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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RAPE Matches Found: 103 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1933, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The saw gleams in her hand like a cat's teeth Subject(s): Rape; Women ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR OF POINTS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our eyelids pushed down as if by a big darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Rape; Sex; Violence AFTER THAT, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every story has its lean meat Last Line: I've kissed her fright. Subject(s): Rape; Revenge; Slavery; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating ALBUM, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Her blonde head always dips so her eyes slant more Subject(s): Rape; Women ALPACA BERETS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The merchants on san angelmo in puerto montt Last Line: A fresh coat of down beginning %on its skin and shining Subject(s): Rape; Women ALPHABET OF COAL, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: This is my grandfather working his stall in the mine Subject(s): Rape; Women ANOTHER WITNESS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The prosecutor wants me to open %my memory like a trunk Last Line: I who spoke love, %you who killed for that lie Subject(s): Rape; Women ARTIST AND MODEL, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carefully, he set an easel out Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Models; Rape AT THE WHITEHORSE REARING PONDS: LETTING THE FRY GO, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: They're the one waterfall in the meadow Last Line: Entirely aware for the first time Subject(s): Rape; Women BESIDE HER HUSBAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: We sit in the courtroom's semidark %as in a far northern dusk Last Line: He answers, 'I look at the floor' Subject(s): Rape; Women BIRD, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Blue, with a wingspread %from one horizon to the other Last Line: For hope only stars in its place, only %the emptiness between stars Subject(s): Rape; Women BLACK GIRL FULO, by JORGE MATEUS DE LIMA Poem Source First Line: Now it so happened she came Last Line: That black girl fulo! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Brazil; Rape; Slavery BRIGHT NIGHT RAIN, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Onto the cedar shakes of the roof it falls Last Line: Illuminated by a dead body reflecting %light from a body for the time being ablaze Subject(s): Rape; Women CHARMS AGAINST BEARS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Walking through hardaxe red with the first cold slash Subject(s): Rape; Women CHITON, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I discover the gift of a chiton left on my sidewalk Subject(s): Rape; Women CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 4, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wouldn't let him touch the painting Last Line: Of the club palpable, reassuring %like a whisper giving shape to an invisible room Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Prisoners Of War; Rape COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 3. THE LOVER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am your pillar that has fallen Last Line: And ache, and ache for that lost limb forever. Subject(s): Rape; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism CORONER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I had to follow her blood to its worst destination Last Line: Of the human body. I was not lost. She was Subject(s): Rape; Women D'LO, DE L'EAU, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He walked almost every day by water Last Line: He was born there. %he was borne away Subject(s): Rape; Women DETECTIVE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I was in plainclothes, driving a car marked only Last Line: Shape of his hand, the kiss he'd always wished %to awaken, although fatal Subject(s): Rape; Women DIGGERS AT LANGLEY, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He's in black - pants, shirt, tight as a gunfighter's Subject(s): Rape; Women EASY, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1981 I was on a train in milan Last Line: If it was true, if american girls were easy Subject(s): Rape; Virtue EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: RAPED AND REVENGED, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One used and butchered me: another spied Last Line: How much a freeborn woman;s favour cost Subject(s): Rape; World War I ERMINE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: All night the colors Subject(s): Rape; Women EXCHANGE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I gave you my white neck Last Line: You gave me your life Subject(s): Rape; Women FATHER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: In the dining room painting of my childhood Subject(s): Rape; Women FLASHBACK, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: This happens in dreams all the time Last Line: There is the smell of grass as my teeth sink in Subject(s): Rape; Women GHAZALS: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise me at durkheim fair where I've never been, hurling Last Line: And vanessa redgrave in my calvinist fantasies. Don't go away. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fantasy; Memory; Rape; Dead, The GIOVANNI'S 'RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN' AT WILDENSTEIN'S, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Showing the girl Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Rape HELLENS RAPE; OR A LIGHT LANTHORNE FOR LIGHT LADIES, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely a lasse, so loved a lasse, and (alas) such a loving Last Line: (helen a light huswife, now a lightsome starre in olympus.) Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Rape HER HUSBAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Once I thought I knew all about live oaks Last Line: Her body is taking the color Subject(s): Rape; Women HER HUSBAND, TO HIMSELF, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Cyanide and sulfuric acid: the smoke curls up Last Line: Behind the eyeslits it is always me Subject(s): Rape; Women HIS MOTHER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I wrapped the baby in a rag and ran away Last Line: I said. My firstborn, only boy, son of charlie red, %I took him last Subject(s): Rape; Women HIS SISTER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: At nineteen he was still signing his name %with an x Last Line: Again and again we traced his loops and hooks Subject(s): Rape; Women HORSES AT HANAGITA, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Down the sunlit shaft of the cessna's wing Subject(s): Rape; Women IN THE MOVIE NOW, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: There is no glory in trying to make love to men Last Line: You'll have to scrub out later Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Rape JUST SAYING, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since aids, a rape is worse than rape, Last Line: Through a front door Subject(s): Rape KOMOROVA, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The last time I saw all night on the horizon Last Line: Mother when the fisherman folds %his net and I sleep na berega morya %beside the gulf of finland, %c Subject(s): Rape; Women LINEUP, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Each prisoner is so sad in the glare Last Line: Having to accuse and accuse Subject(s): Rape; Women LOOKING AT AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILTS IN ELI'S BASEMENT, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He maps an entirely new way to the stars Last Line: Close to the earth in oakland, %so many vivid sisters Subject(s): Rape; Women LUCRETIA; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, my father! Good valerius Last Line: (stabs herself.) Subject(s): Honor; Rape; Rome, Italy; Sacrifices; Suicide; Women MAGRITTE'S LE VIOL: THE RAPE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was shown, at first, behind a black curtain Last Line: Good taste's sword faithfully flaming %between what's wicked and me Variant Title(s): Magritte's Le Vio Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Distrust; Rape; Sex MARIE TAGLIONI, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: She wondered how she could leave the world behind Last Line: In the mornings, of course, the ice is gone Subject(s): History; Rape; Relationships; Snow; Women MISERABLE SINNER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I am a child of chance with a window brush Last Line: I draw power. I walk barefoot Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death - Children; Murder; Pregnancy; Rape; Sin MORPHO, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his journey to the jade sea Last Line: The mutilated girl with butterflies upon her Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Murder; Rape MY FATHER SOLD ME TO PAY THE DEBTS, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I lacked beauty, the graces Last Line: I fell alive into the flames. %still struggling Subject(s): Household Employees; Pregnancy; Rape; Women - Abused MY GRANDMOTHER'S HAIR, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: She wanted to arrive in heaven with beautiful hair Subject(s): Rape; Women MY SCREAM, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Did you know it went down inside Last Line: The sliver of my scream, %that piercer, that nail? Subject(s): Rape; Women MYCENAEAN REVENGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-kings of crete, phoenicia, and sicily Last Line: And vow to refrain from raping-quests. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Rape NIGHT FLYING, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: All the time the moon goes down Subject(s): Rape; Women NIGHTJAR, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Asleep in elephant grass Last Line: A tiger always under my eyelids now Subject(s): Rape; Women NIGHTJAR: 1., by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Asleep in elephant grass Last Line: I lay in my nest and never moved %from where I dreamed my life Variant Title(s): Nightja Subject(s): Rape; Women NIGHTJAR: 2., by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I kneel again the way he made me kneel Last Line: Breath-catcher, I keep %a tiger always under my eyelids now Subject(s): Rape; Women NORTHERN LIGHTS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Once more it's the rainbow leaps Subject(s): Rape; Women NOT A GUN, NOT A KNIFE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want this to be happening again, and to you Last Line: Twist the blue chalk with tensile fingers against the cue Subject(s): Rape ON THE GOTA CANAL, 1986, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The town hall shines farewell and the canal boat Last Line: With danger. We should pray all boats will dock Subject(s): Rape; Sweden; Women ON VIEWING TWO DIFFERENT DATE RAPE MOVIES, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Both movies star actresses better known Last Line: After the weekend, the parties, %the encounters you're never privy to? Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Rape ONE DARK COTTAGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stars over the small houses Last Line: Will not say why Subject(s): Night; Rape; Secrets; Suicide OPERATION, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Laying me down on the kitchen table Subject(s): Rape; Women OPHTHALMOLOGIES, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: What does the ophthalmologist see when he looks in my eye Last Line: Among branches, seeking the world Subject(s): Rape; Women ORCHIDS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: My mother is watching them go past the car window Subject(s): Rape; Women OXYGEN, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Bearer of finches and clouds, pale atmosphere Last Line: Underneath wide maples, we will fill our nostrils %with a cool abundance of what gives us life? Subject(s): Oxygen; Rape; Women PAINT, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: A rape victim with a paintbrush in her hand Last Line: She thinks how any minute he will come Subject(s): Rape; Women PERJURY, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Semen was all that pased between us, I tell the court Last Line: It's death I court with this one held breath Variant Title(s): Preliminary Hearin Subject(s): Rape; Women PHILOMELA. PROCNE. TEREUS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Procne said, it happened at my wedding Subject(s): Mythology; Marriage; Rape; Sisters; Revenge; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PHONE CALLS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I want to sleep a whole night Last Line: And its tongues like down on sand Subject(s): Rape; Women PLAY AGAIN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I draw near to the roof's edge