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Subject: GIBRALTAR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT GIBRALTAR, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England, I stand on thy imperial ground
Last Line: Peace to the world, from ports without a gun!
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Peace; British Empire; England - Empire


GIBRALTAR, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England, we love thee better than we know
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Travel


GIBRALTAR AT DAWN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and over the sea we came
Last Line: "the hoarse waves thunder, ""trafalgar!"
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Sea; Ocean


GIBRALTAR ROCK, AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun has set over spain and the lights of gibraltar
Last Line: That beauty has made immortal -- and then forgot.
Subject(s): Beauty; Gibraltar; Night; Spain; Bedtime


SCENE DURING THE PLAGUE AT GIBRALTAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first, I only buried one
Last Line: And there I stood alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Yellow Fever


SUNSET ON GIBRALTAR, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis sweet upon a summer eve to stand
Last Line: Far buena vista's lights allure my weary feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Soldiers; Spain - History; War; Weariness; Fatigue


THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 112. GIBRALTAR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven weeks of sea, and twice seven days of storm
Last Line: To see her red coats marching from the hill!
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Sea; Ocean


VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 1. OFF GIBRALTAR, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the sleepy hills of spain
Last Line: For me a delicate despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Gibraltar