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Subject: DAMASCUS, SYRIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAFES IN DAMASCUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Languidly the night-wind bloweth
Last Line: Could be such a dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Damascus, Syria; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners


GATES OF DAMASCUS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Four great gates has the city of damascus
Last Line: Who walks thy garden eve on eve, and bows his head, and calls thee friend.
Subject(s): Damascus, Syria


HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is full of definite stars
Last Line: Full of dead strangers
Subject(s): Damascus, Syria


NEAR DAMASCUS, by W. S. DI PIERO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The antlered scarab rolled a dungball
Last Line: Rousted, found out, blasted, saved %down in the road's pearly filth
Subject(s): Bible; Damascus, Syria; Religion


STIGMATA OF FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This calcined idiocy, the fool
Last Line: Tiny, closing doors of silence
Subject(s): Damascus, Syria


THE HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is full of definite stars
Subject(s): Damascus, Syria


THE KIOSK: 3. THE SYRIAN'S STORY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A merchant of damascus, to whom gain
Last Line: "some awful vengeance; -- was this story known?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Damascus, Syria


THE STIGMATA OF FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This calcined idiocy, the fool
Subject(s): Damascus, Syria


TO DAMASCUS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the sinister sun of the syrians beat
Last Line: Is the road to damascus.
Subject(s): Damascus, Syria; Jews; Judaism