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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BETHLEHEMS BEAUTY, LONDONS CHARITY, AND THE CITIES GLORY", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Story no more shall antient fabricks boast
Last Line: "free citizens o' th' new jerusalem, / to raign with him was born in bethlehem"
Subject(s): Charity;hospitals;london Fire (1666); Philanthropy;great Fire Of 1666


A BALLAD OF CHARITY, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was in a pleasant depot, sequestered from the rain
Last Line: Oh, how hard is life for many! Oh, how sweet it is for some!
Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


A CERTAIN RICH MAN, by THEODORE MAYNARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor
Last Line: Lost lest the rich man empty-handed die.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


A LEGEND OF TOLEDO, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far down below the christian captives pine
Last Line: Is on the cross, salvation's blessed sign.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To put new shingles on old roofs
Last Line: The trials of abounding wealth.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The boss came around at christmas
Subject(s): Charity; Communism; Economics; Irony; Labor Unions; Socialism; Philanthropy


A NARROW GIRDLE OF ROUGH STONES AND CRAGS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And point rash-judgement is the name it bears
Subject(s): Humility; Charity


A VERMONT 'DONATION', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's funny how our ancestors
Last Line: With some deliberation.
Subject(s): Charity; Churches; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Preaching & Preachers; Vermont; Philanthropy; Cathedrals


ADDRESS TO SUBSCRIBERS .. FUND FOR CLOTHING CHILDREN CHARITY SCHOOL, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends of the helpless! Let a nameless bard
Last Line: "since, ""what is given the poor is lent the lord!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


ALMES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give unto all, lest he, whom thou deni'st
Last Line: May chance to be no other man, but christ.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


ALMS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give, if thou canst, an alms; if not, afford
Last Line: On our part, wanting all abilities.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


ALMS-GIVING, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When poverty, with mien of shame
Last Line: They break it as a slave his chains!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


AN EPICED ON MR. FISHBOURNE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As some, too far inquisitive, would fain
Last Line: You live, and need nor epitaph nor tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Charity; Fishbourne, Richard (d. 1625); Orphans; Philanthropy; Foundlings


BEAUTY, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How can you smile when pain is everywhere
Last Line: "forgive them, god, they know not when they lie!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


BEGGAR LAD DIES EARLY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Did supplicate in vain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 496; Poem: 71
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Charity; Children


BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who standeth at the gate? - a woman old
Last Line: And now at length thy sorrow is too late
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Kindness; Cruelty; Charity; Faith; Sin


BROTHER HUBERT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Holy-thoughted brother hubert
Last Line: Hadst thou staid I must have fled
Subject(s): Charity;christmas; "philanthropy;nativity, The;


CHARITY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my son %was born
Last Line: A light, %a glass %of water
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Caregivers; Charity


CHARITY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet charity! Thou of the kindest voice
Last Line: The eye no longer weeps, the heart no longer bleeds.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


CHARITY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest and foremost of the train that wait
Last Line: And spare the poet for his subject sake.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


CHARITY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though I were gifted with an angel's tongue
Last Line: If heaven-born charity were not within.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


CHARITY, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman lies on the floor
Last Line: Like a flame, while around us %the homeless shivered
Subject(s): Charity; Homeless; Poetry And Poets; Sickness


CHARITY, by HELEN EMMA MARING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ten cents for veterans
Last Line: Back into your shoe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Payne, Lorrin A., Mrs.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


CHARITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I praised the myrtle and the rose
Last Line: In charity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Beauty; Charity; Love; Sun; Philanthropy


CHARITY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If but the world would give to love
Last Line: To hide its multitude of sins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


CHARITY, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pilgrim and stranger, who, through the day
Last Line: "and merciful one, for thee I wait!"
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


CHARITY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: True test and savour of a christian soul
Last Line: Meted to christian folk on christian ground!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Charity; Christianity; Religion; Philanthropy; Theology


CHARITY NEVER FAILETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such is love, it comforts in extremity
Last Line: Such is love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


CHARITY OVERCOMING ENVY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you time for a story
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charity; Tapestries; Philanthropy


CHARITY OVERCOMING ENVY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you time for a story
Last Line: The gordian knot need not be cut
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Charity; Tapestries


CHARITY, IN DESPAIR OF JUSTICE, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out-wearied with the littleness and spite
Last Line: All known to god, -- and ask of men, sweet charity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


CHERFULNESS IN CHARITY; OR, THE SWEET SACRIFICE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not a thousand bullocks thies
Last Line: In his offering, cheerfulness.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 37. CPNGRATULATION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus all things lead to charity, secured
Last Line: Licence and slavish order, dares be free.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let those who low delights to earth are given
Last Line: Shall sing like winged cherubim.
Subject(s): Charity; Faith; Hope; Philanthropy; Belief; Creed; Optimism


FORTY CENTS A YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When our ever-living saviour passed away from earthly eyes
Last Line: Build the kingdom of your captain on these latest shores of time!
Subject(s): Charity; Protestantism; Philanthropy


