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Subject: WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM (1759-1833)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DON JUAN: CANTO 14, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If from great nature's or our own abyss
Last Line: Caesar himself would be ashamed of fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): The Sceptic And His Poem
Subject(s): Don Juan; Slavery; Wilberforce, William (1759-1833); Serfs


EPISTLE TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ. .. BILL ABOLISHING SLAVE TRADE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease, wilberforce, to urge thy generous aim!
Last Line: Tells how you strove, and that you strove in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Wilberforce, William (1759-1833); Anti-slavery; Serfs


SONNET TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQUIRE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy country, wilberforce, with just disdain
Last Line: From all the just on earth and all the blest above.
Subject(s): Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)