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Subject: SAINT LUCIA (CARIBBEAN ISLAND)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AS JOHN TO PATMOS, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As john to patmos, among the rocks and the blue live air, hounded
Last Line: To praise lovelong the living and the brown dead
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Home


BECUNE POINT, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stunned heat of noon. In shade, tan, silken cows
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


DEAD, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who did you say, my lady?' drawled the earl
Last Line: "the music makes me giddy. Take me home!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Yellow Fever; Dead, The


FEEL OF THE VILLAGE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The feel of the village in the afternoon heat, a torpor
Last Line: Is nothing, and it is this nothingness that makes it great
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


FOR THE ALTARPIECE OF THE ROSEAU VALLEY CHURCH, SAINT LUCIA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chapel, as the pivot of this valley
Subject(s): Churches; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Cathedrals


FOR THE ALTARPIECE OF THE ROSEAU VALLEY CHURCH, SAINT LUCIA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chapel, as the pivot of this valley
Last Line: The real faces of angels
Subject(s): Churches; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


HOMECOMING: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My country heart, I am not home till sesenne sings
Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


HOMECOMING: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My country heart, I am not home till sesenne sings
Last Line: And the names of rivers whose bridges I used to know
Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


HOMECOMING: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blades of the olenader were rattling like green knives
Last Line: Endured in their silence the dividing wind
Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


HOMECOMING: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the violin whines its question and the banjo answers
Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


HOMECOMING: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the violin whines its question and the banjo answers
Last Line: But my love of both wide as the atlantic is large
Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


IT IS LOW TIDE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is low tide, so the reef evolves into islands
Last Line: But from its shacks and their fishnets these lines were made
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


IT IS LOW TIDE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is low tide, so the reef evolves into islands
Last Line: But from its shacks and their fishnets these lines were made
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


PARANG: 1. CHRISTMAS EVE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can you genuinely claim these, and do they reclaim you
Last Line: Or tears that glint on night's face for every island
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


PARANG: 1. CHRISTMAS EVE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can you genuinely claim these, and do they reclaim you
Last Line: Or tears that glint on night's face for every island
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


PARANG: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days change, the sunlight goes, then it returns, and wearily
Last Line: That elate dissolution which goes beyond happiness
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


PARANG: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days change, the sunlight goes, then it returns, and wearily
Last Line: That elate dissolution which goes beyond happiness
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


PARANG: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember childhood? Remember a faraway rain
Last Line: Of la divina pastora, and a life of incredible errors
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


PARANG: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember childhood? Remember a faraway rain
Last Line: Of la divina pastora, and a life of incredible errors
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


SANTA ANA CRUZ QUARTET: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Races, in this rich valley, inevitably took root
Last Line: Their history dimmed and vanished into fiction
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


SANTA ANA CRUZ QUARTET: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let these lines shine like the rain's wires through santa cruz
Last Line: And my peace in the place for whatever time is allowed
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


SANTA ANA CRUZ QUARTET: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The junction. Divina pastora. Napkin clouds over jean's
Last Line: Into the myth of a heaven that gradually pardons
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)


SANTA ANA CRUZ QUARTET: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand on the star-riddled lawn, then, its iron wet
Last Line: Hidden under small clouds whose shadows predict their shapes
Subject(s): Saint Lucia (caribbean Island)