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Subject: GRANADA, SPAIN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALHAMBRA SONGS: 3. THE NIGHT OF ALMOND BLOSSOMS, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blossoms range their silver tents
Last Line: I swoon amid the dust!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Night; Bedtime


ALHAMBRA SONGS: 6. THE CARAVAN, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn o'er the mountain is shaking
Last Line: Where the desert tents unfold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Granada, Spain


BRIDAL OF ANDALLA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rise up, rise up, xarifa! Lay the golden cushion down
Last Line: To gaze on false andalla with all the gazing town!
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Grief; Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced


FLIGHT FROM GRANADA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was crying in granada
Last Line: For what is life to leave when such a crown %is cast away?
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Farewell; Granada, Spain; Grief


FLIGHT FROM GRANADA (1492), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was crying in granada when the sun was going down
Last Line: For what is life to leave when such a crown is cast away?
Subject(s): Crowns; Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Granada, Spain; Muhammad Xi, Sultan Of Granada (d. 1527)


GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV    Poem Source                    
First Line: We charged at the enemy
Last Line: You needn't despair, %'granada, granada, %granada, the fair'
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)


GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV    Poem Source                    
First Line: We rode at a trot
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)


GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV    Poem Source                    
First Line: We jogged along slowly
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)


GRANADA NOTEBOOK #5, by MYRONN HARDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We sit down to black tea
Last Line: Seethed an atlantic brimming with gold
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Travel


IN A GARDEN OF GRANADA, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The city rumour rises all the day
Last Line: For josé maria restrepo millán.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Granada, Spain


LAMENTATION FOR CELIN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the gate of old granada, when all its bolts are barred
Last Line: Let me kiss my celin ere I die -- alas! Alas for celin!'
Subject(s): Freedom; Granada, Spain; Lament


SPAIN: 2. GRANADA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red earth and raw, the olive clumps olive and silver
Last Line: From the cypresses, the mountains, the olives turning silver?
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Olive Trees And Olives


SPAIN: 2. GRANADA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red earth and raw, the olive clumps olive and silver
Last Line: From the cypresses, the mountains, the olives turning silver
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Olive Trees And Olives


ST. MICHAEL, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You can see them from the railings
Last Line: Of shouts and miradors
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Michael, The Archangel; Saints


THE ABENCERRAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely and still are now thy marble halls
Last Line: Who thus have suffered, and who thus repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alhambra, The; Granada, Spain


THE BULL-FIGHT [OF GAZUL], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "king almanzor of granada, he hath bid the trumpet sound"
Last Line: "upon gazul of algava, that hath laid harpado low"
Subject(s): "bullfights & Bullfighters;granada, Spain;spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714);


THE LOVER'S ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maiden through the favouring night
Last Line: Says for manuel's soul a prayer.
Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Escapes; Granada, Spain; Love; Moors (land); Dead, The; Fugitives


VOW OF REDUAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus said, before his lords, the king to reduan
Last Line: Right soon, when this was seen, broke all the moor away
Subject(s): Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Granada, Spain; Heroism


ZEGRI'S BRIDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the blood of zegri,the chief is lisaro
Last Line: Fought well that day, yet in the fray the zegri won his spouse
Subject(s): Civil War; Granada, Spain; Horseback Riding; Knights And Knighthood