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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VENGEANCE Matches Found: 49 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FOOLISH TONGUE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Her face is full of silent pain Last Line: Rise up, and cry — 'for shame!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain; Vengeance; Suffering; Misery A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the loftiest mountain-tops, unfurl Last Line: And harp, where eccho'd once thy feastful halls. Subject(s): Advice; Bible; Desolation; God; Vengeance; War AN ELEGY ON MR. THOMAS GOUGE: MR. MEAD, MR. BATES, AND MR. GOUGE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven was impatient of our crimes Last Line: Then took a dismal aim, and brought great gouge to dust. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Vengeance; Dead, The; Paradise ARTS POETICA, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anguish exists Last Line: For whom shall the voice of the poet speak? Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry & Poets; Vengeance ARTS POETICA, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anguish exists Last Line: For whom shall the voice of the poet speak? Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry And Poets; Vengeance AT THE FALL OF AN AGE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gods get hungry like you and me, so it has to die Subject(s): Vengeance AT THE FALL OF AN AGE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gods get hungry like you and me, so it has to die Last Line: The flame is blown from the torches by the violent wind Subject(s): Vengeance AVENGING CHILDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hurrah! Hurrah! Avoid the way of the avenging childe Last Line: My daughter now may pay the vow she plighted long ago!' Subject(s): Fights; Vengeance; Youth BAHIA NOTES: THE WOMEN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Her face a searing sea of questions Last Line: Afraid of her vengeance Subject(s): Anger; Unfaithfulness; Vengeance; Women BLOOD ORDEAL, FR. THE FAID MAID OF PERTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viewless essence, thin and bare Last Line: And every drop cry blood for blood Subject(s): Blood; Vengeance CID: PART 10, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: May the god Last Line: Europe a vein Subject(s): Alfonso V, King Of Aragon (1396-1458); Cid, El (1043-1099); Courts And Courtiers; Vengeance CID: PART 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rodrigo or, as Last Line: Three-hundred followers Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Spain - History; Vengeance DEATH OF DON PEDRO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Henry and king pedro clasping Last Line: In a christian bosom dwelled Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Murder; Vengeance DEATH OF DON PEDRO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Henry and king pedro clasping Last Line: In a christian bosom dwelled Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Murder; Vengeance EUMENIDES, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pythian Last Line: Around him—kiss that kindest of sires! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Tragedy; Vengeance HOME FROM HIROSHIMA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By decree %of the president of the united states Last Line: The wild west wreck the world Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Peace; Vengeance LORD WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No eye beheld when william plunged Last Line: Heard william's drowning scream. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning; Ghosts; Murder; Secrets; Supernatural; Vengeance MAN WHO KEPT CIGARS IN HIS CAP, by JIM HEYNEN Poem Source First Line: One man kept cigars in his cap. When the boys sneaked up behind him Last Line: Cigars in his cap Subject(s): Fools; Vengeance MARK ATHERTON, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of one who went to do deliberate wrong Last Line: And treachery answered so with treachery. Subject(s): Kidnapping; Betrayal; Vengeance; Native Americans MEDEA: VENGEANCE, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O zeus, o zeus-born justice, o bright sun Last Line: For such are they that live most honourable. Subject(s): Vengeance PRAYER FOR STRENGTH, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: Though I should be maligned by those Last Line: All bitterness. This is my prayer. Subject(s): Religion; Vengeance; Theology SELIMUS: VENGEANCE IMPLORED, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou supreme architect of all Last Line: That ever was despatched to any king. Subject(s): Emotions; Hate; Vengeance 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 SONG TO GUIOMAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your poet %thinks of you. The distance Last Line: For you, guiomar, this nostalgia of mine Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Love; Nostalgia; Poetry And Poets; Vengeance SONNET: 58, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should love, the tyrant of my suffering heart Last Line: Find amplest vengeance for my former pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Love – Complaints; Vengeance SYMBOLS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched a rosebud very long Last Line: Should also take the rod? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Vengeance THE DAY, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: You boasted the day, and you toasted the day Last Line: What can you say to god? Subject(s): Emotions; Vengeance THE DEVIL AND DEATH DEFEATED; ADAPTED FROM THE MIDRASH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The devil wandering up and down Last Line: "of a jealous, vengeful woman!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Devil; Evil; Vengeance; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE DRUM, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a rhythm down the road where the elms overarch Last Line: "of the drum!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Christianity; Drums; Musical Instruments; Vengeance; War THE FAMINE YEAR, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary men, what reap ye? Golden corn for the stranger Last Line: And arraign ye as our murderers, the spoilers of our land. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Vengeance; Liberty THE GRAY BROTHER; A FRAGMENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pope he was saying the high, high mass Last Line: Did that gray brother lay. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Vengeance THE MAID'S TRAGEDY, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rest are making ready, sir Last Line: But cursed is he that is their instrument. [exeunt. Subject(s): Dishonor; Regicide; Vengeance THE SANCTUARY: 4. LOVE TRIUMPHANT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If your fair mind were quenched with dark distress Last Line: And hush your awful anguish on my breast? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Vengeance THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 8, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then, gathering round him zealous knights and true Last Line: Nor bend to fate's untowardly decrees. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Vengeance THE SLAVE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The olden chronicles tell us akbar the slave was / strong Last Line: Only an outworn story, now — as in long ago. Subject(s): Death; Slavery; Vengeance; Dead, The; Serfs THE STORY OF URIAH, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Jack barrett went to quetta Last Line: Who sent jack barrett there. Subject(s): Vengeance TO HORROR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark horror, hear my call! Last Line: I will behold and smile by mercy's side. Subject(s): Colonialism; England; Injustice; Missions & Missionaries; Racism; Slavery; Terror; Vengeance; English; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs UNDINE: KUHLEBORN'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blow, winds! And war, ye waters! Last Line: Undine is ours no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Vengeance VENGEANCE, by JOHN WALLACE CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: The black beach bears heavy scars Alternate Author Name(s): Jack, Captain Subject(s): Vengeance VENGEANCE, by JOSEF HANZLIK Poem Source First Line: The night bird beats against the bolted door Last Line: And there will be no grief but you will taste it %there'll be no death %but you will die it Subject(s): Vengeance VENGEANCE, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: We'll slap their faces for every insult Subject(s): Vengeance VENGEANCE, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: How would it be is I came in the night Last Line: Witnessing the explosions of our revenge Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Vengeance VENGEANCE IS MINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vengeance is mine, the lord declared of old Last Line: Only when both shall put their vengeance by. Subject(s): God; Guns; Vengeance VENGEANCE IS SWEET, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I longed for love Last Line: I turned my back and laughed at him. Subject(s): Vengeance VENGEANCE OF MUDARA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the chase goes rodrigo with hound and with hawk Last Line: As he spake, there was blood on the spear of mudara Subject(s): Cruelty; Fights; Knights And Knighthood; Vengeance WARNEFORD, V.C., by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Avengeance, winged, he sped aloft Last Line: You wear a nobler crown. Subject(s): Vengeance WATKWENIES, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vengeance was once her nation's lore and law Last Line: Hears, like the war-whoops of her perished day, %the lads playing snow-snake in the stinging cold Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Vengeance WILL THESE HANDS NE'ER BE CLEAN?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who is this lies prostrate at thy feet Last Line: But thou shalt not forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Vengeance; Dead, The XIMENA DEMANDS VENGEANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within the court at burgos a clamor doth arise Last Line: But not a man durst follow; slow rode he through the crowd Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Justice; Knights And Knighthood; Vengeance |
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