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Subject: SELF-PITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF BURIAL, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing was left of me
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Dreams; Self-pity; Nightmares


A REDOLENCE FOR NIMS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O triple sob - turned forty
Last Line: Back my heart alive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Self-pity


BIOTHANATOS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O vile ingratefull me
Last Line: Unhappy hearts obdurateness.
Subject(s): Confessions; Self-pity; Sin


CAROLINE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air is thin here %nothing moves
Last Line: You always end up in the kitchen crying
Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Self-pity


CHILD, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the image of her unknown face
Last Line: Begging forgiveness from a wailing child %that is not yours
Subject(s): Children; Self-pity


COLD, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've swallowed a wool sock, and you've got
Last Line: God bless you! My goodness. God bless you!
Subject(s): Cold; Self-pity; Selfishness; Sickness


CONSULTING THE BOK OF CHANGES: RADIATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each morning you will cup
Last Line: If you do, you will cry forever
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cancer, Breast; Grief; Self-pity; Women


HOW CAN I DISAPPOINT MYSELF?, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And wrinkled skin? Just one in pieces
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Disappointment; Introspection; Nature; Self; Self-pity


MALEDICTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man's not a singing animal
Last Line: Rivet his stone with worms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cold; Curses; Pain; Self-pity; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs


ME, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden
Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness


ME, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden
Last Line: I float in the plunging year
Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity


MELANCHOLIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out hideous monster; in thy name
Last Line: Which can be sober, yet not dull.
Subject(s): Grief; Hell; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness


NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief
Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself.
Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love and honour a poor humble state
Last Line: I'm nothing else but misery and woe.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Salvation; Self-pity; Sin; Human Race


RED DUST, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This harpie with dry red curls
Subject(s): Self-pity; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


SELF-PITY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never saw a wild thing
Last Line: Without ever having felt sorry for itself
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Self-pity


SELF-PORTRAIT AT TWENTY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood inside myself
Last Line: And the rain came.
Subject(s): Introspection; Self-hate; Self-pity


SIGN, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first white hair coils in my hand
Subject(s): Aging; Hair; Self-pity


SONNET TO REFLECTION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye
Last Line: In darkness glimmering to disclose a tomb.
Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Regret; Self-pity; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism


SUITE TO QU TUNES: 1. ZUI XI SHI, by ZHULIAN XIV    Poem Source                    
First Line: Recalling with care the romantic elegance of former times
Last Line: This is the time to sorrow
Subject(s): Self-pity


SUITE TO QU TUNES: 2. BINGTOU LIAN, by ZHULIAN XIV    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind is weak
Last Line: Listless, I climb the loft for evening toilet
Subject(s): Self-pity


SUITE TO QU TUNES: 3. SAI GUANYIN, by ZHULIAN XIV    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flowers bud with smiles
Last Line: Broken heart, the xiang river, about to reach their end
Subject(s): Self-pity


SUITE TO QU TUNES: 4. YU FURONG, by ZHULIAN XIV    Poem Source                    
First Line: When will the loneliness end?
Last Line: I'd still be a romantic ghost
Subject(s): Self-pity; Solitude


THE RELAPSE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wert thou not what thou art
Last Line: Sett ope, & bleed out every thing but thee.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Self-pity; Sin; Clemency


THE SONG OF THE SLATTERN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing me a song of the sloven
Last Line: As she erred, so will many another fool err.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Self-pity; Solitude; Women; Loneliness


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