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Subject: MARLBOROUGH, 1ST DUKE OF
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SATIRICAL ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A LATE FAMOUS GENERAL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: His grace! Impossible! What dead!
Last Line: Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
Subject(s): Churchill, John (1650-1722); Marlborough, 1st Duke Of


JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the proud frenchman's strong rapacious hand
Last Line: In private hours by all who knew him lov'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Churchill, John (1650-1722); Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Marlborough, 1st Duke Of


THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a summer evening
Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory."
Variant Title(s): After Blenheim
Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology


THE DEATH OF MARLBOROUGH, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun shines on the chamber wall
Last Line: "aye, something then, but now!"
Subject(s): Churchill, John (1650-1722); Marlborough, 1st Duke Of