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Subject: MANSIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ELEGY, WRITTEN AMONG THE RUINS OF A NOBLEMAN'S SEAT IN CORNWALL, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst these venerable drear remains
Last Line: A superstructure time can ne'er decay.
Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Mansions; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


GOING TO SEE THE TAJ MAHAL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we set out on the train to agra
Last Line: To free them from the so-called glamour of a mumtaz
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Mansions; Taj Mahal; Travel


HOUSES -- SO THE WISE MEN TELL ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some, would even trudge tonight!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 127; Poem: 13
Subject(s): Mansions


LIONEL AND LUCILLE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In the beautiful castleton island a mansion of lordly style
Last Line: She had married a count -- some pole with an unpronounceable name.
Subject(s): Islands; Life; Love; Mansions


OH, VEBLEN, THIS IS MUCH BETTER, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years and modes ago, in the heyday
Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Detroit, Mcihigan; Mansions


STATE OF THE UNION: 11. SONG OF THE RETIRED, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My own estate let me now give
Last Line: My children turn tenants to their peers
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Retired Public Servan
Subject(s): Household Employees; Landlords And Tenants; Mansions


THE DESERTED MANSION, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Damp and drear the lonely halls
Last Line: On the teachings of the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Mansions; Murder; Past


THE KING, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sham, who sittest boldly on the throne
Last Line: "its tardy homage and all cry, ""the king!"
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Mansions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE MANY MANSIONS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My father's house,-where doth it stand?
Last Line: The universe is thine.
Subject(s): Heaven; Mansions; Worship; Paradise


UNDERGROUND PALACE, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the ancient palace
Last Line: From the red soil ravaged %by rains and winds
Subject(s): Death; Mansions; Monuments