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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, believe—and 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