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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GUILT Matches Found: 77 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LONG LINE OF DOCTORS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, picked for jury duty, managed to get through Last Line: She knows him indispensable. Like voltaire. Subject(s): Dentists; Guilt; Mothers; Trials; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ABANDONED, by NATHAN ALTERMAN Poem Source First Line: My mother left me at the foot of the fence Last Line: Over us, like a candle, was the moon Subject(s): Abandonment; Guilt AN EPITAPH, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie I, once a witty fair Last Line: My noon was penitent. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Guilt; Mourning; Repentance; Shame; Bereavement; Penitence ARRAIGNMENT OF THE MEN, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Males perverse, schooled to condemn Last Line: Or the creatures of your use! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Guilt; Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused AT THE COURT-HOUSE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: No! No! I don't defend him Last Line: He hadn't gone quite so wrong Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;guilt;innocence;judges;law & Lawyers ATONEMENT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: How often we neglect a friend Last Line: A wreath to lay upon his bier. Subject(s): Guilt; Religion; Theology BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND FIREARMS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: It rises right out of the ground, this feeling I get Last Line: No one asks my gun's opinion Subject(s): Guilt CASUALTY REPORT, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car coming on, then crossing the divide Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Guilt; Memory CREATION, by ZINAIDA HIPPIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou queen of all serenity Last Line: Into oblivion. Subject(s): Guilt; Serenity; Sin EDEN RETOLD: 4. THE TREE OF GUILT, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, on her way to the oracle of love Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Trees; Guilt; Eve FOR SHAME: A POEM TO MAKE ME QUIT SMOKING, by ELLEN DORE WATSON Poem Source First Line: Shame will be what I'm feeling when I die Last Line: In her body? Shouldn't I for that be able to %give up fire? Subject(s): Guilt; Shame; Smoking FORKED TONGUE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The double-dealer's house is built Last Line: To sing out false and crude and cold %the language of guilt Subject(s): Guilt GEORGE MULLEN'S CONFESSION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the sake of guilty conscience, and the heart that ticks the time Last Line: I'm so chicken-hearted lately I'd be certain 'most to cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Confessions; Guilt; Lies; Love GIVING THE FERN A SECOND CHANCE, by EVE E.M. WOOD Poem Source First Line: Symied in its soil the maidenhair fern refused to grow Last Line: That was it %that was all it would take to keep me Subject(s): Growth; Guilt; Lies; Plants GOD OF SLEEP, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Feel how skin goes sick in want of warmth Last Line: You were awake the whole time Subject(s): Girls; Guilt; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships GUILT, by LISA GORTON Poem Source First Line: With this hand I shut out the sun Last Line: With the shame of my offence Subject(s): Guilt; Shame GUILT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guilt is my one attachment to reality Last Line: That too is the extent of my fault Subject(s): Guilt GUILTY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loathe this room, for it seems to blab Last Line: The spirit indwelling is mine, is mine! Subject(s): Fear; Guilt; Pain; Secrets; Soul; Suffering; Misery HER SCARLET LETTERS, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Since the day on the scaffold I have refused Last Line: Disclosing nothing to the men in black Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Guilt HERITAGE, by LAURA HELENA BROWER Poem Text First Line: I see the gallows - o my son! My child! Last Line: Not guilty, but the blighted fruit of war! Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Death; Guilt; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The HIDE AND SEEK, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Night, of nights that were and are / tenderest, best! Last Line: For a while! Subject(s): Death; Guilt; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime HOMICIDES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The artistic assassin copyrights his crime Last Line: A beautiful motive can take the edge off a crime Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Evil; Guilt; Murder 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 IN THE KINGDOM OF THE PAST, THE BROWN-EYED MAN IS KING, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's all so pitiful, really, the little photographs Last Line: There is no guilt like the love of guilt Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Guilt IT'S BETTER LIKE THIS, by STEFAN AUGUSTIN DOINAS Poem Source First Line: Here you should have had a fence Last Line: Over a land without ease Subject(s): Guilt; Prisons And Prisoners JASPAR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jaspar was poor, and vice and want Last Line: Upon the maniac's soul. Subject(s): Guilt; Murder; Poverty; Sin; Story-telling LIFE GOES ON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wade ross turned from vesta his wife to the window Last Line: On the beach-curve by a flood-tide spent and forgotten. Subject(s): Grief; Guilt; Life; Love; Marriage; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MACBETH IN VENICE: PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: A spiral sun %crossed the spiral stairs Last Line: Beneath a winter shower %in assassin street Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Guilt; Murder; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Unfaithfulness MARY HAMILTON (VERSION A), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Word's gane to the kitchen Last Line: There was marie seton, and marie beton, %and marie carmichael, and me Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death - Children; Guilt; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587) MARY HAMILTON (VERSION B), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were ladies, they lived in a bower Last Line: Ye should na shamed me here Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death - Children; Guilt; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587) MOLESTER, by JEFF CRANDALL Poem Source First Line: Like gathering flowers Last Line: A torqued and aching trunk Subject(s): Guilt; Men NEPENTHE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it was like you to forget Last Line: Dear, it was like you to forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Guilt; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements NUMBER FIVE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come in out of the night,' said the landlord Subject(s): Guilt NUMBER FIVE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come in out of the night,' said the landlord Last Line: That never to girls nor priests may tell the wrong - %and I run by the river where the dead things d Subject(s): Guilt NURSERY RHYME, by LEO HAMALIAN Poem Source First Line: I am the shell that awaits the word Last Line: I am the one behind the shell Subject(s): Guilt; War OLD MAMA SATURDAY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Guilt OLD NOVELIST'S CHANGE OF STYLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Forgive me, darling. Yes, I am guilty Last Line: I promise never again to make love %in a flea-pit. