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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EMPATHY Matches Found: 82 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PASTORAL; MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDENNTS' SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There went out in the dawning light Last Line: "'come, play with me, my treasure!'" Subject(s): Children;sympathy; Childhood;empathy A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER ON RESIGNATION, FROM JACOB BEHMEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother in our saviour christ - his grace Last Line: And christian love here dictates what I say. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Sympathy; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy AD ASTRA: 112, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What man that hath a weak and ailing child Last Line: Heals every wound, and can all tears becalm. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sympathy; Childhood; Parenthood; Empathy AD ASTRA: 12, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: She weaves around us widening sympathies Last Line: The coward spite of many an evil tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy BLIND GIRL TO A SYMPATHIZER, by DOROTHY HARIMAN SUTTON Poem Text First Line: Could I not hear the suppliant whine Last Line: And you could truly say that I am blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Sympathy; Visually Handicapped; Empathy BRAHMS, NO. 2 D MAJOR, OP. 73, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now take this music: loose the sombre strands: Last Line: Say if you can I never loved you so. Subject(s): Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897); Music & Musicians; Sympathy; Empathy CLARISSA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All my charming loving offers Last Line: Till they scratch thy nose severely. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Sympathy; Tears; Empathy COMFORT ONE ANOTHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comfort one another; / for the way is growing dreary Last Line: But the presence of the lord, and for all his people room. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Love; Sympathy; Empathy CONSOLATION, by HAZEL REESE COLLINS Poem Text First Line: I traced your name in sand beside the sea Last Line: "his name is traced so deeply on your heart." Subject(s): Consolation; Sympathy; Empathy CONSOLATION, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, while the mourner stands beside the bier Last Line: And faith lies slumbering on the breast of love! Subject(s): Children - Lost; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Sympathy; Dead, The; Bereavement; Empathy CONSOLATION, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: It binds my spirit like a spell Last Line: Is not withheld from me. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy COUNSEL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am hardly afraid Last Line: They have grown. Subject(s): Advice; Sympathy; Empathy DESERT-ORBS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world, they tell us, dwindles Last Line: A memory of dew! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy ELEGY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The laundry-basket lid is still there Last Line: Entirely Subject(s): Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy ENSHRINED (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come quickly in and close the door Last Line: Untouched of human tenderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy EUREKA, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL Poem Text First Line: O hunters for gold Last Line: "may read ""eureka!" Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Sympathy; Empathy FRIEND, by HELEN HAYS HUTTON Poem Text First Line: The friend / who waits beside Last Line: Is death. Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Sympathy; Suffering; Misery; Empathy GIVE ME FLOWERS NOW, by NETTA LINDSEY Poem Text First Line: Why must you wait to bring flowers to me Last Line: Nor a costly monument placed at my head. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Love; Sympathy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Empathy HELPMATES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says the land. 'o sister sea Last Line: "tis in thy strength they stand!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Togetherness; Empathy HER TREE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sowed a seed of sorrow in the earth Last Line: They said it was the tree of sympathy! Subject(s): Sympathy; Trees; Empathy I SHALL NOT CARE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: While any lonely dog I meet Last Line: I shall not care. Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Sympathy; Joy; Delight; Empathy IN ADMONITION, by GRACE STILLMAN MINCK Poem Text First Line: The heavy drug of sympathy prevents Last Line: But never, as you love me, let me know! Subject(s): Pity; Sympathy; Empathy IN TALK WITH A PROSTITUTE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am no sorrier for you than I am for myself Last Line: Why should we pity each other here in the night? Subject(s): Prostitution; Sympathy; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Empathy IN TOUCH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slight soe'er the motion be Last Line: Reveals thee to my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy ISOLATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off a solitary peak Last Line: The mountain top and cold! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy LACKING TALENTS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I want to be a supplement of other lives Last Line: To help complete the day—a needed supplement. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy LIMITATIONS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Thou cravest sympathy yet never think Last Line: How much I dwarfed and wronged thy nature here below! Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Sympathy; Truth; World; Optimism; Empathy LITTLE JOHNNY, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Sing not, o blessed angels! Last Line: "and helpers of their joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Love; Sympathy; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Empathy LOVE IN THE DAWN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn, with hallowed flame, seemed to sing your name Last Line: Dawn again, dawn again, dawn again—with you! Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Sympathy; Togetherness; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Empathy MIRAGE (COPIED FROM AN OLD FLY-LEAF), by A. S. R. Poem Text First Line: We'll read that book, we'll sing that song Last Line: Remain to haunt us — unfulfilled. Subject(s): Friendship; Sympathy; Empathy MISPLACED SYMPATHY, by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little benny sat one evening Last Line: "mamma, isn't gettin' any!" Alternate Author Name(s): Strauss, Yawcob Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy MISPLACED SYMPATHY, by ZOE H. FELDWISCH Poem Text First Line: Poor city man! I pity you Last Line: Your unseeing eyes need my sympathy! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Sympathy; Urban Life; Empathy MY CAPTIVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought a blossom home with me Last Line: Of heaven, and heaven her countenance. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Heaven; Sympathy; Paradise; Empathy MY SORE THUMB, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I jabbed a jack-knife in my thumb Last Line: In my poor thumb! Subject(s): Accidents; Children; Sympathy; Thumbs; Childhood; Empathy NOT LOST, by RICHARD METCALF Poem Text First Line: The look of sympathy, the gentle word Last Line: These are not lost. Variant Title(s): These Are Not Lost Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 3, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There dwells the very soul of quietness Last Line: Sooner or later, and their cares confess. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy ON MEETING A REPROBATE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Small need to hang your head, avert your eye Last Line: A little sponge of love upon a reed. Subject(s): Love; Sympathy; Empathy ORGAN SONGS: SYMPATHY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grief held me silent in my seat Last Line: Smile in my infant's smile. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Grief; Sympathy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy PITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The twinkling mists of green and gold Last Line: From unknown hollows blew. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy PRAYER FOR A DAY'S WALK, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL Poem Text First Line: God let me find the lonely ones Last Line: In silent sympathy. Subject(s): Solitude; Sympathy; Loneliness; Empathy QUATORZAINS: 10. TO POESY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sister of my soul! Thou, that dost creep Last Line: And tremble in their loveliness and bliss. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sympathy; Empathy QUATRAIN: SYMPATHY, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: A flock of birds that far from woodland trees Last Line: Are sometimes found housed in a busy heart. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SHAPES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the longer view it doesn't matter Last Line: At the farthest edge; accepting that blur. Subject(s): Grief; Homeless; Loss; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy SIGNS OF WINTER, by LEONARD JENNEWEIN Poem Text First Line: Everywhere are signs of coming winter Last Line: Rustles leaves within my heart. Subject(s): Emotions; Sympathy; Winter; Empathy SMALL THINGS, by BERENICE K. BOSS Poem Text First Line: I love small things - a little bird that sings Last Line: A thimble on a sad-faced, lonely man. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SOMEP'N COMMON-LIKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somep'n 'at's common-like, and Last Line: As ef the lord wuz listenun. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Rhyme; Sympathy; Empathy STRONG MOMENTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sometimes I hear fine ladies sing Last Line: My weakness is they are so few. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHETIC, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I start out to walk, our dog he seems to know Last Line: He leaves me sittin' somewheres and a-feelin' just that way! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Sympathy; Childhood; Empathy SYMPATHY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There should be no despair for you Last Line: Still, never broken-hearted! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Perseverance; Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Ask god to give thee skill Last Line: Of christlike touch. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Religion; Sympathy; Theology; Empathy SYMPATHY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, neighbor, stranger, as the case may be Last Line: Scorched fiercest, if it might not be the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Soul; Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watch me in the gloaming Last Line: Loving god and man. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Peace; Sympathy; Tears; Dead, The; Empathy SYMPATHY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My joy leaps with your ecstasy Last Line: In my heart like bitter rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It comes not in such wise as she had deemed Last Line: While the hard pain dissolved in blessed tears. