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Subject: OCEANIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE (1889), by CAROLINE KING DUER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were ordered to samoa from the coast of panama
Last Line: Judge if we do not love each other well.
Subject(s): Americans In Oceania; Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks


FAR-AWAY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When seated in my easy chair
Last Line: Lost in the southern sea.
Subject(s): Commuters; Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Parting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


HAWAII AND OAHU, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hawaii, with thy sea-washed shore
Last Line: Until we meet again.
Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Mountains; Volcanoes; Parting; Oceania; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HAWAIIAN ISLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hawaiian isles, like emeralds
Last Line: In their fair land of flowers.
Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


HILO'S HOSTELRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hilo, of thee I often dream!
Last Line: And plant it secretly.
Subject(s): Guests; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Visiting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


SONGS OF TRAVEL: 40. TROPIC RAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the single pang of the blow, when the metal is mingled
Last Line: And out of the cloud that smites, beneficent rivers of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


SOUTH PACIFIC, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Least enemy is the foe
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): World War Ii; Islands Of The Pacific; Second World War; Oceania


TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since long ago, a child at home
Last Line: Tantira, tahiti, nov. 5, 1888.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Nature; Tahiti; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips