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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TURKEY Matches Found: 76 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 2 PORTRAITS: 1. MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR HIGGINS, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Though hardly broiling by baltimore standards Last Line: For memorial I truly felt like %the deadest of dead infantas Subject(s): Turkey 2 PORTRAITS: 2. MESSAGE (LEYLA TIRYAKIOGLU), by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Thank you for your kind invitation Last Line: Recited its stupid snatch of melody Subject(s): Turkey A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE SOUL OF AN ECCENTRIC MAN, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Lord of the understanding heart Last Line: As death's now opening gates. Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Religion; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Theology A THANKSGIVING FEAST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We two are the last my daughter! Last Line: Will be here thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Feasts; Food & Eating; Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey AUNT PETKA'S EARRINGS, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: I presented the earrings %to aunt petka Last Line: Aunt petka-did not come with us Subject(s): Turkey BLACK GONDOLA, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: I think of nothing. %nothing comes to me Last Line: Poverty, my shack- %widow, shadow, cloud!' Subject(s): Turkey BLACK SLEEVE FALLS BACK', by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A turkey vulture Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turkey BOOK OF COMPLAINTS, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: In istanbul %it is impossible to buy %good umbrellas Last Line: Apartments designed %by lunatic children! Subject(s): Turkey BOZUK PARA, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Something is wrong, %but something is also right, or Last Line: And the smoke from his cigarette makes a nimbus Subject(s): Turkey BROKEN STEPS, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: The sea like a river, %throat of the winds Last Line: Anatolia, my sister %dead these two months Subject(s): Turkey CHESKIAN ANTHOLOGY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the turkish boundary Last Line: "and truth was in the maiden's prayer." Subject(s): Courtship; Deception; Turkey COOKING RALPHS FREE TURKEY, DECEMBER 11, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Lunch with someone loved Last Line: Who drinks that stain the coffee leaves behind Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Turkey DESERT SONG, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: And so, as in the opening of a quasida %I address the remains of a campfire Last Line: And I am still on my way. Forever now Subject(s): Turkey ELEGY, REPLICA, ECHO: IN MEMORIAM JOHN GRIGGS 1941-1991, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Your inanimate double, ioannis, %was perhaps the little column of green onyx Last Line: And I bent down to converse with the animal Subject(s): Turkey EVENING WALK, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You no sooner got out of prison Last Line: To our house? Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Turkey FLUTE MUSIC, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Beyond a long glass wall, %built to protect us from the spray Last Line: But uneasily like a night-ferry %in crowded water, burdened Subject(s): Turkey FORGOTTEN ORCHESTRAS: 1, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Night stands to the left, %divided from us Last Line: And that far point where %lights will appear in %the little harbour of meis Subject(s): Turkey FORGOTTEN ORCHESTRAS: 2, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: The river loses itself %in the white reeds of the marsh Last Line: Where jewelled fish once proposed %ambiguous prophecies Subject(s): Turkey FORGOTTEN ORCHESTRAS: 3, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Submerged lintel, calm sea. %the boat rides above the city Last Line: Lord, raise our bones to the level %of a dry breeze in the summer grass' Subject(s): Turkey FORGOTTEN ORCHESTRAS: 4, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: On this shore the harbours shift- %a mile, two miles or ten Last Line: And granaries mumble %the names of emperors Subject(s): Turkey FORGOTTEN ORCHESTRAS: 5, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: What are these figures %in the shadow of the rock? Last Line: How much easier their lives will be Subject(s): Turkey FORGOTTEN ORCHESTRAS: 6, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: The theatre pulls a skirt of sand %over its forgotten orchestra Last Line: Through their vanished outlines Subject(s): Turkey FRANCISCA'S THANKSGIVING, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: When the hordes of barbarian persians Last Line: And the triumphs the future shall hold. Subject(s): Holidays; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Thanksgiving; Turkey GABRIELLE'S BALCONY: 1, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: The road began to descend %between punctured buildings Last Line: I could see nothing. Not %one light shone Subject(s): Turkey GABRIELLE'S BALCONY: 2, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: In an old quarter, close %to an abandoned synagogue Last Line: They had the kind of faith %that once was given only to saints Subject(s): Turkey GABRIELLE'S BALCONY: 3, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: In the camps %sheep were marked for slaughter Last Line: But strangely the ferris-wheel %on the corniche kept turning Subject(s): Turkey GABRIELLE'S BALCONY: 4, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: To return is dangerous. %I had returned, and where Last Line: Clouds rolled over the mountains, %and approached the eastern suburbs Subject(s): Turkey GABRIELLE'S BALCONY: 5, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: The sanctuary stood %above a small, clear stream Last Line: To warring powers and peoples Subject(s): Turkey GABRIELLE'S BALCONY: 6, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Drifts of trash %blew across the vineyards Last Line: If I would take his photograph Subject(s): Turkey GABRIELLE'S BALCONY: 7, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Gabrielle showed me her beautiful home Last Line: Remain visible at a great distance! Subject(s): Turkey GABRIELLE'S BALCONY: 8, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: On the summit %of an isolated hill Last Line: It was a fine evening to be out walking Subject(s): Turkey HANDLE OF ITS NECK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And ratchets the turkey %forward Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turkey ICONOGRAPHY, by PAM BRIDGEMAN Poem Source First Line: It was here Last Line: That I knew it could only be %a matter of days Subject(s): Istanbul, Turkey IMBROGION, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Exhausted from the journey %through the rains of the plateau Last Line: Of what I had seen, of what haunted me Subject(s): Turkey IN KHORKUM, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: The wounded bird sang in the tree %and the kings were remembered Last Line: Scorpions nest in my heart %child you have wandered enough Subject(s): Turkey ISTANBUL, by ZEHRA CIRAC Poem Source First Line: From istanbul to istanbul Last Line: And search for instanbul Subject(s): Identity; Istanbul, Turkey LAMENT FOR A TURKISH SUICIDE AGE 22, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What she wanted was more Last Line: And left the facric / of her brief life Subject(s): Turkey; Women's Rights; Suicide LANGUAGE POEM: 2000 BC-2000 AD, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Everything begins like this: %all ideas radiate from a center, don't they? Last Line: As the snow falls or the rain Subject(s): Turkey LETTER FROM SMYRNA TO HIS SISTERS AT CRUX-EASTON, by THOMAS LISLE Poem Source First Line: The hero who to smyrna bay Last Line: While his, as all mankind agrees, though wrote with care, are wrote with ease Subject(s): Travel; Turkey MEKTUP, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: If you receive this letter, %if you open it (if it is opened for you Last Line: I send you all the love that makes no difference at all Subject(s): Turkey MEMOIRS OF A TURCOMAN DIPLOMAT, by DENIS DEVLIN Poem Source First Line: Evenings ever more willing lapse into my world's evening Last Line: The callow and the swallow and the fallow wiped off the page! Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Turkey MERCY FOR ARMENIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Last Line: To play the good samaritan for god. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Armenia; Europe; Torture; Turkey; War NAMES OF KINGS, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: In a poem of nineteen twenty, %phanar's and alexandria's most renowned son Last Line: But a friend, a devout scholar, almost a lover Subject(s): Turkey NOT THANKFUL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think the only person that Last Line: And really he's not much to blame. Subject(s): Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey NOVEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: No matter how hard you try Last Line: And so, cold old month, you're not so bad! Subject(s): Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey O, AGONY! KEEN AGONY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tchassan ouglou is on! Last Line: Allah, il allah! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Turkey; War ORTHODOXIES 5, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: It is an axiom. She made the wrong life's choice. The city Last Line: The he-aunt who embroiders a metamorphosis Subject(s): Gomorrah; Social Problems; Turkey SAADABAD, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us deal kindly with a heart of old by sorrow torn Last Line: Or remember how his poet took a girl to saadabad? Subject(s): Turkey SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision SHE DOES NOT HEAR, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sh-sh-sh-sh-she does not hear the r-r-r-r-robin sing Last Line: Her b-b-b-b-by g-g-gosh! She's p-p-plaster paris! Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Nature; Speech Disorders; Turkey; Stuttering; Muteness SNAIL IN ISTANBUL, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: The sultan of moisture creeps Last Line: Crested with marble turbans Subject(s): Istanbul, Turkey SONNET: ROUMELI HISSAR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The empire of the east, grown dull to fear Subject(s): Roumeli Hissar (castle), Turkey THANKSGIVING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Thanksgiving day is set apart Last Line: "praise father, son, and holy ghost!" Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; Nations; Praise; Prayer; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Relatives THANKSGIVING, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I sided with the sleepwalkers. Today Last Line: Of wheat loomed as a story the farmers %cannot wait to tell Subject(s): Farm Life; Holidays; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Thanksgiving; Turkey THANKSGIVING DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Brave and high-souled pilgrims, you who knew no fears Last Line: And with hearts of thankfulness keep thanksgiving day. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; November; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Thanksgiving; Turkey THANKSGIVING FILLS MY HEART, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: How can I tell in words Last Line: Dear, homely wonders that will come again! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; Turkey THANKSGIVING SONG, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: I brought my gifts to the altar Last Line: Reach upward toward the sun. Subject(s): Altars; Holidays; Religion; Thanksgiving; Turkey; Theology THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Last Line: As weeping beauty's cheek at sorrow's tale! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Orient;the Clime Of The East Subject(s): Turkey THE CONTINENTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From bright stamboul death crosses o'er Last Line: To meet -- infold! Subject(s): Turkey THE DAYS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the days when nothing happens Last Line: Praises this thanksgiving day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Gratitude; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day; Turkey THE DERVIS AND THE KING; A TURKISH TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pious dervis, once upon a time Last Line: "is but a caravansary, after all!" Subject(s): Turkey THE EVENING WALK, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You no sooner got out of prison Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Turkey THE GIAOUR; A FRAGMENT OF A TURKISH TALE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No breath of air to break the wave Last Line: Of her he loved, or him he slew. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Cruelty; Slavery; Turkey; Unfaithfulness; Serfs; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE HAMMAM NAME (FROM A POEM BY A TURKISH LADY), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winsome torment rose from slumber, rubbed his eyes, and went his way Last Line: The water froze. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Gays & Lesbians; Turkey; Showers & Showering; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LAST REDOUBT, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kacelyevo's slope still felt Last Line: Shall drive her out of the last redoubt. Subject(s): Kacelyevo; Turkey - Wars THE SIEGE OF DJKXPRWBZ, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before a turkish town Last Line: Consonant they had. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Russia; Turkey; War; Soviet Union; Russians THE TURKISH LADY, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the hour when rites unholy Last Line: Clasped his blooming eastern bride. Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Turkey TOUR, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: It was an achievement of a kind Last Line: As the light died on the windows of asia Subject(s): Turkey UNDER MOUNT ANAMAS: 1, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: It is an efficient method, %and many centuries old Last Line: From the palace, washed their faces Subject(s): Turkey UNDER MOUNT ANAMAS: 2, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: In the untidy, municipal garden %was a fragment of marble vine-scroll Last Line: But lost it only days later %in some crevice of a hotel room Subject(s): Turkey UNDER MOUNT ANAMAS: 3, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: He had chosen the site well- %a spring, a screen of willows Last Line: When summer burned the plains- %the murderer, his own son Subject(s): Turkey UNDER MOUNT ANAMAS: 4, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: When the car stopped, a sharp odor %of dried dung greeted us Last Line: At dark blue flowers and black tendrils %uncurling on vermilion roofbeams Subject(s): Turkey UNDER MOUNT ANAMAS: 5, by JOHN ASH Poem Source First Line: Robbed stone, ashlar. %stacked reeds and sherds Last Line: But still the prince raises his wine cup, %the women smile and the donkey brays Subject(s): Turkey VERSES WRITTEN IN THE CHIOSK OF THE BRITISH PALACE, AT PERA, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, great god! Said I, a little farm Last Line: Who dare have virtue in a vicious age. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Constantinople; Travel; Turkey; Istambul; Byzantium; Journeys; Trips WHAT MIGHT FLY AWAY, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Perpendicular across the path %a wild turkey takes its time, head Last Line: Then it flies inside the walls of night Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Turkey; Wings |
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