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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOORS (PEOPLE) Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hemm'd close in by gloomy mountains Last Line: Like a fish, and gently struggles. Subject(s): Freiligrath, Ferdinard (1810-1876); Moors (people) ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That a swarthy freiligrathian Last Line: "in the street mud are reflected!" Subject(s): Freiligrath, Ferdinard (1810-1876); Moors (people) BALLAD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, captain of the moorish hold Last Line: The noblest knight of spain! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Moors (people); Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens FOR AL-TAYIB SALIH, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come here to retrieve a shoe Subject(s): Moors (people); Ancestors & Ancestry; Shoes; Love; Spain; Heritage; Heredity; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers LOVELY YOUNG MOOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I was the moor moraima Last Line: And went toward the door, %which I opened all the way Subject(s): Moors (people) MAIDEN TRIBUTE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The noble king ramiro within the chamber sate Last Line: That day began our freedom, and wiped away our shame Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Fights; Moors (people); Spain - History MOOR, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Black was the moor, a blackamoor in spirit Last Line: And yet the moor will draw you like a groom Subject(s): Moors (people) MOORISH BRIDAL SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The citron-groves their fruit and flowers were strewing Last Line: Weep for the young, the beautiful, -- the dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Moors (people); Wedding Song; Dead, The; Epithalamium MOORISH GATHERING SONG; ZORZICO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chains on the cities! Gloom in the air! Last Line: -- only the spear and the rock are ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Moors (people); Spain OTHELLO'S REPORT, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: ...Once in aleppo %yes, it was in aleppo Last Line: And a passion for love %tense as a tattoo, signorina' Subject(s): Fights; Memory; Moors (people); War PRINCE YOUSUF AND THE ALCAYDE; A MOORISH BALLAD, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In grenada reigned mohammed Last Line: Long lost lord -- our rightful king! Subject(s): Death; Moors (people); Spain; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile Last Line: In the land of andalusia. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness SEVEN HEADS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who bears such heart of baseness, a king I'll never call Last Line: To keep his children company beneath the moorish sod Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Cruelty; Death; Fathers And Sons; Moors (people); Murder SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 22, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Happy inn of viveros Last Line: The wine a moor Subject(s): Christianity; Moors (people) THE KEY; A MOORISH ROMANCE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moor leans on his cushion Last Line: To seek the ancient door! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Moors (people); Heritage; Heredity THE MOOR'S SERENADE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To my sleeping dear zuleima's Last Line: And blood from the heart's wounds flowing. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Moors (people); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE SCHEIK OF SINAI IN 1830, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift me without the tent, I say Last Line: That which I thought to see.' Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Moors (people); Tents; War THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastward rocks of almeria's bay Last Line: On aught but blackness overhung by stars.] Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Farewell; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain; War; Parting; Male-female Relations THE WAR SONG OF THE SARACENS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are they who come faster than fate: we are they who ride early or late Last Line: And the dead to the desert we gave, and the glory to god in our song. Subject(s): Moors (people) THE ZEGRI MAID, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer leaves were sighing Last Line: Thus sang the zegri maid. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Girls; Moors (people); Spain UNTUNED LUTE, by MOHAMED AZIZA Poem Source First Line: Oh blind musician, the caresses of your fingers Last Line: The malouf [andalousian song] sings the lament of a paradise lost -- %a musical mirage Subject(s): Moors (people); Muslims; Spain |
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