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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COMMENT ON COMMENT IN GENERAL CONFESSION OF SINS, IN CHURCH LITURGY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: According to thy promises - hereby
Last Line: What god, thro' him, rejoices to restore.
Subject(s): Confessions; Prayer; Repentance; Penitence


A HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun
Last Line: I fear no more.
Variant Title(s): For Forgiveness;to Christ
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Prayer; Religion; Remorse; Repentance; Clemency; Theology; Penitence


A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND: USURY, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Groaning in conscience, burdened with / my crimes
Last Line: Die, reprobate, and hie thee hence to hell.'
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Repentance; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence


A MAN'S REPENTANCE (INTENDED FOR RECITATION AT CLUB DINNERS), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight when I came from the club at eleven
Last Line: I know how a murderer feels to-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Unrequited; Repentance; Supernatural; Penitence


A PENITENT'S PLEA, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a child that is lost
Last Line: And give me thy peace!
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


A PENITENTIAL SOLILOQUY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Tho' no objects strike upon the sight
Last Line: And worship god in spirit and in truth.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


A POSITION IN THE HEBREW DIVINITY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One man repentant is of more esteem
Last Line: With god, then one, that never sin'd 'gainst him.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


AD ASTRA: 68, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In sole reliance on thy saving grace
Last Line: And faith that shall not doubt thee at the last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


AFTER A FRUITLESS ARGUMENT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why of the truth could I persuade you not?
Last Line: And in a kindly life our hearts may meet.
Subject(s): Repentance; Truth; Penitence


AN EPITAPH, by SAMUEL WESLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lie I, once a witty fair
Last Line: My noon was penitent.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Guilt; Mourning; Repentance; Shame; Bereavement; Penitence


APOLOGY (TO THE PANTHERS), by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I became a woman
Last Line: I grieve my whiteful days
Subject(s): Repentance; Black Nationalism; Penitence


ASH WEDNESDAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My god, my god, have mercy on my sin
Last Line: To tell it in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Repentance; Penitence


DISCIPLINE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Throw away thy rod
Last Line: Throw away thy wrath.
Subject(s): Discipline; Repentance; Penitence


FORGIVENESS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When man goes astray, a demon from lowest hell
Last Line: And love divine plants sweet forgiveness where he lies.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Repentance; Clemency; Penitence


GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred dove
Last Line: My want of tears with store of bloud.
Variant Title(s): Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve Not The Holy Spirit, Etc.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 14, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How much, azile, thou hast scorn'd my tears
Last Line: But call to mind, and in that mind repent.
Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth
Subject(s): Disdain; Repentance; Scorn; Penitence


HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow
Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood.
Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow"";
Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence


KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp
Last Line: Upon his dying day.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness


MORA SPONSI, THE STAY OF THE BRIDEGROOME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time the bridegroom stayes from hence
Last Line: Is but the time of penitence.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S SONNET, CALLED HIS PARTING BLOW, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reason, that long in prison of my will
Last Line: Subscribes to thee, and takes the better way.
Subject(s): Love; Repentance; Sin; Youth; Penitence


NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S SONNET, MADE IN THE PRIME OF HIS PENANCE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With sweating brows I long have plough'd the
Last Line: I find no time too late for to amend!
Subject(s): Penance; Repentance; Youth; Penitence


OLNEY HYMNS: 9. THE CONTRITE HEART, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lord will happiness divine / on contrite hearts below
Last Line: And heal it if it be.
Variant Title(s): "the Lord Will Happiness Divine"";
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


ON HIMSELFE (15), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Il'e write no more of love; but now repent
Last Line: And that my dust was to the earth commended.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


PENITENCE (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who after his transgression doth repent
Last Line: Is halfe, or altogether innocent.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


PENITENCE (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctors, in the talmud, say
Last Line: More worth, then heav'ns eternitie.
Subject(s): Jews; Repentance; Judaism; Penitence


PENITENCIE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mans transgression god do's then remit
Last Line: When man he makes a penitent for it.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


PRAISE AND PRAYER, by WILLIAM DAVENANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise is devotion fit for mighty minds
Last Line: And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.
Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


PRODIGAL SON, by SADIE FULLER SEAGRAVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had gone clothed in tatters all my days
Last Line: Shall break the brittle hardness of your mouth.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


RECONCILIATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I begin through the grass once again to be bound to the lord
Last Line: On the laugh of a child I am borne to the joy of the king.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


REPEAT ONE DAY BEFORE THY DEATH, by RABBI ELEAZAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hold thou thy friend's honor dear as is
Last Line: Rabbi eleazar.
Subject(s): Jews; Repentance; Judaism; Penitence


REPENTANCE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, I confesse my sinne is great
Last Line: Fractures well cur'd make us more strong.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


REPENTANCE, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dictates of nature prove school-knowledge weak
Last Line: Be henceforth repentance a stranger to love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


REPENTANCE, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, since thou didst in this vile clay
Last Line: And through his merits, make thy mercy mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


REPENTANCE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hot tears of anger wash my cheek like rain
Last Line: With my own hands I clutch the cup of gall!
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


REPENTANCE, by FLORENCE RALSTON WERUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: When heavy sorrow weighs the heart
Last Line: Too blind to see god's brooding eyes.
Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence


REPENTANCE (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last sunday at st. James's prayers
Last Line: By half so much repent
Subject(s): Public Worship;repentance; Church Attendance;penitence


REPENTANCE OF KING RODERIGO, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is, I hear, a poor half-ruined cell
Last Line: And held them, like a treasure, with claspt hands.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, I'll reform, I will, I swear!"
Last Line: And die a cuckold and a saint
Subject(s): Repentance;women; Penitence


SONG, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever, chloe, I begin / your heart, like mine, to move
Last Line: A holy day in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of
Subject(s): Errors; Repentance; Sin; Singing & Singers; Mistakes; Fallacies; Penitence


THE BALLAD OF EPHRON, PRINCE OF TOPERS, by IMMANUEL OF ROME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come listen to a merry song about a merry / wight
Last Line: Nor he, nor we, shall crave in vain for water!
Alternate Author Name(s): Immanuel Ben Solomon Of Rome; Immanuel Di Roma
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Repentance; Sin; Water; Judaism; Penitence


THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear
Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven.
Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence


THE CROSSE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this strange and uncouth thing?
Last Line: With but foure words, my words, thy will be done.
Variant Title(s): The Cross
Subject(s): Cross, The; Repentance; Penitence


THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rage of babylon is roused
Last Line: Alas, more dreadful thy remember'd guilt!
Subject(s): Babylon; Christianity; Guilt; Prophecy & Prophets; Punishment; Repentance; Penitence


THE MAID AND THE PALMER (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The maid she went to the well to wash
Last Line: Then thou'st come a maiden home
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


THE PENITENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O god of goodness, thou my hope and stay
Last Line: Have wander'd far to feed on husks of swine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): God; Prodigal Son; Repentance; Sin; Penitence


THE PENITENT, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I come to thee blind, despairing
Last Line: These my tears on thy feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Mary Magdalen; Repentance; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Penitence


THE PENITENT, by WILLIAM PETER    Poem Text                    
First Line: With guilt and shame opprest
Last Line: And e'en to sinners yield a refuge from despair.
Subject(s): Faith; Repentance; Belief; Creed; Penitence


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 3, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see someone short on sense
Last Line: And be a fool no more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Fools; Repentance; Idiots; Penitence


THE RING AND THE CASTLE, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Benjamin bailey, benjamin bailey, why do you wake
Last Line: "trees let me lie."
Subject(s): Love; Repentance; Sin; Unfaithfulness; Penitence; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 7, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


THE SECOND THANKSGIVING, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have considered it, and finde / there is no dealing with thy mighty passion
Last Line: The man who once against thee fought.
Variant Title(s): The Reprisal
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


THE SONG OF PENITENCE; UNFINISHED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He passed from earth
Last Line: . . . . . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


THE SONG OF REPENTANCE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir ulrich rides in the forest so green
Last Line: "he'll repeat it sentence by sentence."
Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence; Songs


THE STORM, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If as the windes and waters here below
Last Line: They purge the aire without, within the breast.
Subject(s): Repentance; Storms; Penitence


THE TROUBLES OF MATTHEW MAHONEY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a little town in devonshire, in the mellow september moonlight
Last Line: And matthew mahoney dearly does her love.
Subject(s): Distrust; Love; Marriage; Repentance; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Penitence


THE VENUSBERG, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have burned my garments of gold, and my violin
Last Line: There'll be no one to sing in paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole
Subject(s): Religion; Repentance; Sin; Theology; Penitence


THE WASTED DAY, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Another day let slip! Its hours have run
Last Line: Yet he was happier, though he did not know.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


THE WORME OF LAMBTON, by J. WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is the joyful easter morn
Last Line: And the solemn prayer was made.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


THOUGH WE REPENT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though we repent, can any god give back
Last Line: The dear, lost days we might have made so fair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


TO GOD (14), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God, who me gives a will for to repent
Last Line: When I have done true penance here for it.
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence


TO THE DEAD CARDINAL OF WESTMINSTER, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not perturbate
Last Line: Lest my feet walk hell.
Subject(s): Manning, Henry Edward (1808-1892); Repentance; Penitence


TOLSTOI'S REPLY TO THE RUSSIAN CHURCH, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You urge me to repent--aye, and of what
Last Line: I've nothing to repent.—you must repent.
Subject(s): Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian; Repentance; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Russian Church; Penitence


TWO SINNERS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a man, it was said one time
Last Line: "but the world said, frowning, ""we shall not call."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Men; Repentance; Sin; Women; Penitence


TWO WOMEN, SELECTION, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night is a midnight meeting, and the earl is in the chair
Last Line: I'd rather be that drowned harlot than the beautiful countess may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet
Subject(s): Repentance; Sin; Penitence


VAIN REPENTANCE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do we not say, forgive us, lord
Last Line: Not my rebellious will, but thine!
Subject(s): Repentance; Penitence