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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PROHIBITION Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHAINE OF PEARLE: THE FOURTH PEARLE. TEMPERANCE, by DIANA PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: The golden bridle of bellerophon Last Line: In sacred concord, and sweete symphonie! Subject(s): Love; Passion; Pearls; Temperance; Prohibition A CRACK AT THE LAW, by ADRIAN HALE Poem Text First Line: When winter comes with gust and flaw Last Line: "medicinal purposes only." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition A MAIDEN'S DREAM, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought, in slumber as I lay and dreamt Last Line: That I awoke and start out of my dream. Subject(s): Fortitude; Hospitality; Justice; Prudence; Religion; Temperance; Wealth; Caution; Theology; Prohibition; Riches; Fortunes A PLACID DISPOSITION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can always keep my temper Last Line: That rile me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition A TRUCKER DRIVES THROUGH HIS LOST YOUTH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Years ago he drove a different route Last Line: Him backwards as far as his mind will haul. Subject(s): Ford Motor Company; Southern States; Temperance; Trucks & Trucking; South (u.s.); Prohibition; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight ADDRESS AND WELCOME TO J.B. GOUGH ON HIS DELIVERING AN ORATION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome! Oh, welcome! In thy course of fame Last Line: Shall blind, and scorch, and scare the fiend away! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Prohibition AND TEXAS HAS GONE DRY!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Through the mighty lone star empire sounds Last Line: From louisiana's border to the yellow rio grande! Subject(s): Temperance; Texas; Prohibition BURNIN' DRINK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell a tale o' burnin' love Last Line: Wi' bitter, burnin' hate. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Hate; Love; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Prohibition CHRISTIAN ETHICS: DELIGHTS AND PLEASURES, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All music, sauces, feasts, delights and pleasures Last Line: In temperance their sacred beauty find. Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition DARK HOURS; THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark hours of tearless, sleepless grief Last Line: That legion fiends might not withstand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; God; Mothers & Sons; Salvation; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Prohibition DIFFICULT EVOLUTION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The donkey and the elephant were in a desert land Last Line: As he lumbered o'er the desert with a plod, plod, plod. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Temperance; Prohibition DRINKING SONG, BY A MEMBER OF A TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, pass round the pail, boys, and give it no quarter Last Line: Then hey for a bucket, &c. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition DUTY CALL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sundays I jus' love to dine Last Line: An' gives me heaps o' things to eat. Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Mothers; Pity; Sabbath; Temperance; Childhood; Relatives; Sunday; Prohibition HERE'S TO A TEMPERANCE SUPPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And me not there at all Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;temperance; Prohibition IF ALL YOUR BEAUTIES ONE BY ONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I had been dead of drinking Subject(s): Temperance;women; Prohibition IN PRAISE OF SOBRIETY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lips that touch liquor must never touch mine.' that's clear Last Line: But, with a tipsy lunge, hit nose or ear Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition LAMENT IN FORM OF AN EPIGRAM, by STODDARD KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Youth will be served, so runs the ancient phrase Last Line: Old crow retired in favor of young hyson. Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. H.B. STOWE ON HER VISIT TO GLASGOW, 1853, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, to thee, to fortune, and to fame Last Line: Shall meet thee—not on earth; our goal's the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Temperance; Antislavery Movement - United States; Prohibition LYRICS OF DRINK: 1, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I turned me to the house of prayer Last Line: All, all proclaim the demon's rule! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition LYRICS OF DRINK: 2, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour ye a wail of the wildest Last Line: Sublimed in eternity's fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition NEEBOR JOHNNIE'S COMPLAINT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My aul' neebor johnnie had lang been awa' Last Line: An' we'll ne'er pit him oot till we stop the supplies. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Neighbors; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition NO MORE BOOZE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a little man and he had a little can Last Line: We need those sheets for table-cloths / and it's almost time for dinner Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go Last Line: Oliver wendell holmes. Subject(s): Censorship; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition ODE TO J. S. BUCKINGHAM, M.P.; ON REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DRUNKEDNESS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Buckingham, if I may take Last Line: Are not so much more temperate than others. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Ireland; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Irish; Prohibition ODES I, 28. ON PROHIBITION AND TEMPERANCE; TO VARUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Canst thou, o varus, plant a tree Last Line: So may I live—to drink again! