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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DESPAIR Matches Found: 416 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF LANCELOT, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By coasts where scalding deserts reek Last Line: The look, the soul of guinevere. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Despair; Fathers & Sons; Grail; Lancelot Du Lac; Love; Loyalty; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Holy Grail; Graal A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A CAUTION AGAINST DESPAIR, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despair is a cowardly thing Last Line: And never,—no, never despair. Subject(s): Despair A FUNERAL, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the darkness and chill of the night Last Line: And her breast was the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Despair; Funerals; Love; Burials A LYRIC, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I sing light-souled and fancy-free Last Line: When my loved lord no longer smiles on me? Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation A NIGHT THOUGHT; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Rest dwells not on my brain to-night Last Line: Among the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Despair; Memory; Past A PRAYER, by WARREN K. BILLINGS Poem Text First Line: Far-famed fair helen, stretching forth a hand Last Line: To pardon even meagerness its debts. Subject(s): Despair; Friendship; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Prayer A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 54, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With rue my heart is laden Last Line: In fields where roses fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Graves; Mortality; Mourning; Remorse; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ABYSS, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief Last Line: Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. Variant Title(s): "the Terrible Sonnets: 2;""no Worst, There Is More, Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief""; Subject(s): Death; Despair; Grief; Religion; Social Protest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology AD ASTRA: 45, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And shall I cry for ever, and in vain? Last Line: And every gleam augmenteth my despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness AD ASTRA: 53, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thou star! That shone upon me from a height Last Line: Which else had founder'd in the midnight bare! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness AGAINST DISASTER, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am out of element Subject(s): Despair AGAPE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today no one's come by to inquire Last Line: And I've died so little this afternoon! Subject(s): Despair; Solitude AGAPE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today no-one has come to inquire Last Line: And today I have died how little on this evening Subject(s): Despair; Solitude ALONE IN AN INN AT SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 25, 1737, by AARON HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty lost years have stolen their hours away Last Line: Or shun the healing hand of friendly death? Variant Title(s): A Retrospect Subject(s): Aging; Despair; Transience; Impermanence ALONE WALKING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And thus an end Subject(s): Despair AMORETTI: 32, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The painful smith with force of fervent heat Last Line: And she to stones at length all frosen turne? Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Heat; Cold; Despair AN ARRIVAL, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now haste thee, light thee down, thy doors unbar Last Line: And hope thy bride, handfasted to despair. Subject(s): Guests; Despair; Visiting AN EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At three-score winter's end I died Last Line: And wish my father never had Subject(s): Despair ANOTHER LAMENT OF LORD PIERROT, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, the one who should put me on to woman Last Line: "it was in earnest then?" Subject(s): Despair; Love ARS POETICA, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wanted from us Last Line: Is our continual surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Despair; Poetry & Poets ASIDES, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you do? Why, everything Last Line: What will you do there? Be dead. Subject(s): Despair; Imaginary Conversations AWAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limp with night fears: hellebore, wolfsbane Last Line: Sections for burning. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Insomnia; Sleeplessness AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have tasted the wine of mushrooms and my heart screams Last Line: Nothing is left Subject(s): Aztecs; Despair BEYOND THE BLUE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben fields was far too sound Last Line: Of seeing ben some day again, 'way up beyond the blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Despair; Dogs; Loyalty; Pets BLACK DEATHS, by ROBERT HAY MORRISON Poem Source First Line: We do not hang them now, but still they hang Last Line: In some far noose another lost one dies, %and one of the surviving lost remembers Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Despair; Human Rights BROKEN, by THOMAS RUSSELL SHELTON Poem Text First Line: So many things are broken everywhere Last Line: One, whose great heart was broken for us all. Subject(s): Despair; Sonnet (as Literary Form) BURIAL RITES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did anyone ever believe that the dead woman Last Line: Without expectation. They did them in despair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Despair; Graves; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CAPTAIN CARPENTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Captain carpenter rose up in his prime Last Line: And made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack. Subject(s): Despair CARRION COMFORT, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, despair, not feast on thee Last Line: Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my god!) my god. Variant Title(s): "the Terrible Sonnets: 1;""not, I'll Not, Carrion Comfort, Despair, Not Feast On Thee""; Subject(s): Despair; Faith; Belief; Creed CAST AWAY MOAN (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She inventories her interior and despite the striking good looks Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She inventories her interior and despite the striking good looks Last Line: Like an introduction, like dominion stretched out Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plumage of bird Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plumage of bird Last Line: How to have lived this? Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every towel. Every glass of ice water. Seduced Subject(s): Despair; Self CAST AWAY MOAN (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every towel. Every glass of ice water. Seduced Last Line: I only mean you need to reenter, bring forward yourself Subject(s): Despair; Self CHILDREN OF DESPAIR, by DINO PANTAZONIS Poem Source First Line: We are the children of despair Last Line: Unconsciously towards oblivion Subject(s): Despair CITIES: 2. BERLIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall the great destroyer save herself Last Line: Of shame, misery, revolution, despair. Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Despair; Revolutions; Shame CLAIR DU LUNE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It comes with the force of a body blow Last Line: So I may wash my hands of life! Subject(s): Despair; Moon COME WITH ME, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me into those things that have felt this despair for Subject(s): Despair COMPENSATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In the night of doubt and error Last Line: A cloud that shades us in our need. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Night; Bedtime COUNTERPOINT: TWO ROOMS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, in the room above, grown old and tired Last Line: The slow grey clouds go slowly gainst the sky Subject(s): Seasons; Death; Man-women Relationships; Despair; Happiness CRAVEN-HEART, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Those anguished voices in the air Last Line: And waste my brief and precious day? Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair DARKNESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream, which was not all a dream Last Line: Of aid from them -- she was the universe. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Nightmares DARKNESS WAS OVERTRACED ON EVERY FACE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Despair; Epidemics DAWN IN ITALY AND IN LONDON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the sombre cypresses Last Line: And the slum of grim despair. Subject(s): Despair; Italy; London; Italians DEATH OF A OAXAQUENIAN, by MALCOLM LOWRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So huge is god's despair Last Line: I heard him weeping there Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near Last Line: O what is love, if we must part so soon? Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me close the eyes of my soul Last Line: Since cursed is my hearing and seeing. Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am like a dead diver after all's Last Line: White lily from the air -- and now the fishes come. Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who has sorrow Last Line: Laid stilly and low! Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: What have I missed? Last Line: My days unceasing pain? Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curtains of twilight are drawn in the west Last Line: Good-bye to love's ship that ne'er sailed. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES Poem Source First Line: Worn out with weeping my sad eyes I raise %to heaven Last Line: I curse, I fear that even death may be %but a weak remedy f or so much fire Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by MARY LOUISE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: The lovely porcelain urn has cracked Last Line: Have turned aside. Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smile on me, mouth of red - so much too red Last Line: And -- oh, my god! I would I were as they! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: As I came down the hillside Last Line: I've lost it all. Subject(s): Despair; Love; Sailing & Sailors DESPAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the moon in glory Last Line: "a bringing in the light." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime DESPAIR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calm Last Line: Cursing the power that ne'er made aught in vain. Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, poor blasted hope! Last Line: Thrown below hope, but rais'd 'bove fear. Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it you, that preached in the chapel there looking over the sand? Last Line: It matter to me? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR AND FEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The difference between despair / and fear - is like the one Last Line: That knows it cannot see. Subject(s): Despair; Fear DESPAIR'S ADVANTAGE IS ACHIEVED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Until ourselves are struck Variant Title(s): Poem: 799; Poem: 85 Subject(s): Despair DESPAIR; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is decreed, that I must die Last Line: Thy lover, and thy sacrifice. Subject(s): Despair; Love DESPAIRER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In such despair did owen loren lie Subject(s): Despair DESPONDENCY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughts that rain their steady glow Last Line: And never come again. Subject(s): Despair DESPONDENCY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care Last Line: Of dim declining age! Subject(s): Despair DESPONDENCY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, tell me not that memory Last Line: And hopes now numbered with the dead! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Despair DESPONDENCY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Care-worn, and sunk in deep despondency Last Line: Welcome, ye paths! That lead me to my grave. Variant Title(s): "care Worn, And Sunk In Deep Despondency""; Subject(s): Despair DESPONDENCY; A REVERIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of an august day Last Line: Omens of desolation and despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Despair; Dead, The DESPONDENT, by SSU-K'UNG T'U Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gale goes ruffling down the stream Last Line: And through the old thatch drips the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Piao-sheng Subject(s): Despair DIDO TO AENEAS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, on meander's banks when death is nigh Last Line: Aeneas gave: the rest her arm supply'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Aeneas; Despair; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting DIRTIED UP (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Door opening to green bowl of narcissus Last Line: Its that's-enough-now, enough, dank hint of constriction Subject(s): Despair; Self DIRTIED UP (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you thought you heard, so surely you heard Last Line: To smile, inappropriate, awkward Subject(s): Despair; Self DIRTIED UP (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suspecting only illusion (some vindicative act of mind Last Line: The woods are disappointed in me Subject(s): Despair; Self DIRTIED UP, SELECTION, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suspecting only illusion (some vindicative act of mind Subject(s): Despair; Self EACH MORNING I PULL MYSELF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Say it coward say it Subject(s): Despair EBB TIDE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With her white face full of agony Last Line: Though it cling with love's own strength? Subject(s): Despair; Seashore EE-CHOVOUD, by SAMPSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o lord! How long Last Line: For 'tis long, o father; oh, how long! Subject(s): Despair; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism ELEGIAC SONNET: 21. SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY WERTER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, cruel tyrant of the human breast! Last Line: And courts the fatal fire by which it dies! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Despair ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Subject(s): Despair; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viewed in this way Last Line: The thrown off Subject(s): Despair; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This then is -- Subject(s): Despair; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This then is -- Last Line: Losing, beforehand, inside Subject(s): Despair; Self ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Similar also Last Line: Nothing to shadow. I want to say, a life can take a life away Subject(s): Despair; Self EPIGRAM: 13, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For shamefast harm of great and hateful need Last Line: Of that he found he shaped his neck a knot. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Despair; Life ERIN'S DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor erin's daughter cross'd the main Last Line: In desolate despair Subject(s): Despair; Ireland - Famine ESSENCE, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD Poem Text First Line: Out of the darkness - a light Last Line: Only the world's staunch lover! Subject(s): Despair; Fate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Silence; Destiny EVENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the elements solidify! --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Despair; Infants EXTENT AND ROOT OF (1). ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Subject(s): Despair; Language; Self; Words; Vocabulary EXTENT AND ROOT OF (1). ELSEWHERE, THINGS TEND, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As each syllable leaves these lips as touch, feel how onerous Last Line: With no more room, falling %into nowhere else Subject(s): Despair; Language; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angled between sperm and please, tugging at her hem Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (ripped out night, your core untranslatable. Preverbal, paralyzed Last Line: And in her way against him, saying, love, I love you Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angled between sperm and please, tugging at her hem Last Line: Of the umbilical cord and waste what is. Misery gone Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaved into procelain: crumbs to chicken, neither orange Last Line: Gripping the senses; then-anywhere but where I am heading Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (5), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She would not see it if she had been disgraced she would not Last Line: Listen to me disgraced do not put it do not bring it to me Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (6), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observe that meanwhile Last Line: No foreigner comes Subject(s): Despair; Self EXTENT AND ROOT OF (7), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the blond arm, taken Last Line: But, as it will be how I survive, I will not feel so Subject(s): Despair; Self FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Last Line: Better, my lover, dead Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; God; Marriage; Religion FOUR MATRICES: 3. HOME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cores. Knots. A vortex around which nothing swirls Last Line: Cold and stillness, horses and roots, unmoving brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Despair FRAGMENT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still dark with frowns return the sullen years Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Despair FUTILITY, by EDNA ZOE SCRIMGER Poem Text First Line: Since beauty, love and truth are said to be Last Line: Where beauty, tragic figure, walks alone! Subject(s): Despair; Poetry & Poets GEO-BESTIARY: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wallet is as big as earth Last Line: Tethered to these shadows dragging toward night. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Money GEO-BESTIARY: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I be alone when these brain cells Last Line: Around their bright cosmic bodies. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Money GETHSEMANE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In golden youth when seems the earth Last Line: The purpose in gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Earth; Gethsemane; Soul; Youth; World GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 27, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a sign, a heraldic bird, or even an angel at midnight Last Line: A parade, a suite at the plaza, a new silver-plated revolver. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Desire; Despair GHOST TRAIN, by RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Poem Source First Line: Smoke rises industrial in puffs that look innocent Last Line: Of what we've killed, or are killing Subject(s): Death; Despair; Ghosts; Supernatural; Tragedy GIVE ME NOT TEARS: DESPAIR, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, when you see my grave Last Line: Death is the gentlest of the world's replies. Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary Subject(s): Despair GRADATIONS OF DESPAIR, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: This is the place. Frightened little animals hop into the fo Last Line: That carbon monoxide is enough to die. Be quiet now, be %quiet Subject(s): Despair GREY PASTURES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey gloaming where the white moth flies Last Line: Mayhap I may thrill again at the touch of this. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Despair; Kisses; Life; Longing; Nostalgia; Dead, The HERE IN THE NORTH I CHASE AN OLD DESPAIR, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A velvet violet within the shoal, %abd the high vineyard lies like purple fern Subject(s): Despair; Italy HERMAPHRODITUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up thy lips, turn round, look back for love Last Line: Au musee du louvre, mars 1863. Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Love; Mythology HIS FATHER CARVED UMBRELLA HANDLES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghettos; Teaching & Teachers; Family Life; Poverty; Despair; Educators; Professors; Relatives HIS HEART WAS DARKER THAN THE STARLESS NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Can be no abode of dawn Variant Title(s): Poem: 1378; Poem: 140 Subject(s): Despair HOMECOMING, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A crust of thin ice cracks, and signposts change. Summer snow Last Line: As a celtic vase drowns in the murmuring water that might fill the dry well Subject(s): Change; Despair; Nations; Nature; Yugoslavia HOPE ABANDONED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The drinking man maybe hath gold, and then Last Line: But failed, since none would give his brain employ. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Despair; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse HOPE AND DESPAIR, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said god, 'you sisters, ere ye go' Last Line: Which think ye lookt the more fair? Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Optimism HOPE AND DESPAIR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, dark and lowering, hid the sky Last Line: Brave-hearted hope the shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Optimism HOPELESS, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All this endless unconnected desire Subject(s): Despair HUNGER TO THE TABLE (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we occupied our regular seats, the tolling Last Line: Without vision of the casting down Subject(s): Despair; Self HUNGER TO THE TABLE (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even today, after Last Line: Until the space between them asks, how wide this? Subject(s): Despair; Self HUNGER TO THE TABLE (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ask to be told x to y in time of eternity Last Line: Is the voice nice. Just as the lips open the eyes Subject(s): Despair HUNGER TO THE TABLE (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A turned ankle is its own consequence. She hops about Last Line: Respond like any woman collecting rainwater to stay alive Subject(s): Despair; Self HUNGER TO THE TABLE (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer the open hydrants of summer to arrive flung, sung, sweat Last Line: Is the voice nice. Just as the lips open open the eyes Subject(s): Despair; Self HUNTING, HOPING, FINDING, by JAMES LARKIN Poem Text First Line: The room is dark, the air is heavy Last Line: And I'll go west with the rest. Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Hope; Love; Nightmares; Optimism HYMN OF THE LOST SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrims of life are we! Last Line: Ye are doomed and damned for ever! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Despair; Guilt; Soul; Dead, The HYMN WRITTEN IN DESPONDENCY, by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER Poem Text First Line: Jesus christ! Regard my anguish Last Line: Seal my pardon now with god. Subject(s): Despair I CANNOT LIVE WITH YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that white sustenance — / despair Subject(s): Relationships; Despair I KNOW NOT HOW IT FALLS ON ME, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Despair I PROMISE NOTHING: FRIENDS WILL PART, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Eternal fate so deep has cast %its sure foundation of despair Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Despair IDEA: 26. TO DESPAIR, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ever love where never hope appears Last Line: Or all my hope for sorrow will be dead. Subject(s): Despair IN A DARK TIME, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark time, the eye begins to see Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Night; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime IN A DARK TIME, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark time, the eye begins to see Last Line: And one is one, free in the tearing wind Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Night IN A MAN'S EYES, by MARY FRANCINE WATSON Poem Text First Line: I saw in a man's eyes heartbreak and despair Last Line: Never let me see again dead, living eyes. Subject(s): Despair IN DESPAIR, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what the world may be Last Line: And tell of the dawn, of the dew and the dawn. Subject(s): Despair IN THE CORNER AN OLD MAN RESEMBLING A RAM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or thrown myself under a train today Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Despair IN THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O she will have the deep dark heart, for all her face is fair Last Line: A heaven of peace it is beside this mockery of a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Advice; Despair; Love Affairs; Man-woman Relationships; Shadows; Unfaithfulness; Male-female Relations; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IN THE SHADOWS: 21, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when sunshine and blue sky prevail Last Line: And sink into my habit of despair. Subject(s): Despair; Sickness; Illness IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then I think, I must have done something perhaps Last Line: Each truth runs blood the breath began Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We store at this late date repair against the base insults Last Line: The railing is gone Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to bad-mouth a momentary mood of mind Last Line: So unwilling though spilling into this disfigured future Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought to this: chagrin of falling rock Last Line: This world is only our stillborn: company Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (5), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better to think, the descent before me is a stranger's Last Line: From all brooding, sidestep this wilderness preceding amen Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (6), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Addie says, sin and salvation are just words for cora Last Line: Masked in retelling because the feeling forgiven is too much Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (7), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To bring such need Last Line: All this, the relief it brings me Subject(s): Despair; Self IN THIS SENSE BEYOND (8), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So you, in this role as you own rescuer, trebled voice Last Line: Look out for yourself. Go outside. Stand up. Straighter. Flirt Subject(s): Despair; Self INFLUENCE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Like one who beats against the wind Last Line: For thy dear sake this I would do! Subject(s): Despair; Hunger; Solitude; Loneliness INTERLUDE, FOR A SOLITARY FLUTE, SELS., by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Little I knew, when morning white Subject(s): Despair; Religion IT IS WELL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the skies are tinted blue Last Line: "and trusting say, ""it is well!" Subject(s): Despair; Faith; God; Happiness; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight IT WAS NOT DEATH, FOR I STOOD UP, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To justify—despair Subject(s): Despair JAIME SABINES; XIV, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The glass you drank from hasn't broken, Last Line: Nothing you were, we were, us and you, %is like what's living in your hell. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Grief JANET; ONE OF MANY, SELS., by SARAH (STICKNEY) ELLIS Poem Source First Line: They met; for there was none to interfere Last Line: From its last throb of anguish and despair Subject(s): Despair; Prostitution LA REVANCHE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no more for me to hope Last Line: A vain remembrancer of me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Despair; Love LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All is far %and long gone by Last Line: Stands like a white city Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Lament; Solitude LAMENT OF THE ORGANIST OF NOTRE-DAME DE NICE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, already the winter crows Last Line: I have made for the death of the earth. Subject(s): Despair; Organs (musical Instruments) LAMENT OF THE PIANOS ... OVERHEARD IN WELL-TO-DO QUARTERS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lead the soul whom letters have well nourished Last Line: "o months, o linens, o meals!" Subject(s): Despair; Musical Instruments; Pianos LAST AND WORST, by FRANCES EKIN ALLISON Poem Text First Line: Upon life's highway I was hastening, when Last Line: Your banner of despair. Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 1. LORD CRASHTON, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joining sir ulick's at the river's bend Last Line: And curses all things from his easy chair. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Despair; Fields; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hamlet ballytullagh, small and old Last Line: Loy, a half-spade. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Despair; Mountains; Poverty; Solitude; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LETTERS TO YESENIN: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would surely be known for years after as the day I shot Last Line: Be trailed, got in my car and drove to new york nonstop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 19, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth Last Line: Shedding tunics in my path, all dead friends come to life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Miracles; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mushrooms helped again: walking hangdoggedly to the granary Last Line: Skips in the noose like a marlin bait. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin LETTERS TO YESENIN: 26, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going in the bar last sunday night I noticed that they were having Last Line: The pasture. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LETTERS TO YESENIN: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last and I'm shrinking from the coldness of your spirit: that Last Line: With faithfully until they cast you out. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Despair; Imaginary Conversations; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LIGHTY BOUND, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You beastly child, I wish you had miscarried Last Line: Do you suppose I shall say when I can go so easily? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Despair; Women LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man whose despair Last Line: Whereon one fine day, he rode wholly away, %which partly assuaged his despair Subject(s): Despair; Old Age LINDISFAIRE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horses go down the dingy lane Last Line: You'll find the old bay hunter there. Subject(s): Animals; Caregivers; Despair; Horses; Luck; Patience; Poverty LINES, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are waiting, some can't wait Subject(s): Despair; Contentment; Life LINES ON A YOUNG WOMAN, WHO AFTER .. WRETCHED MARRIAGE .. WENT MAD, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, ye dear ones! For I am at rest Last Line: Immortal blooming in the realms above Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Despair; Marriage LITTLE AIR: 2, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Inexorably bound / as my hope launching high Last Line: On some path to stay! Subject(s): Despair LONE WERE THE WAY, by EDWARD HEBENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone were the way o'er life's dark hills Last Line: To seek life's full fruition. Subject(s): Despair LONELY CABIN, by JOHN A. SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Some say the cabin fell almost apart Last Line: After she found her son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Despair; Mothers & Sons; Murder; Death - Babies LORD GREGORY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mirk, mirk is this midnight hour Last Line: His wrangs to heaven and me. Subject(s): Despair; Love LOST DREAMS, by CHARLES FRANKLIN HARRISON Poem Text First Line: I notice, as I pass them on the street Last Line: Of people anywhere: their dreams are dead. Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Nightmares LOUELLA WAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Louella wainie! Where are you Last Line: Louella wainie! Where are you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Night; Bedtime LOVE, THE MYSTIC THREAD, by EMMA GREGOR SOUTHWICK Poem Text First Line: Streaming o'er the trammeled ways Last Line: This veiled, this mystic thread of life. Subject(s): Despair LOVED ONCE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I classed, appraising once Last Line: Who dream that they loved once. Subject(s): Complacency; Despair MAGGIE'S FIND ON SKYE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Good brother in christ, greetings! Our lord Last Line: He suffers mee here. May hee bless and keep you Subject(s): Despair; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAN IN THE STREET OR HAND OVER MOUTH, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He claps a hand Subject(s): Despair MARIANA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With blackest moss the flower-plots Last Line: O god, that I were dead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Dramatists; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Solitude; Dramatists; Loneliness MARIANA IN THE SOUTH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With one black shadow at its feet Last Line: To live forgotten, and love forlorn.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Despair; Solitude MARY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mary, the first time she ever was there Last Line: That shall never be quiet till laid on its bier Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology MARY ROCKWELL TALKS TO HER SON IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER HE'S BEEN....., by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: There was no button on the tip? Last Line: In the light of this rosy day Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Mothers And Sons; Sympathy MATTER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a live man Last Line: Than it is to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Despair; Dead, The MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MISERY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath not met with home-made bread Last Line: A flint with a parish hammer! Subject(s): Despair; Pain; Suffering; Misery MOAN ON THE PRARIE, by MARY F. COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: O god, I work and watch here all day long Last Line: Hard sticks by noon -- death's bones, come night! Subject(s): Despair MOTHERHOOD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't knock on my door, little child Last Line: I cannot give you birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Variant Title(s): Black Woman Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Despair; Mothers; Pregnancy MUNICH ELEGY NO. 1, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those occasions involving the veering of axles Last Line: Laugh, my comedians, who may not laugh again - soon, soon, %soon jeremiah job will be walking among Subject(s): Despair; War MUSIC-RAIN, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: He sat-a tall and wraith-like form Last Line: Soft showers revived, brought joy again. Subject(s): Despair; Rain; Thunder MY ALCOVE, by JAMES R. AGGELES Poem Text First Line: I hold a song within my heart Last Line: Give voice to what they know. Subject(s): Despair MY CAUTIOUS COMING, by MAJA HADERLAP Poem Source First Line: My cautious coming into the world forces me into embarrassment, no longer Last Line: Nor corrupting. The watery mosaics are surging everywhere. I am entering, I %enter Subject(s): Despair MY LIFE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All my life long I've wandered on so sadly Last Line: Whispering low: joy dwells beyond the skies! Subject(s): Despair NATURE'S REMORSES; ROME, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her soul was bred by a throne, and fed Last Line: Sunshine from heaven, and the eyes of a child. Subject(s): Italy; Remorse; Despair; Italians NEW YEAR'S EVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no change upon the air Last Line: My heart is its own grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Despair; Holidays; New Year NO NEWS HERE, by BETH GYLYS Poem Text First Line: I'm covered in cat hair, my arms Subject(s): Despair NO SICKNESS OF THE FLESH IS OURS TODAY, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: Athirst for faith, to beg for faith not daring Subject(s): Despair NOT HEAVING FROM MY RIBB'D BREAST ONLY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs Subject(s): Despair; Anger NOTHING FOR IT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your glassy wind breaks on a shoutless shore and stirs around the rose Last Line: Nothing for it just row Subject(s): Despair; Stoicism NOW THE BIRDS ARE LEAVING, by BERNART DE VENTADORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strange new tidings of me Last Line: Your hostage while I'm here Alternate Author Name(s): Bernard De Ventadour Subject(s): Death; Despair; Longing ODE AGAINST DESPAIR: LE SPLEEN, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou dimpled cherub, joy Last Line: "my last, fond, falt'ring words to hear!" Subject(s): Despair ODE TO DESPAIR, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou spectre of terrific mien! Last Line: Till I may claim the hope -- that shall not fade! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Despair ODE TO PEACE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! Last Line: "farewell! We meet no more""?" Subject(s): Despair ODE, FR. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As it fell upon a day, / in the merry month of may Last Line: Faithfull friend, from flatt'ring foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): To The Nightingale;philomel Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Nightingales ON A CERTAIN SPINSTER WHO LINGERED IN CHURCH, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Not hers the hungry gaze of souls unwed Last Line: And needs must wait till each have said his prayer. Subject(s): Churches; Despair; Prayer; Cathedrals ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON, by HANNAH COWLEY Poem Text First Line: Ill-fated chatterton! For thee I raise Last Line: My tears, my verse, shall consecrate thy name! Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah Variant Title(s): Monologue Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Despair ON THE DEATH OF SIR W. RUSSELL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doomed as I am in solitude to waste Last Line: All that delights the happy--palls with me! Subject(s): Despair ONE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was an only child I carried Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Despair; Work; Workers ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR 1862, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are pale, the trees are stiff Last Line: Will soon be driven out. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Despair; Hope; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Optimism OUTPOST DUTY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That bloody witch,' the freezing out- / posts called her Last Line: Of thine old sweetness give. Subject(s): Despair; Witchcraft & Witches OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Difficult to pinpoint Last Line: Bullet templed, rip the mind out. Go ahead Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Difficult to pinpoint Last Line: Bullet templed. Rip the mind out. Go ahead Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn will clear through the night rains so hard. Rain Last Line: Thought-damaged throat Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn will clear through the night rains so hard. Rain Last Line: Thought-damaged throat Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember a future Last Line: Sense, jane, disabled Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember a future Last Line: Sense, jane. Disabled Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assurance collapses naturally Last Line: Yourself. All I want Subject(s): Despair; Self OVERVIEW IS A PLACE (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assurance collapses naturally Last Line: Yourself. All I want Subject(s): Despair; Self OWL, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: Behind his feigned blindness Last Line: Night screams with sparks Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Disappeared Persons; Owls PAIN, by MBELLA SONNE DIPOKO Poem Source First Line: All was quiet in this park Last Line: Like wild gum on tree-trunks Subject(s): Despair; Human Rights PAIN, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: The darkness of night is broken Last Line: Than complete release from pain? Subject(s): Despair; Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mystery that walks the earth Last Line: Thou feelest that I am! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Despair; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Last Line: I rest in the grace of the world, and am free Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness PEAR TREE, BARTLETT, QUOTATIONS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unswim the sky, clouds row across Subject(s): Mothers; Despair PLAINT OF FRIENDSHIP BY DEATH BROKEN, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, if thou livest, thine eye on me bend Last Line: Bid his dark, pitying eyes upon me bend, %and his hand heal,or I must needs despair Subject(s): Despair POOR BLACK BESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when fortune, blind goddess, she fled my abode" Last Line: "then farewell for ever, my poor black bess" Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;despair;fortune;horses PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birches are mad with green points Last Line: And it ends. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Despair; Brothers POSTSCRIPT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 8:12 a.M. All of the watches in the world are being wound Last Line: Decided to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Despair; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The PSYCHOLOGY FIVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: No more of despair you poets Last Line: "only means sanitation and health." Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness QUATRAINS (FOR FOUR DRAWINGS BY JORGE PALOMINO): 2. DESPAIR, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Now cracks the dead heart's ashen core in twain Last Line: Plunged to abysmal night. Subject(s): Despair; Night; Bedtime QUOTIDIAN (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we live Last Line: What the hardware of slumber draws below Subject(s): Despair; Self QUOTIDIAN (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night sky %all day the light Last Line: Its murmurous mirror Subject(s): Despair; Self QUOTIDIAN (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its drained tongue Last Line: Here in the skin of -- otherwise) shoveling out, dryly Subject(s): Despair; Self RAIN SONG, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The radio blares “dialogue of souls Last Line: Those who despair Subject(s): Rain; Despair; Youth; Family Life; Coming Of Age; Relatives RECONCILIATION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some may have blamed you that you took away Last Line: My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Despair; Reconciliation RECONSTRUCTION, by IRENE H. WILSON Poem Text First Line: I hear the noisy breaking sound Last Line: With an open heart, forget, just give. Subject(s): Despair REFUGE, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as you climb the tenement stairs Subject(s): Tenementsl Despair REMEMBRANCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis done! - I saw it in my dreams Last Line: Would I could add remembrance too! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Despair; Love RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she arrived Last Line: She laughed. She was laughing. She was lying. The rain Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (10), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the naked nude must stagger the soul's Last Line: A bold personification of sky: purview Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day it is happy birthday or I love you or how did you know? Last Line: Lying on the ground too ironic to call for help Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here. Take the photo. In the photo she is not gorgeous Last Line: I was alive. Did I say this? I asked. I stood up. The rain Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the arrival of everyone, drinking glass after glass Last Line: The sky is blue. This in time reminds. Stands one up Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laughter has the house to itself. It wraps to hide Last Line: Ever peaceful. Tell her, she cannot rest there Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (5), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the untrained ear Last Line: She didn't appeal to him Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (6), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later in a bar with a friend. He muses: there we were Last Line: Even with her wet eyelash picking up dust she must realize Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (7), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In another language hunger might bring her to her feet Last Line: What put her here brought her to the ground so to speak Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (8), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or did she (not he) simply stretch out? She Last Line: Is a mountain range pulsing Subject(s): Despair; Self RESIDUAL IN THE HOUR (9), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day it is happy birthday or I love you or how did you know? Last Line: Lying on the ground too ironic to call for help Subject(s): Despair; Self RETURNING TO EARTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She / pulls the sheet of this dance Last Line: Let the predator love his prey. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Despair; Introspection; Magic; United States; America RICHARD CORY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever richard cory went down town Last Line: Went home and put a bullet through his head. Subject(s): Despair; Suicide; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ROMANCE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand sea birds all pale gray Last Line: What good will it do her, do you suppose? Subject(s): Despair RUNNING ACROSS TO THE LOT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our fathers were dead and %our brothers were dying Subject(s): African Americans - History; Despair; Ethnic Identity; Slavery SAFE DESPAIR IT IS THAT RAVES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor is dying double Subject(s): Life; Death; Despair SARA TEASDALE, by ERMA MELLISH Poem Text First Line: You did not climb the stairs alone last night Last Line: Edged dagger deep into his contrite heart. Subject(s): Cups; Despair; Stairs SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pined I am and like to die Last Line: Ere long I'll try what it will do. Subject(s): Despair SHAWHAN, KENTUCKY: WINTER 1978, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The trees explode outward Last Line: In the snow and fiercely live Subject(s): Despair; Kentucky; Labor And Laborers; Snow; Winter SHE BLOOMS NO MORE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dread to see the summer sun Last Line: Is still a waste to me. Subject(s): Despair SHYLOCK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from the court he locked the door and sat Subject(s): Hate; Despair; Conduct Of Life SINGING FAITH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness and doubt and despair Last Line: Love? It bewitches the way. Subject(s): Despair; Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Singing & Singers; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Songs SLEEP, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou drowsy god, whose blurred Last Line: Swallows and licks its wet lips over me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Night; Orphans; Sleep; Bedtime; Foundlings SMALL POEM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something I've never known Last Line: A shepherd's crook of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair SOFTENED BY TIME'S CONSUMMATE PLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So easy to repair Subject(s): Children; Despair; Time; Healing SOLITUDE, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER Poem Text First Line: O, mountain, wearing diadem of stars Last Line: Dark mountain, where pale dogwood waits for spring. Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Mountains; Solitude; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness SONG, by JOHN CUTTS Poem Text First Line: Only tell her that I love Last Line: Why, o why should I despair? Alternate Author Name(s): Cutts Of Gowran, Baron Subject(s): Despair SONG OF FAIRLY UTTER DESPAIR (1), by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Now, alas, it is too late Last Line: He does not grieve for what I've missed, %and yet I'm called an anarchrist! Subject(s): Despair SONG OF FAIRLY UTTER DESPAIR (2), by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: For sheer urbanity, I deem Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Despair SONG OF FAIRLY UTTER DESPAIR (3), by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I want to take a ship and go Subject(s): Despair SONG OF FAIRLY UTTER DESPAIR (4), by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I'm tired of work, I'm tired of play Subject(s): Despair SONG OF FAIRLY UTTER DESPAIR (5), by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: My heart is broken, my life is ended Subject(s): Despair SONG OF FAIRLY UTTER DESPAIR (6), by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: This black predicament I sing Subject(s): Despair SONG ON CLIMBING YU-CHOU GATE TOWER, by CH'EN TZU-ANG Poem Source First Line: Behind me I do not see the ancient men Last Line: Thinking of the endlessness of heaven and earth, %alone in despair, my tears fall down Alternate Author Name(s): Po-yu Subject(s): Despair SONG: 10, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wish and want and not obtain Last Line: What may it avail me? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Despair; Fortune; Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 25, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live thou gladly if so thou may Last Line: Vain is all trust of man's refuge. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Despair; Virtue SONG: 4, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were in the valley-land Last Line: Beside me, love, in my despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair SONG: 45, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What death is worse than this? Last Line: A deadly life in woe? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 63 Subject(s): Despair 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 SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 9, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it, o love, thy want of eyes Last Line: And double glory thine. Subject(s): Despair; Eyes; Fates (mythology); Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve Last Line: Dimming her lonely visions of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Despair SONNET: A YEAR AGO, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago I too was proud of may Subject(s): Past; Despair SONNET: 144, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Two loves I have of comfort and despair Last Line: Till my bad angel fire my good one out. Variant Title(s): "two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair""; Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 27, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know I am but summer to your heart Last Line: Even your summer in another clime. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Love SONNET: 33, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect love is nourished by despair Last Line: Would to my sense thy loveliness restore. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Despair SONNET: TO EVA, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All right, let's say you could take a skull and break it Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair SOUTH, by LEON LEIVA GALLARDO Poem Source First Line: I come from a place Last Line: No one calls on them Subject(s): Despair; Hunger; Poverty SPIRITUAL: THE LONELY MOTHER, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my mother's moaning by the river Last Line: Swaying for her son who walks in sorrow. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Black Songs; Despair; Mothers; Negro Spirituals ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is come, no fears disturb Last Line: And ye had joy in heaven. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Despair; France; Freedom; Future Life; Guilt; Saints; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life STANZAS, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this vain, busy world, where the good and the gay Last Line: Since the world, the base world has no pleasure for me. Subject(s): Despair; Earth; World STANZAS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hopes that allured me Last Line: Tis the scream of the vulture despair at his prey. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness SUGGESTIONS BY STEAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When woman is in rags, and poor Last Line: "to that small voice that crieth—""stop her!" Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Hunger; Poverty; Women; Sorrow; Sadness SUSPENSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman's figure, on a ground of night Last Line: "throbs love's eternal lie -- ""lo, I can wait!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Love; Suspense; Tears TESTIMONIAL (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if I craved error, as if love were ahistorical Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if I craved error, as if love were ahistorical Last Line: It was june and brilliant. The sun higher than god Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (2). ATLANTIC SHORES, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this bed, a man on his back, his eyes Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (2). ATLANTIC SHORES, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this bed, a man on his back, his eyes Last Line: As all the hurt this world could give Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gnaw. Zigzag. The end of the alphabet buckling floors Last Line: The outside tap turns tentatively on Subject(s): Despair; Self TESTIMONIAL (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lower the lids and the mind swims out into Last Line: So say, this earth untouched is ruptured enough to grieve Subject(s): Despair; Self THE ALBION BATTLESHIP CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 21st of june Last Line: The less chance we have of being killed. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Despair; Dead, The THE BEGGAR, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Poor, blind pete Last Line: O, in the name of god! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Begging & Beggars; Despair; Poverty THE BIRD OF PARADISE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes kate summers who, for gold Last Line: "perched on the bedpost there!'" Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Despair THE BRAZEN HEAD: CHAUNT 2, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world pursues the very track Last Line: There's nothing new beneath the sun! Subject(s): Despair THE BROKEN HEART, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now lock my chamber-door, father Last Line: And the dear home beyond them! Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Despair; Mothers-in-law 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 CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 1-3, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That matter of the murder is hushed up Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Despair; Gothic Drama; Hate; Italy; Italians THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 4-5, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She comes not, yet I left her even now Last Line: We are quite ready. Well -- 't is very well. Subject(s): Despair; Hate; Italy; Italians THE CITY OF DESPAIR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn comes not: / and I have waited Last Line: Above the sodden citadel of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Cities; Dawn; Despair; Evil; Urban Life; Sunrise THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT: 21, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anear the centre of that northern crest Last Line: And confirmation of the old despair. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Variant Title(s): Melencolia Subject(s): Art & Artists; Despair; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Engraving & Engravers THE COLLAR, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I struck the board and cried, no more Last Line: And I replied, my lord. Subject(s): Anger; Christianity; Despair; Faith; God; Revolutions; Belief; Creed THE COMPLAINT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now angry juno sends from heaven in spite Last Line: Which still with fresh assaults renews my pain. Subject(s): Despair THE DARKLING THRUSH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leant upon a coppice gate Last Line: And I was unaware. Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Hope; Thrushes; Optimism THE DAY THAT WAS THAT DAY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind rose, and the wind fell Subject(s): Women; Despair; Loveless; Poisons & Poisoning; Family Life; Relatives THE DERELICT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beyond the rim of waters vast Last Line: And break the fatal spell. Subject(s): Desolation; Despair; Heaven; Paradise THE DESPAIR, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this gloomy shade Last Line: That thou shouldst come to live it o're again in mee? Subject(s): Despair THE DESPAIRING LOVER, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Distracted with care / for phyllis the fair Last Line: To his cottage again. Subject(s): Despair; Love - Unrequited THE DESPAIRING WANDERER, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! 