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Subject: MALTA
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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