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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TRAGEDY Matches Found: 344 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` *:48, by IRIS N. SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: It was 9:08 when a coworker told me Last Line: The time: it was 8:48? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 10:45 A.M. SEPT. 11/WTC, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: Whywhy why...Whywhywhy Last Line: Whywhywhy...Whywhywhy..Whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 12-SEP, by CORY ELLEN NADEL Poem Source First Line: We had this language down there Last Line: From the night sky, lethal %as stars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 21ST CENTURY, by J. Y. HO Poem Source First Line: Sweltering sadness in this woeful world Last Line: Teamwork, so my shit might stop getting jacked Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 9.12.01 TWIN TOWERS, by LAURIE MCKENNA Poem Source First Line: Formal announcements %instructed people to stay put Last Line: Their %pocketbooks Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 911 WAKEUP CALL, by R. D. ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: The special effects merchants have been humbled Last Line: The chickens have come home to roost, baby Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) A BALLAD OF AN ARTIST'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet wife, this heavy-hearted age Last Line: "and in her peace forever dwell." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hunger; Marriage; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BOON, by MARY LOUISE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: When you die / as soon you shall Last Line: No more. Subject(s): Tragedy A LEGEND OF HELL GATE, 1675, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A saucy boat was the annetje block Last Line: When the hell gate tide is out. Subject(s): Death; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Sea Voyages; Tragedy; Dead, The A PRAYER, by MAGDALENE C. STEPHENS Poem Text First Line: Dear god, on far horizons Last Line: May serve peace gloriously. Subject(s): Prayer; Tragedy; War A STROKE OF SKY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Innocence; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 A SWAMP TRAGEDY, by I. V. Poem Text First Line: In andrus swamp, out hastings way Last Line: Laugh if you will -- not I! Subject(s): Hastings, England; Swamps; Tragedy; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A TRAGEDY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Death! / plop / the barges down in the river flop Last Line: Plop. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Tragedy; Dead, The A TRAGEDY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: O king darius! Well I knew Last Line: One whom I glorify. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Nature; Spring; Tragedy AFTER, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the towers fell %a conundrum Last Line: A last day; babylon %remembered Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AFTER THE TERROR, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Everything has changed, though nothing has Last Line: The windows have been bolted just in case Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AGAMEMNON, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaving the dark abode of gods of hell Last Line: Shall fall on thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy AMERICA ON TERRORISM, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: I was a child %when I first saw the pictures Last Line: Against all terrorism for forever Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AN EXCURSION STEAMER SUNK IN THE TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on july the 14th day Last Line: And enjoy yourselves heartily during the holiday time. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The AN INCIDENT OF THE WEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: More annoyed than for many a week before Last Line: For the faults of the dead in the canyon Subject(s): Accidents;canyons;death;tragedy;war; "dead, The; AN UNWRITTEN TRAGEDY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, ye that thirst beside the running stream! Last Line: And pluck a feather out and write such things? Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy; Dead, The 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 ARMENIAN PASTORAL, 1915, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If anoush were holding her child Last Line: Be cut from the same tongue Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AS THEY PASS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Red shout, hair %flaming, the wind cannot stop drilling holes Last Line: The stunned air now %unbearable Subject(s): Death; News; Terrorism; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASH TUESDAY, by EILEEN MALONE Poem Source First Line: I think I recognize you Last Line: Hey, I always meant to tell you: %I love you Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ASK ME NOW, by JOHN SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Standing at the finish line %of the boston marathon Last Line: When they founded this great nation Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) AT THE CEDARS, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You had two girls, baptiste Last Line: Is not known to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Canada; Heroism; Tragedy; Canadians; Heroes; Heroines AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY ALTER EGO, SELS., by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before our banana-shaped chopper %landed at cam ranh bay Last Line: & somewhere else among those %lost planets & dead stars Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) B&B, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's begin here: three years later Last Line: & one struck match arcs into the grill. Whoosh Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; News; Newspapers; Tragedy BACK THE NIGHT BEFORE, by SKIP ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: I yearn for the huge silver airliners to pull backwards Last Line: Home again, that the only fires are in the fireplaces and in the stars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BALLAD OF SKANDAR, by PHILIP METRES Poem Source First Line: Unframed by any photograph, diminished by history Last Line: Where water flows from every spout- %or so the story goes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BARNSLEY COLLIERY EXPLOSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far below - oh! Far below Last Line: Avert the dangers of the mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Death; Tragedy; Dead, The BE AFRAID, by JOHNNY GUNN Poem Source First Line: Doesn't look old enough to shave, this gun toting Last Line: Nothing to hide, I say, and he puts cuffs on me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BECAUSE, by DENNIS FRITZINGER Poem Source First Line: Because you can't see the bodies Last Line: And go to sleep. %because Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BEFORE SEDAN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this leafy place Last Line: Death will not have it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Corpses; France; Tragedy; World War I; Cadavers; First World War BELL TOLLS AGAIN, by GERALD NICOSIA Poem Source First Line: At the world trade center %the doormen working minimum wage Last Line: And who was also %blown away Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BERNARDO DEL CARPIO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The warrior bowed his crested head, and tamed his heart of fire Last Line: Of spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Spain; Tragedy BISHOP HATTO [AND THE RATS], by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer and autumn had been so wet Last Line: For they were sent to do judgment on him! Variant Title(s): God's Judgment On A Wicked Bishop;the Legend Of Bishop Hatto;god's Judgment On A Bishop Subject(s): Hatto I, Archbishop Of Mentz (850-913); Legends, German; Rats; Tragedy BLACK DAHLIA, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: The cups we drink from are the skulls of %arabs Last Line: Rise %inside %of %us %? %(grahhr) Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLACK HAIR, by TRACI KATO-KIRIYAMA Poem Source First Line: Black hair %long %wavy %or maybe recently Last Line: Mirror %and see %that I am there Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLANCHE, by A. BERNARD MIALL Poem Text First Line: God did not make her very wise Last Line: All good — yet she is scarcely fair. Subject(s): Faces; Mouths; Scars; Tragedy; Ugliness BLESSING FOR NEW YORK, by MARJ HAHNE Poem Source First Line: God bless this magic city Last Line: Bless this %bless them %bless us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLESSING OF TERROR, by THEA HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: I am trying to write a blessing for today. I did think I might die today. I Last Line: One more day. I don't know how long I have left. I am blessed Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BLIND, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He might be changing the tire on the pickup Last Line: It lives through the night Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Life; Tragedy BLOOD OF THE WALSUNG HOUSE, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: Retired uncle miksa glittered like a sword in the sheath called Last Line: Of szondi street Subject(s): Death; Tragedy BOXCARS, NINES AND ELEVENS, by TODD EASTON MILLS Poem Source First Line: A numbered event, the numbering Last Line: Nines, elevens, and atomic boxcars Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) BURKA WOMEN, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Imprisoned behind adobe ruins Last Line: In public, walk to work %& our daughters to school' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CAIUS GRACCHUS; A TRAGEDY, by VINCENZO MONTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caius, in rome behold thyself! The night Last Line: Thou call'st for blood, and thou shalt be appeased Subject(s): Tragedy CALAMITY IN LONDON; FAMILY OF TEN BURNED TO DEATH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of christmas day Last Line: Every night before to your beds ye retire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fire; Firefighters; Tragedy; Dead, The CASABIANCA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood on the burning deck Last Line: Was that young, faithful heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea Battles; Tragedy; Naval Warfare CATHOLIC BISHOPS APPROVE BUSH'S WAR, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lest I merge %with mountains that surely will fall Last Line: Not large, nor mine to choose)- %lest I Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CAVES, WAR, AND PEOPLE, by SHEPHERD BLISS Poem Source First Line: At ease,' %the young lieutenant barks at our rifle squad Last Line: How could anyone experience desire in such a hellhole? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) CENTRAL PARK, CAROUSEL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June already, it's your birth month, Last Line: If I die leave the balcony open! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Merry-go-rounds; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 CHATTAHOOCHEE, by PATRICK PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Like a spirit moving through the flower Last Line: Bringing the scattered pieces back together Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Tragedy CLASSICAL PROPORTIONS OF THE HEART; FOR FONTAINE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone here knows how it ends, in the stone Last Line: With ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy COCKTAILS CELEBRATING VIETNAMIZATION, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: It's a wingdinger. We got spies Last Line: Too hard, like one of those concrete %jockeys who's lost his ride Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) COME REST WITH ME, O LORD!, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source Last Line: Onto the verdant fields %of transcendent history Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) COUNT ALARCOS AND THE INFANTA SOLISA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alone, as was her wont, she sate, - within her bower alone Last Line: Three guilty spirits stood right soon before god's judgment-seat Subject(s): Assassination; Courts And Courtiers; Cruelty; Love; Tragedy COUNTESS LAURA, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a dreary day in padua Last Line: In silver whiteness over padua. Subject(s): Italy; Tragedy; Italians CRACKING UP, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: By far the most handsome of all the velasco boys, jesse got drafted in '68 Last Line: Waiting to be let back inside Subject(s): Accidents; Family Life; Miracles; Tragedy CRIME WAS IN GRANADA: 1. THE CRIME, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was seen, walking between rifles Last Line: Know it-poor grandma!-in his granada Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Poetry And Poets; Tragedy; War CRIME WAS IN GRANADA: 2. THE POET AND DEATH, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was seen walking alone with her Last Line: In these breezes of granada, my granada Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder; Poetry And Poets; Tragedy DAY AFTER THE CLEANUP ENDED, by JR. RADOMIR LUZA Poem Source First Line: The trees bent %in a sort of anguished manner Last Line: The kind ten lifetimes cannot hide Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DEAD HAVE STOPPED RUNNING, by MATTHEW MASON Poem Source First Line: They walk %through the air, now Last Line: Surprising us when they exit %on the floor where we live Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Death! Is it thou whom bravest souls do fear Last Line: Reviving, creeping to calamity. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Tragedy; Dead, The; Declaration Day 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 DIE TODAY?, by GAIL FORD Poem Source First Line: If I knew we would die today Last Line: The rising %falling %sea Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DILEMMA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: It is once again time to think of what we wish Last Line: And let song rise often from this site Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIMINISHING RETURNS, by CHARLOTTE MCCAFFREY Poem Source First Line: In the fall of 2001, %it seemed that sky and earth Last Line: The families %with urns %of dirt Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DIRGE, by GARY MEX GLAZNER Poem Source First Line: There is always some right wing-nut with his hand on the kill button Last Line: Madness our only %music Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DOUBLE DRAM OF FALLING, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: And so we slept, %always an ocean or two Last Line: That now makes up our lives Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) DU LINIANG, by WU QI Poem Source First Line: Though your accurate portrait you compared yourself to a divine beauty Last Line: At peony pavilion your reincarnation accomplished fate Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Plays And Playwrights; Tragedy EASY SERMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sermons are easy Last Line: When the highest powers fall Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 EDDY-GRAMS: 4. STORM AND TRAVAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Trees may crash beneath a cyclone Last Line: When he shall unlock the door. Subject(s): Cyclones; Lightning; Storms; Tragedy; Wind; Lightning Rods ELECTRA, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of agamemnon, who sometime Last Line: By this glorious essay. Subject(s): Revenge; Tragedy EMBERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tragedy, I'll light for tilia Subject(s): Blood; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy EMBERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tragedy, I'll light for tilia Last Line: You'll drink my blood, like a virus! Subject(s): Blood; Poetry And Poets; Tragedy EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The female author who recites to-day Last Line: And the gray mare will prove the better horse. Subject(s): Friendship; Greece; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tragedy; Greeks EQUATION, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: Horrific towers of flame over manhattan like nothing Last Line: Of course, %as the mangled dead aren't our own Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ERECHTHEUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of life and death and all men's days Last Line: And friendship and fame of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy; Dead, The ESCAPE OF GAYFEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Before her knee the boy did stand, within the dais so fair Last Line: Rise up - they've slain my father within my mother's bed Subject(s): Child Psychology; Crime And Criminals; Cruelty; Grief; Tragedy EUMENIDES, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pythian Last Line: Around him—kiss that kindest of sires! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Tragedy; Vengeance EVEN NOW, by LEZA LOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Into my witches' brew, communal cauldron Last Line: Making of this meal a universe, %even now, %called 'home' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) EXCERPTS FROM SEPTEMBER 11,2001, by JEFF PONIEWAZ Poem Source First Line: I praise the firemen: truly as heroic as the antique gods Last Line: Shalom salaam! Salaam shalom!' %ah! Om! Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALL, by MICHAEL CIRELLI Poem Source First Line: The flags were only able %to climb half way up their poles that day Last Line: I'd grab the oxygen mask %and inhale Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALLEN TOWER-SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Images indelibly burned %into the silver coated mind Last Line: Between the present %and our children's future Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FALSE ALARMS, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day little mary most loudly did call Last Line: For giving mamma false alarms. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Children; Fire; Girls; Lies; Tragedy; Childhood FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wavering shapes, again ye do me enfold Last Line: Ground.) Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun his ancient music makes Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FOURTH OF JULY, by STEVE DALACHINSKY Poem Source First Line: We are on a friend's balcony Last Line: In a flock %of angels' %eyes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FRA GIACOMO, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, fra giacamo / too late! Last Line: And the monks say mass for your mistress' soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Italy; Tragedy; Italians FRAG, THE MIDNIGHT BLOOM, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: El tee informs private buddha he will inspect Last Line: Find out which of you is the chicken? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Didst thou not praise me, gaultier, at the ball Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I prithee, rene, charm our ears again Last Line: [falls on paolo's body.] Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Text First Line: Jester, hey, jester Last Line: Sword.] Subject(s): Francesca Da Rimini (13th Century); Italian Renaissance; Murder; Romance; Tragedy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy FRANCIS DRAKE; A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morrow, winter. / still the winds are foul Last Line: Drake. Christ comfort me! Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tragedy; Ocean FROM THE TOWERS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insanity is not a want of reason. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 FRONT ROW SEAT IN HEAVEN, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: The world trade center buried %in rubble Last Line: A front row seat %in heaven Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I’m in a plane that will not be flown into a building Last Line: We’ve begun our descent, and then I sense the falling Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Airplanes; Air Pilots; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GATE 6A, by JUDITH TERZI Poem Source First Line: The danse macabre begins at dawn Last Line: By electronic wands of fairy god scanners %at the threshold of paranoia Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GHOST TRAIN, by RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Poem Source First Line: Smoke rises industrial in puffs that look innocent Last Line: Of what we've killed, or are killing Subject(s): Death; Despair; Ghosts; Supernatural; Tragedy GOD'S CHALLENGERS; A SOLDIERS' HOSPITAL, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: Today, I have seen / mute ghosts of men Last Line: What did we do it for? Subject(s): Death; God; Soldiers; Tragedy; War; War Injuries; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All the sad battles lost or won, %all turned to dust Subject(s): Politics; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GUITA BRUNER, by PABLO GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: Above a rock %her troglodyte room Last Line: Foam and our love exploding Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Relationships; Tragedy; War GYCIA, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails the king, that thus his brow is bent Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Love; Patriotism; Tragedy; Treason And Traitors HAMLET, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who's there? Last Line: Of ordnance is shot off. Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Revenge; Supernatural; Tragedy; Madness; Mental Illness HARLOT ROBED IN WAR, by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Well spoken, castor. You point the moral Last Line: Lies something purer than the muses' spring Subject(s): Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; Tragedy; War HECUBA: THE SACRIFICE OF POLYXENA, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see thee, how beneath thy robe, o king Last Line: "of women in thy daughter, most undone!" Subject(s): Greece; Tragedy; Greeks HELD CAPTIVE, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: You come in on it early 5:48 pdt when Last Line: Out from under all your arab american friends Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HELLO, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hello %I'm looking into a mirror Last Line: You alone %are god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HERCULES ON OETA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O father of the gods, whose thunderbolt Last Line: More boldly then thy father jove himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy HERNANI, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cistercians might crack their sides Last Line: The horn of the old gentleman! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy HIGH HAUNTS, by TISH EASTMAN Poem Source First Line: There are countless tales of structurally displaced spirits Last Line: Shadow moments repeating fiercely where only falcons fly? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: "fill the air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented Last Line: Fill the air %everywhere Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HITCHHIKING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake: / the white hand of Last Line: By a miraculous hatred. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fire; Hitchhikers; Tragedy HOLY SMOKE, by IRA COHEN Poem Source First Line: Taking tuesday back %or removing the black figure Last Line: P.S. The money goes through switzerland Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOME, by CARLOS MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Twenty three years later and I'm walking down twenty eighth and Last Line: And how the water spouting from fire boats rose and rose Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOW DO I EXPLAIN THE HORROR?, by DIEGO DAVALOS Poem Source Last Line: Them in drum songs enveloped in your %prayers Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) HOW TO SURVIVE AN ELECTRICAL STORM, by SUSAN BIRKELAND Poem Source First Line: Electrical storms tire the blood- %nightly news Last Line: And then again, %the water loves itself Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I DON'T KNOW, by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: When I hear the whistle for work Last Line: He do something I %don't know Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) I SEE AGAIN, by GAIL FORD Poem Source First Line: The sixty-year-old man %forty-eight hours tired Last Line: I drink him drink him in Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IF BIN LADEN READ DR. SEUSS, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: So then, bin laden, is this Last Line: My friend, his name is sam I am Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN AS MUCH AS IT IS ALWAYS ALREADY TAKING PLACE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Outside, smoke mushrooms with the ghosts of sarajevo Last Line: Alvalanche. Inferno. Nations buckling %with its roar Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; Tragedy; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN MEMORIAM, by ANDREW MAGNUS FLEMING Poem Text First Line: My young life is sere since my defunct Last Line: And lift my voice in praise should a tomcat come my way. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, A. M. Subject(s): Tragedy IN MORTEM VENERABILIS ANDREAE PROUT CARMEN, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet upland! Where, like hermit old, in peace sojourd'd Last Line: Not so the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Morality; Rest; Tragedy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Ethics IN RUBBLE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IN THE AFTERMATH, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of tragedies Last Line: To tell you - hey, believe it. %this is real Subject(s): Tragedy IN THE AGE OF GRASSHOPPERS, by JANINE POMMY VEGA Poem Source First Line: A grasshoppers with a roomy apartment building Last Line: Because we let them, because they can Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN THE ENGINE-SHED, by WILLIAM WILKINS Poem Text First Line: Through air made heavy with vapors murk Last Line: We're going out with the express. Subject(s): England; Railroads; Tragedy; English; Railways; Trains IN THE LAND OF HONEY AND DANGER, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Yeah, danger lurks Last Line: Need money %nothing too small %god bless!' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) IN THE NORTH, by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: Winter came and went, spreading %its sober gospel: earth the color Last Line: Is rubbing its face raw. In trees %birds sing a song full of silence Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INTERIOR OF BEESWAX CHAMBER, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Stickled nectars seized in Last Line: Blossoms. The wind's %picking up Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons; Fire; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INTO THE ARMS OF ANGELS, by TIMOTHY MICHAEL RHODES Poem Source First Line: From the terror of fire, %darkness and broken glass Last Line: Her arms reaching %for one final embrace Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) INVITATION TO GROUND ZERO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the smouldering ruin now go down: Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 IPHIGENEIA AND AGAMEMNON, FR. THE HELLENICS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iphigeneia, when she heard her doom Last Line: "o father! Grieve no more; the ships can sail." Variant Title(s): Sacrifice Subject(s): Aulis, Greece; Courage; Tragedy; Valor; Bravery IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (GREEK THEATER, AUGUST 14, 1915), by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: O godlike gestures, whose compelling sweep Last Line: Kindling time's ancient silences with light! Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy IT MUST NOT HAPPEN, by SHARON OLINKA Poem Source First Line: My days like water. I clip the toenails Last Line: No more mass burials %by a harbor Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JERUSALEM DURING A SUICIDE BOMBING, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem strolled thru an outdoor market Last Line: Jerusalem's naked feet leave the scene of love, %nothing changes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JESUS POEM, by SUSAN BIRKELAND Poem Source First Line: If I'd been trapped in one of those towers Last Line: (from where we stand ) %intolerably bright Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JEWELLED OFFERING, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jewelled offering bring I none Last Line: Tragic only because true. Subject(s): Love; Tragedy JIHAD, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A contrail's white scimitar unsheathes Last Line: His wisdom watches for each sacrifice Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) JUDGED WORTH EVACUATING, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vertical war, north of my early childhood Last Line: A hammer of impatiens flowers got him Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) KABUL 2002 (FROM DISLOCATIONS), by BRONWYN WINTER Poem Source First Line: Kabul seizes your eyes your throat Last Line: Peshawar is a gentler and safer place Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) KALICH, INHERITOR OF TRAGEDY, by RIPLEY DUNLAP SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: Kalich, thou of the dark and brooding face Last Line: Concentrate, makes the genius-gift we know! Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Tragedy; Judaism KHAMSIN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the wind from the desert blew in! / -- khamsin Last Line: The scourge from the desert, blew in! Subject(s): Asia; Tragedy; Far East; East Asia; Orient LAST THOUGHTS 9/11 VOICES, by OPAL PALMER ADISA Poem Source First Line: All memories %are piled on the pyre Last Line: Claims you %live without regrets Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LEARNING NOT TO CRY, by JACQUELYN MALONE Poem Source First Line: Smart tears, fleeing down her cheeks' Last Line: The channels-click click- %the chamber mapped and loaded Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LET THERE BE INFINITY, by DEBRA GRACE KHATTAB Poem Source First Line: Sept. 11 I was scared shitless Last Line: And I want infinity to become the universal count %just infinity Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On pleasure bent, see how the pressing hordes Last Line: Lincoln alone, in an eternal scene. Subject(s): Assassination; Comedy; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Plays & Playwrights ; Presidents, United States; Tragedy; Dramatists LINKED, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: The vultures have gathered Last Line: We've contributed, however %remotely, to this tragedy Subject(s): Tragedy LITTLE RAMSHACKLE SHACK, by ABD AL-HAYY MOORE Poem Source First Line: A little ramshackle shack on a hill Last Line: And the silence or the sound that follows it %is also part of it Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) LOUISA; A TALE, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lend your wings, ye fav'ring gales Last Line: "or time, or death, destroy." Subject(s): Love; Peace; Story-telling; Tragedy MAD HERCULES, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thunder's sister, for that name alone Last Line: To make unspotted the immortal gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy MAGICIAN IN MOURNING, by DONNA SUZANNE KERR Poem Source First Line: The first day of november Last Line: How we have defiled %such gifts Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MEDEA, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it, then, done? Last Line: Falls.] Subject(s): Greece; Mothers; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Greeks MEDEA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gods of marriage Last Line: Prove that there are no gods where'er thou goest. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Medea (mythology); Mythology - Greek; Tragedy MEETING OF THE POET AND THE PRESIDENT, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: There is a passage in specimen days, august 12, 1863; here Last Line: The wit of their tails flicking blackflies Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MISSING NATALIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Most of my friends don't know I was born a twin. She was born sixty-three Last Line: Together. She left without me Subject(s): Absence; Children - Lost; Disappeared Persons; Sisters; Tragedy; Twins MORNING RUSH HOUR, 9/28/01, by PATRICIA KELLY Poem Source First Line: The toddler cries 'I want mommy, I want mommy' Last Line: Of our stricken city, this looming grief %of the ages Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MOTHER'S GRIEF, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Dry-eyed she sat up waiting through the night Last Line: A poignant pain is dumb and gnaws the bone. Subject(s): Boys; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness MUTED GOLD, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: My father died just as my plane touched down Last Line: My father died just as my plane touched down Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Death; Memory; Tragedy; Travel MY MOTHER IS PREPARED, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: She comes for a weekend %with bulging bags Last Line: Anything, she whispered %to me in polish, saying good-bye Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) MY WIFE SAYS DON'T WRITE ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11TH, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: For three months, I have collected facts (elvis presley got a c in eighth Last Line: Sounds like static, a tv left on after every station's signed off Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 NANJING, DECEMBER, 1937, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Thousands tethered like cattle, herded like sheep Last Line: And then it was the women's turn Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NASEEM, by JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Mommy, I'm scared Last Line: I prayed, my sweet. I prayed Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEW YORK MEMORIAL, by MEREDITH KAREN LASKOW Poem Source First Line: My world has become a moving collage Last Line: And writing a poem for every life lost Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEW YORK POEM, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I sit in the dark, not brooding Last Line: I'll kiss the sword that kills me if I must Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 1. LAST RITES, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: My ears are full %the building screeches Last Line: I'm going to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 2. RAY'S HOWL, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: My niece she was so young Last Line: Kill them kill them %kill you all Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 3. 911, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: 911 911 %nana is san francisco weeping Last Line: Needing to build again %911 %911 %911 Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS FEEDS: 4. AFTERMATH, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: Checking in %I am safe Last Line: Built on love %and memory Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWS OF NOVEMBER 1,2001, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: The news is some maple leaves are still clinging Last Line: Was bearable. For once I went through life %uncomplaining Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain Last Line: To place by the master's breakfast-the skin of days Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NO SUCH THING AS A PRECISION BOMB, by PAUL GANDHI JOSEPH DOSH Poem Source First Line: September 12th %the day after Last Line: We just grew a little more aware of how violent we %have become Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOCTURNES: 3, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The gods are fighting to stay awake Last Line: And white light, transfixing the northeast, is discord Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; New York City; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTE TO TONY TOWLE (AFTER WS), by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: One must have breakfasted often on automobile primer Last Line: Rather than attribute, towards the brush with open sea Subject(s): Business; Tourists; Trade; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTES ON OSAMA SPOTTINGS, by Q. R. HAND Poem Source First Line: Osama spotted like %victims of rocky mountain %tick fevers Last Line: All over like %the spanish flu Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Do they hate me Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did we in all honesty expect? Last Line: Strike & move on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) NOTHING IS THE SAME THE DAY AFTER, by ANN MARIE SAMSON Poem Source First Line: The gathering %they are gathering in the blackness Last Line: The eyes of allah %the eyes of god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) OEDIPUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already night has fled, dim dawns the day Last Line: With me,—with me! Such guides for me are meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Oedipus; Tragedy OFF THE AIR, by MATTHEW MASON Poem Source First Line: My first love was an am radio dj Last Line: On this gorgeous night of a blossoming autumn, %this final broadcast of summer Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) OKLAHOMA CITY: THE AFTERMATH, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I'm so lachrymose I forget I was there Subject(s): Oklahoma City Tragedy (1995); Conduct Of Life; Oklahoma City Bombings (1995) ON A ROADSIDE IN OHIO, by MARK KUHAR Poem Source First Line: The sign on interstate 271, right there Last Line: On the tripping tempest of these frightened times Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON BEING TRANSPARENT, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: If they raise a picture Last Line: Of its short but sacred flight Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by CARL STILWELL Poem Source First Line: I am with you, walt whitman Last Line: For more human sacrificial blood- %we the people Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON REPORTS OF THREATS AGAINST ARAB-AMERICANS, by NEELI CHERKOVSKI Poem Source First Line: News kiosk owner from %palestine, rabbi's son out of Last Line: Emptiness at the heart %of what we face tomorrow Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON T.V., by MARIAH ERLICK Poem Source First Line: Tuesday was the worst day of my life Last Line: I'm here. %I'm talking Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SEPTEMBER 2001, by CATHY BARBER Poem Source First Line: I am am american, eyes drooping heavily Last Line: I am afraid for we are going to war Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ON THE FALL OF THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS, by CLAIRE BURCH Poem Source First Line: When hate crimes last in a bombscare loomed Last Line: Long day. The families wait Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONCE BY HANFORD REACH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I cupped an explored milkweed pod Last Line: Dark seeds of death-light Subject(s): Death; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONE CAN MAKE FISTS, by JOE-ANNE MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source First Line: And fistfuls: one, two, three, even four Last Line: Though no president had proclaimed %we are at war Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONE DAY LAST WEEK, by C. B. FOLLETTE Poem Source First Line: The end of the world %rained from the sky Last Line: Empty, unclaimed %and at the airports Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) ONWORK, LUCK, ROOTS, DEATH AND OTHER DEBTS, by EUGENE RUGGLES Poem Source First Line: Don't give up on your blessings, %before they finish Last Line: The pacific takes both of them into its shadow Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) OSCAR OF ALVA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly shines through azure skies Last Line: A brother's death-groan echoes there. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Tragedy PALMS AND HANDS, by HUGH SEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Larry shrugged, %jerked up his palms Last Line: Of the shock wave %of the fire storm Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PARRHASIUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood an unsold captive in the mart Last Line: We! Subject(s): Greece; Paintings & Painters; Parrhasius (5th Century); Tragedy; Greeks PEACE INVOCATION AFTER 9/11/2002, by TERESA G. LEE Poem Source First Line: Peace did you shudder %when two airplanes Last Line: A amar nuestras diferencias Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PEACE STUDIES AT THE RHODE ISLAND AVENUE BARBERSHOP, by KENNETH CARROLL Poem Source First Line: No flags fly in this shop Last Line: Like clumps of black hair %blown by a wayward western wind Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) PHAEDRA, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cecropians, go gird the shadowy groves Last Line: Weigh down her impious head! Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy PROLOGUE TO NAHUM TATE'S 'THE LOYAL GENERAL', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If yet there be a few that take delight Last Line: And act your selves the farce of your own age. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy; Dramatists QUEEN CATHARINE, OR THE RUINS OF LOVE: EPILOGUE, by CATHARINE TROTTER Poem Text First Line: What epilogues are made, for who can tell Last Line: Who knows but I may come to act queen kate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy RAMON, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk and senseless in his place Last Line: Dead as stone! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Mexico; Mines & Miners; Tragedy; United States; America RECOURSE OF DRIFTING, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Year after year, somehow you never interrupted me Last Line: Washing up against me Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Sea; Tragedy REVELRY OF THE DYING, by BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We meet 'neath the sounding rafter Last Line: And hurrah for the next that dies! Variant Title(s): Indian Revelry;the Revel;our Last Toast;revelry In India;hurrah For The Next That Dies Subject(s): Death; England; Epidemics; India; India - British Rule; Plague; Tragedy; Dead, The; English RIZPAH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what the desolate rizpah said Last Line: The beasts of the desert, and fowls of air. Subject(s): Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible RIZPAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many sons, how many generations Last Line: That lights towards hell his bondslaves and their czar. Subject(s): Mothers; Poland; Rizpah (bible); Russia; Tragedy; Women - Bible; Soviet Union; Russians RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea Last Line: Going. He calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English ROSE MARY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of her two fights with the beryl-stone Last Line: We, cast forth from the beryl? