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Subject: ARABIC LANGUAGE
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling
Last Line: In every language and opened its doors.
Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


BORROWED TONGUE, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe I'm a fool
Subject(s): Arabic Language


GATE A-4, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wandering around the albuquerque airport terminal, after learning
Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabic Language; United States; America


PREFACE, SELS., by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID    Poem Source                    
First Line: I write in a language that exiles me. The relationship of an arab poet
Last Line: A promise of a beginning, a perpetual beginning
Subject(s): Arabic Language; Exiles


THE REBUKE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said brown -- 'when I, myself to rid
Last Line: "you might have talk'd gum-arabic!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Arabic Language; Teeth; Toothaches