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Subject: CYPRUS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CYPRUS / THE STRANGLED, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Malta: fat lady %spain
Subject(s): Crete; Cyprus; Malta; Rhodes (island); Spain


ENGOMI, by GEORGE SEFERIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plain was broad and level; from a distance you could see
Last Line: Where they take a long time to die
Subject(s): Engomi, Cyprus


HELEN, by GEORGE SEFERIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nightingales won't let you sleep in platres
Last Line: All for an empty tunic, all for a helen
Subject(s): Platres, Cyprus


ST. BARNABAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Barnabas, with john his sister's son
Last Line: Neared it and passed; -- not there his landing-place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Barnabas, Saint (1st Century); Cyprus; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus


THE CYPRUS VASE, by ROSALIND TRAVERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A twilight breeze, of honied scent impassioned
Last Line: Three thousand years ago?
Subject(s): Antiquities; Cyprus; Vases


YOU'LL DRINK YOU'RE ORANGE JUICE AND LIKE IT, COMRADE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a cyprus citrus surplus
Last Line: Now on cyprus they're all reading %victory, by joseph comrade
Subject(s): Communism; Cyprus; Russia