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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLAD OF JAN PALACH, STUDENT AND HERETIC, by ONDRA LYSOHORSKY Poem Source First Line: A human torch %races through prague Last Line: And he acted at once. And for ever. %seeking the truth. A heretic. A hero Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Prague, Czech Republic CITY WITH TOWERS, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: O hunfred-towered prague Last Line: With these self same fingers that I use to write this poem Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic IN PRAG, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yon hauf-daith, %bloatit wi oor skookit virr Last Line: Doon whilk we swam, jist twa swevins, ringin %agin thi time,doon thi squers Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic; Scottish Translations IN PRAGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That half-death Last Line: Against time, in the squares Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic IN PRAGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half of death %suckled along with our life Last Line: Tolling %against time, on the sqaures Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic IN THE OLD JEWISH CEMETERY, PRAGUE, 1970, by EDWARD LOWBURY Poem Source First Line: The headstones, like a petrified congregation Last Line: In tune with the sentence that confines %gentile and jew to the ghetto of this world Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Prague, Czech Republic KAFKA IN PRAGUE, by JAMES SCHEVILL Poem Source First Line: The great river in my city flowed through Last Line: Of brilliant architecture in my mind Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Prague, Czech Republic L'ENFANT JESUS DE PRAGUE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Text First Line: December snow! The great world dead in gloom Last Line: Tries to awake and cannot break the charm. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Prague, Czech Republic LILAC BY THE MUSEUM ON ST. WENCESLAS SQUARE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: I don't love flowers Last Line: And while I was asleep %the lilac burst into flower on st. Wenceslas square Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Flowers; Lilacs; Prague, Czech Republic MARSHAL SCHWERIN'S GRAVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou didst fall in the field with thy silver hair Last Line: To win thee but this at last? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Prague, Czech Republic; Tombs; Tombstones MOON OVER PRAGUE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: The decorator is mixing his plaster Last Line: A thousand letters will be written with its ink %and a single poem Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Moon; Prague, Czech Republic PANORAMA OF PRAGUE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: Like berets thrown into the air Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of prague, the gargoyles dark and glum Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE, by ROBERT KUSCH Poem Source First Line: You could have lived here twice. Yesterday Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE, by B. Z. NIDITCH Poem Source First Line: If one thinks of mozart Last Line: My deathless headlights %blunt as buried wings %dare to echo Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only in the balkans are there instruments Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE IN THE MIDDAY SUN, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: I have not woken from a dream nor arrived by express train Last Line: Beautiful as the mystery of thunder of the magic lamp and of poetry Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE SPRING, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silent scream? The madigral's top note Last Line: The last snow of this year's late snow thaw %dribbles as spring saliva down his jaw Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic; Travel PRAGUE WREATHS, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: You never have to walk far Last Line: Saw the fall, the blood, %right here, %of karel zbiral (1897-1945), %a creature %who could not be ta Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE, AGAIN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First seen in '64, a city then Last Line: Besiege the castle and its phantom lord Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic PRAGUE, JANUARY 1964, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Since that night Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic SERNER, KARLSBAD, by THOMAS KLING Poem Source First Line: Where even in posted areas Last Line: Who left prague as well %headed for the gas Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic THE ALTNEUSHUL IN THE OLD PRAGUE GHETTO, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Craggy lines stoop against a crowded sky Last Line: Here you slam against the fact and then rejoice Subject(s): Synagogues; Prague, Czech Republic; Ghettos THE BATTLE OF PRAGUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the prussians they marched against prague Last Line: Old fritz was there himself that day Subject(s): "prague, Czech Republic; THE BELEAGUERED CITY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have read, in some old, marvellous tale Last Line: Our ghastly fears are dead. Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic THE OLD CLOCK OF PRAGUE, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a curious clock in the city of prague Last Line: Who would live with a whole pair of eyes in his face. Subject(s): Clocks; Prague, Czech Republic; Time THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE, by KARL LEBERECHT IMMERMANN Poem Text First Line: What riotous din is ringing? Last Line: The penitent student of prague. Subject(s): Prague, Czech Republic WALKER IN PRAGUE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: To climb and descend steps Last Line: As captain corcoran's ship which has struck the magnetic mountain Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Prague, Czech Republic |
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