GENE POOL, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He loves mankind but has contempt for man,
Last Line: Lie formulae for human-made machines.
Subject(s): Charity; Misanthropy


GOING TO THE POOR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little maid tripped down the / street
Last Line: And wondered if the poor were I!
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Christmas; December; Kindness; Poverty; Philanthropy; Childhood; Nativity, The


GOOD KING WENCESLAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good king wenceslas looked out
Last Line: Shall yourselves find blessing
Subject(s): Charity;christmas;christmas Carols; "philanthropy;nativity, The;


GOOD KING WENCESLAS (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good king wenceslas looked out %on the feast of stephen
Last Line: Ye who now will bless the poor, shall yourselves find blessing
Subject(s): Charity; Christmas


HARTLEY PIT CATASTROPHE, by JOHN STANYAN BIGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death in the palace; death within the cot
Last Line: The living need what we can give them -- bread
Subject(s): Charity; Disasters; Mines And Miners


HIS ALMES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, here I live
Last Line: The scrip hath some.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


HOW THE GREAT GUEST CAME, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the cathedral in grandeur rose
Last Line: "I was the child on the homeless street!"
Variant Title(s): The Great Guest Comes
Subject(s): Charity; Faith; Religion; Philanthropy; Belief; Creed; Theology


HUSBAND AND HEATHEN, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the men of ethiopia she would pour her cornucopia
Last Line: For the terra del fuegian and the turcoman and turk.
Subject(s): Africa; Charity; Heresy; Women; Philanthropy; Heretics


IN POVERTY STREET, by ELLIOTT FLOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's dirty, ill-smelling
Last Line: In poverty street.
Subject(s): Charity; Poverty; Sacrifices; Philanthropy


IN THE MASTER'S FOOTSTEPS, by DANIEL DE LA VEGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Open your heart as if it were a hand
Last Line: Heaven's glory let them see!
Subject(s): Charity; Kindness


INVOCATION, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O god of the measureless spaces
Last Line: As autumn passeth by.
Subject(s): Charity; Clergy; Sanctuaries; Philanthropy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


KARMA, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas was in the air and all was well
Last Line: A dime for jesus who had died for men.
Subject(s): Charity; Christmas; Salvation Army; Philanthropy; Nativity, The


KATHLEEN'S CHARITY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: God bless the work,' said young kathleen
Last Line: "did visit me to-day."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


KURAL: KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY, by TIRUVALLUVAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Greatest of all forms of wealth
Last Line: And never become great
Subject(s): Charity; Kindness


MEMORIAL, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toiling early, and toiling late
Last Line: Comes blossoming out of the dust.
Subject(s): Good; Charity


MONTEFIORE, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw - 'twas in a dream, the other night
Last Line: And in a moment was a lonely man!
Subject(s): Charity; Dreams; Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Philanthropy; Nightmares; Judaism


NOW THAT THE TIME HAS COME WHEREIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: To feed thy needy neighbors
Subject(s): Charity;christmas; "philanthropy;nativity, The;


OF CHARITY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A beggar died last night; his soul
Last Line: "my son hath lived in vain!"
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Philanthropy


ON THE BENEFACTIONS IN THE LATE FROST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, 'tis the time! I cry'd, impose the chain!
Last Line: To take the only way to be forgiven.
Variant Title(s): Epigram Explained By Carruthers To Refer To The Large Sums
Subject(s): Charity; Forgiveness; Hope; Sin; Philanthropy; Clemency; Optimism


OUR JEWISH ORPHANS' HOME, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Back from the street, within a wreath of bowers
Last Line: Our sacred trust,—our jewish orphans' home!
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Jews; Orphans; Philanthropy; Childhood; Judaism; Foundlings


PASSING IT ON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our son's shirts attend kindergarten
Last Line: As original skin.
Subject(s): Charity; Clothing & Dress; Salvation Army; Philanthropy


PET CHARITIES, by EDITH ANISFIELD WOLF    Poem Text                    
First Line: To dry crocodile tears
Last Line: Find them in readiness.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


PHILANTHROPIST, by JACQUES GEORGES CLEMENCEAU LE CLERQ    Poem Text                    
First Line: The milk of human kindness ran
Last Line: Why people laughed at him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tanaquil, Paul
Subject(s): Charity; Generosity; Philanthropy


PLEA FOR CHARITY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If one had never seen the full completeness
Last Line: Who bids her come up higher.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


POLITICAL BALLADS: DATE OBOLUM BELLESARIO, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I travell'd o'er the plain
Last Line: A penny to the poor
Subject(s): Charity; Poverty; Social Protest


POVERTY, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wandered through her eyebrows
Last Line: The only language I knew
Subject(s): Charity; Money; Poverty


PRAY REMEMBER THE POOR, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I just came by the prison door
Last Line: As charitably great as he.
Subject(s): Charity; Poverty; Prayer; Philanthropy


PSALMIST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first thing out of the harp is sky
Subject(s): Harps; Charity; Lyres; Philanthropy


RECUERDO, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were very tired, we were very merry
Last Line: And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Charity; Ferry Boats; Love; Selva, Salomon De La (1893-1959); Philanthropy


REFUSAL, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is my heart; it's clean
Last Line: "and return it to me again."
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is an ancient england in the new
Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


SONG OF THREE SMILES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me call a ghost
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Charity; Happiness; Laughter; Smiles; Philanthropy; Joy; Delight


SONG OF THREE SMILES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me call a ghost
Last Line: Cut me from ear to ear %and we all smile together
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Charity; Happiness; Laughter; Smiles


SONG: FOR CHARITY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is burning, o little maiden
Last Line: With love and gladness, for charity!
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


SWEET CHARITY, by BONNIE NIMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a friend
Last Line: When I'm the one %not there
Subject(s): Charity


TELL HIM SO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you hear a kind word spoken
Last Line: Do not fail to tell men so
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


THE BEGGAR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day, all the day, in the dust, in the heat
Last Line: These cry out unheard, and must die on the street.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Homeless; Money; Poverty; Philanthropy


THE BEGGAR, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow will soon be flying, the snow we
Last Line: Tea, and wonder why the county won't feed such skates as he.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Poverty; Philanthropy


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 13. THE ALMS-HOUSE AND TRUSTEES, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave now our streets, and in yon plain behold
Last Line: The moral feelings of sir denys brand.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 17. THE HOSPITAL AND GOVERNORS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ardent spirit dwells with christian love
Last Line: And even vices to the work of love.
Subject(s): Charity; Hospitals; Philanthropy


THE CHARITY BALL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What matters the pangs of a husband and a father
Last Line: As the saint keeps her charity back for 'the ball!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


THE CHICAGO HERMIT AT MOTHER TERESA'S, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Teresa Of Calcutta, Blessed (1910-1997); Poverty; Charity; Philanthropy


THE GLANCE THAT DOTH THY NEIGHBOR DOUBT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Charity


THE GOOD MAN OF ALLOA, by JAMES HOGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you never hear of a queer auld man
Last Line: "he proved a hypocrite!"
Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick
Subject(s): Charity; Hypocrisy; Kindness; Philanthropy


THE GREATEST OF THESE IS CHARITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A moon impoverished amid stars curtailed
Last Line: Where light shines full and where the palm-tree blows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


THE IDEA OF SOUP, by NORMAN DUBIE                    Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The women would come in chevrolets
Subject(s): Children; Charity; Childhood; Philanthropy


THE NURSE AND THE NEWSPAPER; AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hush! Pretty darling, hush! -- bye, bye, bye, bye
Last Line: And give us safe deliv'ry from our terrors.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza
Subject(s): Babies; Charity; Newspapers; Nurses; Infants; Philanthropy; Journalism; Journalists


THE QUARREL OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once faith, hope, and charity traversed the land
Last Line: "when I choose for my temple an innocent heart."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Charity; Faith; God; Hope; Love; Religion; Philanthropy; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Theology


THE SILENT SISTERS OF THE POOR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Meekly, with folded hands and patient brows
Last Line: Meekly, with patient brows and folded hands.
Subject(s): Charity; Humanity; Nuns; Poverty; Philanthropy


THE STRANGER'S ALMS, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lyons, on the mart of that french town
Last Line: For the two beggars in the market-place.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Singing & Singers; Philanthropy; Songs


THE SUNDERLAND CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the town of sunderland, and in the year of 1883
Last Line: To aid and comfort the bereaved parents in their grief.
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Despair; Grief; Pity; Philanthropy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WOODMAN AND THE SANDAL TREE, by JOSE ROSAS MORENO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside a sandal tree a woodman stood
Last Line: And good for evil give, and love for hate.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


THE [EXCELLENT] BALLADE OF CHARITIE, by THOMAS CHATTERTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In virgine [virgyne] the sulty sun gan sheene
Last Line: Or give the mittee will, or give the gode man power.
Variant Title(s): An Excelente Balade Of Charitie
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


THERE IS A THOUGHT SO PURELY BLEST, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which mere possession might destroy
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Povery; Charity


TO EMILIE BIGELOW HAPGOOD - PHILANTHROPIST, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far from the seried ranks you sway
Last Line: And lift to hope a token!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Charity; Hapgood, Emilie Bigelow; Philanthropy


TRIENNIAL ODE ON THE MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, from the mitred churchman's power
Last Line: And clustering glories round their names shall bloom.
Subject(s): Charity; Pilgrim Fathers; Philanthropy


TRUE CHARITY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gave a beggar from my little store
Last Line: And now he begs no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Hunger; Philanthropy


UPON HER ALMES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how the poore do waiting stand
Last Line: Thousands to feed by miracle.
Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy


VOTING THE PAUPERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No choice again? Say, that makes twice
Last Line: "the ""lister fight"" is won."
Subject(s): Charity; Homeless; Poverty; Vermont; Philanthropy


WINTER, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We know 'tis good that old winter should come
Last Line: He serveth his maker who aideth the poor.
Subject(s): Charity; Winter; Philanthropy