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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