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Subject: MOROCCO
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFRICA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quit writing / and in morocco
Subject(s): Morocco; Writing & Writers


HARBOR. TANGIER, 1940, by LISA RESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The room that sheltered me at birth resides
Subject(s): Tangier, Morocco


I THOUGHT IT WAS TANGIERS I WANTED, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know now %that notre dame is in paris
Last Line: But I thought it was tangiers I wanted
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Tangier, Morocco


LIKE A BIRD, by BARBARA HORTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is raining in tangier
Last Line: It looked like a circus ballerina %or like a bright plumed bird
Subject(s): Tangier, Morocco


TANGIER: HOTEL RIF, by DONALD MICHAEL THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Pale pink and green lights flush on white
Last Line: Hull-down the bilge-sprung tankers limp %to pale atlantic afternoons
Subject(s): Tangier, Morocco; Travel


TANGIERS, by MIGUEL ALGARIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down to the kasba with me
Subject(s): Tangier, Morocco


TO AMERICAN FLYERS IN MOROCCO, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wished you wounded, I have wished you dead
Last Line: That he may live to cringe at his own name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Morocco


TWO JOURNEYS, by JAMES ATLAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tangier. Fever-gripped, I lie on a hammock
Last Line: Silent as priests, each of us dreams a separate fall
Subject(s): Tangier, Morocco