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Subject: CLIVE, ROBERT, BARON (1725-1774)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SUMMARY HISTORY OF LORD CLIVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: About a hundred and fifty years ago
Last Line: But the greatest of them all was robert clive.
Subject(s): Biography; Clive, Robert, Baron (1725-1774); History; India; Biographers; Historians


CLIVE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I and clive were friends - and why not?
Last Line: We'll hope condoned.
Subject(s): Clive, Robert, Baron (1725-1774); Friendship


LORD CLIVE, by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What I like about clive %is that he is no longer alive
Last Line: There is a great deal to be said %for being dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Bentley, E. C.
Subject(s): Clive, Robert, Baron (1725-1774); Death