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Subject: ARMENIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARMENIA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the nations new and free
Last Line: Armenia.
Subject(s): Armenia; World War I; First World War


ARMENIA, A.D. 1894-5, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead by their ravaged fields
Last Line: And make the desert blossom as the rose!
Subject(s): Armenia; Genocide


HOW THE REFUGEES WERE SAVED, by ELLEN KNIGHT BRADFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun had dropped low down the western sky
Last Line: As freely as air or as sunshine from heaven
Subject(s): Armenia; Refugees


MERCY FOR ARMENIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand
Last Line: To play the good samaritan for god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Armenia; Europe; Torture; Turkey; War


MY ARMENIA, by NANCY KRICORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Armenia is a country where someone is always crying
Last Line: My imaginary homeland, my handkerchief, my name
Subject(s): Armenia


ORTHODOXIES 13, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An untraceable red bird, grave digging, corpse picking
Last Line: Under the hult tree, of eternal life, vardapet the orthodox saint trembles in rags
Subject(s): Armenia; Monasteries; Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian


ORTHODOXIES 16, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A byzantine trompe l'oeil. A dance. A game. The
Last Line: Straight. Believing like an orthodox, armenian, he sang like an ottoman. Hey
Subject(s): Armenia; Children; Slavery


ORTHODOXIES 17, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A vertical drum, beaten on the side with a stick and a
Last Line: An excommunicate priest's head and the by-laws of whoredom an ottoman. Hey
Subject(s): Armenia; Homosexuality; Morality


ORTHODOXIES 27, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A golden hag, a groupie of the dead, boygirlboy, oh santa
Last Line: And these poems. One. Two. Three. The centerfold of an underground magazine
Subject(s): Armenia; Poetry And Poets


ORTHODOXIES 7, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The right hand of bardugomeos, the holy relic, helps
Last Line: With a swollen throat. Hoot hoot
Subject(s): Armenia; Monasteries; Relationships; Saints


PERSEPHONE IN ARMENIA, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow was a blue lake in pushkin square
Subject(s): Armenia


POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: YEREVAN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Armenia, asia's waif, has here
Last Line: Begins the brutal, ancient west
Subject(s): Yerevan, Armenia


POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: YEREVAN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Armenia, asia's waif, has here
Last Line: For there, where noah docked his boat, %begins the brutal, ancient west
Subject(s): Yerevan, Armenia


THE YEAR OF SHAME: GLADSTONE, 1896 (DURING THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES), by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak once again, with that great note of
Last Line: With silent footsteps, whither no man knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): The Tired Lion
Subject(s): Armenia; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)