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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SRI LANKA Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GENTLEMAN COMPARES HIS VIRTUE TO A PIECE OF JADE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enemy was always identified in art by a lion Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon ALL FAR PLACES, by VENETA LEATHAM NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: Sri lanka %lovely name-go there- Last Line: Sprinkled by showering sun %all far places %are perfect to my mind. %go. Go. Run Subject(s): Sri Lanka ALL THOSE POETS AS FAMOUS AS KINGS', by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman who journeys to a tryst Last Line: The sky lovely with its star Subject(s): Sri Lanka BROTHER THIEF, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four men steal the bronze Last Line: Like a cave of water Subject(s): Sri Lanka BURIED, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be buried in times of war Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon BURIED, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be buried in times of war Last Line: But if I had to perish twice? Subject(s): Sri Lanka BURIED 2, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We smuggled the tooth of the buddha Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon BURIED 2, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We smuggled the tooth of the buddha Last Line: Could not be found Subject(s): Sri Lanka CEYLON, by INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The head is cold, the cigarette Last Line: Give something, give something you like %like your life Subject(s): Sri Lanka CEYLON, by NISHIWAKI JUNZABURO Poem Source First Line: The natives were all in their houses Subject(s): Sri Lanka COPPERSMITH, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A temple tree grew in our garden in ceylon Last Line: Too long without a toupee and was going blind, %till I and the bird, the word and the tree, were one Subject(s): Sri Lanka DEATH AT KATARAGAMA, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For half the day blackouts stroke this house into stillness Last Line: Give evrything away for this sound of mud and water, %hooves, great wings Subject(s): Sri Lanka DISTANCE OF A SHOUT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lived on the medieval coast Last Line: A gradual acceptance of this new language Subject(s): Sri Lanka DRIVING WITH DOMINIC IN THE SOUTHERN PROVINCE WE SEE HINTS OF THE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tattered hungarian tent Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon DRIVING WITH DOMINIC IN THE SOUTHERN PROVINCE WE SEE HINTS OF THE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tattered hungarian tent Last Line: Into the grip of another Subject(s): Sri Lanka FIRST RULE OF SINHALESE ARCHITECTURE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never build three doors Last Line: Into your life Subject(s): Sri Lanka FLIGHT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the half-dark cabin of air lanka flight 5 Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Air Travel; Ceylon FLIGHT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the half-dark cabin of air lanka flight 5 Last Line: Two hours before reaching katunayake airport Subject(s): Sri Lanka GENTLEMAN COMPARES HIS VIRTUE TO A PIECE OF JADE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enemy was always identified in art by a lion Last Line: Swaying in the darkness above us Subject(s): Sri Lanka GREAT TREE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zou fulei died like a dragon breaking down a wall Last Line: A night without a staircase Subject(s): Sri Lanka HOUSE ON A RED CLIFF, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no mirror in mirissa Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon HOUSE ON A RED CLIFF, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no mirror in mirissa Last Line: Last footstep before formlessness Subject(s): Sri Lanka LAST INK, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In certain countries aromas pierce the heart and one dies Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon LAST INK, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In certain countries aromas pierce the heart and one dies Last Line: Leaping and bowing Subject(s): Sri Lanka MEDIEVAL COAST, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A village of stone-cutters. A village of soothsayers Last Line: This wisdom extends no more than thirty miles Subject(s): Sri Lanka NINE SENTIMENTS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day desire %enters the hearts of men Last Line: Without the damn god of love? Subject(s): Sri Lanka OCEANIDES, 9. THE EDEN OF THE SEA, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dream! A dream! Our billowy home Last Line: Feels ever what at first he felt Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Sri Lanka REMINDER, by INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You come from sri lanka, / said the toy-shop keeper at patti's Subject(s): Sri Lanka; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ceylon SIYABASLAKARA, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the 10th century, the young princess Last Line: Under the rain of her hair Subject(s): Sri Lanka STEP, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The ceremonial funeral structure for a monk Subject(s): Funerals; Monks; Sri Lanka; Burials; Ceylon STEP, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ceremonial funeral structure for a monk Last Line: Where there was worship, lighter air Subject(s): Funerals; Monks; Sri Lanka STORY, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For his first forty days a child Last Line: Into the darkness of the night Subject(s): Sri Lanka THE BROTHER THIEF, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four men steal the bronze Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Religion; Robbery; Ceylon THE CYPRESS-TREE OF CEYLON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sat in silent watchfulness Last Line: Our souls should keep with thee! Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Sri Lanka; Ceylon THE DISTANCE OF A SHOUT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lived on the medieval coast Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon THE FIRST RULE OF SINHALESE ARCHITECTURE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never build three doors Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon THE GREAT TREE, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zou fulei died like a dragon breaking down a wall Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon THE MEDIEVAL COAST, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A village of stone-cutters. A village of soothsayers Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon THE NINE SENTIMENTS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day desire / enters the hearts of men Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon THE SIYABASLAKARA, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the 10th century, the young princess Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon THE STORY, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For his first forty days a child Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon TO ANURADHAPURA, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dry lands Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon TO ANURADHAPURA, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dry lands Last Line: In the tow of this river Subject(s): Sri Lanka WELLS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rope jerked up Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Ceylon WELLS, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rope jerked up Last Line: Out of the depth Subject(s): Sri Lanka |
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