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Subject: DON JUAN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNOUNCEMENT, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let it be understood that I am don juan gomez
Last Line: "and cry, ""don juan is praying, and must not pray in vain!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Don Juan; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Saints; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


DON JUAN, by LUCIUS HARWOOD FOOTE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "and the casa is yours, senor."
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Heureux adolescents dont le coeur s'ouvre
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is isis the mystery
Last Line: Must be in love with me
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN AND DONA, by AINA KRAUJIETE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a spider weaving
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN DECLAIMS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I am don juan, curst from age to age
Last Line: And took my hand, and I was led away.
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN DISCOVERED BY HAIDEE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hot dog I got me a naked lover
Last Line: On sunset earth
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Don Juan


DON JUAN DISCOVERED BY HAIDEE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hot dog I got me a naked lover
Last Line: Him the last man in sight %on sunset earth
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Don Juan; Paintings And Painters


DON JUAN IN AMSTERDAM, by DARYL HINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This also is a place that love is known in
Last Line: Anonymous, invulnerable, free
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN IN HELL, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night don juan came to pay his fees
Last Line: Gazed back, and would not offer one look round.
Subject(s): Don Juan; Hell


DON JUAN IN HELL, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When don juan, in his netherward descent
Last Line: Gazed at the wake through eyes that deigned not see
Subject(s): Don Juan; Hell


DON JUAN IN PORTUGAL, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At every pelourinho's ledge
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Don Juan; Portugal


DON JUAN IN WINTER, by MICHAEL CHARLES ALSTON MOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Women like mirrors yet who plot with fate
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN ON HIS KNEES, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God, I am weary of women and kisses!
Last Line: Send me a dream that remains but a dream!
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN'S NIGHTMARE, by CATULLE MENDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don juan is handsome, young, gallant, superb
Last Line: "nor jehovah!"" ""then who was it?"" ""sganarelle!"
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN'S SONG, by PERE ALEXANDRE DUMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This evening, whilst walking alone on the
Last Line: Nay, give me your heart, lady fair, and keep mine
Subject(s): Don Juan; Love


DON JUAN'S SONG, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon is in an ecstasy
Last Line: God made them frail to break.
Subject(s): Don Juan; Soldiers' Writings


DON JUAN'S TESTAMENT, by JOHN D. OGDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Has he gone? Thank god. He thinks he has my soul
Last Line: That makes our birth a fatal accident
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want a hero: an uncommon want
Last Line: For god's sake, reader! Take them not for mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 10, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When newton saw an apple fall, he found
Last Line: Like roland's horn in roncesvalles' battle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 11, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When bishop berkely said 'there was no matter'
Last Line: But would not change my free thoughts for a throne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 12, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Last Line: And tell me what you think of your great thinkers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 13, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I now mean to be serious; -- it is time
Last Line: And lower the price of rouge -- at least some winters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Lady Adeline Amundeville
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 14, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If from great nature's or our own abyss
Last Line: Caesar himself would be ashamed of fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): The Sceptic And His Poem
Subject(s): Don Juan; Slavery; Wilberforce, William (1759-1833); Serfs


DON JUAN: CANTO 15, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! - what should follow slips from my reflection
Last Line: Of empires heave but like some passing waves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 16, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The antique persians taught three useful things
Last Line: The phantom of her frolic grace -- fitz-fulke!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 17, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is full of orphans
Last Line: A vigil, or dreamt rather more than slept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 2, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh ye! Who teach the ingenuous youth of nations
Last Line: For them and theirs with all who deign to read.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 3, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, muse! Et cetera. - we left juan sleeping
Last Line: From aristotle passim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 4, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing so difficult as a beginning
Last Line: Till what is call'd in ossian the fifth duan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 5, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When amatory poets sing their loves
Last Line: You'll pardon to my muse a few short naps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 6, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a tide in the affairs of men'
Last Line: The muse will take a little touch at warfare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 7, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love! O glory! What are ye who fly
Last Line: The death-cry drowning in the battle's roar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): The Siege Of Ismail
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 8, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh blood and thunder! And oh blood and wounds
Last Line: And made a vow to shield her, which he kept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


DON JUAN: CANTO 9, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, wellington! Or 'villainton' - for fame
Last Line: To take a quiet ride in some green lane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Wellington
Subject(s): Don Juan; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); Wellington, Duke Of


DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION], by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bob southey! You're a poet -- poet-laureate
Last Line: Is it not so, my tory, ultra-julian?
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan; Poetry & Poets; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


FRAGMENT, ON THE BACK OF THE POET'S MS. OF CANTO I OF 'DON JUAN', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would to heaven that I were so much clay
Last Line: And so -- for god's sake -- hock and soda-water!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


GULBEYAZ, FR. DON JUAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gulbeyaz, for the first time in her days
Last Line: His peace was making, but before he ventured %further, old baba rather briskly enter'd
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Don Juan


LEPANTO, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White founts falling in the courts of the sun
Last Line: (but don john of austria rides home from the crusade.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Crusades; John Of Austria (1629-1679); Lepanto, Battle Of; Sea; Don Juan The Younger; Ocean


PITY DON JUAN, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He gathers love affairs as boys do stamps
Last Line: He cannot drown himself in any eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph
Subject(s): Don Juan; Love Affairs; Sex