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Subject: AFGHANISTAN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CANTO OF KHANS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider the story of khandahar khan
Last Line: Of khans who can't canter as other khans can!
Subject(s): Afghanistan; Courtship; Love


ARAB SONGS: 1. THE PARROT AND THE FALCON, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My afghan poet-friend
Last Line: Is there aught else worthy to grave on the baldes of your naked swords?
Subject(s): Afghanistan


BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN, 2002, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The interrogation celebrated spikes and cuffs
Subject(s): Afghanistan War


FORD O' KABUL RIVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kabul town's by kabul river
Last Line: Cross the ford o' kabul river in the dark.
Subject(s): Kabul, Afghanistan; War


THE BALLAD OF THE KINGS'S MERCY, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Abdhur rahman, the durani chief, of him is the story told
Last Line: From balkh to kandahar.
Subject(s): Afghanistan


THE GUIDES AT CABUL: 1879, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of the island race, wherever ye dwell
Last Line: To the clash and clamour and dust of death they went.
Subject(s): Afghanistan


THE LAST BERKSHIRE ELEVEN: THE HEROES OF MAIWAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas at the disastrous battle of maiwand, in afghanistan
Last Line: Until the last man in the arms of death stiff and stark lay.
Subject(s): Afghanistan; Berkshire, England; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Heroism; Massacres; War; Heroes; Heroines