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Subject: ASSEMBLIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LINES IN MEMORIAM REGARDING THE ENTERTAINMENT I GAVE ON THE 31ST MARCH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 31st of march, and in the year of 1893
Last Line: I'll remember during my stay in dundee.
Subject(s): Conventions; Gratitude; Lectures; Assemblies; Meetings; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking


ON THE MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN GLASGOW, 1860, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen of the west! We hail thee from afar!
Last Line: To lead to heaven, and train for life on earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Conventions; Glasgow, Scotland; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Social Problems; Assemblies; Meetings; Human Race


THE BALL, 1789, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The town is at the ball to-night
Last Line: And they ran away together.
Subject(s): Balls; Conventions; New York City; Assemblies; Meetings; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE DEMONSTRATION, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They bob above us all afternoon
Last Line: Their spells had summoned up.
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Conventions; Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Protest, Social; Racism; Assemblies; Meetings; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE MIXED ASSEMBLY, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flea-bitten synod, an assembly brewed
Last Line: Is clergy-lay, party-per-pale compounded.
Subject(s): Burges, Cornelius (1589-1665); Conventions; Kimbolton, Edward, Lord (1602-1671); Politics & Government; Religion; Twisse, William (1578-1646); Wharton, Philip, 4th Lord (1613-1696); Assemblies; Meetings; Theology


THE NERVE DOCTORS, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here they come by the busload the nerve doctors: some
Subject(s): Conventions; Leadership; Physicians; Assemblies; Meetings; Doctors


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 11. THE MEETING PLACE OF FRIENDS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The meeting place of friends, I have heard tell
Last Line: The meeting place of friends is in the heart.
Subject(s): Conventions; Friendship; Assemblies; Meetings


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weary with the restless burden of this world last night I fell
Last Line: "quickly—into space!"
Subject(s): Conventions; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Wealth; Assemblies; Meetings; Work; Workers; Riches; Fortunes