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Subject: VEDDER, ELIHU (1836-1923)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sufferance of her race is shown
Last Line: Sibylline, yet benign.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Paintings & Painters; Slavery; United States - History; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Serfs


THE CUP OF DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She bends her beauteous head to taste thy draught
Last Line: Thus grief that is, makes welcome death to come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Paintings And Painters; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness