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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COMPASSION Matches Found: 60 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLAD: THE SPRING RAIN, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON Poem Source First Line: Ah! How compassion comes, like spring Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F. Subject(s): Compassion BEDTIME STORY, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The generator hums like a distant ding an sich Last Line: I think we should, love, I think we should Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Animals; Compassion; Dogs CAPACITY FOR COMPASSION, by ALEX GILDZEN Poem Source First Line: Like the feel of silk or the sound of a cello at midnight or Subject(s): Compassion CHILD COMPASSION, by MARGOT RUDDOCK Poem Source First Line: Unwelcome child %compassion come Subject(s): Compassion CHILDREN DANCE: 5. THOSE WHO DO NOT DANCE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: A girl who is weak and ailing Last Line: His heart as the dust is dry Subject(s): Compassion; Dancing And Dancers; Love CID AND THE LEPER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He has ta'en some twenty gentlemen, along with him to go Last Line: He made his prayer right humbly, till dawned the morning clear Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Compassion; Friendship; Kindness COFFEE PARTY, by ALBERTA JOHNS FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: A friendly bunch? Last Line: When they are in trouble. Subject(s): Compassion; Hate COMMUNION, by DOROTHY DEZOUCHE Poem Text First Line: The maimed in heart remember not their scars Last Line: A brother who is stumbling through the dark. Subject(s): Compassion COMPASSION, by JANIE ELLEN LUELLING BYRNES Poem Source First Line: Dreams - dreams - the whole world dreams Last Line: But o, to me it oft times seems, %it will break its heart with dreaming dreams Subject(s): Compassion COMPASSION, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She in the hurling night Last Line: Of the god-faced centaur Subject(s): Compassion; Soldiers' Writings COMPASSION, by VENETA LEATHAM NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: Rose cries 'an ugly worm is eating my leaves' Last Line: Elephant elephant, slow in heavy tread, %are you praying for the living lost or for the lost dead? Subject(s): Compassion COMPASSION, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crush not yon ant, who stores the golden grain Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi Subject(s): Compassion COMPASSION, by MIMI NELSON TAKIGUCHI Poem Source First Line: Rain drips, emotions fly out Last Line: My life is in the heart of your hands Subject(s): Compassion COMPASSION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Prosperity cannot be fenced in for men and mine Subject(s): Compassion COMPASSION, by RALPH ERNEST WEBBER Poem Text First Line: I cannot reap a profit's gain Last Line: And end the night in shame, afraid. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Compassion; Homeless; Hunger COMPASSION, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Have compassion for everyone you meet Last Line: Down there where the spirit meets the bone Subject(s): Compassion COMPASSION AT THE WORLD'S CAFE, by KAY ANN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: We sat on the back patio of the world's cafe, and talked Last Line: You were gone when the air cleared. %the magnitude of which defies hyperbole Subject(s): Compassion COMPASSION SO DIVINE, by ANNE STEELE Poem Text First Line: Jesus-and didst thou leave the sky Last Line: Thy righteous rule obey. Subject(s): Compassion; Jesus Christ COMPASSION; AN ODE IN CELEBRATION ... PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward among the dusky years Last Line: Calls a yet mightier one. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Compassion; Animal Abuse; Vivisection CORRECT COMPASSION; TO MR. PHILIP ALLISON, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: Cleanly, sir, you went to the core of the matter Last Line: Informing a correct compassion, that performs its love, and makes it live Subject(s): Compassion; Craftsmanship; Surgery DEATH OF COMPASSION: TO ROBERT DESNOS, by REBECCA ANN SEIFERLE Poem Source First Line: Since I was a child Subject(s): Compassion; Desnos, Robert (1900-1945) DIVINE COMPASSION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, a dream of heaven I had Last Line: A heart that still can feel, and eyes that still can weep. Subject(s): Compassion; Pity; Religion; Theology ECONOMY, by JOSHUA KEEN Poem Source First Line: I am a deaf selling key chains Last Line: Lighting cigarettes, fumbling in their pockets for tokens, a transfer Subject(s): Compassion; Poverty EPIGRAM: RALPHIUS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Compassion in the world againe is bred Last Line: Ralphius is sick, the broker keeps his bed. Subject(s): Compassion FIVE EMOTIONS: THE FIFTH -- COMPASSION, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: Who can speak accurately Last Line: Permitted only to hold out our two powerless hands %to all living things Subject(s): Compassion FLOWERS OF THE FOOTHILLS & MOUNTAIN VALLEYS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Compassion is pungent Subject(s): Compassion FLOWERS OF THE FOOTHILLS & MOUNTAIN VALLEYS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Compassion is pungent Subject(s): Compassion GATES OF COMPASSION, by MOSES IBN EZRA Poem Source First Line: My thoughts rouse me to behold you Subject(s): Compassion HEARING, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Compassion HEART OF COMPASSION, by RICHARD TODD JULIUS Poem Source First Line: Avalokitesvara bodhisattvah Subject(s): Compassion JUST A THOUGHT, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN Poem Text First Line: Hasty words thoughtlessly spoken often separate dear friends Last Line: Grievous words oft stir up anger; soft replies quick tempers kill. Subject(s): Compassion; Thought; Thinking LINES GIVEN WITH A PENWIPER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have compassion on the carpeting Last Line: And save your spine from a continual curve. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Compassion; Pain; Suffering; Misery LOSS OF COMPASSION, by JEREMY GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Caring is a lost passion Subject(s): Compassion NON-DENOMINATIONAL PRAYER FOR ARMISTICE DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O god, who art full of compassion, who dwell- Subject(s): Compassion; Holidays; Veterans Day OF DIAMONDS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dew has sown a field of diamonds Last Line: Is walked by animals unaware of the true worth / of diamonds Subject(s): Hunting; Compassion ON, ON COMPASSION SHALL NEUER ENTER HEERE, TIS TYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Compassion ONE BIRD, IF THERE IS ONLY ONE, DIES IN THE NIGHT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dropped my spoon into my yogurt Last Line: Who might warm us through a lethal night's freeze Subject(s): Birds; Compassion PORTRAIT OF THE GODDESS OF COMPASSION, by WALTER TONETTO Poem Source First Line: Two rivulets - one from the west, the other Last Line: And growing leagues above earth's dried-up streams Subject(s): Compassion; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 PRAYER TO THE SACRED HEART, by JESSIE ANNIE ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: O heart of all compassion, who didst feel Subject(s): Compassion PSALM 103 & VANITY, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: The lord is full of compassion Last Line: Is clearing away the ivy %(maintenance!) vanity? Subject(s): Compassion; God RULE ONE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rule one of all Subject(s): Compassion SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE WITHERED HAND .. COMPASSION OF CHRIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grasp christ, poor man; and with christ grasp health Last Line: This very act is a hand upon christ; this is to grasp christ; %not to have had a hand by which you m Subject(s): Compassion; Faith SERAPH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was here alone Last Line: But it was gone. Subject(s): Compassion; Light SOLILOQUIES ON TEMPORAL INDIGENCE: SOLILOQUY 6, by MARY LATTER Poem Text First Line: Strangers to meek compassion's tender touch Last Line: Increasing smart, severer for severe! Subject(s): Compassion; Poverty SONG FOR THE WEEPING GENTLEMEN, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: There was a gentlemen o be gone, for the wind bows high Last Line: O be gone, for the wind blows rough and this is bleak ohio. Subject(s): Compassion; Kindness SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNION, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not difficult to feel compassion Last Line: Against the impregnable shadows of the moon over %the hatred Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Compassion; South Africa TELL ME ABOUT COMPASSION, AMERICA, by BELINDA SUBRAMAN Poem Source First Line: This child %misses school Last Line: In an ordinary house %like she dreams of Subject(s): Compassion; Schools; United States THE BEGGAR, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Showing his ill-made frame Last Line: "hiding his loneliness." Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Compassion; Sympathy; Empathy THE ONE THING, by PEARL LENORE POLLARD CURRAN Poem Text First Line: I am filled of compassion Last Line: And my father is nigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Worth, Patience Subject(s): Compassion THE PATH OF TEARS: 6. SUPPLICATION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, it were not such deep unmeasured wrong Last Line: A gift of tears to save my stricken soul! Subject(s): Compassion; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE PLEA OF THE WEAK ONES, by VINCENT WILLIAM MALLEY Poem Text First Line: Oh lord, behold us with compassion Last Line: That we may command respect again. Subject(s): Compassion; Prayer THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 155, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the hundred years of human life Last Line: Listen to the lion's roar Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Anger; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Compassion; Buddha; Buddhists THE PRAYER OF ISLAM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We praise thee, o compassionate! Last Line: Ya rahman! Ya raheem! Subject(s): Compassion; Death; Memory; Prayer; Shadows; Dead, The TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA), by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that the golden lyre divine Last Line: Still unredeemed? Subject(s): Compassion; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism TO HOLD YOU, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: You tape three fingers Last Line: And I step into the mist %to hold you Subject(s): Compassion; Sex; Virginity TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 10. THE PERFECT LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The love of the young for the old and gray Last Line: That is the perfect love,—for that we pray. Subject(s): Compassion; Love; Perfection TOUCH, by REBA RAY Poem Text First Line: I like to go with hands ungloved that I Last Line: To clasp a hand I love in love's belief. Subject(s): Compassion; Gloves; Touch (sense); Mittens; Muffs TRIBUTE TO ONE WHO FORBIDS IT, by HELEN FERGUSON CAUKIN Poem Text First Line: With wrenched and twisted soul, I came to you Last Line: All those who, torn by grief, make others whole. Subject(s): Compassion TURTLE, by DENNIS SAMPSON Poem Source First Line: I had immediate compassion Last Line: And wait, some ways off, to let you pass %into the shadow beside the pool Subject(s): Compassion; Turtles VERSES DESIGNED FOR AN INFIRMARY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear loving sirs! Behold, as ye pass by Last Line: "come, ye true friends, and be for ever blest." Subject(s): Blessings; Compassion; Healing; Physicians; Sickness; Cures; Doctors; Illness |
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