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Subject: LEGISLATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` G.I. BILL, by SALVATORE GALIOTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: This legislative action %was a kind of affirmative action
Last Line: Americans most of their lives
Subject(s): Legislation; Veterans


IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATURE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lieutenant governor sits in the center
Last Line: "may say 'ay', those opposed may raise their feet."
Subject(s): Legislation; New Mexico; Politics & Government


INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT OLD SARUM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, if thou canst boast the noble name
Last Line: An individual's rights, how happy all!
Subject(s): England; History; Law & Lawyers; Legislation; Patriotism; English; Historians


ISAIAH: LEGISLATORS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
Last Line: Where will ye leave your glory?
Subject(s): Justice; Legislation


LEGISLATIVE LIAISON, by JAMES DOYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love my job - the ancient ritual
Subject(s): Legislation


ON LEGISLATION CANCELING MORTGAGES, by SOLON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Which of the aims that spurred me to unite
Last Line: This was the reason why against all sides %I built a bulwar k - a wolf at bay 'midst a pack of hound
Subject(s): Legislation; Mortgages


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The subcommittee submits:
Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Legislation; Work; Workers


THE REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONSIDERED, SELECTION, by ELYMAS PAYSON ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The covetous nebraskaites
Last Line: For god's predictions must prevail.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Kansas; Legislation; Missouri; Nebraska; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs