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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CRIME & CRIMINALS Matches Found: 161 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 puppyyou 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 |
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