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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: SPAIN - HISTORY Matches Found: 15 AN ODE WRITTEN BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, arise, arise / there is blood on the earth that denies ye bread Last Line: Ye were injured, and that means memory. Variant Title(s): An Ode To The Assertors Of Liberty Subject(s): Freedom; Spain - History; Liberty CID: PART 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a low state Last Line: Expressions, but Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Romance; Spain - History; Spanish Literature CID: PART 12, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The good ximena Last Line: A great connecting Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Coffins; Death; Funerals; Spain - History CID: PART 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rodrigo or, as Last Line: Three-hundred followers Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Spain - History; Vengeance CID: PART 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of the king right Last Line: To a man of valor Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Heroism; Horses; Spain - History; War INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TORDESILLAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spaniard! If thou art one who bows the knee Last Line: Thoughts valueless and cold compared with these. Subject(s): Martyrs; Spain; Spain - History 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 ODE TO SPAIN - AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF MARCH, by MANUEL JOSE QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: What nation, tell me, in the older day Last Line: With golden sceptre and device divine! Subject(s): Patriotism; Revolutions; Spain - History SATURDAY, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Every saturday Last Line: By its virtue Subject(s): Spain - History; Travel; Villages SUNSET ON GIBRALTAR, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet upon a summer eve to stand Last Line: Far buena vista's lights allure my weary feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Gibraltar; Soldiers; Spain - History; War; Weariness; Fatigue 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 VISION OF DON RODERICK, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lives there a strain, whose sounds of mounting fire Last Line: I strike my red-cross flag, and bind my skiff to land. Subject(s): Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711); Spain - History TO DON FRANCISCO GINER DE LOS RIOS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when the master left us Last Line: Dreamt his sweet dream of spain's new blossoming Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Spain - History WIZZERDE WYNKIN'S DETHE; AN ANCIENT BALLAD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wizzerde's een grewe derke and dimme Last Line: Gramercye on his soulle! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Spain - History; War |
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