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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1940 LASALLE, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did I or didn't I write about lucky burkin?
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gambling; Death; Wagering; Betting; Dead, The


A HORRID AND BARBAROUS ROBBERY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear martin folkes, dear scholar, brother, friend
Last Line: From me, your humble servant and grand master.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND: USURY, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Groaning in conscience, burdened with / my crimes
Last Line: Die, reprobate, and hie thee hence to hell.'
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Repentance; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence


A NIGHT-PICTURE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A groan from a dim-lit upper room
Last Line: The law's long arm has reached its foe.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Night; Bedtime


A PARTY OF PLEASURE UP THE RIVER TAMER, by FRANCES TALBOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The clock strikes nine -- nor has the sun
Last Line: Tis better starve than steal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morley, Countess Of
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Pleasure; Punishment; Rivers


A ROBBER OF THE NIGHT, by GLADYS TRACY HORNBECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The farmer hid in his cornfield
Last Line: A father fainted at the feet of his son!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


A ROBBERY, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By day I had dispraised their life
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


A SOUL IN PRISON, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Answered a score of times.' oh, looked-for / teacher
Last Line: A readable shrewd book; 'twill win the critics.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Prisons & Prisoners


A THIEF, by LOUIS FRECHETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas a bleak winter -- numbers of the poor
Last Line: To punish deeds their hearts reject as crimes.
Subject(s): Christmas; Crime & Criminals; Poverty; Nativity, The


A WOMAN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They loved each other beyond belief
Last Line: And a bumper she drank, laughing gaily.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Love; Women


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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
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


ALCATRAZ, by ROBERTA BALFOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ceaseless the searchlight scans the restless seas
Last Line: Or stem the rips small boats still dread to ride?
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Justice; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


AN ELEGY ON MR. THOMAS GOUGE: MR. MEAD, MR. BATES, AND MR. GOUGE, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven was impatient of our crimes
Last Line: Then took a dismal aim, and brought great gouge to dust.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Vengeance; Dead, The; Paradise


ANNO 1829, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me a wide and noble field
Last Line: With trembling haste some region far.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Dead, The


ANNO 1829, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I crave an ampler, worthier sphere
Last Line: The next they leave it leagues behind.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Dead, The


ASSASSINS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Assassins find accomplices. Man's merit
Last Line: Has found him three, the hawk, the hound, the ferret.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


AT THE EXECUTED MURDERER'S GRAVE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My name is james a. Wright, and I was born
Last Line: Dirt of my flesh, defeated, underground
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


BEFORE THE SOUL'S TRIBUNAL, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The champion of a lawless crew
Last Line: And o'er my being reign!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Life; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect


BOB HOLLY, by J. E. LIDDLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two men a 'pipe' had in a 'show'
Last Line: And none have seen him from that date.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Exiles; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment


BOY BREAKING GLASS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose broken window is a cry of art
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


BRIGHTON ROCK BY GRAHAM GREENE, by BILL KNOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pinky brown must marry rose wilson
Last Line: And read brighton rock by graham greene.
Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Reading


BUCKED OFF ITS BRAND, by ROBERT ALEXANDER FAIRLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take my word! He could buck, could brown baron
Last Line: That a horse couldn't buck off its brand!
Alternate Author Name(s): F., R. A.
Subject(s): Animals; Crime & Criminals; Horses; Trials


CAHOOTS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Play it across the table.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


CATCHING THE COACH, by ALFRED T. CHANDLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: At kangaroo gully in 'fifty-two
Last Line: "to post this here letter for nell by the mail."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, A. T.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Hunting; Hunters


CHURCH-COUNSELLOR PROMETHEUS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good sir paulus, noble robber
Last Line: Not one solitary candle!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology


CLOUDY DAY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is windy today. A wall of wind crashes against
Subject(s): Disappointment; Crime & Criminals


CONSCIENTIOUS JUDGE, by HELEN W. FOWLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the bench I hear all day
Last Line: Jail him who stole a loaf or two.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Judges


