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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ATTORNEYS Matches Found: 47 A LAWYER'S BILL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a strange bill of costs do some lawyers indite Last Line: "and thinking your business over." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Money; Attorneys A MEDITATION, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rome has been dead these many hundred years Last Line: Rome still rules. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Government; Language; Latin; Law & Lawyers; Legacies; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Words; Vocabulary; Attorneys A VOTE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the misconst'ring world should chance to say Last Line: Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day. Variant Title(s): A Wish;of Myself Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening; Law & Lawyers; Nature; Teaching & Teachers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Attorneys; Educators; Professors ANY AND ALL, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You draw nearer to see her more closely Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys DOMESDAY BOOK: JANE FISHER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jane fisher says to susan hamilton / that coroner has no excuse to bring Last Line: His talk with lawyer baker in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Law & Lawyers; Life; Love; Dead, The; Attorneys DOMESDAY BOOK: THE GOVERNOR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm home at last. How long were you asleep? Last Line: To coroner merival on the street one day: Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Life; Politics & Government; Attorneys EPILOGUE TO KING AND QUEEN, AT THE OPENING OF THEIR THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New ministers, when first they get in place Last Line: But first vote money, then redress at leasure. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Attorneys; Dramatists; Stage Life FABLES: 2ND SER. 1. THE DOG AND THE FOX; TO A LAWYER, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know you lawyers can, with ease Last Line: The self-convicted felon dies. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys HELTER SKELTER; OR, THE HUE AND CRY AFTER THE ATTORNEYS, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the active young attornies Last Line: Hey for dublin town again! Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys HIS LORDSHIP'S INVITATION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your client had better a compromise make' Last Line: "say, a glass of warm ale, if his lordship's inclin'd." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Deafness; Jokes; Law & Lawyers; Attorneys JAKE MANN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sending here jake mann's obituary Subject(s): Death; Alcohol And Alcoholics; Law & Lawyers; Dead, The; Attorneys LAW LIKE LOVE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Law, say the gardeners, is the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "law, Say The Gardeners, Is The Sun""; Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys LAWES (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lawes full power have to sway, we see Last Line: Little or no part there of tyrannie. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys LAWES (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who violates the customes, hurts the health Last Line: Not of one man, but all the common-wealth. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys LEGAL FICTION, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Property; Attorneys; Possessions LYDFORD JOURNEY, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I oft have heard of lydford law Last Line: Unless by some tin warrant. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Travel; Attorneys; Journeys; Trips ON CHEVERIL THE LAWYER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cause, nor client fat, will cheveril leese Last Line: For this: that wins, for whom he holds his peace. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys ON DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus had I written, so a friend advised Last Line: And feel, lamented romilly, for thee. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818); Attorneys ON LAW, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thousands, law, thy handywork deplore! Last Line: Thou hangest many, but thou starvest more. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys ON THE GREAT EATER OF GRAYS-INN, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a lasting wind! That I may rail Last Line: For writing this, pray god, thou eat not me. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Law & Lawyers; Marriott, John (d. 1653); Attorneys ON THE NATURE AND REASON OF ALL OUTWARD LAW, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this true saying one may learn to draw Last Line: Till the good saviour's hour is come, to cure. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Reason; Attorneys; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals RELIGIO NOVISSIMA, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an order by a northern sea Last Line: And undispensed sustain its discipline! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Discipline; Law & Lawyers; Order; Prisons & Prisoners; Attorneys; Convicts RULES FOR OUR REACH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men must have bounds how farre to walke; for we Last Line: Are made farre worse, by lawless liberty. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys SIX POETS IN SEATCH OF A LAWYER, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finesse be first, whose elegance deplores Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Poetry & Poets; Attorneys THE ANARCHIST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The district attorney snaps his jaws Last Line: No, not more graft. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Injustice; Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE BAR VERSUS THE DOCKET, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas, said the plaintiffs, you owe us our living Last Line: And send the whole hue and cry after the docket. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Trials; Attorneys THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: PRAISE OF THE COMMITTEE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the lines on which a committee is formed. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Illness; Law & Lawyers; Work; Workers; Attorneys THE BOROUGH: LETTER 6. PROFESSIONS - LAW, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trades and professions' - these are the themes the muse Last Line: A hard bad man, who prey'd upon the weak. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE BUILDER AND HIS TOOLS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Nations arise and fall Last Line: The question and the answer might be heard. Subject(s): Judgments; Law & Lawyers; Missionaries & Missions; Attorneys THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just! Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys THE DEATH OF MOSES, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, who spake with god as with his friend Last Line: "he dwells not with you dead, but lives as law." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Law & Lawyers; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Attorneys; Theology THE DYING OLD YEAR: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Avaunt, away! Dread shapes of hate and fear Last Line: Then passed away, with one low, moaning sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Holidays; Italy; Law & Lawyers; New Year; Social Protest; Treason & Traitors; Dead, The; Italians; Attorneys THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys THE HUMOURS OF THE KING'S BENCH PRISON, A BALLAD, by LEONARD HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Now we're met, my brethren benchers Last Line: Benchers only live by rules. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Prisons & Prisoners; Attorneys; Convicts THE LAW, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a law against us Last Line: My respect for nature / and space Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE LAW SAYS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The law says you and I belong to each other, george Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE LAWYER'S INVOCATION TO SPRING, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays Last Line: Hail, as aforesaid, coming spring! Subject(s): Ingenuity; Law & Lawyers; Spring; Attorneys THE LAWYER'S WAYS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I've been list'nin' to them lawyers Last Line: Can persess the self-same soul? Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE NEW MILLENNIUM; A VISION IN THE STRAND, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jaded light of late july Last Line: The new, the true millennium! Subject(s): Justice; Law & Lawyers; Millenium; Socialism; Attorneys THE PRETENCE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Vain hart, why wouldst thou try Last Line: Thou fearest thine own weapon, lawfulness. Subject(s): Christianity; Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE SITTING OF THE SESSION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, sair cow'd wi' simmer's hight Last Line: Ere out he win. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 11. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days (a custom laid aside / with breeches and cocked hats) Last Line: That simple duty hath no place for fear. Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Law & Lawyers; Politics & Government; Attorneys THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: They stand like sentries at a country's gates Last Line: While men have no appeal except to him. Subject(s): Judges; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Trials; United States - Supreme Court; Attorneys TO HIS HONOURED FRIEND, M. JOHN WEARE, COUNCELLOUR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did I or love, or could I others draw Last Line: To be my counsell both, and chanceller. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys TO SIR GEORGE PARRIE, DOCTOR OC THE CIVILL LAW, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have my laurel chaplet on my head Last Line: The first as doctor, and the last as knight. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Attorneys VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who doubts? The lawes fel down from heauens height Last Line: So robs the sheepe, in fauours faire pretence. Subject(s): God; Law & Lawyers; Mankind; Worship; Attorneys; Human Race ZENGER THE PRINTER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zenger the printer, through storm and stress Last Line: Bulwark of freedom, a fearless press! Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; New York City - Colonial Period; Politics & Government; Printing & Printers; Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746); Attorneys |
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