'tis an hour to misery dear! Last Line: And midst the war of nature ... Laugh! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Despair; Wandering & Wanderers THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are welcome to your country, dear antonio Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Freedom; Love; Religion; Tragedy; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology THE EASTERN KING: THE PILGRIM'S TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He flung back the chaplet, he threw down the wine Last Line: Like the lone lily on his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Despair THE EVERLASTING BATTLE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When in my shadowy hours I pierce the Last Line: I am of dana's race divine and know I am immortal still. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Immortality; Mythology - Celtic; Optimism THE FACE, by EBENEZER JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These dreary hours of hopeless gloom Last Line: God still must find alone my prayer. Subject(s): Despair; Faces THE FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FISH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pale woman is cradling a large red fish Last Line: Swims toward the bottom to sleep in the mud. Subject(s): Despair; Fish & Fishing; Hope; Salvation; Anglers; Optimism THE FLIGHT OF LOVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lamp is shattered Last Line: When leaves fall and cold winds come. Variant Title(s): Lines Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THE GARDEN OF LOVE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the garden of love Last Line: And binding with briars my joys & desires. Subject(s): Bible; Despair; Mythology; Religion; Theology THE HANDS THAT HANG DOWN, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, I am so tired! Last Line: To pity and despise! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 38. THE MORROW'S MESSAGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ghost,' I said, 'and is thy name today?' Last Line: "and thrice,--whereby the shadow of death is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 4. LOVESIGHT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When do I see thee most, beloved one? Last Line: The wind of death's imperishable wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 46. PARTED LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of this embattled day Last Line: And thy heart rends thee, and thy body endures. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 53. WITHOUT HER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of her glass without her? The blank gray Last Line: Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THE IMMIGRANT, by MARGUERITE CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Beyond the empty cot, the lawn Last Line: Into bleak eternities. Subject(s): Despair THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE IMPROVISATORE: LEOPOLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle is over; the dews of the fog Last Line: The storm was hushed. Men tell not where he went. Subject(s): Adoption; Betrayal; Blood; Clergy; Death; Despair; Evil; Loss; Love; Violence; War; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold. Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs THE LAST HOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Lord, in the gloom of my distress Last Line: "and ""death"" were life's supreme appeal." Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Despair; God; Hope; Religion; Dead, The; Optimism; Theology THE LIGHT OF LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds have deepened o'er the Last Line: With love and laughter here? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Light; Love; Night; Wind; Bedtime THE LIVING LOST, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Matron! The children of whose love Last Line: A gloom from which ye turn your eyes. Subject(s): Despair THE LOST SHEEP, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou grantest ease of heart, o lord Last Line: I die of my despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Despair THE LOVER SHOWETH HOW HE IS FORSAKEN, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They flee from me that sometime did me seek Last Line: I would fain know what she hath deserved. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Remembrance;vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus;they Flee From Me;ballade: 2;the Lover Showeth How He Is Abandoned Of Such As He Onetime Enjoyed Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Falcons; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE MANIAC, by MARY BRYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My own maria! -- ah my own -- my own! Last Line: In memory's tenderest thoughts, I have been all thine own! Subject(s): Despair; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE MASK, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am as some frail harlot whose pale face Last Line: The leprous growth of my immense despair. Subject(s): Despair; Faces; Masks; Secrets THE MOURNING-GARMENT: PHILADOR'S ODE, HE LEFT WITH DESPAIRING LOVER, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When merry autumn in her prime Last Line: And counted love but venus' mocks. Subject(s): Despair; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Odes (as Poetic Form) 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 PATH OF TEARS: 2. THE SILENCE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since thus I have endowed you with the whole Last Line: A load of passionate silence and despair. Subject(s): Despair; Hearts; Love; Passion; Regret THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness 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 PURCHASE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a gold may morning Last Line: "despair's was what you took!" Subject(s): Despair; Merchants THE RAVAGED FACE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outlandish as a circus, the ravaged face Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Self; Despair THE RIDER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the horses of desire Last Line: Shall find my tomb. Subject(s): Despair; Graves; Moon; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones THE RIVER OF RUIN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along by the river of ruin Last Line: To the desolate sea of despair. Subject(s): Despair THE SAINT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is someone smiling at me from behind Last Line: In the illusion that it sets them free. Subject(s): Comfort; Despair THE SICK ROSE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, thou art sick! Last Line: Does thy life destroy. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Despair; Flowers; Mythology; Roses; Worms; Dead, The THE SONG OF THE SUMMER, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I am here! I flower in all the trees Last Line: With promise burdened and with summer thrilled! Subject(s): Despair; Love; Passion THE SPELL IS BROKE, THE CHARM IS FLOWN!, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Life; Despair THE SUMMER MALISON, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maidens shall weep at merry morn Last Line: Its dearest changed to bores. Subject(s): Despair THE SUNDERLAND CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the town of sunderland, and in the year of 1883 Last Line: To aid and comfort the bereaved parents in their grief. Subject(s): Charity; Children; Despair; Grief; Pity; Philanthropy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE TERRIBLE SONNETS: 3, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day Last Line: As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. Variant Title(s): "i Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day"";sonnet: 67; Subject(s): Despair; Hate THE TRAGIC WINDS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in a rich chamber candle-dim Last Line: And day brought other worlds to rule my own. Subject(s): Despair; Tragedy THE TWO VOICES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still small voice spake unto me Last Line: Than him that said, 'rejoice! Rejoice!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Despair; Nature; Suicide THE UNKNOWN WAY, by E. B. KAY Poem Text First Line: I knew the way, but somehow I have lost it Last Line: Leaves ageless, countless memories behind? Subject(s): Despair THE VANDAL, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot find this english woodland fair Last Line: Rides madly through the wonderland of life? Subject(s): Death; Despair; Dead, The THE VEILED AVENGER; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am he Last Line: His own bitter infinite cry we hear him cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Dreams; Pity; Redemption; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE VOLUPTUARY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I am sick of love reciprocated Last Line: Keeps not the pleasure even of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Love; Pleasure THE WINE OF NIGHT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come,drink the mystic wine of night Last Line: With faith and fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Despair; Drinks & Drinking; War; Wine THESE ARE BUT WORDS; THE SONNET, by MUNA LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What other form were worthy of your praise Last Line: Love is the hardest where all things are hard. Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): Despair; Happiness; Love; Seasons; Joy; Delight THEY PASS, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have seen the valiant ones go by Last Line: Have nothing else to offer but a song ....? Subject(s): Despair; Soldiers THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breake now, my heart, and dye! Oh no, she may relent Last Line: At last a shaft daunted, which his hart did feele. Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS SHARING ANYONE ELSE'S DESPAIR, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Despair THREE SHORT POEMS: 3, by PAAVO HAAVIKKO Poem Source First Line: The woman raises her garment, rain, wind, darkness rise Last Line: We have visitors: darkness, wind, poverty Subject(s): Despair; Poverty; Pregnancy THY WILL BE DONE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: From out of the travail of my soul Last Line: I know that now I see. Subject(s): Despair; Prayer TIME, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: O sacred time! Forever lost Last Line: By hopelessness to night. Subject(s): Despair TINY MODEL, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: I had the impression that the study was empty. It seemed like Last Line: Being that gruesome preacher's muse!' Subject(s): Child Molesting; Children; Despair TIS SAID, THAT SOME HAVE DIED FOR LOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Such happiness as I have known to-day Subject(s): Despair; Suicide TO DELIA: 39, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read in my face a volume of despairs Last Line: The temple where her name was honored still. Subject(s): Despair; Helen Of Troy; Love; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Similes TO DELIA: 41, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall I in mine affliction mourn Last Line: Yet deigns not with one simple sign t' express it. Subject(s): Despair; Faith; Love; Belief; Creed TO DELIA: 45, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night Last Line: And never wake to feel the day's disdain. Variant Title(s): "to Delia: 51;sonnet On Sleep;to Delia: 49;""care-charmer Sleepe, Sonne Of The Sable Night""; Subject(s): Despair; Love; Nature; Night; Sleep; Bedtime TO THE RING NEBULA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pallid spectre of the midnight skies Last Line: Alike obey the power pervading space. Subject(s): Despair; Life; Soul TO THE STREET PIANO: A LABOURER'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the day I worked and played Last Line: I hope to die to-night. Subject(s): Despair; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO YOU I TURN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To you I turn in time of stress Last Line: To you I turn! Subject(s): Despair; Love - Nature Of TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who distributes the live or die Last Line: Is all effort to shape what surfaces within the sane Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ignore your own devastation and it doggedly shadows, resurfacing Last Line: We can enter into hell and still sit down for sunday dinner Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inconsolable outdoorness of the heart Last Line: Waiting-dear, heart, you break in two. You do not break into Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (4), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Privately, %dukes up, duel or duck, beat on Last Line: Calm, outside the mirror Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (5), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if anguishing should be excrement Last Line: As if anguishing Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (6), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plunging. This time complex Last Line: The floor). Sit down the long while Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (7), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mosquitoes abundant, limit of white wall, stray thread, this Last Line: I apologize, but I do not apologize Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (8), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sit next to the self Last Line: As if grief needs to be and is in the end, anyway Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD BIOGRAPHY (9), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue is a muscle Last Line: Better to curse, shut up, before understanding sets in Subject(s): Despair; Self TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not chastity that made me cold nor fear Last Line: Fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bible; Chastity; Despair; Weapons; Ammunition TRAGIC NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, and a glare of lamps set in the rain Last Line: But living holds hell's infinite distress. Subject(s): Despair; London; Night; Bedtime TRIUMPHANT NIGHT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once I wandered lonely in the night Last Line: And sweep away the swarm of stars above us. Subject(s): Despair; London; Night; Bedtime TWO SONNETS: 1, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since all is vanity - o shrewdest preacher! Last Line: Surely the wiser part would be to end it! Subject(s): Despair; Mankind; Human Race ULMARRA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone - alone! / with a heart like a stone Last Line: Oh! Her heart it is wasted with crying! Subject(s): Despair UNCLE BOB, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle bob lay on the settle Last Line: "and ""tea! Tea!"" she said, ""uncle bob." Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The UNLESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not wanted does not guess Last Line: You to your own at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Love; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery UNREST, by THOMAS GORDON HAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a remnant of old paradise Last Line: To weave for evermore a world's despair. Subject(s): Despair UPON HER SOOTHING BREAST, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mothers; Despair UPON THE TROUBLESOME TIMES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Times most bad Last Line: And perish at the last. Subject(s): Despair VICISSITUDES, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: I remember passionate flights Last Line: Heaven after hell. Subject(s): Despair VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VORKUTA, by HORST BIENEK Poem Source First Line: In vorkuta no disciple of the lord Last Line: Drift to the rivers with the melting snow Subject(s): Despair; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners VOYAGER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Digging my claws in sand, I crawled ashore Last Line: And know no more than he what victory was. Subject(s): Despair; Heroism; Homecoming; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WALKING AROUND, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It so happens I'm tired of just being a man Last Line: Slowly dribbling a slovenly tear Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Death; Despair; Solitude WHAT COMES, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Despair WHEN I DO MOCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I do mock the blackness of the night Last Line: That I might drowse away such rhymes as these. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Moon; Night; Rhyme; Bedtime WHEN MY HEART IS VEXED I WILL COMPLAIN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, how canst thou say thou lovest me Last Line: Yea, thou shalt wake in paradise with me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Despair; God WHERE IS THE SEA? (1), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy with his skate, the man in llove, st. Christopher Last Line: I will dance to the rhythm. You will play Subject(s): Despair; Self WHERE IS THE SEA? (2), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though we nedd make civil the war in our hearts, deeper is Last Line: For you, willingly, every day, room for she, my suitcase, all my stuff? Subject(s): Despair; Self WHERE IS THE SEA? (3), by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To locate the self salvaged. Persuaded by, within the drawn Last Line: There must be an uninvolved and there, outrageous calm Subject(s): Despair; Self WHITE ROSES, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Raw as %marrow, blossoming, they burn Last Line: Of an endless winter, drawing %blood Subject(s): Despair; Flowers; Passion; Roses WHY AM I A SLAVE?, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Source First Line: Why do I bear that cursed name? Last Line: There is no hope, no joy for me, %I am a slave -- a slave! Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Despair; Slavery WILD GEESE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not have to be good Subject(s): Geese; Despair; Conduct Of Life WINTER AND SUMMER, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my head, aches the perpetual winter Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Despair; Summer; Winter WINTER AND SUMMER, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my head, aches the perpetual winter Last Line: The garden, falsified by snow, %waiting to melt, and become real again Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Despair; Summer; Winter WINTER LANDSCAPE, WITH ROOKS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Despair WINTER SUNSET, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a sorrowful sunset we had tonight Last Line: Of this rotten brain which was the earth, one day. Subject(s): Despair; Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight WISTFULNESS, by KATHARINE ADAMS Poem Text First Line: I could not see the land Last Line: Out in the night. Subject(s): Despair YET, YET, YE DOWNCAST HOURS, I KNOW YE ALSO, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A young man's voice, shall I not escape? Subject(s): Despair |
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