DEATH FOR THE DARK STRANGER, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The knave of darkness, limber in the leaves
Last Line: So again the miraculous thunder of discovering wings is heard
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Police; Punishment; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


DENVER JIM, by SHERMAN D. RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say, fellers, that ornery thief must be nigh us
Last Line: It reversed the decision,— the court was adjourned.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Mothers & Sons; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


DIALOGUE BETWEEN A POOR POET AND THE AUTHOR, by PONCE-DENIS ECOUCHARD LEBRUN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have just been robbed of papers! - I am sorry for your grief
Last Line: Yes, of all my hand-writ verses!—o! I'm sorry for the thief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lebrun Pindare; Le Brun, Pierre
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Crime & Criminals; Poetry & Poets


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


DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mostly, folks is law-abidin'
Last Line: Down on wriggle crick!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Crime & Criminals; Hotels; Streams; Creeks; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


EAST COKER, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid
Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S.


ELEGY: THE LAMENT OF EDWARD BLASTOCK; FOR RICHARD ROWLEY, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pang of the long century of rains
Last Line: Could I but know she was not this, -- not this!
Subject(s): Betrayal; Blastock, Edward (d. 1738); Crime & Criminals


EPITAPH FROM THE LATIN ON THE COUNT OF MIRANDULA: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here francis c- lies. Be civil
Last Line: The rest god knows -- perhaps the devil.
Subject(s): Chartres, Francis (1675-1732); Crime & Criminals; Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni. Conte


EPITAPH ON FRANCIS CHARTRES, by JOHN ARBUTHNOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here continueth to rot
Last Line: By his bestowing it on the most unworthy of all mortals.
Subject(s): Chartres, Francis (1675-1732); Crime & Criminals


FEATHERSTONHAUGH, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brookong station lay half-asleep
Last Line: To trouble the peace of featherstonhaugh.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Dead, The; Hunters


FROM VIOLENCE TO PEACE, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twenty-eight shotgun pellets
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Death; Chicanos; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The; Mexican Americans


FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones
Subject(s): Cold War; Crime & Criminals; Military; Prisons & Prisoners


GENTLE ALICE BROWN, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a robber's daughter, and her name was alice brown
Last Line: On the promising young robber, the lieutenant of his band.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


GRIEF, OF THE BLOODY HAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In an immense wood in the south of kent
Last Line: And left him there struggling hard to gain his liberty.
Subject(s): Blood; Crime & Criminals; Discontent; Grief; Kidnapping; Dissatisfaction; Sorrow; Sadness


HARRY DALE AND OLAF CUBB, by J. E. LIDDLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two men I knew met in a pub
Last Line: And out of it by coach that night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward
Subject(s): Betrayal; Crime & Criminals; Escapes; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Fugitives


HERE IS MUSIC: CHANT ROYAL; FOR NORMAN WHATLEY, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Frustrate and failure, fortune's footstool, fate's
Last Line: Shall not look down on one who wholly lived in vain.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Youth


HO-HO OF THE GOLDEN BELT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A beautiful maiden was little min-ne
Last Line: With wicked ho-ho of the golden belt!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Justice; Murder


IMPERIALISM, by BERTRAND SHADWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you see an island shore which has not been grabb'd before
Last Line: Crime is christian when it's clearly understood.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Crime & Criminals; Imperialism; Nations; Property; Possessions


IN BED WITH A BOOK, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In police procedurals they are dying all over town,
Subject(s): Books; Crime & Criminals; Reading


IN PHARAOH'S TOMB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In pharaoh's tomb the darkness reigns
Last Line: "vision's not what you wanted."
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones


IN THE SERVANTS' QUARTERS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man, you too, aren't you, one of these rough followers of the criminal?
Last Line: And he droops, and turns, and goes.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


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


LANA, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dropped in at the concord
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


LAVENDER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a clump of lavender
Last Line: Had such sweet strewings, said he.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Lavender; Linen; Sin


MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature


MAMMON'S PLEA: A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many seeming weak acts by contrivance are done
Last Line: "may'r, aldermen, burgesses, town-clerk, and all."
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Devil; Greed; Law & Lawyers; Story-telling; Wills; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Avarice; Cupidity


MARION LEE, by BERNARD ESPINASSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To 'the wanderer's rest at the foot of the rise
Last Line: And they say 'tis the ghost of poor marion lee.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Deception; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters


MARRYING THE HANGMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging
Last Line: They both kept their promises.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


MARRYING THE HANGMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


MIDNGHT LOON, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Burglars enter an apartment and ransack drawers;
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE; A LEGEND OF JARVIS'S JETTY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in margate last july I walk'd upon the pier
Last Line: Give my respects to mrs. Jones, and say I'm pretty well!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Misadventures At Margate;the Little Vulgar Boy
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Orphans; Foundlings


MONA LISA, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is your captor, mona lisa!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Crime & Criminals; Mona Lisa; Portraits


MORAL, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moral is this: when we rob friend or foe
Last Line: Dyspepsia would never have brought him to grief!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 3. TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall decide, when doctors disagree
Last Line: And sad sir balaam curses god and dies.
Variant Title(s): An Epistle To Allen Lord Bathurst: Of The Use Of Riches
Subject(s): Bathurst, Allen, 1st Earl (1684-1775); Chartres, Francis (1675-1732); Colepepper, Sir William (1668-1740); Coningsby, Thomas, Lord (1656-1729); Crime & Criminals; Cutler, Sir John (1608-1693); Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford; Heathcote, Sir Gilbert (16


MORGAN, by EDWARD HARRINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When morgan crossed the murray to peechelba and doom
Last Line: "should heed the boobook's warning: ""go back, go back, go back!"
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Escapes; Prudence; Dead, The; Fugitives; Caution


MR AND MRS MARTIN, by H. HEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some time in the month of october
Last Line: "maybe they will think it his son."
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Crime & Criminals; Family Life; Relatives


MRS. HARRIS'S PETITION: TO EXCELLENCIES THE LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Humbly showeth: / that I went to warm myself in lady betty's chamber
Last Line: Shall ever pray.
Variant Title(s): Mrs. Harris's Petition;mrs. Francis Harrison's Petition;the Humble Petition Of Frances Harris, Who Must Starve ...;the Humble Petition Of Frances Harris
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


MUGGING, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on east tenth street's dusk
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


NEWGATE'S GARLAND: BEING A NEW BALLAD, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye gallants of newgate, whose fingers are nice
Last Line: And every man round me may rob, if he please.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Murder


NOCTURNAL CRIME AT THE CHATEAU, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is the chateau to spooks a prey, the black chateau of la ferte?
Last Line: There to see) -- the black chateau of la ferte!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Ghosts; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime


ON A ROBBERY, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ridway robbed duncote of three hundred pound
Last Line: The courtier is become the greater thief.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


OUT OF NAZARETH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He shall sleep unscathed of thieves
Last Line: "who loves allah and believes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; God; Prayer


PADDY MINOGUE'S MOSQUITO-NET, by J. SAYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas red hot weather on croydon field
Last Line: Poor paddy minogue's mosquito-net.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Mosquitoes


PADDY O'RAFTHER, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Paddy, in want of a dinner one day
Last Line: "paddy o'rafther!"
Subject(s): Clergy; Crime & Criminals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


PASTORAL, by DOMINIC BEVAN WYNDHAM LEWIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lumpish trollop! / let 'er bleed
Last Line: In bristol moll —
Alternate Author Name(s): Shy, Timothy; Lewis, Wyndham
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Dead, The


PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MEDUSA, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Column six, page thirty-six
Last Line: With this simpleton love
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Crime & Criminals; Guilt


PRISONERS, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Prisoners, where'er in bitter cells and small
Last Line: On you inflicts what I and all should bear.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Prisons & Prisoners


