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Subject: WOOD, WILLIAM (1671-1730)
Matches Found: 5

EPIGRAM ON WOOD'S BRASS MONEY, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carteret was welcomed to the shore
Last Line: Guns, trumpets, drums, and bells were drowned
Subject(s): Money; Wood, William (1671-1730)


EXCELLENT NEW SONG UPON HIS GRACE..LORD ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing not of the draper's praise, nor yet of william wood
Last Line: As did methusalem of old, and so I end my song.
Subject(s): Clergy; Wood, William (1671-1730); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


ON WOOD THE IRONMONGER, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Salmoneus, as the grecian tale is
Last Line: Like real thunder knocked him down
Subject(s): Wood, William (1671-1730)


PROMETHEUS; ON WOOD THE PATENTEE'S IRISH HALFPENCE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As, when the squire and tinker, wood
Last Line: For want of vultures, we have crows
Subject(s): Money; Wood, William (1671-1730)


SERIOUS POEM UPON WILLIAM WOOD, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When foes are overcome, we preserve them from slaughter
Last Line: I'll maintain with my life, is heraldry good
Subject(s): Wood, William (1671-1730)