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Subject: FOUNDLINGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAMENT ON HIS FATHER'S DEATH, by LIU HENG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I look up, the curtains are there as of yore
Last Line: Oh, where were the gods when that great hero died!
Subject(s): Fathers; Orphans; Foundlings


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


AN ORPHAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Everything has sisters, brothers
Last Line: Like an orphan in the sky.
Subject(s): April; Children; Orphans; Childhood; Foundlings


ANNIE MARSHALL THE FOUNDLING, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Annie marshall was a foundling, and lived in downderry
Last Line: But, alas! The rest of the crew were buried in the sea, save him.
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


HYMN FOR AN ORPHAN HOME, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O father of the fatherless
Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs.
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


LAUDANUM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where somnus' temple rises from a ground
Last Line: "and lest, great sirs, to you it should extend, / command your sleepy poet to descend"
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse;orphans;poetry & Poets; Foundlings


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In early morning twilight, raw and chill
Last Line: And firesides buried under fallen thatch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Landlords & Tenants; Orphans; Police; Poverty; Strikes; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


LIFE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A baby played with the surplice sleeve
Last Line: That laughed so sweet and low.
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


LOOKING FORWARD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If no one ever marries me
Last Line: And bring her up as mine.
Variant Title(s): Little Girls
Subject(s): Orphans; Single People; Foundlings; Bachelors; Unmarried People


MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE; A LEGEND OF JARVIS'S JETTY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in margate last july I walk'd upon the pier
Last Line: Give my respects to mrs. Jones, and say I'm pretty well!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Misadventures At Margate;the Little Vulgar Boy
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Orphans; Foundlings


ORPHAN BORN, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a lone, unfathered chick
Last Line: My incubator.
Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Orphans; Child Birth; Midwifery; Foundlings


ORPHANS, by CAROLINE AINSLIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The orphans sleep in a big bare room
Last Line: When the trodden earth is hard.
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


ORPHANS OF SHANGHI, by GRACE FRENCH SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mere rags of children prowl about the street
Last Line: Divine must be the love to melt the steel!
Subject(s): Orphans; Shanghai, China; Foundlings


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


PEACEFUL EYES MY ONLY WEALTH, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Would my humble comrades have me say
Last Line: But leave our orphan squalling at your door.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; France; Friendship; Orphans; Plays & Playwrights; Foundlings


REMINISCENCES OF HAMMONIA, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orphan children, two and two
Last Line: Many million orphan children.
Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Orphans; Foundlings


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 75, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three little children
Last Line: With guardian angels.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


SLEEP, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou drowsy god, whose blurred
Last Line: Swallows and licks its wet lips over me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Despair; Night; Orphans; Sleep; Bedtime; Foundlings


TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The town thought me a model woman
Last Line: What a horrid thing I was when I got started.
Subject(s): Insanity; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Murder; Orphans; Madness; Mental Illness; Foundlings


THE CHILDREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dumb child and the blind child
Last Line: From their head to their feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Blindness; Children; Comfort; Deafness; God; Orphans; Visually Handicapped; Childhood; Foundlings


THE DELPHIAN CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High over castaly, on delphi's steep
Last Line: "this delphian child hath brought me nearest god.'"
Subject(s): Delphi; Orphans; Castri; Foundlings


THE FOUNDLING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What time the wandering mother night
Last Line: Went vanishing away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Night; Orphans; Bedtime; Foundlings


THE LAMENT OF LAMB'S CONDUIT, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farewell, little groundlings!
Last Line: That grow on red hill.
Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Orphans; Childhood; Parting; Foundlings


THE MITHERLESS BAIRN, by WILLIAM THOM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When a'ither bairnies are hushed to their hame
Last Line: That god deals the blow, for the mitherless bairn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Inverary Poet, The
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Orphans; Infants; Childhood; Foundlings


THE NEW BOY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He never knew before how heavenly the places
Last Line: He strangles with his sobs till the grey day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Grief; Loss; Orphans; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings


THE ORPHAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To be an orphan
Last Line: Living with my brother and sister-in-law
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);orphans; Foundlings


THE ORPHAN, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father and mother are dead
Last Line: And been my best father and friend.
Subject(s): God; Orphans; Foundlings


THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE, by AMELIA OPIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, lady, stay, for mercy's sake
Last Line: Your happy, happy orphan boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Adversity; Orphans; Foundlings


THE ORPHAN CHILD, by GRACE WAGNER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just lend me an ear and I'll tell you
Last Line: "we reap just what we sow."
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


THE ORPHAN GIRL (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'no home, no home!' cried a little girl"
Last Line: Where there's room for bread for the poor
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life;orphans;poverty; Foundlings


THE ORPHAN'S TRUST, by H. C. HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not care to know your future, blue-eyed maiden?
Last Line: The voice of god and fate, speaks through my mystic art!
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


THE ORPHANAGE LANDING, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We her countrypeople are deep asleep
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


THE ORPHANS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My chaise the village inn did gain
Last Line: "your steps to guide, your hearts to cheer"
Subject(s): Adversity;orphans; Foundlings


THE ORPHANS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At five o'clock one april morn
Last Line: "and broken up the home."
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


THE SCHOOLMISTRESS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: If she, their nurse, be faint with famine
Last Line: Bid birds and angels bring her bread.
Subject(s): Babies; Orphans; Infants; Foundlings


THE SICK ORPHAN, OR THE COUCH IN THE OPEN AIR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas at the close of a warm summer's day
Last Line: And o'er her dying love-notes wept and smiled!
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


TO A MOTHERLESS CHILD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's
Last Line: But one's alone!
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings