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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DESERTION Matches Found: 71 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DESERTER, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their new landlord was a handsome man. On his rounds to collect rent she became friendly Subject(s): Desertion & Nonsupport; Jealousy; Fathers & Daughters; Suicide A MINUTE OF SILENCE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: I abandon this too powerful repose Last Line: The clouds kiss in a swoop. Subject(s): Abandonment; Dadaism; Night; Silence; Sleep; Desertion; Bedtime ABANDON, by LORENE BYRNES BURNS Poem Text First Line: I am wicked-wicked-wicked Last Line: In the spring! Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love; Spring; Desertion ABANDONED BABIES' HOME, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Week to week we do not know how many to expect Last Line: But hold the unresponsive little bodies to our breasts %and rock them, rock them Subject(s): Babies; Desertion And Nonsupport; Home ABANDONED SELECTIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the crimson breast of the sunset Last Line: Is watching you break your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Nostalgia; Property; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness; Possessions AFTER ALL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, what's the use of striving on? Last Line: And all the rest's just waste—just waste of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Forgetfulness; Desertion; Dead, The AIRLY BEACON, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Airly beacon, airly beacon; / oh the pleasant sight to see Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion AUTUMNAL SONNET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods Last Line: Poor earth, where we were wont to live and grieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Autumn; Desertion & Nonsupport; Grief; Leaves; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection CAPRICE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held a wild-flower in your finger-tips Last Line: Alas! It was my soul. Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Male-female Relations CUMNOR HALL, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dews of summer night did fall Last Line: The haunted towers of cumnor hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappointment; Grief; Love; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship Last Line: Look lovlier still compared to the angry children Subject(s): Abandonment; Art & Artists; Children; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Desertion; Childhood DEATH OF THE KAPOWSIN TAVERN, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can't ridge it back again from char Subject(s): Abandonment; Bars & Bartenders; Decay; Kapowsin, Washington; Desertion; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Rot; Decadence DECEMBER, by WILLIAM CAULFIELD IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is bleak december noon Last Line: Of the dumb cold evening air. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cold; December; Snow; Winter; Desertion 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; DESERTION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone Last Line: Gay down the way, and on alo Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Soldiers' Writings DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken? Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations DIMANCHE BLEU, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut flowers are falling Subject(s): City & Town Life; Abandonment; Desertion ESCAPE, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: How tenderly my antique grace Last Line: For troy's ten years my gracious truant. Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion FAR COOKTOWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Things are quiet in far cooktown Last Line: Now own the blanky town Subject(s): Abandonment;desolation;towns; Desertion FRAGMENT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the poor schoolboy, when the slow-paced months Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): School; Abandonment; Desertion GERDA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child. Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism GIANTS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's old parents in the desert on folding chairs Last Line: To each memory station -- pause, hold, mute, flash. Subject(s): Abandonment; Lies; Marriage; Quarrels; Secrets; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements GOD-FORGOTTEN, by PETER AIREY Poem Text First Line: Lies the town of god-forgotten duly west Last Line: And we'll wonder where the deuce it's gone and how on earth it rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Luftig, P.; Born, Furness; Flam, Philander Subject(s): Abandonment; Desolation; Towns; Desertion GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll see you in my dreams she said Last Line: Puckered mists trash the hill ecstatic as lozenges Subject(s): Abandonment; Dreams; Desertion; Nightmares HELEN; THE LABORATORY OF FAUST AT WITTENBERG, by LAURENT TAILHEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have ascended the river of the years Last Line: And my molten voice, rhythmic with prophecy. Subject(s): Abandonment; Love; Rivers; Desertion HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the rats came Last Line: For a face to match her mirrors'. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cambodia; Children; Desertion; Childhood IN LIEU OF PAYMENT, by GARY N. ATLIN Poem Source First Line: We did all we could, talked to all the right people Last Line: And a spot of pavement big enough to sleep on Subject(s): Desertion And Nonsupport IN THE WILDERNESS MOTEL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red star hovering Last Line: The comfort, the company of ruin. Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Hotels; Nature; Desertion; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A bloody and a sudden end Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Abandonment; Mourning; Desertion; Bereavement MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MY FATHER'S LEAVING, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back, he was gone. Subject(s): Fathers; Mothers; Abandonment; Family Life; Desertion; Relatives NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were the reason for staying Last Line: Washing it away. Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood OLD HOUSE, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: How dry the grass is now Last Line: Old house, old heart. Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Desertion; Separation; Isolation ORGAN SONGS: O DO NOT LEAVE ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O do not leave me, mother, lest I weep Last Line: Leaving is left behind. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; God; Mothers; Desertion; Dead, The POLISH AND BALM, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust develops / from inside Subject(s): Abandonment; Dust; Cleanliness; Desertion PRESENCES, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone, everyone went away today Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion QUARRIED STONE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: He who lay on rock Last Line: The sun on quarried stone. Subject(s): Abandonment; Family Life; Sleep; Desertion; Relatives RENUNCIATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What man doth once with all his heart renounce Last Line: And one to him are joy and woe Subject(s): Abandonment;pride; Desertion;self-esteem;self-respect ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the days leading to the miracle he did not Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappeared Persons; Meditation; Desertion; Missing Persons RUBAIYAT FOR SUE ELLA TUCKER, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sue ella tucker was barely in her teens Subject(s): Abandonment; Sex; Desertion SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 6. THE WANDERING ONE MAKES MUSIC, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: The years sped onward. He who forever sought Last Line: In that great diapason of sweet sound. Subject(s): Abandonment; Love; Desertion SLAUGHTER STREET, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time years ago a man tried to sell Subject(s): Children; Abandonment; City & Town Life; Childhood; Desertion SO WE'LL GO NO MORE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it's fare thee well, my own true love; Subject(s): Illness; Abandonment; Love - Loss Of; Desertion SPEAKING OF LOSS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I began with everything Last Line: Nothing to give you but poems Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THAT MOMENT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the pistol muzzle oozing blue vapour Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THE ABANDONED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sat by the wayside and wept, where roses, red roses and white Last Line: It seemed like the wail of the wind as they left her alone with the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THE ABANDONED, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight touched the sombre waters white Last Line: All, save the drowning agony of breath. Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THE ABANDONED NEWBORN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they found you, you were not breathing Subject(s): Babies; Abandonment; Infants; Desertion THE CARRY; NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue is the sky overhead Last Line: Brown to the distant horizon. Subject(s): Abandonment; Nature; Desertion THE COWARD, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, weeping wide atg war, weep with me now Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Cowardice; War 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 DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DESERTED WIFE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes not. - I have watched the moon go down Last Line: How injured, and how faithful I had been. Subject(s): Abandonment; Marriage; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DESERTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, for the bright promise of our youth! Last Line: Shot for desertion! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Desertion, Military THE DESERTER FROM THE CAUSE, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is gone: better so. We should know Last Line: Than live like the coward, and die like the slave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Abandonment; Cowardice; Desertion THE DESERTER['S MEDITATION], by JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If sadly thinking, / with [or, and] spirits sinking Last Line: Before we go! Variant Title(s): Let Us Be Merry Before We Go Subject(s): Abandonment; Drinks & Drinking; Desertion; Wine THE FURY OF ABANDONMENT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone lives in a cave Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion THE GOING MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, vain world, he's going home Last Line: Throughout the land! Subject(s): Abandonment; Babies; Farewell; Longing; Mothers; Desertion; Infants; Parting THE NEGATIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dig in the soft earth all Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Capital Punishment; Homecoming; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 111, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I carried books and a hoe in my youth Last Line: To save a poor fish in a rut Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Abandonment; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Youth; Desertion THE STREET LAMP, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homes stand in slumber. Sleep broods shadowingly Last Line: Sadly you wane. How sad, and oh, how wise! Subject(s): Abandonment; Cities; Grief; Homeless; Poverty; Desertion; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE SWISS DESERTER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: In strasbourg's fortress old and strong Last Line: O lord, my god, remember me! Subject(s): Abandonment; Switzerland; Desertion; Swiss TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ABANDON ALL HOPE ALL YE THAT ENTER HERE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To die - for this into the world you came Last Line: And open for ever. Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion VALECITION - TO MY FATHER, by EDDY VAN VLIET Poem Source First Line: All I want to say is that I do not know Last Line: He walked out of the kitchen to the front door, %never to return Subject(s): Desertion And Nonsupport; Fathers WHILE WATCHING 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT' I THINK OF MY MOTHER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pull down the shades. Those waifs Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Absence; Abandonment; Separation; Isolation; Desertion WHO WAVER IN THE WAKE OF WINDS, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON Poem Text First Line: Now / are the gods departed Last Line: Night Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F. Variant Title(s): Contemplation Of The Word Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Desertion; Separation; Isolation WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WUPATKI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a people abandon their town Last Line: And the small bones of a family. Subject(s): Abandonment; Legacies; Moving & Movers; Desertion |
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