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Subject: PRUSSIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BISMARCK, by K. G. OSSIAN-NILSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stands there in his glory
Subject(s): Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Prussia


FREDERICK III OF GERMANY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the bold brandenburg, at prussia's birth
Last Line: The manliest emperor, the imperial man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Heroism; Prussia; Germans; Heroes; Heroines


KAUNAS 1941, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Town, %branches over the river
Last Line: My dark is already come
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prussia; World War Ii


LINES ON THE DEATH OF BISMARCK, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: At midnight death dismissed the chancellor
Last Line: Cover nine kingdoms as thou lie'st asleep.
Variant Title(s): Bismarck
Subject(s): Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Prussia


MY NATIVE LAND, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All tell me that thou art not fair, / beloved native land!
Last Line: How wondrous fair art thou!
Subject(s): Patriotism; Prussia


ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 13. TO AUTHOR OF MEMOIRS OF HOUSE OF BRANDENBURGH, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men renown'd as chiefs of human race
Last Line: Which tamed the savage world to your divine commands?
Subject(s): Frederick Ii, King Of Prussia (1712-1786)


PRUZZIAN ELEGY, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To sing you / one song
Subject(s): Prussia


PRUZZIAN ELEGY, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To sing you %one song
Last Line: On the haff when the sun %goes down
Subject(s): Prussia


SUFFER, by CARA CANNON BYINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dream of prussia, she whispers softly
Last Line: Of small bones breaking beneath her skin
Subject(s): Prussia


THE COURT OF BERLIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "king frederick, of prussia, grew nervous and ill"
Last Line: Though even the palace come down
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;prussia


THE IRON CHANCELLOR, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the grave where bismarck sleeps
Last Line: Two eagles screamed of victory.
Subject(s): Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Germany; Prussia; Germans


THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA'S TOMB, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It stands where northern willows weep
Last Line: Still blends with victory's! -- she was gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Graves; Prussia; Women; Tombs; Tombstones