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Subject: VELAZQUEZ, DIEGO (1599-1660)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CASTILIAN, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Velasquez took a pliant knife
Last Line: Miraculously shaped.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660)


NOTES ON VELAZQUEZ, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My career has been spent as a courtier
Last Line: I will give him a sound thrashing.' %signed, rubens, 1862
Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660)


ON A PICTURE OF CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS; PAINTED BY VELASQUEZ, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the dark stillness brooding in the sky
Last Line: One living beam of dayspring from on high.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Paintings & Painters; Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


ROKEBY VENUS, by GEORGE ROBERT ACWORTH CONQUEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life pours out images, the accidental
Last Line: Of our imaginations and our beds
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Venus (goddess)


THE CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: BULL, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White bull with a crescent moon on your forehead
Last Line: Pardon for us from your father
Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De
Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ; Bulls


THE CHRIST OF VELAZQUEZ: CLOUD-MUSIC, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A white cloud you are, white as the one
Last Line: Through your body, harp of the universe
Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De
Subject(s): Velazquez, Diego (1599-1660); Jesus Christ; Clouds