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Subject: CEYLON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GENTLEMAN COMPARES HIS VIRTUE TO A PIECE OF JADE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The enemy was always identified in art by a lion
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


BURIED, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be buried in times of war
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


BURIED 2, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We smuggled the tooth of the buddha
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


DRIVING WITH DOMINIC IN THE SOUTHERN PROVINCE WE SEE HINTS OF THE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tattered hungarian tent
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


FLIGHT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the half-dark cabin of air lanka flight 5
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Air Travel; Ceylon


HOUSE ON A RED CLIFF, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no mirror in mirissa
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


LAST INK, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In certain countries aromas pierce the heart and one dies
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


REMINDER, by INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You come from sri lanka, / said the toy-shop keeper at patti's
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ceylon


STEP, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ceremonial funeral structure for a monk
Subject(s): Funerals; Monks; Sri Lanka; Burials; Ceylon


THE BROTHER THIEF, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four men steal the bronze
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Religion; Robbery; Ceylon


THE CYPRESS-TREE OF CEYLON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sat in silent watchfulness
Last Line: Our souls should keep with thee!
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Sri Lanka; Ceylon


THE DISTANCE OF A SHOUT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We lived on the medieval coast
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


THE FIRST RULE OF SINHALESE ARCHITECTURE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never build three doors
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


THE GREAT TREE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zou fulei died like a dragon breaking down a wall
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


THE MEDIEVAL COAST, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A village of stone-cutters. A village of soothsayers
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


THE NINE SENTIMENTS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day desire / enters the hearts of men
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


THE SIYABASLAKARA, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the 10th century, the young princess
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


THE STORY, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For his first forty days a child
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


TO ANURADHAPURA, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dry lands
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon


WELLS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rope jerked up
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon