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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DOUBT Matches Found: 90 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DOUBT, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how the right may be Last Line: Are farthest off from earthly pride. Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism A LOVE TEST, by CARL HERLOZSSOHN Poem Text First Line: Sweet, do you ask me if you love or no? Last Line: Believe me, darling, that your heart is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Herlosssohn, Carl Subject(s): Doubt; Love - Nature Of; Romance; Skepticism A MAN-MADE HADES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were sent to build a hell Last Line: My hell of indecision. Subject(s): Doubt; Hell; Pain; Punishment; Skepticism; Suffering; Misery A ROOT OF DOUBT, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: You doubt if there be any god? Last Line: And you will know. Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits on the bed Last Line: Unlike any other. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Love - Erotic; Self-doubt; Sex A SOLILOQUY ON THE COURSE AND CONSQUENCE OF A DOUBTING MIND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I muse, I doubt, I reason, and debate Last Line: A blessed christian, or a cursed fool. Subject(s): Doubt; Reason; Selflessness; Solitude; Thought; Skepticism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Thinking ABDUCTOR, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I cannot correct my name. Because the boat Subject(s): Doubt; Love; Marriage; Skepticism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER IKKYU: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After thirty years of work Last Line: These chess pieces, slippery with blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism ALWAYS, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always so late in the day Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism AN AGNOSTIC, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No disciple am I, lord Last Line: And I follow thee. Subject(s): Agnosticism; Doubt; Faith; God; Religion; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Theology AS SOMETIMES IN A GROVE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As sometimes in a grove at morning chime Last Line: Thou, god, content us. Subject(s): God; Doubt; Faith ATHEISM: FAITH, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of doubt - faith is the subtle chain Last Line: That questions of thy faith, the cold external doubt. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Atheism; Doubt; Faith; Life; Skepticism; Belief; Creed BELLS OF DUMBLETON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So frankly had the cowslips come Last Line: Friend! Subject(s): Bells; Religion; Self-doubt; Theology BIRTH-DUES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely Last Line: Have paid my birth-dues; am quits with the people Subject(s): God; Doubt; Skepticism BUDDHISTS SAY EVERYTHING IS LED BY MIND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A bottle of red wine in thirty-three minutes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Doubt; Nature CARNAGE: 1. DOUBT, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So thin, so frail the opalescent ice Last Line: Is hell so near to every human heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Doubt; Peace; Sacrifices; Survival; World War I; Skepticism; First World War CONFESSION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because she spoke no word, but parted wide Last Line: Nothing shall change it till the change of death!' Subject(s): Bashfulness; Doubt; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Silence; Shyness; Skepticism; Male-female Relations DESCENDE CAELO, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world gives little scope Last Line: When you strew them on my bier! Subject(s): Doubt; Life DISBELIEF, by DOUG MACLEOD Poem Source First Line: I don't believe in werewolves Last Line: Just tapped me on the shoulder Subject(s): Doubt; Werewolves DOUBT, by ISABEL M. FLEMING Poem Text First Line: You vowed you cared / I did not think to Last Line: Seeds of doubt! Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism DOUBT, by FERNAND GREGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying upon the topmost boughs Last Line: Lord, who perhaps are not! Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism DOUBT, by FERNAND GREGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the topmost branches dies Last Line: Thee who, perhaps, art not at all. Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism DOUBT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee death were far more merciful Last Line: And broken ere it reach the stream below. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism DOUBT, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creeds grow so thick along the way Last Line: Their boughs hide god; I cannot pray. Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism DOUBT, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chick has just so much time Subject(s): Doubt; Chickens; Skepticism DOUBTS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if guys think I can't kiss because I can think? Subject(s): Self-doubt; Kisses DOUBTS, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: We are swimming underwater Last Line: By the immediate mercy Subject(s): Doubt DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore FATHER, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of father - if thou wouldst indeed Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Doubt; Religion GARDEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After the wedding she glimpsed herself Last Line: She didn't like the way %her bones were arranged. Subject(s): Marriage; Self-doubt I DOUBT IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When a pair of red lips are upturned to your own Last Line: "will you guard it and keep it, and act the good part? / well, maybe you will- but I doubt it" Subject(s): Doubt;flirtation; Skepticism I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do it anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mirrors; Nature; Self-doubt I STAND, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When love succumbs to light Last Line: I stand with gathered strangers %at the christening of doubt. Subject(s): Doubt; Love IT COULDN'T BE DONE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody said that it couldn't be done Last Line: "that ""cannot be done,"" and you'll do it." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Doubt; Perseverance; Skepticism LINES BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, by JOHN BOWYER BUCHANAN NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loves that doubted, the loves that dissembled Last Line: What should they do but weep? Alternate Author Name(s): Nichols, Bowyer Subject(s): Doubt; Grief; Skepticism; Sorrow; Sadness LUCY, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, tho' thy song be sweet Last Line: A single life and liberty. Subject(s): Doubt; Marriage; Single People; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Skepticism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bachelors; Unmarried People MIRRORS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma makes me mad Subject(s): Grandparents; Beauty; Self-doubt; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ONE MOMENT OF DOUBT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose you should forget Last Line: Then face eternity? Subject(s): Doubt; Love; Skepticism OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt; Parenthood; Students OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Last Line: His bloody march across mexico Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt OWEN OF LANARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, welcome, mighty stranger Last Line: Welcome, owen of lanark! Subject(s): Doubt; Fear; Salvation; Skepticism POLLEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: ... For god, who gave us grace and harmony, Last Line: Pollen in the air? Subject(s): Doubt; God PRAYER OF AN UNBELIEVER, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Draw closer to me, god, than were I one Subject(s): Doubt; Religion PROGRAMS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the earth I am balancing on feels thin Last Line: Accusing each otgher of murder Subject(s): Doubt PROPHETIC SOUL, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because your eyes are slant and slow Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism ROADSIDE POEMS: SAINT PETER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O peter, wherefore didst thou doubt? Last Line: And on the sea forget the land! Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; God; Jesus Christ; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.); Skepticism; Belief; Creed ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: THE UNBELIEVER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wilt repose within mine arms Last Line: I lay my eager finger. Subject(s): Doubt; Truth; Vision; Skepticism S. THOMAS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: I must not praise thee that thou tardy art Last Line: My god, my lord, for ever will I crie. Subject(s): Doubt; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Saints; Skepticism SECOND NOETIC HYMN, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe. Room for doubt Last Line: Fast red car soon out of human sight Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism SECOND THOUGHTS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Was it I who dreamed Last Line: In the endless, love! Subject(s): Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Love; Perseverance; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed 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 SKEPTIC, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far star that tickles for my my sensitive plate Last Line: Like a caul in which I was born and am still wrapped Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism SKEPTIC, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far star that tickles for my my sensitive plate Last Line: Like a caul in which I was born and still am wrapped Subject(s): Doubt SKEPTIC CHRISTMAS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noel! Noel? I hear the bells in the night Last Line: Brings poignant rumor of a far festivity. Subject(s): Christmas; Doubt; Nativity, The; Skepticism SKETCH FOR A JOB APPLICATION BLANK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left eye is blind and jogs like Last Line: Warmth, more warmth, I cry.) Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Self-doubt; Heritage; Heredity; Work; Workers SNOWMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: This is a poem for tom Last Line: For all of the good providers Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Labor And Laborers; Men; Murder; Self-doubt; Snow SONNET: DOUBT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "like to an hermit poor, in place obscure" Last Line: To let in death when love and fortune will Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism SWEET SKEPTICISM OF THE HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of transport thrilled with fear Variant Title(s): Poem: 1413; Poem: 143 Subject(s): Doubt THE ALTAR, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken altar, lord, thy servant reares Last Line: And sanctifie this altar to be thine. Subject(s): Altars; Doubt; Immortality; Skepticism THE BOOK, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal god! Maker of all Last Line: Who in them lov'd and sought thy face! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Books; Doubt; Reading; Skepticism THE CONFESSION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: We were both wrong Last Line: And both are right. Subject(s): Doubt; Errors; Forgiveness; Love - Complaints; Skepticism; Mistakes; Fallacies; Clemency THE DISCIPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are changed, and gone the day Last Line: In that fear doubteth thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Doubt; Education; Faith; Fathers & Sons; God; Humility; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE GREATEST SIN, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: My friend would guard my treasures as his own Last Line: He robbed me of my faith in god today. Variant Title(s): The Greater Sin Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; Friendship; God; Religion; Sin; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Theology THE HINDOO SCEPTIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I think till I weary with thinking Last Line: And your god be no reflex of you Subject(s): Doubt;god;hinduism;religion; Skepticism;theology THE MAN DIGGING, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The isle was barren. Far as hawk may scan Last Line: "the thing on which I lean, the spade of doubt." Subject(s): Digging & Diggers; Doubt; Islands THE MYSTERY, by C. E. DEAL Poem Text First Line: I know I am a mystery / a mystery for sure Last Line: Nor do I find a cure. Subject(s): Doubt; Mystery; Skepticism THE OLD SCEPTIC, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of disbelieving: why should I wound my love Last Line: And the sunset's evening hymn hallows the listening sea. Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE OLIVE GARDEN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He went up under the gray leaves Last Line: And shut from their own mothers' hearts Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism THE PALSY OF THE HEART, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the worlds of earth and sky Last Line: That sounds the depths to which we fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism THE PLACE OF JOY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The pilgrim sought the garden of delight Last Line: "until contentment blossoms in the breast." Subject(s): Doubt; Happiness; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Skepticism; Joy; Delight THE QUITTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It ain't the failures he may meet Last Line: You've got to quit your quittin' ! Subject(s): Doubt;failure; Skepticism THE SCEPTIC, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet were the faiths our wishes bred; cruel is faithless fate Last Line: "if only, o eternal, our despair may soon have died." Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE SCEPTIC, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the young eagle, with exulting eye Last Line: "and fondly say -- ""my child, for thee he died!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Doubt; Faith; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE SCEPTIC, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father christmas passed away Last Line: My god or santa claus. Subject(s): Christmas; Doubt; God; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Skepticism; Nicholas, Saint THE SCOFFER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had lived in franklin's time I'm most afraid Last Line: "and to myself I say, ""who knows but here's another ben?" Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Doubt; Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); Skepticism THE SHADOW, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was so good, we thought before she died Last Line: The awful shadow fell across her face. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Doubt THE STRANGER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crisis came. Before I could dart Last Line: A person ran whom I did not know. Subject(s): Self-doubt THE TROPHY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, now, my heart's my own again Last Line: The more he naked seems, the more he's arm'd. Subject(s): Victory; Doubt; Skepticism THE WANDERER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reared my growing soul on dainty food Last Line: Living and dying, thine. Subject(s): Doubt; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Wandering & Wanderers; Skepticism TO A SCEPTIC, by MARY CROSS Poem Text First Line: In the silence and calm of the night-time Last Line: And know not in vain did he bleed. Subject(s): Doubt; Religion; Skepticism; Theology TOES, by FREYA MANFRED Poem Source First Line: A woman lost both her big toes Last Line: Beneath the brussel sprouts %seventy-two toes under Subject(s): Accidents; Self-doubt; Toes UNCERTAINTY, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a phrase Last Line: Are softly blown. Subject(s): Doubt; Music & Musicians; Skepticism UNCLE JAKE AND THE LEVEE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De lord holps dem dat hopls deyselves Last Line: "he ain't de man what I tuck him fur!" Subject(s): African Americans; Doubt; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Negroes; American Blacks; Skepticism; Work; Workers; Theology VIOLIN SONGS: A SONG PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, / oh, ease us Last Line: To sing true. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Hope; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Solitude; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: OH THOU OF LITTLE FAITH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad-hearted, be at peace; the snowdrop lies Last Line: And in his heart thy prayer is resting now. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Skepticism; Belief; Creed WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wallace stevens comes hurrying down from the mountain Last Line: Hurries in, stiff and stern and almost like a hero. Subject(s): Doubt; Freedom; Immortality; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Skepticism; Liberty WHEN THE LAMP IS QUENCHED, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your casement bright athwart the night Last Line: Some heart—some life—has ceased to beat! Subject(s): Doubt; Hope; Light; Skepticism; Optimism WHEN THE ROLL IS CALLED UP YONDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Maybe. But maybe not Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Doubt; Nature WORK, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The work, which no one asked me to do Last Line: And start all over again Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self-doubt; Writing And Writers WRITTEN IN HER FRENCH PSALTER, by ELIZABETH I Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No crooked leg, no bleared eye Last Line: As in the inward suspicious mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth Subject(s): Self-doubt |
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