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Subject: YOUNG, EDWARD (1683-1765)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COPY OF VERSES UPON TWO CELEBRATED MODERN POETS, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold those monarch oaks that rise
Last Line: Should young and philips drudge together
Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749); Young, Edward (1683-1765)


NEW NIGHT THOUGHTS ON DEATH; A PARODY, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O night! Dark night! Wrapped round with stygian gloom!
Last Line: Fools banter heav'n itself, o young!—and thee!
Subject(s): Death; Night; Thought; Young, Edward (1683-1765); Dead, The; Bedtime; Thinking


ON READING DR. YOUNG'S SATIRES, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If there be truth in what you sing
Last Line: What land was ever half so cursed
Subject(s): Young, Edward (1683-1765)