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Subject: HEIRS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SHORT SONG OF CONGRATULATION, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long-expected one and twenty
Last Line: You can hang or drown at last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Variant Title(s): One And Twenty
Subject(s): Birthdays; Inheritance & Succession; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Wealth; Youth; Heirs; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Riches; Fortunes


FABLES: 2ND SER. 12. PAN AND FORTUNE, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon as your father's death was known
Last Line: But he by folly was undone.
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs


FROM JUNE TO JUNE, by NORMAN STAUNTON DIKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two lovers 'mong the weedy brake
Last Line: They bring their son and heir.
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; June; Heirs


HAME CONTENT: A SATIRE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some fock, like bees, fu glegly rin
Last Line: Wha mourn'd her fate, condol'd her woes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Money; Heirs


INHERITANCE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They left to me their house and land
Last Line: And no one speaks to me.
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs


INHERITANCE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Prometheus, pitying men
Last Line: In utter well-being.
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs


ROB. FERGUSSON'S LAST WILL, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While sober folks, in humble prose, / estate, and goods, and gear dispose
Last Line: Are sign'd by him at my command.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Death; Gifts & Giving; Inheritance & Succession; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Heirs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 19. THE WILL, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that life is nearly spent
Last Line: As they in their vileness wallow
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Life; Wills; Heirs


THE CHILD OF FRANCE; ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Exhausted, faint, and pale
Last Line: Our country, and our god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; France; Inheritance & Succession; Child Birth; Midwifery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heirs


THE GRIEF OF AN HEIR, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rich man's heir, his father's spirit fled
Last Line: And, could we doubt them, we were fools indeed.
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Heirs


THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes
Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh.
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery


THE THREE-CORNERED LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Said the farmer to his daughter: 'when I die, as like as not
Last Line: "and the stone walls of the foolish man wherewith to build a home."
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers & Daughters; Inheritance & Succession; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Villius the wealthy farmer left his heir
Last Line: That fourtie pounds serue not the farmers heyre.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Inheritance & Succession; Money; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs; Riches; Fortunes


WITH A DIAMOND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While time a grim old lion gnawing lay
Last Line: Signing the will that leaves it to an heir.
Subject(s): Diamonds; Inheritance & Succession; Tears; Time; Heirs