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Guilt ON TRIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: We hold our breath, the island is on trial Last Line: The flesh becomes word: guilty. Subject(s): Guilt; Ireland; Trials; Waiting ONE THING ONLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The politicians shout bellow roar Last Line: Not me! Not me! Not me! Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Guilt; Politics PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MEDUSA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Column six, page thirty-six Last Line: With this simpleton love Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Crime & Criminals; Guilt POLTERGEISTS HURL KNIVES AND FRYPANS AT FAMILIES, by ELIZABETH GOLD Poem Source First Line: As if we needed assistance as if Last Line: Stumbling through the house %groping for any weapon at hand Subject(s): Ghosts; Guilt; Supernatural PURSUIT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hunchback on the corner, with gum and shoelaces Subject(s): Guilt PURSUIT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hunchback on the corner, with gum and shoelaces Last Line: And rattles her crutch, which may put forth a small bloom, perhaps white Subject(s): Guilt RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur leonce miranda, then, ... But stay! Last Line: Meanwhile, no separation of the pair! Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so slipt pleasantly away five years Last Line: Look at it for a moment while I breathe. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ready to hear the rest? How good you are! Last Line: And stand all ready for morn's joy a-blush? Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology SACRIFICE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude Last Line: Death fought, before giving in Subject(s): Guilt; Homosexuality SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SISTER WATER: THE HAIL, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Tin, tin, tin! I fall from the sky with a mad drum-roll Last Line: Let us praise god, brother hail! Subject(s): God; Guilt; Poetry And Poets; Praise SONG ABOUT MAJOR EATHERLY, by JOHN WAIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good news. It seems he loved them after all Last Line: Say nothing of love, or thanks, or penitence: %say only 'eatherly, we have your message' Subject(s): Guilt SONG: 76, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Defamed guiltiness by silence unkept Last Line: From doing amiss, will I live again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Betrayal; Forgiveness; Guilt; Trust; Clemency SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 143, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let no one pity me Last Line: Was the cause of my undoing Subject(s): Guilt 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 THE ANCESTRESS; A DRAMATIC SKETCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in this we differ; I would seek Last Line: Castle hide the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Guilt; Punishment; Heritage; Heredity THE BEGGAR'S LOOK, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old tramp on the prowl for bread Last Line: Saw my guilt, and spake no lies. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Guilt THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE CLOCK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you go to that grand hotel Last Line: "and london, with their chimes." Subject(s): Clocks; Guilt; Household Employees; Love; Time; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE DEBT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the debt I pay Last Line: God! But the interest! Subject(s): Debt; Guilt; Religion; Theology THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rage of babylon is roused Last Line: Alas, more dreadful thy remember'd guilt! Subject(s): Babylon; Christianity; Guilt; Prophecy & Prophets; Punishment; Repentance; Penitence THE DYING CHILD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her cheek is flushed with fever red Last Line: There, there, my child, lie down and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Guilt; Pain; Poverty; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw round Last Line: From guilt, though not without a hope in christ. Subject(s): England; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Guilt; Murder; Story-telling; English; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE LANDLADY OF THE WHINTON INN TELLS A STORY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, indeed, sir Subject(s): Diamonds; Crime & Criminals; Guilt; Innocence; Misfortune THE SACRIFICE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude Last Line: Death fought; before giving in Subject(s): Guilt; Cancer (disease); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SCAPEGOAT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bore me away from the happy flock Last Line: God only knows, not I! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Goats; Guilt; Jesus Christ; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology THE SPARK, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first love, whom all beauties did adorn Last Line: Many less faces in her place are born. Subject(s): Love – Beginnings; Infidelity; Guilt THE SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE TERRORS OF GUILT, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon coward, with the streaming hair Last Line: And snatch thee, ransomed, from the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Guilt THE TWO DOMES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are those domes? You asked in clerkenwell Last Line: This is the deep unhappiness of our race. Subject(s): Guilt; Judgments; Prisons & Prisoners; Sin THE VICEROY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of nero, tyrant, petty king Last Line: Thou ne'er wilt be de-witted. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Guilt; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants THEIR BEHAVIOUR, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their guilt %is not so very different from ours Last Line: Becomes obscene in orgies Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Guilt; Human Rights; Self-consciousness TO CHILDREN: FOR TYRANTS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike not thy dog with a stick! Last Line: For the hound slain for saving his child. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Guilt; Hunting; Hunters UNFORTUNATE MISS BAILEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A captain bold from halifax who dwelt in country quarters Last Line: Remember poor miss bailey Subject(s): Ghosts;guilt;supernatural UPON HEARING OF ANOTHER MARRIAGE BREAKING UP, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Saw an upside-down horse in a puddle. Subject(s): Guilt; Divorce VAGABOND'S VERSE, by GRAYCE COLE CLYMER Poem Text First Line: Not for me the bright, clean hearth nor a woman's clinging Last Line: For I'm a vagabond -- set apart -- and my home's where I hang my hat! Subject(s): Guilt; Homesickness; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a museum of the city Last Line: They they they they they they they they. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Guilt WHOEVER READS ME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Of your %historical %experience Subject(s): Guilt; Justice |
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