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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CZECHOSLOVAKIA Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT A PARTY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: They want to petition the hungarian government Last Line: Knitted into the sweater Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Exiles; Government; Hungary AT A SUNLIT WINDOW, by ONDRA LYSOHORSKY Poem Source First Line: You say: I am sitting in a room Last Line: Which already belong to our neighbour Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime BALLAD OF JAN PALACH, STUDENT AND HERETIC, by ONDRA LYSOHORSKY Poem Source First Line: A human torch %races through prague Last Line: And he acted at once. And for ever. %seeking the truth. A heretic. A hero Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Prague, Czech Republic CEMETERY IN DOLNI DOBROUC, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: Over the stone wall, an old man Last Line: Among my people, %nameless, %ashes Subject(s): Cemeteries; Czechoslovakia CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS IN 1945, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: I saw children at christmas in 1945 Last Line: How to safeguard so military intervention won't become necessary Subject(s): Christmas; Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime CORNER GROCERY IN PRESOV, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, by SIGMAN BYRD Poem Source First Line: The paint-chipped, mildewed walls, the empty shelves Last Line: One of those red, delicious berries in my mouth Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Grocers CZECHOSLOVAKIA, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Franz kafka was Last Line: Famous spot for %tourists, and a %pen meeting was %held there one time Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924) ELEGY FOR THE BURNED, by PATRICIA HAMPL Poem Source First Line: Anthracite sours the air Last Line: All those flimsy pink blossoms Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Fire EXPLICATION, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Waiting behind barbed wire Last Line: Smoke above the arms of trees Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Czechoslovakia; Genocide IN BOHEMIA, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This tale I seemed to hear a gipsy tell Last Line: "and one with angry, unrelenting eyes?" Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Slovakia IN THE YARD OF THE POLYCLINIC, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: This morning I heard persistent and angry blows on a carpet Last Line: And as children are buried in soapboxes Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime KILLING IN THE OLD COUNTRY, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: In her sack she feels the rope, thinks Last Line: Cycling the knot, has shucked the whimper off Subject(s): Chickens; Czechoslovakia LADY OF LIDICE, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: From god's lofty city Subject(s): Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LIDICE, by CHARLES SCHIFF Poem Source First Line: Now let each common and heroic man Last Line: The european dead crying out for rest, %I rest in them, and take them to my breast Subject(s): Lidice, Czechoslovakia; World War Ii LILAC BY THE MUSEUM ON ST. WENCESLAS SQUARE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: I don't love flowers Last Line: And while I was asleep %the lilac burst into flower on st. Wenceslas square Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Flowers; Lilacs; Prague, Czech Republic LITOST, by DEBORAH O'HARRA Poem Source First Line: The woman has no eyebrows Last Line: Of a lost nation, keening of an ageless orphan Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Eyes; Injustice; Nations LOUANNE AND THE MUSIC LESSON, by AEDAN ALEXANDER HANLEY Poem Source First Line: You ride them saddle-less, you see Last Line: Hitting each word as you sang it Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Horseback Riding MOON OVER PRAGUE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: The decorator is mixing his plaster Last Line: A thousand letters will be written with its ink %and a single poem Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Moon; Prague, Czech Republic PHOTOGRAPH OF MY ROOM, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years from now, you might Last Line: Who has no belongings. Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Photography & Photographers; Slovakia PHOTOGRAPH OF MY ROOM, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years from now, you might Last Line: Who has no belongings Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Photography And Photographers POEMS TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SELS., by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Germany; World War Ii PRAGUE IN THE MIDDAY SUN, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: I have not woken from a dream nor arrived by express train Last Line: Beautiful as the mystery of thunder of the magic lamp and of poetry Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Prague, Czech Republic RESURRECTION, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: After this life here, we're to be awakened one day Last Line: We'll be at home again Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime SALUTE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA!, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verily the new day, %for the new order Last Line: We mark the score. Silent, we mark the score Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; World War Ii TO THE ENEMIES, by VLADIMIR HOLAN Poem Source First Line: I've had enough of your baseness, and I haven't killed myself Last Line: To be is not easy - only shitting is easy Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime TREE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not everyone can see the tree, its summer cloud of green Last Line: Book to light, you will see the watermarks of their faces Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Life; Trees TWO CZECH SCHOLARS IN MUD TIME, by DEBORAH LARSEN Poem Source First Line: Back to the united states. A battlefield Last Line: Free of clear pity, bent ambition Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Scholarship And Scholars UNFORGOTTEN VILLAGE, by MARTHA MILLET Poem Source First Line: Spring came every year Subject(s): Lidice, Czechoslovakia WALKER IN PRAGUE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: To climb and descend steps Last Line: As captain corcoran's ship which has struck the magnetic mountain Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Prague, Czech Republic |
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