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Subject: MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Matches Found: 15

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OLD MAP, by ELIZABETH MORROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: How small and arrogantly safe that world
Last Line: Disclosed the continent of you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Maps; Mediterranean Sea


FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 2, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One day I went to look at the mediterranean
Last Line: And I saw there was no practice in the sea
Subject(s): Italy; Mediterranean Sea


GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O epic-famed, god-haunted central sea
Last Line: Where lovers first behold thy form in pilgrimage to thee.
Subject(s): Genoa, Italy; Mediterranean Sea


IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - GOING TO THE WAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lovely wings of gold and green
Last Line: In my heart a newer song.
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; World War I; First World War


LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tower, turret, and embrasure
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea


MARE MEDITERRANEAN, by JOHN NICHOL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: A line of light! It is the inland sea
Last Line: Of glory to the brave!
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea


MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk
Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians


MEDITERRANEAN, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where we went in the boat was a long bay
Last Line: Rot on the vine: in that land were we born
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea


MEDITERRANEAN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The water is the same
Last Line: The ilex is like trying to translate %a poem into another language
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea


MEDITERRANEAN SUNS!, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of these resorts? %just climb down
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea; Sun


MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea


MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old
Last Line: And dionysos, young, and a stranger %leans listening on the gate, in all respect
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea


ODE: THE MEDITERRANEAN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of thee the northman by his beached galley
Last Line: Solace of mortals.
Variant Title(s): Ode: 5
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea


SOMETIMES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I take your hand
Last Line: A ship leaving for strange and distant countries
Subject(s): Dreams; Mediterranean Sea; Nightmares


THE MEDITERRANEAN, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where we went in the boat was a long bay
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Mediterranean Sea