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Subject: HOMESTEADERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GOING OUT AND COMING IN, by MARY EVELYN DAVID    Poem Text                    
First Line: Going out to fame and triumph
Last Line: Going out and coming in!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mollie E.; Davis, Mollie E. Moore
Subject(s): Homesteaders


HOMESTEAD ACT, by CHARLES POTTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years my sleep was tormented with dreams
Last Line: High altitude, high latitude, high interest ranching %came crashing down a no love for lincoln lane
Subject(s): Homesteaders; Ranch Life


JOE; AN ETCHING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A meadow brown; across the yonder edge
Last Line: The axe of the pioneer, the settler's plough.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Children; Homesteaders; Labor & Laborers; Pioneers; Childhood; Work; Workers


STARVING TO DEATH ON A GOVERNMENT CLAIM (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "frank baker [or, bolar]'s my name, and a bachelor I am"
Last Line: "I'll stop in topeka and get me a wife, / and there shall I stay the rest of my life"
Subject(s): Homesteaders


STARVING TO DEATH ON A GOVERNMENT CLAIM (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my name is frank taylor, a bachelor I am"
Last Line: And live on corn dodgers the rest of my life
Subject(s): Homesteaders


THE HOMESTEADER, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The homesteader comes from a land that is fair
Subject(s): Homesteaders


THE HOMESTEADER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind-swept and fire-swept and
Last Line: "I've found a bigger meaning for the little word called ""home."
Subject(s): Family Life; Homesteaders; Relatives


THE HWOMESTEAD A-VELL INTO HAND, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house where I wer born an' bred
Last Line: By elems that did break the storm.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Homesteaders; Loss; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions


THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cross the prairie as of old
Last Line: The homestead of the free!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Homesteaders; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


THE WEST COUNTRY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you been in our wild west country? Then
Last Line: Men clothe him with their praise.
Subject(s): Child Labor; Homesteaders; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


YEARNING, by JANET MURIEL MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm yearning again for those hours
Last Line: Though oft given another name.
Subject(s): Homesteaders