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Subject: GREAT BRITAIN - POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARS GUBERNANDI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy subtlest gift is steersmanship, o sea!
Last Line: Skills not that day when rigid moorings break.
Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


ENGLAND AND THE S.A. REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be just and generous! Fear not thou
Last Line: The april buds remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - Politics & Government


MOB CONTRA MOB, OR, THE RABBLERS RABBLED, SELS., by WILLIAM MESTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now of all wars the ecclesiastick
Last Line: Backward in haste unto their lodging
Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Great Britain - Religion


ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE BOER REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whilst we debate upon their overthrow
Last Line: But do thou justice first and last of all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Boer War; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Patriotism; South African War


THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just!
Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys


THE MAYOR OF QUEENBOROUGH [QUINBOROUGH], by THOMAS MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What raynulph, monk of chester can
Last Line: From the convulsions it hath long endured. [exeunt.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Politics & Government; Tanners And Tanning