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Subject: LEBANON
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A WEDDING AT CANA, LEBANON, 2007, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He said, 'it is terrible what happens.'
Subject(s): Marriage; War; Lebanon; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


APOLOGIES TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN LEBANON, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn’t know and nobody told me and what
Last Line: I really am sorry
Subject(s): Lebanon; Palestine


ARMY CATS, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over by the cemetery next to the cp
Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Bombs; Cats


AS I WENT UP TOWARDS LEBANON, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went up toward lebanon
Last Line: As I went up toward lebanon.
Subject(s): Lebanon


AURUM POTABILE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother bards of every region
Last Line: Golden blood of lebanon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Lebanon


BEIRUT TANK, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Staring up into the tank's belly lit
Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Tanks (military Science)


DARLING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I break this toast for the ghost of bread in lebanon
Last Line: "the word ""together"" wants to live in every house."
Subject(s): Language; Lebanon; Mothers; Words; Vocabulary


EAST UTICA, SELS., by EUGENE PAUL NASSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lebanon, land of our birth and hopefully of our dying
Subject(s): Lebanon


LEBANON 1982, by MICHAEL MAYO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Echo-chamber of mind reverberates with death toll
Subject(s): Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts


MY HESPERIDES, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the cattle low; I catch the faint sheep-bells
Last Line: Here is the golden fruit, -- mine own hesperides!
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology); Lebanon


ON LEBANON, by DAVID GRAY (1836-1888)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those days we spent on lebanon
Last Line: O maiden of the maronites!
Subject(s): Lebanon


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 125, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lead me, my lord upon mount lebanon
Last Line: All smelling of thy lebanons rich wine.
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Lebanon; Puritans In Literature


SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house in detroit
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life


SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house in detroit
Last Line: With cousin and brother %against the stranger
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social


SO WE GOT OUT OF LEBANON, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His screech his %portentous scold %iyew iyew
Subject(s): Arabs; Exiles; Jerusalem; Jews; Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


SONG OF SOLOMON: THE SONG OF SONGS: 4, 9-11, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: With one sign from those eyes
Last Line: And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of lebanon
Subject(s): Lebanon; Love


STRANDING, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What came wafting
Subject(s): Lebanon; War


THE ADVANCE, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out the barred window sandbags
Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Dolls; Death - Children; Death - Babies


THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye ancients of the earth, beneath whose shade
Last Line: Than ye have known -- cedars of lebanon!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Lebanon


THE SHEKH ABDALLAH, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What does the shekh abdallah do
Last Line: In the long, dull time of the ramadan.
Subject(s): Faith; Lebanon; Ramadan; Belief; Creed


TREE OF FIRE, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tree by the river
Last Line: My people %have died as fires %die--without a trace
Subject(s): Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts


ULTIMATION, by MAGDELEN EDEN BOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of tripoli, of lebanon
Last Line: And warm his freezing hands.
Subject(s): Lebanon; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


YOU CAN'T KILL A BABY TWICE, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the sewage puddles of sabra and shatila
Last Line: Was to come home %safe
Subject(s): Lebanon - Refugee Camps