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Subject: JOHNSON, ESTHER (1681-1728)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1718, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stella this day is thirty-four
Last Line: To split my worship too in twain.
Variant Title(s): On Stella's Birthday
Subject(s): Aging; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728); Love; Middle Age


STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1720, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All travellers at first incline
Last Line: And crowd to stella's at four score.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728)


STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1723, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Resolved my annual verse to pay
Last Line: With stella's praise to crown the year
Subject(s): Birthdays; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728)


STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1725, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: As, when a beauteous nymph decays
Last Line: To make me deaf and mend my sight.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728)


STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1726-7, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This day, whate'er the fates decree
Last Line: That I'm alive to tell you so.
Variant Title(s): Stella's Birthday, March 13, 1727
Subject(s): Birthdays; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728)