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| Searching... Subject: ADVERSITY Matches Found: 55 A DOUBTING HEART, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the swallows fled? Last Line: And angels' silver voices still the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Adversity A ROUGH RHYME ON A ROUGH MATTER; THE ENGLISH GAME LAWS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The merry brown hares came leaping Last Line: On the side of the white chalk hill. Variant Title(s): The Bad Squire Subject(s): Adversity; Hunting; Justice; Hunters ADVERSITY, by RUTH SMELTZER Poem Text First Line: To the thorns of life I'm more indebted Last Line: And often drive me to my knees. Subject(s): Adversity ADVERSITY (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is maintain'd by wealth; when all is spent Last Line: Adversity then breeds the discontent. Subject(s): Adversity ADVERSITY (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adversity hurts none, but onely such Last Line: Whom whitest fortune dandled has too much. Subject(s): Adversity AFAR IN THE DESERT, by THOMAS PRINGLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afar in the desert I love to ride Last Line: Saying, -- man is distant, but god is near! Subject(s): Adversity; Africa; Consolation BALD-HEADED MAN, HIS PATE, by BHARTRIHARI Poem Source Last Line: There do adversaries follow him Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari Subject(s): Adversity; Baldness BALLAD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring it is cheery Last Line: What can an old man do but die? Subject(s): Adversity; Old Age BALLAD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's up and gone, the graceless girl Last Line: To meet her father's will! Subject(s): Adversity; Old Age BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by JOHN WHITAKER WATSON Poem Text First Line: Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow Last Line: With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow! Subject(s): Adversity; Snow BLEAK SEASON WAS IT, TURBULENT AND BLEAK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: To question us, “whence come ye? To what end?” Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Adversity COMPENSATION, by E. M. BRAINARD Poem Text First Line: Who never wept knows laughter but a jest Last Line: The sweetness and the peace of real content. Subject(s): Adversity DANIEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned / some few things Last Line: Even in the lion's den Subject(s): Daniel (bible); Adversity 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 HYMN TO ADVERSITY, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of jove, relentless power Last Line: What others are, to feel, and know myself a man. Subject(s): Adversity LA RONDE DU DIABLE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here we go round the ivy-bush Last Line: Does it matter at all that we don't know why? Subject(s): Adversity; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity LONDON CHURCHES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood, one sunday morning Last Line: She sighed, and crept away. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Adversity; Churches; London; Cathedrals MAJESTY IN MISERY; OR, AN IMPLORATION TO THE KING OF KINGS, by CHARLES I Poem Text First Line: Great monarch of the world, from whose power springs Last Line: Yet, though we perish, bless this church and state. Subject(s): Adversity; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER BIRTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What different dooms our birthdays bring Last Line: Of lord althorp's -- now earl spencer. Variant Title(s): Diversity Of Fortunes Subject(s): Adversity; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains Last Line: Fled is that music: -- do I wake or sleep? Subject(s): Adversity; Birds; Immortality; Life; Mortality; Nightingales OLD, by RALPH HOYT Poem Text First Line: By the wayside, on a mossy stone Last Line: By the wayside, on a mossy stone. Subject(s): Adversity; Aging ON MAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In his own image the creator made Last Line: The present hour was ever marked with shade! Variant Title(s): Man Subject(s): Adversity; Consolation ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time this heart should be unmoved Last Line: And take thy rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Byron's Farewell;on Completing My Thirty-sixth Year;hail And Farewell;byron's Latest Verses Subject(s): Adversity; Missolonghi, Greece; War; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece OVER THE HILL TO THE POOR-HOUSE, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudging my weary way Last Line: That you shall never suffer the half I do to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Adversity PERISHED; CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE, by MARY LOUISE RITTER Poem Text First Line: Wave after wave of greenness rolling down Last Line: "look on me, I am dead!" Subject(s): Adversity REVERSE CANNOT BEFALL THAT FINE PROSPERITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Could mar it — if it found Subject(s): Adversity SOMEBODY'S DARLING, by MARIE LA CONTE Poem Text First Line: Into a ward of the whitewashed halls Last Line: " somebody's darling slumbers here." Alternate Author Name(s): La Coste, Marie Subject(s): Adversity; Patriotism; War STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is warm, the sky is clear Last Line: Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet. Subject(s): Adversity THE BEGGAR'S PETITION, by THOMAS MOSS Poem Text First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man! Last Line: O, give relief, and heaven will bless your store. Variant Title(s): The Beggar Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One more unfortunate, / weary of breath Last Line: Her sins to her