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Subject: AMERICAN REVOLUTION - FRENCH INVOLVEMENT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD FOR A BOY, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When george the third was reigning, a hundred years ago
Last Line: And treat some rescued breton as a comrade and a guest.
Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Farmer, George; Navy - Great Britain; English Navy


AMERICAN TIMES, by JONATHAN ODELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When faction, pois'nous as the scorpion's
Last Line: And indignation gathers in the verse
Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Freedom; U.s. - Congress


FABLE, by DAVID MATTHEWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rejoice, americans, rejoice!
Last Line: Frenchmen, like storks, love frogs--to eat 'em
Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Independence; U.s. - Congress; U.s. - Politics And Government


PROLOGUE TO A THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT IN PHILADELPHIA, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wars, cruel wars, and hostile britain's rage
Last Line: While discord, sinking, veils her ghastly %head
Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Independence; Peace


THE CONGRATULATION, by JONATHAN ODELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Joy to great congress, joy an hundred fold
Last Line: Saint denis and saint tammany, go rot.
Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Clergy; Estaing, Jean Baptiste De (1729-1794); New York City - Revolutionary Period; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops