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Subject: OBITUARIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VISIT TO THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roman road runs by the wall
Last Line: I touch the immortal.
Subject(s): Death; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Obituaries; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


DYING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the same page of the new york times
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Obituaries


DYING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the same page of the new york times
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Obituaries


LUTHER A. TODD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gifted, and loved and praised
Last Line: And, smiling, cease thy moan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Kansas; Life; Obituaries; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


OBITUARIES, by DON SEGAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mabel a., 90, died monday
Last Line: Aunts, uncles, cousins, his parents, %and hopefully, by many friends
Subject(s): Death; Obituaries


OBITUARY WRITER, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I reach out towards the body of happiness
Last Line: From the gravel of his brother henry's voice, %there has been no avoiding this obituary
Subject(s): Obituaries


OSCAR C. MCCULLOCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What would best please our
Last Line: To all humanity -- our nobler lives.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Obituaries; Dead, The; Destiny


READING THE OBITUARY PAGE IN THE TIMES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a messy sort of person
Last Line: For a newly born euclid
Subject(s): Obituaries


THE BURIAL OF MR. GLADSTONE, THE GREAT POLITICAL HERO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! The people now do sigh and moan
Last Line: You were the greatest politician in your day.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Heroism; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Heroes; Heroines


THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Our noble and generous queen victoria is dead
Last Line: The greatest and most virtuous queen that ever wore a crown.
Subject(s): Crowns; Death; Leadership; Obituaries; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Dead, The


THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. WILSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of january
Last Line: Then along with the people assembled there they left the burying-ground.
Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Graves; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones


THE HAPPY DEAD, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When he for whom, through portals strangely wrought
Last Line: As ways trod once through blinding mirk of night.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Mortality; Obituaries; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


THE OBITUARY WRITER, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Full Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I reach out towards the body of happiness,
Subject(s): Obituaries; Obituaries


TO ELIZABETH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O noble, true and pure and
Last Line: For still we feel and know that thou art here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Obituaries; Dead, The


TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. LEFROY, WHO DIED ON MY BIRTHDAY, by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day returns again, my natal day
Last Line: Indulge the harmless weakness - reason, spare
Subject(s): Birthdays; Obituaries


WE LIVE IN THE LARGESS OF OUR NICKLE-DIME MOMENTS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even adonis, that gored fertility boy
Last Line: We will weep for in a coming world
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Farm Life; Harvest; Obituaries