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Subject: CUBA - REBELLIONS AGAINST SPANISH RULE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1959, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year I was born my mother ate nothing but oranges
Last Line: He proclaims may she peel the skin from this schizophrenic age
Subject(s): Continents; Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Family Life; Love - Cultural Differences; Travel


APOSTROPHE TO THE ISLAND OF CUBA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is blood on thy desolate shore
Last Line: And our wrath shall not rest, till we finish the deed.
Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule


CALLE DE LA AMARGURA, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the street of bitterness
Last Line: Calle de la amargura, no one is surprised %at the awful taste of paradise
Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


CUBA, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it naught? Is it naught
Last Line: Speak at last!
Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule


CUBA CONFRONTATION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With my hammer head
Last Line: Deep in her pillow
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Fights


CUBA LIBRA [APRIL, 1896], by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Comes a cry from cuban water
Last Line: Love and liberty allied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Patriotism


CUBA TO COLUMBIA [APRIL, 1896], by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice went over the waters
Last Line: Should come my lafayette!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule


GOMEZ TO BLANCO, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can honor for gold be bartered? Are treason and truth at one?
Last Line: God bless her dauntless heroes! That day we soon shall see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Freedom; South America; Wealth; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes


THE GALLANT FIFTY-ONE, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Freedom called them - up they rose
Last Line: Gallant band of fifty-one!
Subject(s): Crittenden, William L.; Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Lopez, Narcisco