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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PAIN Matches Found: 694 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "LORD, TAKE AWAY PAIN", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cry of man's anguish went up unto god Last Line: The christ on his cross? Subject(s): Pain;prayer; Suffering;misery 90 NORTH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe, Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; North Pole; Pain; Suffering; Misery 90 NORTH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain Subject(s): North Pole; Pain A BALLAD OF ST. SEBASTIEN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sebastien, sebastien Last Line: O pale-eyed man, art thou the king? Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery A BEGGAR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I beg of you, I beg of you, my brothers Last Line: Pray for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Love; Pain; Sin; Soul; Suffering; Misery A BETTER RESURRECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wit, no words, no tears Last Line: O jesus, drink of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Pain; Belief; Creed; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Suffering; Misery A BURNING BOSOM, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in this tea-house Last Line: No, no, a mustard plaster. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Suffering; Misery A CAMEO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a graven image of desire Last Line: Upon whose lock was written peradventure. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Idols; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A CHOPIN PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain chopin prelude once I heard Last Line: With beauty, shaken by magic of that song. Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Songs A COMPLAINT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a change -- and I am poor Last Line: Of my fond heart, hath made me poor. Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Pain; Absense A CRY FOR ZION, by LOUIS SMIRNOW Poem Text First Line: Behold, as I sit here, alone and forlorn Last Line: "here on earth, o return me, return my beth-el!" Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Pain; Zionism; Judaism; Suffering; Misery A DEAD PAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare her at least: look you have taken Last Line: Even dearer still, -- since I have nothing more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery A FOOLISH TONGUE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Her face is full of silent pain Last Line: Rise up, and cry — 'for shame!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain; Vengeance; Suffering; Misery A LAMENT, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: In the bosom too often betrayed Last Line: All, all, I have felt or now feel! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Lament; Pain; Suffering; Misery A LAMENTATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath known the ways of time Last Line: Beyond the gods and fate. Subject(s): Lament; Life; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery A LITTLE SWIRL OF VERS LIBRA, by THOMAS RUSSELL YBARRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am numb from world-pain Last Line: Fall flat on my face! Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Suffering; Misery; Thinking A LOVE TOKEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you grieve no costly offering Last Line: Glittering at her side. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; Optimism; Suffering; Misery A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery A MAN-MADE HADES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were sent to build a hell Last Line: My hell of indecision. Subject(s): Doubt; Hell; Pain; Punishment; Skepticism; Suffering; Misery A MISERERE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heart, what means your plaint to-day Last Line: Some great impending woe! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery A MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a fir-tree stark against the sky Last Line: A mystery. Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Rain; Snow; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery A NIGHTMARE, by ELIZA OGILVY Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that I was sick and sore at heart Last Line: And still the pulse beat stronger for the pain. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Pain; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny; Suffering; Misery A PARABLE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone strikes the body, because Last Line: With him until he dies. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A POTION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How brew the brave drink life? Last Line: Then down with the brave drink life! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Moon; Pain; Sin; Wine; Suffering; Misery A PRAYER TO DEATH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god's archangel, tarriest thou so late? Last Line: Exquisite silences, forgotten rest. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Prayer; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A PRIEST OF HUMANITY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Of sorrows bitter-strange is wove his fate Last Line: More bitter is the grief that eats his heart! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A RECOLLECTION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we was visitin' a farm Last Line: L laugh at things that isn't jokes. Subject(s): Children; Pain; Childhood; Suffering; Misery A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness A SIGH, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE Poem Text First Line: My wounded heart is sore Last Line: A gentle touch. Subject(s): Gentility; Pain; Sighs; Suffering; Misery A SOLDIER LISTENS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was it came to distress you? Last Line: Who from the clamoring dead? Subject(s): Death; Pain; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A SONG IN THE NIGHT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take this pain, lord jesus Last Line: Thou lovest me! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery A SWEET NOSEGAY: A CAREFULL COMPLAYNT BY THE UNFORTUNATE AUCTOR, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good dido stint thy teares, and sorrowes all resigne Last Line: Ye sisters three dispatch my dayes and finysh all my care. Subject(s): Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery A TALE OF THE BUSH, by W. J." "B. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was twenty years last autumn since my comrade and I Last Line: Seared upon my heart for ever its dread memory lives on Alternate Author Name(s): "b., W. J.; Subject(s): Death;deserts;food & Eating;murder;pain;suicide;travel;trees; "dead, The;suffering;misery;journeys;trips; A TRANSPOSITION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oyster had an illness. Doom Last Line: His suffering hung on the neck of a girl! Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My swirling wants. Your frozen lips Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Pain; Poetry & Poets; Suffering; Misery A VIOL'S PLAINT, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart that dreads what time may bring Last Line: And on thy soft glove left a stain. Subject(s): Language; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Words; Vocabulary; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery A VISION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy and black are the cypress-trees Last Line: The rain, and the rustling cyprus-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Life; Pain; Vision; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Suffering; Misery ACME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, unforgotten sorrow, sleep awhile Last Line: The toughest oak groans long but rends at length. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery AD ASTRA: 10, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Needs must we suffer first to find her fair! Last Line: She lures us to her own most gentle knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Consolation; Pain; Suffering; Misery AD ASTRA: 81, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How stem this cry of universal pain Last Line: Shall disobedience merit instant death? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery AFTER GREAT PAIN A FORMAL FEELING COMES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: First — chill — then stupor — then the letting go Subject(s): Grief; Pain AFTER GREAT PAIN A FORMAL FEELING COMES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As freezing persons recollect the snow- %first chill, then stupor, then the letting go Variant Title(s): Poem: 341; Poem: 37 Subject(s): Grief; Pain AFTER GRIEF, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: At first when thou wert gone, thy memory Last Line: The more my hope and singing, am I free. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery AFTERWARDS, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: One day long afterwards %someone lays a hand on the scarred skin Last Line: And answer and question %now mean something else Subject(s): Pain AH, NECROMANCY SWEET!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor herb of all the plain %can heal! Variant Title(s): Poem: 177; Poem: 16 Subject(s): Necromancy; Pain ALL MAD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is mad as a hare, poor fellow Last Line: We are all of us -- all of us mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Life; Pain; Thought; Youth; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery; Thinking ALL POSSIBLE PAIN, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Feelings seem like made-up things, Subject(s): Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery AMORETTI: 16, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day as I unwarily did gaze Last Line: Yet as it was, I hardly scap't with paine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Pain AMORETTI: 26, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the rose but grows upon a brere Last Line: That endlesse pleasure shall unto me gaine? Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): Sweet And Sour Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Plpeasure AMORETTI: 36, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, when shall these wearie woes have end? Last Line: Ye shall condemned be of many a one. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Pain AMORETTI: 42, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love which me so cruelly tormenteth Last Line: And doe me not before my time to dy. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Pain; Grief AMORIS EXSUL: 4. THE RAT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws at a beam Last Line: He stirs the dust where the feet of my dreams had passed. Subject(s): Pain; Rats; Suffering; Misery AN ITALIAN SONNET-SEQUENCE: 8, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What classic form can hold the restless spring Last Line: "or pain can find no load for you to bear." Subject(s): Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery AN OFFERING, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffer me, o my lord, my god, to bring Last Line: And heard as thou would'st have it sung for thee. Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Pain; Praise; Clemency; Suffering; Misery AN OLD PAIN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What old, old pain is this that bleeds anew? Last Line: And all we learn but shows we know the less Subject(s): Pain; Prisons & Prisoners; Suffering; Misery; Convicts ANODYNE: PAIN, by THOMAS KEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since 'tis god's will, pain, take your course Last Line: Beneath his wing's propitious shade. Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Suffering; Misery; Theology APOCALYPTIC, 1915, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our world beyond a year of dread Last Line: Sculptor of immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Chaos; Earth; Pain; War; World; Suffering; Misery APOLOGIA VITAE, by MILICENT LAUBENHEIMER Poem Text First Line: Breathe not again, sweet breath, lest her delicate heart Last Line: Of thorns, that was my rightful heritage. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Pain; Roses; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy letter was a flash of lightning Last Line: This fearful tragedy's conclusion. Subject(s): Fear; Letters; Pain; Peace; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling Last Line: In every language and opened its doors. Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ARCADY LOST, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cherry bloom and robin time of year Last Line: Where once, o comrade mine, we heard them sing. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Singing & Singers; Spring; Suffering; Misery ARIADNE TO THESEUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight to the river Last Line: Be mine the sad alloy! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Theseus; Unfaithfulness; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ARTISTRY OF PAIN, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: There is always enough hurt Last Line: The strength, audacity, or luck to rise Subject(s): Art And Artists; Pain; Poetry And Poets AS I TOSSED, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: As I tossed deeply into night, turned Last Line: The night-worn lines across my face Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain ASSEVERATIVE FAREWELL, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Misery loves company, and aye Last Line: Not to fall into this vertigo alone Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Pain ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 14, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend Last Line: Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sin; Suffering; Misery ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rocky blocks of size gigantic Last Line: Looking like a sickly spider. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery AUGUST, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should this negro insolently stride Last Line: Scarce warms the surface of the deepest pool? Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans; Flowers; Pain; Negroes; American Blacks; Suffering; Misery AWAKE, MY SPIRIT, by L. SWEET Poem Text First Line: Awake, my spirit, bear me swiftly Last Line: No—nor with the aches of man. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery BAD GOVERNMENT, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: Sleet and rain, as if the pot were boiling Last Line: One east, one west, one north, one south, %we're surrounded Subject(s): Government; Pain BALLAD OF MY BEAUTIFUL LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My friend, my friend Last Line: The one I lost today.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Pain; Romance BALLAD TO A SPANISH TUNE, CALLED 'FOLIAS', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease t' exaggerate your anguish Last Line: As thou wilt he dies, or lives. Subject(s): Gout; Pain; Love – Complaints 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 BALLADE: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The joy so short, alas, the pain so near Last Line: That undeserved, causeless to remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Happiness; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 18, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament my loss, my labor, and my pain Last Line: And keep them free from all such pain and care. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Loss; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 21, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To my mishap, alas, I find Last Line: Thus am I warned. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 23, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, how I seek and sue to have Last Line: In joy or pain for to endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 24, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain of all pain, the most grievous pain Last Line: Unto the soul from the body depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make an end of all this strife Last Line: This end to make. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restful place, reviver of my smart Last Line: Wherefore with tears, my bed, I thee forsake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Grief; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 30, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All ye that know of care and heaviness Last Line: That it stunned their song thorough all the wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Eyes; Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 32, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being as none is, I do complain Last Line: With 'pity' for 'patience' and 'conscience' for 'wrong'. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where my heavy sighs to hide Last Line: Whose death it is out of thy sight to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pain; Sickness; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Illness BEFORE BATTLE, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have toiled, o lord, with our blood and might Last Line: Our faith in thee. Subject(s): God; Jews; Pain; Praise; Judaism; Suffering; Misery BEFORE THE TEARS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You looked as sad as an eclipsed moon Last Line: So thrust my hand in yours and shook farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Pain; Tears; Parting; Suffering; Misery BETTER SO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fast asleep, mine own familiar friend Last Line: "of rest, and good the sleep I took"" --?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery BLACK HERALDS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Last Line: There are blows in life, so powerful...I don't know! Subject(s): Black (color); Death; Ignorance; Pain; Religion BLACKBIRD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Day turns to night Last Line: In a wet march lane. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blackbirds; Happiness; Pain; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BLACKSMITH PAIN, by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM Poem Text First Line: Pain is a blacksmith Last Line: What pain has forged. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery BLINDNESS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our true hearts are forever lonely Last Line: Meet only when pain touches pain. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Pain; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness BLOODROOT, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: A single leaf folds Last Line: Until her tender feet bleed Subject(s): Blood; Pain BLUE CLOTHES, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I wish I were a bird Last Line: Never to be covered again %and again Subject(s): Pain; Prisons And Prisoners BLUE WATER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-violins are playing on the sands Last Line: "sea-violins that play along the sands." Variant Title(s): Sea-violins Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean BOAR'S HILL; OCTOBER, 1919, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tall slender beech trees, whispering, touched with fire Last Line: Ere your steps turned home? Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Mountains; Pain; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery BOLT FROM THE BLUE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Bolt from the blue Last Line: And debris—is aftermath. Subject(s): Death; Lightning; Pain; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery BONDAGE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cries death, 'o man, thy liberty Last Line: Thy conquerors -- pain, age, and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Aging; Pain; Suffering; Misery BORROWED THOUGHTS: 2. FROM 'PHANTASIES', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a bitter thought, a snake Last Line: Lest it should hear me and awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Thought; Suffering; Misery; Thinking BORROWED THOUGHTS: 3. FROM 'ALICE', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, dear, our love is slain Last Line: Between us evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BREAD ITSELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, in my unwanted suffering, I turn to you Last Line: Of sorrow as the bread itself Variant Title(s): Threnod Subject(s): Mothers; Pain BREAK, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: It will come on a cold street corner Last Line: The slush on the sidewalk will prevent you %from making a clean yesterday Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain BROKEN BONDS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Released! Released! Yes, broken is the chain Last Line: And gains, instead, scorn's stormy crags and night! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain; Suffering; Misery BURIAL ANTHEM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone Last Line: Beside that river blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Burials; Suffering; Misery BUT, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: The god of laughter and songs long ago Last Line: And yet it has to fit into his heart Subject(s): Affliction; Pain BY CELIA'S ARBOUR, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By celia's arbour all the night Last Line: But tears of sorrow shed by me! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CALLING ME, by RUBY ALORA PEAPLON Poem Text First Line: Mama, dear, I'm going to leave you Last Line: Kiss me as I fall asleep. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery 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 CARAVAN SONG, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Tears for the jasmines, - tears to slake the roses Last Line: Lo, how my task of tears is never done! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Suffering; Misery CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War CENSORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twisted hearts, the crumpled brains Last Line: At the moon or the sun! Subject(s): Censorship; Earth; Heaven; Life; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery CHARM AGAINST STOMACH ACHE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven Last Line: And let one %be taken %from one Subject(s): Charms (magic); Pain CHRIST'S RECALL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return, / o wanderer from my side! Last Line: My wrath is turned away, I have redeemed thee. Subject(s): Absence; Jesus Christ; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery CLOCK WAS CLANGING ONE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And to die was best Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Pain; Peace COMFORT IN AFFLICTION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore starts my bosom's lord? Last Line: "to wrap around my head!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Comfort; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery COMPANIONSHIP, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linger by me in the toils of life Last Line: But take the cross in sunshine and in rain. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery COMPENSATION, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: I plucked a rose from out a bower fair Last Line: The song was made. Subject(s): Pain; Thorns; Suffering; Misery COMPENSATION, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When once, in 'merrie england' Last Line: Cruel ones are brief. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CONSOLING BILLY, by EVA STEEL Poem Text First Line: There now, billy, stop your crying Last Line: You'll forget him after a while. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Consolation; Grief; Pain; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CONSTANCY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perdy! I said it not Last Line: Within my heart for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Canzone: 4 Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Life; Love; Pain; Faithfulness; Constancy; Suffering; Misery CONTENT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are exiles? As for me Last Line: In the rapture of the fire. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery COSMISM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs Last Line: But never refute its innocence. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sea; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Ocean CRASH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He joyrides through all she has to say Last Line: Begins to smile Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Pain CURE FOR TOOTHACHE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why you should suffer so much pain Last Line: "as ma does,—in a basin?" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches DEAD, by HAZEL FERN CRAYTOR Poem Text First Line: Only god feels what I undergo - Last Line: When love grows cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Cecile Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery DEAR PRISONER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I too love. Faces. Hands. The circumference Last Line: This cell. Your dwelling. Who is unaccountably free Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Letters; Pain; Prisons And Prisoners DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate! Fortune! Chance! Whose blindness, hostility or kindness Last Line: Death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Fate; Fortune; Pain; Dead, The; Destiny; Suffering; Misery DEATH IN LIFE, by THOMAS VAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can the tree but waste and wither away Last Line: That feels each pain and knows no joy at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrowden, 2d Baron Vaux Of Variant Title(s): No Pleasure Without Some Pain Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery DEDICATION TO 'A VILLAGE TRAGEDY', by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A jewelled tale, an antique historie Last Line: The obscure cry of toiling, suffering man. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): History; Pain; Tragedy; Historians; Suffering; Misery DO YOU BLAME HER?, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ne'er lover spake in tenderer words Last Line: I should give him the self-same answer. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery DOLORES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Last Line: Our lady of pain. Subject(s): Cruelty; Kisses; Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery DOMESTIC LIFE: 2. SOMETHING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is burning inside you Last Line: Of smoke on the snow. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery DOOR CLICKS. HE RETURNS TO ME', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Measureless pleasure? %is it measureless pain? Subject(s): Pain; Relationships DOXYCYCLENE BLUES, by PHILIP ORR Poem Source First Line: My dick hurts and so does my ex-girlfriend's boyfriends' Last Line: The way things are going, I always will Subject(s): Pain; Sex; Sickness DR. WILLIAM MORTON, by CHARLES H. HOWE Poem Text First Line: Such pain men knew before he came to them Last Line: Gave holy, peaceful sleep when pain would prey. Subject(s): Pain; Sleep; Suffering; Misery DRACULA ORCHID, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Only a woman with black toenails Last Line: Some new pain opens Subject(s): Death; Grief; Murder; Pain; Women DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow Last Line: Beneath those silent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery DREAM-LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, friend, and I will tell you Last Line: And, indeed -- I never know. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DREAMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for dreams! I, desolate and lone Last Line: Thank god, thank god for dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Kisses; Pain; Soul; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery DRIFTING DOWN, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wild desire throbbed in my breast Last Line: I wandered in a bitter dream. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DUALITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never pass a human house Last Line: Awake, as in its sleep? Subject(s): Death; Duplicity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DUALITY; FROM ME SPRING GOOD AND EVIL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who gave thee such a ruby flaming heart Last Line: O'erthrown but in the unconflicting spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Character; Evil; Good; Human Abnormalities; Pain; Peace; Deformities; Suffering; Misery DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died Last Line: I could not see to see. Subject(s): Death; Flies; Labor & Laborers; Mourning; Pain; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery EARTH'S BURDENS, by ERNEST CHARLES JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why groaning so, thou solid earth Last Line: "tis therefore that I groan." Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night that covers me Last Line: I am the captain of my soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery ECLIPSE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I grew tired of the image of my tribe Last Line: On the right side of the wall %only on the wall Subject(s): Cruelty; Pain ECSTASY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years it was in sex and I thought Last Line: Of the most shining and singular sensual gratification. Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Pleasure; Sex; Suffering; Misery EMILY BRONTE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sacramental hurt that brings / the terror of the truth of things Last Line: Black sea, and curved uncouth sea-bitten shore. Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery ENDURANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I too could face death and never shrink Last Line: Thousands taste the full cup; who drains the lees? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery ENDURING, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I have cause to weep, I will not let Last Line: And I shall be the stronger through this pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Pain; Perseverance; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 21, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lead a life unpleasant, nothing glad Last Line: Plain or rejoice who feeleth weal or wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 88 Subject(s): Life; Pain; Singing & Singers; Truth; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 27. THE FRUIT, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fruit of all the service that I serve Last Line: Amids my help, and helpless doth remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Pain; Tantalus (greek Mythology); Thirst; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 31, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within my breast I never thought it gain Last Line: That list to blow retreat to every train. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Pain; Truth; Liberty; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 39, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wilful riches I have found poverty Last Line: In a paradise I suffered all this pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Happiness; Pain; Liberty; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 40, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like unto th'eternal fire Last Line: By whom hell may be felt or death assail! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hell; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of carthage he, that worthy warrior Last Line: At monzon thus I restless rest in spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 81 Subject(s): Carthage; Pain; Peace; Spain; War; Suffering; Misery EPISODE OF HANDS, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unexpected interest made him flush Last Line: The two men smiled into each other's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Hands; Industrial Accidents; Pain; Suffering; Misery EUTHANASIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a world of pain Last Line: Ah, the pain again -- it will never be! Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Memory; Pain; Rain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EVEN UNTO DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To think one thought a hundred hundred ways Last Line: These are the signs of love -- love even to death. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faith; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery EXPECTATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's three daughters stood on ... Terrace Last Line: "is the loneliest depth of human pain." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hope; Life; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery EXTREMELY SHORT HISTORY OF CHINA, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suffering, suffering, squalor, suffering, flood, suffering, suffering, really Last Line: And then corruption, disaster, war, and flood, drought, and more suffering Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): China; Pain FABLE: NEPTUNE AND THE MARINERS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When sore calamities we feel, Last Line: The gallant george in safety rides. Subject(s): Fables; Fortitude; Pain; Perseverance; Allegories; Suffering; Misery FAINT MUSIC, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery FAITH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the thrush and blackbird sing Last Line: I must believe, I will believe. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Grief; Pain; Spring; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery FALLEN THUMBTACK, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: You hunt it high Subject(s): Pain FATHER'S SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday, against admonishment Last Line: She tries to teach me risk. Subject(s): Children; Pain; Parents; Prudence; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood; Caution FEAR, by HAZEL COLLISTER HUTCHINSON Poem Text First Line: Not only this golden moment's wine Last Line: And there is nothing for you but the taste of the grapes! Subject(s): Fear; Grapes; Pain; Suffering; Misery FINDING CYNTHIA IN PAIN, AND CRYING; A SONNET, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, idol of my heart, these mournful cries Last Line: May'st to thy constant martyr pity show. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery FIRES, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: Beside the orange spatterings of fire Last Line: We turned to go, in silent, sudden pain. Subject(s): Pain; Storms; Suffering; Misery FLAME ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind without that moans and cries, o dark Last Line: Mid dirges of white shapes that plunge and sway. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Wind; Suffering; Misery FOR ALL IN PAIN, by AMY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Dear lord, for all in pain %we pray to thee Last Line: Come near, that even so %they may have peace Subject(s): Pain; Religion FOR KAREN (NIGHT SHIFT), by MELODY GOETZ Poem Source First Line: Your pain comes to you slowly Last Line: O you courage %o you love Subject(s): Pain; Survival FOR LOVING OR HURTING, by NAOMI THIERS Poem Source First Line: The urgins of your back, the desperate satin Last Line: The same gender, god. Not mine. Not his Subject(s): Love; Pain; Poetry And Poets FOR WHAT?, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: For what did the unknowns toil and bleed? Last Line: Speed. Greed. Speedgreed. Subject(s): Greed; History; Pain; Progress FOTTAGE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How goofy and horrible is life. Just Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery FRAME OF REFERENCE, by YVETTE NELSON Poem Source First Line: I once believed those voices that said I was called by god. All other Last Line: The saints-in-waiting imitated him Subject(s): Pain; Solitude FRIDGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Fridge humming at three in the morning Last Line: Fresh from eden Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Home; Pain FRIEND, by HELEN HAYS HUTTON Poem Text First Line: The friend / who waits beside Last Line: Is death. Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Sympathy; Suffering; Misery; Empathy FUNEREAL, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have dug you a grave Last Line: Like a grain of salt in a wound Subject(s): Pain GAME OF NETTLES, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torture, we called, stripped to the waist Last Line: Not knowing we were masochists Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Pain; Sex GARDEN, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: I will not say a divine hand has sown these spores Last Line: Secret door that opens onto the light Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Gardens And Gardening; Pain GARFIELD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Brave sufferer, pausing betwixt life and death Last Line: "and die, if there be need, for mine and me?" Subject(s): Heaven; Pain; Prayer; Paradise; Suffering; Misery GHOST ARMIES, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: There's a tramping tramping, tramping Last Line: For all wars of ancient days and wars to be. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Pain; Soldiers; War; Suffering; Misery GLOOMY RAIN, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: Gloomy rain, I hear you on my window pane Last Line: There's gladness in my domain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Pain; Rain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GLUKUPIKRON; TO SAPPHO, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word you created / which we translate Last Line: Your word for love. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Pleasure; Words; Vocabulary; Suffering; Misery GOD IS IN THE TYPEWRITER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: God is in the typewriter Last Line: Little charmer, little stormer %write your way home Subject(s): Pain; Poetry And Poets; Suicide; Writing And Writers GOOD FRYDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But now ye sceen is chang'd, chang'd is ye day Last Line: Who turnes ye crosse into so sweet a thing. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Pain; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean GREATER LOVE, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red lips are not so red Last Line: Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War GRIEF, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient enemy have I Last Line: To conquer mine old enemy! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Enemies; Grief; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GROWING PAINS, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: We have already advanced Last Line: Its scent as fragrant as a new deodorant spray Subject(s): Pain GUILTY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loathe this room, for it seems to blab Last Line: The spirit indwelling is mine, is mine! Subject(s): Fear; Guilt; Pain; Secrets; Soul; Suffering; Misery GYPSY CHEER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gypsy whose journeys and ventures had failed Last Line: There's always the wind on the heath and the sun!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Gypsies; Pain; Gipsies; Suffering; Misery HAIKU: 6, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The falling snow flakes Subject(s): Snow; Pain; Suffering; Misery HALLOWING OF PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All is the price of all Variant Title(s): Poem: 772; Poem: 87 Subject(s): Pain HANDICAPPED, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis in a measure easy not to plan Last Line: And gather what my body has not seen. Subject(s): Boredom; Pain; Ennui; Suffering; Misery HELP ME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The stars are cutting Last Line: Lay hands on myself and turn %you into my own %monument Subject(s): Pain HENRY HARDIMAN, AGED 55, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction sore long time he bore Last Line: And ease him of his pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Pain; Physicians; Soul; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Doctors HER HEART BREADS SILENCE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Because that thou art pale and cold and still Last Line: His holiest honour in this faithful breast! Subject(s): Knowledge; Love; Pain; Secrets; Winter; Suffering; Misery HER SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sings the blues in a voice that is partly Last Line: For in her song no one can be redeemed. Subject(s): Ireland; Pain; Redemption; Singing & Singers; Irish; Suffering; Misery; Songs HERITAGE, by BLANCHE LEE Poem Text First Line: I have been down the long twisting road of pain Last Line: I know the road the wizards built for elfin lads and lasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Lee-adams, Blanche Ruby Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pain; Roads; Tears; Heritage; Heredity; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails HIS LADY'S HAND, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O goodly hand Last Line: And rid it out of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 43 Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery HIS REWARD, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With serving still / this have I won Last Line: To be undone! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 90 Subject(s): Fortune; Pain; Suffering; Misery HORIZON PAIN OPENS, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: No part of the body escapes the pain Last Line: Into themselves by that light until they died Subject(s): Pain HOSPITAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone is screaming almost in morse Last Line: Screaming three longs, one short, three longs? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Messages & Messengers; Pain; Pregnancy; Suffering; Misery HOSPITAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside or out, the key is pain. It holds Subject(s): Hospitals; Pain; Suffering; Misery HOW WELL I KNEW HER NOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Next door to mine the pain Variant Title(s): Poem: 837; Poem: 81 Subject(s): Pain I WILL GIVE YOU MY SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To say it on your balcony Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Loss; Pain I'VE A PAIN IN MY HEAD, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And so will I too ma'am Subject(s): Headaches; Pain 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 PAIN FOR PEACE PREPARES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Noons blaze! Subject(s): Pain IF YOU WERE HERE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: These flowers would lose their wistfulness Last Line: If you were here! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When one thing presses on abother thing Last Line: The final paragraph's last period's pinhead Subject(s): Pain, Body, Human IN A RACK OF PAIN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: This morning ora was secluded Last Line: But it's a long way to go for a cigarette Subject(s): Insanity; Pain IN A SICKBED, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are still here today Last Line: It cries out with the voice of wild geese Subject(s): Hospitals; Pain; Sickness IN A U-HAUL NORTH OF DAMASCUS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what are the sins Last Line: To believe in new beginnings? Could I be moved? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Pain; Popular Culture - United States; Suffering; Misery IN AN AUTUMN WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, too, o bronze-eyed darling of the feast Last Line: I love thy loveliness that hears no cry. Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Fall; Suffering; Misery IN CONNEMARA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes all untroubled she laughs as she Last Line: As high as theirs her spirit, as high will be her doom. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Laughter; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery IN GREY DAYS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measures of oil for others Last Line: Death, will be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Suffering; Misery IN PRAISE OF PAIN, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IN SHADOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreaded that first robin so, / but he is mastered now Last Line: Of their unthinking drums. Subject(s): Pain; Spring; Suffering; Misery IN THE DARK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O in the depths of midnight Last Line: And wait for me somewhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Pain; Rain; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery IN THE GREEK TENTS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the soul grew afraid Last Line: In the narrow ravine of my nerves! Subject(s): Hearts; Pain IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, why break in idle pain Last Line: This thing that hath no grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Pain; Waves; Wind; Suffering; Misery IN THE OCTAGONAL ROOM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To see / blake's earth Last Line: Rests Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blood; Cruelty; Pain; Tate Museum, London; Suffering; Misery IN THE WAITING ROOM, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In worcester, massachusetts, %I went with aunt consuelo Last Line: And it was still the fifth %of february, 1918 Subject(s): Aunts; Children; Dentists; Imagination; Labor And Laborers; Pain; World War I INJURY, by SUNSHINE GLENSTONE Poem Source First Line: My memory of my father is that he sat in the parlor Last Line: I suppose we were all happier in summer Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Memory; Pain INTERIOR, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: We're seated Last Line: We've grown pale Subject(s): Pain INTROSPECTIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish it were over the terrible pain Last Line: But I will not groan when I bite the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Ocean INVINCIBLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fate, betwixt the grinding-stones of pain Last Line: Save bitter buds of doom. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery 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 INVOCATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who will waken the wind for me? Last Line: Who will waken the wind? Subject(s): Earth; Leprosy; Night; Pain; Wind; World; Lepers; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery INVOCATION TO MISERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, be happy! - sit near me Last Line: Where I am -- where thou hast been? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Pain; Suffering; Misery IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery IS WHAT SHE SEES OF THEM...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now what can she peer forward to again Last Line: Who greets in them some trait of hers or his? Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IT CUT AS DEEP, by PRISCILLA ATKINS Poem Source First Line: Clearly, he'd had no idea what the branch meant Last Line: That cut deep as any infidelity Subject(s): Pain IT HURTS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Please come when it happens Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IT HURTS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Please come when it happens %please Subject(s): Pain IT IS ENOUGH, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is enough! Cease thine assailing Last Line: It is enough! Oh, grant me peace! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery IT'S MY LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is lying on the ground, twisting Last Line: You are robbing me of my life Subject(s): Pain JASON THE REAL, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If I was a real guy Last Line: That is how one earns a name / like jason the real Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Reality JOY IS BUT SORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For fair thou art as moonrise after rain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Joy; Grief; Pain KYRIE ELEISON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In joy, in pain, in sorrow Last Line: Kyrie eleison! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Theology LA COQUETTE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You look at me with tender eyes Last Line: Receive the whirlwind for your gain! Subject(s): Flirtation; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery LACRIMAE RERUM, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Rossetti walked his sorrow to a field Last Line: And sorrow, and this cause for sorrow, die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: PUNISHMENT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Although greed has ready Last Line: Let's forget the old man!' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Brothers; Pain; Punishment LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LES CONGES DU LEPREUX, by JEAN BODEL Poem Source First Line: Plague and sores beyond relief Last Line: Although I die at home in peace Subject(s): Pain LIFE, by E. DEVILLIERS-HERTZLER Poem Text First Line: How shall the heart measure its rich content Last Line: Without the gauge of storm and fears? Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery LILI'S PARK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no menagerie, I trow Last Line: I must be free! Myself will force my freeing! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LINES GIVEN WITH A PENWIPER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have compassion on the carpeting Last Line: And save your spine from a continual curve. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Compassion; Pain; Suffering; Misery LINES ON FORTUNE, A SKILFUL MECHANIST, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune, my foe, why dost thou frown on me? Last Line: I'll walk, I'll mount -- I'll be a man again. Subject(s): Fate; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery LINES TO MACIAS EL ENAMORADO, by JUAN DE MENA Poem Source First Line: We in this radiant circle looked so long Last Line: That I should die, as I have lived, a lover! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Pain LITTLE SISTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a girl of presence fresh and fair Last Line: Making her saintly, while they make her dear. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Pain; Sin; Sisters; Soul; Optimism; Suffering; Misery LONG DELAYED, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I search'd the weary world in vain Last Line: With multitudes of leaflets green and soft. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Pain; Solitude; Time; Waiting; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness LOST FOR A ROSE'S SAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I laved my hands Last Line: That my love marie / might love me yet Subject(s): Hearts;love - Complaints;pain; Suffering;misery LOVE DEFENDED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who extols a wilderness Last Line: Great is its relief. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery LOVE IS DEAD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A form across my threshold lies Last Line: The only way love ever dies. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery LOVE LOST, by STEVEN A. SEAGER Poem Source First Line: The gentle kiss of my one, true love Subject(s): Longing; Love; Pain LOVE'S ACCOUNTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunburnt summer less devours Last Line: Love, for love of you. Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Summer; Woods; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S HEALING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My chosen one - you to whom I have said Last Line: And wander there beside him in love's wood. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S SOLICITUDE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou at this moment, love? - what doing Last Line: Light of mine eyes, blood of my veins, my love. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery LUMBAGO, by DANIEL CARMICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If horror's cup is no yet full Last Line: I'll back lumbago. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches MA VOCATION, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Source First Line: Misery is my lot Subject(s): Pain MADRIGAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April eyes, april eyes / alight with laughter Last Line: Love is a rover. Subject(s): April; Eyes; Laughter; Love; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery MALEDICTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's not a singing animal Last Line: Rivet his stone with worms. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Curses; Pain; Self-pity; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have pleasures for a friend Last Line: When neither can hinder the other. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst alexis lay prest Last Line: The nymph dy'd more quick, and the shepherd more slow. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MARRIAGE IS A PAINFUL MATTER, by MAX GUTMANN Poem Source First Line: Great homer! Bard who'll live forever! Last Line: But marriage is a painful matter Subject(s): Marriage; Pain MATER DOLOROSA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, brooding ever, dwells amidst the hills Last Line: Peace hath she not and therefore cannot give. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Silence; Tears; Suffering; Misery MATTERHORN QUESTS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As men essay the matterhorn Last Line: Bids them to climb and do their best. Subject(s): Alps; Labor & Laborers; Mountains; Pain; Soul; Work; Workers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery MAURINE: PART 5, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A visit to a cave some miles away Last Line: E'en to the dregs, this bitter cup of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Caves; Hope; Love; Pain; Caverns; Optimism; Suffering; Misery MAY DAY, by ADELAIDE A. ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Oh, world, sometimes I cannot bear the load Last Line: If I can see a may day born again. Subject(s): May (month); Pain; Rebirth; Suffering; Misery MEMORY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light / of the white night Last Line: Might still. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' ECOLOGUE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What need compare where sweet exceeds com- / pare? Last Line: My pain too old, although my years be young. Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery MID-MAY, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hand clamped to desk, / and eyes on task undone Last Line: When pan is at the door? Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery MISERICORD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery MISERIES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though hourly comforts from the gods we see Last Line: No life is yet life-proofe from miserie. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery MISERY, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What are we really? Pain's a return address Last Line: We're smoke that the wind has caught, and blown away Subject(s): Pain MISERY, by JOHN HOLMES (1904-1962) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Misery is a good thing if misery is spread Last Line: Is that some who find ways to put it asleep %cherish the cure, as if it were good to keep Subject(s): Pain MISERY, FR. THE DOLEFULL LAY OF CLORINDA, by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay me! To whom shall I my case compaine Last Line: Thus do we weep and waile, and wear our eiess. %mourning in others. Our own miseries Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, Countess Of Subject(s): Pain MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MISERY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath not met with home-made bread Last Line: A flint with a parish hammer! Subject(s): Despair; Pain; Suffering; Misery MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the grey wild seas Last Line: To-day and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean MOMENTARY (1), by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest song was ever sung Last Line: One light of everlasting joy. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery MOON-WROUGHT TIDES, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING Poem Text First Line: How often have I prayed that I might cease Last Line: I almost long to live and love again. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery MR. COGITO MEDITATES ON SUFFERING, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: All attempts to remove Last Line: With silly tricks %a faint %smile Subject(s): Pain MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About suffering they were never wrong Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters MUSIC MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o music, why the bliss you bring Last Line: "born to be beautiful -- but born to die." Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pain; Suffering; Misery MY BIRDEEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bonnie birdeen Last Line: My passion, my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery MY FAVORITES, by ESTHER WOLLAM Poem Text First Line: Inordinately fond am I Last Line: And often nurse a lingering ache. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery MY FRIEND, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My verse to thee I'm dedicating Last Line: So closely are we bound. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery MY LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Dearest, there is no one above thee that Last Line: Unto the rich-crown jeweled seat of paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery MY MUSE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear muse, the world will never guess Last Line: "I am thy soul." Subject(s): Hearts; Muses; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery MY SHATTERED DREAMS, by C. CELESTE DE SILVA Poem Text First Line: The dream of my life has been shattered Last Line: And god may there on them smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Pain; Tears; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery NAMELESS PAIN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my nostrils the summer wind Last Line: And scatter its nameless pain! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery NAMELESS PAIN, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should be happy with my lot Last Line: If any other lot were mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Pain; Women's Rights; Suffering; Misery; Feminism NATURE OF PAIN, by KRISZTINA TOTH Poem Source First Line: Essentially, it's undiscovered Last Line: Coldly aim at him, and squeeze the trigger of my gun? Subject(s): Pain NEVER ADMIT THE PAIN, by MARY CAMERON GILMORE Poem Source Subject(s): Pain NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: At what moment in that town Last Line: Never to speak a word again? Subject(s): Pain; Silence; Speech Disorders; Towns NEVER WILL YOU RETURN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source Last Line: To your brothers, %and to life Subject(s): Friendship; Pain; Prisons And Prisoners; Tears NIGHT AND THE MERRY MAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neath my moon what doest thou Last Line: Laughs as loud as I can do? Subject(s): Moon; Ambition; Night; Pain; Memory; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery NO MAN CAN COMPASS A DESPAIR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That pilot him along Variant Title(s): Poem: 477; Poem: 71 Subject(s): Pain NO PAIN, NO GAIN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If little labour, little are our gaines Last Line: Mans fortunes are according to his paines. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery NONE WITH HIM', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, to live: how didst thou bear to live Last Line: Thy spirit saith Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Jesus Christ NOTE BOOK OF ROMANCES AND LAMENTS: LAMENT OF THE RUINED CHATEAUX IN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Lusignan, les baux, coucy, white towers in winter's fee, and autumn's king Last Line: Is it not bitter pain life's semblance to retain when death is in the air? Subject(s): Death; Lament; Pain; Winter; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery NOW IT'S THE BODY'S DOG, PAIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With an empty sack Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Pain NUNC DIMITTIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dying; but what of that? Last Line: That I've found you -- at the last. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 27. TRACES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something of sorrow am I not denied Last Line: And sands bear record of the sedulous tide. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arm'd with hyacinthine rod Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Pain; Drinks & Drinking; Suffering; Misery; Wine ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die? Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery OF THE MISERIES ATTENDING MANKIND, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mis'ry of mankind! For at the bar Last Line: That we had ne'er been born: or soon as born had died. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery OLD SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is many a simple song one hears Last Line: The tender magic of bygone things. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Passion; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs ON A HEADACHE, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When stretch'd on one's bed Last Line: For our friends and our souls to provide. Subject(s): Headaches; Pain; Suffering; Misery ON MY LEAVING LONDON, JUNE THE 29TH, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What cross impetuous planets govern me Last Line: And be to all the busy world as lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Fate; London; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery ON RESIGNATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, know this, that he who gave thee breath Last Line: And trust in god thro' his beloved son. Subject(s): Affliction; Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Pain; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ON THE WAY TO CHURCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one I know. I see her sometimes pass Last Line: Nor kneel, god's robber, near that angel face. Subject(s): Deception; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Women; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery ONE CRUCIFIXION IS RECORDED -- ONLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: There's newer - nearer crucifixion %than that Variant Title(s): Poem: 553; Poem: 67 Subject(s): Crucifixion; Pain ONE ONLY AIM AND THOUGHT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature formed cassandra, who should move Last Line: No aim or knowledge but the thought of her. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Love; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery ONE THOUSAND SATURDAYS, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: By early adolescence, I was deposited more and more at grandma's. I Last Line: Budding bosom and discovered it would hurt Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Grandparents; Pain OPEN WINDOWS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the window a sea of green trees Last Line: Who speak with wonder face to face. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery ORGAN SONGS: COME UNTO ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come unto me, the master says Last Line: And that will make thee well. Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures; Suffering; Misery ORGAN SONGS: WRITTEN FOR ONE IN SORE PAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, on before thy sheep Last Line: Thou wilt miss me—and wilt find! Subject(s): God; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Sickness; Cures; Suffering; Misery; Illness OSTRICH, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melancholia, pull out your sweet beak now Last Line: And bare your woman's lip! Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Hearts; Melancholy; Ostriches; Pain OUR FLAG, SELS., by T. H. UNDERWOOD Poem Source First Line: I heard the furious stamping of a heel Last Line: As royally as lies the noblest clay Subject(s): American Civil War; Life; Pain; Slavery; U.s. - History PAIN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man that hath great griefs I pity not Last Line: The joy that is more ancient than the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Its gaze filled my abyss, its gaze melted Last Line: The fields serene, limpid the running stream, %blue the mountain and the wind at rest Subject(s): Pain PAIN, by FLORENCE FOSTER HALL Poem Text First Line: This week has aged me, love, a thousand years Last Line: The perfect master of my gentle herd! Subject(s): Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by GLADYS HOUTZ Poem Text First Line: The darkness of night is broken Last Line: Than complete release from pain? Subject(s): Despair; Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mystery that walks the earth Last Line: Thou feelest that I am! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Despair; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by PETER MCWILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: I might just stick %to the sidewalk %and freeze Subject(s): Pain PAIN, by PETER MCWILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: Your %absence Subject(s): Pain PAIN, by PETER MCWILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: Objecting %object Subject(s): Pain PAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More faithful / than lover or husband Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by ELSIE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Why must I be hurt? Last Line: Opportunity, a privilege, a challenge -- to the god that gropes within me. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men have made them gods of love Last Line: Yet his soul within is sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am god's eldest: -- I and love are twin Last Line: And lovers' vows and yearnings in the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sin; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: Happiness has no songs, happiness has no thoughts, happiness %has nothing Last Line: Love, solitude, and the face of death Subject(s): Luck; Pain PAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gardener to weed Last Line: And, for the fruit, to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waves are the sea's white daughters Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain flattens the world - its bubbles Last Line: Pain leads us to consider anew Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain flattens the world - its bubbles Last Line: Pain leads us to consider anew Subject(s): Pain PAIN CLINIC, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: We are all refugees from eden Last Line: Before they pick us clean Subject(s): Pain PAIN EXPANDS THE TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gamuts of eternities %are as they were not Variant Title(s): Poem: 967; Poem: 83 Subject(s): Pain PAIN HAS BUT ONE ACQUAINTANCE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Amd then absconds from sight Variant Title(s): Poem: 1049; Poem: 111 Subject(s): Pain PAIN IN PLEASURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thought ay like a flower upon mine heart Last Line: And they will all prove sad enough to sting! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN OR JOY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! That's the nightingale Last Line: Throbs in each throbbing vein? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery PAIN PENETRATES, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My drop Last Line: By drop Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pain PAIN WITHOUT WALLS: PROGRESSIVE PAIN: EFFACEMENT OF WALLS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Move out now: let's move: every body let's go: every: body: gone: %leaving such a hole Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Pain PAIN WROUGHT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain, pain, the creator pain Last Line: And because I suffer, I sing. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAIN, A FENCEPOST, A BLACK-AND-WHITE FILM, by SUSAN B. A. SOMERS-WILLETT Poem Source First Line: Because pain is not for anything Last Line: It sleeps. Sometimes it feels %like a village on fire Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pain PAIN-DANCE BEGINS, by MARK ANDREW NOWAK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Worn shoes in the days of my youth Last Line: I say it out loud, I breathe it into the world against the horizon line Subject(s): Farewell; Introspection; Pain PAINE AND PLEASURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God suffers not his saints, and servants deere Last Line: Gives them by turnes their grief and jollitie. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAINE ENDS IN PLEASURE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afflictions bring us joy in times to come Last Line: When sins, by stripes, to us grow wearisome. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PAINED UNTO DEATH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One life I knew was a psalm, a terrible psalm of pain Last Line: And was and was not of this under earth. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTHUS: GRIEF, by MARY SIDNEY WROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Griefe, killing griefe, have nott my torments binn Last Line: Burning my hart who had him kindly warmd. Alternate Author Name(s): Wroth, Mary, Lady; Montgomery, Countess Of Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PARALYTIC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happens. Will it go on? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Pain; Estrangement; Outcasts; Suffering; Misery PARALYTIC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happens. Will it go on? Last Line: Drunk on its own scents, %asks nothing of life Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Pain PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14, by BARNABE BARNES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, ten times worse tormented than before Subject(s): Pain; Endurance; Suffering; Misery PASSED BY, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: "the pangs you dealt outvie!" Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PASSING FEET, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All these hours she sits and counts Last Line: Could not pain it any more! Subject(s): Pain PAUL ELUARD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been reading about paul eluard tonight Last Line: He lived on love, cold water, and poetry. Subject(s): Books; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Suffering; Misery PAX VOBISCUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyelids of the dying day Last Line: And her madness passed away. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Insanity; Night; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Sun; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Madness; Mental Illness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PEACE WROUGHT BY PAIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over that pallid face were wrought Last Line: The gold it wins, is gold from heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Suffering; Misery PEBBLES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One whined, o why into this wide and / lonely Last Line: Of voices in a wood of april buds. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PENDULUM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have swung to the uttermost reaches of pain Last Line: On the rapturous swing of an infinite kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Kisses; Pain; Suffering; Misery PENT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain is falling steadily Last Line: And flood it as the sea!! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PERU: CANTO 5, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did e'er the human bosom throb with pain Last Line: Is wrapt in wonder, or dissolv'd in love. Subject(s): Healing; Love; Pain; Cures; Suffering; Misery PHANTASUS, by ARNO HOLZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its roof among the stars projected Last Line: A dreamer and a prodigal. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PHANTOM PAIN, by LINDA LOUISE BIERDS Poem Source First Line: It speaks, now and then Last Line: Even as it approaches, a form %flaring nearer while backing away Subject(s): Pain PHANTOM PAIN, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the leg is lost, the pain remains as an emblem; so Last Line: Of known bombers. Anxious, he drops a coffee cup, %white fragments exploding at his feet Subject(s): Amputees; Pain PHANTOM PAIN, by ROBERT JEFFREY LEVY Poem Source First Line: Just as a wounded man may sometimes note Last Line: The space next to you empty and gaping %like a cupped palm that's waiting to be filled? Subject(s): Pain PLACE OF PAIN IN THE UNIVERSE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mixture of chloroform and oil of cloves Last Line: The pain is lifelike in that waxwork tear Subject(s): Pain PLAINT, by LUCIEN PATE Poem Text First Line: I have told my pain to the wood Last Line: My heart so a-fevered with woe? Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grief; Nature; Pain; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PLEASURE AND PAIN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasure and pain walk hand in hand Last Line: For all men's betterment. Subject(s): Pleasure; Pain PLEASURE AND PAIN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can determine the frontier of pleasure? Last Line: For pain has its heaven and pleasure its hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery PLEASURE BECOMES PAIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot count the changes of my heart Last Line: Till the heart saith of pleasure, it is pain. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery POEMS OF THE HOME: THE LAMP, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Blessed be my lamp! It does not overwhelm me Last Line: Lamp to dim the brightness of its tears! Subject(s): Crying; Pain; Tears POSTMAN'S FEAR, by MOHAMED AL-MAGUT Poem Source First Line: Prisoners everywhere %send me all you have Last Line: What I fear most is %god could be illiterate Subject(s): Human Rights; Letters; Pain POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery POSTSCRIPT; TO MAXIME KUMIN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear max. I call you that because Last Line: "here, it hurts." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Disasters; Kumin, Maxine; Lightning; Pain; Trees; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery PRAYER FOR A WORLD HURT SORE, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord god, we lift to thee Last Line: Made whole again! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Pain; Salvation; War; World; Suffering; Misery PRAYER FOR PAIN, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not pray for peace nor ease Last Line: That I may fight again! Subject(s): Pain PRAYER FOR THE MAKER, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Given leaves, could we reconstruct the tree? Last Line: And wondered how the tongue moves unscathed in there Subject(s): Pain; Prayer PRAYER OF THE ROAD, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't even know whom this bitterness is for! Last Line: That rots in my heart! Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Travel PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA Poem Text First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream Last Line: Long grass. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PROLOGUE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The disappeared women slipped in among dreams. They would watch me Last Line: Because I wish to accompany my dead sisters Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Pain; Women PROVENCE, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is a fine and buoyant face Last Line: And of tall grass made tenderer. Subject(s): Faces; Lips; Pain; Smiles; Suffering; Misery PSALM 69, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Save me o god, o save my drowning soul Last Line: No other seate may need. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery PSALM 69, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Save me, o god; the swelling floods' Subject(s): Pain PSALM XIII, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Offended majesty! How long Last Line: And rapture swells my song. Subject(s): Faith; God; Pain; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery PSALM: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let mee not lord Last Line: And fly with sudden shame. Subject(s): God; Pain; Praise; Soul; Tears; Suffering; Misery PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the light; - and then Last Line: To earth or sea or sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Light; Pain; Wind; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery QUERY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Is it not possible that our million of years Last Line: "but perhaps this is the wrong approach?" Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery QUESTION MARK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He curls like a question mark on the grass Last Line: That there's nothing so unshareable as pain. Subject(s): Memory; Pain QUESTION OF SINGING-PART I, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I don't know when it happened or why, she just stop singing Last Line: Sometimes, in red winged dawns of african, free women Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Pain; Singing And Singers RAIN INTERS MAGGIORE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It rains and then it rains and still it rains Last Line: That wars to finish hatreds have undone! Subject(s): Pain; Rain; Suffering; Misery RAMSES THE SECOND, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The week that tonya's marriage fell apart Last Line: The air three feet away waves like medusa's friggin' scalp.' Subject(s): Change; Pain RECONCILE, by ROB JONES Poem Source First Line: I bite your earlobe to remind you Last Line: Pain is a necessity of attention Subject(s): Pain REINCARNATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He slept as weary toilers do Last Line: (oh! The sad secrets of that orb of white.) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery RELEASE, by ADA CLARKE CARMICHIEL Poem Text First Line: I shall no longer bind my heart to pain Last Line: Lift up these eyes to faith's true guiding star. Subject(s): Pain REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery RENUNCIATION, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have we given up thy spell, renunciation? Last Line: Then in her arms she held him: he was hers... Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery RESIGNATION, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, you will triumph, dear & noble friend! Last Line: Will sooth away the tears I cannot hide. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery RESIGNATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sadder moments of a wearied hope Last Line: Into the calm majestic life of god. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Grief; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery REVENGE, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Revenge is a naked sword Last Line: Thou may'st find it sheathed in thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): Blood; Pain; Revenge; Suffering; Misery REVISITED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely road I tread again Last Line: "that tells me ""pain is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery RIDE NOT TOO FAST WITH BEAUTY, by ELSIE TWINING ABBOTT Poem Text Last Line: From its chain. Subject(s): Earth; Pain; World; Suffering; Misery RITE OF PASSAGE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After my friend tom passed a kidney stone Last Line: We laughed, peed out the fire, and went home Subject(s): Pain; Revenge; Sickness ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wildly-beauteous form Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: GEOFFRY RUDEL AND MELISANDA OF TRIPOLI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chateau blay still see we Last Line: On the wall, in shy confusion. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Spring; Voices; Suffering; Misery SACRIFICE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no wine unless the grape is crushed Last Line: Through sorrow and the body's pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Bread; Drinks & Drinking; Pain; Sacrifices; Wine; Suffering; Misery SANCTUARY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweep over me, o lovely winds Last Line: Face down, and calls on you. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Rain; Sanctuaries; Wind; Suffering; Misery SAPPHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh Last Line: Unwept, untended and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Pain; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SATISFACTION FOR SUFFERINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all our workes, a recompence is sure Last Line: Tis sweet to thinke on what was hard t' endure. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SAY NOT GOOD-BYE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if we shall meet again? Last Line: Say not good-bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Fear; Hearts; Love; Pain; Parting; Suffering; Misery SCIENCE, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: They tied the boy sun- Last Line: Something they might repeat, %and in repeating, begin to be free of Subject(s): Pain SEEKING REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother said: the child is changed Last Line: And think and weep alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Rest; Seasons; Suffering; Misery SENTIMENT, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since we can die but once, what matters it Last Line: All to one common dissolution tends. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SHE LIVES WITH HER OWN GRANNY DEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Cries william when first come from sea Last Line: "grenadier! Did you say, etc" Subject(s): Grandparents;laughter;pain; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers;suffering;misery SHOES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Here I sit with hard eyes looking at my child Last Line: To suffer torture indian-gauntlet-runner never knew. Subject(s): Native Americans; Pain; Poverty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Suffering; Misery SHORT CUTS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Thoughts of escaping this road Last Line: No more short cuts Subject(s): Pain; Prisons And Prisoners; Roads SHORT MEDITATION ON LONG-SUFFERING POETS, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Although they tell us suffering helps one write Last Line: And every syllable she writes sheds tears Subject(s): Meditation; Pain; Poetry And Poets SHRIEK, by RENATA PALLOTTINI Poem Source First Line: If at least this pain helped Last Line: If at least this pain would bleed Subject(s): Human Rights; Pain SINGING THE PAIN BACK INTO THE WOUND, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crouch naked at the wound's edge Last Line: Bundle on its back. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SITTING ON THE BERLIN WALL, by PATRICK HICKS Poem Source First Line: On my way back to belfast I wandered past bebelplatz Last Line: That there is still work to be done Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Memory; Pain SO FAR OFF AND YET HERE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I know this is going to be painful Last Line: The nail of love just holds Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sex SO, YOU CAN TELL, by SONG-I Poem Source First Line: So, you an tell I'm a pine Last Line: Road, wish a pruning blade on me Subject(s): Love; Pain SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, you cannot befriend me, with all your love's tender persistence! Last Line: Under the spell of our life's innermost mystery, pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery SOLITUDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh and the world laughs with you Last Line: Through the narrow aisles of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The World As It Is;laughter;companionship;the Way Of The World;life's Magnet Subject(s): Advice; Aging; Pain; Solitude; Time; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery SOME DAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pathway thou art walking now Last Line: Again to thee -- some day. Subject(s): Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SOME LATE LARK SINGING, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: These are my songs. As all men sing Last Line: Me up, and far below, some late lark sings! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Pain; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Suffering; Misery; Songs SOMEDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someday: - so many tearful eyes Last Line: Bring round to them, someday. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Pain; Soul; Summer; Tears; Suffering; Misery 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 (4), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her; she was lovely Last Line: And hailed the coming day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery SONG A THE DOCK'S END, by JOSEPH ELDRIDGE LOFTUS Poem Text First Line: Wan moon of hope, the drenching fog has closed Last Line: Inertia is death!! And I am death. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG AT DAWN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Where then is my pain? I have no more pain. Where then is my Last Line: Of the sun. Subject(s): Dawn; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG OF LASTING PAIN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Han's sovereign prized the beauty of flesh Last Line: Yet this pain of ours will continue %and never finally end Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Pain; Passion; Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort) SONG OF THE DESPERATE ONE, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the days and down the years Last Line: Over every joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG OF TO-MORROW, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, o harp of being, set Last Line: Thou shalt never moan again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Future; Pain; Past; Suffering; Misery SONG: 10, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wish and want and not obtain Last Line: What may it avail me? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Despair; Fortune; Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 101, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 102, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, all my welfare Last Line: Of my great grief the great excess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Love; Pain; Seduction; Truth; Belief; Creed; Parting; Suffering; Misery SONG: 105, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all of change / must be my song Last Line: To quit the craft that me beguiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Time; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 111, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love doth again Last Line: She shall my heart obtain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 112, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I as well within my song belay Last Line: Causeless because that I have suffered smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 16, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cause accord or to agree Last Line: That are impossible. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After great storms the calm returns Last Line: And me also the most happy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Hope; Pain; Storms; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 22, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, poor man, what hap have I Last Line: To love above my poor degree. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Destiny; Suffering; Misery SONG: 29, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see that chance hath chosen me Last Line: And other have that I deserve. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 34, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since ye delight to know Last Line: For to repent your cruelness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 72 Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 44, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was never nothing more me pained Last Line: Alas the while! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love; Pain; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG: 46, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All heavy minds / do seek to ease their charge Last Line: Is clean in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 49, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If with complaint the pain might be expressed Last Line: Since if ye list ye may my woe restrain? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 58, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love, loved, and so doth she Last Line: To love so well and leave in smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG: 59, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suffering in sorrow, in hope to attain Last Line: Content to serve and suffer still I must. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 60, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart and service to you proffered Last Line: Reward your servant liberally. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Honesty; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 71, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear heart, what hap had I Last Line: If that I be not loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 72, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, fortune, what aileth thee Last Line: That thou wilt change. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hope; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 73, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Complaining, alas, without redress Last Line: Where now for pain I die, I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Lament; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 74, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duress of pains and grievous smart Last Line: Heart, sigh no more, I pray thee, break. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONG: 79, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might have at mine own will Last Line: That force perforce I do sustain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Life; Pain; Tears; Paradise; Suffering; Misery SONG: 80, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning my heart doth sore oppress Last Line: Alas, and cannot be loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONG: 85, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spite of their spite which they in vain Last Line: My fancy is too hard to turn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fantasy; Fear; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 86, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driven by desire to set affection Last Line: And not covet that thing that will not be? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 87, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall she never out of my mind Last Line: To see her loving gentleness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Letters; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 88, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom should I sue to ease my pain? Last Line: And here an end, and here an end. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I cannot your cruelty constrain Last Line: Rejoice not at my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 91, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would have ever thought Last Line: To draw better the next. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 96, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been a lover Last Line: Though ye misjudge these last. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Disease; Hearts; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 98, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sith I myself displease thee Last Line: It were a wilful rage. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Suffering; Misery SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: THE SWORD, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: The great sword is broken, beloved Last Line: And walk with me in the way that the sword could not close? Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Pain; Swords; Suffering; Misery SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read upon that book Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.' Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 23, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain, alas! Poor strephon tries Last Line: But, amoret, in thee. Subject(s): Breath; Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 27, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some kind angel, gently flying Last Line: E'er shall shake my constant mind. Subject(s): Angels; Faces; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 5, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let perjured fair amynta know Last Line: That pity ever dwelt with pride. Subject(s): Fever; Love; Pain; Pity; Pride; Suffering; Misery; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 6, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, since we have both been kind Last Line: And pretty chloris stays for me. Subject(s): Fire; Love; Nature; Pain; Pleasure; Soul; Suffering; Misery SONNET, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strange a fate in love is mine! Last Line: It is what none on earth must know. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Pain; Love – Unrequited SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love and joy are one: and so Last Line: Though burning for a martyr's diadem. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 10. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 3, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou pain, the only guest of loathed constraint Last Line: So stay her tongue that she no more say 'no'. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 11. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 4, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And have I heard her say, 'o cruel pain?' Last Line: Where her, who should rule pain, false pain abuseth. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 25, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lively sparks that issue from those eyes Last Line: "of deadly ""nay"" hear I the fearful thunder." Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 47 Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNET: 8. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 1, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace Last Line: More loving eyes she draws, more hate thou hast. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNET: 9. MADE WHEN HIS LADY HAD PAIN IN HER FACE: 2, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe, woe to me, on me return the smart Last Line: And swear she is not worthy thee to have. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1, by ARLO BATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After fate smites. The heart at first is dumb Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SONNETS IN TIME OF TRIAL, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queer! There was no premonitory twitch Last Line: "said, ""what a jolly, sunny sunday morning!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery SONORAN RADIO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at a big moon too long Last Line: We've colored with blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mexico; Pain; Poverty; Vision; Suffering; Misery SORROW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow, on wing through the world forever Last Line: Sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Roundels; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SOUND, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Marc says the suffering that we don't see Last Line: Of a stone into a lake, before it drops. %it's shy, it's barely there. It never stops Subject(s): Noises; Pain; Sound SOUNDS BEGIN AGAIN, by DENNIS BRUTUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My sounds begin again Alternate Author Name(s): Bruin, John Subject(s): Human Rights; Noises; Pain; Violence SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 77, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When a plant dies Last Line: The flower puts on mourning Subject(s): Death; Pain SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 78, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Close to you nor far from you Last Line: Far from you because I die Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EUGENIA TODD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have any of you, passers-by Last Line: Healed and glad in the morning! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SPRING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More powerful than the war-its terror and crime Last Line: Sounding your blooming rebec's harsh lament Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Pain; War SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery SPRING AND AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green ripples singing down the corn Last Line: And full of winter pain. Subject(s): Corn; Gold; Green (color); Pain; Winter; Suffering; Misery SQUATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The demon loves the scruff of the neck Last Line: Filling the world with their echoes Subject(s): Devil; Pain; Temptation STABAT MATER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O thou mournful mother, standing by the cross with / eyes uplift Last Line: How a mother's pain may be a soul's sublime beatitude. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Pain; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery SUCH A COUNTERPANE TO MISFORTUNE...', by PHILIPPE MORAND Poem Source Last Line: Are fireflies %no blackness fades Subject(s): Pain SUFFERING, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I sat down on a bumble bee Last Line: Humiliating pain. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pain; Beekeeping; Bugs; Suffering; Misery SUFFERING: A GAME, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Let's imagine an ordinary man Last Line: Into its enviable, incriminating silence Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Pain SUFFERINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We merit all we suffer, and by far Last Line: More stripes, then god layes on the sufferer Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SYMPATHIZERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To this man, to his boned shoulders Last Line: The reason nor the man nor whether %to share, or to beware Subject(s): Pain TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My heart is so full if pain Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Love – Absence Of; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness TETANUS SHOT, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: My godson's cut finger glistens Last Line: When viewed from an open grave Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Pain THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most painful image I have now, here, is Last Line: Is always, always, accompanied by pain. Subject(s): Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Pain; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE AMERICAN BLACK (A STUDY IN RACE CONSCIOUSNESS), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Night! Night! / and of the dawn no promise. Wrong is right Last Line: And dream of freedom that is not a name. Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Pain; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Suffering; Misery; Serfs THE ANACREONTICS: 6, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear thou the dream, o faithless maid Last Line: "no better herb to ease thy woe." Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Healing; Pain; Cures; Suffering; Misery THE ANGEL OF DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the beautiful angel Last Line: And death, thy friend, will give them all to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF PAIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive a moment, if a friend's regret Last Line: ^1^ oliver wendell holmes. Subject(s): Pain; Physicians; Suffering; Misery; Doctors THE BOOTLEGGER, by STANLEY H. CAUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: I'm a peddler bold, and my trade's as old Last Line: To see who'll be damned the first! Subject(s): Cruelty; Pain; Peddlers & Peddling; Soul; Suffering; Misery THE BREAD ITSELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, in my unwanted suffering, I turn to you Variant Title(s): Threnody Subject(s): Mothers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE BREED OF WOE, by LUIS MONTOTO Y RAUTENSTRAUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now whither go ye? - would that we did know Last Line: Refuse us not an alms, for love of god. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fathers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE BRIDE'S DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are gleaming Last Line: Through paths of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Pain; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE CALL OF SORROW, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved! In thine adversity there is Last Line: Oh! Why does thy bleeding compact cover all? Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wherefore do the poor complain? Last Line: And these have answer'd thee! Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Experience; Pain; Poverty; Reason; Wealth; Suffering; Misery; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Riches; Fortunes THE CONTRAST; THE STORMY SIDE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now years have passed away, all years of toil Last Line: Divorce a vinculo with alimony. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Time; Suffering; Misery THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: FREDERIC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I turn me? Whither shall I bend Last Line: Shall heal my soul, and my last days be peace. Subject(s): Fear; New South Wales, Australia; Pain; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Salvation; Suffering; Misery THE CRUSHED AND BROKEN FLOWER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Within the forest depths unknown Last Line: Because he loved us so. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Beginnings; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE CRY OF THE CRANE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The woman had borne me a child Last Line: With my child in her arms? Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Death - Children; Desolation; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE DIRGE OF THE REPUBLIC (IN MEMORIAM, E. Z.), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great days men heard afar the clarions of hope rejoice Last Line: "to be true men, and free, ""beneath the shadow of a crown""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery THE DIVER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast been where the rocks of coral grow Last Line: O wrestler with the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE DYING CHILD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her cheek is flushed with fever red Last Line: There, there, my child, lie down and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Guilt; Pain; Poverty; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE EMPEROR'S PROGRESS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child of brighter than the mornings birth Last Line: Leaves fearful of the bitterness of death. Subject(s): Children; Death; Pain; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a time when I loved Last Line: And arrest all these fast-flowing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Unfaithfulness; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE FLOWER (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I grow tensions Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE FOREFATHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the country inn Last Line: Surges hot through my heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Night; Pain; Peace; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery THE FRENCH OF VICTOR HUGO: BENEATH A CRUCFIX, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Come to this god, ye mourners, for he weeps Last Line: Come, all who pass: christ waits, and will remain. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery THE HALF MOON SHOWS A FACE OF PLAINTIVE SWEETNESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To finished loss or finished gain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon; Life; Joy; Pain THE HEATHER ON FIRE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: High on a granite boulder, huge in girth Last Line: His body to the land that had begrudged a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Famine; Highlands Of Scotland; Landlords & Tenants; Pain; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery THE HOUSE OF PAIN, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Unto the prison house of pain none willingly repair Last Line: For to no earthly dwelling-place seems god so strangely near! Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Suffering; Misery; Theology THE HOUSE OF PAIN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White faces, o my sisters! White faces, o my brothers! Last Line: Wait and wait and suffer, still in the house of pain. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE HUMAN NOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the harmonies of heaven stole a note of throbbing pain Last Line: Yea, the wistful human groping, and the doubt that makes it dear. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Heaven; Life; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery THE JEWS WEEPING IN JERUSALEM, by JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN Poem Text First Line: Why, trembling and sad, dost thou stand there Last Line: And sorrow and sighing shall vanish away. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Pain; Zionism; Judaism; Suffering; Misery THE LEPER OF LONDON, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In euston road in london town Last Line: The realms of after-hell. Subject(s): Leprosy; London; Pain; Lepers; Suffering; Misery THE LESSER ONES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We call them dumb -- yet daily there uprise Last Line: Lost in the love of that diviner day. Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was biting cold, and the falling snow Last Line: A bright reward for all the hardships she suffered here. Subject(s): Child Molesting; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Child Abuse; Suffering; Misery THE LORD OF THE ISLE, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fishermen will relate that in the south Last Line: Departed with a muffled cry of pain. Subject(s): Farewell; Fish & Fishing; Pain; Parting; Anglers; Suffering; Misery THE LORDS OF PAIN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lords of pain are mightier by night Last Line: Whom music leads to sleep, and sleep to death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED OF ENJOYING HIS LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unstable dream, according to the place Last Line: Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 79;sonnet: 27 Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE MAILBOY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He rode from port bowen bravely Last Line: The boy brought the royal mail Subject(s): Heroism;pain;postal Service;story-telling; Heroes;heroines;suffering;misery;postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen THE MANIAC, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! What art thou, whose eye-balls roll Last Line: And with soft pity's balm enchant thee to repose. Subject(s): Insanity; Pain; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery THE MESSAGE-BEARER, by JOHN D. BARRY Poem Text First Line: Blind, she helps us all to see Last Line: Transmuting loss to gain! Subject(s): Blindness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Praise; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery THE MISERIES OF MAN, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that so temperate soil arcadia nam'd Last Line: And joys commensurate to her self receive. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE MOTHER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas! Christmas! Merry christmas! Rang the / bells. / o god of grace! Last Line: While twain spirits, joy and sorrow, hovered o'er my plundered nest. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE MOURNFUL ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every heart with pain is smitten Last Line: Nears the forest mournfully. Subject(s): Hearts; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE MYSTERY OF PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain has an element of blank; / it cannot recollect Last Line: New periods of pain. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF A MISERABLE MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: In the lone stillness of the new year's light Last Line: Of thy departed youth, -- it never will return! Variant Title(s): The Young Parson's Dream Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE NOVICE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: She had a lover in the world Last Line: "o mary, thou'rt a woman, too!" Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nuns; Pain; Prayer; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery THE OLD STORY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the bitter shafts of love Last Line: "as I might have -- in that hour!" Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Prayer; Rain; Suffering; Misery THE OVIPAROUS TAILOR, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, wee tailor, / nobody was paler Last Line: Wee, wee tailor. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Devil; Pain; Sin; Tailors; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery; Dress Makers THE PATH OF TEARS: 4. LOVE'S GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce were the wounds you struck me, o my love Last Line: Crowned in a lonely rapture of renown. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery THE PIGEONS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons, following the faint warm light Last Line: As thou dost blot out all our miseries. Subject(s): Frost; Pain; Pigeons; Winter; Suffering; Misery THE PLACE OF PAIN IN THE UNIVERSE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mixture of chloroform and oil of cloves Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 60, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer with acres of mulberry groves Last Line: Dying of hunger and cold in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Pain; Agriculture; Farmers; Suffering; Misery THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 37, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk on delusion greed and anger Last Line: You learn to turn to yourself Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Greed; Pain; Prisons & Prisoners; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Buddha; Buddhists; Avarice; Cupidity; Suffering; Misery; Convicts THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 38, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People crowd by in the dust Last Line: I think of their pain in the dust Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dust; Pain; Pleasure; Suffering; Misery THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE CHAPEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like one who leaves the trampled street Last Line: The blessed peace that follows pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Churches; Life; Pain; Cathedrals; Suffering; Misery THE POET-HEART, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in time's mythical ages Last Line: Pain touched it once more.—and it broke. Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Suffering; Misery THE POOR, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With hearts of poor men it is so Last Line: On earth's far plains of sun and wind. Subject(s): Pain; Poverty; Weariness; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE QUEST FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They needed to know. They came, they suffered Subject(s): Nile (river); Speke, John Hanning (1827-1864); Pain; Africa; Suffering; Misery THE RACE OF THE BOOMERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bleak o' the dawn, and the plain Last Line: The indian's heart-wrung wail for his hapless hunting grounds. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dawn; Death; June; Pain; Soldiers; Sunrise; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE REED, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There sat a happy fisherman Last Line: "and tasted misery?" Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE RETURN, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: Late on a winter afternoon Last Line: Are sweeter thoughts left to share. Subject(s): Pain; Thought; Winter; Suffering; Misery; Thinking THE RETURN OF THE LEAVES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves and the sweet-choired blue Last Line: Fled, with all but its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Leaves; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET, by FRIEDRICH RUECKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'I was not born to mope at home in loneliness' Last Line: Wooden lady eleanora von alleyne! Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints; Pain; Selfishness; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness THE RUNE OF THE PASSION OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who love are those who suffer Last Line: Hopes unfulfilled, and unavailing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Life; Loss; Love; Mothers; Pain; Passion; Women; Suffering; Misery THE RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE SACRAMENT OF PAIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Pain is god's husbandman that turns the clods Last Line: He made of death the opener of life's door. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Pain; Religion; Sacraments; Suffering; Misery; Theology THE SALT SONG, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: How salt the tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Hunger; Pain; Peasantry; Russia; Suffering; Misery; Soviet Union; Russians THE SHEPHERD'S HUT, by ALFRED DE VIGNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thy heart, groaning under life's rude burden Last Line: Nor will I cry to thee, in love's despite. Subject(s): Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE SONG-VISION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, warble not that fearful air! Last Line: By its unhallowed gaiety. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Suffering; Misery THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy our father lir afar Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery THE STORY OF BROTHER PAUL (SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY FRANK DICKSEE), by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Dear friend, you question me if I Last Line: I sleep at last, beneath the sod! Subject(s): Dicksee, Sir Frank (1853-1928); Love - Loss Of; Monks; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE SUICIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast was the wealth I carried in life's pack Last Line: Toil on to where selfhood in godhood dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Future Life; Pain; Suicide; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery THE SYMPATHIZERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To this man, to his boned shoulders Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE SYMPATIZERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To this man, to his boned shoulders Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE THREAD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Long after the used senses abdicate Last Line: As once new fervor, hunger, lust or fear. Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE THREE RULERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a ruler take his stand Last Line: Rose up, and drove him from the land! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery THE TOYS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crippled lady will forgive the boy Subject(s): Pain; Toys; Suffering; Misery THE TRAINED ASS, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the trained ass, the very ass who can Last Line: In my nightmare to count the very stars. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Mules; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: DEFLECT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend who is red hot with pain Last Line: Subsided behind a heap of blueblack syllables Subject(s): Pain; Language THE TWO FOUNTS; ADDRESSED TO A LADY ON HER RECOVERY ... FROM PAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas my last waking thought, how it could be Last Line: Hoard for thyself the pain, thou wilt not give! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE UNDERSONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the sea-song of the blood in my heart Last Line: And of tears? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Nature; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE UNFORGOTTEN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is all calm this love you give to me Last Line: The mocking fate that bade him kiss and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE VEILS OF MAYA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, with whom our lives should be Last Line: And through the pilgrimage of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mothers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE VOICE OF THE WORM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophets and the saints forever keep Last Line: "and cries, ""have courage! Live!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; Devil; Pain; Prophecy & Prophets; Saints; Voices; Worms; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery THE WAIF, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in my luxurious chair Last Line: And cries in agony to god! Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Pain; Past; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE WATCHERS, by ERNEST FAVENC Poem Text First Line: All things were old in that grim grey land Last Line: Three dead men lay on the ground. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Suffering; Misery; Parenthood THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art glad with the gladness of youth in thy veins Last Line: The colors that read us its meaning aright. Subject(s): Aging; Pain; Youth; Suffering; Misery THE WIND SUFFERS, by LAURA RIDING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind suffers of blowing Last Line: By my further dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE WINDOW, by ELLA BRODY Poem Text First Line: Even the clump of soil on coffin lid Last Line: And could not. Then she yielded him to death. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON Poem Text First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow! Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain of too poignant beauty fills the heart Last Line: Desire for thee to end thy long seclusion! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE YOUTH, GIROLAMO SAVANAROLA, PROPHESIES, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put by the lute, girolamo, my son, Last Line: "I burn with sweetness till I burn in fire." Subject(s): Desire; Pain; Suffering; Misery THEOGONY: MARITAL MISERY, by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As drones, appressive habitants of hives Last Line: What ills on ills which will admit no cure! Subject(s): Marriage; Pain THERE IS A LANGUOR OF THE LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: There's no vitality Variant Title(s): Poem: 396; Poem: 55 Subject(s): Pain THERE IS A NEED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a need for every ache or Last Line: Before us -- there's a need. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Happiness; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery THERE IS A PAIN - SO UTTER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would drop him — bone by bone Subject(s): Pain; Memory THERE IS A PAIN - SO UTTER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Goes safely - where an open eye-- %would drop him - bone by bone Variant Title(s): Poem: 599; Poem: 51 Subject(s): Pain THERE WAS A FAITH HEALER OF DEAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I dislike what I fancy I feel Subject(s): Pain; Suffering;misery THESE HAVE GONE DOWN, by PAULA S. VOGELSANG Poem Text Last Line: They have their life in him, they are not lost! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THEY SAID, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said of her, she never can have felt Last Line: What if her smiles concealed from you her dead? Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THEY SAY THAT 'TIME ASSUAGES', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: There was no malady Subject(s): Pain; Time THIN COMMAND, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The cut in the aged finger heals Last Line: When the injury is the soul. Subject(s): Bodies; Pain; Suffering; Misery THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire, fire, fire, fire! Last Line: That else must burn, and with me fall. Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Pain; Rivers; Suffering; Misery THIS LAST PAIN, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This last pain for the damned the fathers found Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THIS LAST PAIN, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This last pain for the damned the fathers found Last Line: And learn a style from a despair Subject(s): Pain THIS MY PRAYER, by TANCREDE DE VISAN Poem Text First Line: O misery Last Line: O sister sorrow, speak thy soft decree! Subject(s): Pain; Prayer; Suffering; Misery THORN-TREE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The thorn-tree fastens to a sterile rock Last Line: Because, alas! It rather is despair! Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Thorns THREE MOMENTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child said: pretty bird Last Line: "oh happy thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Children; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Childhood; Suffering; Misery THREE SORROWS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I honour thee, o sacred grief? Last Line: Into a deathless shrine! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THREEFOLD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of grace and mercy Last Line: I leave, my queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Love; Pain; Past; Sin; Suffering; Misery TO A BLIND NAZARENE, by EVELYN SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Secure in blind and perfect night Last Line: Something ruthless vision ought to mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Metcalfe, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Jesus Christ; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Pain; Sin; Visually Handicapped; Suffering; Misery TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A WOUNDED MOTH, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What help have I for thee, frail things Last Line: I kill thee—thus. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO LADY NOEL BYRON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men sought ambition's thirst to slake Last Line: Grows truth and tenderness. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Love; Pain; Truth; Suffering; Misery TO LEARN THE TRANSPORT BY THE PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the mysterious bard! Subject(s): Pain TO LULU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only love Last Line: Like spokes of the same wheel! Subject(s): Flowers; God; Love; Pain; Rain; Sleep; Soul; Suffering; Misery TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips TO MICHEL, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: Before I found you, michel Last Line: My life is filled—with pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TO MY WIFE, by JOHN EDWARD RAISER Poem Text First Line: I will be silent / e'en though her words Last Line: There's no demur. Alternate Author Name(s): Raiser, J. Edward Subject(s): Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery TO STELLA, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH...WHEN I WAS SICK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tormented with incessant pains Last Line: Admiring you, you pitying us. Variant Title(s): To Stella, March 13, Mdccxxiii-iv Subject(s): Absence; Admiration; Grief; Pain; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal beauty and immortal pain Last Line: And how to loose he hath himself forgot. Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Immortality; Louvre, Paris; Love; Pain; Passion; Suffering; Misery TO THE FIRST SLAVE SHIP, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First of that train which cursed the wave Last Line: A friend, -- a father in their god. Subject(s): God; Pain; Ships & Shipping; Slavery; Tears; Suffering; Misery; Serfs TO THE MASTERS OF 1917, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The task is done. The student look Last Line: By the touch of the master sanctified. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 15. PAIN, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, pain, love's mystery Last Line: To call thee back. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery TO----, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Sunless days and starless nights Last Line: And the starlight of your eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery TOO INTRICATELY WEBBED..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do they regard the folk they were, and not Last Line: A little closer to the one they were. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TOOTHACHE, by JOHN YOUNG Poem Text First Line: My sympathy wi' robin gangs Last Line: For curing sairest heartaches. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches TORTURE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing has changed Last Line: While the body is and is and is 5and has no place to go Subject(s): Bodies; Capital Punishment; Pain TOURIST AND CICERONE, by LUDWIG AUGUST FRANKL Poem Text First Line: Good sir, thou didst me order Last Line: "jehovah is our god." Subject(s): God; Jews; Pain; Titus, Emperor Of Rome (39-81 A.d.); Judaism; Suffering; Misery TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would have broken my wings Last Line: If I escape your evil heart. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. DEEP BELOW DEEP, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep below deep Last Line: I knew him for many months, but there was no thaw or change to speak of. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Pain; Youth; Recessions; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ETERNAL HUNGER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal hunger! O through the black night Last Line: Gaze long in silence, friend; gaze long for all are thine Subject(s): Children; Homeless; Hunger; Pain; Poverty; Childhood; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. BRIEF IS PAIN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, out of all life unfolded, the supreme joy Last Line: And opens at length on the sunlit world and the winds of heaven. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O TENDER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender heart of our humanity Last Line: All suffering for thy dear sake is holy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hearts; Humanity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Religion; Women In The Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. OF ALL THE SUFFERING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the suffering Last Line: Think think of these and learn what freedom is. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery TRAJECTORY, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suffering, sd the lama, is the greatest blessing Last Line: Descend on us Subject(s): Pain; Buddhism TREASURES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me count my treasures Last Line: Whom I know at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Pain; Pity; Soul; Treasures; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery TREE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Be me, become me Last Line: In my unrepeatable form of innocence Subject(s): Pain; Self; Solitude TUMBLED DOWN, AND HURT HIS ARM, AGAINST A BIT OF WOOD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We think we're all heard quite enough of this your sad disaster! Subject(s): Boys; Pain; Tears TWILIGHT-PIECE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden river-reach afar Last Line: This small strange touch of human pain! Subject(s): Evening; Fish & Fishing; Nature; Pain; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight; Suffering; Misery TWISTED MY ANKLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beating in my foot Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Pain UNLESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not wanted does not guess Last Line: You to your own at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Love; Pain; Optimism; Suffering; Misery VAIN, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is an image vain Last Line: It's a queer pain. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery VALE, AMOR!, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do not know this thing Last Line: And no foot stirs the dead leaves of that silent wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love; Pain; Sensibility; Surprise; Suffering; Misery VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My swirling wants. Your frozen lips Last Line: To do something very common, in my own way Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Pain; Poetry And Poets VICTORY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that gathered round the light of hope Last Line: That god does little in the struggles of the race. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Soul; Victory; Optimism; Suffering; Misery VILLANELLE FOR MY SPINE, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O chain of bones, o venomous snake Last Line: Pain is the only truth when my backbone aches Subject(s): Bones; Pain VIOLIN SONGS: A SONG PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, / oh, ease us Last Line: To sing true. Subject(s): Comfort; Doubt; Faith; God; Hope; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Solitude; Skepticism; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To what ende did our lauish auncestours Last Line: Let swinish grill delight in dunghill clay. Subject(s): Muses; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery VIRTUE MAY GROW FROM OUT THIS FIELD OF PAIN, by IRIS ELIZABETH SPARKS Poem Text First Line: Virtue may grow from out this field of pain Last Line: Love's bitter sunkissed well. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery VISIONS: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was asleep, and calmly slept Last Line: The pale-as-marble maid. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Love; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery VOICE AND VISION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had never known your face at all Last Line: And the blind cry of all the seas that roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Miranda: 8 Subject(s): Faces; Pain; Soul; Voices; Suffering; Misery WAITING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again have come the evening tides Last Line: Already filled with pain and strife. Subject(s): Hope; Life; Pain; Waiting; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WAR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are not the hours Last Line: Not worth it! -- of one torn and martyred one! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; War; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WATERWHEEL, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon was falling %sad and dusty Last Line: Whose heart aged %on black science Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Pain; Poetry And Poets WAY OF PAIN, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For parents, the only way Last Line: Too bright, unsparing, whole Subject(s): Abraham; Christianity; Crucifixion; Pain; Parents WE LOVE TO SUFFER, by ELIZABETH MAYER Poem Text First Line: I am a celt Last Line: And found her glory in a thorn-pressed brow? Subject(s): Celts; Pain; Suffering; Misery WE RETURN FROM THE COUNTRY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Moss stained, rejoicing in the swarm of lights Subject(s): Art And Artists; Pain; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Weariness WEATHER-BREEDER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, not to know that such a happiness Last Line: Alone could mother misery like this! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery WERE THERE TWO, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: Were there two lives for us Last Line: My life, to know all my pain Subject(s): Desire; Love; Pain WHAT GAIN?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while thy rounded cheek is fresh and fair Last Line: Sweetheart, but bitter pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Hearts; Love; Pain; Tears; Youth; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery WHAT LOVE DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fused together, after years %and years of it, mostly the two legs Last Line: Rough arms and straining legs of the other Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Quarrels; Tears WHEN MERCHANTS COME, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The witnesses wanted to know if I was happy Last Line: Wishing them well, not erasing them %from the horizon Subject(s): Merchants; Pain; Trucks And Trucking WHEN PAIN TRAVELS BACKWARDS', by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source Last Line: Someone you hate has an orgasm Subject(s): Hate; Pain WHICH ONE ARE YOU?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pessimist sits glumly in the stand Last Line: And, if we don't—we'll surely win to-morrow! Subject(s): Baseball; Hope; Pain; Pessimism; Sports; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WHITE, by JANE HEAP Poem Source First Line: Sharp, empty air....Out of the black nouths of engines white smoke Last Line: Long white laugh at us like maniac Subject(s): Clouds; Pain; Rain; Thunder WHITE IRIS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: When my lord condemned her to death Last Line: Women are braver creatures now. Subject(s): Courage; Daughters; Pain; Women; Valor; Bravery; Suffering; Misery WHITE WOUND, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: No lesser loveliness than this Last Line: Before it slinks to startled sleep again. Subject(s): Kisses; Pain; Suffering; Misery WHO PAYS?, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Who pays? I see a gallows set Last Line: Who pays? Who pays? Subject(s): Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery WHY IS OUR CENTURY WORSE THAN ANY OTHER?, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And calling the ravens and the ravens are in flight Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Pain; Twentieth Century WHY MAKE IT DOUBT - IT HURTS SO, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh, master, this is misery Variant Title(s): Poem: 462; Poem: 69 Subject(s): Pain WISH, by CHARLES DENT BELL Poem Source First Line: Fain would I pass from all the pain Subject(s): Pain; Wishes WOMAN WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FACE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: She begs in the bus station Last Line: To persuade her to move away Subject(s): Commuters; Geography; Pain; Travel WOUNDED, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a look and a motion that nobody saw or heard Last Line: "coming?"" yes, if you want me! Yes, I am ready to sing." Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery WOUNDED PLACE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: This is a wounded place Last Line: Wounds deepen as speedgreed grows. Subject(s): Pain WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY'S HISTORY OF FRANCE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er thy countrymen have done Last Line: Unwilling to retire, though weary. Subject(s): Fame; France; History; Life; Pain; Reputation; Historians; Suffering; Misery YESTERDAY MY SORROWS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Under the blows of a pickax Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: But you know how to raise it in me Last Line: In black plastic. Let the mourners through Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain YOU SAY THERE IS NO LOVE, MY LOVE, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poet's Biography First Line: Here I lie like a princess Last Line: He prisons me Subject(s): Beauty; Pain YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With cheerful step the traveller Last Line: The fears of wary age! Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips ZARA (1) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken Last Line: Knowing that I drink them, o my love, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ZONES OF PAIN: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The zones of pain, restless, scattered Last Line: Offer solace to the dead-dying Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Pain ZONES OF PAIN: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The pain, savage and exact Last Line: Now dream amid %the delirium Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Pain; Solitude |
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