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Subject: CORRUPTION IN POLITICS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REPUBLIC!, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her faith abandoned and her place despised
Last Line: Her gland pituitary being lost.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; United States; America


AFTER THE DELUGE, by WOLE SOYINKA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, for a dare
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Human Rights


AFTER THE DELUGE, by WOLE SOYINKA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, for a dare
Last Line: They hunt and mate %on crusted algae
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Human Rights


COLOSSUS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's awesome to have straddled a century
Last Line: To crumble into ruins with it
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Social Commentaries


CORRUPTION; AN EPISTLE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Boast on, my friend -- though stripp'd of all beside
Last Line: O england! Sinking england! Boast no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Freedom; Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Liberty; English Revolution, 1688


EPIGRAM ON SEEING A PAIR OF SCALES IN A LAWYER'S OFFICE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo here's the place where law prevails
Last Line: "a sign that justice there is sold."
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Hypocrisy; Law & Lawyers


FABLES: 2ND SER. 10. THE DEGENERATE BEES, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though courts the practice disallow
Last Line: We're honour'd by the virtuous few.
Subject(s): Bees; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


FABLES: 2ND SER. 4. THE ANT IN OFFICE, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You tell me that you apprehend
Last Line: As due, to publick use restor'd.
Subject(s): Ants; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Bugs


FABLES: 2ND SER. 9. THE JACKAL, LEOPARD, AND OTHER BEASTS, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I grant corruption sways mankind
Last Line: Time-serving tools, not friends, are bought.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics


FATHER TO SON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crooked? He was so crooked, son
Last Line: He'd shit a corkscrew
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Fathers And Sons; Ireland


FUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Corruption rhymes with dublin
Last Line: Relax. Enjoy the funny, stinking play.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dublin, Ireland


GENERAL DUDAYEV ENTERS THE NEW WORLD, by RACHEL LODEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In nature nothing disappears, or appears
Last Line: To live creatively in a changing world
Subject(s): Chechen, Socialist Republic; Corruption In Politics


IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles
Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?"
Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America


LONDON, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wander thro' each charter'd street
Last Line: And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
Variant Title(s): London
Subject(s): Bible; Corruption In Politics; London; Mythology; Poverty; Voices


ONE THING ONLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The politicians shout bellow roar
Last Line: Not me! Not me! Not me!
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Guilt; Politics


ORTHODOXIES 11, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She used to flog her girls, a madam, in a half-assed way. It
Last Line: Out of the embrace of a girl and a customer bear
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Turkish Literature; Women


PROGRESS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a leader riding. O how white!
Last Line: Unless disgrace and death pay god a toll.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Leadership


REMEMBER WARING! (THE CITY AGAINST TAMMANY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again the bugle-blow
Last Line: Remember waring.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Tammany Hall, New York City


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ADAM WEIRAUCH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was crushed between altgeld and armour
Last Line: That ruined me?
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics


THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You live in a sinking nation, stephen, in a stinking
Last Line: Of all the beauty and comradeship I've lost.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Social Protest; United States; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; America


TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone
Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build!
Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


WILLIAM THE TESTY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afar in the ages of quaint renown
Last Line: That governs the town of new amsterdam!
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Kieft, Willem (1597-1647); New York City - Dutch Period; Politics; Quarrels; Politicians; Political Poetry; Arguments; Disagreements