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Subject: ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES (1712-1778)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 23, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Voltaire and rousseau, these were thy twin priests
Last Line: "and shouted ""ichabod, ay, ichabod!"
Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De


INSCRIPTION FOR THE CENOTAPH AT ERMENONVILLE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger! The man of nature lies not here
Last Line: From hence returning purified of heart.
Subject(s): Introspection; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Strangers; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De


PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED; A FABLE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall not ask jean jacques rousseau
Last Line: But proper time to marry.
Subject(s): Fables; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Allegories


ROUSSEAU, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: That odd, fantastic ass, rousseau
Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)


ROUSSEAU, by JOANNA FUHRMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman and someone
Last Line: Yes,' she answers, 'yes'
Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)


ROUSSEAU, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O monument of shame to this our time
Last Line: Rousseau enlisted christians into men
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Freedom; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)


ROUSSEAU IN HIS DAY, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many nights the solitary lamp had burned
Last Line: Our unchosen soil-crumbs. It was not %what he'd expected or the world supposes
Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778)


SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rousseau, voltaire, our gibbon, and de stael
Last Line: Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): "lake Leman;""rousseau-voltaire-our Gibbon-and De Stael"";
Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Stael, Anna (necker) De (1766-1817); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Leman, Lake