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Subject: PENSIONS
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT PENSION TIME; TO A.R.F., by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At pension time when, worn and grey
Last Line: When we may rest—and pouch our pay—at pension time!
Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Old Age; Pensions; Time


FIFTY POUNDS A YEAR AND A PENSION, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have never seen the sun walk in the dawn
Last Line: For the pit.
Subject(s): Aging; Pensions


ON SEEING AN OFFICER'S WIDOW DISTRACTED - ARREARS OF PENSION, by MARY BARBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wretch! Hath madness cured thy dire despair?
Last Line: Ere pestilence or famine sweep the land.
Subject(s): Pensions; Widows & Widowers


SITTING OUTDOORS, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cap tipped back, propped by a window, still can't settle down
Last Line: Plain people sweating like this for one square meal, %and I sit eating government dole - wince whene
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): Pensions


THE PLURALIST AND OLD SOLDIER, by JOHN COLLIER (1708-1786)    Poem Text                    
First Line: A soldier maimed and in the beggar's list
Last Line: With the rough soldier, to eternity.
Subject(s): Pensions


THE SWEEPERS, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I sing of sweepers, frequent in thy streets, / augusta, as the flowers
Last Line: And perished in the streets from whence she sprung.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Pensions; Work; Workers