RAFFERTY RIDES AGAIN, by T. V. TIERNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a road outback that becomes a track
Last Line: Rafferty rides again.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Ghosts; Supernatural


RELIGIO NOVISSIMA, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an order by a northern sea
Last Line: And undispensed sustain its discipline!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Discipline; Law & Lawyers; Order; Prisons & Prisoners; Attorneys; Convicts


REMARKS ON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


RICHARD PIGOTT, THE FORGER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Richard pigott, the forger, was a very bad man
Last Line: And an honest, true-hearted gentleman be it told.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dishonor; Duplicity; Forgery; Pigott, Richard (1828-1889); Deceit


RUNE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can I tell you? Though your quarry
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Riddles


SARAH PALMER, ALIAS SLIM SALI, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prisoner was at large indicted
Last Line: And robs or murders whom she pleases.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Trials


SHACKLED, by AIMEE PAUL THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A captor and a captive
Last Line: God help them both to keep human!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Freedom; Prisons & Prisoners; Liberty


SHADOWS OF CRIME, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His early youth was formed in virtue's way
Last Line: The mantle of the tomb is on him cast.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Temptation; Virtue; Youth


STATISTICS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many men, on such a date of may
Last Line: Your facts are facts, yet somewhere there is god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; God; Murder; Rape; Suicide


SUMMER SOLSTICE, NEW YORK CITY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the end of the longest day of the year he could not stand it
Subject(s): Summer Solstice; Crime & Criminals


THE ANGEL, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked a thief to steal me a peach
Last Line: Enjoyed the lady.
Variant Title(s): "i Asked A Thief To Steal Me A Peach"";i Asked A Thief;
Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Crime & Criminals; Mythology


THE AVENGER: INCIDENT IN ITALY, by SAMUEL CARTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The monster seized the shrieking girl
Last Line: "been going on from bad to worse."
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Monsters; Murder; Revenge


THE BANDIT'S GRAVE, by CHARLES PITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid lava rock and glaring sand
Last Line: O'er the border bandit's tomb.
Subject(s): Bandits; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Graves; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Tombs; Tombstones; Southwest; Pacific States


THE BURGLAR OF BABYLON, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the fair green hills of rio
Subject(s): Burglars; Crime & Criminals; Rio De Janeiro


THE BUSHRANGERS, by EDWARD HARRINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four horsemen rode out from the heart of the range
Last Line: The ghosts of the kellys still ride from the range.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Memory; Punishment


THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just!
Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys


THE CITIZEN DREAMING, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blue hour
Last Line: And the lucky dead on all the roads that led from home to here!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fascism & Fascists; Politics & Government; United States; America


THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I used to sneak into the movies without paying
Last Line: These things speak the clear promise of heaven
Subject(s): Heroism; Travel; Crime & Criminals; Death; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The


THE CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO LORDS AT THEIR EXECUTION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 CRIMINALITY OF WAR, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One to destroy is murder by the law
Last Line: War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fame; Injustice; Murder; Social Protest; War; Reputation


THE CROWING OF THE RED COCK, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the eastern sky has glowed
Last Line: His nobler task is -- to forget.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Jews; Judaism


THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The realm of france possessed, in days of old
Last Line: "strike the whole head at once from god's!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Judges; Trials


THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to
Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer.
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE DEATH OF BEN HALL, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Ben hall was out on the lachlan side
Last Line: Than go where that traitor went.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Betrayal; Crime & Criminals; Hunting; Murder; Punishment; Hunters


THE DEATH OF HALLIGAN, by ALEXANDER FORBES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho, men pile up the firewood
Last Line: Such deeds of blood and shame.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Justice; Murder; Punishment; Dead, The; Hunters


THE DEATH OF PETER CLARK, by HUBERT H. PARRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun was blazing fiercely on the cracked and dusty plain
Last Line: And horses groan and labour, as the teamster rides beside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barwon
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


