Famous Misdeeds Poems by Famous Poets

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57. Holy Willie's Prayer

...sbyt’ry o’ Ayr;
Thy strong right hand, L—d, make it bare
 Upo’ their heads;
L—d visit them, an’ dinna spare,
 For their misdeeds.


O L—d, my G—d! that glib-tongu’d Aiken,
My vera heart and flesh are quakin,
To think how we stood sweatin’, shakin,
 An’ p—’d wi’ dread,
While he, wi’ hingin lip an’ snakin,
 Held up his head.


L—d, in Thy day o’ vengeance try him,
L—d, visit them wha did employ him,
And pass not in Thy mercy by ’em,
 Nor hear their pray’r,
But for Thy people’s ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


All thy secrets are known to the wisdom of Heaven

...n.
I admit that by power of hypocrisy you may be able
to deceive men, but what will you do before Him who
knows your misdeeds one by one in every detail?...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

Anthem For Good Fryday

...side, each drop more worth
Than tongue of men and Angels can express:
Hast to him, cursed Caitiffe, and confess
All thy misdeeds, and sighing say, 'Twas I
That caus'd thee thus, my Lord, my Christ, to dye.


O let thy Death secure my soul from fears,
And I will wash thy wounds with brinish tears:
Grant me, sweet Jesu, from thy pretious store
One cleansing drop, with grace to sin no more....Read more of this...
by Strode, William

Chapter Headings

...anxious eyes
Asking: "Art thou the man?" We hunted Cain
Some centuries ago across the world.
This bred the fear our own misdeeds maintain
To-day.
 His Wedded Wife....Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Crime and Punishment chapter XII

...

Yet who also is aggrieved and outraged? 

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? 

Is not remorse the justice which is administered by that very law which you would fain serve? 

Yet you cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. 

Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves. 

And you who would understand justice, how shall you unless you look upon all dee...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil


Defamation

...ng that smiles
through its ragged clouds?
Take no heed of what they say to you, my child.
They make a long list of your misdeeds.
Everybody knows how you love sweet things-is that why they
call you greedy?
O, fie! What then would they call us who love you?...Read more of this...
by Tagore, Rabindranath

In a Castle

...for the high favour."
Through the lady's silver fillet is wound another 
paper. It reads,
"Most noble Lord: Your wife's misdeeds are as a double-stranded
necklace of beads. But I have engaged that, on your return,
she shall welcome you here. She will not spurn your love 
as before,
you have still the best part of her. Her blood was red, 
her body white,
they will both be here for your delight. The soul inside 
was a lump of dirt,
I have rid you of that with a spurt of my swor...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

Paradise Lost: Book 10

...t from far, 
Which might supply the sun: Such fire to use, 
And what may else be remedy or cure 
To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought, 
He will instruct us praying, and of grace 
Beseeching him; so as we need not fear 
To pass commodiously this life, sustained 
By him with many comforts, till we end 
In dust, our final rest and native home. 
What better can we do, than, to the place 
Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall 
Before him reverent; and there confess ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Religio Laici

...his mercy quits the score.
See God descending in thy human frame;
Th'offended, suff'ring in th'offender's name:
All thy misdeeds to him imputed see;
And all his righteousness devolv'd on thee.

For granting we have sinn'd, and that th'offence
Of man, is made against omnipotence,
Some price, that bears proportion, must be paid;
And infinite with infinite be weigh'd.
See then the Deist lost: remorse for vice,
Not paid, or paid, inadequate in price:
What farther means can reason...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

Sonnet CXV

...n,The dread and daring of my deep heart reads,And seeth Love, to punish its misdeeds,Lighten her piercing eyes with worse disdain.Wherefore—as one who fears the impending blowOf angry Jove—it back in haste retires,For great fears ever master great desires;But the cold fire and shrinking hopes which soLo...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Friars Tale

...u over your might,
For Christ will be your champion and your knight;
And pray, that this our Sompnour him repent
Of his misdeeds ere that the fiend him hent.* *seize


Notes to the Friar's Tale


1. Small tithers: people who did not pay their full tithes. Mr
Wright remarks that "the sermons of the friars in the fourteenth
century were most frequently designed to impress the ahsolute
duty of paying full tithes and offerings".

2. There might astert them no pecunial pain: they ...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Patriot

...ts behind,
And I think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds,
For they fling, whoever has a mind,
Stones at me for my year's misdeeds.

VI

Thus I entered Brescia, and thus I go!
In such triumphs, people have dropped down dead.
"Thou, paid by the World,—what dost thou owe
Me?" God might have questioned; but now instead
'Tis God shall requite! I am safer so....Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

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