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Subject: REMORSE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAY REMORSEFUL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A day remorseful, heavy, dun
Last Line: Its shadow and its sound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Remorse


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 SHROPSHIRE LAD: 54, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With rue my heart is laden
Last Line: In fields where roses fade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Despair; Graves; Mortality; Mourning; Remorse; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement


ABSENT, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away
Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse; Separation; Isolation; Parting


ABSENT, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away
Last Line: A pack of hunting hounds of remorse!
Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse


BUYER'S REMORSE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why did I get this hairstyle?
Last Line: Who'l sell me the elixir %that dulls a buyer's pangs?
Subject(s): Remorse


CLEAN CONSCIENCE NEVER RELAXES, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an emotion to which we are most of us adduced
Last Line: The kremlin ought to work out some plan for taking it away from those who have it and giving it to t
Subject(s): Conscience; Remorse


COEUR DE LION AT THE BIER OF HIS FATHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Torches were blazing clear
Last Line: "look on me till I die!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Remorse; Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199)


MEDITATION, by RUTH L. TEISSEDRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the chapel bell again
Last Line: Now a walking prayer to an unknown god.
Subject(s): Consolation; Meditation; Remorse; Sin


NATURE'S REMORSES; ROME, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her soul was bred by a throne, and fed
Last Line: Sunshine from heaven, and the eyes of a child.
Subject(s): Italy; Remorse; Despair; Italians


NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS (3), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the darkening heights
Subject(s): Remorse


ODE TO REMORSE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dread offspring of the holy light within
Last Line: Shed at the mercy-seat of heaven's eternal throne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Remorse


OF MOUTH AND EYES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After he let her go
Last Line: And his eyes were pissholes in the snow
Subject(s): Absence; Remorse


PARADISE LOST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She phoned from idaho, he was in glin
Last Line: Hell is the home of lost opportunity
Subject(s): Idaho; Ireland; Love; Past; Remorse


REGRET, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: How strange that love should be like this
Last Line: Whose love was never told?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Remorse


REMORA, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clinging to the shark
Subject(s): Remorse


REMORA, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clinging to the shark
Last Line: The top beneath all else
Subject(s): Remorse


REMORSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bubbling of the gushing fountain proves
Last Line: "afraid to live, yet still more loath to die!"
Subject(s): Remorse


REMORSE, by ROBERT AVRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: To me it simply meant desire come true
Last Line: Possessed us, and but added to our pain.
Subject(s): Remorse; Shame


REMORSE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the numerous ills that hurt our peace
Last Line: O glorious magnanimity of soul!
Subject(s): Remorse


REMORSE, by INEZ HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I bring a tear-wet rose to you, - too late
Last Line: To bring a tear-wet rose to you, too late?
Subject(s): Remorse


REMORSE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! He brings me back my early years
Last Line: And I am desperate with my misery!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Remorse


REMORSE, by AUGUST PLATEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I started up in the night, in the night
Last Line: The remorse in thy heart that is beating.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von
Subject(s): Remorse


REMORSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrote my remorse on a forest-leaf
Last Line: I shall never know!
Subject(s): Egypt; Grief; Remorse; Sea; Sphinx; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


REMORSE AFTER SHOPPING, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did I buy it? %what was I thinking?
Last Line: Just get it out of here. %throw it away
Subject(s): Remorse


THE AZURE FROG: 3. REMORSE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I erred! The thing exists. Its little heart doth beat. But it dies be
Last Line: Done? I would have tossed thee back. Imperfect is the heart.
Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Remorse; Soul; Elves; Woods


THE LADY'S DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady lay in her bed
Last Line: Would dream the lady's dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Remorse; Nightmares


THE PROTEST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I say 'e isn't remorse!
Last Line: (protest dismissed.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crows; Horses; Remorse


THE SHEPHERD TO THE FLOWERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sweet violets, love's paradise, that spread"
Last Line: "then may remorse, in pitying of my smart, / dry up my tears, and dwell within her heart"
Subject(s): Flowers;remorse


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN WHOSE REMORSE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It will certainly soothe your remorse!
Subject(s): Remorse


THINK TWICE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think twice before you mail the note in
Last Line: Bring the certain penalty, remorse!
Subject(s): Remorse


THIS SUMMER WIND, WITH THEE AND ME, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Bad Behavior; Remorse


TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares
Last Line: And now I live, and now my life is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tychborn, Chidiock; Ticheborne, Chidiock
Variant Title(s): Retrospect;elegy;lines Written By One In The Tower;verses Written In The Tower;poem Written On The Eve Of Execution;elegy For Himself;lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution
Subject(s): Adversity; Capital Punishment; Death; Mourning; Remorse; Self-pity; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Bereavement


TO THE WEST, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my heart %the flame subsides
Last Line: On my way out %to the west
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Remorse; Travel