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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