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Subject: UKRAINE Matches Found: 25 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bias; Intolerance DVONYA, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the town of odessa Subject(s): Love; Odessa, Ukraine DVONYA, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the town of odessa Last Line: All that passed long ago %on a summer night in odessa Subject(s): Love; Odessa, Ukraine ENAMEL BOX; GIVEN BY MOTHER BY A VISITOR FROM UKRAINE, by ASKOLD MELNYCZUK Poem Source First Line: It is a country and a house %I've never seen Last Line: This is how they pass Subject(s): Ukraine FOOTNOTE FOR PERETS MARKISH, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: There it was, perets, your name Last Line: What if hair is sprouting on your dreaming head %lost perets markish, lost hero? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Ukraine KIEFF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O kieff! Where religion ever seemeth Last Line: "and thou alone, by these still gray walls, o river! / murmest, dnieper, still, and flow'st for ever Subject(s): "dnieper River, Russia;kiev, Ukraine;russia;" "dnept River, Russia;soviet Union;russians; MAY DAY 1986, by KIM MATTSON Poem Source First Line: Everything on the outside is the same this morning. On the outskirts of kiev Last Line: Into day and I have forgotten everything. The air is blue: stalks of poison Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Kiev, Ukraine MAZEPPA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after dread pultowa's day Last Line: The king had been an hour asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Mazeppa, Ivan Stepanovich (1644-1709); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Ukraine; Pultowa, Battle Of (179) MAZEPPA, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ainsi, quand mazeppa, qui rugit et qui pleure Subject(s): Mazeppa, Ivan Stepanovich (1644-1709); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Ukraine MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl Last Line: Big as a horse Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine ODESSA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreaming and looking seaward Last Line: That makes the fate his prey! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Odessa, Ukraine; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: KIEV, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clutching his cross, st. Vladimir Last Line: With gilt above the purple parks Subject(s): Kiev, Ukraine POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: KIEV, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clutching his cross, st. Vladimir Last Line: Where peasant women supplicate Subject(s): Kiev, Ukraine PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine; Shoah; Judaism PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Last Line: And that is how you die. And that is how you die Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine REMEMBERED MUSIC, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lying under a weird blue sky Last Line: In dull trafalgar square. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Ukraine; Songs SEVASTOPOL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dead is a syrian sky Last Line: "and sighs above them, ""alas for glory!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The English Cemetery At Sevastopol Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians THE SONG OF THE CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Give us a song!' the soldiers cried Last Line: The loving are the daring. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Variant Title(s): The Song In Camp Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Love; Sevastopol, Ukraine THE TIGER, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath odessa's foreland Last Line: Shall bring him better rest. Subject(s): Odessa, Ukraine; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THERE IS ONE SYNAGOGUE EXTANT IN KIEV, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: They do not talk of loss at babi yar Last Line: So long ago their queen of sabbath fled, %all that's left is kaddish for the dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Kiev, Ukraine; Synagogues THROUGH KIEV, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through kiev, through the streets of the monster Last Line: Don't worry, we'll be back!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Kiev, Ukraine; Russia - Army-military Life TO GO TO LVOV, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To go to lvov. Which station Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Travel; Lviv, Ukraine; Lemberg, Austria; Journeys; Trips TWO SCENES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time mag's central american expert sd Last Line: Inhale their steaming bowls of mushroom barley soup. Subject(s): Haig, Alexander; Kiev, Ukraine UKRAINIAN SONG, by IVAN SURIKOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a meadow by the roadway Last Line: Many tears are shed. Subject(s): Ukraine ZLOTCHEV, MY HOME, MY TOWN, by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: That they won't bury me in you - %my home, my zlotchev Subject(s): Ukraine |
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