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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BEGGAR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I beg of you, I beg of you, my brothers
Last Line: Pray for me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Love; Pain; Sin; Soul; Suffering; Misery


A MARRIAGE BETWIXT SCRAPE ... AND BLOBBERLIPS ..., SELS, by ALEXANDER PENNECUIK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Below fair peebles, on the river's side
Last Line: There they lie.'
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Brides; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A PAUPER POET, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a vast city's swarming street, / where crowds sweep wave-like on
Last Line: In climes that oceans part!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Poetry & Poets; Poverty


A SEASONABLE MORAL, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman sang her ballad to the sky
Last Line: The chance is such as you ought not to take.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Gifts & Giving; Good Samaritan; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AFTER UNGARETTI; I.M. DARRELL GRAY, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The coin / fell through / the beggar's / palm
Last Line: Right in the video
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


ALMS, by HAFEZ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beggar begs by god's command
Last Line: Nor stab the love that orphans keep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hafiz, Kwaja Shams Al-din Muhammad; Hafiz Of Shiraz; Hafez, Mohammad Shams Od-din
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


AN ITALIAN BEGGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho, little girl, the road beside
Last Line: For this land of lands and this day of days!
Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Flowers; Hearts; Italy; Roses; Italians


AN OLD WOMAN, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw her as I passed her corner
Last Line: Worn, utterly weary, she was asleep.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Homeless; Old Age


AT CHAMBERS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the chamber, where now uncaring
Last Line: Than in earning the right to a song!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Mothers


BEGGAR, by DOROTHY GREY SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the beggar who cries for life
Last Line: Where any passer can see!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Poverty


BEGGAR TO BEGGAR CRIED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time to put off the world and go somewhere
Last Line: "the wind-blown clamour of the barnacle-geese."
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


BEGGAR WOMAN, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was four years old my mother led me to the park.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Begging & Beggars


BEGGAR'S LUCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Where did you sleep in the country, lad?
Last Line: And drove me away with stones.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Environment; Fields; Homeless; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


BEGGAR'S SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Good people keep their holy day
Last Line: And tender feelings in your heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


BEGGAR'S SONG, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a seed. Food
Last Line: Screaming for more.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Hunger


BEGGAR'S SONNET, by S. BERT COOKSLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Better be blind than see what beggars see
Last Line: Better stretch dead across the loco ferns.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


BEGGARS, by FRANCIS DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What noise of viols is so sweet
Last Line: Here's scraps enough for to-day.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


BEGGARS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jacob gods beggar was; and so we wait
Last Line: (though ne're so rich) all beggars at his gate.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Jacob (bible)


BEGGARS, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child with the hungry eyes
Last Line: And I, alas! For peace.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


BEGGARS, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am pacing the mall in a rapt reverie
Last Line: That begging is only their 'muscular motion.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


BEGGARS, by BESSIE MAAS ROWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like eve I coveted untasted things
Last Line: His, but a twisted body in the rain.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


BENNY THE BEGGAR, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old benny the beggar, pocked, ragged and blind
Last Line: And hang himself in her corset strings.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Poverty; Sin


BITING OF BEGGARS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who, railing, drives the lazar from his door
Last Line: Instead of almes, sets dogs upon the poor.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


BLIND BARTIMAEUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind bartimaeus at the gates
Last Line: "thy faith from blindness gives release!"
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Bible; Blindness; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Religion; Visually Handicapped; Theology


BUCOLIC COMEDY: PAVANE, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Annunciata stands
Last Line: Reached the beggar's daughter.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Dancing & Dancers


BUMS AT BREAKFAST, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daily, the bums sat down to eat in our kitchen.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Family Life; Food & Eating; Morning; Relatives


CIVILIZED, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dirty and dull, she plods along the street
Last Line: And stops before the moving-picture shows.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


COMPASSION, by RALPH ERNEST WEBBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot reap a profit's gain
Last Line: And end the night in shame, afraid.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Compassion; Homeless; Hunger


CRAIGBILLY FAIR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I went up to craigbilly fair
Last Line: And away went the beggar-men all in a row
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;festivals; Fairs;pageants


EGYPT AND THE CROMWELL ROAD, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A beggar walked in front of me
Last Line: Into the shadows and the rain.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Egypt


EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons
Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


EPIGRAM: A LAME BEGGAR, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am unable, yonder begger cries
Last Line: To stand, or move; if he say true, hee lies.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


ESCUTCHEON, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Something of the abundance of trees, of woods, of deep wells
Last Line: The perfect ...
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Poverty


FARE FOR A GYPSY HEART, by LOUIS RAGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The heart of me is like a railroad bum
Last Line: Where cups of tea are prelude to a lunch.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


GENERATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People who are going to be
Last Line: By their invisibility / denounce us
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Change; Social Problems


HOW FAR THE ROAD, by EDITH FOSTER CHASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have seen him and so have I
Last Line: If he is -- how far the road must wind.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


HUMAN INTERLUDE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was standing against / the wall near
Last Line: About the drowning money
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


KING COPHETUA'S WOOING; A SONG DRAMA IN ONE ACT, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could I but keep my beggar's staff
Last Line: Blue and low.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Courts & Courtiers; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists


LOVE AND PITY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love came a beggar to her gate
Last Line: May count love's siege and battle done
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;love;pity


MENDICANTS, by M. E. H. EVERETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Foot-sore, weary, o'er the hills
Last Line: Sings her voice in glad content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Everett, M. E. H.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


ODELETTE, by GREGOIRE LE ROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I might have made all men aware
Last Line: Lest all his wealth of love be known.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Love


OF CHARITY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A beggar died last night; his soul
Last Line: "my son hath lived in vain!"
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Philanthropy


OL' CLOTHES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The junk man passed the house today
Last Line: Ol' woes!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


ON A FAIR BEGGAR, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Barefoot and ragged, with neglected hair
Last Line: And those fair locks shall pour down showers of gold.
Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Cophetua, King (legend); Love


ROMAN DIARY: 1951, by JOHN CIARDI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rag woman, half a child
Last Line: “if I go broke,” I said, “I'll rent a baby”
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Begging & Beggars


SALVE, REX DEI GRACIA!, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lived a man who was wise and old
Last Line: And how on earth should a singer know?
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Death; Poverty; Writing & Writers; Dead, The


SAY PARDON TO A BUM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And follow your own will / in the open spaces ahead
Subject(s): Liberty; Identity; Begging & Beggars


SOFT WINGS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a beggar woman bare
Last Line: Would warm a world for everyone!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Mothers


ST. MARTIN AND THE BEGGAR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the freezing cold and the blinding snow
Last Line: Soldier and servant and knight of christ.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Jesus Christ


STREET SONGS: 2. THE BEGGAR, by WALLACE STEVENS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet in this morn there is a darkest night
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cities; Urban Life


TALK WITH PRUDENCE TO A BEGGAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Have sometimes proved deadly sweet!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BALLAD OF THE BEGGAR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The starlings fly in the windy sky
Last Line: If I had a horse to ride!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR, by MARGARET E. BRUNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day was one of weariness
Last Line: My spirit had been fed?
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Showing his ill-made frame
Last Line: "hiding his loneliness."
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Compassion; Sympathy; Empathy


THE BEGGAR, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the ships blow up and the towers fall down
Last Line: Where the roof-signs flare on cornice and mast.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day, all the day, in the dust, in the heat
Last Line: These cry out unheard, and must die on the street.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Homeless; Money; Poverty; Philanthropy


THE BEGGAR, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow will soon be flying, the snow we
Last Line: Tea, and wonder why the county won't feed such skates as he.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Poverty; Philanthropy


THE BEGGAR, by JOEL T. ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poor, blind pete
Last Line: O, in the name of god!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Begging & Beggars; Despair; Poverty


THE BEGGAR, by SAUNDERS WHITELAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old sea-fog, in a tattered veil
Last Line: With the plum's white beauty overspread.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Dragons


THE BEGGAR AND THE DIVINE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In some good books one reads of a divine
Last Line: Still praising him, and to his will resign'd.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All on a golden morning the beggar maid did go
Last Line: "and I must gather berries, the hazel-nut and sloe."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR MAID [AND KING COPHETUA], by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her arms across her breast she laid
Last Line: This beggar maid shall be my queen!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR TO MAB, THE FAIRIE QUEEN, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Please your grace, from out your store
Last Line: I return your almes agen.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Fairies; Supernatural; Elves


THE BEGGAR WOMAN, by WILLIAM KING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: A gentleman in hunting rode astray
Last Line: To try a year or two how you'll keep this.'
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL-GREENE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it was a blind beggar, had long lost his sight"
Last Line: "all with his fair lady, the pretty bessee"
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;blindness; Visually Handicapped


THE BEGGAR'S HOLIDAY, FR. BEGGAR'S BUSH, by JOHN FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cast your caps and cares away
Last Line: He doth owe unto his rags.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR'S LOOK, by JEAN RICHEPIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old tramp on the prowl for bread
Last Line: Saw my guilt, and spake no lies.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Guilt


