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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MALTA Matches Found: 7 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABERCROMBIE'S GRAVE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: No drooping willow weeps Last Line: Would dare to lay a desecrating hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Abercrombie, Sir Ralph (1734-1801); Death; Graves; Malta; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CYPRUS / THE STRANGLED, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Malta: fat lady %spain Subject(s): Crete; Cyprus; Malta; Rhodes (island); Spain DRAGUT, THE CORSAIR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, swiftly, very swiftly, they up the straits have gone Last Line: For he wept as he stepped upon the christian shore Subject(s): Malta, Battle Of (1565); Turgutreis, Turkish Admiral (d. 1565) FAREWELL TO MALTA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, ye joys of la valette Last Line: And bless the gods I've got a fever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Malta; Travel; Journeys; Trips LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT MALTA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As o'er the cold sepulchral stone Last Line: And think my heart is buried here. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Malta THE JEW OF MALTA, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Albeit the world thinks machiavel is dead Last Line: Neither to fate nor fortune, but to heaven. [exeunt. Subject(s): Jews; Malta; Revenge; Judaism THE LEPER KNIGHT; A LEGEND OF MALTA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Elmo's walls are high and strong Last Line: Had kept his vow in dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Legends; Malta; Muslims; Tyranny & Tyrants; Moslems |
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