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Subject: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Matches Found: 157 "ON GILES COREY, EXECUTED AS A WIZARD, 17TH CENTURY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Giles cory was a wizard strong Last Line: And he did no confession make; / but wickedlie he dyed Variant Title(s): Giles Corey Subject(s): "capital Punishment;corey, Giles;salem, Massachusetts;witchcraft & Witches;" Hanging;executions;death Penalty A HANGING, ZOMBA CENTRAL PRISON, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poet's Biography First Line: His pendulous body tolled Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Police States; Prisons & Prisoners; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Convicts A LETTER FOR MARIAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit musing, ten minutes from the jap Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Politics & Government; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A LONDON FETE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night fell hammers, shock on shock Last Line: Went forth to fight, with murderous faces. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 47. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the hangman stops his cart Last Line: Live, lads, and I will die.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Theology A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 9, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On moonlit heath and lonesome bank Last Line: A hundred years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A WOMAN, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They loved each other, in joy or grief Last Line: A bumper of wine and still gaily laughed. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Laughter; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Male-female Relations A WOMAN'S EXECUTION (PARIS, 1817), by EDWARD KING Poem Text First Line: Sweet-breathed and young Last Line: "vive la commune!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Paris, France; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A.E. HOUSMAN AND A FEW FRIENDS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When lads have done with labour Last Line: Even for housman's verse.' Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AGAINST [OR, AGANIS] THE THIEVES OF LIDDESDALE, by RICHARD MAITLAND Poem Text First Line: Of liddesdale the common thiefis [thieves] Last Line: Hing on a tree whill they be deid. Alternate Author Name(s): Lethington, Lord Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Lynching; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ALL LIFE IN A LIFE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His father had a large family Subject(s): Family Life; City & Town Life; Wealth; Social Protest; Capital Punishment; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AMONG PHILISTINES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AMONG PHILISTINES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes Last Line: As searing, the twin picks hissed in his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson AMONG THE PINES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: A gallows light traverses the pines. The disfigured fog with its brumous Last Line: The sunken paving stones Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In measures solemn as the groans that fall Last Line: The monuments of their base cruelty. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Great Britain - Civil War; Injustice; Lisle, Sir George (d. 1648); Lucas, Sir Charles; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English Civil War ANDRE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where andre met that death Last Line: Had been his name, -- if that, indeed, could be! Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; Soldiers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the fear of death Last Line: By a soldier's death! Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial ARTEMIS, by RITA BOUMI PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: This road I'm taking is long and bright Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women ARTISTE MANQUEE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tatyana is unhappy Last Line: Tatyana is lowered into the tank Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death ASOLANDO: MUCKLE-MOUTH MEG, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frowned the laird on the lord: 'so, red-handed I catch thee?' Last Line: "to muckle-mouth meg in good earnest!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Marriage; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT ELY; JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF WORCESTER, D. 1470, by ANTHONY THWAITE Poem Source First Line: Among the floating passengers below Last Line: Who at another time, alone, knelt down %and felt the axe descend on tower hill Subject(s): Capital Punishment AT SUNRISE, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They pushed him straight against the wall Last Line: Against the bedroom wall. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AWAITING THE GUILLOTINE, 1794, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: As a last zephyr, or the last warm ray Last Line: For you alone to live has any worth. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Chenier, Andre Marie De (1762-1794); French History - Reign Of Terror; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty BALLADE OF THE MEN WHO WERE HANGED, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men who come along now, we Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty BALLADE OF THE MEN WHO WERE HANGED, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men who come along now, we Last Line: O pray to god that he show grace to us Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment BALLADE: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In mourning wise since daily I increase Last Line: Pray for the souls of those be dead and gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mourning; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Bereavement BATHSHEBA, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King david, from his house-top / saw one whose only dress Last Line: "are flies, in the web of craft!" Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); Capital Punishment; Lust; Marriage; Women; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BLACK DEATHS, by ROBERT HAY MORRISON Poem Source First Line: We do not hang them now, but still they hang Last Line: In some far noose another lost one dies, %and one of the surviving lost remembers Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Despair; Human Rights BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs CASUALTIES: 11. CONVERSATIONS AT ACCRA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The situation may change Last Line: In the wind spell no design Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hunting; Leadership CENSORS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Censors are dead men Last Line: Breathing of the dead men, %the censors, breathing with relief Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Censorship; Human Rights CENTRAL PRISON, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet's Biography First Line: A sign passed on her way to work Last Line: So she could eat a berry and fly away, gone home Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women; Prisons & Prisoners CLEVER TOM CLINCH GOING TO BE HANGED, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As clever tom clinch, while the rabble was bawling Last Line: Who hung like a hero, and never would flinch. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DARK ROOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Darkness waits for me Last Line: In the dark room %distant, blurred, delirious Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners DEATH OF DAMIENS OR L'APRES-MIDI DES LUMIERES, by ROBERT FRANCIS BRISSENDEN Poem Source First Line: The man's left leg Last Line: The dying madman's hair %has all gone white Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Damien, Father (1840-1889); Death; Human Rights DEATH SENTENCE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold as no plea Last Line: The law allows it %and the court awards Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners DIFFICULT, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: What I could not do in life Last Line: I will not. Clickity. Clack Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Devil; Repentance; Sin EIGHT O'CLOCK, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood, and heard the steeple Last Line: Its strength, and struck. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The ELECTROCUTION, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sudders - feeling on the shaven spot Last Line: Whose soul, expanding in white agony, %had fused in flaming circuit with the night Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment ELEGY ON THE URGENCY OF FAXES AND PHONECALLS AGAIN, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: Drums and chants grow silent Last Line: Live like the forests with momentary %permission Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Fax (facsimile Telegraphy); Nigerian Civil War; Telephones EPIGRAM ON A ROPE-MAKER HANGED, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a man much wronged in his hopes Last Line: For he liv'd by the rope, and died by the halter Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty EPISTLE TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, upon casting an attentive look Last Line: The bishop, and us all! I am, sir,—yours. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Gentlemen; Heaven; Life; Spiritual Life; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Paradise EPITAPH IN BALLADE FORM, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brother men that live when we have end Last Line: But praye godde to absolve us of our doome. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; God; Prayer; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The EXECUTION, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: The black and white photo has a grainy Last Line: Before each dawn, for time to come Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Photography And Photographers EXECUTION, by ELEMER (GEORGE) HORVATH Poem Source First Line: Look, I take every revolution to heart Last Line: As you when you first kissed me Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Martyrs; Revolutions EXECUTION OF ALICE HOLT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A dreadful case of murder Last Line: On chester's fatal tree Subject(s): Capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;death;murder; "hanging;executions;death Penalty;dead, The; EXECUTION OF FELICE ORSINI, MARCH 13TH, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day to be remembered Last Line: The red rose crown is thine %for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Assassination; Capital Punishment; Italy - Revolutions; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Orsini, Felice (1819-1858) EXECUTION OF MR. CARP, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Carp were garbage eaters Last Line: The depth and weight of peace as it descends Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death FIVE MEN, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source First Line: They take them out in the morning Subject(s): Capital Punishment FOR ETHEL ROSENBERG, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Europe 1953: / throughout my random sleepwalk Last Line: With secrets she has never sold Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Capital Punishment; Communism; Mccarthyism; Rosenberg Case; Nuclear Freeze; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1794, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rous'd from the gloom of transient death Last Line: Sacred to patriot worth, to patriot bosoms dear. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Wars With France; Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty FOUR ROADS, by ALICE M. GREENE Poem Source First Line: Four roads lead out of the town Last Line: Blest are the dead, the noble dead, %the dead who die in the lord! Subject(s): Capital Punishment FRIAR LAURENCE O'FARRELL: LONGFORD, 1651, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The van of ireton's troops at morning broke Last Line: By ireton gave it formal burial Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Clergy; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology GOLEM, by SEAN SINGER Poem Source First Line: ...Who killed the martyred man found reborn in silt and Last Line: The waves creosote resin sea singing who killed Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Martyrs; Murder GUILT, by KOFI ANYIDOHO Poem Source First Line: And they opened up his wound Last Line: But they hanged him all the same Subject(s): Africa - Neocolonialism; Capital Punishment HANGING DAY: PROCESSION, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging day. A hollow earth Last Line: But here, alone the solitary deed Subject(s): Capital Punishment HANGING, ZOMBA CENTRAL PRISON, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His pendulous body tolled Last Line: Before the sandbags dragged his compressed body %into the dark hole, into total oblivion Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Police States; Prisons And Prisoners HANGMAN, by GUNNAR EKELOF Poem Source First Line: Hangman %what will you do with my arms? Last Line: Does this give you pleasure? Subject(s): Capital Punishment HANGMAN'S NOOSE ON EXHIBIT, by EDWARD EVERETT ROLS Poem Text First Line: Did the doomed man know Last Line: And given him another hour of breath? Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty HE FELL AMONG THIEVES, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have robbed,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end' Last Line: Faded, and the hill slept. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Heroism; Murder; War; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Heroes; Heroines HON. MR. SUCKLETHUMBKIN'S STORY: THE EXECUTION; A SPORTING ANECDOTE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord tomnoddy got up one day Last Line: So -- my lord tomnoddy went home to bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty HOW SIR RICHARD DIED, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately as bridegroom to a feast Last Line: And bowed his head -- and so he died. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty I AM FRANCOIS, TO MY DISMAY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: My neck'll learn what my arse may weigh Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Self; Capital Punishment I STARTED SUBSCRIBING, by TRISH REEVES Poem Text First Line: To the christian science monitor Subject(s): Buses; Capital Punishment; Gays & Lesbians; Photography & Photographers; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty IMAGERIE D'EPINAL, by ALEKSANDER WAT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The executioner yawned. The blood was still dripping from his axe Last Line: Happiness for all--to enemies death.' Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Communism IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR'S HARNESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: One man hauls all the darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Nature IN THE STONE JUG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old days are gone Last Line: Too shall come in with me out of the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Sin; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The INTERNMENT, by VINCENT BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: They have him squeezed into the square room Last Line: Patrick shivers %a mouthful of water after five days Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights JOHN BROWN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown died on the scaffold for the slave Last Line: Freedom reigns to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The President's Proclamation Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs KIM'S STORY, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: One hundred and sixteen blew up %above the andaman sea. The bomb Last Line: With a pearl, touching up my mouth, %inventing my perfections Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Danger; Prisons And Prisoners; Terrorism; Women - Captives KING NASTY, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sketch it out for you Last Line: How do you like your bourbon? Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Courts And Courtiers; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Suicide KRINIO, by RITA BOUMI PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Aim straight at my heart Last Line: Not even in a dream Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old Last Line: The word of god, be ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs LEACHED, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: In france they martyred one progenitor Last Line: Heroes set forth in a menagerie. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; France; Martyrs; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English LXXXVI, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: I wane with the moon Last Line: To never-resurrection Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners MAMMA, WHERE DID PAPA GO?, by HENRY A. START Poem Text First Line: Manuel and little juan Last Line: "mamma, where did papa go?" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Children; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Childhood MARGRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the small marble-paved platform Last Line: Like a passionate thought. It is very well ordered Subject(s): Murder; Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARIE HAMILTON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Marie hamilton's to the kirk gane Last Line: The lands I was to travel in / or the death I was to die Variant Title(s): The Queen's Marie;mary Hamilton Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging;executions;death Penalty MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE; AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the messenger returned? Last Line: The gory head rolls down the giant steps! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Conspiracy; Falier, Marino (1274-1355); Venice, Italy MARRYING THE HANGMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARTIN RELPH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather says he remembers he saw, when a youngster long ago Last Line: Of water I wanted: and now I can walk, get home by myself, I think. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Cowardice; Pardons And Pardoners; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARY HAMILTON (VERSION A), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Word's gane to the kitchen Last Line: There was marie seton, and marie beton, %and marie carmichael, and me Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death - Children; Guilt; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587) MARY HAMILTON (VERSION B), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were ladies, they lived in a bower Last Line: Ye should na shamed me here Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death - Children; Guilt; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587) MISERABLE SINNER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I am a child of chance with a window brush Last Line: I draw power. I walk barefoot Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death - Children; Murder; Pregnancy; Rape; Sin MONTROSE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is said he went gaily to that scaffold Last Line: Such for the consummation of her marriage Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl And 1st Marquis Of MUMFORD: THE MARTYR OF NEW ORLEANS, by INA MARIE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Where murdered mumford lies Last Line: Our colors wave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Mumford, William B.; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty NATHAN HALE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1776, by JOHN MACMULLEN Poem Text First Line: Come all alumni gather round Last Line: Amidst the patriot band. Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); Memory; New York City; Patriotism; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEGROES LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So always, justice drowsy and hate rising Last Line: Proffering his blood to pleasure antichrist. Subject(s): African Americans; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Lynching; Mississippi; Murder; Negroes; American Blacks; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty NO SPEECH FROM THE SCAFFOLD, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There will no speech from Last Line: As he rests there, while %he is still a human Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights ON HIMSELF, UPON HEARING WHAT WAS HIS SENTENCE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let them bestow on every airth a limb Last Line: And confident thou'lt raise me with the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): His Metrical Prayer;verses Composed On The Eve Of His Execution Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl & 1st Marquis Of; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Graham, James (1612-165); Theology ON THE EVE OF HIS EXECUTION, by OTSU Poem Source First Line: The golden crow lights on the western huts Last Line: Whose is the house I go to tonight? Subject(s): Capital Punishment ON THE LORD DERBY, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To what a formidable greatness grown Last Line: Cut your own throats, despair, and die, and damn. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Stanley, James. 7th Earl Of Derby; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ON THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comely and capable one of our race Last Line: Brought to derision! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ONLY A JEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the land of brittany, and long ago" Last Line: "''twas only a jew,' the folk said, 'only a jew!'" Subject(s): Capital Punishment;jews; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;judaism OOM GERT'S STORY, by C. LOUIS LEIPOLDT Poem Source First Line: My boy, what do you think that I can tell you? Last Line: (sweetheart, just pass me back the sugar-bowl, %and pour another cup for cousin klaas! Subject(s): Capital Punishment OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how he came Last Line: And the fool killers had a laugh Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Native Americans; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence PATHETIC APHORISMS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: A hanged man and his shadow can function as a sundial Last Line: With lucifer's fall came gravity Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death; Evil REMARKS ON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled? Last Line: "and whitehead grasp th' exacuating fife." Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Punishment; Whitehead, William (1715-1785); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Doctors RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text 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 ROPE FOR HARRY FAT, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh some have killed in angry love Last Line: We will not change our policy,' %says harry fat the proud Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Human Rights; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Rope SARAH THREENEEDLES (BOSTON, 1698), by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the grim grace of the puritans she had been Last Line: Her food was more divine. Subject(s): Infanticide; Capital Punishment' Puritans SHAMEFUL DEATH, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were four of us about that bed Last Line: And for alice, his wife, pray too. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The SNOW IS STORMING, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Like the poor, %like the prisoners-of-war Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Snow; Winter SOME FRENCHMEN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette Last Line: Developed just in time for bed Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing & Writers; Hanging; Exec SOME FRENCHMEN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing And Writers SONG, FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, 28 MAY 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy flowery garlands by Last Line: Than the bloom of all thy roses. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Parliament; Jacobites; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 14. ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS .., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth Last Line: And feel god flow forever through his breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 15. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once hardly in a cycle blossometh Last Line: At the next beating of the infinite heart. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 16. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love of all things springs from love of me Last Line: An old man faithless in humanity. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 17. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poet cannot strive for despotism Last Line: But widens to the boundless perfectness. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 18. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore think not the past is wise alone Last Line: Save in the forethought of the eternal one. Variant Title(s): Wisdom Of The Eternal One Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 19. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far 'yond this narrow parapet of time Last Line: Undimmed by clouds of weak mortality. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty STACKALEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you sporty fellows Last Line: "or they'll hang you in the jail, / like they did that bad man stackalee" Subject(s): Capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals; Hanging;executions;death Penalty STYLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The morning larry rainbow hanged himself Last Line: This was the style he liked. This was what he asked for. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Suicide TELL ME NEWS, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA Poem Source First Line: Tell me of a brother Last Line: Of a mangled corpse %not begun to sit on your conscience Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights; Immortality; Prisons And Prisoners THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He did not wear his scarlet coat Last Line: The brave man with a sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Freedom; Love; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Religion; Sleep; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Convicts; Theology THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTOWN, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh palms for the old dominion! Last Line: There's an end of old john brown! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Serfs THE BEWITCHED HAND, SELS, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning of his execution, eustace bouteron Last Line: Reached the window sill where maitre gonin was waiting for it. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Magic; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text 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 CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO LORDS AT THEIR EXECUTION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As crowds attended when the fatal blow Last Line: "and balmerino call, ""a valiant martyr." Subject(s): Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord; Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746); Kilmarnock, William Boyd, Earl Of; Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE CULPRIT, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night my father got me Last Line: And I have none. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE DEATH PENALTY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They err who think to silence crime with crime Last Line: And on its ruins build the school. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men, brother men, that after us yet live Last Line: But pray to god that he forgive us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): Ballade Of The Gibbet Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE EXECUTION OF JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of may Last Line: In a short space of time, which cannot be equalled in story Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl And 1st Marquis Of; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE EXECUTION OF MAXIMILIAN, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Muskets triggered a white smoke Last Line: Like friends long unseen, now returned. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Maximilian, Emperor Of Mexico (1832-67); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE FALL; A GREAT FAVORIT BEHEADED, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bloody trunk of him who did possess Last Line: Much doctrine lies under this little stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE GALLOWS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The suns of eighteen centuries have shone Last Line: Abhorred of earth and heaven, a pagan brotherhood! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Clergy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 13. THE WOMAN IN THE TEMPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A still dark joy! A sudden face! Last Line: Oh, wash them clean again! Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Shame; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING, by JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: I bind the soul that fathered me Last Line: I hang, behead, electrocute.; Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Law & Lawyers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING MAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Torture; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING OF BLACK CUDJO (1780); A DIALECT BALLAD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, maussa! If you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true Last Line: "but sabe dat gab to stuff de years of de next fool you meet!'" Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Marion, Francis (1737-1795); Slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Serfs THE HANGING TREE, by GEORGIA PERLE SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: A gnarled old tree trunk with shoots Last Line: "forgives and saves the soul." Alternate Author Name(s): Schmidt, G. Perle Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Trees; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HUMAN SACRAFICE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from his close and noisome cell Last Line: God's angel cries, forbear! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE KENNIFFS, by JOHN CREEVEY Poem Text First Line: If you wish to hear a story, lads Last Line: If he should chance to fall. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Murder; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Hunters THE LAMENTATION OF HUGH REYNOLDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my name it is hugh reynolds, I come of honest parents" Last Line: And convey me into heaven to the blessed trinity Subject(s): Capital Punishment;lament; Hanging;executions;death Penalty THE LOST MOMENTS OF A. DALMAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The solemn bell for me is tolling Last Line: "dalmas, you must prepare to go" Subject(s): Bells;capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;grief; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;sorrow;sadness THE LULLABY OF A FEMALE CONVICT TO HER CHILD...TO EXECUTION, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, baby mine, enkerchieft on my bosom Last Line: For never more thou'lt press a mother's breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE NEGATIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dig in the soft earth all Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Capital Punishment; Homecoming; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE NIGHT BEFORE LARRY WAS STRETCHED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and at darkly we waked him in clover, / and sent him to take a ground sweat" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging;executions;death Penalty THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How say'st thou? Die to-morrow? Last Line: Knelt by the corse -- alone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Confederacy THE TRIAL OF MAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ordinary milkman brought that dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THEY HANGED HIM, I SAID DISMISSIVELY, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Now, it is still easiest to say, they hanged him %dismissiv ely Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Capital Punishment THREE CROSSES, by EVA WARNER Poem Text First Line: Three ancient crosses on a hill Last Line: Their victims (dust now) challenge still. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crucifixion; Injustice; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion 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 TORTURE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing has changed Last Line: While the body is and is and is 5and has no place to go Subject(s): Bodies; Capital Punishment; Pain TWELVE GOOD MEN AND TRUE, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rusty key has whined in the lock, the rickety door is fast Last Line: They're tired, now, and they want their tea, the twelve good men and true! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Creation; God; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty TWO FUNERALS: 2., by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Facing a cold and sneering sky Last Line: Are laughing still. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Funerals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Burials TWO TAKEN, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poet's Biography First Line: In iran, the table of allah Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Iran; Capital Punishment - Minors; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Persia UNDER SENTENCE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off! Off! No treacherous priest for me! Last Line: Fair chance for all to see me die! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty UPON THE GALLOWS HUNG A WRETCH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh, what a livid boon! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mothers & Sons VERSE RECITED BY CLERK OF ST. SEPULCHRE'S BEFORE EXECUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Imprimis john gonne for the dethe of a mane in westm' all moste xx yeres paste Last Line: Robert hyll servynmane for murdre. %thomas jenyns bocher for dett Subject(s): Capital Punishment; London VERSES ON DANIEL GOOD (WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR MURDER), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of all the wild deeds upon murder's black list Last Line: An' we hope that his life we shall ne'er see again Subject(s): Capital Punishment;murder; Hanging;executions;death Penalty VICTOR GALBRAITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the walls of monterey Last Line: "of victor galbraith!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Galbraith, Victor; Military Justice; Monterey, Mexico; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial VILLON'S EPITAPH , by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men, who after us still live Last Line: But pray to god that he absolve us all Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of The Hange Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mercy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty WE SHALL OVERCOME, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Poem Source First Line: A man walks calmly on his legs in the grass Last Line: Stiff words %in a book Subject(s): Capital Punishment |
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