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Subject: GAY, JOHN (1685-1732)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPIGRAM. IMITATED BY GOLDSMITH, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well then, poor g- lies under the ground
Last Line: Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back.
Variant Title(s): Epitaph On G --
Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732)


EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said
Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n.
Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires
Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors


EPITAPH ON MR. GAY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of manners gentle, of affections mild
Last Line: Striking their pensive bosoms -- here lies gay.
Variant Title(s): On Mr. Gay
Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732); Westminster Abbey


ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: As rochfoucault [or rochfoucauld] his maxims drew
Last Line: "I wish it soon may have a better."
Variant Title(s): Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift
Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Rochefoucauld, Francois De La (1613-80); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Dead, The; Liberty


TO MR. GAY, WHO WROTE HIM A CONGRATULATORY LETTER ON FINISHING HOUSE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, friend! 'tis true - this truth you lovers know
Last Line: Bleeds drop by drop, and pants his life away.
Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732); Houses; Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)


TO MR. GAY; ON HIS BEING STEWARD TO THE DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How could you, gay, disgrace the muses' train
Last Line: His snot into the mess; 'tis all his own.
Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732)


VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (1), by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho the dean has run from us in manner uncivil
Last Line: We'll not be slow to visit dr. Swift.
Subject(s): Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Gay, John (1685-1732); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718); Physicians; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers; Mortimer, Earl Of; Doctors