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Subject: HANGING Matches Found: 100 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ON GILES COREY, EXECUTED AS A WIZARD, 17TH CENTURY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Giles cory was a wizard strong Last Line: And he did no confession make; / but wickedlie he dyed Variant Title(s): Giles Corey Subject(s): "capital Punishment;corey, Giles;salem, Massachusetts;witchcraft & Witches;" Hanging;executions;death Penalty A HANGING, ZOMBA CENTRAL PRISON, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA Poet's Biography First Line: His pendulous body tolled Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Police States; Prisons & Prisoners; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Convicts A LETTER FOR MARIAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit musing, ten minutes from the jap Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Politics & Government; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A LONDON FETE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night fell hammers, shock on shock Last Line: Went forth to fight, with murderous faces. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 47. THE CARPENTER'S SON, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the hangman stops his cart Last Line: Live, lads, and I will die.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Theology A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 9, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On moonlit heath and lonesome bank Last Line: A hundred years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A WOMAN, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They loved each other, in joy or grief Last Line: A bumper of wine and still gaily laughed. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Laughter; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Male-female Relations A WOMAN'S EXECUTION (PARIS, 1817), by EDWARD KING Poem Text First Line: Sweet-breathed and young Last Line: "vive la commune!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Paris, France; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A.E. HOUSMAN AND A FEW FRIENDS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When lads have done with labour Last Line: Even for housman's verse.' Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AGAINST [OR, AGANIS] THE THIEVES OF LIDDESDALE, by RICHARD MAITLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Of liddesdale the common thiefis [thieves] Last Line: Hing on a tree whill they be deid. Alternate Author Name(s): Lethington, Lord Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Lynching; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ALL LIFE IN A LIFE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father had a large family Subject(s): Family Life; City & Town Life; Wealth; Social Protest; Capital Punishment; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AMONG PHILISTINES, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night before they meant to pluck his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Samson; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AN ELEGY ON SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE LISLE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In measures solemn as the groans that fall Last Line: The monuments of their base cruelty. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Great Britain - Civil War; Injustice; Lisle, Sir George (d. 1648); Lucas, Sir Charles; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English Civil War ANDRE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where andre met that death Last Line: Had been his name, -- if that, indeed, could be! Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; Soldiers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the fear of death Last Line: By a soldier's death! Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial ASOLANDO: MUCKLE-MOUTH MEG, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frowned the laird on the lord: 'so, red-handed I catch thee?' Last Line: "to muckle-mouth meg in good earnest!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Marriage; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT SUNRISE, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They pushed him straight against the wall Last Line: Against the bedroom wall. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty AWAITING THE GUILLOTINE, 1794, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: As a last zephyr, or the last warm ray Last Line: For you alone to live has any worth. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Chenier, Andre Marie De (1762-1794); French History - Reign Of Terror; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty BALLADE OF THE MEN WHO WERE HANGED, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men who come along now, we Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty BALLADE: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mourning wise since daily I increase Last Line: Pray for the souls of those be dead and gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mourning; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Bereavement BATHSHEBA, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King david, from his house-top / saw one whose only dress Last Line: "are flies, in the web of craft!" Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); Capital Punishment; Lust; Marriage; Women; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs CLEVER TOM CLINCH GOING TO BE HANGED, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As clever tom clinch, while the rabble was bawling Last Line: Who hung like a hero, and never would flinch. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial EIGHT O'CLOCK, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood, and heard the steeple Last Line: Its strength, and struck. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The EPIGRAM ON A ROPE-MAKER HANGED, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a man much wronged in his hopes Last Line: For he liv'd by the rope, and died by the halter Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty EPISTLE TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, upon casting an attentive look Last Line: The bishop, and us all! I am, sir,—yours. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Gentlemen; Heaven; Life; Spiritual Life; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Paradise EPITAPH IN BALLADE FORM, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O brother men that live when we have end Last Line: But praye godde to absolve us of our doome. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; God; Prayer; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The EXECUTION OF ALICE HOLT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A dreadful case of murder Last Line: On chester's fatal tree Subject(s): Capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;death;murder; "hanging;executions;death Penalty;dead, The; FOR ETHEL ROSENBERG, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Europe 1953: / throughout my random sleepwalk Last Line: With secrets she has never sold Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Capital Punishment; Communism; Mccarthyism; Rosenberg Case; Nuclear Freeze; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1794, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rous'd from the gloom of transient death Last Line: Sacred to patriot worth, to patriot bosoms dear. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Wars With France; Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty FRIAR LAURENCE O'FARRELL: LONGFORD, 1651, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The van of ireton's troops at morning broke Last Line: By ireton gave it formal burial Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Clergy; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology HANGMAN'S NOOSE ON EXHIBIT, by EDWARD EVERETT ROLS Poem Text First Line: Did the doomed man know Last Line: And given him another hour of breath? Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty HE FELL AMONG THIEVES, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have robbed,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end' Last Line: Faded, and the hill slept. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Heroism; Murder; War; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Heroes; Heroines HON. MR. SUCKLETHUMBKIN'S STORY: THE EXECUTION; A SPORTING ANECDOTE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My lord tomnoddy got up one day Last Line: So -- my lord tomnoddy went home to bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty HOW SIR RICHARD DIED, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately as bridegroom to a feast Last Line: And bowed his head -- and so he died. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty I STARTED SUBSCRIBING, by TRISH REEVES Poem Text First Line: To the christian science monitor Subject(s): Buses; Capital Punishment; Gays & Lesbians; Photography & Photographers; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty IN THE STONE JUG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old days are gone Last Line: Too shall come in with me out of the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Sin; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The JOHN BROWN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown died on the scaffold for the slave Last Line: Freedom reigns to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The President's Proclamation Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old Last Line: The word of god, be ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs LEACHED, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: In france they martyred one progenitor Last Line: Heroes set forth in a menagerie. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; France; Martyrs; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English MAMMA, WHERE DID PAPA GO?, by HENRY A. START Poem Text First Line: Manuel and little juan Last Line: "mamma, where did papa go?" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Children; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Childhood MARGRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the small marble-paved platform Last Line: Like a passionate thought. It is very well ordered Subject(s): Murder; Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARIE HAMILTON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Marie hamilton's to the kirk gane Last Line: The lands I was to travel in / or the death I was to die Variant Title(s): The Queen's Marie;mary Hamilton Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging;executions;death Penalty MARRYING THE HANGMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARTIN RELPH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather says he remembers he saw, when a youngster long ago Last Line: Of water I wanted: and now I can walk, get home by myself, I think. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Cowardice; Pardons And Pardoners; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MUMFORD: THE MARTYR OF NEW ORLEANS, by INA MARIE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Where murdered mumford lies Last Line: Our colors wave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Mumford, William B.; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty NATHAN HALE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1776, by JOHN MACMULLEN Poem Text First Line: Come all alumni gather round Last Line: Amidst the patriot band. Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); Memory; New York City; Patriotism; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NEGROES LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So always, justice drowsy and hate rising Last Line: Proffering his blood to pleasure antichrist. Subject(s): African Americans; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Lynching; Mississippi; Murder; Negroes; American Blacks; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ON HIMSELF, UPON HEARING WHAT WAS HIS SENTENCE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let them bestow on every airth a limb Last Line: And confident thou'lt raise me with the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): His Metrical Prayer;verses Composed On The Eve Of His Execution Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl & 1st Marquis Of; Religion; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Graham, James (1612-165); Theology ON THE LORD DERBY, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what a formidable greatness grown Last Line: Cut your own throats, despair, and die, and damn. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Stanley, James. 7th Earl Of Derby; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ON THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comely and capable one of our race Last Line: Brought to derision! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ONLY A JEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the land of brittany, and long ago" Last Line: "''twas only a jew,' the folk said, 'only a jew!'" Subject(s): Capital Punishment;jews; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;judaism OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how he came Last Line: And the fool killers had a laugh Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Native Americans; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America REMARKS ON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled? Last Line: "and whitehead grasp th' exacuating fife." Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Punishment; Whitehead, William (1715-1785); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Doctors RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea Last Line: Going. He calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English SHAMEFUL DEATH, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were four of us about that bed Last Line: And for alice, his wife, pray too. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The SOME FRENCHMEN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette Last Line: Developed just in time for bed Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing & Writers; Hanging; Exec SONG, FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY, 28 MAY 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay thy flowery garlands by Last Line: Than the bloom of all thy roses. Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Parliament; Jacobites; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 14. ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS .., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth Last Line: And feel god flow forever through his breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 15. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once hardly in a cycle blossometh Last Line: At the next beating of the infinite heart. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 16. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love of all things springs from love of me Last Line: An old man faithless in humanity. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 17. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet cannot strive for despotism Last Line: But widens to the boundless perfectness. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 18. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore think not the past is wise alone Last Line: Save in the forethought of the eternal one. Variant Title(s): Wisdom Of The Eternal One Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 19. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far 'yond this narrow parapet of time Last Line: Undimmed by clouds of weak mortality. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty STACKALEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you sporty fellows Last Line: "or they'll hang you in the jail, / like they did that bad man stackalee" Subject(s): Capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals; Hanging;executions;death Penalty THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He did not wear his scarlet coat Last Line: The brave man with a sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Freedom; Love; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Religion; Sleep; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Convicts; Theology THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTOWN, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh palms for the old dominion! Last Line: There's an end of old john brown! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Serfs THE BEWITCHED HAND, SELS, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning of his execution, eustace bouteron Last Line: Reached the window sill where maitre gonin was waiting for it. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Magic; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty 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 CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO LORDS AT THEIR EXECUTION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As crowds attended when the fatal blow Last Line: "and balmerino call, ""a valiant martyr." Subject(s): Balmerino, Arthur Elphinstone, Lord; Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746); Kilmarnock, William Boyd, Earl Of; Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE CULPRIT, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night my father got me Last Line: And I have none. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE DEATH PENALTY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They err who think to silence crime with crime Last Line: And on its ruins build the school. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Men, brother men, that after us yet live Last Line: But pray to god that he forgive us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): Ballade Of The Gibbet Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE EXECUTION OF JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of may Last Line: In a short space of time, which cannot be equalled in story Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Montrose, 5th Earl And 1st Marquis Of; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE EXECUTION OF MAXIMILIAN, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muskets triggered a white smoke Last Line: Like friends long unseen, now returned. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Maximilian, Emperor Of Mexico (1832-67); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE FALL; A GREAT FAVORIT BEHEADED, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bloody trunk of him who did possess Last Line: Much doctrine lies under this little stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE GALLOWS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The suns of eighteen centuries have shone Last Line: Abhorred of earth and heaven, a pagan brotherhood! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Clergy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 13. THE WOMAN IN THE TEMPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still dark joy! A sudden face! Last Line: Oh, wash them clean again! Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Shame; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING, by JAMES EDWARD HERVEY MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: I bind the soul that fathered me Last Line: I hang, behead, electrocute.; Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Law & Lawyers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING MAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Torture; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HANGING OF BLACK CUDJO (1780); A DIALECT BALLAD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, maussa! If you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true Last Line: "but sabe dat gab to stuff de years of de next fool you meet!'" Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Marion, Francis (1737-1795); Slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Serfs THE HANGING TREE, by GEORGIA PERLE SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: A gnarled old tree trunk with shoots Last Line: "forgives and saves the soul." Alternate Author Name(s): Schmidt, G. Perle Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Trees; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HUMAN SACRAFICE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from his close and noisome cell Last Line: God's angel cries, forbear! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE KENNIFFS, by JOHN CREEVEY Poem Text First Line: If you wish to hear a story, lads Last Line: If he should chance to fall. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Murder; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Hunters THE LAMENTATION OF HUGH REYNOLDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my name it is hugh reynolds, I come of honest parents" Last Line: And convey me into heaven to the blessed trinity Subject(s): Capital Punishment;lament; Hanging;executions;death Penalty THE LOST MOMENTS OF A. DALMAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The solemn bell for me is tolling Last Line: "dalmas, you must prepare to go" Subject(s): Bells;capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;grief; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;sorrow;sadness THE LULLABY OF A FEMALE CONVICT TO HER CHILD...TO EXECUTION, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, baby mine, enkerchieft on my bosom Last Line: For never more thou'lt press a mother's breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE NEGATIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dig in the soft earth all Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Capital Punishment; Homecoming; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE NIGHT BEFORE LARRY WAS STRETCHED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and at darkly we waked him in clover, / and sent him to take a ground sweat" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging;executions;death Penalty THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How say'st thou? Die to-morrow? Last Line: Knelt by the corse -- alone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Confederacy THE TRIAL OF MAN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ordinary milkman brought that dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THREE CROSSES, by EVA WARNER Poem Text First Line: Three ancient crosses on a hill Last Line: Their victims (dust now) challenge still. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crucifixion; Injustice; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares Last Line: And now I live, and now my life is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Tychborn, Chidiock; Ticheborne, Chidiock Variant Title(s): Retrospect;elegy;lines Written By One In The Tower;verses Written In The Tower;poem Written On The Eve Of Execution;elegy For Himself;lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution Subject(s): Adversity; Capital Punishment; Death; Mourning; Remorse; Self-pity; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Bereavement TWELVE GOOD MEN AND TRUE, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rusty key has whined in the lock, the rickety door is fast Last Line: They're tired, now, and they want their tea, the twelve good men and true! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Creation; God; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty TWO FUNERALS: 2., by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Facing a cold and sneering sky Last Line: Are laughing still. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Funerals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Burials UNDER SENTENCE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off! Off! No treacherous priest for me! Last Line: Fair chance for all to see me die! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty VERSES ON DANIEL GOOD (WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR MURDER), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of all the wild deeds upon murder's black list Last Line: An' we hope that his life we shall ne'er see again Subject(s): Capital Punishment;murder; Hanging;executions;death Penalty VICTOR GALBRAITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the walls of monterey Last Line: "of victor galbraith!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Galbraith, Victor; Military Justice; Monterey, Mexico; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial VILLON'S EPITAPH , by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men, who after us still live Last Line: But pray to god that he absolve us all Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of The Hange Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mercy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty |
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