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Subject: TORTURE Matches Found: 27 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE ROTTEN SEA, by ION CARAION Poem Source First Line: We shall torture you, we shall kill you and we shall laugh Last Line: Everything is lie, even truth - %darkness begets itself Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Lies; Torture CHARLES GRANER IS NOT AMERICA, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Graner, Charles A., Jr.; Torture; United States; America DEMONOLOGUE (3), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I had a ward I adored and tortured in four ways Last Line: The more the horse moaned the less I was inclined to lord the less Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Man-woman Relationships; Torture ELEGY FOR HASSAN NASIR; KILLED BY TORTURE IN THE LAHORE FORT, 1959, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, all at once, when the thread of my vision snapped Last Line: The cry heard again on the lips of the saqi, when I am gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Grief; Lahore, Pakistan; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness GANGRENE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One was kicked in the stomach Subject(s): Racism; Torture; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry GIVE ME A NICKNAME, PRISON, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source Last Line: Place of our outcasts, executions %in this twentieth century Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Torture; Twentieth Century IF I KNEW I'D BEAR MYSELF PROUDLY, by METIJA BECKOVIC Poem Source Last Line: I'd spit on all and agree to anything Subject(s): Fear; Human Rights; Torture IN MYSTERY VEILED, by MAMIE OZBURN ODUM Poem Text First Line: Must our halls of heaven fling wide Last Line: To lose our birthright and our heritage. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mystery; Torture; Shoah; Judaism INTERVIEW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you believe that actors are dumb? Writers? Last Line: Are there things you would say to one sex but not to the other? Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Privacy; Torture; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity JOB'S WIFE, A TWENTIETH-CENTURY CASTING SCRIPT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job's wife, bereft, without Last Line: And it was not of god they spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 MERCY FOR ARMENIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Last Line: To play the good samaritan for god. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Armenia; Europe; Torture; Turkey; War 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 MUSEUM IN KAMPUCHEA, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: We went into a museum that use to be a high school Last Line: The young women who passed by on the street %looked like pagodas Subject(s): Cambodia; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Torture REGARDING TORTURE, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: How silent they were, the old masters, about torture Last Line: Its own screamed name Subject(s): Torture RITUAL THREE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is quiet for me, now that I have buried the child Last Line: For her to live is to act in terxms of death Subject(s): Child Abuse; Murder; Torture THE HANGING MAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Torture; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE ICONOCLAST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since my soul grown sick of sordid things Last Line: And all the horrors of a world grown gray. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Passion; Torture; Dejection THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN FINGERS', by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight Subject(s): Torture; World War Ii; Norway; Nazis THE ORDEAL, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the golden city and the sea Last Line: Across the sounding threshold of the sea. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Family Life; Justice; Longing; Love; Marriage; Rites & Ceremonies; Torture; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Violence; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE TORTURE-CHAMBER AT RATISBON, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the broad, imperial danube Last Line: Of our better, purer day! Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Torture; Convicts THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF IBREEM, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You disgusting old man of ibreem! Subject(s): Old Age; Torture TORTURE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Slowly and in secret Last Line: Eternal ceremony of torture Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Torture TORTURE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Her mouth was held open by a recent invention called the rub- Last Line: Between him and the man he wanted to be. She lost her temper%and yelled at him, half her face twiste Subject(s): Torture TORTURE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they torture your mother Subject(s): Torture TORTURE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they torture your mother Last Line: They have made %start another Subject(s): Torture TORTURES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing has changed Subject(s): Torture |
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