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Subject: FOLLY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ESTHER: 37, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She went on talking like a running stream
Subject(s): Folly


ESTHER: 38, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who might describe the humours of the night
Subject(s): Folly


THE SUPERLATIVE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: How strange a paradox is human life
Last Line: Yet proud to nurse an unrelenting wretchedness.
Subject(s): Pride; Folly; Paradoxes