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Subject: debates
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF FAIR LADIES IN REVOLT, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See the sweet women, friend, that lean beneath
Last Line: He who's for us, for him are we!
Subject(s): Debates; Women's Rights; Feminism


A CERTAIN POET ON THE DEBATES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do I speak with such authority?
Last Line: And drop a tear on all the sorry waste.
Subject(s): Lincoln-douglas Debates; Slavery; Serfs


BLACKBERRIES, SELS., by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear friend, so much admired, so oft desired
Last Line: His fame was rescued by a single plank
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Debates; Desire; Fame; Friendship; Revolutions


CAMPAIGN PROMISE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: During the great debates, he tried a joke
Last Line: Which, had it been alive, he would have killed
Subject(s): Elections; Hate; Kennedy-nixon Television Debates, 1960


PRISCILLA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jerry macmullen, the millionaire
Last Line: Hanged if I know who's right.
Subject(s): Debates; Paris, France


QUANTRAINS: THE USELESSNESS OF WRANGLING, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men may argue, discuss, and contend
Last Line: Makes all the debaters seem fools.
Subject(s): Debates


TO THE UNION IN NEGLECT, by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gods of the union unrepresentative
Last Line: (gully has said it, and gully must know).
Subject(s): Debates; Oxford University