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Subject: MORTGAGES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COOPER VS. BLOODGOOD, by WILLIAM PATERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cooper foreclosed a mortgage made ... Bloodgood
Subject(s): Law And Lawyers; Mortgages


DIGGER PAYS OFF THE MORTGAGE, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You write the final check
Last Line: Where they all died
Subject(s): Mortgages


DISPOSSESSED, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The enormous mortgage must be paid somehow
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mortgages


FANNY: 137, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He woke, in strength, like samson from his slumber
Last Line: Gave, in the slang phrase, pearl street the go-by, %and cut,for several months, st. Tammany
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Houses; Mortgages; Theater And Theaters


FANNY: 138, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bond, mortgage, title-deed, and all completed
Last Line: Then filled his rooms with servants, and whatever %is necessary for a 'genteel liver'
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Business; Debt; Houses; Mortgages


FORECLOSURE OF THE MORTGAGE, by ELIZABETH T. CORBETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walk right in the settin-room, deacon
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, E. T., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mortgages


INDEBTED, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The interest on the mortgage on the house is overdue
Last Line: Since for weeks we've been indebted for a dinner %to the whites
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Mortgages


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 3. ISAAC BROWN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pass on to isaac brown, a man elect
Last Line: Resumes his bench, and wipes his reeking face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants; Mortgages; Neighbors; Portraits; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


LIADAN WITH A MORTGAGE BRIEFLY TASTES THE STARS, by MARY O'MALLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breasting the hill, she pauses and looks down
Last Line: To the east a garnet moon rises
Subject(s): Mortgages


MORTGAGE ON THE FARM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis gone at last, and I am glad
Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortgages


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 DISPOSSESSED, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The enormous mortgage must be paid somehow
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mortgages


THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old house, crumbling half away, all barnacled and lichen grown
Last Line: The thin hands folded on her breast, in peace at last, and perfect rest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Houses; Mortgages