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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PESSIMISM Matches Found: 49 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SERIOUS REFLECTION ON HUMAN LIFE, SELECTION, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: How vain is man! How foolish are his ways! Last Line: "and make out one continued scene of woe." Subject(s): Life; Pessimism; Transience; Impermanence ALGEBRA, by SARAH BROWN WEITZMAN Poem Source First Line: Whenever I hear a train whistle Last Line: Seeing how wide-eyed I'd become %would call on me Subject(s): Fear; Melancholy; Pessimism BLACK MOOD, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source First Line: When I think you're somewhere yonder Last Line: Dark penumbra close and closer Subject(s): Pessimism EMPEDOCLES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leaped. With none to hinder Last Line: If heels in air the last of him! Subject(s): Greece; Pessimism; Philosophy & Philosophers; Greeks EPITAPH ON A PESSIMIST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I'm smith of stoke, aged sixty-odd" Last Line: My dad had done the same Subject(s): Pessimism FOR A PESSIMIST, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wore his coffin for a hat Last Line: And waved a bit of crape Subject(s): Pessimism FOR A PESSIMIST, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wore his coffin for a hat Subject(s): Pessimism I LOVE YOU...WHY DO YOU HATE ME?, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Last Line: I love you, because you hate me Subject(s): Pessimism I WAS BORN AT BIRTH OF BLOSSOMS., by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Last Line: Nothing you could ask me to Subject(s): Pessimism IN THEIR PRISON OF BUCKTHORN AND ROSES, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Last Line: Not even a mother's love can free you Subject(s): Pessimism JOHNNY RIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny right, his hand was brown Last Line: Her own self had evoked her fate. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Human Behavior; Optimism; Pessimism; Fate; Alcoholism & Alcoholics JUSTICE OF MEN! I LOOK FOR YOU, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Subject(s): Pessimism; Women's Rights LIEDER, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source First Line: O woman! Why, being so pure, are the clear rays emanating from Subject(s): Pessimism; Women's Rights NOW ALL THAT SOUND OF LAUGHTER, SOUND OF SINGING, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Last Line: All's well with me. No grieving. %this solitude's my home Subject(s): Pessimism NOW ALL THAT SOUND OF LAUGHTER, SOUND OF SINGING., by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Last Line: This solitude's my home Subject(s): Pessimism OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The right will triumph,' jones declared Last Line: "it's what a fellow does." Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; War Bonds; Optimism PEOPLE SOMETIMES COMPLAIN, by LEO VROMAN Poem Source First Line: People sometimes complain: 'you're too much together.' Last Line: And our two bodies, briefly, back, %relieved, beside each other Subject(s): Pessimism PESSIMISM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bright-faced maiden, bright-souled maiden" Last Line: Goethe says -- and so say I Subject(s): Life;pessimism PESSIMISM, by NEWTON MACKINTOSH Poem Text First Line: In the age that was golden, the halcyon time Last Line: And the voice of the turtle is dead in the soup. Subject(s): Cynicism; Pessimism; Poetry & Poets; Voices PESSIMISM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're buying trouble when you buy a Last Line: "dotards dote, he is a chump who does not own a boat!" Subject(s): Pessimism PESSIMIST, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Pessimism; Science PESSIMIST, by FRANCES ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: When april meads are flowering Subject(s): Pessimism PESSIMIST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pessimist sits at his deak Last Line: If only my pen doesn't run out of ink Subject(s): Life; Pessimism PESSIMIST, by JOSEPH MORRIS Poem Source First Line: The pessimist's a critter Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism PESSIMIST, by JANE SCHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: She thinks if she had a sorrow Last Line: Waiting to burst like the moon %unannounced through a midday sky Subject(s): Pessimism PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one sits shivering in fortune's smile Last Line: Laughs in the teeth of death. Subject(s): Pessimism; Optimism PESSIMIST AND THE OPTIMIST, by ETHEL M. BRAINERD Poem Source First Line: The sun shone suddenly upon the day Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism PESSIMISTS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if the oak should ask Last Line: With a red, torn rose? Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Pessimism REALSIM, by VERA WARDNER DOUGAN Poem Text First Line: Why do we gaze at the mud and the slime Last Line: Instead of nobility's might? Subject(s): Pessimism; Realism SAID HANRAHAN, by P. J. HARTIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll all be rooned,' said hanrahan / in accents most forlorn Last Line: "before the year is out." Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2) Subject(s): Drought; Fire; Floods; God; Pessimism SONNET: THE PESSIMIST'S VISION, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed, and saw a modern hell, more dread Last Line: "yet find not much more anguish? Be content." Subject(s): Pessimism SUCCESSFUL PESSIMIST, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: He makes a monument from clay Last Line: The secret of her firmament. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Pessimism TAME RIVER, A NARROW PATH, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Last Line: That dries the sea and makes habitable the pole Subject(s): Pessimism THE OPTIMIST AND THE PESSIMIST; A DIALOGUE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: How glorious is the summer sun to-day! Last Line: Woman and god. Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; Thought; Optimism; Thinking THE PESSIMIST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The pessimist's a cheerless man Last Line: "most wretched of all men is he, / because his hope is dead" Subject(s): Pessimism THE PESSIMIST, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered yesternight 'twixt sleep and sleep Last Line: The perfected a bootless, voiceless cypher stood. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Pessimism THE PESSIMIST, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His body bulged with puppies - little eyes Last Line: "when no one wants these little dogs of mine." Subject(s): Pessimism THE PESSIMIST, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to do but work Last Line: Can ever withstand these woes. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Variant Title(s): The Sum Of Life Subject(s): Cynicism; Pessimism THE PESSIMIST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pessimist locust, last to leaf Last Line: Though all the world is glad, still talks of grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Locust Trees; Pessimism THEY SAY THAT PLANTS DON'T TALK, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Last Line: Without them how could I admire you? How could I live? Variant Title(s): They Say That Plants Don't Talk, Nor D Subject(s): Pessimism THIS ONE GOES AND THAT ONE GOES, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Subject(s): Pessimism; Women's Rights THOSE THAT SING OF THE DOVES AND THE FLOWERS, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Last Line: The endless depths of my thought Subject(s): Pessimism TO A PESSIMIST, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your volume proves that 'nothing is worth while' Last Line: And yet - and yet - that beatific smile %with which you put your pen down? Pray expound Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Pessimism TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848, CONTINUED, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, when I muse on what life is, I seem Last Line: Shall be left standing face to face with god. Subject(s): France; Pessimism TODAY BLACK HAIR, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Subject(s): Pessimism; Women's Rights TWO THOUGHTS ON YOUTH, by RETTA IRWIN LEICHLITER Poem Text First Line: Full of slang Last Line: Of love our youth are sowing. Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; Youth; Optimism VIOLENT STORM, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who have chosen to pass the night Subject(s): Pessimism; Storms VIOLENT STORM, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who have chosen to pass the night Last Line: That shared our wakefulness are dimming %and the dark brushes against our eyes Subject(s): Pessimism; Storms 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 |
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