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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INHERITANCE & SUCCESSION Matches Found: 19 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SHORT SONG OF CONGRATULATION, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long-expected one and twenty Last Line: You can hang or drown at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): One And Twenty Subject(s): Birthdays; Inheritance & Succession; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Wealth; Youth; Heirs; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes AN OLD COURTIER AND A NEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "with an old song, made by an ancient pate" Last Line: "o, the king's young courtier!" Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession CONCERNING INHERITANCE, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield / over the city Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Inheritance & Succession; English History DOVECOTT MILL: 14. THE WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the morning sunshine glowed Last Line: "wife of the miller of dovecote mill!" Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Widows & Widowers FABLES: 2ND SER. 12. PAN AND FORTUNE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as your father's death was known Last Line: But he by folly was undone. Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs FROM JUNE TO JUNE, by NORMAN STAUNTON DIKE Poem Text First Line: Two lovers 'mong the weedy brake Last Line: They bring their son and heir. Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; June; Heirs HAME CONTENT: A SATIRE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some fock, like bees, fu glegly rin Last Line: Wha mourn'd her fate, condol'd her woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Money; Heirs INHERITANCE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They left to me their house and land Last Line: And no one speaks to me. Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs INHERITANCE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Prometheus, pitying men Last Line: In utter well-being. Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs RESUME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she lived her life unnoticed, tucked away" Last Line: That yield a fortune to her heirs today Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession ROB. FERGUSSON'S LAST WILL, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While sober folks, in humble prose, / estate, and goods, and gear dispose Last Line: Are sign'd by him at my command. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Death; Gifts & Giving; Inheritance & Succession; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Heirs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 19. THE WILL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that life is nearly spent Last Line: As they in their vileness wallow Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Life; Wills; Heirs THE CHILD OF FRANCE; ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exhausted, faint, and pale Last Line: Our country, and our god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; France; Inheritance & Succession; Child Birth; Midwifery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heirs THE GRIEF OF AN HEIR, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rich man's heir, his father's spirit fled Last Line: And, could we doubt them, we were fools indeed. Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs THE HEIR OF LINNE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the bonny heir, and the well-faur'd heir" Last Line: My lands be in jeopardy Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery THE THREE-CORNERED LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Said the farmer to his daughter: 'when I die, as like as not Last Line: "and the stone walls of the foolish man wherewith to build a home." Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers & Daughters; Inheritance & Succession; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Villius the wealthy farmer left his heir Last Line: That fourtie pounds serue not the farmers heyre. Subject(s): Farm Life; Inheritance & Succession; Money; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs; Riches; Fortunes WITH A DIAMOND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While time a grim old lion gnawing lay Last Line: Signing the will that leaves it to an heir. Subject(s): Diamonds; Inheritance & Succession; Tears; Time; Heirs |
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