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Subject: D'URFEY, THOMAS (1653-1723)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPITAPH ON TOM D'URFEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here lyes the lyrick, who with tale and song"
Last Line: "his song has ended, and his tale has told"
Subject(s): "d'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723);epitaphs;


PROLOGUE DESIGNED FOR MR. D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grown old in rhyme, 'twere barbarous to discard
Last Line: Nor force him to be damn'd, to get his living.
Subject(s): D'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723); Plays & Playwrights


THE EPSOM DUEL, 1689, by THOMAS (TOM) BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sing of a duel in epsom befel
Last Line: Thy clineas (oh sidney!) was never so match'd.
Subject(s): D'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723); Duels


TO MR. D'URFEY, UPON HIS INCOMPARABLE BALLADS CALL'D BY HIM LYRIC ODES, by THOMAS (TOM) BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou cur, half french, half english breed
Last Line: And pindar beat thy brains out.
Subject(s): D'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723); Hate


VERSES OCCASIONED .. MR. D'URFY'S NAME IN TITLE OF HIS PLAY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove call'd before him t'other day
Last Line: To the great name of tom durfy.
Subject(s): D'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)