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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELF-PITY Matches Found: 26 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 |
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