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Subject: LANDLORDS & TENANTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LANDLORDS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I now a hearing from the landlord crave
Last Line: Whate'er man hath he may not call his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants


AN ADIEU TO MY LANDLADY, by GEORGE FAREWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mayst thou die desperate in some dirty pool
Last Line: I can't forbear to flog the wicked witch.
Subject(s): Farewell; Landlords & Tenants; Parting


AN AUTUMN CAROL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, our hearts are aglow with contentment
Last Line: For there 's heat in the steam-pipes to-day!
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Heat; Landlords & Tenants; Seasons; Fall


AN INVITATION TO THE POOR TENANTS, by THOMAS ROWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all you laboring hands
Last Line: We'll not resign.
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants


BACHELOR'S LANDLADY, by HYDE CLAYTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lord employed a quaint disguise
Last Line: Porting a luscious lemon pie!!!
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants


BALLAD OF THE LANDLORD, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Landlord, landlord. / my roof has sprung a leak
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Landlords & Tenants; Negroes; American Blacks


BEHOLD THE DEEDS!; CHANT ROYAL, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would that all men my [hard] case would [or, might] know
Last Line: Behold the deeds that are done of mrs. Jones!
Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Landlords & Tenants


EPITAPH: JOHN BUCKETT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And is alas! Poor buckett gone
Last Line: Still guarding stockbridge with thy sign
Subject(s): Epitaphs;landlords & Tenants


EVICTION, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long years their cabin stood
Last Line: Where are the rest?
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants


I WANT A TENANT; A SATIRE, by JOHN O'KEEFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His speculation he regretted
Last Line: Before bob sowden's house you rent!
Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, John
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants


IN AN APARTMENT, by ELLEN MARIE JENSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I live in a new apartment
Last Line: And shrill violin!
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants; Moving & Movers; Noises


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 1. LORD CRASHTON, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joining sir ulick's at the river's bend
Last Line: And curses all things from his easy chair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Despair; Fields; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 2. FINLAY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Finlay, next landlord (I'll abridge the tale),
Last Line: A hard but honest man', as people say.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Distrust; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Possessions


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 3. ISAAC BROWN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pass on to isaac brown, a man elect
Last Line: Resumes his bench, and wipes his reeking face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants; Mortgages; Neighbors; Portraits; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In early morning twilight, raw and chill
Last Line: And firesides buried under fallen thatch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Landlords & Tenants; Orphans; Police; Poverty; Strikes; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


LODGINGS FOR SINGLE GENTLEMEN, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who has e'er been in london, that overgrown place
Last Line: "but I'd rather not perish, while you make your bread."
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants; London


MR. BRIGHT ON THE LAW OF ENTAIL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To broad lands though a foe, to broad brims still a friend
Last Line: John's speech has already made all of them quakers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Friends, Religious Society Of; Landlords & Tenants; Quakers


SELLING MAGRITTE'S HOUSE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The train in the fireplace
Last Line: The owner? A very regular man
Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Houses; Investments; Landlords & Tenants; Soldiers; Stocks; Bonds


THE HEATHER ON FIRE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: High on a granite boulder, huge in girth
Last Line: His body to the land that had begrudged a grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Famine; Highlands Of Scotland; Landlords & Tenants; Pain; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery


THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because, separated from us by a language
Last Line: From samsara to nirvana.
Subject(s): Hotels; Landlords & Tenants; Thailand; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE LANDLORD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What boot your houses and your lands
Last Line: The titles of the wise and brave.
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants


THE LAST LANDLORD, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who dread the cares and labors
Last Line: With no dread of moving-day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants


THE LEY OF THE LANDLORD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love my good ley on a clear winter's day
Last Line: When the cattle walk out and the cash comes in!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


VACATING AN APARTMENT, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Efficient as fate
Last Line: I'm moving out holding tombstones in my hands
Subject(s): Transience; Death; Landlords & Tenants; Impermanence; Dead, The


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 1. LANDLORDS & TENANTS, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon ye glowing eares; needs will it out
Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants