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Subject: BRUGES, BELGIUM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANTWERP AND BRUGES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climbed the stair in antwerp church
Last Line: That my flesh felt the carillon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Bruges, Belgium; Eyck, Jan Van (1395-1441); Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Travel; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans; Journeys; Trips


BRUGES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bruges I saw attired with golden light
Last Line: Of nun-like females, with soft motion, glide!
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium


BRUGES (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of antiquity - enshrined
Last Line: A deeper peace than that in deserts found!
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium


BRUGES: QUAI DES AUGUSTINS; AFTER VAN DER VEER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the sad, deserted street
Last Line: To silence and the waning day.
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Streets; Avenues


CARILLON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the ancient town of bruges
Last Line: Of that quaint old flemish city.
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium


INCIDENT AT BRUGES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In bruges town is many a street
Last Line: Of english liberty?
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips


LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow
Last Line: Float out over the canals.
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery


QUAI DU ROSAIRE: BRUGES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These streets have such a tranquil, languid gait
Last Line: Clusters of chimes in the far heavens hung.
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium


THE BELFRY OF BRUGES, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the market-place of bruges stands the belfry ols and brown
Last Line: Lo! The shadow of the belfry crossed the sun-illumined square.
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium


THE BELLS OF BRUGES, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Back with the same question, major?
Last Line: "come on corporal.—damn this war!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs.
Subject(s): Bells; Bruges, Belgium; World War I; First World War


THE CARILLON (ANTWERP AND BRUGES), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At antwerp, there is a low wall
Last Line: That my flesh felt the carillon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Bells; Bruges, Belgium