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 DESK, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the fire escape, crouched, one knee in cinders
Last Line: To own my father's name.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fathers & Sons; Schools; Students


THE DRUNKEN DESPERADO, by BAIRD BOYD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm wild and wooly and full of fleas
Last Line: When it's my night to hollow — whoo-pee!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Southwest; Pacific States


THE DYING OLD YEAR: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Avaunt, away! Dread shapes of hate and fear
Last Line: Then passed away, with one low, moaning sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Holidays; Italy; Law & Lawyers; New Year; Social Protest; Treason & Traitors; Dead, The; Italians; Attorneys


THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 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 ESCAPADE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet and gangster reach in the park
Last Line: The haul beside them still theirs
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE FIERCE AND BLOODY BATTLE OF THE WEDDIN MOUNTAINS, by DAMPHOOL JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nine valiant men of new south wales all armed to the teeth
Last Line: Cast at the solemn midnight hour when good folks are abed.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Heroism; Hunting; Heroes; Heroines; Hunters


THE FREEBORN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: God made the man and bid him multiply
Last Line: When this free man comes forth, what must he do?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Family Life; Fathers; Hunger; Poverty; Relatives


THE GUNMAN AND THE DEBUTANTE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE HIGHWAYMAN, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
Last Line: Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE HOLD-UP, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First comes a fence, then the mouth of an alley
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


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 LAMENT OF THE BORDER CATTLE THIEF, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O woe is me for the merry life
Last Line: And swing me in the skin!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE LANDLADY OF THE WHINTON INN TELLS A STORY, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, indeed, sir
Subject(s): Diamonds; Crime & Criminals; Guilt; Innocence; Misfortune


THE LARCENY, by ELLIOTT FLOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas tempting, fat, and looked well filled
Last Line: He finds at last one silver dime.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE LONELY HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know some lonely houses off the road
Last Line: Think that the sunrise left the door ajar!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Supernatural


THE MISER; A MASQUE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come in
Last Line: [exeunt maskers singing.
Subject(s): Courtship; Crime & Criminals; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE MORE A MAN HAS THE MORE A MAN WANTS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At four in the morning he wakes
Subject(s): Ireland; Crime & Criminals; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Irish


THE MURDER OF WILLIAM REMINGTON, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is true, that even in the best-run state
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE MYSTERY MAN, by NETTIE PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Going home in the dusk from the township
Last Line: Dan kelly, the brother of ned!
Subject(s): Animals; Crime & Criminals; Dogs; Rumors


THE OUTLAW, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They went after him with a long stick
Last Line: For that he was despised.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE OUTLAW, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I wadna be a yeoman, mither, to follow my father's trade
Last Line: The livelong night on the black hill sides where the dun deer lie.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE PLEASANT TETE-A-TETE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The isle of saint eustatia, which the dutch
Last Line: Of anguish, rage, oaths, bullying, and bluster.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Islands; Justice


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 30, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Committing crimes behind closed doors
Last Line: You're the victim of your deeds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Crime & Criminals; Punishment; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POET RELATES HOW HE STOLE A LOCK OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Be the day accurst that gave me birth!
Last Line: "you stupid puppy—you have spoil'd my wig!"
Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4
Subject(s): Anger; Crime & Criminals; Despair; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Wigs; Male-female Relations; Toupees; Hairpieces


THE POLICE COURT, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these thy children, lord, this criminal row
Last Line: Thy children, god, since we a choice are shown.
Subject(s): Children; Crime & Criminals; Childhood


THE PRICE OF A KISS, by ELISE ESPINASSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the ranges dip down to the plain at their base
Last Line: Tis the smile he bought, maybe, that's still on his lips!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters; Convicts


THE PRISONER'S SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my grandmother once had bewitch'd a poor girl
Last Line: When I merrily soar hence to-morrow.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Prisons & Prisoners; Singing & Singers; Convicts; Songs


THE RACE OF THE BOOMERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleak o' the dawn, and the plain
Last Line: The indian's heart-wrung wail for his hapless hunting grounds.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dawn; Death; June; Pain; Soldiers; Sunrise; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


