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Subject: LIBEL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SCANDAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the inlet's ebb and rise
Last Line: "I firmly believe that the tale was true!)"
Subject(s): Defamation; Marriage; New York City - Dutch Period; Slander; Libel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CALUMNY, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A whisper woke the air
Last Line: And that -- it broke!
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Variant Title(s): Slander
Subject(s): Defamation; Grief; Slander; Libel; Sorrow; Sadness


HE HAS BEEN THERE HIMSELF, by WELBY WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: They will send you off to college
Last Line: Pretty prue.
Subject(s): Chastity; Defamation; Slander; Libel


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: INTRODUCTION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When vex'd by slander's treacherous breath
Last Line: Will bleed to death sweetly.
Subject(s): Anger; Defamation; Faith; Slander; Libel; Belief; Creed


RUMOUR AND SLANDER, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rumour was the messenger
Last Line: Appear'd ten thousand slanders, all his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Subject(s): Defamation; Rumors; Slander; Libel


SLANDER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas but a breath
Last Line: Lies crushed beneath its blight
Subject(s): Defamation; Slander;libel


THE APOLOGY; ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride
Last Line: If reason's for me, god is for me too.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Defamation; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Slander; Libel


THE DEATH OF A PUBLIC SERVANT; IN MEMORIAM, HERBERT NORMAN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a day when good men die from windows
Last Line: Take these to your shade: of rage, of grief, of love.
Subject(s): Defamation; Mccarthyism; Suicide; Women; Women's Rights; Slander; Libel; Feminism


THE LAST ILLUSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We only played at love
Last Line: Something holds us fast.
Subject(s): Defamation; Duplicity; Hallucinations And Illusions; Love; Slander; Libel; Deceit


TO A FRIEND WHO HAD BEEN MUCH ABUSED..MANY INVETERATE LIBELS, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The greatest monarch may be stabbed by night
Last Line: And buy distinction at the dearest rate?
Subject(s): Defamation; Slander; Libel


TO DR. DELANY, ON THE LIBELS WRIT AGAINST HIM, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As some raw youth in country bred
Last Line: Be that my motto, and my fate.
Subject(s): Defamation; Slander; Libel


VISIONS IN VERSE: 1. SLANDER, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lovely girl, I write for you
Last Line: And skulk'd away to shun the light.
Subject(s): Defamation; Human Behavior; Slander; Libel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature