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Subject: ETON COLLEGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LATE HISTORY, by WELDON KEES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black, under the candlesticks, moving in harness
Last Line: Do I wake or sleep? It is late tonight as it will ever be
Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Books & Reading; Social Commentary; Nature; Eton College; Historians


ETON: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four hundred summers and fifty have shone
Last Line: Haply here shall eton's record be what england finds it yet.
Subject(s): England; Eton College; Time; English


FOUNDER'S DAY; A SECULAR ODE ON THE..JUBILEE OF ETON COLLEGE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ and his mother, heavenly maid
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Variant Title(s): A Secular Ode ... Eton Coleg
Subject(s): Eton College


ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, / that crown the watery glade
Last Line: Tis folly to be wise!
Variant Title(s): On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College
Subject(s): England; Eton College; Youth; English


SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS; FLOREAT ETONA, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve years ago I made a mock / of filthy trades and traffics
Last Line: A happy boy,--at drury's.
Subject(s): Eton College; Schools; Students


SLACKER; A RHYME FROM THE ETON COLLEGE SAMPLER, 1897, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I well remember, since the day
Last Line: I make on serve a dozen times, %and that's the way to slack it
Subject(s): Eton College; Slackers


TO A SCHOOL-BOY AT EATON, YES AND NO, by MARY SAVAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My dearest boy, / since time begun
Last Line: And never blush at proper no.
Subject(s): Eton College; Mothers & Sons; Savage, George (1750-1816)