content to serve and suffer still I must. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 60, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart and service to you proffered Last Line: Reward your servant liberally. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Honesty; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 71, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear heart, what hap had I Last Line: If that I be not loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 72, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, fortune, what aileth thee Last Line: That thou wilt change. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hope; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 73, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Complaining, alas, without redress Last Line: Where now for pain I die, I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Lament; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 74, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duress of pains and grievous smart Last Line: Heart, sigh no more, I pray thee, break. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONG: 79, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might have at mine own will Last Line: That force perforce I do sustain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Pain; Tears; Paradise; Suffering; Misery SONG: 80, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning my heart doth sore oppress Last Line: Alas, and cannot be loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONG: 85, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spite of their spite which they in vain Last Line: My fancy is too hard to turn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fantasy; Fear; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 86, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driven by desire to set affection Last Line: And not covet that thing that will not be? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 87, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall she never out of my mind Last Line: To see her loving gentleness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Letters; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 88, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom should I sue to ease my pain? Last Line: And here an end, and here an end. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I cannot your cruelty constrain Last Line: Rejoice not at my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 91, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would have ever thought Last Line: To draw better the next. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 96, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been a lover Last Line: Though ye misjudge these last. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 98, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sith I myself displease thee Last Line: It were a wilful rage. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Suffering; Misery SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: THE SWORD, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: The great sword is broken, beloved Last Line: And walk with me in the way that the sword could not close? Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Pain; Swords; Suffering; Misery SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read upon that book Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.' Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 23, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain, alas! Poor strephon tries Last Line: But, amoret, in thee. Subject(s): Breath; Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 27, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some kind angel, gently flying Last Line: E'er shall shake my constant mind. Subject(s): Angels; Faces; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 5, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let perjured fair amynta know Last Line: That pity ever dwelt with pride. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Pain; Pity; Pride; Suffering; Misery; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 6, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, since we have both been kind Last Line: And pretty chloris stays for me. Subject(s): Fire; Love; Nature; Pain; Pleasure; Soul; Suffering; Misery SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love and joy are one: and so Last Line: Though burning for a martyr's diadem. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 10. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 3, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou pain, the only guest of loathed constraint Last Line: So stay her tongue that she no more say 'no'. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 11. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 4, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And have I heard her say, 'o cruel pain?' Last Line: Where her, who should rule pain, false pain abuseth. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 25, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lively sparks that issue from those eyes Last Line: "of deadly ""nay"" hear I the fearful thunder." Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 47 Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNET: 8. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 1, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace Last Line: More loving eyes she draws, more hate thou hast. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 9. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 2, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe, woe to me, on me return the smart Last Line: And swear she is not worthy thee to have. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1, by ARLO BATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After fate smites. The heart at first is dumb Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNETS IN TIME OF TRIAL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queer! There was no premonitory twitch Last Line: "said, ""what a jolly, sunny sunday morning!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery SONORAN RADIO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at a big moon too long Last Line: We've colored with blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mexico; Pain; Poverty; Vision; Suffering; Misery SORROW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow, on wing through the world forever Last Line: Sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Roundels; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EUGENIA TODD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have any of you, passers-by Last Line: Healed and glad in the morning! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery SPRING AND AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green ripples singing down the corn Last Line: And full of winter pain. Subject(s): Corn; Gold; Green (color); Pain; Winter; Suffering; Misery STABAT MATER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O thou mournful mother, standing by the cross with / eyes uplift Last Line: How a mother's pain may be a soul's sublime beatitude. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Pain; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery STEP OVER THE LINE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Heaven's morning is breaking, step out in the light Last Line: "then hear his words spoken, ""good servant, well done." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Salvation; Theology 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 SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD, AND BURIED, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a green hill far away Last Line: Of heaven and let us in. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology SUFFERING, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I sat down on a bumble bee Last Line: Humiliating pain. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pain; Beekeeping; Bugs; Suffering; Misery SUFFERING GOD, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cross they raised against the rain Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice SUFFERINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We merit all we suffer, and by far Last Line: More stripes, then god layes on the sufferer Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SYRIAN'S TALE, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: While riding toward jerusalem Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TALE OF ONE HILL, by JR. FRANKLIN D. ELMER Poem Source First Line: Time erodes the hills? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TERRIBLE MEEK, SELS., by CHARLES RANN KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Already our kingdoms are beginning to totter Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most painful image I have now, here, is Last Line: Is always, always, accompanied by pain. Subject(s): Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Pain; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE AMERICAN BLACK (A STUDY IN RACE CONSCIOUSNESS), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Night! Night! / and of the dawn no promise. Wrong is right Last Line: And dream of freedom that is not a name. Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Pain; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Suffering; Misery; Serfs THE ANACREONTICS: 6, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear thou the dream, o faithless maid Last Line: "no better herb to ease thy woe." Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Healing; Pain; Cures; Suffering; Misery THE ANGEL OF DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the beautiful angel Last Line: And death, thy friend, will give them all to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF PAIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive a moment, if a friend's regret Last Line: ^1^ oliver wendell holmes. Subject(s): Pain; Physicians; Suffering; Misery; Doctors THE BOOTLEGGER, by STANLEY H. CAUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: I'm a peddler bold, and my trade's as old Last Line: To see who'll be damned the first! Subject(s): Cruelty; Pain; Peddlers & Peddling; Soul; Suffering; Misery THE BREAD ITSELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, in my unwanted suffering, I turn to you Variant Title(s): Threnody Subject(s): Mothers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE BREED OF WOE, by LUIS MONTOTO Y RAUTENSTRAUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now whither go ye? - would that we did know Last Line: Refuse us not an alms, for love of god. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fathers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE BRIDE'S DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are gleaming Last Line: Through paths of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Pain; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE BURNING-GLASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No map shows my jerusalem Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE CALL OF SORROW, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved! In thine adversity there is Last Line: Oh! Why does thy bleeding compact cover all? Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE CHRIST OF SAN BUENA VENTURA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Ghastly christ on rude cross lifted, while behind the / clear-carved face Last Line: Christ was raised from out the shadows—love for him our common joy. Subject(s): Cavalry; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Missions & Missionaries; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wherefore do the poor complain? Last Line: And these have answer'd thee! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Experience; Pain; Poverty; Reason; Wealth; Suffering; Misery; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Riches; Fortunes THE CONTRAST; THE STORMY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now years have passed away, all years of toil Last Line: Divorce a vinculo with alimony. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: FREDERIC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I turn me? Whither shall I bend Last Line: Shall heal my soul, and my last days be peace. Subject(s): Fear; New South Wales, Australia; Pain; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Salvation; Suffering; Misery THE CROSS, by SHIRLEY DILLON WAITE Poem Text First Line: So heavy and so fraught with pain Last Line: The cross. Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice THE CRUSHED AND BROKEN FLOWER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Within the forest depths unknown Last Line: Because he loved us so. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Beginnings; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE CRY OF THE CRANE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The woman had borne me a child Last Line: With my child in her arms? Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Death - Children; Desolation; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE DIRGE OF THE REPUBLIC (IN MEMORIAM, E. Z.), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great days men heard afar the clarions of hope rejoice Last Line: "to be true men, and free, ""beneath the shadow of a crown""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery THE DIVER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast been where the rocks of coral grow Last Line: O wrestler with the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE DYING CHILD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her cheek is flushed with fever red Last Line: There, there, my child, lie down and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Guilt; Pain; Poverty; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE EMPEROR'S PROGRESS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child of brighter than the mornings birth Last Line: Leaves fearful of the bitterness of death. Subject(s): Children; Death; Pain; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a time when I loved Last Line: And arrest all these fast-flowing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Unfaithfulness; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE FALCON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lully, lulley; lully, lulley / the falcon [faucon] hath borne my mate away" Last Line: "and by that beddes side ther stondeth a ston, / corpus christi wretyn ther on" Variant Title(s): The Corpus Christi Carol;the Falcon Hath Borne My Mate Away Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE FLOWER (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I grow tensions Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE FOE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My foe did strike me, lord, I am not meek Last Line: I cannot turn to him the other cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Enemies; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Revenge THE FOREFATHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the country inn Last Line: Surges hot through my heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Pain; Peace; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery THE FRENCH OF VICTOR HUGO: BENEATH A CRUCFIX, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Come to this god, ye mourners, for he weeps Last Line: Come, all who pass: christ waits, and will remain. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery THE HEATHER ON FIRE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: High on a granite boulder, huge in girth Last Line: His body to the land that had begrudged a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Famine; Highlands Of Scotland; Landlords & Tenants; Pain; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery THE HOUSE OF PAIN, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Unto the prison house of pain none willingly repair Last Line: For to no earthly dwelling-place seems god so strangely near! Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Suffering; Misery; Theology THE HOUSE OF PAIN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White faces, o my sisters! White faces, o my brothers! Last Line: Wait and wait and suffer, still in the house of pain. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE HUMAN NOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the harmonies of heaven stole a note of throbbing pain Last Line: Yea, the wistful human groping, and the doubt that makes it dear. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Heaven; Life; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery THE JEWS WEEPING IN JERUSALEM, by JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN Poem Text First Line: Why, trembling and sad, dost thou stand there Last Line: And sorrow and sighing shall vanish away. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Pain; Zionism; Judaism; Suffering; Misery THE LEPER OF LONDON, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In euston road in london town Last Line: The realms of after-hell. Subject(s): Leprosy; London; Pain; Lepers; Suffering; Misery THE LESSER ONES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We call them dumb -- yet daily there uprise Last Line: Lost in the love of that diviner day. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was biting cold, and the falling snow Last Line: A bright reward for all the hardships she suffered here. Subject(s): Child Molesting; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Child Abuse; Suffering; Misery THE LORD OF THE ISLE, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fishermen will relate that in the south Last Line: Departed with a muffled cry of pain. Subject(s): Farewell; Fish & Fishing; Pain; Parting; Anglers; Suffering; Misery THE LORDS OF PAIN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lords of pain are mightier by night Last Line: Whom music leads to sleep, and sleep to death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED OF ENJOYING HIS LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unstable dream, according to the place Last Line: Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 79;sonnet: 27 Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE MAILBOY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He rode from port bowen bravely Last Line: The boy brought the royal mail Subject(s): Heroism;pain;postal Service;story-telling; Heroes;heroines;suffering;misery;postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen THE MANIAC, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What art thou, whose eye-balls roll Last Line: And with soft pity's balm enchant thee to repose. Subject(s): Insanity; Pain; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery THE MATER PIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Softly the fading moon dies in the sky Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby, god is with thee. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Messiah; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE MEANING OF THE LOOK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that look of christ might seem to say Last Line: Because I know this man, let him be clear.' Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Religion; Theology THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery THE MESSAGE-BEARER, by JOHN D. BARRY Poem Text First Line: Blind, she helps us all to see Last Line: Transmuting loss to gain! Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Praise; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery THE MISERIES OF MAN, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that so temperate soil arcadia nam'd Last Line: And joys commensurate to her self receive. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE MOTHER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas! Christmas! Merry christmas! Rang the / bells. / o god of grace! Last Line: While twain spirits, joy and sorrow, hovered o'er my plundered nest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE MOURNFUL ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every heart with pain is smitten Last Line: Nears the forest mournfully. Subject(s): Hearts; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE MYSTERY OF PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain has an element of blank; / it cannot recollect Last Line: New periods of pain. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF A MISERABLE MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: In the lone stillness of the new year's light Last Line: Of thy departed youth, -- it never will return! Variant Title(s): The Young Parson's Dream Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE NINTH HOUR, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the shameful trial in the hall Last Line: Said, truly this man was the son of god. Subject(s): Clergy; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE NOVICE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: She had a lover in the world Last Line: "o mary, thou'rt a woman, too!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nuns; Pain; Prayer; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery THE OLD STORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the bitter shafts of love Last Line: "as I might have -- in that hour!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Prayer; Rain; Suffering; Misery 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 PASSION FLOWER, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lowly, meek and lovely flower Last Line: Even as the flower of calvary! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE PATH OF TEARS: 4. LOVE'S GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce were the wounds you struck me, o my love Last Line: Crowned in a lonely rapture of renown. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery THE PIGEONS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons, following the faint warm light Last Line: As thou dost blot out all our miseries. Subject(s): Frost; Pain; Pigeons; Winter; Suffering; Misery THE PLACE OF PAIN IN THE UNIVERSE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mixture of chloroform and oil of cloves Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 60, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer with acres of mulberry groves Last Line: Dying of hunger and cold in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Pain; Agriculture; Farmers; Suffering; Misery THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 37, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk on delusion greed and anger Last Line: You learn to turn to yourself Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Greed; Pain; Prisons & Prisoners; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Buddha; Buddhists; Avarice; Cupidity; Suffering; Misery; Convicts THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 38, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People crowd by in the dust Last Line: I think of their pain in the dust Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dust; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE CHAPEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like one who leaves the trampled street Last Line: The blessed peace that follows pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Churches; Life; Pain; Cathedrals; Suffering; Misery THE POET-HEART, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in time's mythical ages Last Line: Pain touched it once more.—and it broke. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Suffering; Misery THE POOR, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With hearts of poor men it is so Last Line: On earth's far plains of sun and wind. Subject(s): Pain; Poverty; Weariness; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Precious, precious blood of jesus Last Line: Praise and laud! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice THE QUEST FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They needed to know. They came, they suffered Subject(s): Nile (river); Speke, John Hanning (1827-1864); Pain; Africa; Suffering; Misery THE RACE OF THE BOOMERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bleak o' the dawn, and the plain Last Line: The indian's heart-wrung wail for his hapless hunting grounds. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dawn; Death; June; Pain; Soldiers; Sunrise; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE REDBREAST (A LEGEND OF BRITTANY), by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: When jesus meekly passed to death Last Line: Is loved by man the best. Subject(s): Birds; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Legends, French; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; French Folklore THE REED, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There sat a happy fisherman Last Line: "and tasted misery?" Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE RETURN, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: Late on a winter afternoon Last Line: Are sweeter thoughts left to share. Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Winter; Suffering; Misery; Thinking THE RETURN OF THE LEAVES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves and the sweet-choired blue Last Line: Fled, with all but its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Leaves; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET, by FRIEDRICH RUECKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'I was not born to mope at home in loneliness' Last Line: Wooden lady eleanora von alleyne! Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints; Pain; Selfishness; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness THE RUNE OF THE PASSION OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who love are those who suffer Last Line: Hopes unfulfilled, and unavailing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Life; Loss; Love; Mothers; Pain; Passion; Women; Suffering; Misery THE RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE SACRAMENT OF PAIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Pain is god's husbandman that turns the clods Last Line: He made of death the opener of life's door. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Sacraments; Suffering; Misery; Theology THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB WAS HE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Christ lived, and died, and rose that we Last Line: Who died that day for you and me. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE SALT SONG, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: How salt the tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Hunger; Pain; Peasantry; Russia; Suffering; Misery; Soviet Union; Russians THE SHEPHERD'S HUT, by ALFRED DE VIGNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thy heart, groaning under life's rude burden Last Line: Nor will I cry to thee, in love's despite. Subject(s): Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE SONG-VISION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, warble not that fearful air! Last Line: By its unhallowed gaiety. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Suffering; Misery THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy our father lir afar Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery THE STORY OF BROTHER PAUL (SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY FRANK DICKSEE), by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, you question me if I Last Line: I sleep at last, beneath the sod! Subject(s): Dicksee, Sir Frank (1853-1928); Love - Loss Of; Monks; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE STRANGER, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I saw him where the rose was red Last Line: "yourself stripped of your mask of mirth." Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice THE SUICIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast was the wealth I carried in life's pack Last Line: Toil on to where selfhood in godhood dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Pain; Suicide; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE SYMPATHIZERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To this man, to his boned shoulders Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE SYMPATIZERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To this man, to his boned shoulders Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE THREAD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Long after the used senses abdicate Last Line: As once new fervor, hunger, lust or fear. Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE THREE RULERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a ruler take his stand Last Line: Rose up, and drove him from the land! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery THE TOYS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crippled lady will forgive the boy Subject(s): Pain; Toys; Suffering; Misery THE TRAINED ASS, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the trained ass, the very ass who can Last Line: In my nightmare to count the very stars. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Mules; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery THE TREE (3), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To me the trembling adam fled in shame Last Line: For adam's guilt to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Trees THE TWO FOUNTS; ADDRESSED TO A LADY ON HER RECOVERY ... FROM PAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas my last waking thought, how it could be Last Line: Hoard for thyself the pain, thou wilt not give! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE UNDERSONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the sea-song of the blood in my heart Last Line: And of tears? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Nature; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE UNFORGOTTEN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is all calm this love you give to me Last Line: The mocking fate that bade him kiss and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE VEILS OF MAYA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, with whom our lives should be Last Line: And through the pilgrimage of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mothers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE VOICE OF THE WORM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophets and the saints forever keep Last Line: "and cries, ""have courage! Live!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; Devil; Pain; Prophecy & Prophets; Saints; Voices; Worms; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery THE WAIF, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in my luxurious chair Last Line: And cries in agony to god! Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Pain; Past; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE WANDERING JEW, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Go quicker, jesus!' Last Line: Lives on and on and makes for hell or heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Theology THE WATCHERS, by ERNEST FAVENC Poem Text First Line: All things were old in that grim grey land Last Line: Three dead men lay on the ground. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood THE WAYS OF GOD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: A lad once dreamed he would be king Last Line: And it exalted him. Subject(s): Cavalry; Crucifixion; Galilee, Palestine; God; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art glad with the gladness of youth in thy veins Last Line: The colors that read us its meaning aright. Subject(s): Aging; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery THE WIND SUFFERS, by LAURA RIDING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind suffers of blowing Last Line: By my further dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE WINDOW, by ELLA BRODY Poem Text First Line: Even the clump of soil on coffin lid Last Line: And could not. Then she yielded him to death. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON Poem Text First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow! Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain of too poignant beauty fills the heart Last Line: Desire for thee to end thy long seclusion! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE YOUTH, GIROLAMO SAVANAROLA, PROPHESIES, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put by the lute, girolamo, my son, Last Line: "I burn with sweetness till I burn in fire." Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery THERE IS A MAN ON THE CROSS, by ELIZABETH CHENEY (1859-) Poem Text First Line: Whenever there is silence around me Last Line: "there is a man on the cross." Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THERE IS A NEED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a need for every ache or Last Line: Before us -- there's a need. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery THERE WAS A FAITH HEALER OF DEAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I dislike what I fancy I feel Subject(s): Pain; Suffering;misery THERE WAS A MAN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: There was a man - or was he but a man? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THESE HAVE GONE DOWN, by PAULA S. VOGELSANG Poem Text Last Line: They have their life in him, they are not lost! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THEY SAID, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said of her, she never can have felt Last Line: What if her smiles concealed from you her dead? Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THIN COMMAND, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The cut in the aged finger heals Last Line: When the injury is the soul. Subject(s): Bodies; Pain; Suffering; Misery THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire, fire, fire, fire! Last Line: That else must burn, and with me fall. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Pain; Rivers; Suffering; Misery THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER FOR JESUS, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Source First Line: I think you know, annas, the price is low Last Line: A cask of wine, perhaps, a negro slave, %but seldom such a comely man as this Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THIS LAST PAIN, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This last pain for the damned the fathers found Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THIS MY PRAYER, by TANCREDE DE VISAN Poem Text First Line: O misery Last Line: O sister sorrow, speak thy soft decree! Subject(s): Pain; Prayer; Suffering; Misery THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He who died on calvary Last Line: Ever since, over all our loss %shines the glory of the cross Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion THOUGHT ON A NEWS ITEM, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Source First Line: To think that where young jesus lay Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THREE CROSSES STOOD ON CALVARY, by LEILA AVERY ROTHERBURGER Poem Source Last Line: Who laughs at pain and want? %can it be you - or I? Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice THREE MEN OF TRURO: 3. C.W.S. THE FOURTH BISHOP OF TRURO, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prince of courtesy defeated Last Line: Te, flammantibus in portis! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Clergy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THREE MOMENTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child said: pretty bird Last Line: "oh happy thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Children; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Childhood; Suffering; Misery THREE SORROWS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I honour thee, o sacred grief? Last Line: Into a deathless shrine! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery 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 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 EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A WOUNDED MOTH, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What help have I for thee, frail things Last Line: I kill thee—thus. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO LADY NOEL BYRON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men sought ambition's thirst to slake Last Line: Grows truth and tenderness. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Love; Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery TO LULU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only love Last Line: Like spokes of the same wheel! Subject(s): Flowers; God; Love; Pain; Rain; Sleep; Soul; Suffering; Misery TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips TO MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Source First Line: I, being protestant, can never bow Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TO MICHEL, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: Before I found you, michel Last Line: My life is filled—with pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TO MY WIFE, by JOHN EDWARD RAISER Poem Text First Line: I will be silent / e'en though her words Last Line: There's no demur. Alternate Author Name(s): Raiser, J. Edward Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery TO ONE CONSECRATED, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Your paths were all unknown to us Last Line: But not its ring of wounding spears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO STELLA, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH...WHEN I WAS SICK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tormented with incessant pains Last Line: Admiring you, you pitying us. Variant Title(s): To Stella, March 13, Mdccxxiii-iv Subject(s): Absence; Admiration; Grief; Pain; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal beauty and immortal pain Last Line: And how to loose he hath himself forgot. Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Immortality; Louvre, Paris; Love; Pain; Passion; Suffering; Misery TO THE FIRST SLAVE SHIP, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First of that train which cursed the wave Last Line: A friend, -- a father in their god. Subject(s): God; Pain; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Tears; Suffering; Misery; Serfs TO THE MASTERS OF 1917, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The task is done. The student look Last Line: By the touch of the master sanctified. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 15. PAIN, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, pain, love's mystery Last Line: To call thee back. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery TO----, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Sunless days and starless nights Last Line: And the starlight of your eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery TOO INTRICATELY WEBBED..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do they regard the folk they were, and not Last Line: A little closer to the one they were. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TOOTHACHE, by JOHN YOUNG Poem Text First Line: My sympathy wi' robin gangs Last Line: For curing sairest heartaches. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches TOURIST AND CICERONE, by LUDWIG AUGUST FRANKL Poem Text First Line: Good sir, thou didst me order Last Line: "jehovah is our god." Subject(s): God; Jews; Pain; Titus, Emperor Of Rome (39-81 A.d.); Judaism; Suffering; Misery TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have broken my wings Last Line: If I escape your evil heart. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. DEEP BELOW DEEP, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep below deep Last Line: I knew him for many months, but there was no thaw or change to speak of. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Pain; Youth; Recessions; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ETERNAL HUNGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal hunger! O through the black night Last Line: Gaze long in silence, friend; gaze long for all are thine Subject(s): Children; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Childhood; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. BRIEF IS PAIN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, out of all life unfolded, the supreme joy Last Line: And opens at length on the sunlit world and the winds of heaven. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O TENDER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender heart of our humanity Last Line: All suffering for thy dear sake is holy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hearts; Humanity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Religion; Women In The Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. OF ALL THE SUFFERING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the suffering Last Line: Think think of these and learn what freedom is. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery TRAGEDY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: He gave the world, in darkness pent Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TREASURES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me count my treasures Last Line: Whom I know at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Pain; Pity; Soul; Treasures; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery TWILIGHT-PIECE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden river-reach afar Last Line: This small strange touch of human pain! Subject(s): Evening; Fish & Fishing; Nature; Pain; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight; Suffering; Misery TWO CHALICES, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR. Poem Source First Line: There was a chalice in the ancient east Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TWO CROSSES, by ADDIE M. HEDRICK Poem Source First Line: A fiery cross against the night Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice TWO OTHERS, ON EITHER SIDE', by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Source First Line: If I only had not chanced Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice UNCONQUERED, by ROSE GOULD CLARK Poem Text First Line: I did not know if stalwart courage you possessed Last Line: Your soul, in victory, sounds faith's triumphant note. Subject(s): Courage; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Valor; Bravery UNITY, by LLOYD FRANK MERRELL Poem Source First Line: Jesus %wracked on your cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice UNLESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not wanted does not guess Last Line: You to your own at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Love; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery UPON A HILL, by MIRIAM LEFEVRE CROUSE Poem Source First Line: Three men shared death upon a hill Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice UPPER ROOM, by BELLE F. OWENS Poem Source First Line: Oh, had it been mine, that upper room Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice VAIN, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is an image vain Last Line: It's a queer pain. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery VALE, AMOR!, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do not know this thing Last Line: And no foot stirs the dead leaves of that silent wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sensibility; Surprise; Suffering; Misery VALUES, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: How strange and pitiful that man Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice VERSES ON TEXTS: OUR SUBSTITUTE, ISA. 53, 6, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thee the lord Last Line: That it might never fall on me. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice VICTORY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that gathered round the light of hope Last Line: That god does little in the struggles of the race. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Soul; Victory; Optimism; Suffering; Misery VIOLIN SONGS: A SONG PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, / oh, ease us Last Line: To sing true. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Hope; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Solitude; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To what ende did our lauish auncestours Last Line: Let swinish grill delight in dunghill clay. Subject(s): Muses; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery VIRTUE MAY GROW FROM OUT THIS FIELD OF PAIN, by IRIS ELIZABETH SPARKS Poem Text First Line: Virtue may grow from out this field of pain Last Line: Love's bitter sunkissed well. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery VISIONS: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was asleep, and calmly slept Last Line: The pale-as-marble maid. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Love; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery VOICE AND VISION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had never known your face at all Last Line: And the blind cry of all the seas that roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 8 Subject(s): Faces; Pain; Soul; Voices; Suffering; Misery VOX ULTIMA CRUCIS, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tarye no lenger; toward thyn heritage Last Line: For the I offered my blood in sacryfice. Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion WAITING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again have come the evening tides Last Line: Already filled with pain and strife. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Waiting; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WAKING THOUGHT, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waking I look to jesus on the rood Last Line: Upon his blessed tree. Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice WAR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are not the hours Last Line: Not worth it! -- of one torn and martyred one! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; War; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WARNING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Dream not of a new heaven, lad Last Line: Dreamers die on crosses. Subject(s): Dreams; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nightmares WAY, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Pass not too near these outcast sons of men Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WE LOVE TO SUFFER, by ELIZABETH MAYER Poem Text First Line: I am a celt Last Line: And found her glory in a thorn-pressed brow? Subject(s): Celts; Pain; Suffering; Misery WE MAY NOT KNOW, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We may not know, we cannot tell what pains he had to bear Last Line: But we believe it was for us he hung and suffered there Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion WEATHER-BREEDER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, not to know that such a happiness Last Line: Alone could mother misery like this! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life is death. Yet christ endured to live Last Line: Blood -- in vain? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice WERE FLOWERS THERE, by GEORGE WILLIAM ALLISON Poem Source First Line: I wonder - were there flowers there Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WHAT GAIN?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while thy rounded cheek is fresh and fair Last Line: Sweetheart, but bitter pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Love; Pain; Tears; Youth; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery WHAT IF, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: What if we carved truth in the graveyards? Last Line: There was one who did—he died on the cross. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice WHAT WILL THE STARS REMEMBER?, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WHAT WOULD HE SAY SHOULD HE COME ONCE MORE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WHICH ONE ARE YOU?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pessimist sits glumly in the stand Last Line: And, if we don't—we'll surely win to-morrow! Subject(s): Baseball; Hope; Pain; Pessimism; Sports; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WHITE IRIS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: When my lord condemned her to death Last Line: Women are braver creatures now. Subject(s): Courage; Daughters; Pain; Women; Valor; Bravery; Suffering; Misery WHITE WOUND, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: No lesser loveliness than this Last Line: Before it slinks to startled sleep again. Subject(s): Kisses; Pain; Suffering; Misery WHO CAN FORGET?, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK Poem Source First Line: This is the greatest proof of power Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WHO PAYS?, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Who pays? I see a gallows set Last Line: Who pays? Who pays? Subject(s): Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery WITH ME IN PARADISE, by ALEXANDER HARVEY Poem Source First Line: If I had sat at supper with the lord Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice WITHIN AND WITHOUT, SELS., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of thyself and me, through the sore grief Last Line: Will come with thee, and will abide with me Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion WOUNDED, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a look and a motion that nobody saw or heard Last Line: "coming?"" yes, if you want me! Yes, I am ready to sing." Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY'S HISTORY OF FRANCE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er thy countrymen have done Last Line: Unwilling to retire, though weary. Subject(s): Fame; France; History; Life; Pain; Reputation; Historians; Suffering; Misery YE DID IT UNTO ME, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sinner, careless, proud, and cold Last Line: Of his awful sacrifice! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice YET LISTEN NOW, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source Last Line: The crushing agony, and hold us still Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With cheerful step the traveller Last Line: The fears of wary age! Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips ZARA (1) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken Last Line: Knowing that I drink them, o my love, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery |
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