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Subject: ROWE, NICHOLAS (1674-1718)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPILOGUE TO ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE,' DESIGNED FOR MRS. OLDFIELD, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prodigious this! The frail-one of our play
Last Line: Come here in crowds, and stare the strumpet down.
Subject(s): Marriage; Oldfield, Anne (1683-1730); Plays & Playwrights; Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EPITAPH INTENDED FOR MR. ROWE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy relicks, rowe, to this fair urn we trust
Last Line: What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Subject(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Westminster Abbey


EPITAPH ON MR. ROWE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy reliques, rowe! To this sad shrine we trust
Last Line: That holds their ashes and expects her own.
Subject(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Westminster Abbey


FROM THE COUNTRY, TO MR. [NICHOLAS] ROWE IN TOWN. 1718, by SUSANNA (FREEMAN) CENTLIVRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: From a lonesome old house, near holbeach wash-way
Last Line: And that the next age may my happiness know, %that I lived, and was known to the excellent rowe
Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Susanna
Subject(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)


THE BRIDE IN THE COUNTRY, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: By the side of a half-rotten wood
Last Line: "stares wistfully over the pew."
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)