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Subject: PERRY, OLIVER HAZARD (1785-1819)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To clear the lake of perry's fleet
Last Line: With spirit laid him close on board - %they're ours - he said - and closed the game
Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812


BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY; PERRY, BETTER THAN ENGLISH CIDER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Huzza! For the brave yankee boys
Last Line: But such perry as she's taken here %she never will wish for again, sir
Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812


EIGHT NAVAL VICTORY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Columbia's ships triumphant ride, %and humble haughty briton's pride
Last Line: And bold in her defence have stood! %and suits the british henry's race
Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812


MOST BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: John bull in old times, thought each yankee a dunce
Last Line: The huzza for yankees. They're brave and they're free. %huzza for columbia! 'sailors' rights' - libe
Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812


ON THE DEATH OF COMMODORE OLIVER H. PERRY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sad the note of that funeral drum
Last Line: Tricked off in foreign garb, can ever hope to know.
Subject(s): Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819)


PERRY'S VICTORY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We sailed to and fro in erie's broad lake
Last Line: "so six sail (the whole fleet) was our fortune to take, / here's a health to brave perry, who govern
Subject(s): "lake Erie, Battle Of;navy - United States;perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819);war Of 1812;" American Navy


PERRY'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye tars of columvia, give ear to my story
Last Line: While britons drink cherry, columbians, perry, %we'll toast him about with full glass in hand
Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812


PERRY'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye tars of columbia, give ear to my story
Last Line: Tho' the lords of the seas, we'll be lords of the lakes
Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812


PERRY'S VICTORY - A SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "columbia, appear! - to thy mountains ascend"
Last Line: And the flames of the battle were quenched in the spray
Subject(s): "lake Erie, Battle Of;perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819);war Of 1812;


THE BATTLE OF ERIE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "avast, honest jack! Now, before you get mellow"
Last Line: "though they're lords of the sea, we'll be lords of the lakes"
Subject(s): "lake Erie, Battle Of;navy - United States;perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819);war Of 1812;" American Navy


THE VICTORY OF PERRY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift up the years! Lift up the years
Last Line: As well as on the land.
Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812