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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SUICIDE Matches Found: 244 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF HELL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A letter from my love today! Last Line: Hell raised a hoarse half-human cheer. Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve Subject(s): Betrayal; Deception; Heaven; Hell; Love; Marriage; Suicide; Paradise; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLADE OF SUICIDE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gallows in my garden, people say Last Line: I think I will not hang myself to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Suicide A DESERTER, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their new landlord was a handsome man. On his rounds to collect rent she became friendly Subject(s): Desertion & Nonsupport; Jealousy; Fathers & Daughters; Suicide A DIALOGUE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I now will throw myself down Last Line: And die there / in sorrow Subject(s): Suicide; Grief A MONUMENT ON OKINAWA, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One hundred twenty schoolgirls Subject(s): Girls; Suicide; Okinawa A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello? / 'oh, hi.' Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Suicide A POET - SELF-SLAIN, by JULIA BOYNTON GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who handles words as he did? All their grace Last Line: The silence self-imposed. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Suicide 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; ACCORDING TO PLAN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He said he'd hang himself. He did Last Line: Everything went according to plan. Subject(s): Morning; Suicide ADDICT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepmonger %deathmonger Last Line: Now I'm borrowed. %now I'm numb Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; God; Religion; Suicide AFTER READING SYLVIA PLATH:, by UNKNOWN+8 Poem Source First Line: I opened my door to this nutty witch. I've been suicidal Last Line: I cry, bursting free Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Suicide AFTER THE SURPRISING CONVERSIONS, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September twenty-second, sir: today / I answer Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Revivals; Suicide; Religious Revivals AFTER THE SURPRISING CONVERSIONS, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: September twenty-second, sir: today %I answer Last Line: Cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn %the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn Subject(s): Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Revivals; Suicide AMONG STONES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sergeant kelly leans across the counter Last Line: Looks like he has nothing to hide Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Police; Seashore; Suicide AN ANNIVERSARY FOR F. O. MATTHIESSEN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To learn the meaning of his leap to death Subject(s): Matthiessen, F. O. (1902-1950); Suicide AN ANNUAL OF THE DARK PHYSICS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The baltic sea froze in 1307. Birds flew south Last Line: Nothing happened that was worthy of poetry. Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Lent; Mary Magdalen; Suicide; Women In The Bible; Eckhart, Meister; Mary Magdalene ANIMA POETA: A CHRISTMAS ENTRY FOR THE SUICIDE, MAYAKOVSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has nothing to do with the warmth of moonset Last Line: Much later in your life you joined them. Subject(s): Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893-1930); Suicide; World War I; First World War ARIEL AND THE SUICIDE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me remember how I saved a man Last Line: So pity me and all my fated peers. Subject(s): Suicide ARRIA TO POETUS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain! In vain! My pleading all in vain! Last Line: And with his hand the forfeit paid of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Suicide ATTEMPT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: On ludes in the house with the big porch Last Line: And flapping in the wind Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Suicide BARBARA ALLEN ['S CRUELTY] (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was in and about the martinmas time Last Line: "since my love died for me today, / I'll die for him tomorrow" Variant Title(s): Bonny Barbara Allan;sir John Graeme And Barbara Allan Subject(s): Suicide BEAUTY OR FLIGHT, by DENVER BUTSON Poem Source First Line: The man who jumped from the highway bridge one afternoon Last Line: Who was trying to regain some sense of beauty, some sense of flight, %in its final dying seconds Subject(s): Beauty; Bridges; Death; Flight; Suicide BEN BARLEY, by GERARD BENSON Poem Text First Line: Ben barley was a barman stout Last Line: Serve spirits in this bar.' Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Hood, Thomas (1799-1845); Soldiers; Suicide; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse BETTER A FLAME, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: The coppers lunged against the bolted door Last Line: Than wick to which a flame has never come. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Suicide BIOGRAPHY, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory had a proud mother Last Line: I think he was reaching for the stars in the lake. Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Stars; Suicide; Nightmares BOARDMAN AND COFFIN, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told him straight, if he touched me, just once more Last Line: And a wind rushed after them. And that was all Subject(s): Circus; Murder; Suicide BRIDGE I LIVE BY, SPANNING THE OCEAN, by ALEXANDRA THURMAN Poem Source First Line: They tell a story here about a woman who flew Last Line: It was her own. And, hearing it %for the first time, she died Subject(s): Bridges; Suicide BUILDING 520, BELLEVUE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Building 520 at bellevue is a temple Last Line: When I signed the form she took me out into the light of day Subject(s): Bellevue Hospital, New York City; Morgues; Suicide BUT THEN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John oswald muguffin he wanted to die Last Line: But then. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Suicide CHAMFORT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's chamfort. He's a sample Last Line: "come and take me." Subject(s): Suicide; Writing & Writers CHRISTIAN'S CALLING, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Christian is just learning to speak Last Line: He moans. %I have come to los angeles to die Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide CIRCLING THE FLOWER: 5, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every mirror smashed, the windows Last Line: His family fed his ashes to the black %tongue of the charles Subject(s): Suicide CLOSINGS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Suicide; Poetry & Poets CROSSROADS' BURIAL (SUGGESTED BY GALSWORTHY'S APPLE TREE), by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Green at the crossroads lifts the narrow mound Last Line: And her proud feet have found a pathway home. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Funerals; Roads; Suicide; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Paths; Trails DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DELANEY'S VENDETTA, by R. J. CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: This is the story told to me, in the midst of the desert's glare Last Line: "with god as a ruthless murderer or only a suicide?" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilrooney Subject(s): Murder; Revenge; Suicide; Vendetta; Feuds DIDO AND AENEAS, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flamboyant at the end Subject(s): Dido; Love; Suicide DISGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pills? Talk to me of your pills? Well, that, I must say, is cool Last Line: Suppose I should think of it, surely? But anyhow -- there -- I won't. Subject(s): Calvinists; Churches; God; Sea; Suicide; Cathedrals; Ocean DISILLUSION, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scholar / weary of erecting the fragile towers of words Subject(s): Language; Suicide; Words; Vocabulary DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think, she said at first / my daughter did not kill herself. I'm sure Last Line: And talk about the case. Subject(s): Daughters; Family Life; Life; Marriage; Suicide; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DON WILSON TOPPS CARD #217 1973, by FRANK VAN ZANT Poem Source First Line: He had only one year left before Last Line: Did they place a better face above you? %one early pose for each unopened eye? Subject(s): Future Life; Idols; Suicide DON'T KILL YOURSELF, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carlos, keep calm, love Subject(s): Suicide DON'T KILL YOURSELF, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Carlos, keep calm, love Last Line: Nobody knows nor shall know Subject(s): Suicide DR. EGG: 1 MARRIED TO BANDAGES, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: In dr. Egg's waiting room Last Line: She's raised %like babies Subject(s): Psychology; Suicide DREAM SONGS: 145, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: An instant longer, in the summer dawn %left henry to live on Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Suicide EDGE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman is perfected Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Suicide EDGE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman is perfected Last Line: She is used to this sort of thing. %her blacks crackle and drag Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Suicide ELEGY (IN MEMORIAM - JUNE 1941, R. R.), by DAVID GASCOYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, whose unnatural early death Subject(s): Soldiers; Suicide; World War Ii; Second World War ELEGY (IN MEMORIAM - JUNE 1941, R. R.), by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, whose unnatural early death Last Line: Slowly away into the utmost dark Subject(s): Soldiers; Suicide; World War Ii ENIGMA VARIATIONS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir winston churchill advised against suicide Last Line: And no place: a suicide who lived to regret it. Subject(s): Jews; Suicide; Judaism EPIGRAM: ON A SUICIDE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor fannius, who greatly feared to die Last Line: Madness extreme! -- to die for fear of death! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Suicide EPITAPH FOR CATHERINE ALSOPP, WASHERWOMAN, HANGED HERSELF, by CATHERINE ALSOPP Poem Source First Line: Here lies a poor woman who always was tired Last Line: I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever Subject(s): Suicide; Washerwomen EPITAPH ON A SUICIDE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earthed up, here lies an imp of hell Last Line: To save the lord the trouble. Subject(s): Suicide EURYDICE SNATCHED AWAY, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: His tears filled with eyes Last Line: In all her shimmer Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Suicide EVENINGS IN GREECE: THE LESBIAN MAID, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As o'er her loom the lesbian maid Last Line: With thinking of that youth I love!' Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Suicide EXEQUY, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wet may, in the months of change Last Line: O guide me through the shoals of fear - %'furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir' Subject(s): Funerals; King, Henry (1592-1669); Suicide EXIT NIGHTINGALE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghastly contrast, god's grim joke! Last Line: Is wiped out in city mud. Subject(s): Suicide; Labor & Laborers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes EXPERIENCE OF BLOOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never knew there was so much blood Last Line: Because after all it was my blood too Subject(s): Blood; Death - Children; Suicide FABLE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However the man had got himself there Last Line: Besides, you'd have fallen anyway.' Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Failure; Suicide FAMOUS NEW ENGLAND LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the pious and penultimate Last Line: And charming the tiny, painted hearts into bleeding Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Suicide FATE, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: What time is it Last Line: That's why they gobbled him up Subject(s): Fate; Suicide FELO DE SE, by RICHARD HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: If I were stone dead and buried under Subject(s): Suicide FELO-DE-SE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of a man who was dead Last Line: And sing a celestial tune. Subject(s): Suicide FOLK-SONG, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back she came through the trembling / dusk Last Line: "I loved him so!" Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Suicide FOR A SUICIDE, A LITTLE EARLY MORNING MUSIC, by GIBBONS RUARK Poem Source First Line: Most of the mornings here, when we awaken Subject(s): Nostalgia; Suicide FOR BLACK POETS WHO THINK OF SUICIDE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Black poets should live -- not leap Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Suicide FOR BLACK POETS WHO THINK OF SUICIDE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black poets should live -- not leap Last Line: And be buried in the dust of marching feet Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Suicide FOR THE BIRD WHO FLEW AGAINST OUR WINDOW ONE MORNING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My window / is his wall Last Line: In his suicide Subject(s): Suicide FOR THE BIRD WHO FLEW AGAINST OUR WINDOW ONE MORNING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My window %is his wall Last Line: And leaves me grounded %in his suicide Subject(s): Suicide FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FALLEN, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little boy crying out Subject(s): Rector, Liam (1949-2007); Innocence; Suicide FOR THE SUICIDES OF TWO YEARS AGO, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you recall your voices Last Line: Under the lids we had closed Subject(s): Suicide FROM FRAGILE CRAFT: ON THE STRANGE LIVES AND UNTIMELY DEATHS OF MARY, by MARK RUDMAN Poem Source First Line: There is no end to the torment that comes from watching dead actors Last Line: One morning she would wake refreshed! %to a new beginning Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Death; Marriage; Suicide FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time of evening that promises miracles to anyone Last Line: Might be willow sticks. Fish swim into her hair. One by one the lights in her nails go out Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Rivers; Suicide; Dead, The GHOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a man stands by a pin oak emptying Last Line: "it's like a tub overflowing onto a floor." Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Ghosts; Marriage; Suicide; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOD IS IN THE TYPEWRITER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: God is in the typewriter Last Line: Little charmer, little stormer %write your way home Subject(s): Pain; Poetry And Poets; Suicide; Writing And Writers HAIL STORM, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: We stood knee-deep among the corn Last Line: And found him hanging in the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Storms; Suicide; Agriculture; Farmers HAYNIE, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My great-grandfather %is buried in an unmarked grave Last Line: New clothes, %glass for the windows Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): American Civil War; Slavery; Suicide; U.s. - History; War HER LAST LETTER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting alone by the window Last Line: Told how she had gone to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Sin; Suicide HERE THERE IS NO LANGUAGE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drink -- cut my wrists Last Line: Doctors looking down a well Subject(s): Suicide HERE THERE IS NO LANGUAGE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drink -- cut my wrists Last Line: Doctors looking down a well Subject(s): Suicide HIS WORST ENEMY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who had a sword to swing Last Line: Through his other self! Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Suicide; Dead, The HOLDING OPEN THE DOORS, by ROBIN S. CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: How could it be %you cut short your own life, any Last Line: That we may know to hold onto you Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Suicide HOW IT IS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I say how it is in your clothes? Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Suicide HOW IT IS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I say how it is in your clothes? Last Line: To put on the dumb blue blazer of your death Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Suicide I COULD NOT TELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not tell I had jumped off that bus, Subject(s): Mothers; Suicide; Buses IF MY WIFE TAUGHT SCHOOL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a wife 'at taught school I would go Last Line: Enny way, what would you do? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Marriage; Suicide; Teaching & Teachers; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Educators; Professors; Journeys; Trips IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Don't do it!' I begged her. But she was determined Last Line: Shining, silvery depths Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Grief; Suicide IN HOSPITAL: 24. SUICIDE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staring corpselike at the ceiling Last Line: Yet so slavish, makes you shudder! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Suicide IRENE, SUICIDE, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: Claw-footed, white, enameled iron, the water rises Last Line: Drowning herself in a white tub Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Suicide JUSTICE IS REASON ENOUGH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who was once my brother, is dead by his own hand Last Line: Reason enough for anything ugly. It balances the beauty in the air Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Suicide; Incest KAGA-SOTO: THE FATAL ERROR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "with a sorrowful face, and a mystified frown" Last Line: And take care that you don't lose your heart or your head Subject(s): Loyalty;murder;suicide KING NASTY, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sketch it out for you Last Line: How do you like your bourbon? Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Courts And Courtiers; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Suicide LAMENT FOR A TURKISH SUICIDE AGE 22, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What she wanted was more Last Line: And left the facric / of her brief life Subject(s): Turkey; Women's Rights; Suicide LEAP, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only thing I have of jane macnaughton Last Line: While I examine my hands Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Memory; Suicide LEGENDS: 2, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When the suicide arrived at the sky Last Line: "he replied: ""because no one admired me." Subject(s): Suicide LESBOS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viciousness in the kitchen! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LETTER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because a stamp will beat the damp Subject(s): Letters; Suicide LETTERS TO YESENIN: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today we've moved back to the granary again and I've anointed Last Line: Could be made a dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus the poet is a beached gypsy, the first porpoise to whom it Last Line: Smell of bacon. Wise souls move through the dark only one step at a time. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Songs LETTERS TO YESENIN: 2; TO ROSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't have any medals. I feel their lack Last Line: Steam pipes running along the ceiling. The rope. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Regret; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to feel exalted so I picked up Last Line: Stop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Martyrs; Regret; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was old person of diss Last Line: Which absorbed that old person of diss Subject(s): Old Age; Suicide LINES ON THE GRAVE OF A SUICIDE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By strangers left upon a lonely shore Last Line: He who thy being gave shall judge of thee alone. Subject(s): Suicide LORELEI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where the rhine pursues its track Last Line: Plunging - in the rhine she sank Subject(s): Drowning;love - Loss Of;magic;suicide LOVE POEM, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Attempted suicide was your tour de force Subject(s): Suicide; Conduct Of Life LOVE SUICIDES AT SONEZAKI (FR. CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON), SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Suicide LOVE SUICIDES AT SONEZAKI, SELS., by CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON Poem Source First Line: Farewell to the world, and to the night farewell Last Line: And soon the cockcrows chase away their lives Subject(s): Love; Suicide LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady Last Line: Was folded in a pannier. Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean LUCRETIA; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, my father! Good valerius Last Line: (stabs herself.) Subject(s): Honor; Rape; Rome, Italy; Sacrifices; Suicide; Women LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 67, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the crossway buried Last Line: The culprit-flower so dear. Subject(s): Suicide MARK BERTONI, HANDYMAN, by WILLIAM CRAIG RICE Poem Source First Line: The weather changed when mark took his life Last Line: The land is free to rest now mark has died, %its seasons severed by a suicide Subject(s): Suicide MISTAKING WATER HEMLOCK FOR PARSLEY, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the floor, die of a ruptured aorta Subject(s): Death; Suicide MONTPARNASSE, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are never any suicides in the quarter among people one knows Last Line: Every afternoon the people one knows can be found at the cafe Subject(s): Suicide MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MOVING PICTURE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When two take gas / by mutual consent Subject(s): Suicide MOVING PICTURE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When two take gas %by mutual consent Last Line: And a house on it %for two to enter Subject(s): Suicide MUNICH COURIER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Linz (dpa) - a 13 year old schoolboy has killed Last Line: Not know how to turn it on Subject(s): Suicide; Television MURRAY'S RIDE, by C. J. DENNIS Poem Text First Line: I seldom get to hatin' men, nor had much cause to hate Last Line: As we took poor ben murray up an' carried him away. Subject(s): Anger; Revenge; Suicide MYRRHA, by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI Poem Text First Line: Come, faithful eurycleia: now the dawn Last Line: I had died ... Guiltless; ... Guilty ... Now ... I die. ... Subject(s): Incest; Suicide; Tragedy NO EXEMPTION FOR TOURISTS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foreign family -- mother, father Last Line: To the bright ribbon of river. Subject(s): Indonesia; Suicide; Tourists; Dutch East Indies NOTES [OR, LETTERS] FOUND NEAR A SUICIDE, by FRANK HORNE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little stone Subject(s): Letters; Suicide NOTES [OR, LETTERS] FOUND NEAR A SUICIDE, by FRANK HORNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My little stone Last Line: In your house %and ate of your body %and drank of your