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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REVENGE Matches Found: 90 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIAMOND SPEAKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who tore me from the earth choked Last Line: Huddles in the rubbish at the bottom of the moat. Subject(s): Revenge A FORGIVENESS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am indeed the personage you know Last Line: The cloak then, father -- as your grate helps now! Subject(s): Murder; Confessions; Revenge; Infidelity A LAY OF ST. GENGULPHUS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gengulphus comes from the holy land Last Line: On the moral enforced by her terrible tale! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Gengulphus, Saint (d. 760); Murder; Revenge; Ghosts A MOUNTAIN MOTHER, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me my son must die Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Death - Fathers; Revenge AFTER THAT, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem 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 BALLAD OF BEN HALL'S GANG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you wild colonials Last Line: "says dunn, gilbert, and ben hall" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;heroism;revenge; Heroes;heroines BERNARDO AND ALPHONSO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With some good ten of his chosen men, bernardo hath appeared Last Line: Long rued alphonso and his realm the jesting of that day Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Hate; Revenge BOND, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gets Last Line: And forth as if wounds are what we most %dearly love Subject(s): Love Affairs; Revenge BOY'S PRAYER, by KENYOTTA BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Dear lord, if you exist up there Last Line: My passions, so I may have my revenge Subject(s): Prayer; Revenge BRANDED, by JACKARANDALO [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: A swooning hot midsummer day Last Line: Who has the strength to wait Alternate Author Name(s): Jackarandalo Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;patience;revenge BY ACCIDENT WAVING TO ZERO, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Desires the new millennium %of silent permutation Subject(s): Revenge CALDWELL OF SPRINGFIELD [JUNE 23, 1780], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the spot. Look around you. Above on the height Last Line: But not always a hero like this, -- and that's all. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Revolution; Caldwell, James (1734-1781); New Jersey; Patriotism; Revenge CLEVER TWIST, by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best revenge is Subject(s): Revenge DE QUINCEY'S REVENGE; A BALLAD IN THREE FITTES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De quincey, lord of travernent Last Line: "who hither return no more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Crusades; De Quincey, Robert (1127-1197); De Quincey, Seyer (1125-1190); Revenge DELANEY'S VENDETTA, by R. J. CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: This is the story told to me, in the midst of the desert's glare Last Line: "with god as a ruthless murderer or only a suicide?" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilrooney Subject(s): Murder; Revenge; Suicide; Vendetta; Feuds DOG AFTER LOVE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you walked out Last Line: One sock between his teeth that once was yours. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Loss Of; Revenge ELECTRA, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of agamemnon, who sometime Last Line: By this glorious essay. Subject(s): Revenge; Tragedy ELEGY: 3.25. REVENGE TO COME, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a joke at dinners; aye, any would-be wit Last Line: Your beauty waits this ending. Woman, believeand fear! Subject(s): Aging; Revenge FABLES: 1ST SER. 5. THE WILD BOAR AND THE RAM, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against an elm a sheep was ty'd Last Line: Since drums and parchment were invented. Subject(s): Revenge FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So buckled tight in scaly resolution Last Line: I will no more. Subject(s): Conscience; Curses; Death; Dreams; Ghosts; Murder; Punishment; Revenge; Sleep; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares FUNERAL OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All in the centre of the choir bernardo's knees are bent Last Line: Still, father, thirsts that burning lance, and still thy son can wield it Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Death; Fathers And Sons; Funerals; Grief; Revenge GETTING BY, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here it is just Last Line: Be provided, %and hating you when you tell him the truth. So you lie Subject(s): Revenge HAMLET, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who's there? Last Line: Of ordnance is shot off. Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Revenge; Supernatural; Tragedy; Madness; Mental Illness HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies Last Line: No horses I own / no horses Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies Last Line: No horses, I own %no horses Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge I SHALL NOT CARE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead and over me bright april Last Line: Than you are now. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Revenge; Dead, The I WOKE UP. REVENGE WAS IN MY MOUTH, by JR. A. POULIN Poem Source Last Line: A stubborn, undissolving vatican Subject(s): Hate; Revenge IF JUSTICE MOVED, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Dante had the right idea Last Line: If ruggiero's neck be yours - %I'd gnaw on it a thousand years Subject(s): Hate; Murder; Revenge KISSIE LEE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toughest gal I ever did see Last Line: And she died with her boots on switching blades %on talladega mountain in the likker raids Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Revenge LEX TALIONIS, by FRANCIS MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy crept out of the old box log Last Line: "and his hate kept hot, as it ought to have done." Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Boys; Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Relatives LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady Last Line: Was folded in a pannier. Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MEROPE; A TRAGEDY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of cresphontes, we have reach'd the goal Last Line: And all this by the will of the gods. Subject(s): Revenge MINE ENEMY IS GROWING OLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tis starving makes it fat — Subject(s): Enemies; Aging; Revenge MURRAY'S RIDE, by C. J. DENNIS Poem Text First Line: I seldom get to hatin' men, nor had much cause to hate Last Line: As we took poor ben murray up an' carried him away. Subject(s): Anger; Revenge; Suicide MY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A love person Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Revenge MY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A love person %from love people Last Line: And his skin %be his heart's revenge Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Revenge PENELOPE'S WEB: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aspiring thoughts led phaethon amiss Last Line: Eschew self-love, choose for the common-wealth. Subject(s): Envy; Hate; Revenge PERIANDER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How died melissa none dares shape in words Last Line: How black his gods behind their marble screens. Subject(s): Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Tyranny & Tyrants; Relatives PHILOMELA. PROCNE. TEREUS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem 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 POLLY BE-EN UPZIDES WI' TOM, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Yesterday, d'ye know, I voun' / tom dumpy's cwoat an' smock-frock, down Last Line: Cut hoss-heäir down my neck. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Practical Jokes; Revenge; Summer; Pranks POSTHUMOUS REVENGE, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The one I loathed, my one malignant foe Last Line: That what had struck me was his outraged soul Subject(s): Revenge POWELL'S REVENGE, by F. C. URQUHART Poem Text First Line: Swiftly the messenger had sped Last Line: That here was ... Powell's revenge. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Betrayal; Murder; Revenge REVENGE, by CHAIRIL ANWAR Poem Source First Line: I woke with a start Last Line: The moon hung dim Subject(s): Revenge REVENGE, by AVENZOAR Poem Text First Line: Pillowing their cheeks all night Last Line: And now the wine rocks me. Alternate Author Name(s): Abu Marwun `abd Ad-malik Ibn Abi Al-`ala' Zuhr; Ibn Zuhr Subject(s): Revenge REVENGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Revenge - ? As if it were a cure Last Line: The hell being you must be Subject(s): Revenge REVENGE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mans disposition is for to requite Last Line: Revenge is pleasing to us, as our gaine. Subject(s): Revenge REVENGE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! I could curse them in my woe Last Line: Tis sweeter to forgive. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Forgiveness; Revenge; Clemency REVENGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreath'd hair Last Line: For thou art not beloved. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Revenge REVENGE, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Someone throws stones at my roof, then Last Line: I also hide my hand after throwing roses Subject(s): Revenge REVENGE, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Somebody at my roof throws stones, and then Last Line: To hide my hand, too, after throwing roses! Subject(s): Emotions; Revenge REVENGE, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: Matt did everything he thought a biker should do Subject(s): Revenge REVENGE, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Revenge is a naked sword Last Line: Thou may'st find it sheathed in thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): Blood; Pain; Revenge; Suffering; Misery REVENGE I, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: Of all the bible stories that they tell Last Line: Don't leave a feather on their fucking backs Subject(s): Revenge RITE OF PASSAGE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After my friend tom passed a kidney stone Last Line: We laughed, peed out the fire, and went home Subject(s): Pain; Revenge; Sickness SONG OF THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge. Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 49. THE ENGLISH RACE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The english spirits round me are mine own Last Line: Looked the whole spanish navy in the face. Subject(s): England; Revenge (ship); English THE ANGRY MAN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six o'clock and caleb pulls up, out of breath from his eight block trip Last Line: Just driven it into the upper lever of the bleacher seats Subject(s): Anger; Revenge THE APPARITION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When by thy scorn, o murderess I am dead Last Line: Then by my threatnings rest still innocent. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Revenge; Supernatural THE ATHEIST'S TRAGEDY, by CYRIL TOURNEUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my nephew charlemont but now Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Revenge; Tragedy; War THE AVENGED CROW, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: You have all heard the tale of the fox and the crow Last Line: "in return, he lies there, carried off by disease!" Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Foxes; Revenge; Story-telling; Dead, The THE AVENGER: INCIDENT IN ITALY, by SAMUEL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The monster seized the shrieking girl Last Line: "been going on from bad to worse." Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Monsters; Murder; Revenge THE BLUE HOG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have to buy the acid Last Line: Who's said to still be in the district. Variant Title(s): A Blue Hog Subject(s): Death - Children; Devil; Pigs; Revenge; Death - Babies; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Boars; Hogs THE DANCING OF SULEIMA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When suleima, the bayadere Last Line: "revenge!"" -- thrilled down the night." Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Revenge; Seduction THE EIGHTH ODE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If ever justice with her iron hand Last Line: Debauch'd, like danäe, with a golden show'r? Subject(s): Deception; Great Britain; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Justice; Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Revenge THE FIGHT AT SAN JACINTO [APRIL 21, 1836], by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER Poem Text First Line: Now for a brisk and cheerful fight!' Last Line: And the texan star flashed out. Subject(s): Houston, Sam (1793-1863); Patriotism; Revenge; San Jacinton, Battle Of (1836); Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De (1794-1876); Texas Revolution (1835-1836) THE FOE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My foe did strike me, lord, I am not meek Last Line: I cannot turn to him the other cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Enemies; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Revenge THE GUERILLA LEADER'S VOW, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My battle-vow! - no minster walls Last Line: To the stormy fight again. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Revenge THE JEW OF MALTA, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Albeit the world thinks machiavel is dead Last Line: Neither to fate nor fortune, but to heaven. [exeunt. Subject(s): Jews; Malta; Revenge; Judaism THE LAILY WORM AND THE MACHREL OF THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was bat seven year auld Last Line: That ever your eyes did see Subject(s): Revenge THE LASS OF ECCLEFECHAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gat ye me, o gat ye me Last Line: Wad airt me to my treasure. Subject(s): Marriage; Revenge THE LAST MAN: ROSILY DYING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll take that fainting rose Last Line: And give to me thy pink, reclining death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Revenge; Roses; Dead, The THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hamelin town's in brunswick Last Line: If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise. Subject(s): Mysticism; Rats; Revenge THE RECREANT, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With the hills of their fathers around them Last Line: Shed tear for a dastard like thee! Subject(s): Revenge THE REVENGE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair rebel to thyself and time Last Line: And I shall laugh my turn. Subject(s): Revenge THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that desolate land and lone, / where the big horn and yellowstone Last Line: In the year of a hundred years. Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Revenge THE REVENGE; A BALLAD OF THE FLEET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At flores in the azores sir richard grenville lay Last Line: To be lost evermore in the main. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): England; Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Revenge (ship); Sea Battles; English; Naval Warfare THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY, by CYRIL TOURNEUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Duke! Royal lecher! Go, grey-haired adulterer Last Line: [exit. Subject(s): Revenge; Tragedy THE SEARCH, by CHARLES SHAW Poem Text First Line: I've dropped me swag in many camps Last Line: The big white bull through wagga. Subject(s): Bulls; Legends; Revenge THE SHRIKE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night comes black Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Revenge; Jealousy THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE WHITE DEVIL, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Banished Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Murder; Prostitution; Revenge; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE WIDOW OF CRESCENTIUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midst tivoli's luxuriant glades Last Line: By them unknown, by thee forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Crescentius Ii (d. 998); Otto Iii. Holy Roman Emperor (980-1002); Revenge; Widows & Widowers TO MASTER W. MONTAGUE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I arrest you at your country's suit Last Line: Give you fair leave to wound me so agen. Subject(s): Revenge; Exiles WALKS LIKE THIS, by G. A. P. (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: He was dry as georgie's poodle and was quickly growing worse Last Line: "this!!!" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Practical Jokes; Revenge; Wine; Pranks WEDDING OF THE LADY THERESA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas when the fifth alphonso in leon held his sway Last Line: There she, an aged saint, expired, -- there sleeps she with the dead Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Lament; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Revenge WHAT DICK AN' I DID, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week the browns ax'd nearly all Last Line: As bad as na'r a tun, min. Subject(s): Parties; Practical Jokes; Revenge; Winter; Pranks WHEN BOB GOT THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That time when bob got throwed Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;revenge;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WILLIAM TAYLOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: William taylor and his true love Subject(s): Revenge WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab |
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