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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MERCY Matches Found: 59 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LESSON OF MERCY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy named peter Last Line: Had had better fun. Subject(s): Mercy A LESSON OF MERCY, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Beneath a palm-tree by a clear cool spring Last Line: Clasped hands in token that their feud was o'er. Subject(s): Mercy A YOUNG GIRL SPEAKS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fennel says: so mad his love Last Line: Dear god, have pity on my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Girls; Mercy; Soul ALTAR OF MERCY, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There stood as in the centre of the town Last Line: A constant levee trembling at her shrine Alternate Author Name(s): Statius Subject(s): Mercy AMORETTI: 49, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair cruel! Why are ye so fierce and cruel? Last Line: So shall you live by giving life to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Mercy AN ODE (4), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While from our looks, fair nymph, you guess Last Line: Fair prophetess, my grief would cease. Subject(s): Love; Mercy; Nymphs; Prophecy & Prophets; Secrets ARCHDUCHESS ANNE: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old kraken read a missive penned Last Line: Great heart, archduchess anne. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mercy AS YOU WILL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She turns her face to the sun Last Line: From the one and only man Subject(s): Mercy; Prayer; Sun BROTHERS: 7. STILL THERE IS MERCY, THERE IS GRACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How otherwise / could I have come to this Last Line: But, amen, yours. Subject(s): Creation; Grace; Mercy; Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips CHRIST WRITES IN THE SAND, by LUCY CULRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Crafty words and questions at jesus christ were flung Last Line: In flaming letters of forgiveness in our heart. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mercy; Sin COUSIN ROBERT, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cousin robert, far away Last Line: "have mercy, o good lord!" Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Mercy DE PROFUNDIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O savior of the world, who by Last Line: Save us and help us! Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Salvation; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion DISCOURAGEMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forward, comrades, ever forward! Last Line: We are nothing but the spray. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Mankind; Mercy; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race DIVINE GODDESS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou, who bounteous to their need Last Line: To feeble man's forgetful race. Subject(s): Mercy EGG NOG, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quality of mercy Subject(s): Mercy FOR A MERCY RECEIVED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god who spared me what I feared Last Line: To do, and make me love thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Mercy; Dead, The GOD SPARING IN SCOURGING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God still rewards us more then our desert Last Line: But when he strikes, he quarter-acts his part. Subject(s): Mercy GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND MERCY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Offended justice comes in fiery rage Last Line: If thou in mercies mercy put thy trust. Subject(s): Justice; Mercy; Puritans In Literature GOD'S MERCY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, one faith endureth still Last Line: Be with us, foe and friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; God; Mercy; Belief; Creed GRAPES OF MERCY, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Come back to lighten our soul and let the contagious steam Last Line: Softening the edges until the room gives away under its own weight Subject(s): Mercy HOLY SONNET: 9, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If poisonous [or poysonous] minerals, and if that tree Last Line: I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. Variant Title(s): Holy Sonnet: 5 Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mercy; Clemency KUAN YIN, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: Not pity, no. Not that Subject(s): Mercy; Mythology - Chinese LES AVEUGLES; TO P.T.A., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: As blind folk groping in a barren land Last Line: To our sure haven, down the great white road. Subject(s): Angels; Friendship; Mercy MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This kiss / as soft as cotton Last Line: I see a tree Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This kiss %as soft as cotton Last Line: Between my legs %I see a tree Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Women - Bible MERCY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mercy, the wise athenians held to be Last Line: Not an affection, but a deitie. Subject(s): Mercy MERCY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I see him in the middle of a field Last Line: Go about their loving Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Cruelty; History; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mercy MERCY, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At twilight the horse thief torches the cross Last Line: Across the river. The dogs howl at the truck. %in the moonlight the road begins to glow. Subject(s): Mercy MERCY PLEADS, by LUCRETIA STOUT BELLOWS Poem Text First Line: When god in his wisdom, supreme and eternal Last Line: "give mercy her seat in thy heart." Subject(s): Mercy MOHAMMED AND THE ASSASSIN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, my followers, leave me Last Line: "whose mercy knows no end." Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Assassination; Mercy; Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Mahomet; Mohammed MOTHER, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She loved redbirds and bright mornings Last Line: And god's great mercy -- because of her. Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Mercy MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This plane has landed thanks to god and his mercy Last Line: Thanks to the small toad that lives in cool mud at the base of the zinnias. Subject(s): Life; Luck; Mercy; Travel; Journeys; Trips NO MERCY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There's no mercy in the tide, she said Last Line: Where is the blond child? Subject(s): Conversation; Gossip; Mercy; Seashore ODE TO MERCY, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who sit'st a smiling bride Last Line: Thou, thou shalt rule our queen, and share our monarch's throne! Subject(s): Mercy ON WORKS OF MERCY AND COMPASSION; PROOFS OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of true religion works of mercy seem Last Line: His love is heav'n; and want of it is hell. Subject(s): Mercy; Religion; Truth; Theology OPEN SEASON, by ELLA BARTH Poem Text First Line: The morning wears a misty crown Last Line: By god's own dext'rous hand. Subject(s): Hunting; Mercy; Hunters ORIGIN OF LANDSCAPE OR THE END OF MERCY, by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly the swallow's shadow reaped the glances of its nostalgia Last Line: Noon Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): Mercy OUT OF THE DEEP', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have mercy, thou my god-mercy my god Last Line: Lord, I repent; help thou my helpless loss Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Weariness; Mercy; God SEABIRDS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Morning came with the seabirds Last Line: Tightened in a cry: %where are we? Mercy Subject(s): Mercy SIMPLE MERCIES, by MARGARET J. HOEHN Poem Source First Line: This night rests so still in itself that Last Line: Track, long after it has moved on Subject(s): Mercy SO HELP ME GOD, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pudgy and white, the prez poses in blue swim trunks Last Line: On my honor (which I may not have, but do -- trust me, %and your heart, if you still hear it) swear Subject(s): Life; Mercy SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 25, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe beauty has and wit Last Line: And kindly help to quench the fire. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Mercy; Women SONNET: PALE DAUGHTER OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou most beautiful and meek-eyed virgin Last Line: For innocence and mercy are twin-born! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Innocence; Mercy SUPPLICATION, by R. JOSE BEN JOSE Poem Text First Line: Our sins are many, and we sigh Last Line: Thy mercy is for ever sure! Subject(s): Jews; Mercy; Redemption; Sin; Judaism SUSPICION, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see no good in anything, but aye the / shadow of an ill Last Line: Nay, this is death instead of life. May god have mercy on my soul! Subject(s): God; Mercy; Suspense THE ARMLESS ARTIST: CATASTROPHE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Alas!' the father said Last Line: "this armless boy will ruin me." Subject(s): Grief; Mercy; Physical Disabilities; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CHRIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father (so the word) he Last Line: "father! Father!"" so he died." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The THE FORLORN ONE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Why those piteous sounds of woe Last Line: And this here warment's prigg'd your wipe.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Mercy THE HEART OF THE ETERNAL, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wideness in god's mercy Last Line: In the sweetness of our lord. Subject(s): God; Mercy THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean THE MERCY SEAT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in an enamel tub with a black Last Line: While he was content to settle on the facts... Subject(s): Angels; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Salvation; Vision; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE PRAYER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slender leaves of the acacia trees Last Line: And laid his unvoiced grief on allah's heart. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Mercy; Prayer THE PRAYER OF A PERSIAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Unto the sinful evermore thy boundless Last Line: When thou didst make them so Subject(s): Mercy;prayer THE PRAYER OF RUSBROCHIUS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O merciful lord! By the good which thou art Last Line: Be thou the sole cause, the one reason of all! Subject(s): Churches; God; Mercy; Prayer; Ruysbroeck, Jan Van (1293-1381); Cathedrals; Rusbrochius, Ioannis; Ruusbroec, Jan Van THE SILVER HERONS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a home for captive beasts Last Line: Is not to lose one's life, but save. Subject(s): Freedom; Herons; Mercy; Liberty UNDER THE VULTURE-TREE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have all seen them circling pastures Last Line: With mercy enough to consume us all and give us wings. Subject(s): Angels; Mercy; Trees; Vultures VILLON'S EPITAPH , by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brother men, who after us still live Last Line: But pray to god that he absolve us all Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of The Hange Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mercy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty WHO LIVES ALONE LONGS FOR MERCY, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: I saw three thugs beating another man on the road Last Line: Silently watched the whole thing Subject(s): Mercy WRETTEN BY ME ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD ROBERT PAYLER, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord hath called for my sonne Last Line: Enoughe my lord; now lett me dye. Subject(s): Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Death - Babies |
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