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Subject: BASTARDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FRIEND OF MINE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, lizzie anderson! Seventeen men and
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


BASTARD, by MERLE LEMBECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Afar to the luring west
Last Line: A man-made sun of fire.—
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


BASTARDS, by SIMON ARMITAGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those bastards in their mansion
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


BASTARDS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our bastard-children are but like to plate
Last Line: Made by the coyners illegitimate.
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


FULFILLMENT, by NELL FARRINGTON MYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She never felt new life, of her a part
Last Line: And motherhood's sweet immortality.
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Mothers; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


LITTLE CYRUS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily mayfield all the day
Last Line: "hush, my darling, it was not I."
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Bastards


POLYGAMY, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When an official goes upcountry
Last Line: His name green as unreaped fantasy.
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Polygamy; Thailand; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But hear, if you stay, and the child be born
Last Line: Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame.'
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Love - Marital; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE BALLAD OF A DAFT GIRL, by DOROTHY ALDIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old lay's son
Last Line: Eyes and died.
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Girls; Pregnancy; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


THE ILLEGITIMATE, by JOHN A. STOVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tainted thing it came into the world
Last Line: As though it were an angel undefiled.
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


THE INQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the rose of keenest thorn
Last Line: Amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Under The Rose; %'the Iniquity Of The Fathers Upon The Children'
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Flowers; Roses; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


THE NATURAL CHILD, by HELEN LEIGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let not the title of my verse offen
Last Line: Who, in such depths of misery, plunge the fair?
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


THE WEDDING MORNING, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tabitha dressed for her wedding
Last Line: "she can have him. I shall not mourn!"
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives