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Subject: PAINE, THOMAS (1737-1809)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MATERNAL DESPOTISM; OR, THE RIGHTS OF INFANTS, by RICHARD GRAVES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unhand me nurse! Thou saucy quean!
Last Line: Enjoy complete equality.
Subject(s): Boys; Children's Rights; Equality; Godwin, Mary Wollenstonecraft (1759-79); Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Wollenstone, Mary (1759-79)


ON MY WEDDING DAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a happy new year! But with reason
Last Line: He'll visit you in hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Castlereagh, Viscount


THE DEMOCRATIC BARBER; OR, COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S SURPRISE, by JOHN PARRISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good gad! Who's this? What's this, my son?
Last Line: Unto the world I will the deed proclaim.
Subject(s): Democracy; Human Rights; Men; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)


VERSES FROM THE ALGERINE CAPTIVE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glorious sun himself
Last Line: Are the young sighings of a contrite heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Genet, Edmond Charles (1763-1834); Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Prince, Thomas (1687-1758); Robespierre, Maximilien De (1758-1794); Sanderson, Thomas (1759-1829)