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Subject: RHINE (RIVER), EUROPE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BACCHIC ODE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wine - bring wine!
Last Line: Poured by the hebe, poesy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Wine


A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genius of raphael! If thy wings
Last Line: And proud jerusalem!
Subject(s): Germany; Jews; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans; Judaism


A RUINED CASTLE ON THE RHINE; FORMERLY BELONGING TO TEMPLARS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the dark heights that overlook the rhine
Last Line: Whose noblest victories are yet unwon.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Castles; Rhine (river), Europe; Templars (knights)


A THOUGHT FROM THE RHINE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard an eagle crying all alone
Last Line: The eagle, hates the vineyard slopes below.
Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 5, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when I came to the bridge o'er the rhine
Last Line: "farewell, we shall meet hereafter."
Subject(s): France; Germany; Musset, Alfred De (1810-1857); Rhine (river), Europe; Germans


IN CASTLE LAND, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within yon ivied tower on the hill
Last Line: She waited for him here beside the rhine.
Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe


JUNGFRAU, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The virgin-mountain, wearing like a queen
Last Line: Deafening the region in his ireful mood.
Variant Title(s): The Jungfrau And The Fall Of The Rhine Near Schaffhausen
Subject(s): Alps; Jungfrau (mountain), Switzerland; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 11, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rhine, that beautiful river
Last Line: Resemble my mistress fair.
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Rhine (river), Europe


OLD LOVERS, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is not the contrast fortunate?
Last Line: My pipe, as you.
Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe


ON THE LOWER RHINE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By dusseldorf the singing rhine-stream bends
Last Line: And passionately soughtest thy mother-sea!
Subject(s): Dusseldorf, Germany; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets; Rhine (river), Europe; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


ON THE RHINE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vain is the effort to forget
Last Line: Their joy is in their calm.
Subject(s): Love; Rhine (river), Europe


ON THE RHINE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas morn, and beautiful the mountain's brow
Last Line: Nor heeds how fast the prospect winds away.
Variant Title(s): The Rhine
Subject(s): Inland Waters; Rhine (river), Europe


PHANTASY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a temple of the toes
Last Line: The song of sevilla's barber.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


PICTURES OF THE RHINE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of romance dies not to those
Last Line: And bridal vines drink in his juices on each side.
Subject(s): Nature; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Journeys; Trips


RHEIN-WEIN LIED, FR. THE HOUSE OF ASPEN, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What makes the troopers' frozen courage muster?
Last Line: Oh, blessed be the rhine!
Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe


RHINE SONG OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS AFTER VICTORY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the rhine! Our mountain vineyards
Last Line: Lift up thy voice, o rhine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Rhine (river), Europe; Victory


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KNAVE OF BERGEN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dusseldorf castle on the rhine
Last Line: Though now they all underground are!
Subject(s): Faces; Masks; Night; Rhine (river), Europe; Bedtime


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: PALSGRAVINE JUTTA, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The palsgravine jutta, in bark so light
Last Line: So sadly are floating the corpses!
Subject(s): Corpses; Rhine (river), Europe; Cadavers


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE APOLLO GOD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The convent stands high on the rocky steep
Last Line: "head-dress, they 'the green sow' call her."
Subject(s): Apollo; Clothing & Dress; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill and castle fair are glancing
Last Line: Kind and gentle can she seem.
Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe


SONNET: AUTHOR'S VOYAGE DOWN THE RHINE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The confidence of youth our only art
Last Line: Features which else had vanished like a dream.
Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe


THE BROOK RHINE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small current of the wilds afar from men
Last Line: On to the distant toil, the distant rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe; Switzerland; Swiss


THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rhine is running deep and red
Last Line: The passage of the scot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Islands; Rhine (river), Europe; Scotland - Relations With England


THE LOWER RHINE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above, in the castle-land
Last Line: Are the knights of the modern rhine.
Subject(s): Industry; Knights & Knighthood; Rhine (river), Europe


THE WATCH ON THE RHINE, by MAX SCHNECKENBURGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A voice resounds like thunder peal
Last Line: Firm stand thy sons to watch the rhine!
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans


TO EMILY; WITH A FLASK OF RHINE WATER, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old catholic city was still
Last Line: That the rhine seemed all eau de cologne!
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Rhine (river), Europe


WRITTEN ON THE RHINE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swiftly we sail along thy stream
Last Line: Doze down the summer hours.
Subject(s): Rhine (river), Europe