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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CONFESSIONS Matches Found: 73 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COMMENT ON COMMENT IN GENERAL CONFESSION OF SINS, IN CHURCH LITURGY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to thy promises - hereby Last Line: What god, thro' him, rejoices to restore. Subject(s): Confessions; Prayer; Repentance; Penitence A FORGIVENESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am indeed the personage you know Last Line: The cloak then, father -- as your grate helps now! Subject(s): Murder; Confessions; Revenge; Infidelity A SAD STORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were two young ladies from birmingham Last Line: Of the bishop while he was confirming 'em Subject(s): Clergy;confessions;confirmation; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops A SECRET SIGH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Guilty, guilty, must I crie Last Line: With such enamouring grace art pleasd to move. Subject(s): Confessions; Self-criticism ADVENT CONFESSION, by DEBORAH P. KOLODJI Poem Source First Line: Sweeping up old sins Last Line: Home again with god %for christmas Subject(s): Confessions ARTHUR MERVYN; A TALE OF SOCIAL GRIEVANCES: THE PASSING OF ARTHUR, by SAMUEL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have confessed, and by a recent act Last Line: Three months' confinement in the common jail. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Confessions; Murder; Penance; Animal Abuse; Vivisection AS I LAY WITH MY HEAD IN YOUR LAP CAMERADO, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or whether we shall be victorious, or utterly quell'd and defeated Subject(s): Confessions AT SIMON'S HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: She seeks her saviour as she is Last Line: Dost thou believe it? Subject(s): Confessions; Sin BARBARA ROSE WRITES FROM SOUTH UIST, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: It's been cold here and hard, with the war Last Line: Safe, aloft in all that wild blue, untethered Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Saint Kilda (scotland); Secrets; Sin; Writing And Writers BIOTHANATOS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O vile ingratefull me Last Line: Unhappy hearts obdurateness. Subject(s): Confessions; Self-pity; Sin BOSTON IN SUMMER, WITH A CONFESSION, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neglected transcripts on the steps of Last Line: And april dung storms. Subject(s): Confessions; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips CONFESSIO AMANTIS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unaccustomed as I am Last Line: And yes I said yes I will yes Subject(s): Confessions CONFESSION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father %I am not equal to the faith required Last Line: Their shimmering voices %singing Subject(s): Confessions; Faith CONFESSION, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Father boguslaw was the priest I waited for, the one whose breath Last Line: For both of us Subject(s): Confessions; Religion CONFESSION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Confession twofold is (as austine says) Last Line: If well, then chant gods praise with cheerfulnesse. Subject(s): Confessions CONFESSION, by ALICE LEE Poem Source First Line: I remember %my first confession Last Line: A heat in my hand Subject(s): Child Molesting; Confessions CONFESSION, by EDNA S. MCKINLEY Poem Text First Line: I sat in church, the opening hymn was sung Last Line: And so I spent my hour with god. Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Sea; Trees; Cathedrals; Ocean CONFESSION, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, / I have sung high masses to you Last Line: Inebriate ... Subject(s): Confessions CONFESSION (1), by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my poor sins I am set free Last Line: The customary cross repeating. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Confessions; Sin CONFESSION 1.13.20, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: You who were perfectly simple and true Last Line: They did not know you; the more learned never did Subject(s): Confessions CONFESSION 10.8.13, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: Collect and recollect. These things I do Last Line: My sad thoughts, or I keep back my desire %like the broken animals Subject(s): Confessions CONFESSION 11.23.29, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: My mouth brings loss to me Last Line: Which draws away from me Subject(s): Absence; Confessions CONFESSION 3.2.2, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: In the dream, your body, having Last Line: Of words, why wake unable to remember them? Subject(s): Confessions; Dreams CONFESSION FROM A RASPBERRY PATCH, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: More negligent than neat, I eye my brambly patch Last Line: For me to pick from my raspberry patch Subject(s): Confessions CONFESSION OF LOVE TO BUDAPEST, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How much trash is whirled by the wind on the streets Last Line: Even if I betray you, I'll be with you Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Confessions CONFESSIONAL, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source First Line: My sorrow diligent would sweep Subject(s): Confessions CONFESSIONS, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: That time father spanked me (the only time, he said), I wanted him Last Line: From his throat. Who turned off the alarm? She cried, who %turned off the alarm? Subject(s): Confessions; Family Life CONFESSIONS IN A HASH-HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm through! Seven years I've worked at this hash counter Last Line: So he won't ever be home to meals. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Confessions; Waiters And Waitresses CONFESSIONS OF A YELLSTER: CHACUN A SON GOUT, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was boisterous and turbulent as a youth, a loud mouthed, impossible Last Line: And when I go to sleep, my dreams are full of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Peace; Secrets CONSCIENCE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Treason dread soveraigne, treason I discover Last Line: O look this way: alas, I am the man. Subject(s): Confessions CUBA, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her white muslin evening dress Subject(s): Confessions DIALECTIC, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Even the sun was expectant Last Line: Rabbi,' I think we understand.' Subject(s): Clergy; Confessions; Sin DOCTOR FELL, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not like [or, love] thee, doctor fell. / the reason why, I cannot tell Last Line: I do not like thee, doctor fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Written While A Student At Christ College;non Amo Te; On The Occasion Of One Of Dr. Fell's Challenge To Translate Martial;epigrams: Book I, 32 Subject(s): Confessions; Hate DOMESDAY BOOK: LILLI ALM, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lola schaefer's studio in the tower Last Line: Is lodged in father whimsett's heart or words. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Confessions; Religion; Soul; Theology FAMILY MATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That christmas day, he wanted to kill his father Last Line: And confessed everything to the first whore he could find.' Subject(s): Christmas; Confessions; Fathers And Sons; Murder; Prostitution FIRST CONFESSION, by BARBARA DRAKE Poem Source First Line: The road to hell Subject(s): Confessions FIRST CONFESSION, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood thudded in my ears. I scuffed Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Confessions; Sin FIRST CONFESSION, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blood thudded in my ears. I scuffed Last Line: A fresh roost for the holy cross Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Confessions; Sin FORGIVENESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That saturday, he forgave them all their sins Last Line: Four dark walls whispered pardon Subject(s): Clergy; Confessions; Drinks And Drinking; Forgiveness GEORGE MULLEN'S CONFESSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the sake of guilty conscience, and the heart that ticks the time Last Line: I'm so chicken-hearted lately I'd be certain 'most to cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Confessions; Guilt; Lies; Love HOW ORIGAMI WAS INVENTED, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last I went to confession was to whisper Last Line: To write a clear path to you Subject(s): Confessions HOW ORIGAMI WAS INVENTED, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last I went to confession was to whisper Last Line: Everywhere on which I've tried %to write a clear path to you Subject(s): Confessions I CAN'T TELL YOU, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't tell you about switching his wooden leg Last Line: That microphone! - can't, I can not Subject(s): Confessions; Secrets IN THE CONFESSIONAL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, pat, have you no more to say? Last Line: "anither toime I'll tell ye more." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Confessions IN THE CONFESSIONAL, ABOUT 1200, A.D, by KATHARINE OLIVER Poem Text First Line: At her window I came and sang Last Line: Alleluia. Subject(s): Confessions INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration IPSISSIMUS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou priest that art behind the screen Subject(s): Confessions IT WAS MORNING AND THE DIFFERENCE WAS STRIKING, by KAREN HOLDEN Poem Source Last Line: No right. It made him want to kill her Subject(s): Confessions; Sincerity KELLER GEGEN DOM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Witness, would you Last Line: It strikes midnight. Subject(s): Confessions KRYCEK: THE CONFESSION, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an upper story, someone is dying Last Line: To each lector at the lectionary Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Confessions; Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking KRYCEK: THE CONFESSION, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an upper story, someone is dying Last Line: To each lector at the lectionary Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Confessions; Lectures KYRIELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Whom do I love? And must I tell Last Line: Shall reign, for I love you! Subject(s): Confessions; Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MORTAL SINS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: When I was young in the confessional Last Line: To breathe back Subject(s): Confessions; Faith; Sin NATIVE TONGUE, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: To glimpse it lounging in the red clay Last Line: This rude animal from a swarm of angels Subject(s): Confessions; Language; Poetry And Poets PENANCE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: It was always good friday Last Line: Trying to imagine %the terrible sins of old women Subject(s): Confessions; Penance; Religion REMEMBERING THE BOX, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the box in which I knelt Subject(s): Confessions RIVERS ALREADY SING WITH ENOUGH DESPAIR, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: No one could rip a hymnal out of a sky as gray and sour and scarred as Last Line: Anything it could confess belongs to the lore of local water the ponds and %rivers that sing hymns o Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Confessions; Legends; Sin RIVINGTON'S CONFESSIONS ADDRESSED TO THE WHIGS OF NEW YORK, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life and low spirits were never my choice Last Line: And he'll turn a true blue-skin, or just what you will. -- Subject(s): American Revolution; Confessions; Rivington, James (1724-1803) SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A secret love or two I must confess Last Line: Judge then what debtor can keep touch truly. Subject(s): Confessions; Secrets; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SECRET LOVE, by MANUEL DEL PALACIO Poem Source First Line: Oft the confession of my changeless love Last Line: The rill's faint call that tinkles down the %vale Subject(s): Confessions; Hearts; Love SISTER JONES'S CONFESSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought the deacon liked me Last Line: I railly couldn't thank the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Confessions; Prayer; Revivals; Religious Revivals THE CONFESSIONAL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a lie - their priests, their pope Last Line: Lies -- lies, again -- and still, they lie! Subject(s): Catholics; Clergy; Confessions; Lies; Spain; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE JOVIAL PRIEST'S CONFESSION; TRANSLATED FROM LATIN WALTER DE MAPES, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I devise to end my days - in a tavern drinking Last Line: And phoebus rushes into me, and beggareth all relation. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Clergy; Confessions; Religion; Translating & Interpreting; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THE LAY OF THE OLD WOMAN CLOTHED IN GREY; A LEGEND OF DOVER, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there lived, as I've heard people say Last Line: May do you some good, and -- I wish you may get it!!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Ghosts; Confessions THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I paused not to question the devil's suggestion Last Line: By devils and furies! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Confessions; Curses; Life; Murder THE PARDONED SIN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Up the worn steps and through the ivied porch Last Line: "have washed away all record of thy sin!" Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Confessions; Forgiveness; God; Sin; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Clemency THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 40, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And she hath sent a ruby ring, thrice kiss'd Last Line: How limitless thy vast estranging seas! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Confessions; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Passion THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: A PSALM OF CONFESSION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full soon doth sorrow make her covenant Last Line: Breaks, breaking from afar through a night shower. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Confessions; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO MR IOSUAH SYLUESTER, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare confesse; of muses, more then nine Last Line: One bartas speaks in tongues, in nations, twayn. Subject(s): Confessions; Freedom; Muses; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs TURKU CATHEDRAL, NOVEMBER, DEATH MONTH, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But if I wanted to confess Last Line: I could not take my eyes off %even as I knelt Subject(s): Confessions WHAT FATHER LEAHY DIDN'T SAY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: After I entered the confessional Last Line: Around which the body of the poem turns Subject(s): Clergy; Confessions; Sin WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology WITH MERCY FOR THE GREEDY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concerning your letter in which you ask Last Line: The world's pottage, the rat's star Subject(s): Confessions; God; Greed; Religion |
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