THE RAPE OF THE BARON'S WINE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who was stealing the baron's wine
Last Line: "I would the thief were at my wine!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 1, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: What dire offence from amorous causes springs
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Rape


THE RED CREEK CONSULTATION, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red creek rush was not a duffer
Last Line: After all!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Desire


THE REPROOF AND REPLY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fie, mr. Coleridge! - and can this be you
Last Line: "the eighth commandment was not made for bards!""'"
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE ROBBERS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While laura's arm, with tender feeling
Last Line: So stealing is not your vocation.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE SHALLOWS OF THE FORD, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you ever wait for daylight when the stars along
Last Line: As the water cleared and sparkled in the shallows of the ford.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Friendship; Nature; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE SHOOTING OF JOHN DILLINGER OUTSIDE THE BIOGRAPH THEATER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy sunday
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Indiana


THE SNAKE DOCTORS, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was in the outhouse
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Crime & Criminals; Pigs; Anglers; Boars; Hogs


THE SQUATTER, THREE CORNSTALKS, AND THE WELL, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a squatter in the land
Last Line: "and sor-r-r-r-rer!"
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Punishment


THE STREETS OF FORBES, by JOHN MCGUIRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all you lachlan men
Last Line: To show the prize they had!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Hero-worship; Heroism; Murder; Sorrow; Sadness; Heroes; Heroines


THE SWEETS OF PILLAGE CAN BE KNOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is his divinest grief
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Integrity


THE THEFT, by AMORY HARE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had forgotten what it was to wake
Last Line: And spend this hour as though it were a coin!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Time


THE THIEF, by JOHN A. STOVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where'er I go, there follows he
Last Line: To tell the sorry tale.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


THE TOAD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O who shall tell us of the truth of things?
Last Line: The unknowing ass with the all-knowing god.
Subject(s): Children; Crime & Criminals; Cruelty; Monsters; Slavery; Childhood; Serfs


THE TREASURE OF THE WISE MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the night was dark and the night was late
Last Line: When the robbers came to rob him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Night; Treasures; Bedtime


THE UPAS IN MAYBORNE LANE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree grew in java, whose pestilent rind
Last Line: And hew down the upas in marybone-lane.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; London; Upas Trees


THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp?
Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists


THE WOFLE NEW BALLAD OF JANE RONEY AND MARY BROWN, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this week
Last Line: To pull you all hup to a'beckett the beak.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THEFT, by SAND DUNE SAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I slyly stole a lovely rose
Last Line: Forgot to turn the key.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals


TIRED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go
Last Line: And are you shawled against this east wind's chills?
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Morality; Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Ethics


VERSES: THE FIFTH BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When oxford saw in her radclivian dome
Last Line: Help'd the rare thief to raise up a design.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets


VERSES: THE FOURTH BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A critic once to a miltonian made
Last Line: "poh! Hold thy tongue! He stole the devil,—did he?"
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Plagiarism


VERSES: THE SEVENTH BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miltonum vir (o facinus nefarium!
Last Line: Poetam exhinc unicum lauderum!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Plagiarism


VERSES: THE THIRD BOY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crime in a poet, sirs, to steal a thought?'
Last Line: Sluggishly saunt'ring forth, makes none of them his own.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Human Behavior; Plagiarism; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose you screeve? Or go cheap-jack
Last Line: Booze and the blowens cop the lot
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 6, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wote not how the world's degenerate
Last Line: At our low sayle, and our hye happinesse.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Happiness; Soldiers; Youth; Joy; Delight


WHAT THE THREE LITTLE STOCKINGS SAID, by ALICE J. WHITNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas the night before christmas, and small stockings three
Last Line: And on each merry christmas she welds it anew.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Crime & Criminals; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


WITHOUT REGRET, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nights, by the light of whatever would burn
Last Line: Baskets of wicker, baskets of straw.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat
Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Nails (body)


YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Trials