blood. %...And thought only of her? Subject(s): Letters; Suicide NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In ireland now, why do so many Last Line: Good night, sweet prince, good night'? Subject(s): Death; Hope; Ireland; Poverty; Rivers; Sea; Suicide ON FANNY GODWIN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice did quiver as we parted Last Line: This word is all too wide for thee. Subject(s): Godwin, Fanny (d. 1816); Love; Love - Loss Of; Suicide ON SUICIDE, by ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Poem Source First Line: It is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which Last Line: Every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person Subject(s): Life Change Events; Suicide ON THE EDGE, by DAVID AVIDAN Poem Source First Line: The pause between %the leap and the fall is Last Line: A force, that will arrest your final leap. And that force %is nothing but your final leap Subject(s): Death; Suicide ON THE PICTURE OF LUCRETIA STABBING HERSELF, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lucrece inflam'd with anger, grief and shame Last Line: They made me slave, but thus myself I free. Subject(s): Freedom; Suicide; Liberty ON THE SUICIDE OF YOUNG WRITERS, by WILMA STOCKENSTROM Poem Source First Line: Because when they die Last Line: The houses crouch, the palaces of gods cringe %a bitter smoke blows through the land from endless ca Subject(s): Suicide ONE DARK COTTAGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stars over the small houses Last Line: Will not say why Subject(s): Night; Rape; Secrets; Suicide OVERDOING IT, by TARA FENLON Poem Source First Line: After slouching for some time throught he halls Last Line: I'm closing her %down Subject(s): Reason; Suicide; Windows PARTHENIA, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With pale green hopes and the gay colors flying Last Line: Scourging the night and gathering the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Suicide; Virginity; Vestals POOR DEVIL!, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I was tired of life; the silly folk Last Line: No further doors to break or bars to burst! Subject(s): Suicide POWER OF SUICIDE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The potflower on the windowsill says to me Last Line: Today for the sake of all the dead burst into flower Subject(s): Suicide PRAYER FOR MARILYN MONROE, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Lord %accept this girl called marilyn monroe throughout the Last Line: Lord, you pick up that phone Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Death; Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Prayer; Suicide PROSE POEM IN SIX PARTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm so happy, he shouts, as he puts a bullet through his head Last Line: "his comfort, he is ready to die successfully, he dies and is complete, an Subject(s): Death; Suicide; Dead, The PROSE POEM IN SIX PARTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm so happy, he shouts, as he puts a bullet through his head Last Line: He dies and is complete, an ordinary man Subject(s): Death; Suicide RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur leonce miranda, then, ... But stay! Last Line: Meanwhile, no separation of the pair! Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so slipt pleasantly away five years Last Line: Look at it for a moment while I breathe. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ready to hear the rest? How good you are! Last Line: And stand all ready for morn's joy a-blush? Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RESUME, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Razors pain you; / rivers are damp Last Line: You might as well live. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Suicide RICHARD CORY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever richard cory went down town Last Line: Went home and put a bullet through his head. Subject(s): Despair; Suicide; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ROXANNE, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was flatbush born, was twenty-six Subject(s): Women; Suicide; Survival SAINT JUDAS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went out to kill myself, I caught Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Humanity; Suicide SAINT JUDAS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went out to kill myself, I caught Last Line: I held the man for nothing in my arms Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Humanity; Suicide SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day out Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAPPHO; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the spot: -- 'tis here tradition says Last Line: [she throws herself from the precipice. Subject(s): Lesbos (island), Greece; Mythology - Classical; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide SARA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness SARDANAPALUS, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The assyrian king - in peace, with foul desire Last Line: Murdered himself, to show some manful deed. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Mythology - Classical; Sardanapalus (7th Century B.c.); Suicide SARDANAPALUS; A TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hath wronged his queen, but he is her lord Last Line: Tis fired! I come Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Assyria; Sardanapalus (7th Century B.c.); Suicide; Sybarites SERVICE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hospital he moans he was wrong, insists through delirium Last Line: Who'll mix the strychnine from which they'll sip, sewing up %the practical details of their faith Subject(s): Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959); Service; Suicide SESTINA ON SIX WOUNDS BY VINCENTE HUIDOBRO, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An angel rises from the new volcano. Last Line: Who sailed to the volcano with the dove? %guide, angel, scholar, city-no one can sleep. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Suicide SEVEN STREAMS OF NEVIS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack the blindman, whose violin Last Line: In the heart's hell you have it; call it love Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Human Behavior; Sin; Love; Suicide SHIFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you suddenly shift Last Line: In a way that may involve %your ending. Subject(s): Change; Sea; Suicide SHUT-EYE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dreams he's shooting himself in the eye his left eye the Subject(s): Dreams; Suicide; Eyes; Nightmares SINCERE POET, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: The sincere poet is obsessed with the authenticity of his feelings Last Line: He doesn't even need to be sincere Subject(s): Emotions; Honesty; Poetry And Poets; Sincerity; Suicide SONG OF EVERLASTING RESENTMENT, by WANG JIAOLUAN Poem Source First Line: This song of lasting resentment - for whom is it written? Last Line: Read to the end this letter that your jiaoluan sends you Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Suicide SONNET: 66, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry Last Line: Save that, to die, I leave my love alone. Variant Title(s): The World's Way Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Love; Suicide; Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALBERT SCHIRDING, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonas keene thought his lot a hard one Last Line: The feeling that I was not worthy of her finished me. Subject(s): Ambition; Suicide SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JONAS KEENE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did albert schirding kill himself Last Line: Refusing medical aid. Subject(s): Suicide SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 4. ACADEMIC SUICIDE, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Which is dumber: the reasons people kill Last Line: Perrier and prozac, the cocktail of choice Subject(s): Schools; Suicide STATISTICS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many men, on such a date of may Last Line: Your facts are facts, yet somewhere there is god. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; God; Murder; Rape; Suicide STEEL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man is dead Last Line: Is now quite definitely said. Subject(s): Death; Steel; Suicide; Dead, The STRATFORD PLACE GAZETTE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We regret to state that at 4 p.M. This day the well known author & Last Line: Our liveliest regards & compliments Subject(s): News; Suicide; Tragedy STYLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The morning larry rainbow hanged himself Last Line: This was the style he liked. This was what he asked for. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Suicide STYLE MATTERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Styles of suicide intrigue me since, in a fit of pique Last Line: Hemingway stuck his favourite gun into his mouth %and pulled both triggers Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Suicide SUICIDE, by KATHLEEN DE AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: As his pink feet cling to the granite ledge of the state building Last Line: He is starting over Subject(s): Cities; Suicide SUICIDE, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fool! I mean not Last Line: There's many a better thing to do than die! Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDE, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He was so theatrical. He stood in front of the mirror in a Last Line: Objects. This - as is well known - foretells longevity Subject(s): Suicide; Theater And Theaters SUICIDE, by J. S. LINNELL Poem Text First Line: So the candle longs to burn Last Line: Seeking death and deadman's ease. Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDE, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Last Line: A light, a twisted thought, a shattered brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDE BLUES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to speak in my voice! Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDE NOTE, by MARK GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: I am slick Last Line: My blood, clear as a storm Subject(s): Letters; Suicide SUICIDE OFF EGG ROCK, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind him the hotdogs split and drizzled Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDE POEM, by NICOLE DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: When I was fifteen Last Line: Hold a special place in older women's hearts Subject(s): Family Life; Hospitals; Poetry And Poets; Suicide SUICIDE'S STONE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Peace is the heir of dead desire Last Line: Before I denounced the covenant of courage Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDE'S STONE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace is the heir of dead desire Last Line: Before I denounced the covenant of change Subject(s): Suicide SUICIDES, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Part one -- morning %girls in the morning paper. Dead girls. Last Line: That way, summer dresses, ankle straps & heels. Subject(s): Girls; Suicide SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ANY FEEBLE-MINDED MAN ..., by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet brother-soul! I may not tarry here Last Line: But never more to feel the sinner's earthly lot! Subject(s): Suicide SUSAN'S PHOTOGRAPH, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am the razorthat has been put away, also Subject(s): Suicide THE ADDICT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepmonger / deathmonger Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; God; Religion; Suicide; Theology THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more unfortunate, / weary of breath Last Line: Her sins to her savior! Subject(s): Adversity; Drowning; Mourning; Suicide; Bereavement THE CROSS-TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, doctor, a little of your love Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Army Life; Suicide; Drills & Minor Tactics THE DAY DR. KNOX DID IT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heat-blaze, white dazzle: and white is the