THE BEGGAR'S PETITION, by THOMAS MOSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man!
Last Line: O, give relief, and heaven will bless your store.
Variant Title(s): The Beggar
Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR'S SOLILOQUY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, this, to my notion, is pleasant cheer
Last Line: May I perish! -- we're never contented -- heigho!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE BEGGAR'S VALENTINE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kiss me and comfort my heart
Last Line: From the child of god at the gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGAR-MAN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A beggar sat by the king's highway
Last Line: All on the king's highway!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGARS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the beggars who possess the earth
Last Line: Is over, and the dark is on the way.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BEGGER, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I a daily begger be
Last Line: Cold comfort still I'm sure lives there.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE BLIND BEGGAR, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stands, a patient figure, where the crowd
Last Line: Pleading in his reproachful misery.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Blindness; Visually Handicapped


THE COMPLAINTS OF THE POOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And wherefore do the poor complain?
Last Line: And these have answer'd thee!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Experience; Pain; Poverty; Reason; Wealth; Suffering; Misery; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Riches; Fortunes


THE CRIPPLED BEGGAR SPEAKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, peter was shaggy, his garments were coarse
Last Line: That he hadn't a penny that day!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Kindness; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE DEAD BEGGAR, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swells then thy feeling heart, and streams thine eye
Last Line: He rests upon the mercies of his god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE DEATH OF THE OLD MENDICANT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a rich old gentleman
Last Line: And never turned any one away from his door.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Death; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The


THE DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I dreamed that, buried in my fellow clay"
Last Line: "here all are equal, now thy case is mine: / this is my rotting-place, and that is thine"
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;dreams;sleep; Nightmares


THE FRENCH OF VICTOR HUGO: FOR A BLIND BEGGAR, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like homer's self, or belisarius blind
Last Line: He cannot see; god watches in his stead.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Blindness; Visually Handicapped


THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cursing rogue with a merry face
Last Line: The clouds were brightening with the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Begging & Beggars


THE JOLLY BEGGAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "there was a jolly beggar, and a begging he was born"
Last Line: Let the moon shine ne'er so bright
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE JOLLY BEGGAR, by JAMES V    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a jolly beggar, and a begging he was born
Last Line: And we'll gang nae mair a-rovin' ...
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE JOVIAL BEGGAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a jovial beggar
Last Line: And begging will we go
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;happiness; Joy;delight


THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year two thousand and one
Last Line: In the world, to pull my legs!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE OLD BEGGAR, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When buttercups break on each grassy side
Last Line: And that, if today will not, tomorrow may!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Misfortune; Selfishness


THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw an aged beggar in my walk
Last Line: So in the eye of nature let him die!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE OLD TRAMP, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In this dark ditch my life shall pass away
Last Line: The poor old tramp now dies your bitter foe.
Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE OLD VAGABOND, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in the ditch my bones I'll lay
Last Line: The aged beggar dies your bitter foe!
Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE PATH-FLOWER, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A red-cap sang in bishop's wood
Last Line: I watched her vanishing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Forests; Gifts & Giving; Spring; Strangers; Woods


THE PAUPER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad and seedy pauper has no one for a
Last Line: The kettle boil; for visions all are bootless which are not backed by toil.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Homeless; Idleness; Poverty; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE PEACEMAKER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When she threatened to leave me
Last Line: And begged to be nursed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Love


THE PENCIL SELLER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pencil, sir; a penny - won't you buy?
Last Line: I hope you'll find me, sir; good-night, good-night.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Paris, France; Poverty; Salespersons; Selling


THE PHILOSOPHICAL BEGGAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When I went in the woods this morn to sleep
Last Line: And they will envy none their cloth or land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE STRANGER'S ALMS, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lyons, on the mart of that french town
Last Line: For the two beggars in the market-place.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Singing & Singers; Philanthropy; Songs


THE STURDY BEGGAR, by WILLIAM MCQUEEN (1841-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm a beggar auld, fu' o' cracks an' canty
Last Line: I'm the only man, truly independent.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE THREE BEGGARS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas autumn daybreak gold and wild
Last Line: And blessed the good st. Ann.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Fairies; Elves


THE THREE BEGGARS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though to my feather in the wet
Last Line: If but I do not seem to care.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snow fell
Last Line: God had released her.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cold; Death; God; Salvation; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The


TO A PANHANDLER WHO, FOR A QUARTER, SAID 'GOD BLESS YOU', by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You held out your hand, expecting (on the average) nothing
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Gratitude; God


TRUE CHARITY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gave a beggar from my little store
Last Line: And now he begs no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Hunger; Philanthropy


UNDER THE ROUND TOWER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although I'd lie lapped up in linen
Last Line: On great-grandfather's battered tomb.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Dreams


WEST LONDON, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crouched on the pavement, close by belgrave square
Last Line: And points us to a better time than ours.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Freedom; London; Liberty