savior! Subject(s): Adversity; Drowning; Mourning; Suicide; Bereavement THE END OF THE PLAY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The play is done; the curtain drops Last Line: To men of gentle will. Variant Title(s): Be Each A Gentleman Subject(s): Adversity; Christmas; Worship; Nativity, The THE FEMALE CONVICT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She shrank from all, and her silent mood Last Line: The convict has found in the green sea a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Adversity; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts THE LAST LEAF, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him once before Last Line: Where I cling. Subject(s): Adversity; Melville, Major Thomas; Old Age THE LAST LEAF, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've overlived aspirings Last Line: The last leaf left behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Adversity THE LATE SPRING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood alone amidst the april fields Last Line: "I am his own, -- doth not my father care?" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Variant Title(s): The Spring Is Late Subject(s): Adversity; Spring THE LIFE OF MAN, by FRANCIS BACON Poem Text First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: For being born, or, being born, to die? Alternate Author Name(s): Verulam, Baron Variant Title(s): The World;on The Life Of Man;life Subject(s): Adversity THE LITTLE MATCH-GIRL, by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little gretchen, little gretchen wanders up and down the street Last Line: How much of happiness there was after that misery. Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve Subject(s): Adversity; Girls THE OLD TRAMP, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: In this dark ditch my life shall pass away Last Line: The poor old tramp now dies your bitter foe. Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE OLD VAGABOND, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Here in the ditch my bones I'll lay Last Line: The aged beggar dies your bitter foe! Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, lady, stay, for mercy's sake Last Line: Your happy, happy orphan boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Adversity; Orphans; Foundlings THE ORPHANS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My chaise the village inn did gain Last Line: "your steps to guide, your hearts to cheer" Subject(s): Adversity;orphans; Foundlings THE PAUPER'S DRIVE, by THOMAS NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a grim one-horse hearst in a jolly round trot Last Line: Though a pauper, he's one whom his maker yet owns! Subject(s): Adversity; Poverty THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fingers weary and worn Last Line: "she sang this ""song of the shirt!" Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Social Protest; Liberty; Work; Workers; Theology THE TOILER'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "not in the laughing bowers," Last Line: Thus do I dream Variant Title(s): The Dreamer;the Dreamer Subject(s): Adversity;labor & Laborers THE VANITY OF THE WORLD, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False world, thou lyest; thou canst not lend Last Line: Can these bring cordial peace? False world, thou ly'st. Variant Title(s): The World's Fallacies;wilt Thou Set Thine Eyes Subject(s): Adversity; Social Protest THE VOICELESS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We count the broken lyres that rest Last Line: As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven! Subject(s): Adversity; Women THEY'RE DEAR FISH TO ME', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The farmer's wife sat at the door Last Line: What breaking hearts might swell the cry: / 'they're dear fish to me' Subject(s): Adversity;death;fish & Fishing; "dead, The; THREE GRAINS OF CORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother Last Line: Mother! Dear mother! Ere I die, %give me three grains of corn Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland THREE GRAINS OF CORN; THE IRISH FAMINE, by AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother Last Line: Give me three grains of corn. Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland; Irish THRENOS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O world! O life! O time! Last Line: No more, -- o nevermore! Variant Title(s): A Lament Subject(s): Adversity TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares Last Line: And now I live, and now my life is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Tychborn, Chidiock; Ticheborne, Chidiock Variant Title(s): Retrospect;elegy;lines Written By One In The Tower;verses Written In The Tower;poem Written On The Eve Of Execution;elegy For Himself;lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution Subject(s): Adversity; Capital Punishment; Death; Mourning; Remorse; Self-pity; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Bereavement TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the prison cell I sit Last Line: Of freedom in our own beloved home. Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; Prisons & Prisoners; War; Liberty; Declaration Day; Convicts TWO WOMEN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows lay along broadway Last Line: By man is cursed alway! Variant Title(s): Unseen Spirits;broadway Subject(s): Adversity; Broadway, New York City; New York City - 19th Century UNDER THE CROSS, by WILLIAM CAREY RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: I cannot, cannot say Last Line: "and say, ""thy will be done!" Subject(s): Adversity WINGS OF ADVERSITY, by ROSE JANE WARD Poem Text First Line: Adversity confronts the weary world Last Line: Resist, america! Resist its clutch! Subject(s): Adversity; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness |
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