dust Last Line: It us night. In the next room she weeps Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Suicide; Southern States; Death THE DEATH OF A PUBLIC SERVANT; IN MEMORIAM, HERBERT NORMAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a day when good men die from windows Last Line: Take these to your shade: of rage, of grief, of love. Subject(s): Defamation; Mccarthyism; Suicide; Women; Women's Rights; Slander; Libel; Feminism THE DEATH OF FRED. MARSDEN, THE AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pathetic tragedy I will relate Last Line: And remember always this sad tragedy! Subject(s): Death; Suicide; Tragedy; Dead, The THE DEMON LOVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o where have you been, my long, long love" Last Line: And sank her in the sea Subject(s): Devil;love - Loss Of;suicide;unfaithfulness; Satan;mephistopheles;lucifer;beelzebub;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy THE DREAM SONGS: 145, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Also I love him: me he's done no wrong Last Line: Trying to make yourself forgive someone for something so unforgiveable Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Suicide THE ELEGY FOR INTEGRAL DOMAINS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You watched the slender narcissus wilt Last Line: A christmas tree out of the woods found a body. Subject(s): Lament; Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856); Suicide THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice was tender as a lullaby Last Line: It lifted her white face up with the rest. Subject(s): Suicide THE FOUR CHILDREN; A BALLAD OF GOOD INTENTIONS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four children played by an old oak tree Last Line: Where hangs the corpse of little benjie. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Aging; Children; Suicide; Childhood THE GIRL, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bridge said Subject(s): Girls; Suicide THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 41. THROUGH DEATH TO LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like labor-laden moonclouds faint to flee Last Line: Hath guest fire-fledged as thine, whose lord is love? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Love; Suicide; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 87. DEATH'S SONGSTERS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first that horse, within whose populous womb Last Line: Nor shames her lip the cheek of victory? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Suicide; Dead, The THE LEAP, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only thing I have of jane macnaughton Last Line: While I examine my hands Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Memory; Suicide THE LIE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, meriwether, murdered by your lie Subject(s): Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826); Suicide; Lies THE MILL, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The miller's wife had waited long Last Line: The same as ever to the sight. Variant Title(s): The Miller's Wife Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Suicide THE MOURNING BRIDE, by WILLIAM CONGREVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time has been when plays were not so plenty Last Line: Which was an offering to the sex designed. Subject(s): Impostors & Imposture; Mistaken Identity; Suicide; Tragedy THE POWER OF SUICIDE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The potflower on the windowsill says to me Subject(s): Suicide THE RIGHT TO DIE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no fancy for that ancient cant Last Line: Leaps with him, fearless, to eternal peace! Subject(s): Suicide THE RISK, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a daughter tries suicide Last Line: And eats up her heart like two eggs Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Suicide THE SACRIFICE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude Last Line: Death fought; before giving in Subject(s): Guilt; Cancer (disease); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE STORY OF RICHARD MAXFIELD, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He jumped out of a window Subject(s): Maxfield, Richard (1927-1969); Composers; Suicide; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE STORY OF THE END OF THE STORY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To keep from ending Last Line: Only the stories about them do Subject(s): Suicide THE SUICIDE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fifty years, / cruel, insatiable old world Last Line: Bang —! Subject(s): Death; Suicide; Dead, The THE SUICIDE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curse thee, life, I will live with thee no more Last Line: "thou hadst thy task, and laidst it by"", he said." Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Suicide THE SUICIDE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas where a granite cliff high-beetling towered Last Line: There with thy kindred reptiles crawl and die. Subject(s): Suicide THE SUICIDE, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I put her away. Subject(s): Suicide; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 SUICIDE'S ARGUMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no Last Line: Then die -- if die you dare! Subject(s): Suicide THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the scene of a man's despair, and a soul's release Last Line: And, unhappy spirit, god grant you eternity's peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Graves; Suicide; Tombs; Tombstones THE SULIOTE MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood upon the loftiest peak Last Line: A cry -- and all was o'er! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Suicide THE TIFF, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Ill-fated bard!' she cried, 'whose lengthening grief' Last Line: "anna matilda never can be thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Passion; Suicide; Tragedy; Parting THE TWO VOICES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still small voice spake unto me Last Line: Than him that said, 'rejoice! Rejoice!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Despair; Nature; Suicide THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers Last Line: No guilty fear in death. Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOUNDED KNIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a story of anguish Last Line: Accusing bosom must turn. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Suicide; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE YOUNG SUICIDES IN IRELAND, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is lined Last Line: Ticking, tipping them forward. Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Suicide; Youth THINKING ABOUT SUICIDE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The far cold stars above big sur Last Line: Leaking from my boot heels like blood Subject(s): Suicide THIRST, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Your mouth as necessary on mine as rain on the desert Last Line: When you hurt me %I won't let it show Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Suicide THIS HEAT, THESE HUMAN FORMS, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two years ago, while crossing the street, a group of boys came Last Line: It is difficult enough without your body in the world Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Human Behavior; Childhood Memories; Horses TIS SAID, THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Such happiness as I have known to-day Subject(s): Despair; Suicide TO D -, DEAD BY HER OWN HAND, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, I wonder if before the end Last Line: You go on running and you don't look down, %nor ever jump because you fear to fall Subject(s): Arbus, Diane (1923-1971); Photography And Photographers; Suicide TO JULIAN (WHO IS NOT JULIAN, BUT THAT IS ENOUGH), by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: He does not notice her Last Line: She cuts out their eyes %one by one Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Murder; Suicide; Unfaithfulness TO LINDSAY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Vachel, the stars are out Subject(s): Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931); Suicide TO MARY ROCKWELL, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: They thought you'd finally killed yourself Last Line: A hollow ping; the room is dark Subject(s): Death; Social Problems; Suicide TO MELVIN GARDNER: SUICIDE, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flight of doves, with wanton wings Last Line: And, oh, to be dead in may! Subject(s): Suicide TO THE MEMORY OF SAMUEL WHITBREAD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the tempest-tost mariner can btu discern Last Line: In glory immortal, which dreads no decay! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Suicide; Whitbread Ii, Samuel (1758-1815) TO THE UNNAMED BUDDHIST NUN WHO BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside your temple wall. Stone or wood, I can't Last Line: Such a question Subject(s): Buddhism; Suicide; Buddha; Buddhists TO THE UNNAMED BUDDHIST NUN WHO BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside your temple wall. Stone or wood, I can't Last Line: Only a stupid person like yourself would ask such a question Subject(s): Buddhism; Suicide TO VESPER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou! Who behold'st with dewy eye Last Line: Unconscious of the pain of ill-requited love. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Suicide TRANSFIGURATION OF THE PROOFREADER, by CLARINDA HARRISS Poem Source First Line: The shiny page proofs Last Line: Every line ended in the wrong place Subject(s): Suicide TWILIT SNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Twilit snow Subject(s): Death; Snow; Suicide TWO STORIES WITH WISH & LEAP, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Nothing much is known about the girl-- Last Line: Absence--a girl inside the water. Subject(s): Death; Suicide VILIKINS AND HIS DINAH, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In london's fair city a merchant did dwell Last Line: And vilikins and his dinah lie buried in one grave. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Marriage - Forced; Suicide; Marriage - Arranged WAIT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wait, for now Last Line: Rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion Subject(s): Suicide; Love - Loss Of; Patience; Faith; Belief; Creed WALL, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I trace the black marble wall of weeping once again Last Line: They took to howling and tearing at their flesh Subject(s): Cambodia; Students, Foreign; Suicide; Terror WANTING TO DIE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you ask, most days I cannot remember Subject(s): Suicide WANTING TO DIE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you ask, most days I cannot remember Last Line: And the love, whatever it was, an infection Subject(s): God; Religion; Suicide WHAT FOR?, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Catullus, what keeps you from killing yourself? No good reason Last Line: Catullus, what keeps you from killing yourself? No good reason Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Suicide WHITEHALL STAIRS, by AARON HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From whitehall stairs, whence oft with distant view Last Line: I, rapt in your dear heav'n, my loss describe. Subject(s): Love; Stairs; Suicide WINDOW, by MARIANNE BORUCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man has finally hanged himself and rejoiced Last Line: Rotting luminous cart, but no, not %to reconsider Subject(s): Suicide WINTER, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Neighbors; Sons; Friendship; Suicide; Divorce WINTER DROUGHT, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First you cut your wrists and throat Subject(s): Suicide; Friendship YOUNG MATRON DANCES FREE OF THE ISLAND, by MARY O'MALLEY Poem Source First Line: One tuesday in november she finished the wash-up Last Line: And she waltzed over the cliff, haloing beautifully down Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland; Suicide |
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