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Subject: PHILLIPS, WENDELL (1811-1884)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One by one they go
Last Line: God send his like again!
Subject(s): Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884)


POSTPRANDIAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dutch have taken holland,' so the schoolboys used to say
Last Line: Another hans as handsome, -- as bright a man as he!
Subject(s): Harvard University; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903); Netherlands; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Holland; Dutch People


SONNET: 23. WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide
Last Line: Through all the wide-spread veins of endless good.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States


WENDELL PHILLIPS, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: People's attorney, servant of the right
Last Line: Impartial history dare not leave thee out.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the
Last Line: Union was traitor to right!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States