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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SYRIA Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAFES IN DAMASCUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languidly the night-wind bloweth Last Line: Could be such a dream! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Damascus, Syria; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners GATES OF DAMASCUS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Four great gates has the city of damascus Last Line: Who walks thy garden eve on eve, and bows his head, and calls thee friend. Subject(s): Damascus, Syria HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is full of definite stars Last Line: Full of dead strangers Subject(s): Damascus, Syria NEAR DAMASCUS, by W. S. DI PIERO Poem Source First Line: The antlered scarab rolled a dungball Last Line: Rousted, found out, blasted, saved %down in the road's pearly filth Subject(s): Bible; Damascus, Syria; Religion ON A FELLUCA ONE EVENING IN THE AEGEAN, A FELICIFIC RITE IS PERFORMED, by MARK WHITE Poem Source First Line: He claimed to be a simple fellah from syria Last Line: With the frenetic f#s of a flock of bacchanalian fringillids Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Religion; Syria RUINS OF PALMYRA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Palmyra, where art thou, all dreary and lone? Last Line: And sink, not in splendour, but sadly sublime. Subject(s): Palmyra, Syria STIGMATA OF FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This calcined idiocy, the fool Last Line: Tiny, closing doors of silence Subject(s): Damascus, Syria STILL THIS, STILL THAT I WOULD! ALL I SURMISE, by WILLIAM LITHGOW Poem Source Last Line: Thus leaving him, I with the consul bode, %full forty days, or I went thence abroad Subject(s): Syria; Travel SYRIA RENGA, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Driving a flatbed Subject(s): Syria THE HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is full of definite stars Subject(s): Damascus, Syria THE KIOSK: 3. THE SYRIAN'S STORY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A merchant of damascus, to whom gain Last Line: "some awful vengeance; -- was this story known?" Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Damascus, Syria THE MASTER OF PALMYRA, by ADOLF VON WILBRANDT Poem Text First Line: I've lost my way - no tree, no spring; naught else Last Line: (curtain.) Subject(s): Palmyra, Syria; Roman Empire THE STIGMATA OF FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This calcined idiocy, the fool Subject(s): Damascus, Syria TO DAMASCUS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sinister sun of the syrians beat Last Line: Is the road to damascus. Subject(s): Damascus, Syria; Jews; Judaism |
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