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Subject: LUCAN (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCANUS)
Matches Found: 3

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPISTLE: ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HAMNER (1), by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While born to bring the muse's happier days
Last Line: A fond alliance with the poet's name.
Subject(s): Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Racine, Jean (1639-1699); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); V


SATIRE: 4, by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who-e're thou art, whose forward years are bent
Last Line: But what thou art; and find the beggar there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Persius
Subject(s): Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Pericles (490-429 B.c.); Socrates (470-399 B.c.)


TO THE TRANSLATOR OF LUCAN'S PHARSALIA (1614), by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had lucan hid the truth to please the time
Last Line: Nature thy muse like lucan's did create.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Subject(s): Gorges, Sir Arthur (1577-1625); Lucan (marcus Annaeus Lucanus); Translating & Interpreting