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Subject: CUBA Matches Found: 88 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1959, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The year I was born my mother ate nothing but oranges Last Line: He proclaims may she peel the skin from this schizophrenic age Subject(s): Continents; Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Family Life; Love - Cultural Differences; Travel A CUBAN DREAM IN THREE PARTS, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dreaming again Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Cuba; Fathers ADOLESCENCIA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's work friends, all men Last Line: Sweeping all ominous thoiughts away Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Childhood Memories AFROCUBA, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: Thirteen years I've been loading sacks of sugar Last Line: Workers, each saturday, sliced apples and cerveza Subject(s): Cuba ANA IN MIAMI, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Every morning in miami Last Line: Is one more morning's blessing Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami, Florida; Survival; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration APOSTROPHE TO THE ISLAND OF CUBA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is blood on thy desolate shore Last Line: And our wrath shall not rest, till we finish the deed. Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule BARS, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: I love the bars and taverns Last Line: Next to the sea Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Friendship; Havana, Cuba BATTLE CRY, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud drums are rolling, the mad trumpets blow Last Line: Shall lower their banner to cuba's lone star! Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) CALLE DE LA AMARGURA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On the street of bitterness Last Line: Calle de la amargura, no one is surprised %at the awful taste of paradise Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHOSEN, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They stand on the shore Last Line: A plangent hope, a culture of water? Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami Beach; Seashore; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CLOTHESLINES, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day my mother stood in the kitchen Last Line: Kicked upo into my own eyes Subject(s): Family Life; Childhood Memories; Cuba CUBA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: There it is, the long prow Last Line: And the death of desire Variant Title(s): The Floating Islan Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; West Indies CUBA, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it naught? Is it naught Last Line: Speak at last! Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule CUBA CONFRONTATION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With my hammer head Last Line: Deep in her pillow Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Fights CUBA LIBRA [APRIL, 1896], by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comes a cry from cuban water Last Line: Love and liberty allied. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Patriotism CUBA LIBRE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: America, hast thou forgot thy birth Last Line: And with their sickles hew their hated foes. Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) CUBA TO COLUMBIA [APRIL, 1896], by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice went over the waters Last Line: Should come my lafayette! Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule CUBA, 1898, by H. R. VYNNE Poem Source First Line: Land of languor and of beauty, where the tawny Subject(s): Cuba; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) CUBA, 1962, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the rooster jumps up on the windowsill Last Line: You can never get enough Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Cuba CUBAN DANCE, by RAMON DE PALMA Poem Source First Line: Upon the air amid the night the orchestra is playing Last Line: The outcry of our souls is heard amid thine echoes there! Subject(s): Bands; Cuba; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos CUBAN JOURNAL: CANE, by JOEL SLOMAN Poem Source First Line: February 21, mid-afternoon Last Line: Trude. Everyone loved meg and robert Subject(s): Travel; Venceremos Brigade (cuba, 1970) CUBAN JOURNAL: GUAGUAS, by JOEL SLOMAN Poem Source First Line: April 6, afternoon, at sea on way to isle of pines Last Line: Again...Eva helping out wiping tables Subject(s): Travel; Venceremos Brigade (cuba, 1970) CUBAN JOURNAL: HAVANA TO SAINT JOHN, by JOEL SLOMAN Poem Source First Line: April 23, back on luis arcos bergnes Last Line: Still more people around %to rush and find Subject(s): Travel; Venceremos Brigade (cuba, 1970) CUBAN JOURNAL: LUIS ARCOS BERGNES, by JOEL SLOMAN Poem Source First Line: February 13, 1970, at sea late at night Last Line: At the camp, trude, carol, et al, tried cutting cane and chewed on some Subject(s): Travel; Venceremos Brigade (cuba, 1970) CUBAN REFUGEE, by HOWELL L. PINER Poem Source First Line: Go back to cuba? No! No! Gentle priest Subject(s): Cuba; Refugees DEAD FISH ON THE SHORE WITH CLAMS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It is winter Last Line: To abandon hope Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Clams; Cuba; Death; Marine Animals; Sea Voyages DEEDS OF VALOR AT SANTIAGO, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who cries that the days of daring are those that are faded far Last Line: Themselves their peers. Subject(s): Patriotism; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) DIASPORA, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: To tell the truth Subject(s): Cuba; Emigrants DR. KANE IN CUBA, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A noble life is in thy care Last Line: That still his love may help and save. Subject(s): Cuba; Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857) EL EMPLAZADO, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: El emplazado, the summoned, the doomed one Last Line: Heaven reechoes the auto-da-fe. Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) FAREWELL TO CUBA, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, fair isle! I love thy bowers Last Line: Than live in pleasure far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Variant Title(s): Composed At The Request Of A Lady Subject(s): Cuba FLIGHT OUT OF MIAMI, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I am going away Last Line: What you cannot remember Subject(s): Cuba; Miami, Florida; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOUNCING TOWARD HAVANNA, by KATHRYN NOCERINO Poem Source First Line: Carmen miranda in havanna: a movie Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Miranda, Carmen (1915-1955) FOREIGNER'S ART, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: This is how I dress my face Last Line: Soon he will turn away Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Strangers; U.s. - Foreign Population FREEDOM, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: A few months after Last Line: Take care Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Freedom; Hunger; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH ONCE AGAIN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The cup of cuban coffee Last Line: You probably don't know %that today has been friday %friday the thirteenth %once again Subject(s): Cuba; Youth GENERAL WHEELER AT SANTIAGO, by JAMES LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text First Line: Into the thick of the fight he went, pallid and sick and wan Last Line: Old fighting joe! Subject(s): Patriotism; Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Wheeler, Joseph (1836-1906) GOMEZ TO BLANCO, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can honor for gold be bartered? Are treason and truth at one? Last Line: God bless her dauntless heroes! That day we soon shall see. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Freedom; South America; Wealth; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes HAVANA BIRTH, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Off havana the ocean is green this morning Last Line: Growing with the singer and the singer's delight Subject(s): Havana, Cuba HAVANA DREAMS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream is a cocktail at sloppy joe's Last Line: (quien sabe? Who really knows?) Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Havana, Cuba HEROIC MAMBISA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Are you real? Last Line: I'll be more you. %I'll be more me. %I'll be more cuba. %in silence, %so you can understand me Subject(s): Cuba; Fate; Heroism; Latin America - History I LIVE IN CUBA, by LOURDES CASAL Poem Source Subject(s): Cuba; Women ISLA, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In los angeles I grew up watching the three stooges, Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Cuba; Mothers; Popular Culture - United States LABYRINTH OF HEARING, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sound, no Last Line: The labyrinth of hearing Subject(s): Cuba; Ethnic Groups - United States; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LANDSCAPES, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: You can see them everywhere in cuba Last Line: And above there are some crude letters %reading patria o muerte Subject(s): Cuba LOVE OF BLONDES, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I don't know what I would be Last Line: And I obliging Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MAZORRA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the days of shock treatment Subject(s): Havana, Cuba; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MIAMI: 1.DIXIE HIGHWAY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Miami the sun Last Line: The buzz of a hummingbird Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Cuba; Miami, Florida; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MIAMI: 2.CALLE OCHO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Because the ebb and flow Last Line: Riding the edge of the sea Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Love; Sea Voyages; Tourists; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MIRALDA; A TALE OF CUBA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cuba, when that lovely land Last Line: And spoiled a villain's wicked scheming. Subject(s): Cuba MY VOICE, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cure myself of wanting cuban song Subject(s): Singing & Singersand Singers; Cuba ON LEAVING CUBA, by GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Poem Source First Line: Pearl of the sea! Star of the tranquil west! Last Line: Now cleaves the waves, and flies in silence fast! Subject(s): Boats; Cuba; Farewell; Sea; Sea Voyages; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ORTIZ (1528), by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go bring the captive, he shall die Last Line: "away with the warrior's plume!" Subject(s): America - Exploration; Cuba; Ortiz, Juan (16th Century); Slavery; Serfs PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I can still remember Last Line: Cover the couch with plastic? %return to cuba? %I can still remember you. %sitting there Subject(s): Cuba; Memory; Mothers; Portraits; Retrospection PRIVATE BLAIR OF THE REGULARS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was private blair, of the regulars Last Line: And honor be from sea to sea to the deed of private blair! Subject(s): Santiago, Cuba; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898) RETABLO, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The park bench is unoccupied Last Line: Tomorrow is christmas Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Homeless; Marriage; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SANTIAGO, by THOMAS ALLIBONE JANVIER Poem Text First Line: In the stagnant pride of an outworn race Last Line: So the fight was won that our sampson planned! Subject(s): Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare SONG OF THE CUBAN BLACKS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the full moon comes Last Line: I'll go to santiago Subject(s): Men; Santiago, Cuba STRIKE THE BLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The four-way winds of the world have blown Last Line: Ye are king of the land and king of the foam. / strike the blow! Subject(s): Cuba;sea Battles;spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare THE BROOKLYN AT SANTIAGO, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt clouded heights spain hurls to doom Last Line: On such a ship! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Brooklyn (ship); Santiago, Cuba; Schley, Winfield Scott (1839-1909); Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Naval Warfare THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year 1762 that france and spain Last Line: And the londoners applauded the british for the honours they had won. Subject(s): Battleships; Fights; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Havana, Cuba; Victory THE CHARGE AT SANTIAGO, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shot and shell, like a loosened hell Last Line: Looks with his piercing eye! Subject(s): Courage; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery THE CHURCHES' CUBA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When north and south, with purpose strong Last Line: Thus, and thus only, we'll unite. Subject(s): Cuba; United States; America THE CONQUERORS; THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won Last Line: Not to ply! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Cuba THE CUBAN CAUSE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was it caused our nation Last Line: "till cuba's suffering ends." Subject(s): Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) THE CUBAN IN THE STATES, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The north is beautiful, and I would Last Line: Of sighing mouth on mouth. Subject(s): Cuba THE CUBAN IN VIETNAM, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits in the dark of trees, hunched Subject(s): Cuba; Vietnam; War THE DESTROYER OF DESTROYERS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From santiago, spurning the morrow Last Line: Wainwright! The gloucester! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Gloucester (ship); Navy - United States; Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Troy; Wainwright, Richard (1817-1862); American Navy; Naval Warfare THE FLEET AT SANTIAGO, by CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart leaps with the pride of their story Last Line: How we thrill with the joy of their fame! Subject(s): Navy - United States; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy THE GALLANT FIFTY-ONE, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Text First Line: Freedom called them - up they rose Last Line: Gallant band of fifty-one! Subject(s): Crittenden, William L.; Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Lopez, Narcisco THE GATHERING, by HERBERT B. SWETT Poem Text First Line: We are coming, cuba, - coming; our starry Last Line: Cuba shall be free. Subject(s): Cuba; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE GREAT CHINESE POETS, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine tu fu and li po as they have come Last Line: Sucked down in its liquid mouth. Subject(s): Tu Fu (712-770); Li Po (701-762); Havana, Cuba THE MONKEY STORY, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father visited us in baton rouge one weekend Last Line: Young enough to live through anything Subject(s): Cuban Americans; Cuba; Monkeys THE PARTING OF THE WAYS, by JOSEPH BENSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Untrammelled giant of the west Last Line: Be godlike in the will to serve! Subject(s): Cuba THE PSALMIST, AFTER JOHNNY CASH'S 'OH BURYME NOT', by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is found in mote of dust a float in shaft Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Cuba; Heritage; Heredity THE RUSH OF THE OREGON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They held her south to magellan's mouth Last Line: For the chance of a bitter fight! Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) THE SOURSOP TREE, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grew larger next to the brick wall Subject(s): Soupsops; Cuba THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pitched tents on the grounds of lenin's park Last Line: Of those russian elephants, the lost rumbling of a man, his son Subject(s): Circus; Cuba; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE SPIRIT OF THE MAINE, by TUDOR JENKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In battle-line of sombre gray Last Line: The spirit of the maine! Subject(s): Cuba; Maine (ship); Naval Blockades; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THINKING OF CUBA, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I am thinking Last Line: Thinking of cuba Subject(s): Cuba TIA OLIVIA SERVES WALLACE STEVENS A CUBAN EGG, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ration books voided, there was little to eat Last Line: Yes. But then what the color of the sea, senora? Subject(s): Cuba; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) TO THE SUN, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: O sun, I love thee! Thou knowest how joyfully, when Last Line: Spreads its bright wings, joining earth with heaven Subject(s): Cuba; Patriotism; Sun TWO COUNTRIES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I have two countries: cuba and the night Last Line: Like a cloud that dims the heavens Subject(s): Cuba; Farewell; Patriotism; Soldiers UNDISCOVERY OF AMERICA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: On the sand a squinting little man Last Line: Song he finds the music of his veins Subject(s): Cuba; Key West, Florida; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WAIT, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The day slows, fills Last Line: Is making his way across the universe Subject(s): Absence; Cuba; Home; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Waiting WHEELER'S BRIGADE AT SANTIAGO, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the blistering tropical sun Last Line: "kept time to the tune of ""dixie." Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); Wheeler, Joseph (1836-1906) WHEN THE GREAT CHINESE PAPERMAKERS CAME TO CUBA, GREAT POETS FOLLOWED, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of the great stillness, a silence so deep it made the pink carp Last Line: Surfaces, this heavenly paperupon which to write a firest, lasting word Subject(s): China; Cuba; Paper; Poetry & Poets YES, CUBANS FOUGHT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE VIETNAM WAR, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the post-revolution island (as military Subject(s): Cuba; Soldiers |
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