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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TRIALS Matches Found: 49 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return return, my hapless spouse Last Line: Let fancy paint the rest. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Parents; Trials; Childhood; Parenthood A BALLAD OF BURDENS, FR. STAGE LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of fair women. Vain delight Last Line: This is the end of every man's desire. Variant Title(s): A Ballad Of Burden Subject(s): Grief; Life; Trials; Women; Sorrow; Sadness A CARMAN'S ACCOUNT OF A LAWSUIT, by DAVID LYNDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marry, I lent my gossip my mare, to fetch hame coals Last Line: But I got never my good grey mare again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, David; Lyndsay, Sir David Of The Moiunt Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Trials A LONG LINE OF DOCTORS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, picked for jury duty, managed to get through Last Line: She knows him indispensable. Like voltaire. Subject(s): Dentists; Guilt; Mothers; Trials; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism A TRIAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who have chafed at the law's delays Last Line: "verdict for plaintiff. Said beer was good." Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Trials AD SE IPSUM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, good-morrow! Five years back Last Line: Support my stumbling footsteps on the hill! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Life; Trials AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993), by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now two black people sit in a jury room Last Line: I am not a pinata, rodney king insists. Opw can't we all get along Subject(s): King, Rodney (b.1966); Trials; Racism; Language; Police Violence AFTER TWENTY-ONE YEARS, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Home is a fortress where your name Last Line: Hands flutter, shrink a powdery farewell Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Protestantism; Trials; Women - Captives ALMIGHTY FIREBALL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I won't go shopping. I won't visit friends Last Line: Will scatter them without care, perfumes, or rites Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives ARSENIC EATER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I was the needlewoman bound to him Last Line: The white granules %in his stomach could not argue Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Justice; Law And Lawyers; Trials BEFORE SENTENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night, though every kind of poison sap Last Line: And thine enslaving amour with the slav! Subject(s): Courage; France; Honor; Justice; Trials; Waiting; Weariness; Valor; Bravery; Fatigue BUCKED OFF ITS BRAND, by ROBERT ALEXANDER FAIRLY Poem Text First Line: Take my word! He could buck, could brown baron Last Line: That a horse couldn't buck off its brand! Alternate Author Name(s): F., R. A. Subject(s): Animals; Crime & Criminals; Horses; Trials COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: A sudden blow, the indictment beating still Last Line: I see central park and ireland's wild shore, %where a fisherman casts his long lament Subject(s): Clifford, Clark (1906-1998); Poetry And Poets; Trials; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) DAMAGES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Special jurymen of england, who admire your country's laws Last Line: And if after this you lose her -- why you're paid two hundred pound. Subject(s): Trials DEFENDER OF MY SON'S ASSAILANT, by SHOASHAUNA SHY Poem Source First Line: His voice is chamois-soft and slopes Last Line: For those who are seasick, ache for shoreline Subject(s): Judges; Sons; Trials DORA VERSUS ROSE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the tragic-est novels at mudie's Last Line: Is easily guessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Trials; Women EPIGRAM, by BARATON Poem Text First Line: Silence in court' a judge harangued Last Line: "whose pleas I haven't heard." Subject(s): Trials EXTEMPORE IN THE COURT OF SESSION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He clenched his pamphlet in his fist Last Line: Half-wauken'd wi' the din, man. Subject(s): Trials FEMALE TRANSPORT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come all young girls, both far and near, and listen unto me" Last Line: For fear like us you spend your days upon dieman's shore Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;girls;judges;trials FREE & EASY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm the lad that's free and easy Last Line: What else makes this life so dear? Subject(s): Life;love;trials GOD IS A COWBOY WHO RIDES A LAME HORSE, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Burroughs fondled me in the store's back room Last Line: Recuperate my straggling hair, my breached life Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Insanity; Jealousy; Justice; Murder; Trials; Unfaithfulness GUILTY, by IRENE WAAGE Poem Text First Line: Thin and stooped / like a bough beaten too Last Line: Three hours to leave the town. Subject(s): Trials GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She stood at the bar of justice Last Line: "and tenderly led from the court-room, / himself, the 'guilty' child" Subject(s): Adversity;trials JACK KNUCKLES FALTER, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But reads own statement at his execution Subject(s): Trials KILLING THE ANTS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Flies are shooed from my house, spiders coaxed Last Line: Acid drifts like an acrid perfume Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Judgments; Trials MILLY'S EXPIATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are times when all these terrors Last Line: Be restored to god again. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Love; Murder; Trials; Youth MY LORD, TH' INDICTMENT DO'S NOT RUN, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: At length, and let us have the goats Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Goats; Trials OLD MAN'S CASE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am not in court for any assault Last Line: You will soon get to my three she-goats Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Goats; Trials ON TRIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: We hold our breath, the island is on trial Last Line: The flesh becomes word: guilty. Subject(s): Guilt; Ireland; Trials; Waiting PENAL SERVITUDE FOR MRS. MAYBRICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the maybrick trial is over now, there's been a lot of jaw" Last Line: So stick close to your husband and keep clear of berry's drop Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;law & Lawyers;trials; "dead, The; PRISONS OF GRACE: SO MUCH FOR NOVELTY, by JOSEPH P. WOOD Poem Source First Line: On the court, the great leapers are applauded Last Line: So why, my little columbus, shall we speak of it? Subject(s): Courthouses; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials SARAH PALMER, ALIAS SLIM SALI, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prisoner was at large indicted Last Line: And robs or murders whom she pleases. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Trials SNOW-WHITE DOVE: HAPLESS, HELPLESS, AND FORLORN, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I prepared a tasty coffee for you Last Line: Darling, not in north carolina Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Justice; Murder; Poisons And Poisoning; Trials SON OF MEDGAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Medgar isn't %wasn't %won't be Subject(s): Murder; Old Age; Trials THE BAR VERSUS THE DOCKET, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas, said the plaintiffs, you owe us our living Last Line: And send the whole hue and cry after the docket. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Trials; Attorneys THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the jury your name. Subject(s): Trials; Physicians; Labor & Laborers; Death; Doctors; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE COURT OF LOVE: SPECIAL SESSIONS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imprisoned in this court of law Last Line: The verdict will emerge in time Subject(s): Trials THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The realm of france possessed, in days of old Last Line: "strike the whole head at once from god's!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Judges; Trials THE LAY OF MR. COLT, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the sacred rite was done Last Line: And died within the gaol. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Love; Prisons & Prisoners; Trials; Dead, The; Convicts THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 5. COUNT GUIDO FRANCESCHINI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks, sir, but, should it please the reverend court Last Line: "hardly misfortune, and no fault at all." Subject(s): Murder, Infidelity; Rome; Trials THE SIX CARPENTERS' CASE, by FREDERICK POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: This case befell at four of the clock Last Line: No trespass was here ab initio. Subject(s): Trials THE SUBCULTURE OF THE WRONGLY ACCUSED, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ultimately improved by it: slant light Subject(s): Trials; Guilty; Innocence; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE TEST OF MANHOOD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks Last Line: Resplendent springs, to faith refreshed compels. Subject(s): Evolution; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Trials THE TRIAL OF SALIM THE PERSIAN, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The court was met, the prisoner brought Last Line: And only virtue's friends be yours.' Subject(s): Courthouses; Trials THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: They stand like sentries at a country's gates Last Line: While men have no appeal except to him. Subject(s): Judges; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Trials; United States - Supreme Court; Attorneys THE WASPS: THE TRIAL OF THE DOG, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Defendant? / here he is Last Line: Then am I laid low. Subject(s): Trials THE WITNESS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The divorce judge has asked for a witness Subject(s): Trials; Divorce WHEN I WAS AN EGGSHELL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The garden earth too hard to dig Last Line: And watched me eat from a bowl on the floor Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself? Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Trials |
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