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Subject: BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-1889)
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COUNTERBLAST ON PENNY TRUMPET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If mr. Bright retiring does not please
Last Line: As others see us!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Forgiveness; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Law & Lawyers; Clemency


JOHN BRIGHT, by FRANCIS BARTON GUMMERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Few men of hero-mould
Last Line: Joining with freedom's deathless song thy deathless name.
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889)


LINES ON THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF THE RIGHT HON. JOHN BRIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven years have fled since on thy honoured clay
Last Line: Inspire, sustain thy well-loved parliament!
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Statues


MR. BRIGHT ON THE LAW OF ENTAIL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To broad lands though a foe, to broad brims still a friend
Last Line: John's speech has already made all of them quakers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Friends, Religious Society Of; Landlords & Tenants; Quakers


TO JOHN BRIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend of the friendless else, and art thou dead?
Last Line: This simple wreath to deck thy honoured clay!
Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Death; Dead, The