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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHURCHILL, JOHN (1650-1722) Matches Found: 6 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SATIRICAL ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A LATE FAMOUS GENERAL, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: His grace! Impossible! What dead! Last Line: Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung. Subject(s): Churchill, John (1650-1722); Marlborough, 1st Duke Of CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While crouds of princes your deserts proclaim Last Line: And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the proud frenchman's strong rapacious hand Last Line: In private hours by all who knew him lov'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Churchill, John (1650-1722); Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Marlborough, 1st Duke Of REPUBLICAN PROCESSION, SELS., by EDWARD WARD Poem Source First Line: When this ill-favour'd troop was past Last Line: With rats-tails tuck'd behind their ears Subject(s): Ambition; Churchill, John (1650-1722) THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a summer evening Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory." Variant Title(s): After Blenheim Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology THE DEATH OF MARLBOROUGH, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun shines on the chamber wall Last Line: "aye, something then, but now!" Subject(s): Churchill, John (1650-1722); Marlborough, 1st Duke Of |
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