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Subject: AZORES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AZORES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great green ships
Last Line: Ahead are one
Subject(s): Azores; Mountains


AZORES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great green ships
Last Line: The void behind, the void %ahead are one
Subject(s): Azores; Mountains


ON THE LOSS OF THE PRIVATEER BRIGANTINE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The armstrong arrived in the port of fayal
Last Line: May it ever be ready, the britons to maul, %as the armstrong behaved in the road of fayal
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812


REID AT FAYAL, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cliff-locked port and a bluff sea wall
Last Line: In tale and song.
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SABRINA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Isle of the ocean, say, whence comest thou?
Last Line: Thou spark from the fallen one's wide flaming wing.
Subject(s): Azores; Islands; Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean


THE ARMSTRONG AT FAYAL, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the sun sets red, the moon shines white
Last Line: Of the yankee privateer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy


THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the story to your sons
Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore!
Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America


TO LORD VISCOUNT STRANGFORD, ABOARD THE PHAETON FRIGATE, OFF AZORES, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet moon! If like crotona's sage
Last Line: Is one, whose heart remembers thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): The Moon, A Tablet
Subject(s): Azores; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)