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Subject: BASTILLE (PARIS)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE SLANE CONCERT - BASTILLE DAY, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dark girl drinking cider in the bar
Last Line: Reading in the morning ash for messages of love?
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Love; Prisons And Prisoners


AN ODE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heard'st thou yon universal cry
Last Line: First ever of the first and freest of the free!
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); French Revolution (1789); Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


BASTILLE DAY, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time I saw paris
Subject(s): Bastille (paris)


BASTILLE, A VISION, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drear cell! Along whose lonely bounds
Last Line: And shed a ray from heav'n on earth
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Prisons And Prisoners


IN EXCELSIS, 1889, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh how delectable it is to be
Last Line: More to be magnified, more dread, more sweet.
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); France; Love; Nature; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sound; Ocean


IN THE PLACE DE LA BASTILLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a clear day in paris, walking where
Last Line: The tragic tumbrils, hark! Go rumbling by!
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Clouds; Paris, France; Prisons & Prisoners; Storms; Convicts


METRO, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are platforms platforms all over the earth
Last Line: They come from one planet, one planet, one. %slappity-slap. Over and out
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Commuters; Prisons And Prisoners; Railroads; Travel


PLACE DE LA BASTILLE, PARIS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How dear the sky has been above this place!
Last Line: That all might stand here now and own thy name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Prisons & Prisoners