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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEBT Matches Found: 38 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CERTAIN CREDITOR, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, there was a certain creditor Last Line: A sum whose total I shall never know. Subject(s): Catholics; Debt; Prayer; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Theology A CHILD'S MINT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When young, I kissed a miser man Last Line: Cry out for silver, and for gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Debt; Poverty; Social Problems A MAN CAME TUESDAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What are you prepared to believe? Subject(s): Future; Debt A PARLEY WITH HIS EMPTY PURSE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purse, who'll not know you have a poet's been Last Line: Gape on, as they do to be paid, gape on! Subject(s): Debt; Money APPEAL TO AMERICAN AUTHORS, by NATE SALSBURY Poem Text First Line: When kaiser wilhelm's little war Last Line: America -- long may she wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Baron Subject(s): Debt; World War I; Writing & Writers; First World War BUSINESS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no money in breathing Last Line: "breathing doesn’t give enough Subject(s): Business; Debt; Businessmen; Businesswomen CANTO 37, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not', said martin vanburen. 'jail 'em for debt' Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Immigrants; Debt; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DEBT, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: A row of mullberries is heavy Last Line: Yet I feel indebted to everything Subject(s): Debt; Introspection DEBT COLLECTORS, by EAMONN WALL Poem Source First Line: Debt collectors ride out from town in dodge dakotas Last Line: We are one year removed from destitution Subject(s): Debt DEBTOR'S PRISON ROW, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They let me go Subject(s): Debt DEBTS, by ADA NEILL CLARK Poem Text First Line: I'll never be able to pay Last Line: Who died on the tree. Subject(s): Debt; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice EVIL RENOWN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sort of man is henry hank?' I Last Line: "men will boost you while alive, and praise you when you die." Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Debt; Money FANNY: 138, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bond, mortgage, title-deed, and all completed Last Line: Then filled his rooms with servants, and whatever %is necessary for a 'genteel liver' Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Business; Debt; Houses; Mortgages FIRST PAYMENT DEFERRED, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us look into the matter of debt Last Line: You want and settle down for eternity into peaceful and utterly irremediable debt Subject(s): Debt IN DEBT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each man a general debt to mankind owes Last Line: Is just so many stages less a man. Subject(s): Debt IN YOUR CARE, by CHRISTINE DEAVEL Poem Source First Line: I'm not going to open my mouth to drink Last Line: No loop %but me, just me Subject(s): Credit Cards; Debt; Police INEQUITIES OF DEBT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These I assume were words so deeply meant Last Line: To rear against the inscription on the wall Subject(s): Debt LITTLE BRITAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in ancient times, no matter where" Last Line: "where birds escape the fatal gun, / and men alone are shot at" Subject(s): Debt;great Britain;poverty LOVE, DRINK, AND DEBT, by ALEXANDER BROME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink Last Line: Then I'll fall to loving and drinking again. Variant Title(s): The Mad Lover;drinking Song Subject(s): Debt; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Wine MASTER CHARGE, by RYAH TUMARKIN GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: My master charge Subject(s): Credit Cards; Debt MASTER CHARGE BLUES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's wednesday night baby Last Line: And get everything in town Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Credit Cards; Debt MR RANDOLPH'S PETITION TO HIS CREDITORS, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pox take you all! From you my sorrows swell! Last Line: May they more debtors have, and all like me! Subject(s): Debt OLD CHRISTOVAL'S ADVICE; AND THE REASON HE GAVE IT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thy debtor be poor, old christoval cried Last Line: And remember'd what I might have been. Subject(s): Advice; Christianity; Debt; Humility; Morality; Ethics ON A LITIGIOUS DEBTOR, by JOHN OWEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You pay your lawyer more than was my due Last Line: Oh what a knave and what a fool are you! Subject(s): Debt; Law & Lawyers ON BEING FORCED TO PART WITH HIS LIBRARY FOR BENEFIT OF HIS CREDITORS, by WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one who destined from his friends to part Last Line: And kindred spirits meet to part no more. Subject(s): Books; Debt; Grief; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness SECOND MONTH IT'S NOT ITEMIZED, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to my desk to write a letter Last Line: I shall now save some money by opening a charge account %with a fuller, a draper, and a carder of wo Subject(s): Debt SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was afraid the rector / would go to law Last Line: He didn't dare / take the money Subject(s): Debt THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE DEBT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the debt I pay Last Line: God! But the interest! Subject(s): Debt; Guilt; Religion; Theology THE DEBTOR, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh, this same life so fresh and gay Last Line: And you are with him, day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Debt; Love - Complaints THE FILE-HEWER'S LAMENTATION, by JOSEPH MATHER Poem Text First Line: Ordained I was a beggar Last Line: And vile offences, swing. Subject(s): Debt; Lament THE INEQUITIES OF DEBT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These I assume were words so deeply meant Last Line: To rear against the inscription on the wall Subject(s): Debt THE PRISONER FOR DEBT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on him! Through his dungeon grate Last Line: The chastening of the almighty's hand. Subject(s): Debt; Prisons & Prisoners THE PROMISSORY NOTE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lonesome latter years Last Line: "where the tempest whispers, ""pay him!"" and I answer, ""nevermore!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Debt; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) TIMES STRINGER MEETS THE CREDIT REPAIRMAN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man featured on that's incredible because he conned Last Line: We scream, like galileans at the latest wild-eyed rabbi %when word leaked out what touching him coul Variant Title(s): Credit Repairma Subject(s): Credit Cards; Debt TO --, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was sick, how patiently thou sat'st beside my bed Last Line: Forgive, forgive, my -------, the selfishness of man! Subject(s): Caregivers; Debt; Sickness; Illness TO SYLO, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sylo, pray pay me my ten sesterces Last Line: To be a pimp, or else to rant and roar. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Debt UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN' OUT O' DANGER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead Last Line: Vor the vu'st that do meddle wi' me or my meäre.' Subject(s): Animals; Debt; Farm Life; Horses; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers |
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