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Subject: GIBBON, EDWARD (1737-1794)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CARD OF INVITATION TO MR. GIBBON ... 1781, by WILLIAM HAYLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A english sparrow, pert and free
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History


DISTRIBUTION OF HONOURS FOR LITERATURE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grandest writer of late ages
Last Line: Died without star or cross or ribbon.
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Historians


GIBBON, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou too, whilst pondering history's vast plan
Last Line: Than those of hapless, injured switzerland!
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians


GIBBON AND VOLTAIRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lausanne! And ferney! Ye have been the abodes
Last Line: T will be forgiven, or suffer what is just.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Historians


LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spirit seems to pass
Last Line: "never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth""?'"
Subject(s): Consolation; Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians