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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CRUELTY Matches Found: 116 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POEM FOR CHILDREN. ON CRUELTY TO THE IRRATIONAL CREATION, by JANE CAVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What a cruel wicked thing / for me, who am a little king Last Line: That I with thee may mercy find. Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Cruelty; Animal Abuse; Vivisection A TRUE STORY OF GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods A.G., by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, get him into his grave Last Line: What could grow from it? Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 105, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O breaking hearts! O smiles that fain would hide Last Line: If that far crown of thorns availeth naught? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Crucifixion; Cruelty; Grief; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness AIM, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: What child could resist the sweet sting Last Line: Safer in their body than my own Subject(s): Children; Cruelty; Death AMBOYNA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As needy gallants, in the scrivener's hands Last Line: As much improper as would honesty. Variant Title(s): Satire On The Dutch Subject(s): Cruelty; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Merchants; Plays & Playwrights ; Religion; Dramatists; Theology AMORETTI: 20, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain I seek and sue to her for grace Last Line: That ye were blooded in a yeelded pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Cruelty AMORETTI: 25, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall this like-dying life endure Last Line: That greater meede at last may turne to mee. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Cruelty AMORETTI: 31, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Why hath nature to so hard a heart Last Line: Such cruelty she would have soone abhord. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Beauty; Cruelty AMORETTI: 47, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust not the treason of those smiling looks Last Line: And thinck they dy with pleasure, live with payne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Cruelty BAD SHEPARD, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Someone beat that boy a while. Someone burned that boy alive. Dear Last Line: This is how we kill our boys Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cruelty; Death; Murder BARN OWL (FROM: FATHER AND CHILD), by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak: the household slept Last Line: For what I had begun Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Birds; Cruelty; Human Rights; Hunting; Night; Owls BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her fur new-licked, the whitetail fawn Last Line: As they depart, and curse them. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Beauty And The Beast; Cruelty; Zoos BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who standeth at the gate? - a woman old Last Line: And now at length thy sorrow is too late Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kindness; Cruelty; Charity; Faith; Sin CALAMITY IN LONDON; FAMILY OF TEN BURNED TO DEATH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of christmas day Last Line: Every night before to your beds ye retire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fire; Firefighters; Tragedy; Dead, The CANZONE: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last withdraw your cruelty Last Line: Of double death can die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Love - Complaints CHEERS, CHEERS FOR OLD CHA CHA ASS, by WALTA BORAWSKI Poem Source First Line: Cheers, cheers for old patchogue high Subject(s): Cruelty; Homosexuality CHIVALRY AND SLAVERY, SELECTION, by JOHN BURKE Poem Text First Line: It chanced that in a southern state Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Cruelty; Death; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States - History; Dead, The; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs CONDITIONS, by ISHIHARA YOSHIRO Poem Source First Line: Conditions are given from a bat's ears Last Line: Like blood abruptly Subject(s): Cruelty; Poetry And Poets COUNT ALARCOS AND THE INFANTA SOLISA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alone, as was her wont, she sate, - within her bower alone Last Line: Three guilty spirits stood right soon before god's judgment-seat Subject(s): Assassination; Courts And Courtiers; Cruelty; Love; Tragedy CRUELTY, by SUZANNE MATSON Poem Source First Line: I don't know why we were cruel Last Line: With no explanation, no way to tell him %why she had been chosen Subject(s): Cruelty CRUELTY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Text First Line: Because we were all sweaty Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Cruelty; Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Impotence; Dead, The CRUELTY BASE IN COMMANDERS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing can be more loathsome, then to see Last Line: Power conjoyn'd with natures crueltie. Subject(s): Cruelty CRUELTY OF THE MONTHS, by MARTA PESSARRODONA Poem Source First Line: I know I can allow myself, let us say Last Line: In april, in that room Subject(s): Cruelty CRUELTY, DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT CRUELTY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I never know what I might do Subject(s): Cruelty; Family Life; Cockroaches CRUELTY, DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT CRUELTY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cruelty CRUELTY, THE VANDALS SAY, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER Poem Source First Line: Is learned. In this poem they're right %cold and huddled 'round a trashfire Last Line: (the toad, its soul, whatever %oh, you say. Oh dear, oh me oh my Subject(s): Cruelty; Poetry And Poets DESERTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was awalking along the highway Last Line: For he will make a soldier for his queen and country Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;cruelty;desertion, Military;soldiers; DIFFERENT WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If she kept on walking now Last Line: And a different way to drown. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death DOLORES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Last Line: Our lady of pain. Subject(s): Cruelty; Kisses; Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery ECLIPSE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I grew tired of the image of my tribe Last Line: On the right side of the wall %only on the wall Subject(s): Cruelty; Pain EPIGRAM: 15, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath heard of such cruelty before? Last Line: She pricked hard and made herself to bleed. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Who Hath Heard Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts EPIGRAM: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since so ye please to hear me plain Last Line: And now I leave it to them that lust. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Lust EQUITY--?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The meanest man I ever saw Last Line: The blame' gran'-jury's sent over the road. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cruelty; Justice ESCAPE OF GAYFEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Before her knee the boy did stand, within the dais so fair Last Line: Rise up - they've slain my father within my mother's bed Subject(s): Child Psychology; Crime And Criminals; Cruelty; Grief; Tragedy ETIOLOGY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cruelty made me. Cruelty and the sweet smelling earth Last Line: Was still warm. Heaven forbid that I should be saved Subject(s): Cruelty; Greeks EXPERIMENT, by ANDREW FRISARDI Poem Source First Line: What a cruel game we played Last Line: Little leonardos looking on %with eyes as cold as the moon Subject(s): Cruelty; Explorers; Science I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dream with open eyes Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs IF I HAD A DONKEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If I had a donkey wot wouldn't go Last Line: "if I had a donkey, etc" Subject(s): Cruelty;donkeys; Burros IN THE OCTAGONAL ROOM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To see / blake's earth Last Line: Rests Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blood; Cruelty; Pain; Tate Museum, London; Suffering; Misery INTRUDER, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: You came from that early time Last Line: Trampling as you walked %all my glorious borders Subject(s): Autumn; Cruelty; Seasons LUXURY'S CHILDREN, by ELAINE PIERCE MCCRELESS Poem Text First Line: If they could view us now, that steadfast throng Last Line: To reach for hand-outs, whining, growing soft! Subject(s): Cruelty MADRIGAL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take my heart, lady, take my heart Last Line: And live but through my dying. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Hearts; Love; Soul; Dead, The MALDOROR, SELS., by ISIDORE LUCIEN DUCASSE Poem Source First Line: I am filthy. Lice gnaw me. Swine, when they look at me, vomit Last Line: You the road leading to the grave Alternate Author Name(s): Lautremont, Le Compte De Subject(s): Cruelty MARGINALIA, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: At first, in catherine's hours of the cross Last Line: Its logic hammered out like filigree Subject(s): Cross, The; Cruelty; Sickness MERCY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I see him in the middle of a field Last Line: Go about their loving Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Cruelty; History; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mercy MILITARY DRILL, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the clouds float calm and free Last Line: Gouts of blood burn ghastly bright! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Cruelty; Military; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War NEGLECTED, by MONICA SHIPP CLINE Poem Text First Line: Beside the weather-boarded shanty Last Line: Forgotten and neglected. Subject(s): Cruelty; Desolation; Poverty NEGROES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night in april or may Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Cruelty; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ORCA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-lions loafed in the swinging tide in the inlet, long fluent creatures Last Line: Experiment, that has run wild, and ought to be stopped Subject(s): Cruelty; War; Sea; Ocean OUR QUEER OLD WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a purty hard world you find, my Last Line: It's a purty good world, old man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cruelty; Earth; Experience; Wisdom; World PICKING SKULLS AT VERDUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A respectable, exceedingly proper paper reports Last Line: Who always see the folly when it is too late! Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Skulls; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War POLLY HOPKINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pretty, pretty polly hopkins, how do you do?" Last Line: "she. No, hang yourself. He oh! Cruel etc" Subject(s): Cruelty;love;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives PRAYER OF CONTRITION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: To the bullhead I caught with hook and string Last Line: Bloody bodies and scoop out the lead shot Subject(s): Cruelty; Prayer PROCLAMATION OF KING HENRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the feet of don henrique now king pedro dead is lying Last Line: Not one remains to cry to god, 'our lord lies murdered here!' Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Murder; Tyranny And Tyrants PROGRESSION; OR, THE SOUTH DEFENDED: SLAVERY, by MARY SOPHIE SHAW HOMES Poem Text First Line: The book of books we confidently quote Last Line: Gainst wild fanaticism's fickle laws. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayfield, Millie Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Cruelty; Slavery; Southern States; United States - History; Serfs; South (u.s.) PROGRESSIVE PIETY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old-time brimstone preacher, when once Last Line: Vile, or calls me caterpillar, or worm, or crocodile. Subject(s): Cruelty; Sin RADIO SKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blue house at mills cross Last Line: Drifting under the familiar worn sheet. Subject(s): Comfort; Cruelty; Family Life; Infertility; Relatives RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER; A TRAVESTY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps, my dear boy, you may never have heard Last Line: By unpleasant allusions and rude observations! Subject(s): Cruelty; Richard Iii, King Of England (1452-1485) SEARCH, by DRAGUTIN SPITZER Poem Text First Line: I was looking for god Last Line: Now, I find you -- Subject(s): Cruelty; God; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Wisdom SECRET OF POETRY, by JON ANDERSON Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: When I was lonely, I thought of death Subject(s): Cruelty SEVEN HEADS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who bears such heart of baseness, a king I'll never call Last Line: To keep his children company beneath the moorish sod Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Cruelty; Death; Fathers And Sons; Moors (people); Murder SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 117, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sun could tell us half Last Line: Birds that cannot fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cruelty SKETCHES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In new york, bus drivers are the only happy men Last Line: That reads drink blotto! Subject(s): Cruelty; New York City; Violence; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONG: 104, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Longer to muse / on this refuse Last Line: And perdy to forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Hearts; Love SONG: 112, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I as well within my song belay Last Line: Causeless because that I have suffered smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 114, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would ye more of me, your slave, require Last Line: That without cause causeless thus suffer'th smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Parting SONG: 13, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought long with steadfastness Last Line: But as who sayeth, I reck not how. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 69 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Love SONG: 34, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since ye delight to know Last Line: For to repent your cruelness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 72 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 54, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But sithens you it assay to kill Last Line: Slain have I by unfaithfulness!' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 6 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts SONG: 56, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart oppressed with desperate thought Last Line: Since cruel will doth me so use. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Despair; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Singing & Singers SONG: 66, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give place all ye that doth rejoice Last Line: Praise it who list, I like it not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Voices; Belief; Creed SONG: 81, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, what undeserved cruelty Last Line: Till my careful life may turn contrary. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SONG: 83, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, cruel heart, where is thy faith? Last Line: Farewell my love and all my woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Faith; Hearts; Love; Tears; Time; Belief; Creed SONG: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I cannot your cruelty constrain Last Line: Rejoice not at my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 16, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, amynta, we must part Last Line: Because thou hadst my love. Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Charm; Cruelty; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strephonetta, why d'ye fly me Last Line: Who before the chaplain wooed. Subject(s): Cruelty; Eyes; Love - Complaints THE APE AND THE FOX, ON THE FRUITS OF GREEDINESS AND CREDULITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old esop so famous was certainly right Last Line: That your majesty's grace did not understand trap. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Cruelty; Fables; Men; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THE BOOTLEGGER, by STANLEY H. CAUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: I'm a peddler bold, and my trade's as old Last Line: To see who'll be damned the first! Subject(s): Cruelty; Pain; Peddlers & Peddling; Soul; Suffering; Misery THE CAMPS; FOR MARILYN HACKER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the young brown-haired Last Line: Rest on the unmoving forms. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Despair; Love; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Writing & Writers; Dead, The THE CRUEL BOY, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard is a cruel boy Last Line: By feeling his own whip. Subject(s): Boys; Cruelty THE CRUEL MOTHER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She lean'd her back unto a thorn Subject(s): Cruelty;mothers;murder;sons THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DECEIVED LOVER SUETH ONLY FOR LIBERTY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If chance assigned / were to my mind Last Line: My death, or life with liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 33 Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fate; Freedom; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Liberty THE GIAOUR; A FRAGMENT OF A TURKISH TALE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No breath of air to break the wave Last Line: Of her he loved, or him he slew. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Cruelty; Slavery; Turkey; Unfaithfulness; Serfs; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE HOLOCAUST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before men loosed these iron gods of strife Last Line: Beneath a canopy of alien stars? Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Dead, The THE HUMAN ABSTRACT, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity would be nor more / if we did not make somebody poor Last Line: There grows one in the human brain. Subject(s): Bible; Cruelty; Hypocrisy; Mythology THE INDIGNANT CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleman I chance to know Last Line: And, my! He was malignant! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Cruelty; Militarism; Murder; Soldiers THE JOKE, by DORA L. KIMMONS Poem Text First Line: My 'little joke', at my dear friend's expense Last Line: I bear the other in my wounded heart. Subject(s): Cruelty; Jokes THE NAUGHTY DARKEY BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a cruel darkey boy Subject(s): Blacks;boys;children;cruelty;fish & Fishing; Childhood THE NITHSDALE WIDOW AND HER SON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon Last Line: And as for killing the ruffian dragoon he never did repent. Subject(s): Cruelty; Desolation; Despair; Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement THE OBSTACLE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oceans of bliss around us gently roll Last Line: To bar the final -- happy consummation. Subject(s): Cruelty; Love; Soul THE OUTCAST, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, be your own Last Line: Affront the world. Subject(s): Advice; Alienation (social Psychology); Cruelty; Estrangement; Outcasts THE RESULT OF CRUELTY, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack parker was a cruel boy Last Line: Whilst bellowing at a furious bull. Subject(s): Boys; Cruelty THE SHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a ship of my cruelty Last Line: And take on board a god! Subject(s): Cruelty; Love; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE SLAUGHTER OF THE JEWS, by ALFRED JAMES WATERHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Fools who kill for the lust of blood, fiends of the / slaughter pen Last Line: All that the world holds dearest is slaughtered in him—the jew. Subject(s): Cruelty; Jews; Oppression; Judaism THE SWIMMING POOL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the apt. Swimming pool Subject(s): Children; Teasing; Cruelty; Social Classes; Childhood; Caste 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 TWO BROTHERS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the mountain summit darkling Last Line: To the fight the brothers twain. Subject(s): Cruelty; Duels THE WAR, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were at the border and they were checking Last Line: I was going. We went outside where there was nothing Subject(s): Scorpions (animals); Cruelty THE WOMAN WITH THE SERPENT'S TONGUE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is not old, she is not young Last Line: The woman with the serpent's tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Cruelty; Women THE WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON Poem Text First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow! Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus homer, describing the pestilent lot Last Line: In the next I shall prove it, as clear as a whistle. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Cruelty; Wilderness; Mules THREE RUTHLESS RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS HOMES: 1, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Billy, in one of his nice new sashes Last Line: I haven't the heart to poke poor billy. Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Variant Title(s): Tender-heartedness;billy Subject(s): Accidents; Cruelty THREE RUTHLESS RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS HOMES: 2, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's been an accident!' they said Last Line: Send me the half that's got my keys.' Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Variant Title(s): Mr. Jones;common Sense Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Dead, The THREE RUTHLESS RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS HOMES: 3, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had written to aunt maud Last Line: Just too late to save the stamp. Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Variant Title(s): Waste;death: Waste Subject(s): Cruelty TINT EXHAUSTIVE HINTS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The intelligible ozone an intrigue Last Line: Will frost remove cruelty? Subject(s): Cruelty TO A COQUETTE, by MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lady, in thy radiant eyes Last Line: Only masks thy cruelties Subject(s): Cruelty; Flirtation TO A RATTLE SNAKE READY TO STRIKE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Fork-tongued, furtive charmer! Last Line: And cruel, primal curse. Subject(s): Cruelty; Poisons & Poisoning; Rattlesnakes TOILING CHILDREN, by NELLIE H. EVANS Poem Text First Line: The prey of greed and cruel industry Last Line: An ample chance to play, to grow and learn. Subject(s): Babies; Cruelty; Labor & Laborers; Infants; Work; Workers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE DEAD CHRIST, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the dead christ lies - borne down the ages Last Line: Once more the dead christ lies—borne down the ages. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Cruelty; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion VENGEANCE OF MUDARA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the chase goes rodrigo with hound and with hawk Last Line: As he spake, there was blood on the spear of mudara Subject(s): Cruelty; Fights; Knights And Knighthood; Vengeance WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WHIMPER OF SYMPATHY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hawk or shrike has done this deed Last Line: And live the young life of a twinkle. Subject(s): Cruelty; Nature WHO WOULD HURT A HORSE OR TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Is meanest of all earthly things Subject(s): Cruelty YOUR WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: We grow ruder by the day Last Line: Dark and blond survive. To hell with grey Subject(s): Cruelty; Youth |
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