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Subject: SHENSTONE, WILLIAM (1714-1763)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ELEGY ON SHENSTONE, SELECTION, by JAMES WOODHOUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When summer flushed these leafless bowers
Last Line: His step -- was but a breeze.
Subject(s): Shenstone, William (1714-1763)


THE GOLDFINCHES, by RICHARD JAGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you, whose groves protect the feather'd quires
Last Line: And there in silent sadness inly mourned.
Subject(s): Goldfinches; Grief; Shenstone, William (1714-1763); Sorrow; Sadness


TO THE POET SHENSTONE; ON A VOTIVE TABLET AT BURFORD LODGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the bard of leasowe's grove
Last Line: Still his spirit there presides, %still his urn shall deck the glade
Subject(s): Shenstone, William (1714-1763); Surrey, England