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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ARGUMENTS Matches Found: 66 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DRINK ECLOGUE: LANDLADY, BRANDY AND WHISKY, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On auld worm-eaten skelf, in cellar dunk Last Line: Fley'd to be seen amang the tassel'd train. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Conversation; Quarrels; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Arguments; Disagreements A FAIR QUARREL, by THOMAS MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be all my care; there's all my love Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Quarrels; Reconciliation; Arguments; Disagreements A RECENT DIALOGUE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bishop and a bold dragoon Last Line: "his nose the cue) ""amen." Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Quarrels; Racism; Reason; Arguments; Disagreements; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A RETORT UNCOURTEOUS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where london's city skirts the thames Last Line: "a never-was-er like yourself." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): London; Quarrels; Women; Arguments; Disagreements AFTER THE QUARREL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So we, who've supped the self-same cup Last Line: We'll go our ways, the world is wide. Subject(s): Absence; Quarrels; Separation; Isolation; Arguments; Disagreements AGAINST QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let dogs delight to bark and bite Last Line: And marks them for his own. Variant Title(s): Quarrelling Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements AMANTIUM IRAE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hath querulous grown and sad Last Line: We should have parted yesterday. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you see this song, my dear Last Line: I do not know. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Singing & Singers; Arguments; Disagreements ARGUMENT, by STANLEY JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: You'd argued down so much of revelry Last Line: We had less need of argument than love. Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements BACK FROM KINLOCHLEVEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waterworks are finished and the boys have / jacked the shovel Last Line: But at any rate you'll know them by their curses when in town. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Desolation; Drinks & Drinking; Labor & Laborers; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Wine; Work; Workers; Arguments; Disagreements BAD COOKING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it roughens true love's course, and Last Line: Bills? Bad cooking. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements BOYS AND GIRLS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I'm awful glad I'm not a girl Last Line: "to be a girl." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Boys; Children; Girls; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements BROTHERS, AND A SERMON, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a village built in a green rent Last Line: Might have been his. Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ; Life; Quarrels; Sermons; Half-brothers; Arguments; Disagreements COME, LET US AGREE, by BEATRICE S. MEDDINS Poem Text First Line: We quarreled last night / know the reason why? Last Line: And to let you be you. Subject(s): Generosity; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements CONFLICT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Divided by the dark Last Line: Might still be love. Subject(s): Enemies; Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements DOMESDAY BOOK: CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen twenty men hanged, hung myself Last Line: "I tell you what I said to her. It's this:" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Murder; Police; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements EARLY EVENING QUARREL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is that sugar, hammond Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Quarrels; Negroes; American Blacks; Arguments; Disagreements FARMERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the farmers in their fields Last Line: Wisdom and discontent? Variant Title(s): Agricolae Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Love; Quarrels; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers; Arguments; Disagreements FEUD, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: When the cruelest word of them all is spoken Last Line: What a rose would forget! Subject(s): Fights; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements GIANTS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's old parents in the desert on folding chairs Last Line: To each memory station -- pause, hold, mute, flash. Subject(s): Abandonment; Lies; Marriage; Quarrels; Secrets; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements IN THE STORM, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My child, your hero may not be Last Line: And sorrow come to dwell with you. Subject(s): Love; Problems; Quarrels; Relationships; Arguments; Disagreements INFIDELITY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two-toned olds swinging sideways out of Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Quarrels; Parenthood; Arguments; Disagreements JAP MILLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jap miller down at martinsville Last Line: And jes' concede jap miller is the best man ever wuz! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements LITTLE WORDS, by BENJAMIN KEECH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you did, too! Last Line: Two fond hearts were mended. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements LOCAL QUARRELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the nineteenth century hadn't crumbled Last Line: They sat in a common shadow. Subject(s): Duels; Guns; Honor; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements MRS. SMITH, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I trod these fields with di Last Line: She wears balmorals. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Quarrels; Women; Arguments; Disagreements NEPENTHE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it was like you to forget Last Line: Dear, it was like you to forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Guilt; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements NEVER TALK BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never talk back! Sich things is Last Line: With one good jolt of silence than a half a dozen kicks! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Insomnia; Quarrels; Sleeplessness; Arguments; Disagreements ON THE WAY HOME, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Did n't you like the party, dear, to - night?' Last Line: "I merely wished to know what you had done." Subject(s): Quarrels; Silence; Arguments; Disagreements OUR PRINCIPAL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beat his wife. / we did not know it then Last Line: What he says. Subject(s): Marriage; News; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements OWEN SEAMAN; ESTABLISHES ENTENE CORDIALE IN MANNER GUY WETMORE CARRYL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the mismated pairs ever created Last Line: Is apt to be sauce for the propaganda. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Art & Artists; Carryl, Guy Wetmore (1873-1904); Life; Quarrels; Seaman, Owen, Sir (1861-1936); Arguments; Disagreements QUARREL, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since morning they have been quareling Subject(s): Quarrels; Family Life; Arguments; Disagreements; Relatives QUATRAIN: PARTING WAYS, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: My wife and I had words Last Line: Go mine -- till noon. Subject(s): Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements REBELS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two shall disagree... His time-fogged eyes Last Line: The hill and I exult with turbulent growth! Subject(s): Quarrels; Revolutions; Arguments; Disagreements SONG: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most wretched heart, most miserable Last Line: Since unhap cannot kill me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Hearts; Hope; Quarrels; Truth; Optimism; Arguments; Disagreements SOUR WINE, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: I met the wife who'd left me bed Last Line: And let it go at that. Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THANKSGIVING DAY AT HUNCHLEY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you never heard of hunchley, I would say in his behalf Last Line: In keeping with his bounty than the laws of harmony. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Holidays; Parties; Quarrels; Thanksgiving; Arguments; Disagreements THE BENCH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I quarrel not with destiny Last Line: The best is good enough for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Quarrels; Secrets; Destiny; Arguments; Disagreements THE COCK AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a tree there mounted guard Last Line: Tis doubly sweet deceiver to deceive. Subject(s): Brothers; Fables; Quarrels; Relationships; Roosters; Half-brothers; Allegories; Arguments; Disagreements; Cocks THE DEFIANCE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By heaven 'tis false, I am not vain Last Line: You have mistook the jest. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE GULF, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gulf of silence separates us from each other Last Line: Now I want to shatter it with our laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE IDEAL HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've lived for forty years, dear wife Last Line: That you are wrong and I am right. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE LAST QUARREL, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last time that we quarrell'd, love Last Line: You'll kiss me, and be friends. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE LAST QUARREL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay sleeping on my bed Last Line: Wherewith I sped my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Love; Quarrels; Regret; Solitude; Dead, The; Arguments; Disagreements; Loneliness THE PASSING OF MALONEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chill of anaemic december when the snow on / the ditchway lay Last Line: When nature was yelling in anguish and the turbulent tempest was loud. Subject(s): Anger; Bars & Bartenders; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by DESSIE REEVES CASSITY Poem Text First Line: Yesterday we quarreled Last Line: Compared with today. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hear me, thou proud, deceitful maid Last Line: Ah, but all night I sighed and wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word I spoke in anger Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our quarrel seemed a giant thing Last Line: And rushed into each other's arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Quarrels; Reconciliation; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there were a monument Subject(s): Silence; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They faced each other: topaz Last Line: Like drowning gems were turned on him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hate; Quarrels; Sea; Storms; Arguments; Disagreements; Ocean THE QUARREL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sit behind your coffee Last Line: Lurches a path across the table. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE REPULSE, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that by this disdain Last Line: That I was never blest. Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE RIFT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We spoke no word and we gave no look Last Line: And neither of us knew why. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements 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 SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reside at table mountain, and my name is truthful james Last Line: That broke up our society upon the stanislow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): The Throes Of Science Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TO A LADY: SHE REFUSING TO CONTINUE A DISPUTE WITH ME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare, generous victor, spare the slave Last Line: He sent; and as he fled, he slew. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TO CELIA (WHO REFUSES TO BE DRAWN INTO AN ARGUMENT), by E. H. LACON WATSON Poem Text First Line: Dear, if you carelessly agree Last Line: Dear, if you care! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements TO CELIA PLEADING WANT OF MERIT, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, urge no more that killing cause Last Line: That equal love knows no disparity. Variant Title(s): To One That Pleaded Want Of Merit Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TRAMPLERS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Elephants / trampling the jungle Last Line: Ineffectual protests. Subject(s): Protest, Social; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TROUBLOUS TIMES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We've had a social squabble down to pohick on the crick Last Line: An' there ain't no joy in livin' up to pohick on the crick Subject(s): Quarrels;socialism; Arguments;disagreements WILLIAM THE TESTY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afar in the ages of quaint renown Last Line: That governs the town of new amsterdam! Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Kieft, Willem (1597-1647); New York City - Dutch Period; Politics; Quarrels; Politicians; Political Poetry; Arguments; Disagreements WINDING THE CLOCK, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The silence that had fallen stark between us Last Line: Turned, turned -- and felt the willing wheels respond. Subject(s): Clocks; Quarrels; Time; Arguments; Disagreements WITH THE WORLD, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to finish Last Line: Thinking he's off-camera. Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Love; Quarrels; War; War - Home Front; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Arguments; Disagreements WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements |
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