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Subject: PARRICIDE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` PARRICIDE; ABRAHAM LINCOLN - APRIL 14, 1865, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the warrior gauntlet grim
Last Line: From his ashes makes us freemen still.
Subject(s): Assassination; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parricide; Presidents, United States


PHARSALIA, by LUCAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where eurus blows, and wintry suns arise
Last Line: There met the war's worst rage, and caesar's blackest deeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Subject(s): Parricide; Pharsalia, Greece


PINDARIC ODE: BRUTUS, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Excellent brutus, of all human race
Last Line: And shew'd thee a god crucify'd.
Subject(s): Brutus, Marcus Junius (85 B.c.- 42 B.c.) ; Parricide