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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SPAIN Matches Found: 298 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "GENTLE RIVER, GENTLE RIVER", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And without a groan expired Subject(s): "seville, Spain;spanish Literature; 1810 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Where is palafox? Nor tongue nor pen Last Line: On rampart, and the banks of all her streams. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GEORGE AND FOX, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good charly fox, your counsel I implore Last Line: And france, triumphant, stems the subject main. Subject(s): American Revolution; Fox, Charles James (1749-1806); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Navy - Spain; French Navy; English Navy; Spanish Navy A HERO OF CARACAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caracas! When I think of thee Last Line: Defender of his native land. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Caracas, Venezuela; Freedom; Heroism; Spain; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: SPANISH AIR, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From spain, indignant spain Last Line: O erin! Thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Music & Musicians; National Song - Spain; Spanish National Anthem A SPANISH LOVE SONG, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From andalusian gardens Last Line: The lips I taste in sleep. Subject(s): Love; Spain ACROSS THE PAMPAS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou remember, oh, dost thou remember Last Line: When we are dead! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Spain; Dead, The ALGECIRAS SEEN OVER A STORMY SEA, by IBN MALIK OF GRANADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At ceuta I cast aside Last Line: Yet so far to capture. Subject(s): Algeciras (city), Spain ALHAMBRA SONGS: 1. THE DREAM OF ALAHMAR, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: - 'rouse thee, alahmar!' cried the angel's voice Last Line: "who prayed,—who toiled,—who conquered,—and is old!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Nature; Spain ALHAMBRA SONGS: 2. IN THE BOOTH OF THE STORY-TELLER, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Upon a stream which from alhambra down Last Line: Ay, ay di mí!—the stars are fated so!— Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Fate; Spain; Destiny ALHAMBRA SONGS: 3. THE NIGHT OF ALMOND BLOSSOMS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The blossoms range their silver tents Last Line: I swoon amid the dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Night; Bedtime ALHAMBRA SONGS: 6. THE CARAVAN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Dawn o'er the mountain is shaking Last Line: Where the desert tents unfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Brotherhood; Granada, Spain ALICANTE LULLABY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In alicante they bowl the barrels Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Spain ALONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGINE, by MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A warrior so brave and a virgin so bright Last Line: "and his consort, the fair imogine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Monk Subject(s): Spain AN ODE WRITTEN BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, arise, arise / there is blood on the earth that denies ye bread Last Line: Ye were injured, and that means memory. Variant Title(s): An Ode To The Assertors Of Liberty Subject(s): Freedom; Spain - History; Liberty ANCIENT BATTLE-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling forth the proud banner of leon again Last Line: "and shout ye ""castile! To the rescue for spain!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spain AND IS IT AMONG RUDE UNTUTORED DALES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bread which without industry they find Subject(s): Spain; Napoleonic Wars ANOTHER TRIP, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Already in the fields of jaen Last Line: With myself, traveling alone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Railroads; Spain; Travel ARROW, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Brown christ Last Line: Look where he goes Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain AT BURGOS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miraculous silver-work in stone Last Line: Under the shadow of those wings! Subject(s): Burgos, Spain AT LAST, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Gaze through the opal mist across the main Last Line: Spain's castles crumble into desert sands. Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Mist; Spain; War; Liberty AVAUNT ALL SPECIOUS PLIANCY OF MIND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her arts, her strength, her iron, and her gold Subject(s): Spain AVILA, by GUILLERMO CARNERO Poem Source First Line: In avila the stone has small nacre hearts chiseled Subject(s): Avila, Spain AVILA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again my feet are on the fragrant moor Last Line: The light of all his loves and all his days. Subject(s): Castile, Spain; Desire AZORIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red meadow made of fiery wheat Last Line: And the sharp tower against the blue of spain! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spain BALCONY, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Lola Last Line: At herself in the pool Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain BALLAD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, captain of the moorish hold Last Line: The noblest knight of spain! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Moors (people); Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens BALLAD OF ONE DOOMED TO DIE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Loneliness without rest Last Line: By the rectitude of its folds Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain BALLAD OF THE SPANISH CIVIL GUARD, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Black is the horses' color, black Last Line: Interplay of sand and moon Subject(s): Jerez De La Frontera, Spain BARCELONA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight softens the hardwood floor. A wind-blown, hundred-year-old Last Line: They are beautiful Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain BARCELONA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight softens the hardwood floor. A wind-blown, hundred-year-old Last Line: Should tell their stories, someone should tell them they are beautiful Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain BARCELONA CELEBRATES THREE YEARS OF FRANCO, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Over the sunless ways [or, skies] of barcelona Last Line: We'll drive your shadow out of barcelona! Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) BATTLE HYMN OF THE SPANISH REBELLION, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church's one foundation Last Line: The bombing-planes of jove. Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A. Subject(s): Muslims; Revolutions; Spain; War; Moslems BERNARDO DEL CARPIO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The warrior bowed his crested head, and tamed his heart of fire Last Line: Of spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Spain; Tragedy BOHEME, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of fields in blossom-this grey rain! Last Line: With all our conquering visions ranged below. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Fields; Spain; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BRIDAL OF ANDALLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rise up, rise up, xarifa! Lay the golden cushion down Last Line: To gaze on false andalla with all the gazing town! Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Grief; Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced BULL AND THE PICADOR, by JOSE ZORILLA Poem Source First Line: Pawing the earth, and snorting in his Last Line: His shoulder bleeding, the great crowd in Subject(s): Bullfights And Bullfighters; Spain; Sports - Arenas And Stadia CALLE MIGUEL ANGEL, by SUEJIN SUH Poem Source First Line: You stood %hands close to your side Last Line: With the crowd %on the madrid metro Subject(s): Language; Madrid, Spain; Tourists; Travel CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While crouds of princes your deserts proclaim Last Line: And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) CANTIGA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go Last Line: Are penalties the absent know. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Absence; Change; Forgetfulness; Spain; Separation; Isolation CANTO ARASTRA, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Opera creatures technicolor elves Last Line: All gone & going things Subject(s): Spain CASIDA OF THE BRANCHES, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Along the groves of the tamarit Last Line: Waiting for them to break themselves alone Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain CASIDA OF THE LAMENT, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have shut my balcony Last Line: Nothing else is heard but the weeping Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Lament; Performing Arts - Spain CERVERA, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: Hail to thee, gallant foe! Last Line: Honor above them. Subject(s): Admirals; Cervera, Pasquale De (1839-1909); Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare CHARLES II OF SPAIN TO APPROACHING DEATH, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make way, my lords! For death now once Last Line: The king is dying. Bid the great bells ring. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of Spain (1661-1700); Death; Dead, The CHILDREN OF BARCELONA, by ANDREA MOORHEAD Poem Source First Line: Clouds moving in, the sun still warm and mild behind the air Last Line: Gold eyes of atlantic waters, a path beyond the longing flesh, %beyond the sweet fragrance of summer Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Sea; Water CHURCH OF SAN ANTONIO DE LA FLORIDA, by PAUL PETRIE Poem Source First Line: A cleaning woman opened the rusty door Last Line: And through the walls run rats with small, red eyes Subject(s): Churches; Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Spain CID AND THE FIVE MOORISH KINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With fire and desolation the moors are in castile Last Line: And sent him lordly tribute, from their moorish realms afar Subject(s): Castles; Cid, El (1043-1099); Courts And Courtiers; Spain CID: PART 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a low state Last Line: Expressions, but Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Romance; Spain - History; Spanish Literature CID: PART 12, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The good ximena Last Line: A great connecting Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Coffins; Death; Funerals; Spain - History CID: PART 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rodrigo or, as Last Line: Three-hundred followers Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Spain - History; Vengeance CID: PART 3, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Justice, king! Last Line: Than utter words Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Justice CID: PART 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of the king right Last Line: To a man of valor Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Heroism; Horses; Spain - History; War COLUMBUS AT SEVILLE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear son, diego, I am old and deaf Last Line: The date, 1571 Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Explorers; Spain; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 