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Subject: JAMAICA, WEST INDIES
Matches Found: 14

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COLONISATION IN REVERSE, by SIMONE LOUISE BENNETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wat a joyful new, miss mattie
Last Line: Colonizin' in reverse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bennett, Louise
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Jamaica, West Indies; British Empire; England - Empire


FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 2. JAMAICANS POSING TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Illiterate esther watched me
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Jamaica, West Indies


FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 3. A HAIRPIN TURN ABOVE READING, JAMAICA, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's where the fire truck fell
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Wealth; Politics & Government; Riches; Fortunes


IN MEMORY OF A FRIEND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the feathery fronds of palm
Last Line: And consecrates a soul!
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Schalch, Ernest (d. 1874); Yellow Fever


JAM FA JAMAICA, by CHARLES LYNCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Munch lime sip sky juice slurp kiskimo pine
Last Line: Oracabessa rio bueno %salvation army blares liberty %in twilight square of port antonio
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies


JAMAICA, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is taller than a royal palm
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies


MY MOTHER (2), by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reg wished me to go with him to the field
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Mothers


MY MOTHER (2), by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reg wished me to go with him to the field
Last Line: Could weep just once again
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Mothers


ON A SCOTCH BARD, GONE TO THE WEST INDIES, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A'ye wha live by sowps o' drink
Last Line: Tho' owre the sea!
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Poetry & Poets


ONE DAY, by IMOGENE ELIZABETH KENNEDY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Which is the same hour fader's prayer
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies


ROAD OF THE DREAD, by LORNA GOODISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: That dey road no pave
Last Line: But is fi dat alone I tread this road
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies


THE SLAVE; A SEA-PIECE, OFF JAMAICA, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before us in the sultry dawn arose
Last Line: The slave is human in a bleeding heart.
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Slavery; Serfs


TO MY WIFE (AT KINGSTON, JAMAICA, WEST INDIES), by JOHN WILLIS MENARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art gone to thine island home
Last Line: And all this sad confusion clear.
Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies


TO THE FIRE-FLY OF JAMAICA, SEEN IN A COLLECTION, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How art thou alter'd! Since afar
Last Line: Is friendship's long regret, and true affection's tear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Fireflies; Jamaica, West Indies; Slavery; Glowworms; Serfs