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Subject: DUBLIN, IRELAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a boy, he wished to be a comedian
Last Line: Dublin would have lost a genuine clown
Subject(s): Ambition; Dublin, Ireland; Fools; Political Campaigns


AS WELL HIM AS ANOTHER, by DANIEL J. LANGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name is molly. I read the odd book
Last Line: Now that it's written, now that it's written down
Subject(s): Books; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Writing And Writers


AT CURRABWEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every night at currabwee
Last Line: And where the vardar loudly roars?
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Ireland; Irish


CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the cat within us
Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs
Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel


DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys


DREAM SONGS: 299, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world
Last Line: Depressed, down on my knees
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor And Laborers; Prayer


DRUNKEN LADIES, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was one drunken lady in dublin
Last Line: There was one drunken lady in spain
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dublin, Ireland; Travel; Women


DUBLIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey brick upon brick
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Variant Title(s): From The Closing Album
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland


DUBLIN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey brick upon brick
Last Line: Grey stone, grey water, %and brick upon grey brick
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Variant Title(s): From The Closing Albu
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland


DUBLINESQUE, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down stucco sidestreets,
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Funerals; Burials


FACING NORTH, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is little to do with me, I thought, waiting
Last Line: There was no soundness in her, suppurating %bruises, sores and wounds. My hands are full of blood
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Tourists; Travel


FAR FROM THE LAND, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kippure' we heard him matter. He was dying
Last Line: To his mountain or his heaven. So he died.
Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


FATHERS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We talked to our jamesons at closing time
Last Line: To somebody else two or three blocks over %who yelled back once. It got quiet after that
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Fathers


FUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Corruption rhymes with dublin
Last Line: Relax. Enjoy the funny, stinking play.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dublin, Ireland


GIGGLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If this coastal erosion continues
Last Line: Used to be
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erosion; Ruins; Tourists


GUMMING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I asked malachy brandon, eighty - two
Last Line: And don't give a fuck
Subject(s): Aging; Apathy; Dublin, Ireland; Love


HEART, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the heart of dublin, not even the long
Last Line: Can undo the blackbird's song
Subject(s): Ambulances; Birds; Dublin, Ireland; Fire


HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A light is burning late / in this georgian dublin street
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Love - Erotic


HERBERT STREET REVISITED, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A light is burning late %in this georgian dublin street
Last Line: Their hooves through the moonlight
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erotic Love


HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR, by CHARLES O'FLAHERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! 't was dermot o'nowlan mcfigg
Subject(s): Donnybrook Fair, Dublin, Ireland


HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To donnybrook steer, all you sons of
Subject(s): Donnybrook Fair, Dublin, Ireland


IF EVER YOU GO TO DUBLIN TOWN, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet he lived happily %I tell you
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland


JUST ANOTHER DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear dublin, you sleep tonight in a bed
Last Line: Will the good word be always late?
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Gossip; Hate; History


LITERARY DUBLIN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Damn near where'er you look, a writer's ghost
Last Line: And daedalus's execration hung %above the city like a blind man's blessing
Subject(s): Behan, Brendan (1923-1964); Dramatists; Dublin, Ireland; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Plays And Playwrights; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)


ON VISITING THE GREAT DUBLIN BREWERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brewing the best way hard money to win is
Last Line: Guinness makes porter, and porter makes guineas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Dublin, Ireland; Ale; Wine


SAMUEL BECKETT'S DUBLIN, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When it is cold it stinks, and not till then
Last Line: Who barely living therefore altogether %live till they die; and sweetly smell till then
Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Dublin, Ireland


SILKSTONE, YORKSHIRE, AND DUBLIN; A COMPARISON, by JOHN+(2) FORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two famous places I record
Last Line: But I prefer the coal, though some %declare that whisky's warmer
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Silkstone, England


SMALL DEFEATS: IN A DUBLIN CATACOMB, IN A RETIREMENT CONDO, by GORDON WEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dublin catacomb, I saw a nun's mummy
Last Line: And raise up all your fallen flesh!
Subject(s): Condominiums; Dublin, Ireland; Retirement


SO FAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah! Me jewel an' darlin' dublin, me capital star
Last Line: Only three murders this weekend, so far
Subject(s): Cynicism; Death; Dublin, Ireland; Murder


SPECIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a special poison to be found
Last Line: Until all flesh %is dust.
Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Fear


ST. MICHAN'S CHURCHYARD, by ROSE KAVANAGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Inside the city's throbbing heart
Last Line: The peace of heaven was everywhere.
Subject(s): Churchyards; Dublin, Ireland; Emmet, Robert (1778-1803)


THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys


THE DREAM SONGS: 299, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The irish have the thickest ankles in the world
Last Line: Depressed. Down on my knees
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Work; Workers


THE MUSIC OF ST. PATRICK'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again! Oh! Send that anthem-peal again
Last Line: Our nature's limit in its proudest hour?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin


THE RATTLING BOY FROM DUBLIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a rattling boy from dublin town
Last Line: Chorus.
Subject(s): Courtship; Dublin, Ireland


THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If my feet were on the rocky road
Last Line: On the rocky road to dublin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Greetings; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet
Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy."
Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation


VIKING DUBLIN: TRIAL PIECES, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It could be a jaw-bone %or a rib or a portion cut
Last Line: Lightly as pampooties %over the skull-capped ground
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Vikings


WARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dublin is gridlocked, cork crippled
Last Line: There's a loose cow on the road.
Subject(s): Cows; Dublin, Ireland; Traffic


YOUR WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you want to find your way through dublin
Last Line: The manic street will part for you
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Explorers; Sky; Streets