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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ORIENT Matches Found: 32 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADAM; A HUNGARIAN LEGEND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in asia, saith the legend Last Line: Death his troubled face shall brighten. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Asia; Bible; Creation; God; Legends, Hungarian; Far East; East Asia; Orient AN IMPORTER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Someone's been to asia Last Line: Teach your grandmother egg suction Subject(s): Asia; Mass Production; Far East; East Asia; Orient AN ORIENTAL BALLAD, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fair is my yashmak, as sweet as a mosque Last Line: That I can exactly recall! Subject(s): Asia; Praise; Far East; East Asia; Orient ASIAN BIRDS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this may-month, by grace Last Line: The poem that I sing would be the voice of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Asia; Birds; Far East; East Asia; Orient CITIES OF ELD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the orient uplands afar Last Line: And even their gods unknown. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Dancing & Dancers; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Destiny ECSTASY, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn Last Line: And I sang like a carven pipe of music. Subject(s): Asia; Nature; Spring; Far East; East Asia; Orient ERMINIA AND THE WOUNDED TANCRED, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though gone, though dead, I love thee still; behold Last Line: His head then laid she in her bosom sweet. Subject(s): Asia; Far East; East Asia; Orient FIRST LOVES, by JEAN STEPHEN JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: Lure of the orient Last Line: In the orient? Subject(s): Asia; Far East; East Asia; Orient GUNS AS KEYS: AND THE GREAT GATE SWINGS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Due east, far west. Distant as the nests of the Last Line: Through a wide gateway. Occident -- orient -- after fifty years. Subject(s): Asia; Travel; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Journeys; Trips HE LEADETH ME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cloudless and sunlit skies o'erspread Last Line: "I say: ""dear father, lead me on." Subject(s): Asia; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Far East; East Asia; Orient KHAMSIN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the wind from the desert blew in! / -- khamsin Last Line: The scourge from the desert, blew in! Subject(s): Asia; Tragedy; Far East; East Asia; Orient 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 MANDALAY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: By the old moulmein pagoda, lookin' lazy [or, eastward to] at the sea Last Line: Crost the bay! Subject(s): Army Life; Asia; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Mandalay, Burma; Drills & Minor Tactics; Far East; East Asia; Orient; British Empire; England - Empire ORIENT, by ARMANDE ALICE FAIR Poem Text First Line: White butterflies flitting across the face Last Line: In a gauze of opal lure. Subject(s): Asia; Butterflies; Insects; Moon; Stars; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Bugs ORIENT TO OCCIDENT, 1906, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep Last Line: For you the ship's machinery, for me the guiding helm! Subject(s): Asia; Explorers; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology ORIENTAL PHANTASY, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes the sky Last Line: Marionettes . . . Subject(s): Asia; Gays & Lesbians; Puppets; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Marionettes 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 RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'ornament of asia' and the 'crown' Last Line: Her rise, make asia's fall magnificent. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Death; Nature; Sea; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The; Ocean THE BIRDS OF VIETNAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O bright, o swift and bright Last Line: Help it, I have so loved / this world Subject(s): Asia; Birds; Vietnam; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEAD FEAST OF THE KOL-FOLK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have opened the door Last Line: Come home! Subject(s): Asia; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE DIATRIBE OF THE KITE; FOR KHENPO KARTHAR RINPOCHE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come from the white barrier of noon Last Line: Those ancestors for whom we are ashamed. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Asia; Kites; Heritage; Heredity; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE FOUR ZOAS: THE SONG OF LOS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing you a song of los, the eternal prophet Last Line: Urizen wept. Subject(s): Africa; Asia; Bible; Mythology; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE IMPERIAL PRAYERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silenced the streets with sand of holy hue Last Line: Goes that spoiled, wretched, and mysterious youth. Subject(s): Asia; Death; Imperialism; Inheritance And Succession; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The THE LEPER (2), by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Room for the leper! Room!' and, as he came Last Line: Prostrate at jesus' feet, and worshipped him. Subject(s): Asia; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Leprosy; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Lepers THE LOST SINGER, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the olive orient Last Line: That cloak like himalayan snow? Subject(s): Asia; Jesus Christ; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE MISSIONARY'S SON WRITES IN HIS DIARY, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am gnawn with desire for the daughters of lam kee chow Last Line: It is madness! I write no more. Subject(s): Asia; Desire; Diaries; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE NOBLEMAN AND THE PENSIONER, by GOTTLIEB KONRAD PFEFFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, god bless you! Does your pipe taste sweetly? Last Line: "the turkish pipe shall be." Subject(s): Asia; Smoking; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE SACK OF THE CITY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy will, o king, is done! Lighting but to consume Last Line: With golden circlet to thy glorious ankle bound. Subject(s): Asia; Tragedy; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE UNFORGOTTEN HEROES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the orient's bells are proclaiming Last Line: Something of sympathy, something of tears. Subject(s): Asia; Courage; Heroism; Memory; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines TO A PERSIAN BOY IN THE BAZAAR AT SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gorgeous blossoms of that magic tree Last Line: Or in the bowers of blissful samarcand. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Trees; Far East; East Asia; Orient |
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