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Subject: FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706-1790)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Franklin! Our franklin! America's loved son
Subject(s): Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); U.s. - History


EPISTLE; FROM DR. FRANKLIN (DECEASED) TO POETICAL PANEGYRIST, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good poets, who are so full of pain
Last Line: When to the dust great men she brings, %'make her do - some uncommon things'
Subject(s): Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)


ON THE DEATH OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood
Last Line: And turned the lightning's darts aside!
Subject(s): Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)


THE SCOFFER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had lived in franklin's time I'm most afraid
Last Line: "and to myself I say, ""who knows but here's another ben?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Doubt; Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); Skepticism