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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHAME Matches Found: 69 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF TANNHAUSER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hardy, tattered wretch is that Last Line: Tannhäuser and the queen of love. Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Paganism & Pagans; Redemption; Rome, Italy; Shame; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A FRAGMENT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest on your battle-fields, ye brave Last Line: We cannot mourn you now. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): A Dirge Subject(s): Courage; Fame; Shame; Valor; Bravery; Reputation A WOMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, dwarfed and wronged, and stained with ill Last Line: Who dare to scorn the child he loves? Subject(s): God; Shame; Women AN EPITAPH, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie I, once a witty fair Last Line: My noon was penitent. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Guilt; Mourning; Repentance; Shame; Bereavement; Penitence APOLOGUE: THE THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A SPANISH SAYING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seek for me in the arab maid's bower Last Line: Parted once, we part for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Air; Fire; Shame; Water AURENG-ZEBE, OR THE GREAT MOGUL: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our author by experience finds it true Last Line: And see us play the tragedy of wit. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shame; Theater & Theaters; Dramatists; Stage Life BILLY, HE'S IN TROUBLE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've got a letter, parson, from my son, away out west Last Line: Bill's in the legislatur, but he doesn't say what fur. Subject(s): Letters; Messages & Messengers; Shame BLEEDING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Shame happens quickly, lingers long Last Line: A grim twist Subject(s): Memory; Shame BUTCHERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The butchers whipped the herring through the town Last Line: If he did, it happened later Subject(s): Butchers; Shame; Villages CITIES: 2. BERLIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall the great destroyer save herself Last Line: Of shame, misery, revolution, despair. Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Despair; Revolutions; Shame COVER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When money strays he brings it home Last Line: One may sell a soul to buy a name. Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Pride; Shame DENIAL, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: High heaven denies me to myself. No blame Last Line: That made them me. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Shame; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness DIRE: 5. THE BURDEN OF AUSTRIA. 1866, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter of pride, wasted with misery Last Line: Is it not thou that now art but a name? Subject(s): Austria; Nations; Shame EDEN RETOLD: 6. SHAME, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hard blood falls back in the manly fount Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Shame; Eve EUROPA, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May the foemen's wives, the foemens' children Last Line: "henceforth shall bear." Subject(s): Household Employees; Mythology - Classical; Shame; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids FALLEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of the lilies are lying Last Line: At the evenfall. Subject(s): Lilies Of The Valley; Nature; Shame FIVE EMOTIONS: THE SECOND -- SHAME, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: You are ashamed because though you try Last Line: Has become totally obstructed by %coarses fragments of anger and sorrow Subject(s): Shame FOR SHAME: A POEM TO MAKE ME QUIT SMOKING, by ELLEN DORE WATSON Poem Source First Line: Shame will be what I'm feeling when I die Last Line: In her body? Shouldn't I for that be able to %give up fire? Subject(s): Guilt; Shame; Smoking GHAZALS: 61, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wondering what this new light is, before he died he walked Last Line: And we hugged in a dark attic, not knowing how to continue. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Regret; Shame GLITTER AND BE GAY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jewelry; Happiness; Shame; Joy; Delight GUILT, by LISA GORTON Poem Source First Line: With this hand I shut out the sun Last Line: With the shame of my offence Subject(s): Guilt; Shame I AM ASHAMED - I HIDE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Baptized -- this day -- a bride Variant Title(s): Poem: 472; Poem: 70 Subject(s): Marriage; Shame KITCHEN LINOLEUM, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cockroach / who is dying Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Shame KITCHEN LINOLEUM, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cockroach %who is dying Last Line: Each other's shame Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Shame LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 13, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shame is a shadow cast by sin: yet shame Last Line: Man to himself, -- then sets him up on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Shame LOVE IS STRONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A viewless thing is the wind Last Line: For she conquers shame and death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Samson; Shame; Wind; Dead, The NANNY TO BESSY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eleven long winters departed Last Line: And thrice — but ah, let me refrain. Subject(s): Duplicity; Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Shame; Deceit NOT WITH A CLUB THE HEART IS BROKEN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The universe is yours Subject(s): Shame O LORD, I AM ASHAMED TO SEEK THY FACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy mercy's all-amazing monument Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Repentance; Shame PARTIAL FAME, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sturdy man, if he in love obtains Last Line: How partial is the voice of fame! Subject(s): Fame; Love; Shame; Reputation PHOENIX TAIL ON SCENTED SILK, by LI SHANG-YIN Poem Source First Line: Phoenix tail on scented silk, flimsy layer on layer Last Line: Where shall she wait for a kind wind to blow from the south west? Subject(s): Shame PROMETHEUS BOUND: PROMETHEUS THE TEACHER OF MEN, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think not that I for pride and stubborness Last Line: No, not one shift -- to rid me of this shame. Subject(s): Shame PURIFICATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would go down to meet the infinite sea Last Line: O god, o god, shall I be purified? Subject(s): Shame; Sin PUT YOU TO SHAME, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being sad you don't Last Line: Be as good as us. Subject(s): Shame RECOMPENSE, by AMY FORBES KING Poem Text First Line: I knew you never asked a worldly thing Last Line: A recompense for all I failed to be. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Regret; Shame; Dead, The; Paradise 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 RUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Death, thou shalt die' he quotes to himself Last Line: At the same time Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Lavatories; Shame SAINT RITA / SANTA RITA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, rain, fog this morning Last Line: So from within, their holy spirit will shine Subject(s): Saints; Women – Abused; Shame SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SHAME, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was ashamed! I dared not lift my eyes! Last Line: That this mad mockery was all my own! Subject(s): Shame SHAME, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a cramped little state with no foreign policy Last Line: And bring about the collapse of the whole empire Subject(s): Shame SHAME, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a cramped little state with no foreign policy Last Line: And bring about the collapse of the whole empire Subject(s): Shame SHAME, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl who, in 1971, when I was living by myself, painfully lonely Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Shame SHAME, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl who, in 1971, when I was living by myself, painfully lonely Last Line: What she was saying, creepy, weird, whatever, and I am taken with %a terrible humiliation Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Shame SHAME AT BEING CONVICTED OF A CRIME, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my dread lord %I should be guiltier than my guiltiness Subject(s): Shame SHAME IS THE SHAWL OF PINK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Shame is the tint divine Variant Title(s): Poem: 1412; Poem: 143 Subject(s): Shame SHAME, NO STATIST (AFTER LUCAN), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shame is a bad attendant to a state Last Line: He rents his crown, that feares the peoples hate. Subject(s): Shame SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 30, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She comes out of her bedroom Last Line: Like a poppy, blushing red Subject(s): Shame SUNDAY MORNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Someone threw a red knickers on my roof last night Last Line: Then they drift towards prayer. Subject(s): Night; Prayer; Sabbath; Shame SUNDAY NIGHT, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the family would go to a restaurant, Subject(s): Waiters & Waitresses; Fathers; Bad Behavior; Shame; Sex THAT SHE FORGOT ME WAS THE LEAST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A something like a shame Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Shame THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DISCARD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is the discard of the pack Last Line: He is the discard of the pack. Subject(s): Love; Shame; Soul THE GLORY AND SHAME OF GOD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God created man. He breathed into the mould Last Line: Man is the shame of god! Subject(s): Creation; God; Mankind; Shame; Human Race THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 13. THE WOMAN IN THE TEMPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still dark joy! A sudden face! Last Line: Oh, wash them clean again! Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Shame; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 92. THE SUN'S SHAME, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beholding youth and hope in mockery caught Last Line: "all soulless now, yet merry with the spring!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Shame THE INNOCENT MISTRESS: A SONG BY MRS. P., by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: When I languish'd, and wish'd you wou'd something bestow Last Line: I shall still have enough for the next. Subject(s): Ignorance; Shame; Singing & Singers; Dullness; Stupdity THE LITTLE HEIR OF SHAME, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a little heir of shame - his birth Last Line: But gives him all his infant-heart can crave. Subject(s): Shame THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 240, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have six brothers Last Line: Everybody praises Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Family Life; Punishment; Shame; Half-brothers; Relatives THE POET'S JOURNAL: PREFACE. THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not as in youth, with steps outspeeding morn Last Line: Pardoned, and loved again! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Shame; Youth THE SAILOR WHO SERVED IN THE SLAVE-TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stopt, -- it surely was a groan Last Line: O god, deliver me! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Murder; Prayer; Regret; Sailing & Sailors; Shame; Slavery; Violence; Clemency; Serfs THE SHAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What will/the shame be Subject(s): Shame THERE IS A SHAME OF NOBLENESS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But that's — behind the grave Subject(s): Shame TO A RELATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: You snicker that you do not care for him Last Line: It's you who live, but never can survive! Subject(s): Ignorance; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Racism; Shame; Dullness; Stupdity; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry TROUBLE WITH MATH IN A ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The others bent their heads and started in Last Line: And changed, back to the class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Shame; Students TROUBLE WITH MATH IN A ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The others bent their heads and started in Last Line: And changed, back to the class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Shame VOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I will never deceive anyone again Last Line: Je t'embrasse et je t'aime Subject(s): Shame WORKS AND DAYS: SHAME, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now shame can hurt men mightily Last Line: But shame that goes with poverty is all to rue. Subject(s): Poverty; Shame |
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