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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ENEMIES Matches Found: 81 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FORM OF ADAPTATION, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My enemies came to get me Subject(s): Enemies; Love A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was angry with my friend Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree. Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A STORY OF KING DAVID, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas the harvest-time, and the warrior king Last Line: Could a king do more, or a hero less? Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Enemies; Sickness; Illness ABOUT ROUNDABOUT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Love your enemy. Last Line: Love your enemy. Subject(s): Enemies; Love AGAINST THE BARONS' ENEMIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "richard, thah thou be ever trichard" Last Line: Forsoke thine eme's lore Subject(s): Enemies AH POVERTIES, WINCINGS, AND SULKY RETREATS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It shall yet stand up the soldier of ultimate victory Subject(s): Enemies AN ENGLISHMAN TO A GERMAN AVIATOR, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, we are enemies-and deadly ones Last Line: There is no room within our hearts for hate. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death; Enemies; World War I; Dead, The; First World War BAL MASQUE: 1915, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabres sing, the deep-bass guns resound Last Line: "till up from hell a voice commands: ""come home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fights; War; Dead, The BEIRUT, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: Whose headless body is this Last Line: Who take god's name %are silent! Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3); Blood; Enemies; Human Rights; Tyranny And Tyrants CANZONE: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will ye see what wonders love hath wrought? Last Line: My life when it is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Enemies; Hearts; Life; Love CELEBRATION OF RUST, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I am so weak my enemies Last Line: With rust, the loveliest pollen Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Rust; Self-reliance CONFLICT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Divided by the dark Last Line: Might still be love. Subject(s): Enemies; Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements DIRGE OF THE MOOLA OF KOTAL, by GEORGE THOMAS LANIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, unhappy land' ill-fated spot Last Line: Let him disclose it! Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ECHO & ELIXIR 2, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cairo’s taxi drivers speak to me in english Last Line: The wicked binds, the cataclysmic fares Subject(s): Language; Cairo; Taxis; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Enemies; Words; Vocabulary ENEMIES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening, %I creep %into the tent Last Line: Myself also. David. %the poet david Subject(s): Enemies ENEMY, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that I was already dust-that I was a meter Last Line: From it like a honeycomb dripping with honey Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Emotions; Enemies ENEMY MINE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: No enemies, not one %since connie pendergrast Last Line: The business of betrayal %and that makes me happy Subject(s): Betrayal; Enemies EPIGRAM: 14, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right true it is and said full yore ago Last Line: That with the blaze his beard singeth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 49;of The Feigned Friend Subject(s): Enemies EPIGRAM: 18. THE ENEMY OF LIFE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enemy of life, decayer of all kind Last Line: And drove the first dart deeper more and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): The Enemy Of Life Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Life; Love; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 20, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire, alas, my master and my foe Last Line: Even now by hate again I doubt the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 75 Subject(s): Desire; Enemies; Hate EPITAPH FOR AN ENEMY, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask, 'what sort of man Subject(s): Enemies FOES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank fate for foes! I hold mine dear Last Line: He guards me ever with his hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Enemies; Fate; Hate; Life; Sin; Destiny FRIEND AND FOE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Say, who is here? A foe? - a friend? Last Line: Help in a hand that cannot reach. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends FRIENDS AND FOES, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bitter the things one's enemies will say Last Line: The things one's friends will say in one's defence. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship GARCIA PEREZ DE VARGAS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: King ferdinand alone did stand one day upon the hill Last Line: Seven turbans green, sore hacked I ween, before don garci hung Variant Title(s): Garci Perez De Varga Subject(s): Courage; Enemies; Knights And Knighthood GEMINI, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because poor puer's both unsure and vain Subject(s): Friends; Enemies; Faith; Belief; Creed GIVE US THE ENEMY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Then after the visible beast Last Line: Give us the enemy: name his name. Subject(s): Enemies; Evil; Monsters GRIEF, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient enemy have I Last Line: To conquer mine old enemy! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Enemies; Grief; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery HANDS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The one-handed county agent, forgiven (as they said Last Line: Anger in the intervening poplars Subject(s): Enemies; Military Recruitment; Patriotism; Soldiers; War HIS WORST ENEMY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who had a sword to swing Last Line: Through his other self! Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Suicide; Dead, The HOW TALL WOULD I BE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To measure me? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Enemies; Nature; Self IN STRANGE EVENTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the moon set, and all the stars, and still no meaning came, or Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Human Behavior; Enemies; Hate; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IOTIS DYING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two hours before the dawning Last Line: "and sheep-bells gaily jingling, as the white flock moves along" Subject(s): Death;enemies;stars; "dead, The; KNOWING THE ENEMY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes the whale's back Last Line: As st. Sebastian, bristling harpoons. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Enemies LAY OF THE CID: THE BANISHMENT OF THE CID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He turned and looked upon them, and he wept very sore Last Line: That he lacked the king's favor now well the cid might see Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Enemies; Exiles; Grief LEAFY FALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stranger stays inside, hates to go out Last Line: His brother is his enemy, %his enemy his brother. Subject(s): Enemies; Fear LORENZO, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had not known that there could be Last Line: Selected for an enemy. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Men; Enemies LOVE POEM FOR AN ENEMY, by RICHARD KATROVAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, as sinned against as sinning, / take small pleasure from the winning Subject(s): Enemies MINE ENEMY IS GROWING OLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tis starving makes it fat — Subject(s): Enemies; Aging; Revenge MY ENEMIES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know how I have learned to hate Last Line: As I love my enemies Subject(s): Enemies MY ENEMIES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know how I have learned to hate Last Line: That my life loves my toenails even as I love my enemies Subject(s): Enemies MY ENEMY, by ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My foe was dark, and stern, and grim Last Line: "adieu, dear death -- one kiss! We part." Subject(s): Enemies; Death; Dead, The MY ENEMY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All mornin' in the mesa's glare Last Line: My enemy! My enemy!! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Coyotes; Enemies; Wilderness MY FOE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My foe? You name yourself, then Last Line: I wave a hand to you, my helpless friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Soul MY FOES, by KATHREEN FOSS PETERS Poem Text First Line: If worry and fret did any good Last Line: I should be a millionaire! Subject(s): Anxiety; Enemies; Hades MY ONLY ENEMY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My only enemy has no metal for his hatred Last Line: I do not forget my only enemy Subject(s): Enemies NEMESIS, by JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY Poem Text First Line: The man who invented the women's waists that button down Last Line: Of the man who invented the backstairs waist and he sank with the leaky boat! Alternate Author Name(s): Foley, J. W. Subject(s): Boats; Enemies; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails NEMESIS, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: If an angel, unaware Last Line: Each rebuke I bear from you. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Enemies NIGHT WATCH, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: A small but persistent pain Last Line: Than pass the word on? Subject(s): Enemies; Watchmen O MINE ENEMY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On thy throne Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Enemies; Heaven ON A LINE FROM SOPHOCLES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you cruel, you find me less than fair Last Line: Time, time, my friend, makes havoc everywhere. Subject(s): Enemies; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Time; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ON FRIENDS AND FOES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am no homer's hero you all know Last Line: And becomes the enemy & betrayer of his friends Variant Title(s): I Am No Homer's Hero Subject(s): Bible; Enemies; Friendship; Mythology PROTEST, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Who and where are they that have done their best Last Line: Heeding no cries, no signals from the sea! Subject(s): Enemies; Social Protest PSALM: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah lord! How many be my foes! Last Line: Vpon thy people largely spred. Subject(s): Enemies; God; Praise; Soul PSALM: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thee, o lord my god, relyes Last Line: And tell of all his righteousnesse. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fear; God; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE ACHARNIANS: A PLEA FOR THE ENEMY, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bear me no grudge, spectators, if, a beggar Last Line: Think we, do this? We've got no brains at all. Subject(s): Enemies THE ARCHERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stripped to the waist his copper-coloured skin Last Line: Transporting into heaven both maid and man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Enemies; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE ASHANTEE WAR: THE FALL OF COOMASSIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1874, and on new year's day Last Line: And the reception they received was very grand. Subject(s): Enemies; Failure; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; War; British Empire; England - Empire THE BATTLE OF GLENCOE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of october, and in the year of 1899 Last Line: At home or abroad, wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Guns; Highlands Of Scotland; War; Dead, The THE CUBAN DOCTOR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to egypt to escape Subject(s): Enemies THE DEVIL'S SNUFF BOX, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Now that which for many years I have lived for Last Line: As the sight of devil's snuff-boxes. Subject(s): Devil; Enemies; Evil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE ENEMIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As fish that take the motion of the sea Last Line: But god who made me so? Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Finality; Hearing; Love - Unrequited; Self; Sight; Touch (sense); Winter; Dead, The THE ENEMY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is there, somewhere Last Line: Wearing the mask of your father Subject(s): Enemies THE ENEMY'S PORTRAIT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw the portrait of his enemy, offered Last Line: I thought they were the bitterest enemies?' Subject(s): Enemies; Hate; Portraits THE FEATHER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder dost thou sleep at night Last Line: Friend of mine, my enemy. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; Friendship - False Friends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Fair Weather Friends THE FOE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My foe did strike me, lord, I am not meek Last Line: I cannot turn to him the other cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Enemies; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Revenge THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long so Last Line: Woe be to all false friends! Woe to the envious! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Enemies; Fights; Friendship - False Friends; War; Fair Weather Friends THE MAN HE KILLED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had he and I but met Last Line: "or help to half-a-crown." Subject(s): Enemies; Murder; Soldiers; War THE STATUES AND THE TEAR, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night a fountain pleads Last Line: Lean on and hate, watching it, eye to eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Enemies; Statues THE TRUTH?, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my enemies, my friends Last Line: Back to our old play! Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship; God; Heaven; Love; Truth; Paradise TO AN ENEMY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I despise my friends more than you Subject(s): Friendship; Enemies; Hate TO AN ENEMY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee once. I shall know thee ever Last Line: Thou high and blessed creature! Subject(s): Enemies; Beauty; God; Conduct Of Life TO MY RIVAL, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, vain intruder, haste away! Last Line: Servant to her, rival with me. Subject(s): Enemies; Love TO ONE IN A HOSTILE CAMP, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How dare I, juliet, in love's kindness be Last Line: "though all abandon these, yet never I." Subject(s): Romeo & Juliet; Enemies; Love TO THE MODERN BATTLESHIP, by ROBERT JAMES Poem Text First Line: Oh, men have fought with arrows Last Line: Three cheers for the battleship! Subject(s): Battleships; Enemies; Fights TO THE SHAH, by HAFEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down Last Line: Poises arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear. Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din Subject(s): Enemies VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: PROLOGUE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or bene the manes of that cynic spright Last Line: And wound, and strike, and pardon whom she list. Subject(s): Enemies; Hearts VOTIVE TABLETS: FRIEND AND FOE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear is my friend -- yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good Last Line: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe shows what I should. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Enemies; Friendship WHAT HE SAID TO HIS ENEMIES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He could hear them off in the forest Subject(s): Enemies WHO SHOULD WE CALL?, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Who should we call? The space, the people Last Line: Under my fingernail. Here, have your language back Subject(s): Death; Enemies WHO'S READY?; JULY, 1862, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God help us! Who's ready? There's danger before! Last Line: All forward! We're ready, and conquer we will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Enemies; Freedom; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Liberty |
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