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Subject: JUDGES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CASE IN P'INT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't go much on lawin'
Last Line: "you can take the witness now!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Judges; Law & Lawyers


A FLIGHT OF FANCY, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the bar of judge conscience, stood reason
Last Line: The hole in the lock, which she could not undo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Judges; Law & Lawyers; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


A LOCAL POLITICIAN FROM AWAY BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jedge is good at argyin'--
Last Line: Sence back in '56.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Judges; Money; Politics & Government


A TRIBUTE TO MR J. GRAHAM HENDERSON, THE WORLD'S FAIR JUDGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice welcome home to hawick, mr j. Graham henderson
Last Line: And to gainsay it there's few people can.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Honor; Judges; Praise


AN EASTERN JUDGE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before a judge two arabs came
Last Line: "the gold is thine: go now thy way."
Subject(s): Gold; Judges


AT THE COURT-HOUSE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No! No! I don't defend him
Last Line: He hadn't gone quite so wrong
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;guilt;innocence;judges;law & Lawyers


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


CONSCIENTIOUS JUDGE, by HELEN W. FOWLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the bench I hear all day
Last Line: Jail him who stole a loaf or two.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Judges


DEFENDER OF MY SON'S ASSAILANT, by SHOASHAUNA SHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: His voice is chamois-soft and slopes
Last Line: For those who are seasick, ache for shoreline
Subject(s): Judges; Sons; Trials


DON SEBASTIAN: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The judge removed, though he's no more my lord
Last Line: And let him pay his taxes out in writing.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Religious Discrimination; British Empire; England - Empire; Dramatists; Religious Conflict


EEN COURT, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was een court wan day las' week
Last Line: A man dat was so kind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Judges


FEMALE TRANSPORT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come all young girls, both far and near, and listen unto me"
Last Line: For fear like us you spend your days upon dieman's shore
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;girls;judges;trials


GEHAZI, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence comest thou, gehazi
Subject(s): Judges


JAMES BARR AMES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twin soul of coke! A peerless master, he
Last Line: Of him whose work endureth to the end.
Subject(s): Ames, James Barr (1846-1910); Judges; Praise


JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Almighty judge, how shall poor wretches brook
Last Line: There thou shalt finde my faults are thine.
Subject(s): Judges; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


JUDGMENT SEATS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O little flower, / o tiny golden sun
Last Line: Some judgment seat!
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Judges; Judgments; State Rights; Secession


LAW, by ALEKSANDAR RISTOVIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Put aside the papers, your honor
Last Line: In the folds of her woolen cape
Subject(s): Judges


ON RUTT, THE JUDGE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rutt, to the suburb beauties full well known
Last Line: Whither should goats but to the mountains go?
Subject(s): Judges


PIRON, AND THE JUDGE OF THE POLICE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Piron, a poet of the gallic nation
Last Line: "so we are quits."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judges; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Police


PROVERBS OF THE MIDLE WORLD, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The perfect swan upon the perfect lake
Last Line: The courts of lust shall judge the innocent
Subject(s): Conscience; Judges; Proverbs; Maxims; Adages


ROY BEAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "cowboys, come and hear a story of roy bean in all his glory"
Last Line: Which concludes this very interesting song
Subject(s): "bean, Roy (1852-1903);judges;


THAT OTHER MAUD MULLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maud muller worked at making hay
Last Line: And raked the judge instead of the hay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cups; Judges; May (month)


THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The realm of france possessed, in days of old
Last Line: "strike the whole head at once from god's!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Judges; Trials


THE FARMER'S WIFE AND THE GASCON, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At neufchatel, in france, where they prepare
Last Line: The bottle-nose belonging to the judge!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Farm Life; Judges; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE INDIAN EMPEROR: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Almighty critics! Whom our indians here
Last Line: And leave the rest upon the poet's hands.
Subject(s): Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists


THE JUDGE'S DECISION, by J. W. KEVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas years ago on the barcoo when flashy jockey clubs
Last Line: "der vinner of dis (hic) handicap, he vos (hic) a tampd piebald!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferres, Arthur
Subject(s): Horse Racing; Judges


THE RIVAL LADIES: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis much desired, you judges of the town
Last Line: All that want wit, or hope to find it here.
Subject(s): Judges; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists


THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They stand like sentries at a country's gates
Last Line: While men have no appeal except to him.
Subject(s): Judges; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Trials; United States - Supreme Court; Attorneys


TO THE JUDGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend of my earliest youth
Last Line: Can't you arrange to come down?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Judges; Spring; Youth


TRYING TO FEEL SOMETHING, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone is always trying to feel something
Last Line: Although I drink it anyway for something to do?
Subject(s): Judges; Youth; Conduct Of Life; Judgments


UPON MY LORD CHIEF JUSTICE HIS ELECTION OF MY LADY ANNE WENTWORTH FOR HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear this, and tremble, all
Last Line: I know no heaven but fair wentworth's eyes!
Subject(s): Judges; Love


VERSES ON THE UPRIGHT JUDGE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The church I hate, and have good reason
Last Line: Then, I must be so too, ex traduce
Subject(s): Judges


WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dictate, o mighty judge, what thou hast seen
Last Line: While talbot tells the world, where montaigne erred.
Subject(s): Cities; England; France; Judges; Wisdom; Urban Life; English