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Subject: HERVEY, JOHN. BARON HERVEY OF ICKWORTH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LORD HERVEY TO MR. FOX, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So sung the poet in a humble strain
Last Line: And all his first resolves are melted there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Hervey, John. Baron Hervey Of Ickworth


TO LORD HERVEY AND LADY MARY WORTLEY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I but call a flagrant whore unsound
Last Line: And sweet adonis -- you have lost a tooth.
Subject(s): Hervey, John. Baron Hervey Of Ickworth; Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)


TO THE EARL OF BURLINGTON ASKING WHO WRIT LIBELS AGAINST HIM, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You wonder who this thing has writ
Last Line: Who can it be but fibster h--y.
Subject(s): Hervey, John. Baron Hervey Of Ickworth