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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: QUARRELS Matches Found: 116 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DRINK ECLOGUE: LANDLADY, BRANDY AND WHISKY, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On auld worm-eaten skelf, in cellar dunk Last Line: Fley'd to be seen amang the tassel'd train. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Conversation; Quarrels; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Arguments; Disagreements A FAIR QUARREL, by THOMAS MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be all my care; there's all my love Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Quarrels; Reconciliation; Arguments; Disagreements A RECENT DIALOGUE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bishop and a bold dragoon Last Line: "his nose the cue) ""amen." Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Quarrels; Racism; Reason; Arguments; Disagreements; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A RETORT UNCOURTEOUS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where london's city skirts the thames Last Line: "a never-was-er like yourself." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): London; Quarrels; Women; Arguments; Disagreements AFTER THE FIGHT, by ELISA ALBO Poem Source First Line: She watches him slip out %to the kitchen and open Last Line: Chills and dries out %the bones, ice traps %and preserves forever Subject(s): Hell; Ice; Quarrels AFTER THE QUARREL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So we, who've supped the self-same cup Last Line: We'll go our ways, the world is wide. Subject(s): Absence; Quarrels; Separation; Isolation; Arguments; Disagreements AFTER THE QUARREL, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't mad no more wif you Subject(s): Quarrels AGAINST QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let dogs delight to bark and bite Last Line: And marks them for his own. Variant Title(s): Quarrelling Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements ALL DAY, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All fight on the cusp of summer Last Line: We were fighting. We had fought all day Subject(s): Quarrels AMANTIUM IRAE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hath querulous grown and sad Last Line: We should have parted yesterday. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you see this song, my dear Last Line: I do not know. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Singing & Singers; Arguments; Disagreements ARGUMENT, by KIM BRIDGFORD Poem Source First Line: I couldn't tell which one of us was wrong Last Line: I couldn't tell which one of us was wrong Subject(s): Quarrels; Relationships ARGUMENT, by STANLEY JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: You'd argued down so much of revelry Last Line: We had less need of argument than love. Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements AT THE EDGE OF THE RING IN KOTZEBUE, ALASKA, by GEORGE KAZEPIS Poem Source First Line: A fight I witnessed possessed its own effluvium Last Line: Within a ring of tundra thirty miles above %the arctic circle Subject(s): Alaska; Quarrels BACK FROM KINLOCHLEVEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waterworks are finished and the boys have / jacked the shovel Last Line: But at any rate you'll know them by their curses when in town. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Desolation; Drinks & Drinking; Labor & Laborers; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Wine; Work; Workers; Arguments; Disagreements BAD COOKING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it roughens true love's course, and Last Line: Bills? Bad cooking. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements BENCH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to %grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels BOILING OVER, by E. J. MILLER LAINO Poem Source First Line: At rush hour, we are all cars Last Line: Trying to pay him back for everything Subject(s): Automobiles; Lies; Quarrels; Traffic; Truth BOYS AND GIRLS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I'm awful glad I'm not a girl Last Line: "to be a girl." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Boys; Children; Girls; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements BRAVE CHAMPIONS! GO ON WITH THE FARCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Quarrels BROTHERS, AND A SERMON, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a village built in a green rent Last Line: Might have been his. Subject(s): Brothers; Jesus Christ; Life; Quarrels; Sermons; Half-brothers; Arguments; Disagreements CIVIL STRIFE, by MANYA COULENTIANOS BEAN Poem Source First Line: When he wore a helmet Last Line: By the king-lovers %or the communists Subject(s): Quarrels COME, LET US AGREE, by BEATRICE S. MEDDINS Poem Text First Line: We quarreled last night / know the reason why? Last Line: And to let you be you. Subject(s): Generosity; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements COMING ROUND, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis all right, as I knew it would be Last Line: He was willing to do so himself, I came round! Subject(s): Marriage; Quarrels; Reconciliation CONFLICT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Divided by the dark Last Line: Might still be love. Subject(s): Enemies; Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 1, by HUGH HENNEDY Poem Source First Line: After experiencing much of Last Line: Backroads to work that pleasant %morning of all saints Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Ice; Quarrels DAN AND DIMPLE AND HOW THEY QUARRELED, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To begin in things quite simple Last Line: Often as the fit returned. Subject(s): Children; Quarrels DANCE OF DEATH: SCHOLAR, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat like a shadow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Quarrels; Scholarship And Scholars DOMESDAY BOOK: CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen twenty men hanged, hung myself Last Line: "I tell you what I said to her. It's this:" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Murder; Police; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements DRAMATICS, by NEIL SHEPARD Poem Source First Line: Hate you, hate you, hate you! Last Line: And all the variety of narrow, human doors Variant Title(s): Dramtic Subject(s): Plays And Playwrights; Quarrels EARLY EVENING QUARREL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is that sugar, hammond Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Quarrels; Negroes; American Blacks; Arguments; Disagreements EARLY EVENING QUARREL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is that sugar, hammond Last Line: I wonder is there nowhere a %do-right man? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Quarrels FARMERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the farmers in their fields Last Line: Wisdom and discontent? Variant Title(s): Agricolae Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Love; Quarrels; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers; Arguments; Disagreements FEUD, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: When the cruelest word of them all is spoken Last Line: What a rose would forget! Subject(s): Fights; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements FOUR VIEWS OF FEVER: III., by KAREN D. SKOLFIELD Poem Source First Line: All she could do was nod 'yes' Last Line: To pinch the flames one by one Subject(s): Quarrels; Sickness FRAGILE, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: After the quarrel Subject(s): Quarrels GIANTS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone's old parents in the desert on folding chairs Last Line: To each memory station -- pause, hold, mute, flash. Subject(s): Abandonment; Lies; Marriage; Quarrels; Secrets; Desertion; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements HOME, by DEREK WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: Father returned when it was dark Last Line: His eyes before mother arrived said %don't try me Subject(s): Home; Parents; Quarrels IN THE EYE OF STORM, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I gather the calm of yesterdays wishes Last Line: Moving deeper into the wide ark of truth Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Quarrels; Storms IN THE PLAGUE YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the old cartoon the terrified Last Line: In death's and mummy's %and big daddy's one shrinking eye Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Quarrels IN THE STORM, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My child, your hero may not be Last Line: And sorrow come to dwell with you. Subject(s): Love; Problems; Quarrels; Relationships; Arguments; Disagreements INFIDELITY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two-toned olds swinging sideways out of Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Quarrels; Parenthood; Arguments; Disagreements ISRAELI CONFLICT, by TERESE SVOBODA Poem Source First Line: Someone drags a gun Last Line: Your heart beating %hard against his Subject(s): Israel (state); Quarrels JAP MILLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jap miller down at martinsville Last Line: And jes' concede jap miller is the best man ever wuz! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements LITTLE WORDS, by BENJAMIN KEECH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you did, too! Last Line: Two fond hearts were mended. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements LOCAL QUARRELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the nineteenth century hadn't crumbled Last Line: They sat in a common shadow. Subject(s): Duels; Guns; Honor; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements MAD MARCH, by KEN FONTENOT Poem Source First Line: Folks, there is so much to be seperated Last Line: Needs to have a lion escape every once in a while Subject(s): March (month); Quarrels MAKING UP A NEW BED, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: I went back to pick up the last Last Line: But a rat would undertake such a task? Subject(s): Quarrels MORNING AT HOME WITH CAT AND FIFTEEN-MONTH OLD, by ALEX RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: Belly's in the alley, hunched over, chewing Last Line: His arms outstretched like frankenstein's Subject(s): Quarrels MRS. SMITH, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I trod these fields with di Last Line: She wears balmorals. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Quarrels; Women; Arguments; Disagreements MUMMY MEETS HOT-HEADED NAKED ICE-BORERS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Djedmaatesankh-temple musician, wife of paankhntof Last Line: Gauze dripping from her shrivelled, childless hands Subject(s): Ice; Mummies; Quarrels NEPENTHE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it was like you to forget Last Line: Dear, it was like you to forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Guilt; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements NEVER TALK BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never talk back! Sich things is Last Line: With one good jolt of silence than a half a dozen kicks! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Insomnia; Quarrels; Sleeplessness; Arguments; Disagreements NO ARGUMENT, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The time for villanelles, you say, is past Last Line: No one today makes anything to last Subject(s): Change; Poetry And Poets; Quarrels NO. 2 PENCIL QUAQUAVERSAL SHOUT, by CAL BEDIENT Poem Source First Line: Cut it out Last Line: Ba. %cut it out Subject(s): Quarrels; Writing And Writers OLD QUARREL TO PUT TO REST, by JEFF HARDIN Poem Source First Line: Bane of the neighborhood, ne'er-do-well Last Line: Of reverence and amplitude, humbly passing through? Subject(s): Quarrels ON THE WAY HOME, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Did n't you like the party, dear, to - night?' Last Line: "I merely wished to know what you had done." Subject(s): Quarrels; Silence; Arguments; Disagreements ORTHODOXIES 6, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The most regal of long speeches. Standing face to face Last Line: Not only the tides of the sea, even the explanations were useless Subject(s): Quarrels; Women OUR PRINCIPAL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beat his wife. / we did not know it then Last Line: What he says. Subject(s): Marriage; News; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements OWEN SEAMAN; ESTABLISHES ENTENE CORDIALE IN MANNER GUY WETMORE CARRYL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the mismated pairs ever created Last Line: Is apt to be sauce for the propaganda. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Art & Artists; Carryl, Guy Wetmore (1873-1904); Life; Quarrels; Seaman, Owen, Sir (1861-1936); Arguments; Disagreements PAST ONE O'CLOCK. YOU MUST HAVE GONE TO BED, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In hours like these, one rises to address %the ages, history, and all creation Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Quarrels; Russia - Stalin Era QUARREL, by TOM DARBYSHIRE Poem Source First Line: The man I lived with and I fell out Subject(s): Quarrels QUARREL, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you were small and loud and cruel Last Line: And the night you were leaving Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Grief; Quarrels QUARREL, by VIOLA K. HUNT Poem Source First Line: Words %dripping venom Subject(s): Quarrels QUARREL, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word I spoke in anger Last Line: That harsh, irregular flame? Subject(s): Quarrels QUARREL, by BRENDA SHAW Poem Source First Line: We lie on opposite sides Last Line: With an ocean and an eon between us %and no way in space or in time %to get back across %the tangled Subject(s): Quarrels QUARREL, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since morning they have been quareling Subject(s): Quarrels; Family Life; Arguments; Disagreements; Relatives QUARRELING WITH ROBERT FROST: 1, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: What I'd call home Last Line: That nothing truly loved %would ever die Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry And Poets; Quarrels QUARRELING WITH ROBERT FROST: 2, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: Or were you talking of something else Last Line: To go to - %and often do Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry And Poets; Quarrels QUATRAIN: PARTING WAYS, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: My wife and I had words Last Line: Go mine -- till noon. Subject(s): Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements REBELS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two shall disagree... His time-fogged eyes Last Line: The hill and I exult with turbulent growth! Subject(s): Quarrels; Revolutions; Arguments; Disagreements RELATIVELY PLACID, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The small red ball Last Line: Fish him out Subject(s): Drowning; Quarrels; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SONG: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most wretched heart, most miserable Last Line: Since unhap cannot kill me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Hearts; Hope; Quarrels; Truth; Optimism; Arguments; Disagreements SOUR WINE, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: I met the wife who'd left me bed Last Line: And let it go at that. Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements STATE OF THE UNION: 19. EPITAPH FOR BORO, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boom of oil %has replaced Last Line: And the guns boom again Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Politics; Quarrels STATE OF THE UNION: 5. EASTER 1976, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What came uppermost in their minds Last Line: What came uppermost in their minds? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Generals; Military; Quarrels SUNDAY DUET, by ROLAND SODOWSKY Poem Source First Line: You smiled by the piano, rawboned women Last Line: Suits you. Either would be fine with me Subject(s): Quarrels; Singing And Singers THANKSGIVING DAY AT HUNCHLEY'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you never heard of hunchley, I would say in his behalf Last Line: In keeping with his bounty than the laws of harmony. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Holidays; Parties; Quarrels; Thanksgiving; Arguments; Disagreements THE BENCH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My husband and I were arguing about a bench we wanted to buy Last Line: Bench we eventually placed in the meadow which continued to grow as if there were no bench at all Subject(s): Chairs; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I quarrel not with destiny Last Line: The best is good enough for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Quarrels; Secrets; Destiny; Arguments; Disagreements THE COCK AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a tree there mounted guard Last Line: Tis doubly sweet deceiver to deceive. Subject(s): Brothers; Fables; Quarrels; Relationships; Roosters; Half-brothers; Allegories; Arguments; Disagreements; Cocks THE DEFIANCE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By heaven 'tis false, I am not vain Last Line: You have mistook the jest. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE GULF, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gulf of silence separates us from each other Last Line: Now I want to shatter it with our laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE IDEAL HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've lived for forty years, dear wife Last Line: That you are wrong and I am right. Subject(s): Life; Love; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements THE LAST QUARREL, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last time that we quarrell'd, love Last Line: You'll kiss me, and be friends. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE LAST QUARREL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay sleeping on my bed Last Line: Wherewith I sped my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Love; Quarrels; Regret; Solitude; Dead, The; Arguments; Disagreements; Loneliness THE PASSING OF MALONEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the chill of anaemic december when the snow on / the ditchway lay Last Line: When nature was yelling in anguish and the turbulent tempest was loud. Subject(s): Anger; Bars & Bartenders; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by DESSIE REEVES CASSITY Poem Text First Line: Yesterday we quarreled Last Line: Compared with today. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hear me, thou proud, deceitful maid Last Line: Ah, but all night I sighed and wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word I spoke in anger Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our quarrel seemed a giant thing Last Line: And rushed into each other's arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Quarrels; Reconciliation; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there were a monument Subject(s): Silence; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE QUARREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They faced each other: topaz Last Line: Like drowning gems were turned on him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hate; Quarrels; Sea; Storms; Arguments; Disagreements; Ocean THE QUARREL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sit behind your coffee Last Line: Lurches a path across the table. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE REPULSE, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that by this disdain Last Line: That I was never blest. Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE RIFT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We spoke no word and we gave no look Last Line: And neither of us knew why. Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THE RIVALS; OR THE SHOWMAN'S RUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Straight rent across one trousers-knee, makes his inglorious -- exit.] Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Comedy; Plays & Playwrights; Quarrels; Tragedy; Arguments; Disagreements THE SNOWMAN ON THE MOOR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stalemated their armies stood, with tottering banners Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Quarrels' THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reside at table mountain, and my name is truthful james Last Line: That broke up our society upon the stanislow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): The Throes Of Science Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements THIS WEDNESDAY FULL OF WOE, by DIANE VANCE Poem Source First Line: Turn your anger into poetry, her advice to me after the tuesday night Last Line: Not at all -- you -- I -- know what -- I know Subject(s): Anger; Poetry And Poets; Quarrels TO A LADY: SHE REFUSING TO CONTINUE A DISPUTE WITH ME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare, generous victor, spare the slave Last Line: He sent; and as he fled, he slew. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TO CELIA (WHO REFUSES TO BE DRAWN INTO AN ARGUMENT), by E. H. LACON WATSON Poem Text First Line: Dear, if you carelessly agree Last Line: Dear, if you care! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements TO CELIA PLEADING WANT OF MERIT, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, urge no more that killing cause Last Line: That equal love knows no disparity. Variant Title(s): To One That Pleaded Want Of Merit Subject(s): Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TRAMPLERS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Elephants / trampling the jungle Last Line: Ineffectual protests. Subject(s): Protest, Social; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements TROUBLOUS TIMES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We've had a social squabble down to pohick on the crick Last Line: An' there ain't no joy in livin' up to pohick on the crick Subject(s): Quarrels;socialism; Arguments;disagreements TWILIGHT, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Behind this barn two men are fighting Last Line: And now, again, they fight Subject(s): Fights; Friendship - False Friends; Quarrels 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 WHAT WE HAVE HERE, by JANET FRASER Poem Source First Line: Boredome on my face a kind of malice Last Line: Beating still and settling down %we do agree, to what we have Subject(s): Quarrels WHEN THOU DIDST THINK I DID NOT LOVE, by ROBERT AYTON Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Aytoun, Robert Subject(s): Quarrels WILLIAM THE TESTY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afar in the ages of quaint renown Last Line: That governs the town of new amsterdam! Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Kieft, Willem (1597-1647); New York City - Dutch Period; Politics; Quarrels; Politicians; Political Poetry; Arguments; Disagreements WINDING THE CLOCK, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The silence that had fallen stark between us Last Line: Turned, turned -- and felt the willing wheels respond. Subject(s): Clocks; Quarrels; Time; Arguments; Disagreements WITH THE WORLD, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to finish Last Line: Thinking he's off-camera. Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Love; Quarrels; War; War - Home Front; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Arguments; Disagreements WORDS! WORDS!, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did it happen that we quarreled? Subject(s): Quarrels WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements YELLOW BAG, by MARY ELLEN CSAMER Poem Source First Line: Something broken Last Line: Knowing the need for risks %has led you to this one Subject(s): Family Life; Quarrels YELLOW KITCHEN, by MARGARET K. MENGES Poem Source First Line: She read that people argued more in yellow kitchens Last Line: In the petals of blue roses strung absurdly on the border Subject(s): Quarrels |
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