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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 back—man, 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 memory—of 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