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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HATE Matches Found: 502 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A politician is an arse upon Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Politics & Government 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A politician is an arse upon Last Line: Which everyone has sat except a man Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Politics 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A salesman is an it that stinks excuse Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Salespersons; Selling 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A salesman is an it that stinks excuse Last Line: Or think we've met subhuman rights before Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Salespersons A CURSE, by IRVING FELDMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I forget thee not, new york Subject(s): Hate A DIZZYING SURMISE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if that fieriest substance - found so late Last Line: When the loosed afreet towered against the spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 10 Subject(s): Beauty; Fate; Hate; Life; Love; Destiny A GLASS OF BEER, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there Last Line: The high king of glory permit her to get the mange. Variant Title(s): Righteous Anger Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Curses; Drinks & Drinking; Hate; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine A HAND-MIRROR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold it up sternly -- see this it sends back, (who is it? Is it you?) Last Line: Such a result so soon -- and from such a beginning! Subject(s): Hate; Mirrors A HATE-SONG, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hater he came and sat by a ditch Last Line: Gainst a woman that was a brute. Subject(s): Hate A HYMN OF HATE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the drama Last Line: It cuts in on my sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets A LEARNED MISTRESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tell him the tale is a lie Last Line: Sudden death may be his fate! Subject(s): Love - Erotic;hate;jealousy;love A LITTLE SHRUB GROWING BY, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask not to know this man. If fame should speak Last Line: And so I leave to stir him, lest he stink. Subject(s): Hate A MILTONIC SONNET FOR MR. JOHNSON .. REFUSAL OF PETER HURD'S, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heir to the office of a man not dead Last Line: Who talk of vision but are weak of sight Subject(s): Hate A NATION SPEAKS, by MARION L. ULMER Poem Text First Line: You claimed my youth. Into your hands I gave them Last Line: "to live the ancient prayer ""they kingdom come""." Subject(s): Hate; Love; Youth 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 SONG OF BRIDGES, by MIKHAIL DUDIN Poem Text First Line: Bridges of hatred Last Line: From earth to space. Subject(s): Bridges; Hate A STUDY OF READING HABITS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When getting my nose in a book Subject(s): Books; Hate; Reading A TEST OF LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wooed her first in an atmosphere Last Line: And kissed him a hundred times. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hate; Kisses; Laughter; Love A VARIATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of this! Last Line: Reverently and adore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Hate; Love - Complaints ABOVE THE BATTLE'S FRONT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh foolish people, and without understanding Last Line: Thorn-crowned above the water and the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buddhism; Evil; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Hate; Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Saints; Social Protest; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); War; Buddha; Buddhists ACADEMIC CURSE: AN EPITAPH, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO Poem Source First Line: Curse him who digs in yellow leaves Last Line: I shall see him eat my words %when he grovels hither Subject(s): Hate; Scholarship And Scholars ADOLF EICHMANN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want no tricks in speaking of this man Last Line: Lord, forgive me, I can't keep down my hate Subject(s): Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962); Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism AFTERWARDS HATE, by RACHEL ESHED Poem Source First Line: And hate's turn is still to come Last Line: To the next scream Subject(s): Hate AGAINST EDUCATION, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Accurst the man whom fate ordains in spite Last Line: Vice-chancellors, whose knowledge is but small, %and chancellors, who nothing know at all Subject(s): Hate AGNES DE CASTRO, SELECTION, by CATHARINE TROTTER Poem Text First Line: Ah! She who told me of my husband's heart Last Line: Read from his hand, the sad, amazing truth. Subject(s): Hate; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights AGREE WITH THINE ADVERSARY QUICKLY', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is too short for hatred: not a day Last Line: And all the comrade years Subject(s): Transience; Hate AH, SWEET THE BIRDS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, sweet the birds are singing, and mead Last Line: And laughs, and knows no reason. ... God, how I hate it all! Subject(s): Birds; Hate AL CAPONE IN ALASKA, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eskimo hunts %the whale & each year Last Line: Were a chicago garage on %st. Valentine's day Subject(s): Hate AMORIS VICTIMA: 5, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love turns to hate, they say; and surely I Last Line: Who cannot hate, and yet who may not love? Subject(s): Hate; Love AN ASSASSIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat like he creeps along where Last Line: Is sorry when he dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Assassination; Hate; Murder; Night; Bedtime AN OLD MALEDICTION, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What well-heeled knuckle-head, straight from the unisex Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Hate ANCIENT BALLAD: KING DON SANCHO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Time it is to pay, urraca %if your promise you would hold Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Distrust; Exiles; Hate ANCIENT MUSIC, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is icummen in Last Line: Found under the latin words of a very ancient canon. Subject(s): Hate; Social Protest AND THE COCK CREW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hate them all!' said old gaspard Last Line: And turning, looked on old gaspard. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Illness; First World War ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's wonderful how I jog Subject(s): Animals; Hate; Men ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's wonderful how I jog Last Line: Cleverly to hook his teeth %with my teeth. No. Not this pig Subject(s): Animals; Hate; Men ANOTHER DARK LADY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not, because I wonder where you fled Last Line: That yours are cloven as no beech's are. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Truth; Dead, The ANTIPODES, by CLYDE G. SPEAR Poem Text First Line: Hate dropping from a small-necked vial black Last Line: So drunk we cannot think. Subject(s): Hate; Love ARCHDUCHESS ANNE: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In middle age an evil thing Last Line: For captives he held fast. Subject(s): Hate; Love; Love - Loss Of; War AT JEANNIE'S IN EL RITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: There are simple pleasures Last Line: To cut through my hatred Subject(s): Hate; Love - Complaints ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two dark figures, wild and surly Last Line: And thy hour will sound to-morrow! Subject(s): Hate; Life; Nature BABYLON REVISITED, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gaunt thing / with no organs Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Hate BABYLON REVISITED, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gaunt thing %with no organs Last Line: While your flesh burns %and your eyes peel to red mud Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Hate BAGMAN'S O'REILLY'S CURSE, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I daresay that's the custom in your church Last Line: More hungry and less merciful than I Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Customs, Social; Hate BALLADE: 14, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That time that mirth did steer my ship Last Line: And should be while that life doth dure. Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hate; Life; Nature; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BEFORE THE SHRINE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I built a shrine, and set my idol there Last Line: And lo, my idol was not love, but hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Hate BERNARDO AND ALPHONSO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With some good ten of his chosen men, bernardo hath appeared Last Line: Long rued alphonso and his realm the jesting of that day Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Hate; Revenge BETTER TO SPIT ON .. WHIP THAN STUTTER YOUR LOVE LIKE A WORM, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Better to spit %on the whip %that drives you Last Line: Old men cloaked in wisdom %stuttering their love Subject(s): Hate BEYOND WORDS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That row of icicles along the gutter Last Line: You wait Subject(s): Hate; Language; Words; Vocabulary BEYOND WORDS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That row of icicles along the gutter Last Line: You wait Subject(s): Hate; Language BLACK BULL OF ALDGATE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black bull of aldgate, may thy horns rot from the sockets Last Line: Than ever hasty clement's did with bloated harry! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hate; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BLACK CUP, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's a cup of evil. The shrill whistle Last Line: Stamp their hooves in my flesh! Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love BLACKSMITHS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sooty, swart smiths, smattered with smoke Last Line: May none of these waterburners %by night have his rest Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Hate BLANK VERSE FOR A FAT DEMANDING WIFE, by JIM LINDSEY Poem Source First Line: As I roll back from you Last Line: I don't come %every fifteen seconds Subject(s): Hate; Sex BOOK OF MY ENEMY HAS BEEN REMAINDERED, by CLIVE JAMES Poem Source Last Line: And I am glad Subject(s): Books; Hate BROCKTON MURDER: A PAGE OUT OF WILLIAM JAMES, by KNUTE SKINNER Poem Source First Line: Bored with his wife that fatal day Last Line: The woman's question every time %absorbs the murder's relevance Subject(s): Hate BROTHER-IN-LAW, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: Haunt him, mona! Haunt him, demon sister Last Line: Haunt him in his massive hour - %child, I call Subject(s): Hate BUCHLYVIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Baron of buchlyvie / may the foul fiend drive ye Last Line: "where there's neither horse meat nor man's meat, / nor a chair to sit doon" Subject(s): Hate BURNIN' DRINK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell a tale o' burnin' love Last Line: Wi' bitter, burnin' hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Hate; Love; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Prohibition BURY HIM DEEP, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury him deep. So damned a work should lie / nearer the devil than man Last Line: In bed, talking secrets. Subject(s): Hate BUSBY, WHOSE VERSE NO PIERCING BEAMS, NO RAYS?, by RICHARD MOORE Poem Source Last Line: They trot the field, lofty as horses' asses Subject(s): Hate BUSINESS LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When someone hangs up, having said Last Line: To your ear, your senses and your dignity Subject(s): Hate; Salespersons BUZZ PLANE, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May my irish grandfather from tyrells pass Last Line: Fie, fie, fie on you! And the word has power Subject(s): Hate BYE BABY BOTHER, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh would the day that died first when you were born Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Hate CALIFORNIANS, by THEODORE SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Beautiful and blond they come, the californians Last Line: And a hateful wish to be empty and talk like you Subject(s): California; Hate CAMPAIGN PROMISE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the great debates, he tried a joke Last Line: Which, had it been alive, he would have killed Subject(s): Elections; Hate; Kennedy-nixon Television Debates, 1960 CANTO 45, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: With usura / with usura hath no man a house of good stone Subject(s): Gonzaga, Luigi (1267-1360); Hate; Usury CANTO 45, by EZRA POUND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With usura %with usura hath no man a house of good stone Last Line: Corpses are set to banquet %at behest of usura Subject(s): Gonzaga, Luigi (1267-1360); Hate; Usury CANTO 9; THE GREAT TURTLE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fierce beset with dire alarms Last Line: A charnel house of human bones. Subject(s): Hate; Islands; Mythology; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CANZONE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since love will needs that I shall love Last Line: To serve and suffer patiently. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CARE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most that I know but one Last Line: Crying out, help me! %help me Subject(s): Hate CARMINA: 85, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love and hate. Ah! Never ask why so Last Line: I see 'tis folly, but I feel 'tis woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Love; Hate CARMINA: I THOUGHT IT NO MATTER, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've been looking up words for 'anus' to describe aemilianus' Last Line: Posterior opening the alimentary canal. %rectal rebud. %rump. %umiak. %withers. %uniak? %smell it Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Hate CARMINA: PERHAPS YOU ASK WHY, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate Last Line: I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I why I I I I I I I I I I I I I Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Hate CENSORSHIP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn that celibate farm, that cracker-box house Last Line: We're watching you! Subject(s): Hate; Parents; Sex; Parenthood CENSORSHIP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn that celibate farm, that cracker-box house Last Line: And the plumbing would howl from hell, 'we're %watching you' Subject(s): Hate; Parents; Sex CHARLES DI TOCCA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zoe %hurry, basil! Hurry Last Line: Was powerless as flowers along its path Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Greece; Hate; Love; Plays And Playwrights CHRISTIANS AT WAR, by JOHN KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Onward, christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain Last Line: History will say of you: 'that pack of g - d fools' Subject(s): Christianity; Hate; World War I CHRISTMAS, 1917, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Is it a mocking jest that christmas bells Last Line: Let nations pass so man himself be free. Subject(s): Christmas; Freedom; Hate; Humanity; Social Protest; War; Nativity, The; Liberty CITIES: 5. MOSCOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High cheek-boned and bloody Last Line: Of the very christ she curses. Subject(s): Hate; Hunger; Moscow; Nations CLASS, by KENNETH A. WEEME Poem Source First Line: The trouble with white bread has been a lack of class Last Line: A problem simply solved and done away %by proving we have none Subject(s): Hate; Social Classes CLERKE RICHARD AND MAID MARGARET, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were two lovers who loved each other Last Line: Green o'er the spot where love did perish. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Death; Hate; Love; Dead, The COFFEE PARTY, by ALBERTA JOHNS FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: A friendly bunch? Last Line: When they are in trouble. Subject(s): Compassion; Hate COLOGNE; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In koln, a town of monks and bones Last Line: Shall henceforth wash the river rhine? Variant Title(s): Epigram;expectoration The Second Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances CONFESSION TO SETTLE A CURSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: You don't %know Last Line: A child %in my arms Subject(s): Hate COUPLE OVERHEAD, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They don't get anywhere Last Line: And the punishment they've chosen, %after a while it dies Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Hate; Neighbors CRAZY VIRGINS, by LEDA SCHIAVO Poem Source First Line: The crazy virgins howl outside Last Line: The others, the crazy ones, us Subject(s): Hate CRITIC ON THE HEARTH, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When wallaby would come to call on me Last Line: Thank god the silly bastard is extinct Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Hate CROOKED-HEART, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loosed an arrow from my bow Last Line: Does not know an arrow fell! Subject(s): Hate CROW, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crow in the cage in the dining-room Last Line: Sickness is the hatred of a repentance %knowing there is nothing he wants Subject(s): Hate CUPID'S ARROWS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At venus' entreaty for cupid her son Last Line: His metal vulcan's cyclops sent from hell. Subject(s): Cupid; Hate; Hope; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Eros; Optimism CURSE, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I forget thee not, new york Last Line: May slugs jam every turnstile slot %if I forget thee not Subject(s): Hate CURSE, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hell is a red barn on a hill Last Line: In the sun and hurries on Subject(s): Curses; Hate CURSE, by ROBERT GREACEN Poem Source First Line: Son of a scots manse though you were Last Line: You goddamn bloody genius, john logie baird Subject(s): Hate CURSE, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, confound this surly sister Last Line: Lord, this judgment quickly bring. %and I'm your servant, j.M. Synge Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Curses; Hate CURSE AGAINST THE OWNER, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Lord cockroach, old sir empty belly Last Line: May he have more than he bargained for Subject(s): Hate CURSE ON MINE-OWNER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May god above %send down a dove Last Line: Who cut poor miners' wages Subject(s): Hate DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Last Line: They always knew it was you. %daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am not of this family, I know now Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide DAUGHTERS OF THE HORSELEECH CRYING 'GIVE! GIVE!', by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And who will keep his five charming daughters? Subject(s): Hate; Politics DAWENDINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a spirit on the river, there's a ghost upon the shore Last Line: And the shadows of the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Family Life; Ghosts; Hate; Legends; Love; Supernatural; Vendetta; Relatives; Feuds DEAR JESSE HELMS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is happening Last Line: Something obscene. Subject(s): Hate; Helms, Jesse (b. 1921); War DECLARATION OF HATE, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: To simply be like lean flesh that's been skinned Last Line: Nor a false door to flee on your knees Subject(s): Hate DEVOTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The grim beard is devoted to hate Last Line: Devoted to the mobile phone Subject(s): Beards; Hate DICK, A MAGGOT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when rooting in a bin Last Line: Like a fresh turd just dropped on snow. Subject(s): Hate DIE HEIMKEHR: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is your hate, then, of such measure? Last Line: Of any one who ever kissed you? Subject(s): Hate DIVISIONS ON A GROUND: 5, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a woman whom I love and hate Last Line: Death, hear me not, when I desire her death! Subject(s): Hate DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rage, rage against the dying of the light Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hate; Mourning; Old Age; Social Protest; Time DOCKER, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, in the corner, staring at his drink Subject(s): Hate; Religious Discrimination; Catholics; Ireland DOCKER, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, in the corner, staring at his drink Last Line: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet %at slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall Subject(s): Hate DOCTOR FELL, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not like [or, love] thee, doctor fell. / the reason why, I cannot tell Last Line: I do not like thee, doctor fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Written While A Student At Christ College;non Amo Te; On The Occasion Of One Of Dr. Fell's Challenge To Translate Martial;epigrams: Book I, 32 Subject(s): Confessions; Hate DOMESDAY BOOK: ANTON SOSNOWSKI, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anton sosnowski, from the shakespeare school Last Line: And what makes poverty and waste in lives: Subject(s): Anger; Faces; Hate; War DOMESDAY BOOK: GOTTLIEB GERALD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew her, why of course. And you want me? Last Line: This talk of lilli alm and ludwig haibt: Subject(s): Death; Hate; Home; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs DUALITY, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You touch me as you would a child Last Line: Are tearing at my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Hate; Love DULCE ET DECORUM EST, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks Last Line: Pro patria mori. Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Hate; Men; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War ECZEMA, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tearing at my package like a child Last Line: Desperate, righteous, clawing to be free Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Hate ED DYING, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Hate is an old man fucking, arduous Last Line: Reason a man might sit and weep: missing ed Subject(s): Aids (disease); Hate; Sickness EDWARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid [why does your sword so drap with blood] Last Line: "the curse of hell frae me sall ye bear: / sic counsels ye gave to me, o!" Variant Title(s): "edward, Edward; Subject(s): Hate;poetry & Poets ELEGY FOR A BAD POET, TAKEN FROM US NOT LONG SINCE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the dead, no murmur of dispraise Last Line: “who, you?” to praise the lord, his gracious ways Subject(s): Hate ELEGY FOR A BAD POET, TAKEN FROM US NOT LONG SINCE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the dead, no murmur of dispraise Last Line: Who, you?' to praise the lord, his gracious ways Subject(s): Hate EMINENT CRITIC, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For each man kills the thing he loves' - it's true Last Line: I only say he sure as hell four-lettered it Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Hate EMPIRE BUILDING, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow I never liked you, john, your ways were crude Last Line: Your smile is pharisaical, your manners rude. