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Subject: AUSTRIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LEGEND OF BREGENZ, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Girt round with rugged mountains / the fair lake constance lies
Last Line: He calls the maiden's name!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Variant Title(s): Bregenz
Subject(s): Bregenz, Austria


A WAR SONG OF TYROL, by JOHANN CHRYSOSTOMOS SENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wild eagle of the tyrol
Last Line: "I've been among the dead!"
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Singing & Singers; Tyrol, Austria; Victory; War


ALLITERATION, by ALARIC ALEXANDER WATTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: An austrian army awfully arrayed
Last Line: Attracting all, arms against acts appeal!
Variant Title(s): An Austrian Army;siege Of Belgarde
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Army - Austria


ANARCHY, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red hand, black heart, beast with the dragon's face
Last Line: The outraged nations' deep anathema!
Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Elizabeth. Empress Of Austria (1837-98); Regicide


ANDREAS HOFER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In mantua in fetters
Last Line: "adieu, my land tyrol"
Subject(s): "hofer, Andreas (1767-1810);tyrol, Austria;


AUSTRIAN CAVALRY SONG, by H. ZUCKERMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There in the meadow-land
Last Line: Over belgrade!
Subject(s): Army - Austria; Cavalry; World War I; First World War


AUSTRIANS, by JOSEF MAYER-LIMBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: After 18
Subject(s): Austria


BARBAROSSA, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in a mountain's caverned hall
Last Line: Seeing him rise!
Subject(s): Untersberg, Austria


CANZONE, WRITTEN IN PRISON, by SILVIO PELLICO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The love of song what can impart
Last Line: And charm their grief away!
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Spielberg (castle), Austria


DE BUGLE ON DE HILL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I doan like de noise ob de marchin' ob de boys
Last Line: At de sound ob de bugle on de hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Army - Austria; Army - United States


DIRE: 5. THE BURDEN OF AUSTRIA. 1866, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O daughter of pride, wasted with misery
Last Line: Is it not thou that now art but a name?
Subject(s): Austria; Nations; Shame


EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the sunset tree!
Last Line: And the reaper's work is done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tyrol, Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FEELINGS OF THE TYROLESE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land we from our fathers had in trust
Last Line: Our virtue, and to vindicate mankind.
Subject(s): Freedom; Hofer, Andreas (1767-1810); Tyrol, Austria; Liberty


IMPENDING WAR BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The impatient dogs of war
Last Line: The thunder-cloud, the storm of war!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Austria; Europe; War


IN THE PASS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across my road a mountain rose of rock
Last Line: Who do not know the secret of the pass.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Variant Title(s): The Pass Of Ampezzo
Subject(s): Alps; Ampezzo, Austria; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


INN AT KIRCHSTETTEN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I thank you b, for your ear, your mind, your affection?
Last Line: They would prove we were there
Subject(s): Austria; Love; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914)


ISABELLA OF AUSTRIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midst the palace bowers of hungary, imperial presburg's pride
Last Line: "mourn for the pride of austria! Mourn for the loved and young!"
Subject(s): Austria; Isabella, Infanta Of Parma; Joseph Ii. Holy Roman Emperor (1741-90)


KING RICHARD'S LAMENT, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No captive knight, whom chains confine
Last Line: Who strikes a monarch in his chains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England
Subject(s): Greifenstein Castle, Austria; Prisons & Prisoners


LAMENT OF RICHARD DURING HIS IMPRISONMENT, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If one in prison may not tell his wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Greifenstein Castle, Austria; Prisons And Prisoners


LEPANTO, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White founts falling in the courts of the sun
Last Line: (but don john of austria rides home from the crusade.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Crusades; John Of Austria (1629-1679); Lepanto, Battle Of; Sea; Don Juan The Younger; Ocean


MINSTREL SINGS, FR. THE TALISMAN, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What brave chief shall head the forces
Last Line: Why to heaven he soars the nighest
Subject(s): Austria


NATIVE LAND, by INGEBORG BACHMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into my native land, into the south
Last Line: The wick flares %when lit by a glance
Subject(s): Austria


OLD INTO NEW INTO OLD, by MIKE CLUFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Video game torture %runs amok in austria
Last Line: Those who can't reocgnize the obscene %from the absurd
Subject(s): Austria; Video Games


PRISON SONG, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No prisoner can tell his honest thought
Last Line: I say not this of chartres' dame, %mother of louis!
Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England
Subject(s): Greifenstein Castle, Austria; Prisons And Prisoners


REMEMBRANCE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was too good to be changed
Last Line: Sent and so no disappointment
Subject(s): Austria; Love


SALTZBURG, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On salza's quiet tide the westering sun
Last Line: Gigantic looming o'er the gulfs of time!
Subject(s): Saltzburg, Austria


ST. MARTIN'S WALL, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Welcome, ye hearts of tyrol, which beat
Last Line: To stir a quicker heart-beat in every tyrolese!
Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Tyrol, Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE FORCED RECRUIT AT SOLFERINO, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the ranks of the austrian you found
Last Line: Have glory, -- let him have a tear.
Subject(s): Army - Austria; Italy; Italians


THE HOUSE OF SORROWS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the white purity
Last Line: Where any blow were pity, to this it struck before!
Subject(s): Assassination; Elizabeth. Empress Of Austria (1837-98); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE INN AT KIRCHSTETTEN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I thank you b, for your ear, your mind, your affection?
Subject(s): Austria; Love; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914)


THE PATRIOT ENGINEER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs! May I shake your hands?
Last Line: The glory freedom radiates!
Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE RED TYROLEAN EAGLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "eagle, tyrolean eagle"
Last Line: From these am I so red
Subject(s): "birds;eagles;tyrol, Austria;


THE SALZBURG CHIMES, by HENRY ALFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetly float o'er town and tower
Last Line: Wake the slumbering salzburg chimes.
Subject(s): Bells; Salsburg, Austria


THE STYRIAN ALPS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In steyermark, green steyermark
Last Line: In the beechen groves of steyermark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Variant Title(s): Steyermark
Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; THE 10TH SATIRE OF JUVENAL, IMITATED, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let observation with extensive view
Last Line: And makes the happiness she does not find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Subject(s): Austria; Charles Vii, Holy Roman Emperor; Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Courage; Freedom; Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Laud, William. Archbiship Of Canterbury; Lydiat, Thomas (1572-1646); Pride; Sedle


TO COLONEL CHARLES, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An english heart, my commandant
Last Line: Where chlum drove deep in smoky jets.
Subject(s): Austria; Social Protest; War


TO GO TO LVOV, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem 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


TO THE RIVER TRAUN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is in a mountain mood
Last Line: Have sat beside the banks of traun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Trapping; Traun (river), Austria; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VIENNA AND 'IN MEMORIAM', by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roused by the war-note, in review I passed
Last Line: And leaves her calm, though weeping silently!
Subject(s): Austria; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Prussian-austrian War (1866)


WORK AND WORSHIP; A LEGEND OF THE DANUBE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Charlemagne, the mighty monarch
Last Line: And the zeal of charlemagne.
Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Metten (abbey), Austria