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| Searching... Subject: BEGGING & BEGGARS Matches Found: 103 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'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 Text 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 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 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 Text 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'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'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'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'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 Text 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'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'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 Text 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 Text 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'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'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 Text 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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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 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'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 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'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'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'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 Text 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'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'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'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 |
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