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Greed; Hate; Selfishness; Avarice; Cupidity ENGLAND AND AMERICA: 1. ON A RHINE STEAMER, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Republic of the west, / enlightened, free, sublime Last Line: That people ought to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Hate ENGLAND IN 1819, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king Last Line: Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: England In 1819 Subject(s): England; Hate; English ENNUI, by FRANCES FUERST QUICK Poem Text First Line: Inanity of living palls on me Last Line: Inevitably receiving. Subject(s): Hate EPIDERMAL MACABRE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indelicate is he who loathes Subject(s): Hate EPIDERMAL MACABRE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indelicate is he who loathes Last Line: To sleep immodestly, a most %incarnadine and carnal ghost Subject(s): Hate EPIGRAM, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A periphrastic insult, not a banal Last Line: A model for a prophylatic firm Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): Hate EPIGRAM ON ELPHINSTONE'S TRANSLATION OF MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whom poetry abhors Last Line: Twas laurel'd martial calling murther. Subject(s): Elphinstone, William (1431-1514); Hate; Translating & Interpreting EPIGRAM ON QUEEN CAROLINE'S DEATHBED, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies wrapped up in forty thousand towels Last Line: The only proof that c*** had bowels. Subject(s): Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England; Hate 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 EPIGRAM: 28. THE INTELLECTUAL, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate your hackneyed epic; have no taste Last Line: I drink not; I detest all common things. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Hate EPIGRAM: 4, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I married in my youth a wife Last Line: I hope nobody gets the worst Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): Hate EPIGRAM: 44, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hate whom ye list for I care not Last Line: But love whom ye list, for I care not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hate; Love EPIGRAMS: A JOURNAL: 23, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark thoughts are my companions. I have wined Last Line: In the cat-house of the dishevelled dead Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): Hate EPILOGUE, by DALLAS EUGENE WIEBE Poem Source First Line: My bibliography has grown Last Line: Good-bye, %scum Subject(s): Hate; Scholarship And Scholars EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors EPITAPH, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerk, loser, fuck up Last Line: And fell in a lake of shit Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Self-hate EPITAPH ON CASTLEREAGH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Posterity will ne'er survey Last Line: Stop, traveler, and piss Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hate; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Castlereagh, Viscount EPITAPH ON JAMES GRIEVE, THE LAIRD OF BOGHEAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies boghead amang the dead / in hopes to get salvation Last Line: Then welcome -- hail! Damnation. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hate EPITAPH ON JAMES MOORE-SMYTHE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies what had not birth, nor shape, nor fame Last Line: For how can no-thing be annihilated? Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hate EPITAPH ON WAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sic a reptile was wat Last Line: "and his heart is rank poison!"" another replies." Subject(s): Hate EXTEMPORE, ON PASSING A LADY'S CARRIAGE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you rattle along like your mistress's tongue Last Line: If your stuff be as rotten's her heart. Subject(s): Hate FIGURE IN THE CARPET, by JAMES CAMP Poem Source First Line: You can never see him Last Line: He the flat man %he's the figure in the carpet Subject(s): Hate FINGER OF NECESSITY, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: Twice recently young girls have Last Line: Hey cat lady, you eat it Subject(s): Hate FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 14. GIN THE GOODWIFE STINT, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ploughland has gone to bent Last Line: On a c.P.R. Packet Subject(s): Hate FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 14. GIN THE GOODWIFE STINT, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ploughland has gone to bent Last Line: Taw pund emigrant %on a c.P.R. Packet Subject(s): Hate FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Text First Line: After the doctor checked to see / we weren't ruptured Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Sports; Students FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: After the doctor checked to see %we weren't ruptured Last Line: But I don't want to see %any marks when you're dressed, %he said. He said, now Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry And Poets; Schools; Sports FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect FIVE SONGS: 5, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make this night loveable Last Line: To hear his own fury %wishing his love were dead Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Nocturn Subject(s): Hate FLY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O hideous little bat, the size of snot Last Line: And dies between three cannibals Subject(s): Flies; Hate 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 FOR A FRIEND, by DAVID STEINGASS Poem Source First Line: Your blood reappears on my hands Last Line: Cysts tick through my fingerjoints Subject(s): Hate FOR AN EARLY RETIREMENT, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chinless and slouched, gray-faced, and slack of jaw Subject(s): Hate FOR AN EARLY RETIREMENT, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chinless and slouched, gray-faced, and slack of jaw Last Line: This fitted him to teach creative writing Subject(s): Hate FOR AN OBLIGATE PARASITE, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother!, I am sick / of alcohol and grown up Last Line: Them? Wills. Lovers. You Subject(s): Hate FOR AN OBLIGATE PARASITE, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother!, I am sick %of alcohol and grown up Last Line: Who needs %them? Wills. Lovers. You Subject(s): Hate FOUR ZOAS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: The dark relisions are departed and sweet science reigns Variant Title(s): Vala, Or The Four Zoas, Sels Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter FOX-HUNTERS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What gods are these? Bright red, or white and green Last Line: And fain to reap it with a scythe of fire Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Hate FROM THE EARTH, A CRY, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O christ! And o christ! In thy name the law! Last Line: God purifies slowly by peace, but urgently by fire. Subject(s): French Revolution (1848); Hate; Jesus Christ; Social Protest; War; February Revolution FROM THIS SHORE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: You speak of hatred Last Line: Pregnant with arrogance %nailed to an I myself %that brings you so close %to this other shore Subject(s): Emotions; Hate; Hunger; Poverty FURY OF HATING EYES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to bury Last Line: Mice are watching you %from behind the kind bars Subject(s): God; Hate; Religion GAS FROM A BURNER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gents, you are here assembled Subject(s): Hate GAS FROM A BURNER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gents, you are here assembled Last Line: And sign crisscross with reverent thumb %memento homo upon my bum Subject(s): Hate GENITORI, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: As a buddhist tried for months Last Line: While we at home, brother, sister, sucked the bloody air Subject(s): Hate GET YOU TO THE HELL YOU GOT YOUR LAME LINES FROM, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bad poets, clutters of your age! Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Hate GLUTTON, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the atlas roams a glutton Last Line: Loathing each other's carrion company Subject(s): Gluttony; Hate; Sex GOD'S ENEMIES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hate is divine if hate is bent Last Line: And melt into the black? Subject(s): Hate GOOD CREATURES, DO YOU LOVE YOUR LIVES, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And earth's foundations will depart %and all you folk will die Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Hate GOOD FRIDAY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love us yet? Then really, what a one! Subject(s): Hate GOOD FRIDAY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love us yet? Then really, what a one! Last Line: Popped in our pouch of spit, a hot-cross bun Subject(s): Hate GOOD MAN IN HELL, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a good man were ever housed in hell Last Line: And love and hate and life and death begin Subject(s): Hate GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH O AT LAST, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source Last Line: Even to this year not worse than the last Subject(s): Hate HALBERT AND HOB, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a thing that happened. Like wild beasts whelped, for den Last Line: That a reason out of nature must turn them soft, seems clear! Subject(s): Anger; Hate HAMLET, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: He would see all, this thinker! He would see Last Line: Sink into nothing while he stares at fate. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Destiny HANNIBAL'S OATH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the night was dark and calm Last Line: How that oath of hate was kept. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hannibal (247-183 B.c.); Hate HARVEST OF HATE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So now the sun moves to die at mid-morning Last Line: Alone of petals, for muted swell of wine-buds %in august rains, and singing in green spaces Subject(s): Hate; Nigerian Civil War HATE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Peace - will you buy it with blood and tears? Last Line: Black hatred. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Peace; War; Dead, The HATE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My enemy came nigh Last Line: I might have kissed him, as I would a maid. Subject(s): Hate HATE (TO CERTAIN FOREIGN TRADUCERS OF ENGLAND), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs, if the truth must needs be told Last Line: Be cloistered and kept virginal. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Hate HATE AND DEBATE ROME THROUGH THE WORLD HATH SPREAD, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For out of backward love all hate doth grow Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Subject(s): Hate HATED, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me where love fails me? - what I hate? Last Line: Must be; but they shall have my malediction. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Hate HATRED, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall hate you Last Line: And you will understand / my hatred Subject(s): Hate HATRED, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall hate you Last Line: My hatred. Subject(s): Hate; Men HATRED, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how efficient it still is, Subject(s): Hate HATRED OF MEN WITH BLACK HAIR, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear voices praising tshombe, and the portuguese Subject(s): Hate HATRED OF MEN WITH BLACK HAIR, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear voices praising tshombe, and the portuguese Last Line: Preserved from a trail of blood that once led away %from thestockade, over the snow, the trail now l Subject(s): Hate HEADACHE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Headache! Thou bane to pleasure's fairy spell Last Line: For ever jingle wisdom's funeral knell. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hate; Headaches; Mythology; Wisdom HEART OF THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart of thomas hardy flew out of stinsford churchyard Last Line: Died away in the night at frost will blacken a dahlia Subject(s): Hate HELEN, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All greece hates / the still eyes in the white face Last Line: White ash amid funereal cypresses. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical HELL AND HATE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two demons thrust their arms out over the world Last Line: To the darkness out of sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Hate; Hell HER CHOICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love or hate - choose which Last Line: But ah! His hands are -- safe in hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Love; Roses HER HATRED, by KATHRYN KIRKPATRICK Poem Source First Line: Her lip curled. I could see %that she hated me Last Line: Nothing else to give Subject(s): Hate HERE LIES SIR TACT, by TIMOTHY REID STEELE Poem Source First Line: Here lies sir tact, a diplomatic fellow Last Line: Whose silence was not golden, but just yellow Subject(s): Hate HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that [or, wha] in the heavens does dwell! Last Line: Amen, amen! Variant Title(s): Prayer Of Holy Willie, A Canting, Hypocritical Kirk Elder Subject(s): Calvinists; Hate; Hypocrisy; Prayer; Self-righteousness HONEY HALF, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: You pass by those who would hold you up Last Line: You want no part of this world Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate HOW BEASTLY THE BOURGEOIS IS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like sickening toadstools, and left to melt back, swiftly %into the soil of england Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Hate; Men HOW CLEAR SHE SHINES, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How clear she shines! How quietly Last Line: And death, the despot of the whole! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Stars; Hate HOW LONG?, by FERNER R. NUHN Poem Text First Line: How long this vain, blind lust of power Last Line: Replace their country's battle song? Subject(s): Hate; Patriotism; Social Protest; War HOW TO CHANGE THE U.S.A., by HARRY EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: For openers, the federal government %the honkies, the pigs in blue Last Line: Just as a gesture %of good faith Subject(s): Hate HUMAN RELATIONS, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON Poem Source First Line: My mind is so evil and unjust Last Line: While the other imaginatively rifles your drawers Subject(s): Hate; Hypocrisy HUNDRED ACRES OF HATE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Crowned at the top of the long green hill Last Line: Links in a chain around his neck Subject(s): Anger; Barns; Hate; Solitude HUSTLER, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: The name of the game is beat the lame Last Line: And I would make the supreme court eat shit from a spoon Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Hate HYMN OF HATE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It makes no odds if people hate you, if they Last Line: Grating; we know the bitterness of hating. Subject(s): Hate HYMN TO DISPEL HATRED AT MIDNIGHT, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where I watch the dew Last Line: Grief will not turn again Subject(s): Hate I ASKED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What turns parnassus into a mountain of hate? Last Line: Open minds know when to keep their mouths shut. Subject(s): Advice; Hate; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Poetry And Poets I DON'T HAVE NO BUNNY TAIL ON MY BEHIND, by UNKNOWN+8 Poem Source Last Line: I could not hate you more if hatred were my bones Subject(s): Hate I HAD NO TIME TO HATE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Was large enough for me Subject(s): Hate I MUSE NOT, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I muse not that your dog turds oft doth eat Last Line: To a tongue that licks your lips, a turd's sweet meat. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Hate I TOO HATE WAR, by IDA FLOOD DODGE Poem Text Last Line: "more deadly far than death. I too ""hate war." Subject(s): Discontent; Hate; Dissatisfaction I WOKE UP. REVENGE WAS IN MY MOUTH, by JR. A. POULIN Poem Source Last Line: A stubborn, undissolving vatican Subject(s): Hate; Revenge IDEA: 19. TO HUMOUR, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot love, my pretty heart, and why? Last Line: You love in hate, by hate to make me love you. Subject(s): Hate; Love IF A THORN ME, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source Last Line: Returns to him, changed to a flower of peace Subject(s): Hate; Pain; Thorns IF JUSTICE MOVED, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Dante had the right idea Last Line: If ruggiero's neck be yours - %I'd gnaw on it a thousand years Subject(s): Hate; Murder; Revenge ILL-TEMPERED LOVER, SELECTION, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish my tongue were a quiver the size of a huge cask Last Line: Like a woolly caterpillar pinned on its backman, that would be sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A. Subject(s): Arrows; Hate IMITATION OF TIBULLUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel cerinthus! Does the fell disease Last Line: By death alone I can avoid your hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hate IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We artists have strange nerves! Last Line: We had met before this scene. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN RESPONSE TO RUMOR THAT OLDEST WHOREHOUSE IN WHEELING, WV, CONDEMNED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will grieve alone Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hate; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels IN RESPONSE TO RUMOR THAT OLDEST WHOREHOUSE IN WHEELING, WV, CONDEMNED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will grieve alone Last Line: To find beyond death %bridgeport, ohio Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hate; Prostitution IN RETROSPECT, by ALICE E. MODES Poem Text First Line: Nature forgets war's hatred before long Last Line: The futile slaughter, bankrupt spoils of war. Subject(s): Hate; Nature; War IN STRANGE EVENTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem 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 IN THE JACQUERIE, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS SIMCOX Poem Text First Line: Anstice and amalie watching late Last Line: Where anstice sate long ago waiting to die. Subject(s): Hate IN THE OLD GUERILLA WAR, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On my housedress %bloom at once Subject(s): Hate INCANTATION TO GET RID OF A SOMETIME FRIEND, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peel off me Last Line: Unwatered %weed Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Hate INCEST, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed. Inscribed. Interred. In my house Subject(s): Incest; Hate INDEED INDEED, I CANNOT TELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One iota to abate %of a pure impartial hate Subject(s): Hate; Men INHERITANCE, by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: Three things seek my death Last Line: The three that seek my end, %hang them, sweet christ, all three Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank Subject(s): Hate INTERVIEW WITH DOCTOR DRINK, by JAMES VINCENT CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a fifth of therapy Last Line: Coil there and squat, and pay your fee? Alternate Author Name(s): Cunningham, J. V. Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Hate INTRODUCING A MADMAN, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He finished his speech in a Last Line: Strength which seemed incredible Subject(s): Hate INTRODUCING A MADMAN, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He finished his speech in a Last Line: Clever lady (with a %strength which seemed incredible) Subject(s): Hate INVECTIVE AGAINST DENISE, A WITCH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hatred I reserve for thee Last Line: To every gross and shameful beast, %to jackals and to crows Subject(s): Hate INVENTION OF NEW JERSEY, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Place a custard stand in a garden Last Line: A faintly bilious look %perpetually on her face Subject(s): Hate; New Jersey INVOCATION, by S. A. DETHALL Poem Text First Line: Christ with the crown of thorns Last Line: Send me your strength for a while. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hate; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Social Protest; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery IS IT, IS IT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Whistle it said. Just whistle Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Hate; Worship IT'S NOT WORTH WHILE TO HATE, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH Poem Source First Line: Life is not very long at best Subject(s): Hate JACK ROSE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With crafty brooding life turned to jack rose Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Use; Hate; Death; Forgiveness; Dead, The; Clemency JIGOKU: ON THE GLAMOUR OF SELF-HATE, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I must have always wanted to go it alone Subject(s): Self-hate JOHN KEATS (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who kill'd john keats? Last Line: Or southey or barrow!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hate; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets JUST ANOTHER DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Dear dublin, you sleep tonight in a bed Last Line: Will the good word be always late? Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Gossip; Hate; History KING LEAR, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): England; Hate; Lear, King; Mothers; Social Protest LADY, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asshole' and 'shit' were always on her lips Last Line: Or elegant: I know she wipes her hands Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Hate LADY'S-MAID SONG, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When adam found his rib was gone Last Line: For though we throw the dog his bone %he wants it back with interest Subject(s): Bones; Hate LAST NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where were you last night? I watched at the gate Last Line: As to miss the chance while we weigh and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hate; Love; Night; Spring; Bedtime LATE-FLOWERING LUST, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is bald, my breath is bad Subject(s): Hate; Lust LATE-FLOWERING LUST, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is bald, my breath is bad Last Line: At all the thoughts that in us spring %from this late-flowering lust Subject(s): Hate; Lust LAW IN THE COUNTRY OF THE CATS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When two men meet for the first time in all Last Line: Crying: 'let justice be done. I did it, I' Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Hate LET ME NOT HATE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing certain, nothing sure Last Line: On down the world's grim night! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Hate LETTER TO A LIBRARIAN, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. P. - ihave heard it rumored Last Line: While rabelais pipes you to a wished-for death %on a kazoo quaint and silvered Subject(s): Censorship; Hate; Librarians And Libraries LIGHT, by ADELENE KISSAM WATT Poem Text First Line: What of the world Last Line: Teach us to hate our hate. Subject(s): Hate LINES, by ALICE RHINE Poem Text First Line: Say not that we are cut off by thee, guardian of Last Line: "I have called thee by my holy name, and glory shall be thine." Subject(s): Hate; Jews; Judaism LINES FOR A CHRISTMAS CARD, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May all my enemies go to hell Last Line: May all my enemies go to hell! / noel! Noel! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Hate; Christmas Cards LINES FOR A CHRISTMAS CARD, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May all my enemies go to hell Last Line: Noel, noel, noel, noel Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Hate LINES FOR AN OLD MAN, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tiger in the tiger-pit Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Hate; Men LINES FOR AN OLD MAN, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tiger in the tiger-pit Last Line: The dullard knows that he is mad. %tell me if I am not glad Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Hate; Men LINES TO A CRITIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honey from silkworms who can gather Last Line: How should I then hate thee? Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Hate LINES TO A DON, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remote and ineffectual don Last Line: That dared attack my chesterton Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate LINES TO A DON, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remote and ineffectual don Last Line: To write some more about the don %that dared attack my chesterton Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Hate LINES UPON BEING REFUSED A GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What curses should I choose? Last Line: Nor say alas that I can only rhyme on %censures of, not praises of, saint-simon Subject(s): Hate LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: My wife bursts into the room Last Line: I silently curse her Subject(s): Hate LONELY HATER, by EDMONDE HADDAD Poem Source First Line: In modern kitchens where ere you go Last Line: Hating anyone different from you and me Subject(s): Hate LOVE AND HATE, by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: Hate only will I love Last Line: This is all my song, %I will love only hate Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank Subject(s): Hate LOVE AND HATE, by ELIZABETH SIDDAL Poem Source First Line: Ope not thy lips, thou foolish one Last Line: That stole my life away Subject(s): Hate; Love LOVE AND YOUTH AND WAR, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and youth to the war they sent Last Line: When love and youth to the war have gone? Subject(s): Hate; Love; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Youth; First World War LOVE COMES, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: And who will lead the way? Last Line: Let the people love and theirs is the power! Subject(s): Hate; Love; Revolutions; War LOVE LETTER, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: For months now you've hated me Last Line: A morning moon above distant farms %and my cough annoys no one Subject(s): Hate LOVE THE WILD SWAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate my verses, every line, every word Last Line: Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan Subject(s): Relationships; Swans; Poetry & Poets; Freedom; Hate; Liberty LOVE THE WILD SWAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate my verses, every line, every word. Last Line: Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan. Subject(s): Freedom; Hate LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 52, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They often have vex'd me sadly Last Line: She only her love ne'er vouchsafed. Subject(s): Curses; Hate; Love LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 56, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My songs with poison are tainted Last Line: And thee too, my dearest love, thee. Subject(s): Hate; Hearts; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs MALEDICTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "may he that bade me trust him, but did not come" Last Line: With the trembling of the doe! Subject(s): Hate MALEDICTION, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: May the man who gave me this ring Last Line: Or until I choose, %amen Subject(s): Hate; Unfaithfulness MALEDICTION, by BARRY SPACKS Poem Source First Line: You who dump the beer cans in the lake Last Line: A discrad, your dense self your last %enormity Subject(s): Hate MAN, THE MAN-HUNTER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw man, the man-hater Last Line: The -- son of a bitch. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Hate; Social Protest; Mobs; Crowds MASKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain friend of mine, whose daily praise Last Line: Whose common title with the world was saint. Subject(s): Hate; Life; Masks; Sin; Soul MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The big sweet muscles of an athlete's dream Last Line: Full loaded with his contraceptive hate Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Human Rights; Innocence MEDITATION ON A BONE (A PIECE OF BONE FOUND AT TRONDHJEM), by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words scored upon a bone Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bones; Hate MEDITATION ON A BONE (A PIECE OF BONE FOUND AT TRONDHJEM), by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Words scored upon a bone Last Line: And thinks: when I am dung, %what bone shall speak for me? Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Bones; Hate MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions; Masonic Societies MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR: 7. I SEE PHANTOMS OF HATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone Last Line: Suffice the ageing man as once the growing boy Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Freemasons; Hate; Ireland - Rebellions MEMORIAL DAY, POST-WAR, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: For golden lads, a-faring Last Line: A memoryof rue! Subject(s): Hate; Holidays; Memorial Day; Social Protest; War; Declaration Day MEN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate men Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Men; Hate MEN'S ROOM IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the most unchristian basement Last Line: Returning, masterless and twisting Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Graffiti; Hate MERRY LITTLE MINUET, by SHELDON HARNICK Poem Source First Line: Italians hate yugoslavs Last Line: And I don't like anybody very much Subject(s): Hate MIDNIGHT: 1917, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink my blood in secret grief, I weep Last Line: When hate has loosed its hounds of hell and death! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War; Sorrow; Sadness MILTONIC SONNET FOR MR. JOHNSON .. REFUSAL OF PETER HURD'S, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heir to the office of a man not dead Last Line: Wait, sir, and see how time will render you, %who talk of vision but are weak of sight Subject(s): Hate MIRIAM TAZEWELL, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When miriam tazewell heard the tempest bursting Last Line: For weeks she went untidy, she went sullen Subject(s): Hate MIRIAM TAZEWELL, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When miriam tazewell heard the tempest bursting Last Line: And not to unstop her own storm and be maudlin, %for weeks she went untidy, she went sullen Subject(s): Hate MOONLIGHT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight falleth lovely over earth Last Line: Such gentle intercession. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hate MUNDI VICTIMA: 6, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all over, I am left alone Last Line: And dearest love works most the work of hate. Subject(s): Hate; Love - Loss Of MY GUEST, by BEATRICE B. BEEBE Poem Text First Line: A tiny hate came knocking at the door Last Line: Hate alone was there, my soul, no more. Subject(s): Hate MY HATE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hate is like ripe fruit Last Line: I must be stopped. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Hate NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 21ST PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou dispraise a man, let no man know Last Line: To make the world believe thou lov'st the man. Subject(s): Hate NELL FLAHERTY'S DRAKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My name it is nell, right candid I tell Last Line: There ends the whole take of nell flaherty's drake Subject(s): Hate NERVOUS PROSTRATION, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I married a man of the croydon class Last Line: To force a man of croydon class %to live, or love, or to speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Boredom; Hate; Women NEVER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Hate clings to his lips like sticky tape Last Line: That'll never let a fly escape Subject(s): Hate; Silence NIGHTMARE INSPECTION TOUR FOR AMERICAN GENERALS, by GIBBONS RUARK Poem Source First Line: Though you tear the medals Last Line: Mother country, weeping %to be let down Subject(s): Hate NINE CHARMS AGAINST THE HUNTER, by DAVID WAGONER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last bar on the way to your wild game Subject(s): Hate; Sports NINE CHARMS AGAINST THE HUNTER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last bar on the way to your wild game Last Line: Whose dull knife beats the inside of your chest Subject(s): Hate; Sports NON TE AMO, SABIDINE: THE TRUTH AT LAST, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love thee, doctor fell Last Line: For I'm too sick to give a hoot Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Hate NOW THE COCK DOTH CRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now the cock doth cry, cock-a-doodle-doo" Last Line: "to all who beauty love, and business hate" Subject(s): Hate;singing & Singers OBSERVATIONS ON A FEW VERSES OF HORACE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheneer this horace comes into one's hand Last Line: Pray solve the doubts on these decembrian nones. Subject(s): Hate; Horace (65-8 B.c.) OCTOPUS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shameless thing, for ilka vileness able Last Line: This horror that I writhe in - is my soul Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Hate ODE ET AMO, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hate and love. Don't ask me why Last Line: I only know the agony Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Hate; Love ODI ET AMO, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love and hate. Ignnorant fish, who even Last Line: Wants the fly while writhinvg Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Hate; Love ODI ET AMO, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hate began a few months after Last Line: And loving all their lives - odi et amo Subject(s): Hate; Love OJISTOH, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ojistoh, I am she, the wife Last Line: ^1^ god, in the mohawk language. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Duplicity; Hate; Marriage; Native Americans - Women; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Squaws OLD MALEDICTION, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What well-heeled knuckle-head, straight from the unisex Last Line: Once, when I ventured on your deeps, piranha Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Hate OLD WITHERINGTON, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old witherington had drunk too much again Last Line: Who was the sun, and he sole faithful planet Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Detroit, Michigan; Hate ON A COCK AT ROCHESTER, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cursed cock, with thy perpetual noise Subject(s): Curses; Hate; Roosters; Cocks ON A COCK AT ROCHESTER, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cursed cock, with thy perpetual noise Last Line: Thou first and worst disturber of man's rest Subject(s): Curses; Hate; Roosters ON A DEAD ENEMY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came in haste with cursing breath Last Line: By heaven! I cannot hate thee now! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hate ON A POLITICIAN, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, richly, with ridiculous display Last Line: I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Epitaph On The Poilitician Subject(s): Hate; Politics & Government ON A POLITICIAN, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, richly, with ridiculous display Last Line: I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Epitaph On The Poiliticia Subject(s): Hate; Politics ON A SPITEFUL LETTER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, it is here - the close of the year Last Line: How I hate the spites and the follies! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hate; Letters ON BURNING A DULL POEM; WRITTEN IN 1729, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ass's hoof alone can hold Last Line: Though born in snow, it died in flame. Subject(s): Hate ON LORD HOLLAND'S SEAT NEAR MARGATE, KENT, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old and abandoned by each venal friend Last Line: And foxes stunk and litter'd in s. Pauls. Variant Title(s): Impromptu, On Lord Holland's Seat At Kingsgate Subject(s): Fox, Henry. 1st Baron Holland. (1705-74); Hate ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I am a rhymer Last Line: In the body-and-soul-stinking town of cologne. Variant Title(s): An Expectoration Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Travel; Journeys; Trips ON PHILOSOPHERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lofty-brow-flourishers Last Line: Such are your seekers of virtue philosophers Subject(s): Hate ON SHOOTING PARTICLES BEYOND THE WORLD, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this day man's disgust is known Last Line: As he throws his imperfections outward bound, %and his shout that gives a hissing sound Subject(s): Hate ON THE EDITION OF MR. POPE'S WORKS WITH A COMMENTARY & NOTES, by THOMAS EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In evil hour did pope's declining age Last Line: Dragged to oblivion by the foundering weight. Subject(s): Hate; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could homer come himself, distressed and poor Last Line: "begone! No tramper gets a farthing here!" Subject(s): Hate; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey ON THE SITE OF A MULBERRY-TREE PLANTED BY SHAKESPEARE ..., by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tree, here fall'n, no common birth or death Last Line: Some tailor's ninth allotment of a ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Mulberry Trees; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists ONE POET VISITS ANOTHER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His car was worth a thousand pounds and more Last Line: On my own little horse of wind and fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hate ONE WRITING AGAINST HIS PRICK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Base metal hanger by your master's thigh Last Line: Or I'll ne'er draw thee, but against a post Subject(s): Hate; Sex OSCENE CALLER, by CHERI FEIN Poem Source First Line: He breathes into my earpiece late at night Last Line: He presses down on my face %ringing again and again Subject(s): Hate PENELOPE'S WEB: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aspiring thoughts led phaethon amiss Last Line: Eschew self-love, choose for the common-wealth. Subject(s): Envy; Hate; Revenge PILL, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Must delicate women die in vain Last Line: And bronze, dire figures of the past %that veil a young girl in her tomb Subject(s): Hate PIPLING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the critic, pitched like the castrati Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate PIPLING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the critic, pitched like the castrati Last Line: Some cannot praise him: I am one of those Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Hate PITY ME NOT, by KATHLEEN M. RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: After the last good-bye, when you are gone Last Line: This grant--when I have smiled and set you free, %hate, if you will, but never pity me Subject(s): Hate; Pity PLAYBOY OF THE DEMI-WORLD, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft in heavenly mansions, doubleyou one Last Line: He'd shrivel up at once or turn to stone Subject(s): Hate; Homosexuality POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hate is only one of many responses Last Line: By your mysterious concern Subject(s): Hate PRETENDING TO BE ASLEEP: 8. THE COST OF PRETENDING, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I would despise myself if I had the strength for it Last Line: Will shortly survive even himself Subject(s): Hate PSALM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not lyric any more Subject(s): Relationships; Love; Hate QUATRAINS (FOR FOUR DRAWINGS BY JORGE PALOMINO): 4. HATE, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Cold in the chambered darkness of the brain Last Line: Bursts the hot deed in flame of leaping fire! Subject(s): Fire; Hate RAGE RADIO!, by CARL STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: Go do not go gentle into twilight prime time or the rush hour dawn! Last Line: Into any dialogue with them. Rage, rage, rage! Subject(s): Anger; Hate; Talk Radio RAPER FROM PASSENACK, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was very kind. When she regained Last Line: But it's the foulness of it can't %be cured. And hatred, hatred of all men %-and disgust Subject(s): Hate RENCONTRE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toiling across the mer de glace Last Line: But not for those who hate. Subject(s): Love; Hate; Longing REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes! Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers RETRIBUTION, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: I spilt my blood upon a battlefield Last Line: Behold the courage of the wandering jew! Subject(s): Dreams; Hate; Jews; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Life; Nightmares; Judaism REVENGE FABLE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a person Last Line: With all her babes in her arms, in ghostly weeping, %she died. %his head fell off like a leaf Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Hate ROAD TO HATE, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He said: the road you are going will lead you to hate Last Line: Till in the end he became a most noble saint Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Hate SALT MERCHANT'S WIFE (IN HATRED OF PROFITEERS), by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The salt merchant's wife Last Line: This happened not in the han alone, %it happens also now Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Greed; Hate SAM HALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, my name it is sam hall, it is sam hall" Last Line: "all the whores are down in hell, god damn their eyes" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;curses;hate;murder SANDGATE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He's an ugly body, a bubbly body Last Line: Amd I have married a keelman, %and my good days are done Subject(s): Hate SAVAGE BEAST, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I leaned to retrieve Last Line: Had been here in my %place, only a little closer Subject(s): Hate SCOURGE OF VILLAINY: TO DETRACTION I PRESENT MY POESY, by JOHN MARSTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foul canker of fair virtuous action Last Line: I am myself, so is my poesy Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Hate SCURRUB, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He died at his fingers first, and his toes Last Line: The rest of us there is a devil. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Dead, The SELF-CONDEMNATION, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who condemnest jewish hate Last Line: Without excuse or cloak. Subject(s): Hate; Jews; Judaism SELF-HATE, by UNKNOWN+123 Poem Source First Line: What I cannot bear %is knowing that I wanted you- Last Line: I live %the intolerable misery %of hating not only you %but me Subject(s): Incest; Self-hate SELF-HATRED OF DON L. LEE, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I %began Last Line: Brown %outer Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): African Americans; Self-hate SELF-PORTRAIT, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He wants to be/a brutal old man Subject(s): Aging; Love; Hate SELF-PORTRAIT AT TWENTY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood inside myself Last Line: And the rain came. Subject(s): Introspection; Self-hate; Self-pity SELIMUS: VENGEANCE IMPLORED, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou supreme architect of all Last Line: That ever was despatched to any king. Subject(s): Emotions; Hate; Vengeance SEND NO MONEY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing under the fobbed Subject(s): Hate SEND NO MONEY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing under the fobbed Last Line: In this way I spent youth, %tracing the trite untransferable%truss-advertisement, truth Subject(s): Hate SHITTY, by KINGSLEY AMIS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Look thy last on all things shitty Last Line: Than the screens around your bed Subject(s): Hate SHYLOCK, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from the court he locked the door and sat Subject(s): Hate; Despair; Conduct Of Life SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sir joshua reynolds died Last Line: And all his pictures faded Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Mythology; Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) SKELTON LAUREATE, DEFENDER, AGAINST LUSTY GARNESCHE ..., by JOHN SKELTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have your lewd letter received Last Line: Good latin for jack-a-thrum, %till more matter may come Subject(s): Hate SKIN THE GOAT'S CURSE ON CAREY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "before I set sail, I will not fail" Last Line: "and pick his bones as clean as stones, / is the prayer of poor skin the goat" Subject(s): Hate SNOW-SPELL, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: The world was wrapped in a robe of ravishing white Last Line: Lay white and beautiful beneath the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Hate; Sleep; Snow; War SOLILOQUY OF THE SPANISH CLOISTER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gr-r-r - there go, my heart's abhorrence! Last Line: Ave, virgo! Gr-r-r -- you swine! Subject(s): Hate; Hypocrisy; Villains In Literature SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good neighbour, why you look awry? Last Line: You've torn my hood, and shall make it good %if it cost me forty pound Subject(s): Hate; Neighbors SONG, by ELIZABETH WILMOT Poem Text First Line: Nothing adds to loves fond fire Last Line: Your love, fond fugitive, to gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, Countess Of; Malet, Elizabeth Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG OF THE BULLET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It whizzed and whistled along the blurred Last Line: Peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bullets; Hate; Patriotism; Peace; War SONG: 99, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love whom ye list and spare not Last Line: For I am indifferent. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hate; Love SONNET, by FRADL SHTOK Poem Source First Line: My friend, my terrible friend, how you are evil Last Line: He'll give me what I crave -- your lilac tongue Subject(s): Hate SONNET (5), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pallid thunder-stricken sigh for gain Last Line: And skins the color from her trembling lips. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hate SONNET: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the course that nature's kind hath wrought Last Line: For that they hate, are made most miserable. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hate; Nature; Singing & Singers SONNET: 9, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's daffodil - here's tulip - here's the leaf Last Line: And since I hate him, I must hate you too Subject(s): Hate SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMANDA BARKER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry got me with child Last Line: That he slew me to gratify his hatred. Subject(s): Hate STEEL MILL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The core of him is hate Last Line: War! War! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Hate; Mills & Millers; Steel STRANGE HOUR, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 3 a.M. Cool palace roar of oakland night Last Line: Clear at this hour Subject(s): Night; Hate STUDY OF READING HABITS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When getting my nose in a book Last Line: Who's yellow and keeps the store, %seem far too familiar. Get stewed: %books are load of crap Subject(s): Books; Hate SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I seek for love or study it? Last Line: How can she live till in her blood he live! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hate; Men SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 5. RIBH CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN SUFFICENT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I seek for love or study it? Last Line: How can she live till in her blood he live! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hate; Men TALKING UNION: 1964, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The liberator of the laboring Last Line: So gentlemen %are made, not born, with infinite labor pains Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): Hate TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness TEEN-AGER, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The high-priced jeans, the nwe car - she got what Last Line: In life. Why add my barrel to her notch? Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Hate THAT NEXT STEP, by NEIL CITRIN Poem Source First Line: Racing toward education's completion Last Line: So loose your grip %and grasp the higher rung Subject(s): Evolution; Hate THE ASSASSIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling him amongst the cobbles of Last Line: Draw backward flickeringly and knock him dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Assassination; Hate; Violence THE BIRD WITH THE DARK PLUMES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird with the dark plumes in my blood, Last Line: To want hatred as to want love; and harder to win Subject(s): Hate THE BUSINESS LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When someone hangs up, having said Last Line: To your car, your senses and your dignity Subject(s): Hate; Salespersons; Selling THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 1-3, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That matter of the murder is hushed up Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Despair; Gothic Drama; Hate; Italy; Italians THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 4-5, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She comes not, yet I left her even now Last Line: We are quite ready. Well -- 't is very well. Subject(s): Despair; Hate; Italy; Italians THE COMPLETE MISANTHROPIST, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to think of things I hate Last Line: And what's more, I hate you. Subject(s): Hate; Misanthropy THE COUPLE OVERHEAD, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They don't get anywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Hate; Neighbors THE CROW, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The crow in the cage in the dining-room Last Line: Knowing there is nothing he wants Subject(s): Hate THE CURSE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever guesses, thinks, or dreams he knows Last Line: Nature before hand hath out-cursed me. Subject(s): Hate THE CURSE, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, confound this surly sister Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Curses; Hate THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: With a whirl of thought oppressed Last Line: I damn such fools! -- go, go, you're bit.' Variant Title(s): On The Day Of Judgement Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE EGG AND THE MACHINE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gave the solid rail a hateful kick Last Line: Will get this plasm in it goggle glass Subject(s): Hate; Automobiles; Cars THE END OF IT, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She did not love to love, but hated him Last Line: Her own self-will made void her own self's will. Subject(s): Hate 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 EXECRATION, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Enslaved by passions, swelled with pride Last Line: Of rosalinda, whom I hate. Subject(s): Curses; Hate THE FATE OF THE HESSIAN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who blusters along with his clattering blade Last Line: And field, camp, and prison knew friedrich no more! Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Legends; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Destiny THE FLY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O hideous little bat, the size of snot Subject(s): Flies; Hate THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIFTH AND SIXTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infected mad he danced on his mountains high & dark as heaven Last Line: In their progressions & preparing urizens path before him Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE FIRST AND SECOND, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the aged mother which shook the heavens with wrath Last Line: Vala Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE NINTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And los & enitharmon builded jerusalem weeping Last Line: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then urizen arose the spectre fled & tharmas fled Last Line: Babylon again in infancy calld natural religion Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FOUR ZOAS: NIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now sat the king of light on high upon his starry throne Last Line: Into unusual forms dancing & howling stamping the abyss Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Imagination; Mythology; Vision; Winter; Fancy THE FURY OF HATING EYES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to bury Subject(s): God; Hate; Religion; Theology THE GENERAL, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-morning: good-morning!' the general said Last Line: But he did for them both by his plan of attack. Subject(s): Generals; Hate; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I pass through my incarnation in every age and race Last Line: The gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return! Subject(s): Hate THE GOOD MAN IN HELL, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a good man were ever housed in hell Subject(s): Hate THE INVENTION OF NEW JERSEY, by JACK ANDERSON First Line: Place a custard stand in a garden Subject(s): Hate; New Jersey THE LADY'S-MAID SONG, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When adam found his rib was gone Subject(s): Bones; Hate THE LAST MAN: BONA DE MORTUIS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, the good man, kind father, best of friends Last Line: Like toads among them. Subject(s): Hate THE MALDIVE SHARK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the shark, phlegmatical one Last Line: Pale ravener of horrible meat. Subject(s): Hate; Sea; Sharks; Ocean THE MYSTERY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you not hear the sobbing in the night Last Line: And passes, as though it had not heard. Subject(s): Hate; Night; Sea; Silence; Time; Bedtime; Ocean THE NIGHT BEFORE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look you, dominie; look you, and listen Subject(s): Passion; Adultery; Cuckolds; Anger; Hate; Forgiveness; Murder; Clemency THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hate the people of this village Subject(s): Villages; Hate; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PLAYBOY OF THE DEMI-WORLD, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft in heavenly mansions, doubleyou one Subject(s): Hate; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE POET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet in a golden clime was born Last Line: She shook the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Liberty THE POET'S CHOICE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I murder hate, by field or flood Last Line: Within the arms of cozbi! Variant Title(s): I Murder Hate Subject(s): Hate THE QUARREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They faced each other: topaz Last Line: Like drowning gems were turned on him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hate; Quarrels; Sea; Storms; Arguments; Disagreements; Ocean THE RAPER FROM PASSENACK, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was very kind. When she regained Last Line: "be cured. And hatred, hatred of all men Subject(s): Hate THE REBEL, by INNES RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I'm a good old rebel, that's what I am Last Line: I won't be reconstructed and I don't give a damn. Variant Title(s): Unreconstructed Subject(s): American Civil War; Hate; United States - History THE REBEL SCOT, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, providence? And yet a scottish crew? Last Line: Drops into styx and turns a solan goose. Subject(s): Hate; Scotland - Relations With England THE SAVAGE BEAST, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I leaned to retrieve Last Line: Place, only a little closer Subject(s): Hate THE SCOTT MONUMENT, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sits he throned, where men and gods behold Last Line: While yon grey ramparts kindle to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hate; Life; Love; Monuments; Past; War THE SCOURGE OF VILLAINY: TO DETRACTION I PRESENT MY POESY, by JOHN MARSTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foul canker of fair virtuous action Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate THE SILLY OLD MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come listen awhile, and I'll sing you a song" Last Line: "so go to your grave, you silly old man" Subject(s): Cuckolds;hate THE STAR OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It dwells not in the skies Last Line: My star of beauty! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hell; Love; Stars THE TERRIBLE SONNETS: 3, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day Last Line: As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. Variant Title(s): "i Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day"";sonnet: 67; Subject(s): Despair; Hate THE TOAD-EATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of earls with whom you have supt Last Line: Though it crawl on the curl of a queen! Subject(s): Hate THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All cities are open in the hot season Last Line: "calling out ""o love, love,"" but finding none" Subject(s): Death; Hate; History; Maps; United States; Dead, The; Historians; America THE TRUE EFFIGIES OF A CERTAIN SQUIRE: INSCRIBED TO CLEMENA, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Some generous painter now assist my pen Last Line: And own this folly worse than when 'twas acted o'er. Subject(s): Hate THE UNACKNOWLEDGED FEAR, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the bottom of my fear Last Line: My shoulders bow under an invisible weight. Subject(s): Fear; Hate; Hearts; Love THE VOWS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the plate was at pawn and the fob at an ebb Last Line: And quack in their language still, vive le roy. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Hate THE WALL OF HATE, by AGNES I. EASON Poem Text First Line: The master builder set his crew to work Last Line: When they try to tear it down. Subject(s): Hate THE WANDERING JEW'S SOLILOQUY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the eternal triune, is it he Last Line: Drink deeply -- drain the cup of hate -- remit this I may die. Subject(s): Hate; Wandering Jew THE WAYS OF LOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's infidel / whom I adore Last Line: Till you loved in sooth! Subject(s): Eyes; Hate; Hearts; Love THE WHIPPING, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old woman across the way Subject(s): Child Molesting; Hate; Child Abuse THE WHITE CITY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not toy with it nor bend an inch Last Line: Are sweet like wanton loves because I hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Hate; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE WHITE DEVIL, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Banished Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Murder; Prostitution; Revenge; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE WHITE HOUSE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your door is shut against my tightened face Last Line: Against the potent poison of your hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Hate; Negroes; American Blacks THREE BAROQUE MEDITATIONS: 3. THE DEAD BRIDE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So white I was, he would have me cry Subject(s): Hate THREE BAROQUE MEDITATIONS: 3. THE DEAD BRIDE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So white I was, he would have me cry Last Line: Love. I hated him. He weeps, solemnizing his loss Subject(s): Hate THUS, by HENRY H. CALDWELL Poem Text First Line: Ho, thou of the hate that shall deathless be! Last Line: In our sails scream the gulls of the sea. Subject(s): Hate TIMON SPEAKS TO A DOG, by PHILIP HOBSBAUM Poem Source First Line: Ah, dog. Here is my boot. Does it stink good? Last Line: So grew, so spanned the sky, while I sniffed dung, %following my doggy ends to doggy end Subject(s): Hate TO A BAD HEART, by TIM REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: Speak, thou jaded heart, defective heart Last Line: What did I do to deserve a heart like you? Subject(s): Hate TO A FINE YOUNG WOMAN, by WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Poem Source First Line: You with that creeping, twining thing can play Last Line: By thy damned snake, which does about thee crawl %in reach of my bliss, to beget my fall Subject(s): Hate TO A LOUDMOUTH PONTIFICATOR, by RAY MIZER Poem Source First Line: Descend from that pneumatic pedestal Last Line: As all the bawds of tizzy never twanged Subject(s): Hate TO AN ENEMY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I despise my friends more than you Subject(s): Friendship; Enemies; Hate TO EDWARD FITZGERALD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced upon a new book yesterday Last Line: Spitting from lips once sanctified by hers. Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Hate TO HELEN KELLER, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: You see with the cleansing eyes of love Last Line: And roll away the stone of doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Hate; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Vision TO HELL WITH YOUR FERTILITY CULT, I, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He had nothing to say Subject(s): Hate; Sex TO MR. D'URFEY, UPON HIS INCOMPARABLE BALLADS CALL'D BY HIM LYRIC ODES, by THOMAS (TOM) BROWN Poem Text First Line: Thou cur, half french, half english breed Last Line: And pindar beat thy brains out. Subject(s): D'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723); Hate TO MUTIUS, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: A thousand great resolves, as great Last Line: With his eternal doom. Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Love; Mutability; Pride; Destiny; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO MY LEAST FAVORITE REVIEWER, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, just starting at our game Last Line: Now it's my humbler hope just to outlive thee Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Hate TO PIUS IX, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cannon's brazen lips are cold Last Line: The twin-born vampires down! Subject(s): Hate; Pius Ix, Pope (1792-1878) TO SCIENCE; SONNET, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Science! True daughter of old time thou art! Last Line: The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? Variant Title(s): Sonnet - To Science;to Science Subject(s): Hate; Mythology; Social Protest TO THE REVIEWERS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a modern poet's fate? Last Line: The critic spits on what is done, - %gives it a wipe, - and all is gone Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Hate TO WHOM I WOULD FORGET, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrong mine honour to descend Last Line: That could not be. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Hate TOO LATE, by SCYTHINUS Poem Source First Line: And now you're ready who while she was here Last Line: I will not pity you, or lend a hand Subject(s): Hate TRAVELER'S CURSE AFTER MISDIRECTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "may they stumble, stage by stage" Last Line: "now rib, now thigh, now arm, now shin, / but always, without fail, the neck" Subject(s): Curses;hate;travel; Journeys;trips TRIOLET, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first we met we did not guess Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Hate TRIOLET, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All women born are so perverse Last Line: No man need boast their love possessing Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Hate TRIP-HAMMER WITH OVERTONES, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: Only idealists fight wide open Last Line: But you'll know him in victory. Subject(s): Fights; Hate TRISTAN AND ISEULT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tristan and iseult had nothing Last Line: Descending to kiss my wrists. Subject(s): Hate; Longing; Love TRYST, by CATHARINE CATES Poem Text First Line: She walked uphill through dismal wood Last Line: And rising scorched her with its swell. Subject(s): Devil; Hate; Hell; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub TWILIGHT, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm the crazy girl you've been looking for. I'm the one on the phone that Last Line: Think I was a princess because my blood was blue. See? Subject(s): Insanity; Self-criticism; Self-hate TWO LESSONS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I hate;-- Last Line: My love! Subject(s): Hate; Love; War TWO SINS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sin I did for love's sake Last Line: The eyes that fain would see. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Hate; Lies; Love; Sin UGLY CHILE, by CLARENCE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Aw %you so ugly Last Line: You some ugly chile Subject(s): Hate UNDER THE GREEN LEDGE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I huddle with that life I can steal Subject(s): Hate; Imagination UPON SCOBBLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scobble for whoredom whips his wife, and cries Last Line: One slit's enough to let adultery in.' Subject(s): Hate; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy UPON THE AUTHOR OF A PLAY CALLED SODOM, by JOHN OLDHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, abandoned miscreant, prithee tell Last Line: There bugger wiping porters when they shite, %and so thy booke itself turn sodomite Subject(s): Hate UPTOWN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow-lit budweiser signs over oaken bars Subject(s): Hate UPTOWN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow-lit budweiser signs over oaken bars Last Line: And 'bless you sir' I added as he went to his fate in the rain, dapper irishman Subject(s): Hate VALENTINE, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing a song of critics Variant Title(s): Valentine; For Lee Wilson Dodd And Any Of His Friends Subject(s): Hate VALENTINE, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing a song of critics Last Line: My valentine to you Variant Title(s): Valentine; For Lee Wilson Dodd And Any Of His Friend Subject(s): Hate VER TENEBROSUM: THE LUTE-PLAYER, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a lady great and splendid Last Line: With rapture of my hate and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hate; Love VERSES ADDRESSED TO IMITATOR OF FIRST SATIRE OF HORACE, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In two large columns, on thy motley page Last Line: Wander like him, accursed through the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Variant Title(s): A Reply To Alexander Pope Subject(s): Hate; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism VERSES IN THE STYLE OF THE DRUIDS, FR. THE BETROTHED, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask'd of my harp, 'who hath injured thy chords' Last Line: Kindness fadeth away, but vengeance endureth Subject(s): Hate VICTORY MUST BE A SUMPREMELY GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE SAID A WOMAN TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 2:22 am too hot to sleep Last Line: A defeat he replied Subject(s): War; Hate; Fear; Defeat; Victory; Wellington, Duke Of VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: THE AUTHORS CHARGE TO HIS SATYRES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye luck-lesse rymes, whom not vnkindly spight Last Line: Satis est potuisse videri. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Love; Truth; Dead, The WAITING, by PAULINE PARKER Poem Text First Line: Waiting is such a task / well do I know it Last Line: At least I won't mind it. Subject(s): Hate; Waiting WAR OF POVERTY, by JONAS L. GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I fight the war of poverty Last Line: Of self hate %and blind pity Subject(s): Self-hate WARMING UP FOR THE REAL THING, by LEE RUDOLPH Poem Source First Line: Oh, you foulbreathed destroyer of children and villages Last Line: And die - scratching it %with a coathanger Subject(s): Hate WEDDED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some quick and bitter words we said Last Line: Now we are wed Subject(s): Hate;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives WHAT GRANDFATHER SAID, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your thoughts are for the poor and weak? Last Line: Well, I'm your grandson. You'll grow wiser. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grandparents; Hate; Love; Names; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers WHAT SAPPHO WOULD HAVE SAID .. LEAP CURED INSTEAD OF KILLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, love, that having found a heart Last Line: Fill me and make me wholly thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Hearts; Love; Time WHEN PAIN TRAVELS BACKWARDS', by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source Last Line: Someone you hate has an orgasm Subject(s): Hate; Pain WHIPPING, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old woman across the way Last Line: Avenged in part for lifelong hidings %she has had to bear Subject(s): Child Molesting; Hate WILLY WET-LEG, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't stand willy wet-leg Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Hate WILLY WET-LEG, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't stand willy wet-leg Last Line: He lets you hit him twice Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Hate WINDOWS (VERSION A), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Disgusted with the dreary hospital, and the rank fumes Last Line: -even at the risk of falling in eternity? Subject(s): Self-hate WINTER SAINT, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the summer I live so Last Line: And the miles and miles %winter clears between us Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Hate; Neighbors WITH A BARRIE BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old year dies, and a new is born Last Line: Lo, here's barrie! Subject(s): Books; Hate; Holidays; Laughter; Lies; Love; New Year; Reading WORDS TO BE FLUNG UP A STAIRWAY, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never you mind about my milksop heart! Last Line: Our final precious food, the marrow-fat of hate. Subject(s): Hate WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements YOU COULD HATE YOURSELF', by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source Last Line: Simply roll past yourself like thunder Subject(s): Hate; Self YOU FIT INTO ME, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An open eye Subject(s): Hate ZEAL AND LOVE, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And would'st thou reach, rash scholar mine Last Line: Nor gifts, when faith was dead. Subject(s): Hate |
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