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Subject: WILLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will accept thy will to do and be
Last Line: I do not deprecate
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wills


A LAST WILL, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I, francois fonteney, coming to die
Last Line: Not with them, yet not far!
Subject(s): Wills


A LEGACY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, postumus, we all must go
Last Line: In three portmanteaus!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Wills


A SWEET NOSEGAY: AUTHOR MAKETH HER WILL & TESTAMENT: A COMMUNICATION ., by ISABELLA WHITNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The time is come I must departe
Last Line: Of that I leave them tyl.
Subject(s): London; Wills


A SWEET NOSEGAY: AUTHOR MAKETH HER WILL & TESTAMENT: THE MANNER OF ..., by ISABELLA WHITNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I whole in body and in minde
Last Line: No longer can I tary.
Subject(s): London; Wills


A WILL FOR A WILL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young tom, left out of his father's will
Last Line: Though there is not a will there is yet a way.
Subject(s): Wills


BALLADE OF THE SECOND-BEST BED, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the name of the almighty god, amen
Variant Title(s): The Second-best Bed
Subject(s): Wills; Beds; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


EXECUTION OF A WILL, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The long envelope
Last Line: Smooth the lapels %of a dead man's clothes
Subject(s): Death; Wills


FAUST BOOK: FAUST MAKES HIS WILL, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: After the specific legacies herein entered
Last Line: This need not be specified here
Subject(s): Faust; Wills


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES DESIRES A FEW LINES IN WRITING, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Here are the papers
Last Line: A little spittle clears you of this deed
Subject(s): Devil; Wills


INTERMEDIARY WILL, by FERENC RAKOCZY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every day I look for the unknown country, knowing all the while
Last Line: Only throw light on the hand held out above the muddy holes
Subject(s): Time; Wills


LAPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the last war we drafted pages and pages
Last Line: Sitting up in the seminaked sunshine, %his hair blowing all around
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Relationships; Travel; Wills


MAMMON'S PLEA: A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many seeming weak acts by contrivance are done
Last Line: "may'r, aldermen, burgesses, town-clerk, and all."
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Devil; Greed; Law & Lawyers; Story-telling; Wills; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Avarice; Cupidity


MIRA'S WILL, by MARY LEAPOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imprimis - my departed shade I trust
Last Line: In body healthy, and composed in mind.
Subject(s): Wills


MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER LAST WILL, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the precious leg while cash was flush
Last Line: And that very night to administer!
Subject(s): Wills


MY WILL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I have no lands or houses
Last Line: You will keep them for my sake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Life; Love; Wills


POSTHUMOUS TALES: TALE 20. THE WILL, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus to his friend an angry father spoke
Last Line: Till the night falls, and he can walk no more.
Subject(s): Wills


RIVINGTON'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since life is uncertain, and no one can say
Last Line: Squire john coghill knap, and brother hugh gaine.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Rivington, James (1724-1803); Wills


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 19. THE WILL, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that life is nearly spent
Last Line: As they in their vileness wallow
Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Life; Wills; Heirs


SORTING OF THE ENTANGLEMENTS, by BOB HICOK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my will the basement goes to the spiders
Last Line: To the hyacinth. I leave body to the unfashionable earth
Subject(s): Wills


W IS FOR WILL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: If I should die, this house is yours
Last Line: To be remembered by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Wills


WILL IN VERSE, INSCRIBED IN COPY OF MEMOIRS, C. 1670, by PHILIP MONKTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is my last will
Last Line: This twelfth of july %in the year seventy
Subject(s): Wills