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Subject: NEAR EAST
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ATTRACTIONS OF THE EAST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What secret current of man's nature turns
Last Line: Their hope, the fair lost birthright to regain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Middle East; Spring; Near East; Levant


MAHMOUD, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a man, making his hasty moan
Last Line: "tude."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Asia; Middle East; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Near East; Levant


PHYSICAL AND MORAL BLINDNESS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The child whose eyes were never blest
Last Line: Feeling the childly life beyond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Blindness; Middle East; Visually Handicapped; Near East; Levant


PRINCE ADEB, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sana, o, in sana, god, the lord
Last Line: My nights have been of silver, -- god is just!
Subject(s): Asia; Middle East; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Near East; Levant


THE CARAVAN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From underneath the carob shade
Last Line: One bourn for every caravan!
Subject(s): Caravans; Middle East; Travel; Near East; Levant; Journeys; Trips


THE KIOSK: 1, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the shadow of a large-leaved plane
Last Line: That any one there present might have known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Middle East; Story-telling; Near East; Levant


THE MINSTREL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He played on the single string
Last Line: And the red damascus rose!
Subject(s): Middle East; Music & Musicians; Superstition; Near East; Levant


THE RIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We rose in the clear, cool dawning, and greeted the eastern star
Last Line: And ride to the pearl of cities from the huts of kerf hawar.
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Middle East; Travel; Near East; Levant; Journeys; Trips


THE THINKER AND THE POET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunshine often falls refulgent
Last Line: Like the sun through autumn leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Middle East; Poetry & Poets; Near East; Levant


TIMOUR'S COUNCILS, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Emirs and khans in long array
Last Line: "on wild chabanga's frozen plain!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Middle East; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Near East; Levant; Dictators