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Betrayal; Tragedy ROUND TABLE, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: A dull, ill-acted comedy is life! Last Line: To work and live, to trust in god and die. Subject(s): Comedy; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy RUN DOWN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grim dead end he lies, with passionless filmy / eyes Last Line: To a shift beyond the skies. Subject(s): Accidents; Cemeteries; Death; Fire; Graves; Tragedy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SACRAMENT, by EVA YAA ASANTEWAA Poem Source First Line: Is it jihad? Is it crusade? Ashes to ashes Last Line: I try to wash that man right out of my hair %and send him on his way Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SALEM HILL HYMN SING, by MICHAEL SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: A screaming comes across the sky Last Line: Is me, and all the books are about revenge Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SAVAGE JETS SWORD THE SKY HUNGRY BOMBS TORTURE THE EARTH, by S. A. GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: As for myself %I choose not to believe in war Last Line: I am easy this way Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SEASON OF THE DEAD: 2. BAY OF SLAUGHTER, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, by ANDRES ROJAS Poem Source First Line: To faith the world leaves little room Last Line: To be hungry so long memory is hunger? Subject(s): Tragedy SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 21,2001, by KENNETH POBO Poem Source First Line: At our somerest motel, gary Last Line: They can't drive away as we do Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SHE SMILES ON THE TV SCREEN, by KAREN KARPOWICH Poem Source First Line: Looking like all those tough girls I knew in school Last Line: Working his beads, she said %till there was silence Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SIEGFRIED'S DEATH, by FRIEDRICH HEBBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From whence so early? Dewy is thy hair Last Line: "darkness"" and heath's dictionary@" Alternate Author Name(s): Hebbel, Christian Friedrich Subject(s): Death; Legends, German; Tragedy; Dead, The SILENCES, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The three-year-old seemed puzzled Last Line: Your teeth are clenched Subject(s): Child Molesting; Grief; Silence; Speech Disorders; Tragedy SIMPLE POEM FOR A DIFFICULT TIME, by JEFF KASS Poem Source First Line: I carry my daughter of six weeks Last Line: The thing her father once told her %being good matters Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SIX MONTHS AFTER, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: This is what it means Last Line: Some say the debris %also speaks Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SKYSCRAPER APOCALYPSE, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Two months before the terrorist attack Last Line: As the sunrise engulfs the world %in the light of another day Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMALL SACRIFICES, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels' Last Line: So americans can continue life as usual, %go on another shopping spree Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMALL TREASURES, by PAULA NEMEROFF WEISS Poem Source First Line: It rests in the hollow of her throat Last Line: Her hand returns to the pendant %covers it lovingly Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women; Dead, The SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Last Line: Like the ghost the night will become Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays Last Line: And what's beyond the sky, and beyond that, ad infinitum Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOMEONE SAYS THEY LOOKED LIKE CARTWHEELING BIRDS, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The quietest moments some %one will say are the worst Last Line: Red as if nothing %could stop them Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SOUTH TOWER, 96TH FLOOR, CORNER OFFICE, by F. JOHN SHARP Poem Source First Line: Fresh air seduces me Last Line: I hope I have the courage %to choose to fly Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) SPIRIT BRIDAL, by JESSIE STORRS FERRIS Poem Text First Line: She sleeps within a sheltered marbled close Last Line: Beneath the moon to-night? Subject(s): Brides; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy STRANGERS, by LUCILLE DAY Poem Source First Line: I didn't know the man in black pants Last Line: Searching for something %irretrievable, precious, still there Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) 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 SUMMER HILL, by HENRY TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Seems like to me it ought to be winter hill Last Line: The blade bite wood. Sound can't keep up with light Subject(s): Tragedy SURVIVING, by PAT PHILLIPS WEST Poem Source First Line: Special days-graduations, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries Last Line: To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THALIA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce flames fell on your brow upturned Last Line: The dwelling of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Tragedy; Dead, The THANKSGIVING EVE, 2001, by F. JOHN SHARP Poem Source First Line: Today %I sort ruin Last Line: I can't imagine where I will begin Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THAT TUESDAY NIGHT, by GEORGE HELD Poem Source First Line: That tuesday night, after the towers Last Line: Could ever make me %safe again Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THE ARMLESS ARTIST: CATASTROPHE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Alas!' the father said Last Line: "this armless boy will ruin me." Subject(s): Grief; Mercy; Physical Disabilities; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE ATHEIST'S TRAGEDY, by CYRIL TOURNEUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my nephew charlemont but now Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Revenge; Tragedy; War 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 BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind wears roun', the day wears doun Last Line: Blaws the wind and whirls the whin. Subject(s): Brides; Tragedy; Wind THE BURNING OF THE PEOPLE'S VARIETY THEATRE, ABERDEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1896, and on the 30th of september Last Line: But I hope they are now in heaven, amongst the heavenly choir. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Heroism; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE CARDINAL, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cardinal! 'cause we express no scene Last Line: And if you like his play, 'tis as well he knew it. Subject(s): Tragedy THE CHORUS, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A greek I worked for once would always say Subject(s): Old Age; Tragedy THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE DAUGHTERS OF TROY, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let him who puts his trust in kingly crown Last Line: The sea; the sails are set, the vessels move. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Trojan War 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 DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM, THE MURDERER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the prime of summer time Last Line: With gyves upon his wrist. Subject(s): Aram, Eugene (1704-1759); England; Murder; Tragedy; English THE DRUMMER-BOY'S BURIAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All day long the storm of battle through the startled valley swept Last Line: Laid the body of our drummer-boy to undisturbed repose Subject(s): Tragedy;united States; America THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are welcome to your country, dear antonio Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Freedom; Love; Religion; Tragedy; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology THE HARTLEY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark gulf of death! Black cavern of despair! Last Line: The widows' judge is he in holiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Death; Tragedy; Dead, The 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 HUGUENOT; 1686, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dry-lipped with terror, o'er the broken flints Last Line: You're very good to say so. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE ICONOCLAST, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years shall come and go Last Line: The soul that knows its god was dust. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Time; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists THE JEWESS OF TOLEDO, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back, go back, and leave the garden Last Line: Curtain Subject(s): Jews; Spain; Tragedy; Judaism THE KESSACK FERRY-BOAT FATALITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on friday the 2nd of march in the year of 1894 Last Line: While the storm fiend did laugh and angry did rave. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Storms; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The THE MEMORY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wet dusk silver sweet Last Line: "so to close her tragic story." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Memory; Tragedy; Dead, The; World 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 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 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 ORIGIN OF ACRYLIC, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Text First Line: The fishing on the swamp is fine Last Line: "like the words ""dark green" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Death; Tragedy; Dead, The THE PHOENICIAN WOMEN, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O guide of thy blind father, only cheer Last Line: Is ever for imperial power paid. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Oedipus; Tragedy THE PRISONER OF CHILLON, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hair is gray, but not with years Last Line: Regained my freedom with a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): On Chillon Subject(s): Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Switzerland; Tragedy; Swiss THE PROLOGUE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! How they push! The pit is crowded now Last Line: (they go forth.) Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Tragedy; Actresses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Stage Life THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY, by CYRIL TOURNEUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Duke! Royal lecher! Go, grey-haired adulterer Last Line: [exit. Subject(s): Revenge; Tragedy THE RIVALS; OR THE SHOWMAN'S RUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Straight rent across one trousers-knee, makes his inglorious -- exit.] Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Comedy; Plays & Playwrights; Quarrels; Tragedy; Arguments; Disagreements THE ROLE OF ELEGY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Masks; Tragedy THE ROSE AND THE GAUNTLET, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low spake the knight to the peasant girl [or maid] Last Line: On the withered leaves, and the maiden dead. Subject(s): England; Tragedy; English THE SACK OF BALTIMORE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun is falling softly on carbery's hundred isles Last Line: More. Subject(s): Baltimore, Ireland; Kidnapping; Pirates; Tragedy; Piracy; Buccaneers THE SACK OF THE CITY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy will, o king, is done! Lighting but to consume Last Line: With golden circlet to thy glorious ankle bound. Subject(s): Asia; Tragedy; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE SANDS OF DEE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary, go and call the cattle home Last Line: Across the sands o' dee. Subject(s): Sea; Tragedy; Ocean THE SILENT MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your first book of poems, printed Last Line: But you are silent. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Silence; Tragedy; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE STORMING OF DARGAI HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 20th of november, and in the year of 1897 Last Line: And give them always strength to put their enemies to flight. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Tragedy; War; Dead, The THE THREE FISHERS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three fishers went sailing out into the west Last Line: And good-bye to the bar and its moaning. Variant Title(s): The Fisherman Subject(s): Sea; Tragedy; Ocean 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 TRAGIC DEATH OF THE REV. A. H. MACKONOCHIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends of humanity, of high and low degree Last Line: Then the party took one sorrowful look and bade the corpse, farewell. Subject(s): Death; Tragedy; Dead, The THE TRAGIC WINDS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in a rich chamber candle-dim Last Line: And day brought other worlds to rule my own. Subject(s): Despair; Tragedy THE TRAGICAL HISTORIE OF PYRAMUS AND THISBE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where babilon's high walls erected were Last Line: And their earth to earth againe. Subject(s): Tragedy THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 1. TRAGEDY MARGAIDA AND TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet margarida, dreaming in her bower Last Line: The hound's sleek head that on his knee did rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Tragedy; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE TWA CORBIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was walking all alane Last Line: The wind sall blaw for evermair Variant Title(s): The Two Corbies Subject(s): Holidays;new Year;ravens;scotland;tragedy THE TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THE TWO MASKS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melpomene among her livid people Last Line: She bows: she waves them for the loftier lyre. Subject(s): Muses; Mythology; Tragedy THE VOICE OF WIVES DREAMING, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights I wake to the cry of the child Last Line: Dreaming the voice of a different child. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Drowning; Mothers; Tragedy THE WIND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Blow, blow, blow Last Line: Thou hast strewn with wrecks the sea! Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Wind; Ocean THE WINDOW, AT THE MOMENT OF FLAME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And all this while I have been playing with toys Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 THE WIZARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, nobody knows Last Line: And the bones drift by with a rustling sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Mystery; Seashore; Tragedy; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WORLD PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The entrance-price you willy-nilly pay Last Line: Are shaken by its moods, -- mirth, anguish, mystery. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Comedy; Earth; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; World; Dramatists THE WRECK OF HE COLUMBINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, all pay attention to me Last Line: And conveyed to aalesund and there taking steamer to fair england. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: And got lodgings for the night! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE WHALER 'OSCAR', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 1st of april, and in the year of eighteen thirteen Last Line: Unsure. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The THE YOUNG GRAY HEAD, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Grief hath been known to turn the young head gray Last Line: There was an empty place, -- they were but three. Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): England; Tragedy; English THERE IS SILENCE, by CRAIG MOORE Poem Source Last Line: Through it, to the sun beyond the angry hellish plumes Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THREE EGRETS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Seen from this unprotected openness, that summer morning Last Line: For something more %than what must simply be remembered Subject(s): Grief; Mortality; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THYESTES, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who drags me my place among the shades Last Line: I give thee over for thy punishment. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Tragedy TIME AND PLACE: 11/11/01, by NEIL NAKADATE Poem Source First Line: At almost 88 my father finds the times Last Line: On any of these maps' Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME CHANGE, by CHARLES PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Thoughts between after midnight and before dawn Last Line: Our world and peoples nearer harmony Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TIME TO DIE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, by KAREN ELIZABETH HARLAN Poem Source First Line: He called to say he was stuck at work Last Line: I'm sorry, I have to take time to die Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TO CELIA ON HER WEDDING DAY, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst heav'n with kind propitious ray Last Line: Wrapt in a glorious blaze of light Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Tragedy TO MR. GRANVILLE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auspicious poet, wert thou not my friend Last Line: Thou copiest homer, and they copy thee. Variant Title(s): To Mr. Granville, Afterwards Lord Lansdowne Subject(s): Granville, George. Lord Lansdowne; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy; Youth; Dramatists TO MR. MOTTEUX, ON HIS TRAGEDY CALLED BEAUTY IN DISTRESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard, my friend,to write in such an age Last Line: So great a poet and so good a friend. Variant Title(s): To Peter Antony Motteux Subject(s): Friendship; Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718); Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; Writing & Writers; Dramatists TO MRS. MANLEY, UPON HER TRAGEDY CALL'D THE ROYAL MICHIEF, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: As when some mighty hero first appears Last Line: Whilst trifles keep from the rich store within. Subject(s): Heroism; Manley, Delaiviere (1670-1724); Tragedy; Women; Heroes; Heroines TO WILLIAM CRAIG, ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas drear november; by the turbid tide Last Line: "to meet, and dwell with him in ""heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Heaven; Mourning; Sons; Tragedy; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement TOWERS DOWN, by CLIVE MATSON Poem Source First Line: I am crying. %I am putting on a black shirt Last Line: It is not enough Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TRAGEDIES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two kinds there are: the one theatric, bold Last Line: Yet knows the stars shine silvery and high. Subject(s): Murder; Soul; Stars; Tragedy TRAGEDIES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She was a dancer, - I was the master Last Line: In a laughing wanton's bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Heaven; Night; Tragedy; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime TRAGEDY, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: I brought you a rose Last Line: The blood was mine! Subject(s): Blood; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy TRAGEDY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fly with me, and be my wife Last Line: They weep and they know not the reason why. Subject(s): Marriage; Tragedy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRAGEDY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the tragedy of the injustice of this world Last Line: Brooding silent over all! Subject(s): Tragedy TRAGEDY OF THE ISLE DE SAINTE CROIX - 1605, by LEONIE M. CUMMING Poem Text First Line: Just yesterday my eyes were cast Last Line: While two great nations guard their sleep. Subject(s): Islands; Migration; Tragedy TRAGIC IN TIME, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: So strong the prison doors Last Line: And the resurrection of the body Subject(s): Immortality; Massacres; Prisons And Prisoners; Tragedy TRAGIC WINTER, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Not one shepherd %left on the horizon Last Line: Tied to those same shores Subject(s): Tragedy TRAGICOMEDY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a mute spectator in the pit Last Line: And shall I read its meaning as it ends? Subject(s): Comedy; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Tragedy; Dramatists TRANSLATION OF AN ODE OF KLOPSTOCK'S, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah selma! If our love the fates should sever Last Line: "sink on that breast, and wax as pale as thee." Subject(s): Death; Love; Tragedy; Dead, The TWIN, by HALEH HATAMI Poem Source First Line: In double-pained dread, I wait my turn. Doubly afraid Last Line: To one unfailing response. La ilaha illa allah, there is no god but %god Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such mourning as we Last Line: Hanging in mid-air Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNDER HEAVEN, by DIANE S. MEHTA Poem Source First Line: Time to rearrange heaven %or what goes under it Last Line: Every settlement sprawls %sideways, deserts are soul-shaped Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNDER THE CLOUD, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: We ran in all directions Last Line: And the radiance behind it Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) UNHARMED, by ROBYN SARAH Poem Source First Line: War has a long wake. Waves of two long wars Last Line: We are the writing that stayed dry, %and cannot read itself Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too popular is tragick poesie Last Line: Or let their vndeseruing temples bared bee. Subject(s): Muses; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy VOLUNTEER, by KAREN KARPOWICH Poem Source First Line: The fires at ground zero stopped burning today Last Line: The folding chairs we sit on %have such hard backs Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WAR, by SCOTT WANNBERG Poem Source First Line: The war had its grandchildren over for the afternoon Last Line: Nobody should look that young. %nobody Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WEAVERS, by GERALD R. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Afghan refugee %children hunch over looms Last Line: Plotting against freedom %& themselves Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS? APRIL 23, 2002, by ALLEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Yet another birthday %to acknowledge the passage of time Last Line: We must take the leap from empire to love Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHEN IN THE NOH THEATER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will ever happen to me Subject(s): Theater And Theaters; Tragedy WHEN MY BROTHER AND I BUILT AND FLEW THE FIRST MAN-CARRYING..., by JACK FOLEY Poem Source First Line: How to name this horror %what language Last Line: Who died %and, dying, %live Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WHEN THE TOWERS FELL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From our high window we saw the towers Last Line: Each life, put out, lies down within us Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 WHO BLEW UP AMERICA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): United States; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001; America WHO WERE YOU?, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On september 11, a man and a woman jumped from one of the burning Last Line: And has not %landed yet Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WILL BOLAND & I WALK DOWN THE BEACH, by STEVE MARK KOWIT Poem Source First Line: Seething over this filthy war that every chest-thumping Last Line: The last of the light of this world setting behind them Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WINTER ELEGY (1998-99), by ALISSA LEIGH Poem Source First Line: A year of omens and predictions Last Line: The violinist's bow, thin antigone, %was tearing out its hair in a frenzy Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WINTER SOLSTICE--2001, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Sunder %and give, only towering shadows of buildings Last Line: Into trebles %of flame Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Memory; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORDS, LIKE SURVIVORS, by TOM GUARNERA Poem Source First Line: It's like the pearl harbor, some people say Last Line: I only believe the tears Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORLD HISTORY, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Better believe ten thousand angels Last Line: Are waiting to serve him supper and hear the news Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WORLD TRADE CENTER, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: I am an old woman in a black dress Last Line: Dying soldiers kneel to me %and I smile Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) WTC BOOM BOX: THE SUBWAY JOKE UNSOUNDED, by EUGENIA MACER-STORY Poem Source First Line: The room is empty except for the drums Last Line: Subway jokes unsounded in the midnight storm Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog Last Line: Long time night, the usual. So forth and so on Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) YOU ARE TOO HUMAN, by MIKI KASHTAN Poem Source First Line: You are sitting in the cockpit Last Line: What is the right thing to do? Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) |
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