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Subject: GARTH, SIR SAMUEL (1661-1719)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN: TO MY HONOURED KINSMAN, JOHN DRIDEN, OF, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest is he who leads a country life
Last Line: Earth keeps the body, verse preserves the fame
Variant Title(s): To My Honoured Kinsman John Dryden, Of Chesterton; To My Honoured Kinsman, John Dride
Subject(s): Country Life; Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Poetry And Poets; Politics


SANDY'S GHOST; OR ... BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lords and commons, men of wit
Last Line: Quoth sandys: to waste-paper.
Subject(s): Dunton, John (1659-1733); Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sandys, George (1578-1644); Stanyan, Temple (d. 1752); Translating & Interpreting


SUMMER. THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A shepherd's boy (he seeks no better name)
Last Line: By night he scorches, as he burns by day.
Subject(s): Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Summer