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Subject: LOTTERIES
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MIDWEEK, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plentiful people went to the cadillac drawing
Subject(s): Lotteries; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


TO FORTUNE: ON BUYING A TICKET IN THE IRISH LOTTERY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Promptress of unnumber'd sighs
Last Line: And yield the unsunn'd stranger to the western gale!
Subject(s): Lotteries


TO LADY B- W-, PRESENTING THE AUTHOR WITH A MOIETY OF A LOTTERY TICKET, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This ticket is to be divided;' - well
Last Line: Nor blanks the grateful sentiments efface.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Lotteries; Money; Numbers


TO THE LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL MISS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In wedlock a species of lottery lies,
Last Line: For what could I do with the whole?
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Lotteries