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Subject: FLAXMAN, JOHN (1755-1826)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ON F----- & S-----, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found them blind I taught them how to see
Last Line: A fool to a bolt a knave to a glass of gin
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834)


ON FLAXMAN'S [STATUE OF] PENELOPE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The suitors sinned, but with a fair excuse
Last Line: Who, for a wife so lovely, slew them all.
Subject(s): Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Sculpture & Sculptors


TO F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You call me mad tis folly to do so
Last Line: If you do not you are but what you was
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Insanity; Mythology; Madness; Mental Illness


TO FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I mock thee not, tho' I by thee am mocked
Last Line: Thou call'st me madman, but I call thee blockhead.
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology


TO NANCY F ---, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I help thy husband's copying me
Last Line: Should that make difference twixt me & thee
Subject(s): Bible; Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Mythology