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Subject: HEARSES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` I AM A GLIDER ON TIME'S THERMALS, by JOHN HAWKHEAD    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Thumb extended to hitch a ride
Subject(s): Hearses; Riddles


THE LITTLE DEAD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a little dead man
Last Line: And a pencil in the right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Hands; Hearses; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


THE LITTLE WHITE HEARSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the little white hearse went glimmering
Last Line: As the little white hearse went glimmering by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Hearses; Childhood; Dead, The


THE POETRESS'S PETITION, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like to a fever's pulse my heart doth beat
Last Line: And for her glory, garlands of fresh bayes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Hearses; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Silence


THE TELEGRAMS, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring the hearse to the station
Last Line: God next!
Subject(s): Death; Hearses; Murder; Telegraph; Dead, The; Telegrams


VARIATIONS ON A THEME, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: If charon drove a hearse along the beach
Last Line: And then be gone?
Subject(s): Charon; Hearses; Seashore; Styx (river); Beach; Coast; Shore


WHEN THE HEARSE COMES BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet
Last Line: "back!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Funerals; Hearses; Horses; Dead, The; Burials