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition OH, MAN!, by NATE SALSBURY Poem Text First Line: When, in years past, the drunkard sold Last Line: Where, for a hundred bucks a case -- Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Baron Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition ON A PROHIBITIONIST POEM, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though shakespeare's mermaid, ocean's mightiest Last Line: But water on the brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition ON READING OMAR KHAYYAM, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midst of the battle I turned Last Line: Leaving the singer asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Temperance; Prohibition ON THE ANTICIPATED RETURN OF J. B. GOUGH TO ENGLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere ancient thebes began on high to raise Last Line: And earth, yea, heaven, shall prove thy words not vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Temperance; English; Prohibition OUR PROGRAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having squelched the noisy frolics Last Line: And a race of prigs shall dominate the earth. Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition QUITE SO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a man in our town Last Line: Who dragged him off to jail Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition SEVENTH STREET, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts Subject(s): African Americans; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; United States - Prohibition (1919-1933); Negroes; American Blacks SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How times have changed! Delight we used to take Last Line: Of home-brew mother used to bottle up Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition SONG FOR A TEMPERANCE DINNER TO WHICH LADIES WERE INVITED, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A health to dear woman! She bids us untwine Last Line: It is countersigned nature. -- so, room for the girls! Subject(s): Temperance; Women; Prohibition SOUTH-DOWN MUTTON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If men, when in a rage, inspected Last Line: "I thought you meant to dine down stairs!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Anger; Food & Eating; Temperance; Prohibition TEMPER, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: So you've a 'quick' temper, lad, you say? Last Line: Tempered mettle holds its edge! Subject(s): Emotions; Temperance; Prohibition TEMPERANCE SONG, by GEORGE NEAVES Poem Text First Line: I'm very fond of water Last Line: When qualified aright. Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition TEMPERANCE WARFARE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arouse ye! Arouse ye! The foe is at large Last Line: As a christian mother devoted to duty. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Temperance; War; English; Prohibition THE BARKEEPER (A POEM HAPPILY OUT OF DATE), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The barkeeper -- what fearful heap Last Line: And him that keeps the door of hell! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Temperance; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Prohibition THE CONTRAST, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See yonder wretched little girl Last Line: "we'll pray, ""god bless the temperance dwelling." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Family Life; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Relatives; Prohibition THE DEMON DRINK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do well to be angry, even unto death,' Last Line: Leaving want, woe, and shame, desolation and gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Mothers; Sabbath; Sin; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sunday; Prohibition THE DISENTHRALLED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had bowed down to drunkenness Last Line: Unto the godlike mind! Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition THE ENEMY IN THE GATE; TO BRITANNIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, all this availeth thee nothing Last Line: The captives of drink, on her shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; England; Evil; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; English; Prohibition THE FIGHTING WORD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a calm and placid person and my temper seldom rises Last Line: "while I bellowed out ""whoisthis?"" on the phone!" Subject(s): Anger; Temperance; Prohibition THE LAST WAVE (BEFORE PROHIBITION), by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: In solid ranks the bottles stood Last Line: The final wave had surged and passed! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition THE METHOD OF THE MAD MULLAH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a mad mullah whose name was abdulla Last Line: At even his worst ever was! Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition THE MOURNING MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What woe is thine, pale mother? - say Last Line: To moloch offered up. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Temperance; Temptation; Youth; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sorrow; Sadness; Prohibition THE PLAGUE OF OUR ISLE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is said, it is sung, it is written, and read Last Line: Less deadly by far than the plague of our isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Prohibition THE PLEDGE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full oft we breathe and echo round Last Line: For him who yields the worthless pledge. Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition THE THREE GOLDEN BALLS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deadlier balls than north or south Last Line: Resume the sceptre and the rein. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition THE VICTIM OF DRINK; THE EARLY LOST, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The early lost I mourn Last Line: For ever pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition TO CLOE, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: Cloe, blooming sweet as may, / we must tempt mama away Last Line: Trust me, cloe, this will do. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love Affairs; Mothers; Temperance; Prohibition TOBACCO NEXT, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took away your drink from you, Last Line: Don't make the same mistake again. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Smoking; Temperance; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Prohibition WILLIAM E. JOHNSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He gave an eye that other men might see Last Line: What christ endures, the servant bears no less. Subject(s): Johnson, William Eugene (1862-1945); Temperance; Prohibition |
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