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Subject: CARIBBEAN ISLANDS
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEA-CHANTEY, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: La, tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute
Subject(s): West Indies; Caribbean Islands


CHOOSING A PROFESSION, by MARY LAMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A creole boy from the west indies brought
Last Line: Were dancing in the street the first of may.
Subject(s): Boys; Careers; West Indies; Caribbean Islands


MIDSUMMER: 27, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Certain things here are quietly american
Subject(s): West Indies; Caribbean Islands


THE DROWNED HIDALGO DREAMS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bahama and the caribbees? But in the mains of sun
Last Line: "all day abeam the wondrous dream -- all night its valiantries!"
Subject(s): Conquistadors; West Indies; Caribbean Islands


THE FREED ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A few brief years have passed away
Last Line: "to new-world tyrants, old-world kings!"
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; West Indies; Antislavery Movement - United States; British Empire; England - Empire; Caribbean Islands


THE INDIAN MAID. DEMARARIE, OCT. 27, 1781, by EDWARD THOMPSON (1739-1786)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The indian maid who lightly trips, / the dryad of the guava grove
Last Line: Prove her the goddess of the place!
Subject(s): Travel; West Indies; Journeys; Trips; Caribbean Islands


THE SCHOONER FLIGHT, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In idle august, while the sea soft
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; West Indies; Caribbean Islands