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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TERROR Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NIGHT OF TERROR, 1870, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They woke me up, for my small eyes were tight Last Line: And, on the night of terror, childhood ceased! Subject(s): Night; Terror; War; Bedtime APRONS OF SMOKE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Somber and full of winged Last Line: Lost among clots of venomous tides Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence; Terror AWAITING THE GUILLOTINE, 1794, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: As a last zephyr, or the last warm ray Last Line: For you alone to live has any worth. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Chenier, Andre Marie De (1762-1794); French History - Reign Of Terror; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The light like a feeble hostage Last Line: Eyes, from the blindfold slashed and sullied from lonely times and prisms Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women; Women - Captives CASUALTIES: 14. JULY WAKE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the streets the jungle-geared jeeps roar Last Line: Of leopards amok from the forest Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Fear; Military; Protest, Social; Terror CASUALTIES: 16. AUGUST AFTERNOON, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the blind noon Last Line: After cats Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Anger; Fights; Terror CAT CALLS, SELECTION, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night all cats are gray Last Line: At whom pelion recoils. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Terror COMING TO JAKARTA, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: There are three desks in my office Last Line: But to ease into the world %the unreal %breathing within us Subject(s): Indonesia; Terror CONQUERORS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Text First Line: With caesar dead now, and augustus dust Last Line: And life is theirs who love and keep their peace. Subject(s): Peace; Roman Empire; Terror; War COULD WE HAVE BEEN HER?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Could we have been her Last Line: On a night of glittering bones? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Terror DISAPPEARED WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am the disappeared woman Last Line: Name myself. %call my name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women HASCHEESH, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stricken with dreams, I wandered through the night Last Line: Honey of paradise, black dew of hell! Subject(s): Dreams; Terror; Nightmares HE COMES FOR THE JEWISH FAMILY, 1942, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the german came, they knew he would take them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Terror; Shoah HORROR MOVIE, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dr. Unlikely, we love you so Last Line: There's a little death in every body Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Terror LEGENDS FROM CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: It began as truth, as fact Last Line: Will anyone ever need %another camp director Subject(s): Buddhism; Concentration Camps; Crime And Criminals; History; Japanese Americans - Internment; Legends; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Terror MARVELOUS FATHER, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Slobodan milosovic is a marvelous father Last Line: We know they are such marvelous men Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Parents; Politics; Terror MOST UNBELIEVABLE PART, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Yes, nice people %just like us Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Torture NOTHING REMAINS, by MAJA HADERLAP Poem Source First Line: Nothing remains of the illusion of security, which settles like a sickness Last Line: And remembrance is shortened into the fleeting sensation that makes the microbes tremble Subject(s): Fear; Terror ON THE RED MOON, by HARRY NOYES PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills, soft-padding, pausing Last Line: Hyoo-oo-oo! Subject(s): Terror ONE ANGUISH IN A CROWD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When once it has begun Variant Title(s): Poem: 527; Poem: 56 Subject(s): Terror RECOLLECTIONS FROM KRAHWINKEL'S DAYS OF TERROR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, mayor and senate of the town Last Line: And hold your tongues, or more's the pity. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Terror; Liberty; Germans SHROUDED WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Between slits and amulets Last Line: Covers her with greenish and solitary %epitaphs Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Solitude; Terror; Women TERROR, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not pinics nor pageants or the improbable Subject(s): Terror; War; Airplane Accidents; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions TERROR OF THE FUTURE / 7, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetheart, there’s no one on the street Last Line: Historian. Help me with that “or” Subject(s): Terror THE FUTURE OF TERROR / 7, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From the gable window, we shot Last Line: My note (for nobody) and I’m ready Subject(s): Terror THE TIGER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright / in the forests of the night Last Line: Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Variant Title(s): The Beauty Of Terror;the Tyger Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Creation; God; Mythology; Terror; Tigers THE VASE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boredom and terror, and the older Last Line: And green, exotic birds in flight. Subject(s): Boredom; Introspection; Life; Terror; Vases; Ennui THERE SHOULD BE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There should be / moments of true terror Last Line: Who would enjoy the rain Subject(s): Terror TO HORROR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark horror, hear my call! Last Line: I will behold and smile by mercy's side. Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Injustice; Missions & Missionaries; Racism; Slavery; Terror; Vengeance; English; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs TO T.H.L., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I lament how all my days are fair Last Line: And ask no heaven, having found a friend. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Sea; Stars; Terror; Wind; Ocean 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 WHAT LIES IN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR EYES?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: What lies in the depths Last Line: Because you are a butterfly luminous in the mirrors Subject(s): Absence; Blindness; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners; Terror YOU EXPECT THE NOON-ALARM AT CITY HALL, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Without holding on to your hands %or the world Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Smoke; Terror |
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