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Subject: COURTHOUSES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BIRDCAGE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrapped in blankets, it looks like a body humped in the bed
Last Line: I drop a ring into a birdcage with a clink that wakes me as I say, % I do.
Subject(s): Birdcages; Courthouses; Crime And Criminals; Judges; Prisons And Prisoners


LOOKING OVER VERMONT TOWN RESORTS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along before marchmeeting day
Last Line: And them that search the town reports.
Subject(s): Courthouses; Towns; Vermont


OLD CAHOKIA COURTHOUSE, by MARTHA F. SIMMONDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know not what french fingers, eager, quick
Last Line: And nothing stirs -- life with these logs is done!
Subject(s): Courthouses


PRISONS OF GRACE: SO MUCH FOR NOVELTY, by JOSEPH P. WOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the court, the great leapers are applauded
Last Line: So why, my little columbus, shall we speak of it?
Subject(s): Courthouses; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials


THE TRIAL OF SALIM THE PERSIAN, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The court was met, the prisoner brought
Last Line: And only virtue's friends be yours.'
Subject(s): Courthouses; Trials


WATCH BOOK, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was beautiful when it was summer
Last Line: Cutting capers. It is eight o'clock. Time for bed. %that is all, is all
Subject(s): Courthouses; Guard Duty; Kidnapping; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives