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Subject: GUERRILLAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GUERILLA SONG, FOUNDED ON STORY ... SPANISH PATRIOT MINA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Forget not the hour, when through forest
Last Line: O'er the plains of the olive, and hills of the vine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Espoz Y Mina, Francisco (1781-1836); Guerrillas


GUERRILLA'S GOODBYE, by JAVIER HERAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: One afternoon he said to his girl
Last Line: Alongside the guerrillas
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Fights; Guerrillas; Oppression


GUERRILLA'S WORD, by JAVIER HERAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because my country is beautiful
Last Line: The jungles %and the birds
Subject(s): Guerrillas; Patriotism; Peru


LAMENT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We may well ask now: 'where are the lilacs?' yes
Last Line: For the guerilla entering the plaza where defeated generals wait
Subject(s): Activity; Chile; Guerrillas; Politics & Government; Socialism; Spain; Exercise


MY COUNTRY, by JULIO ORTEGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young men of the nineteen hundreds
Last Line: And you who will move the stones
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Guerrillas; Justice; Peru


POEM FOR A GUERRILLA LEADER, by SYL CHENEY-COKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Solitude supporting solitude on two pergolas
Last Line: O island o field you cape verde daughter in spoilage
Subject(s): Guerrillas


REQUIEM FOR THE CROPPIES, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley
Subject(s): Guerrillas; War


REQUIEM FOR THE CROPPIES, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley
Last Line: And in august the barley grew up out of the grave
Subject(s): Guerrillas; War


SONG TO FIDEL, by ERNESTO GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You said the sun would rise
Last Line: Nothing more
Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Communism; Cubism; Guerrillas; Latin America - History; Militarism


TAMBORILLO, by MARIO PAYERAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whoever intends to wage war in the jungle
Subject(s): Guerrillas


THE GUERRILLA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though friends are false, and leaders fail
Last Line: Here all their fragrance shed.
Subject(s): Freedom; Guerrillas; Liberty