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Subject: MESSINA, SICILY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A THRENODY IN MEMORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MESSINA, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sicilian muse! O thou who sittest dumb
Last Line: The eyes of stolid caryatides.
Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Mythology


MESSINA, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, wedded to the lord, still yearns my heart
Last Line: High hope, pride-stain'd, the course without the prize.
Subject(s): Messina, Sicily


MESSINA, 1908, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, thou hast crushed thy tender ones
Last Line: Thy mediate and intelligible hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Messina, Sicily


THE MASS FOR THE DEAD, by SABINE BARING-GOULD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day unflagging in his stall
Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Death; Mass; Confession; Dead, The


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF MESSINA, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the perfect delight of messina
Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Old Age