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Subject: SPAIN - WAR OF SUCCESSION (1701-1714)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPH ADDISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While crouds of princes your deserts proclaim
Last Line: And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most
Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714)


ESCAPE OF COUNT FERNAN GONZALEZ, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have carried afar into navarre the great count of castile
Last Line: Their swords shine bright, infanta, -- and every blade is thine'
Subject(s): Escapes; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714)


SPANISH DESCENT, SELS., by DANIEL DEFOE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The word's gone out, and now they spread the main
Subject(s): Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714)


THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a summer evening
Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory."
Variant Title(s): After Blenheim
Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology


THE BULL-FIGHT [OF GAZUL], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "king almanzor of granada, he hath bid the trumpet sound"
Last Line: "upon gazul of algava, that hath laid harpado low"
Subject(s): "bullfights & Bullfighters;granada, Spain;spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714);