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Subject: HARLEY, ROBERT. 1ST EARL OF OXFORD
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPISTLE TO ROBERT, EARL OF OXFORD, AND EARL MORTIMER, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such were the notes thy once-lov'd poet sung
Last Line: Nor fears to tell, that mortimer is he.
Subject(s): Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Mortimer, Earl Of


ODES III, 2. TO EARL OF OXFORD, LATE LORD TREASURER, IN TOWER, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest is he, who for his country dies
Last Line: Slow vengeance, like a blood-hound at his heels
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford


TO LORD HARLEY, SINCE EARL OF OXFORD, ON HIS MARRIAGE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the numbers who employ %their tongues and pens to give you joy
Last Line: A mortal of superior kind
Subject(s): Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Marriage


TO THE MOST HONOURABLE THE EARL OF OXFORD, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm no more to converse with the swains
Last Line: Pray, my lord, how much money will do?
Subject(s): Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Money; Mortimer, Earl Of


VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (1), by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho the dean has run from us in manner uncivil
Last Line: We'll not be slow to visit dr. Swift.
Subject(s): Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Gay, John (1685-1732); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718); Physicians; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers; Mortimer, Earl Of; Doctors


VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (2), by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One that should be a saint
Last Line: Pray grant us admittance, and shut out miles davies.
Subject(s): Davies, Miles (1662-1719); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Tower Of London; Mortimer, Earl Of