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Subject: DANUBE (RIVER)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since hired for life thy servile muse must sing
Last Line: And where old spenser sung, a new eliza reigns.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Danube (river); Goddesses & Gods; Letters; Mythology; Poetry & Poets


A WEDDING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up the broad river, the thames, my dane
Last Line: As may suit with my mother's fame.
Subject(s): Danube (river); London; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Thames (river); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


BISHOP BRUNO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bishop bruno awoke in the dead midnight
Last Line: Bishop bruno fell dead in the palace hall.
Subject(s): Danube (river)


DANUBE AND THE EUXINE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Danube, danube! Wherefore com'st thou
Last Line: I am christian stream no more!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Danube (river); Religion; Theology


EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 2. TREASURE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My trunk brought home the silken shawl
Last Line: And on and on --
Subject(s): Danube (river); Rome, Italy; Travel; Treasures; Venice, Italy; Journeys; Trips


FOR THE PLAN OF A FOUNTAIN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye active streams, where'er your waters flow
Last Line: Anna quid imperiis potuit, quid marlburus armis.
Subject(s): Danube (river); Fountains; Thames (river); Water


GLOWING EMBERS ILLUMINATE THE SNOW, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm mired again in the horsehsoe-shaped valley
Last Line: A log's glowing embers illuminate the snow
Subject(s): Danube (river); Snow; Winter


NIGHT SONG OF THE PERSONAL SHADOW, by GYORGY PETRI    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain is pissing down
Subject(s): Danube (river); Flight; Human Rights; Rain; Flying


NIGHT SONG OF THE PERSONAL SHADOW, by GYORGY PETRI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain is pissing down
Last Line: The time will come %when I feed you to fish in the danube
Subject(s): Danube (river); Flight; Human Rights; Rain


THE DANUBE, by JAN KOLLAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Duna! Thou queen of many rivers, thou
Last Line: And thy bride saale speeds to thine embrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kollar, John
Subject(s): Danube (river)


THE DANUBE RIVER, by C. HAMILTON AIDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you recall that night in june
Last Line: Adown the danube river.
Subject(s): Danube (river)


THE FRONTIER GUARD, by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sentinel his weary hours
Last Line: Could such good christians make!
Alternate Author Name(s): Grun, Anastasius
Subject(s): Danube (river)


THE SOURCE OF THE DANUBE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not, like his great compeers, indignantly
Last Line: To fix in heaven her shape distinct with stars.
Subject(s): Danube (river)


THE WAYSIDE DREAM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The deep and lordly danube
Last Line: And keep the sunset's gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Home; Nightmares


THE WOUNDED HUSSAR, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone by the banks of the dark-rolling danube
Last Line: When he sunk in her arms, -- the poor wounded hussar!
Subject(s): Danube (river)


TO A BAVARIAN GIRL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, bavaria's brown-eyed daughter
Last Line: Flower of isar's vale!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Germany; Girls; Life; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Germans


TWO LOVERS, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A skiff swam down the danube's tide
Last Line: He one side, she the other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich
Subject(s): Danube (river); Love