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, art thou drowning? So am I Last Line: Earth's richest sons. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY, by MARION H. RAND Poem Text First Line: Hide not thy secret grief Last Line: Smile, for thou hast a friend in heaven. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY, by MARY L. SEWARD Poem Text First Line: Come thou with me - thy clasped hand in Last Line: He'll linger not, for love will bid him flee. Alternate Author Name(s): Mumford, Mary L. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, alas I knew a gentle boy Last Line: Nor mortals know a sympathy more rare. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sympathy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Empathy SYMPATHY (1), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tear another's tears bring forth Last Line: A touch of the divine. Subject(s): Spring; Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY (2), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I know what the caged bird feels, alas! Last Line: I know why the caged bird sings! Subject(s): African Americans; Birdcages; Freedom; Sympathy; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Empathy SYMPATHY (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Of gladness or regret Last Line: Twixt the dewdrop and the tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy SYMPATHY; TO JULIA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our hearts, my love, were doom'd to be Last Line: "now, love, we feel together!" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy THE BEGGAR, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Showing his ill-made frame Last Line: "hiding his loneliness." Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Compassion; Sympathy; Empathy THE CHORD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this narrow cloister bound Last Line: One in heavenly desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy THE FRIEND WHO JUST STANDS BY, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When trouble comes your soul to try Last Line: "god bless the friend who just 'stands by'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy THE LAKE OF THE LOST PLEIAD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Enchanted lakelet! Crystal mountain well! Last Line: Her peace protected by these guardian hills. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Sympathy; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness; Empathy THE PEARL OF SYMPATHY, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: I sought in the crowded highway Last Line: The pearl of sympathy. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 85, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: She did not press him with unwelcome speech Last Line: Till he should choose to unburden all his woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Marriage; Sympathy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Empathy THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 88, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: No more she marvell'd that her lord was sad Last Line: Compassion dear did her meek heart accord. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by JOHN C. LONG Poem Text First Line: Bowed with grief and sorrow Last Line: Will in silence a vigil keep. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy THE TUGGED HAND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I have no ears or eyes Last Line: And could not make it play. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy THE WARRIOR TREE, by PENELOPE FYNN Poem Text First Line: You dare to pity me, o puny man Last Line: You, with but three score years and ten. Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy TO E. S. C., by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps some one of you has lost a friend Last Line: A voice that walks among the apple trees. Subject(s): Friendship; Sympathy; Empathy TO MARGARET, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: These hands, worn thin by many years of toil Last Line: Where you with him will hear my prayer. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Empathy TO MATILDA, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At a call unforseen thou wert taken! Last Line: And intimations of lands afar. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy TO MY SHADOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend forever in the light Last Line: "never thence wilt thou." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Shadows; Sympathy; Empathy TO ONE BEREAVED, by ETHEL KNIGHT FISHER Poem Text First Line: My dear, I know you understood Last Line: Were written on my face. Subject(s): Grief; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy TWIN-BORN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who possesses virtue at its best Last Line: Twin-born I hold great evil and great good. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Passion; Sin; Sympathy; Empathy UNHEEDED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye heavens so cold and clear Last Line: Are all with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy WANT OF SYMPATHY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the things that fret away the heart Last Line: How must she feel the chill! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy WIND-CLOUDS AND STAR-DRIFTS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another clouded night: the stars are hid Last Line: We know not his whose love embraces all. Subject(s): Ambition; Faith; Idols; Love; Regret; Solitude; Sympathy; Truth; Worship; Belief; Creed; Loneliness; Empathy WORDS TO JOE CERAVOLO, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think tonight I am beginning to understand some impulses Last Line: You're o.K. Subject(s): Friendship; Sympathy; Empathy |
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