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Subject: ANTWERP, BELGIUM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANTWERP, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Gloom! %an october like november
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium


ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky
Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War


ANTWERP AND BRUGES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climbed the stair in antwerp church
Last Line: That my flesh felt the carillon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Bruges, Belgium; Eyck, Jan Van (1395-1441); Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Travel; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans; Journeys; Trips


IN ANTWERP, AT THE STAGECOACH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You escaped again
Last Line: In paradise, when the chestnuts cracked
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium


LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight
Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . .
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter;


THE CARILLON (ANTWERP AND BRUGES), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At antwerp, there is a low wall
Last Line: That my flesh felt the carillon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Bells; Bruges, Belgium


THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there
Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism