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Subject: PERU Matches Found: 53 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 |
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