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Subject: PERU
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL SOULS DAY, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The colonial cemetery wears
Last Line: Is pacified by tearful sex
Subject(s): Festivals; Parties; Peru


ANCIENT PERU, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: With huarango branches
Last Line: Their children's bones
Subject(s): Death - Children; Peru


ANDES, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: As winds along, in snowy marble bare
Last Line: A wandering river, like a silent tear
Subject(s): Heroism; Peru; Travel


ANDES: 4-9 INCLUSIVE, by KERSTIN THOREK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountains rise higher than the castle of the condors
Last Line: Gravely the two men turn around
Subject(s): Explorers; Incas; Mountains; Peru; Travel


AT THIS POINT, THE MOON STARTS TO TAKE ON A LITTLE BROWN AND GRAY..., by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the andes / an old peruvian
Last Line: The old peruvian
Subject(s): Mountains; Peru; South America; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


CATASTROPHE (CHIMBOTE), by JULIO ORTEGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Devastated land, and I searched
Last Line: Time erases me at the whim of fate
Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Peru; Ruins


CHRONICLE OF LIMA, by MAUREEN AHERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here're recorded my birth and marriage
Last Line: Remember, hermelinda, remember me
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


COMPOSITION 1, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's raining, %it rains in lima
Last Line: And my own uncertain poetical convictions
Subject(s): Peru; Poetry And Poets; Rain; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917)


DEAD CONQUERORS, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came by water
Last Line: Few survived their horses
Subject(s): Death; Latin America - History; Peru


DOWN TO THE DOGS, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This afternoon it rains as never before; and I
Last Line: Don't feel like staying alive, heart
Subject(s): Peru; Rain; Tears; Weather


EXILED FROM THE LIGHT, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The president caressed the mane of his favorite horse
Last Line: Poor peruvians exiled from the light
Subject(s): Assassination; Exiles; Grief; Peru; Social Protest


FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look, my king, they're everywhere
Last Line: And cruel cajamarcas
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Native Americans; Peru


FATHER, MOTHER, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Or an owl's
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Peru; Poverty; Wages


FROM 'CIVIL MARRIAGE', by PABLO GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember %at different times
Last Line: Now, perhaps in a few years %light light light
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Peru


GUERRILLA'S WORD, by JAVIER HERAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because my country is beautiful
Last Line: The jungles %and the birds
Subject(s): Guerrillas; Patriotism; Peru


HEAVEN AND HELL, by PABLO GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: That morning their sighs
Last Line: Like a house built of cards
Subject(s): Native Americans; Peru


HISTORY OF PERU, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no past
Last Line: That say nothing
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


HORN OF PLENTY, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright in america's deep chests there lies
Last Line: Through her own emeralds she gazed on them
Subject(s): Peru; South America; Wealth


HUASCARAN, by PAUL C. METCALF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The incas are said to have encouraged pizzaro %to found lima as their revenge
Last Line: You must remember not to forget
Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Explorers; Incas; Peru; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521)


I LOVE MY COUNTRY', by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Its prodigal son
Subject(s): Patriotism; Peru


I'M GETTING OUT AND GOING SOME 30 KILOMETERS TOWARDS THE COAST, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: While herds of walrus have their flanks pecked open by the birds
Subject(s): Peru; Seashore; Travel


IMPERFECT TIMES, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peru was a chimera
Last Line: What will it be?
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru; South America


IN 62 THE STARVING SEABIRDS REACHED THE CENTER OF LIMA, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night the birds have travelled form the coast -- the spring
Last Line: While herds of walrus have their flanks pecked open by the birds
Subject(s): Migration; Peru; Travel


INTERIOR PATIO, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old tenacious boards
Last Line: And sign my name upon you with a knife
Subject(s): Peru; Poetry And Poets


IT WAS SUNDAY IN THE FAIR EARS OF MY BURRO, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I mean my tremulous patriotic hairdo
Subject(s): Peru


IT WAS SUNDAY IN THE FAIR EARS OF MY BURRO, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I mean my tremulous patriotic hairdo
Subject(s): Festivals; Peru; Statues


LAMENTATION OF THE PERUVIANS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The foes of the east have come down on our shore
Last Line: Be tenfold return'd on his murderous head!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Peru


LEIT-MOTIF: OH GREAT CITY OF LIMA, by MIRKO LAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything's interrelated: the weak
Last Line: There lie the true predictions
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Latin America - History; Peru; War


MANIFESTO, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sing america, in its wild and autochthonous state
Last Line: Of a white adventurer, or incan emperor!
Subject(s): Incas; Peru; Poetry And Poets


MY COUNTRY, by JULIO ORTEGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young men of the nineteen hundreds
Last Line: And you who will move the stones
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Guerrillas; Justice; Peru


NATA NATAL, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I forgive you, lima, for having bred me
Last Line: That we've never known
Subject(s): Cities; Patriotism; Peru; Travel


NAZCA POTTERY, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I recall that time when once I lived
Last Line: Soft forms faithful to the hand's caress
Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Nature; Peru


NOSTALGIA, by ELIZABETH LINEBACK LEDIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm tired of cities with churches and schools
Last Line: Guess I'm homesick for peru.
Subject(s): Peru


NOTES ON THE MOVING OF A CORPSE, by MIRKO LAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young latin-americans silently follow the burial
Last Line: The coffee, the friend, and the tool of work
Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Funerals; Peru


OF HISTORY MORE LIKE MYTH, by JEAN GARRIGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They guided birds and came to hear their story
Last Line: To pay an invalid thing, and stillness came - %the thing they'd learned to dread, and reigned
Subject(s): Peru


PACHACAMAC, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even the earth between my fingers
Last Line: Almost daily on the hide %of the wise builder
Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations; Peru


PERU, 1992, by MAUREEN MICUS CRISICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You speak of disappered cousins
Last Line: Gentleness is still possible
Subject(s): Peru


PERUVIAN CHILD, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still in the middle of my path is the child
Last Line: Not to hold her, the child in our arms
Subject(s): Peru; Children


PERUVIAN TALES: TALE 2. ALZIRA, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flush'd with impatient hope, the martial band
Last Line: She falt'ring said -- then sunk on earth and died!
Subject(s): Peru; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521)


PLURALITY OF WORLDS, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fifty worlds lie on my table
Last Line: I light a cigarette and divide it among fifty %meaningless worlds
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


PREVENTION OF HAIL AT HACIENDA ALONSO HUANCAVELICA, PERU, 1983, by GARY N. ATLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young landlord fires small angry rockets
Last Line: Leaving it leafless on the mountainside
Subject(s): Peru


PROVINCIA, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six o'clock. The cathedral blesses
Last Line: Save you from total softening of the brain
Subject(s): Country Life; Peru; Tradition; Travel


QUENA, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not the gay reed the god was wont to play
Last Line: Breath of a breeze that has become a soul
Subject(s): Flutes; Lament; Melodies; Peru


SEGREGATION #1, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I, my mother, my two brothers
Last Line: In tiny mini pieces
Subject(s): Family Life; Peru; Primitive Man


SHADES OF ORIGIN, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born in a flimsy nest
Last Line: Oppressed my childhood dreams with terror
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Ethnic Groups - United States; Peru


TANNERY, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A swarm of flies is drumming on
Last Line: With the sluggish chicha of the church
Subject(s): Native Americans - Reservations; Peru


TESTAMENT, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll leave my shadow
Last Line: And feed oblivion with such delicacies
Subject(s): Peru; South America; Writing And Writers


THE DAMSEL OF PERU, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where olive leaves were twinkling in every wind that blew
Last Line: "and I am come to dwell beside the olive-grove with thee."
Subject(s): Peru


THE EARTHQUAKE AT CALLAO, by AGNES STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the vast pacific day's last smile
Last Line: O'er his last home, and his loved kindred's graves.
Subject(s): Callao, Peru; Disasters; Earthquakes


THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS; HEARD IN A PUBLIC HOUSE AT ROTHERHITHE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jolly english yellowboy
Last Line: With the dollars of peru!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Peru; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest
Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come!
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


WHEEL OF BECOMING, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a long time you have been wandering
Last Line: Like a question mark
Subject(s): Memory; Peru; Travel


WHO KNOWS?, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh indian watching from the doorway
Last Line: Ah, my lord: who knows?
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Incas; Peru