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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ARABIA Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AIR TRAVEL IN ARABIA, by CHARLES+(2) JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Then petra flashed by in a wink Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabia ARABIAN DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT, by LEONARD GASPARINI Poem Source First Line: In a private, palm-shaded courtyard in the desert, a tourist, travelling alone Last Line: The other. In the desert, time is measured by the ripening of a date Subject(s): Arabia; Deserts; Food And Eating; Time BALLAD OF THE DOGS, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: When ibn batutta, arabian traveller Last Line: And the dogs go on, with sure and swishing steps, %deeper into the darkness Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Dogs; Travel BALLADE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY; TO C.H. ARKCOLL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them boast of arabia, oppressed Last Line: With the smell of bog-myrtle and peat! Subject(s): Arabia; Cities; Patriotism; Urban Life FROM A FELUCCA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white tomb in the desert Last Line: And on the sky his calm. Subject(s): Arabia; Deserts; Food & Eating; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones HIS CAMEL, by ALQAMATH Poem Text First Line: So leave her, and cast care from thy heart with a sturdy Last Line: Mislikes it, all the choice is to journey on. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips KING FAAD, by GREGG G. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Dew sweetens the orchids on the abstract balustrade Last Line: Fl6's lover from heaven and provide oblivion? Subject(s): Faad, King; Saudi Arabia LAST NIGHT I BECAME, by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: To have so many %bombs Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Saudi Arabia; Women MEJNUN AND LAILI (AFTER THE PERSIC), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drugged at the breast of anguish, nursed Last Line: And toward the desert ran. Subject(s): Arabia; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO SECOND: 5. ARABIA, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long lines of camels everywhere Last Line: Comfort thou bring'st to mortal lot! Subject(s): Arabia RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free Last Line: The good haroun alraschid. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arabia ROMANCERO: BOOK 3. HEBREW MELODIES: PRINCESS SABBATH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In arabia's books of stories Last Line: Till it crackles and goes out. Subject(s): Arabia; Daughters; Love; Sabbath; Sunday TALES OF ARABIA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, friend, I own these tales of arabia Last Line: Edible, flatter and wholly starve him. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Arabia THE ARABIAN HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: You ask, 'whence came the arab horse Last Line: To the sultan's royal stall. Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Horses; Islam; Muslims; Moslems THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ANTARA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many singers before me! Are there yet songs unsung? Last Line: Slain lies for wild beasts and vultures. Ha! For the sacrifice! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Islam; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sacrifices; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly took she her leave of me, asma-u Last Line: Stoodst the day of hayáreyn. Our proof is proven! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Fights; Man-woman Relationships; Soldiers; War; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: IBN KOLTHUM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! The bowl! Fill it high, a fair morning wine-cup! Last Line: Find the world at his knees, its great ones kneeling. Subject(s): Arabia; Islam THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: IMR EL KAIS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, ah weep love's losing, love's with its dwelling-place Last Line: Cumbered the hollow places, drowned in the night-trouble. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Love; Poetry & Poets; Tradition THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long so Last Line: Woe be to all false friends! Woe to the envious! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Enemies; Fights; Friendship - False Friends; War; Fair Weather Friends THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: TARAFA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tent lines these of khaula in stone-stricken thahmadi Last Line: Neither for pay nor raiment, nor madest thou tryst with him. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Travel; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ZOHEYR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe is me for 'ommi 'aufa! Woe for the tents of her Last Line: Only the mouth that hath no silence endeth in emptiness. Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Friendship THE STEALING OF THE MARE; AN ARABIC EPIC OF THE TENTH CENTURY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of god the merciful, the compassionate! Last Line: To god be praise! Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Horses; Love; Story-telling THE VOICE OF ARETHA FRANKLIN SURPRISES ME, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In riyadh the wind blows the last prayer Variant Title(s): The Voice Of Aretha Franklin Surprised Me Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Franklin, Aretha (b. 1942); Riyadh, Saudi Arabia URANIA, by ROBERT ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Whence this impatience fluttering in my breast! Last Line: This cordial take.' I drank. Urania flew. Subject(s): Arabia; Heaven; Mortality; Transience; Wings; Paradise; Impermanence |
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