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| Searching... Subject: UPPER CLASSES Matches Found: 15 AN ODE TO SOCIETY, by HESTER LYNCH (SALUSBURY) PIOZZI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Society, gregarious dame Last Line: Thy best-loved sweets -- society. Alternate Author Name(s): Thrale, Mrs. Henry Subject(s): Upper Classes AT GRADUATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: While looking down the green highway Last Line: While looking down! Subject(s): Commencement; Upper Classes; Women; Graduation DAT'S RIGHT, AIN'T IT?, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De rich am gettin' richer Last Line: Ain't it? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Humanity; Social Classes; Upper Classes; Caste EPISTLE TO SIR THOMAS EGERTON, KNIGHT, LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEAL, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well hath the powerful hand of majesty Last Line: Power may have knees, but justice hath our hearts. Subject(s): Egerton, Thomas. Baron Ellesmere; Upper Classes LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sullen, grimy, labouring person, Last Line: So do I. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Envy; Upper Classes; Working Class; Envy; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers ON THE EVE OF THE PLEBISCITE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mistral blows, the plane leaves Last Line: By whose indifferent consent they rule Subject(s): Government; Upper Classes ON WATCHING MY STENOGRAPHER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If only the mechanism of society Last Line: By pressing a shift key! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Typewriters; Upper Classes PROSPERITY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When man is poor, and wealth or fame Last Line: Turns good fellows into bores. Subject(s): Fortune; Money; Upper Classes SLUM LORDS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Upper Classes; Absence; Neighbors; Separation; Isolation SOCIETY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Historic be the survey of our kind Last Line: They spring another flood of fangs and claws. Subject(s): Conscience; Law & Lawyers; Upper Classes THE ENTRANCE INTO ROUEN OF CHARLES THE BOLD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Counts, barons, captains, chevaliers, all gentlemen of lineage high Last Line: Flattering buzz of hushed applause through all the galleries. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Upper Classes; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE RICH MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rich man, in the diatribes of virtuous Last Line: Godless crimes. Subject(s): Gold; Money; Upper Classes; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TO A DYING CLASS, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI Poem Text First Line: They make thin perfume of a renaissance Last Line: And innocent they thank an angry god! Subject(s): Upper Classes TWENTY BLOCKS, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: The daughters of the rich Last Line: For my soul's quickening. ... Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Restaurants; Upper Classes; Cafes; Diners UNDER THE STARS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of summer stirs the trees Last Line: Grow lovely in life's afterglow. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Stars; Summer; Upper Classes; Sorrow; Sadness |
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