Subject(s): Rape PLAY AGAIN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I draw near to the roof's edge Last Line: Until I really die, when you are old %on a flight of stairs Subject(s): Rape PNEUMONIA, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The year of my mother's divorce Subject(s): Rape; Women POEM, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Someday we will take this chance again Subject(s): Rape; Women PRISONER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The water speaks in all its slippery tongues Last Line: He tries to remember the body it resembles most Subject(s): Rape; Women RAPE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a cop who is both prowler and father Subject(s): Police; Rape RAPE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a cop who is both prowler and father Last Line: Will you swallow, you will deny them, will you lie your way home? Subject(s): Police; Rape RAPE OF MENSOLA (FROM NYMPHS OF FIESOLE), by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He deemed it best to let them all disrobe Last Line: Right now, of my own hand I want to die Subject(s): Rape RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dire offence from amorous causes springs Last Line: Some fold the sleeve, whilest others plait the gown; %and betty's praised for labours not her own Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Rape RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with more glories, in th' ethereal plain Last Line: With beating hearts the dire event they wait, %anxious and trembling for the birth of fate Subject(s): Love; Omens; Rape RAVINE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Because he thinks she moves like water Last Line: He wants to bathe in again and again Subject(s): Rape; Women SATURDAY AT THE BEACH, by PAULA MORPHY Poem Source First Line: One sunny day I was raped Last Line: The snorkeler, with his prickly tongue %and webbed feet Subject(s): Rape; Seashore SHOCKING RAPE AND MURDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Jane williams had a lover true Last Line: Cut off when in their prime Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;love;marriage;murder;rape;tears; Weddings;husbands;wives SILENT, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: You, like most mothers who have it Subject(s): Rape; Women SOLEA, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are rapists / out there Last Line: Anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rape; Urban Life SOMEWHERE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: She knows who she is, the one who creeps Last Line: She still answers the moon Subject(s): Rape; Women SOUL ON ICE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: In the cupboard behind the chipped cups Last Line: What does this mean: life without the possibility of parole? Subject(s): Rape; Women SPIDER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Beginning at my car's left headlight, Last Line: Going home this afternoon, the usual run %made in minutes? Where will it try new space? Subject(s): Rape; Women STATISTICS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many men, on such a date of may Last Line: Your facts are facts, yet somewhere there is god. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; God; Murder; Rape; Suicide STRIP MINING, ANTRIM CEMETERY, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Through the ore of autumn, toward the stone angel Subject(s): Rape; Women TEBAY LAKE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Water goes everywhere and is not afraid Subject(s): Rape; Women THAMAR AND AMNON, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The moon turns in the sky Last Line: And cut the strings of his harp Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Rape THE AMENITIES, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I owe you an explanation. Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Rape THE BLOOD-RED FOURRAGERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the blackest sight to me Last Line: Our blood-red fourragere. Subject(s): Murder; Paris, France; Rape; War THE FARMERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth full of wet bandanna bound Last Line: Down the steps, back to the fields and the reaping. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rape; Women - Abused; Agriculture; Farmers; Wife Beating THE RAPE OF AURORA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never, o never / since dewy sweet flora Last Line: For the nymph he was singling. Subject(s): Mythology; Rape THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What dire offence from amorous causes springs Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Rape THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not with more glories, in th' ethereal plain Last Line: Anxious, and trembling for the birth of fate Subject(s): Love; Omens; Rape THE WIFE OF BATH HER TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of old, when arthur filled the throne Last Line: Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Wife Of Bath Her Tale Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Rape; Women; Arthur, King; Allegories ULTRAVIOLET, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Pinewoods at noon, the sky walking Subject(s): Rape; Women VANCOUVER ISLAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: That dark form lies in a cumulus tower Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Rape; Women VICTIM, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Then the last being fell away from my face into the blindness %of shadow Last Line: The struggle, the long cut, %not knowing why I am here Subject(s): Rape; Women VOYAGE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: It is true Subject(s): Rape; Women WAIT FOR HEAVEN, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The windows are clear because the congregation is poor Subject(s): Rape; Women WHEN YOU PLAY IN THE UNDERTOW, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: At orr's beach after the farthest rock Subject(s): Rape; Women WHY SHE WANTS TO BE SAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Sand keeps the sun, each grain a tiny oven Last Line: On a new shape every time the sea changes tides. %he will not know me Subject(s): Rape; Women YOUR HANDS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I was grass you fell upon %that morning, quick as a storm Last Line: Still unmapped, the palm's fate %curving along my face Subject(s): Rape; Women |
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