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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TEMPTATION Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF A WORKMAN, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beneath polluted skies Last Line: And forge and mould the world anew.' Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Death; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Temptation; Dead, The; Optimism; Work; Workers A FAREWELL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, little maid Last Line: You're too old for my knee! Subject(s): Aging; Temptation A HYMN OF THE WILDERNESS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When temptations throng and press Last Line: Not my will, but thine, be done! Subject(s): Temptation A LEGEND OF MAIDEN LANE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas dusk in the dale, but the clover ... Last Line: "as a sweete, wholesome laugh from ye hearte of a mayde!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Temptation; Work; Workers A LOVE BARGAINE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O love, how faine my heart would dye Last Line: Musik jesus is. Subject(s): Self-consciousness; Temptation; Worship A PHILOSOPHICAL QUERY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If virtue be measured by what we resist Last Line: Who never have known a temptation? Subject(s): Love; Temptation AFFLICTION, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Would you make your sweets more sweet? Last Line: Heavn does prescribe for us, & that alone. Subject(s): Temptation ALL THINGS CAN TEMPT ME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things can tempt me from this craft of verse Last Line: Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Temptation AN EPISTLE TO MY FRIEND J.B., by ROBERT DODSLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, jack, how now? I hear strange stories Last Line: Was sure to split, and sink, and damn. Subject(s): Curses; Love; Marriage; Temptation; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness COUNSEL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say she melts your soul to dream Last Line: When baiting soul-traps! Fly, boy, fly! Subject(s): Temptation DETRACTION, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Thinkst thou to scape this monsters teeth? Last Line: The more she'l break her teeth, & knaw her spight. Subject(s): Temptation ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lay before me on the close-grazed grass Last Line: Thou didst thy duty, man can do no more. Subject(s): Duty; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Substance Abuse; Temptation; Addictive Behavior GOOD FOR EVIL, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, dear muse, I pray, and with thee bear Last Line: Who tempts me to oblivion of thee. Subject(s): Temptation I HAVE BEEN A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND', by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't bliss. What was bliss Last Line: Warming her outstretched palm Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Desire; Eden; Life; Temptation; Eve IF I LIE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I lie with the demon now Last Line: I rise and follow the slave abroad Subject(s): Devil; Explorers; Slavery; Temptation OH, TURN FROM ME THOSE RADIANT EYES, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The wounds thine eyes are dealing! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Eyes; Temptation OLNEY HYMNS: 38. TEMPTATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The billows swell, the winds are high Last Line: Force back my shattered bark again. Subject(s): Temptation ON 'EVE TEMPTED BY THE SERPENT' BY DEFENDENTE FERRARI, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rare spirit remembered now with a pang Last Line: Or easy but possible and we fall. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Jordan, Barbara (1936-1995); Temptation ON THE ROAD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The fascination of flesh,' the stranger said, 'lies in the fact Last Line: Beauty is a glimpse on the road to putrefaction.' Subject(s): Bodies; Decay; Temptation RAT SURRENDERED HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Repugnantly resigned %at last Variant Title(s): Poem: 1340; Poem: 137 Subject(s): Rats; Temptation RICHES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O had I but ten thousand pounds a year! Last Line: Is erning, thine doth only make thee spend. Subject(s): God; Greed; Temptation; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes SENECA IN MIAMI BEACH, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I am seneca beholding Last Line: Clear as old cruelty Subject(s): Miami Beach; Temptation SHADOWS OF CRIME, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His early youth was formed in virtue's way Last Line: The mantle of the tomb is on him cast. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Temptation; Virtue; Youth SIN, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For me the most foul demon still doth plot Last Line: Of gory ruin with her wounds a-gape. Subject(s): Lust; Sin; Temptation SOUL AND BODY, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou for breaking faith, after these years Last Line: But all is perfect ecstasy. Subject(s): Fidelity; Temptation; Faithfulness; Constancy SQUATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The demon loves the scruff of the neck Last Line: Filling the world with their echoes Subject(s): Devil; Pain; Temptation SUITE TO APPLENESS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you love me drink this discolored wine Last Line: Her mountains strewn and crushed. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Christianity; Drinks & Drinking; Fruit; Judgments; Temptation; Wine TEMPORALL SUCCESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Foule beauteous witch, whose painted face Last Line: Nor will his saints think much till then to stay. Subject(s): Bible; Job (bible); Temptation TEMPTATION, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Anthony, my father's holy man Subject(s): Temptation; Devil; Temptation; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub TEMPTATION, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Anthony, my father's holy man Last Line: I think the devil almost hooked his saint Subject(s): Devil; Temptation TEMPTATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You feel the witchery of life, the call Last Line: And steeped in dreams I lose authentic bliss. Subject(s): Temptation TEMPTATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Done got 'uligion, honey, an' I's happy ez a king Last Line: Did n't think I could be tempted, but you lak to made me sin! Subject(s): Temptation TEMPTATION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the height and saw Last Line: "not peace, o satan, but a sword!" Subject(s): Evil; Temptation TEMPTATION, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O holy lord, who with the children three Last Line: Not feel a secret joy, that hell is near. Subject(s): Temptation TEMPTATION (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those saints, which god loves best Last Line: The devill tempts not least. Subject(s): Temptation TEMPTATION (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God tempted no one (as s. Aug'stine saith) Last Line: But none, of purpose, to be overcome. Subject(s): Temptation TEMPTATIONS (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Last Line: Satan o'recomes none, but by willingnesse. Subject(s): Temptation TEMPTATIONS (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No man is tempted so, but may o'recome Last Line: If that he has a will to masterdome. Subject(s): Temptation THE DEACON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The deacon wandered forth one day and saw a Last Line: He now stands for good, clean ball games, even on the sabbath day! Subject(s): Baseball; Clergy; Sabbath; Sports; Temptation; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday THE DIET, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Last night my supper, as I fed Last Line: By thy sweet grace an endlesse feast shall reap. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Gluttony; Mortality; Temptation THE GOLDEN APPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She saw on the far bank a golden apple Last Line: With gloss of gold on his ruddy hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Evil; Fruit; Good; Temptation THE HEART, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mee! My enigmatik heart Last Line: But life into ye dust breathe once againe. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Regret; Temptation THE KNIGHT ERRANT, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Text First Line: He rode at dusk down woodlands strange Last Line: "but white her soul, say I!"";" Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Temptation; Male-female Relations THE LAY OF ST. NICHOLAS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord abbot! Lord abbot! I'd fain confess Last Line: Who suppes with the deville should have a long spoone!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Temptation; Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE MOURNING MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What woe is thine, pale mother? - say Last Line: To moloch offered up. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Temperance; Temptation; Youth; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sorrow; Sadness; Prohibition THE NEW SIRENS: A PALINODE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cedar shadow sleeping Last Line: Dusk the hall with yew! Subject(s): Temptation THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am fading from you Last Line: While he crowns my past. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Disease; Future; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Past; Temptation; Joy; Delight THE PIOUS PAINTER; THE STORY AS RELATED IN FABLIAUX OF LE GRAND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a painter in catholic days Last Line: And I must give the devil his due. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Devil; Paintings And Painters; Prisoners Of War; Temptation; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the tempter came to me, and said Last Line: And found her brow less dewy-wet than mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Love; Temptation; Voices; Youth; Dead, The THE SONG OF THEODOLIND, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen theodolind has built / in the earth a furnace-bed Last Line: Red of heat, beat, beat! Subject(s): Cross, The; Legends; Temptation THE TEMPTATION OF HASSAN BEN KHALED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hassan ben khaled, singing in the streets Last Line: And allah grant he go no more astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Poetry & Poets; Temptation; Dead, The; Paradise THE VOYAGE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Could I but be / perpetuallie Last Line: Another voyage make to hell. Subject(s): Explorers; God; Hell; Self; Temptation; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE WRESTLING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In starlight jacob, tough and stern Last Line: To touch me earlier on the hip. Subject(s): Temptation TOBACCO, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Incroaching weed; had not thine india room Last Line: Be physik, & not diet in abuse. Subject(s): Smoking; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes UNREASONABLE REASON, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: All christian soules beware; hell never went Last Line: Is in thy blessed bosome to expire. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; God; Religion; Temptation; Belief; Creed; Theology VILLAGE MUSINGS: THE POET QUESTIONS THE ANT, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you, feeble as you were, attempt Last Line: Might as soon this ponderous earth divide. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Temptation WISHES, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Now I have mind & leisure Last Line: Thy will being grown almightie. Subject(s): Materialism; Temptation; Wishes; Worship |
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