5. TOWN MEETING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sure, the quality of life that is Last Line: Don't cotton much to actual people Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Socialism; Spain; Towns COW BELLS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: So often when our wan blue dusk wears thin Last Line: Oft on old loma evenings warmly fell. Subject(s): Cowboys; Levin, Rahel Robert; Spain; Varhagen Von Ense, Mrs. Karl CYPRUS / THE STRANGLED, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Malta: fat lady %spain Subject(s): Crete; Cyprus; Malta; Rhodes (island); Spain DANCE OF THE MOON IN SANTIAGO, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Regard that white gallant Last Line: In the courtyard of the dead Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain DAWN IN BURGOS, by GUILLERMO CARNERO Poem Source First Line: In the silence of the cloisters Subject(s): Burgos, Spain DAWNING IN VALENCIA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These blasting winds of march, caught in the attic Last Line: Tangling centaurs of love in your rose trees Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fights; Spain; War DAY'S MEDITATION, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In front of the fiery palm Last Line: From river to river, mountain to mountain, %sea to sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Meditation; Spain DEATH OF ANTONITO EL CAMBORIO, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Voices of death resounded Last Line: Near the guadalquivir Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain DOMINIQUE DE GOURGUES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In his cheerful norman orchard Last Line: Of the little gascon wife! Subject(s): Spain DON O' DREAMS (THE SYCAMORE), by HARRY NOYES PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the dry arroyo leaning Last Line: On this ragged don o' dreams. Subject(s): Spain EARLY MORNING, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: But like love Last Line: The archers %are blind Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain ECSTASY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Each perfect rose that unfolded yesterday Last Line: They think, here they stuggle, here they love Subject(s): Creation; Life; Nature; Spain ELEGIA, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid madrid madrid madrid Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ELEGIA, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid madrid madrid madrid Last Line: My sons will love you as their father did %madrid madrid madrid Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ELEGY FOR MADRID, by CATHERINE RUFFING Poem Source First Line: I carry a city of five million on my back: I'm learning Last Line: My goodbyes before I left. I say them now, a few each day Subject(s): Cities; Spain; Travel ELODIA, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sudden heaven! Superb surprise! Last Line: The passion which is spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Spain ENGLAND AND SPAIN; OR, VALOUR AND PATRIOTISM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too long have tyranny and power combined Last Line: Eternal haloes round her sainted head. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; Spain; War EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "said bassompierre, 'when I in spain abode" Last Line: When at madrid I represented you' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;rudeness;spain; Bad Manners EPIGRAM: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of carthage he, that worthy warrior Last Line: At monzon thus I restless rest in spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 81 Subject(s): Carthage; Pain; Peace; Spain; War; Suffering; Misery EPISTLE TO FABIO, by ANDRES FERNANDEZ DE ANDRADA Poem Source First Line: My fabio, the courtier's hopes are chains Last Line: Come, you shall see what is that noble end %toward which I aim, ere time die in our arms Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Friendship; Seville, Spain ESCAPE OF COUNT FERNAN GONZALEZ, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They have carried afar into navarre the great count of castile Last Line: Their swords shine bright, infanta, -- and every blade is thine' Subject(s): Escapes; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) ESPANA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There were tears in andalusia Last Line: Beware lest worse befall! Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Death; Funerals; Grief; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness ESSAY: CANTUS INFIRMUS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way to rise to god is to dissipate into particles of light like Last Line: Giant ys inscribed in strings of light on the face of the earth Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Essays; Philip I, King Of Spain (1478-1506) FAREWELL, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: If I die Last Line: Leave the balcony open Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years have passed since I found in a book shop in albacete Last Line: The men with the patent-leather hats and souls of patent leather Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) FIELDS OF SORIA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and arid land of soria Last Line: With happiness, with light and abundance! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel FLIGHT FROM GRANADA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was crying in granada Last Line: For what is life to leave when such a crown %is cast away? Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Farewell; Granada, Spain; Grief FLIGHT FROM GRANADA (1492), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was crying in granada when the sun was going down Last Line: For what is life to leave when such a crown is cast away? Subject(s): Crowns; Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Granada, Spain; Muhammad Xi, Sultan Of Granada (d. 1527) FOOTNOTE: ADOLPH HITLER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, 1933, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: There was a man Last Line: Thought the jews would not see germany again. Subject(s): Germany; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Jews; Spain; Germans; Judaism FOR AL-TAYIB SALIH, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come here to retrieve a shoe Subject(s): Moors (people); Ancestors & Ancestry; Shoes; Love; Spain; Heritage; Heredity; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers FUNEREAL DRUM-ROLL FOR THE REMAINS OF DURANGO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father dust who rises from spain, Subject(s): Spain; God GACELA OF THE BITTER ROOT, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There is a bitter root Last Line: Bite your bitter root Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain GALLERIES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue a band %of a few black birds Last Line: Transparent, empty, blind, winged Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel GALLEYS OF SPAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye galleys of our land %arrest your oars again Last Line: Sp let my lover rest %who drags your heavy chain Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Peace; Rest; Spain 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 GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV Poem Source First Line: We charged at the enemy Last Line: You needn't despair, %'granada, granada, %granada, the fair' Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV Poem Source First Line: We rode at a trot Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GRANADA, by MIKHAIL ARKADYEVICH SVETLOV Poem Source First Line: We jogged along slowly Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GRANADA NOTEBOOK #5, by MYRONN HARDY Poem Source First Line: We sit down to black tea Last Line: Seethed an atlantic brimming with gold Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Travel GUADARRAMA, IS IT YOU, OLD FRIEND?, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Canter with me into your body Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Friendship; Spain GUERNICA, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Dead. Dead. Every child. Shriek out Last Line: Shriek out! Dead. Dead. Every child Subject(s): Guernica, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) GUITAR, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: Heart mortally wounded %by five swords Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Guitars; Performing Arts - Spain HAIL, ZARAGOZA! IF WITH UNWET EYE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And law was from necessity received Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain HERE IN THE FIELDS OF MY HOMELAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The virgin bodies will wash up on the old shore Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Home; Spain HERE, MADRID, 1954, by ANGEL GONZALEZ Poem Source Last Line: A man with a year of nothing %in front of his boredom of everything Subject(s): Madrid, Spain HIGHLAND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the white sierra %very fine snow %and wind in your face Last Line: We all are to see your face Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Nature; Spain; Travel HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six hundred years ago, in dante's time Last Line: Let us not fail to pay the grateful thanks we owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Household Employees; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids I'M EXPLAINING A FEW THINGS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs? Last Line: Come and see the blood %in the streets! Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Poetry And Poets; Streets IBERIA, by LEO KIRSCHENBAUM Poem Source First Line: Oh, spanish composers may seem quite castizo Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Spain IMAGES: 3, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between cordova and seville Last Line: Through their cigar-stench, in the dining-car. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Poverty; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips IN A GARDEN OF GRANADA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The city rumour rises all the day Last Line: For josé maria restrepo millán. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Granada, Spain IN SPAIN, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So feeble is the thread that doth the burden stay Last Line: If that for weight the body fail, this soul shall to her flee. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 98;canzone: 3 Subject(s): Longing; Spain IN SPANISH LANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man of these lands, burning down the pines Last Line: Over which floats the roaming shade of cain Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel IN THE MANNER OF JUAN DE MAIRENA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her mouth is made of fire Last Line: Graceful amazon of the frozen fields! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TORDESILLAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spaniard! If thou art one who bows the knee Last Line: Thoughts valueless and cold compared with these. Subject(s): Martyrs; Spain; Spain - History JUANA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night wind shook the tapestry around an ancient palace room Last Line: But a woman's broken heart was left in its lone despair behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Philip I, King Of Spain (1478-1506); Women; Bereavement JUBILEE HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of disillusion Last Line: Ring out loud the jubilee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Music & Musicians; Performing Arts - Spain; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs KING PHILIP'S MEN, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: At dusk they heard the roar Last Line: "dauntless in death!" Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Faith; God; Philip, King (native American Chief); Shipwrecks; Spain; Spanish Armada; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) LAMENT FOR IGNAXIO SANCHEZ MEJIAS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: At five in the afternoon Last Line: And I remember a sad breeze through the olive trees Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Bullfights And Bullfighters; Creative Ability; Death; Performing Arts - Spain LAMENT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We may well ask now: 'where are the lilacs?' yes Last Line: For the guerilla entering the plaza where defeated generals wait Subject(s): Activity; Chile; Guerrillas; Politics & Government; Socialism; Spain; Exercise LAMENT OF DON RODRIGO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hosts of don rodrigo were scattered in dismay Last Line: O death, why now so slow art thou %why fearest thou to smite? Variant Title(s): The Lamentation Of Don Roderic Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711); Spain LAMENTATION FOR CELIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At the gate of old granada, when all its bolts are barred Last Line: Let me kiss my celin ere I die -- alas! Alas for celin!' Subject(s): Freedom; Granada, Spain; Lament LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: EARTH, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in autumn Last Line: Orchard, beehives and fields Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Blood; Fields; Seasons; Spain LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: OTHER DAYS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brambles are blossoming Last Line: Cannot sleep below the earth' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE MURDERERS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Juan and martin, the elder Last Line: Booms from boulder to boulder Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Crime And Criminals; Fields; Spain; Wolves LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE RETURNED EMIGRANT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of those cursed acres Last Line: Out to laguna negrea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Fields; Spain LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE TRAVELER, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is a winter evening Last Line: And grasps an iron hatchet Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cold; Fields; Spain; Travel MADRID, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the villa, having learned its many skills Subject(s): Madrid, Spain MADRID, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the villa, having learned its many skills Last Line: Or having it, fulfill Subject(s): Madrid, Spain MAIDEN TRIBUTE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The noble king ramiro within the chamber sate Last Line: That day began our freedom, and wiped away our shame Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Fights; Moors (people); Spain - History MANGO, NUMBER 61, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pescado grande was number 14, while pescado chico was number 12 Last Line: Number 61s, mangos, here in number 87, america Subject(s): Language; Mango Trees; Numbers; Spain MARCH OF BERNARDO DEL CARPIO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With three thousand men of leon, from the city bernard goes Last Line: But steadfast heart and spirit bold, alphonso ne'er shall sell Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Fights; Romance; Spain MARY LESLIE; BEFORE VITTORIA, JUNE 20, 1813, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary leslie, blithe and shrill Last Line: That clean cup to my mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; Spain; Vittoria, Spain; War MASS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the battle Last Line: Embraced the first man; started to walk Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Heroism; Toledo, Spain MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all of sterling's poems in spanish Subject(s): Language; Spain; Translating & Interpreting; Words; Vocabulary MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all of sterling's poems in spanish Last Line: There's no hiding place down here.' Subject(s): Language; Spain; Translating And Interpreting MOLASSES REEF WRECK, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: No telling %how many ships Last Line: Face banishment from these our sovereign %blest shores Subject(s): Artifacts; Colonialism; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Coral; Disasters; Diving And Divers; Explorers; Seaweed; Shipwrecks; Slavery; Spain; West Indies MONTJUICH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill of jews, says one, Subject(s): Mountains; Barcelona, Spain; Cemeteries; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Graveyards MONTSERRAT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace waits among the hills Last Line: And this poor breath. Subject(s): Monasteries; Montserrat (mountain), Spain; Abbeys; Monserrat (mountain), Spain MOORISH GATHERING SONG; ZORZICO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chains on the cities! Gloom in the air! Last Line: -- only the spear and the rock are ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Moors (people); Spain MOSAIC IN SPAIN, by CYNTHIA HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: Finger to wall, I touch all the grooves Last Line: Pieces in flung confetti across the sea floor Subject(s): Art And Artists; Spain MY CASTLE IN SPAIN, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was never a castle seen Last Line: Unconscious she waits for me. Subject(s): Spain MY CASTLE IN SPAIN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a castle in spain, very charming to see Last Line: I might live the year round in my spanish chateau! Subject(s): Castles; Spain MY CASTLES IN SPAIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, joyous friend with beard of brown! Last Line: In andalouse or aragon. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Spain; Writing & Writers NATIONAL AIR: SPAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail him! Hail him! All hail our noble king alfonso Subject(s): National Song - Spain NIGHT, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Candle, lamp Last Line: Lantern, and firefly Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain NOISETONE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each artist embarks on a personal search. Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Colors NOTES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From my window %baeza meadows %in the bright moon! Last Line: From the dog days Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Mountains; Spain NOTES AND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a crossbow Last Line: Small boats on the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spain; Spring NOV-13, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another year. The sower is casting Last Line: Mountains of sun, mountains of sun and stone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain ODE TO SPAIN - AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF MARCH, by MANUEL JOSE QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: What nation, tell me, in the older day Last Line: With golden sceptre and device divine! Subject(s): Patriotism; Revolutions; Spain - History OF A FEATHER AT LAS CODORNICES, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The architect of our party cuts Last Line: They are in seville Subject(s): Seville, Spain OLD SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the hour of the dew Last Line: It is the virgin of the peaks Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Roads; Spain; Travel ON A PICTURE OF A SPANISH LADY IN THE GALLERY AT MADRID, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most gifted limner! Lifelike thus to trace Last Line: That glorious lady of the land of spain! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Portraits; Spain ON GREDOS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone here on the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Solitude; Spain; Loneliness ON GREDOS, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone here on the mountain Last Line: Here on the bosom of the mountain range %here in your midst , here I feel myself mine Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Hearts; Solitude; Spain ON THE BAD GOVERNMENT OF TOLEDO, by GOMEZ MONRIQUE Poem Source First Line: When mighty rome was conquerer Subject(s): Toledo, Spain ON THE BANKS OF THE DUERO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was mid july. A handsome day Last Line: Facing the darkened field and desert stone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Spain; Travel OUT OF THE EPHEMERAL PAST, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This man out of some old provincial town Last Line: And which today has graying hair Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Bullfights And Bullfighters; Spain PASO, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Virgin in crinoline Last Line: Down the river of the street %to the sea Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain PERGOLA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you about roses climbing Last Line: Roses you've read too much about Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Spain PHILIP VERNON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When bess was queen, and the bishop of rome and Last Line: Ring in their new lord, and these gladder times. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Spain; English PLAZA DE LA INQUISICION, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spider's body Subject(s): Spiders; Castile, Spain POEM ABOUT A DAY: RURAL MEDITATIONS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So here we have a teacher Last Line: Over the fence of his corral! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rain; Spain; Spring POEM FOR MAYA, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dipping our bread in oil tins Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Spain; Relationships POEM OF THE CID: 3. THE CID ENTERS BURGOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The cid ruy diaz came into burgos Last Line: If only he had a worthy lord Subject(s): Burgos, Spain POEM OF THE SAETA, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The dark archers Last Line: Ay guadalquivir Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain POEM: 10, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: I wald noght spare for to speke, wist I to spede Last Line: For when þe stode in powre strenkith -- þe war all to stout. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; War PORTRAIT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood is memories of a patio in sevilla Last Line: And almost naked like the children of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Spain; Youth PRINCE YOUSUF AND THE ALCAYDE; A MOORISH BALLAD, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In grenada reigned mohammed Last Line: Long lost lord -- our rightful king! Subject(s): Death; Moors (people); Spain; Dead, The PROCESSION, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Through the lanes Last Line: Orlando furioso Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain PROEM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Tells the cumbrous page historic how the missions rose / and fell Last Line: As loved tagus or as darro from granada's rugged steep. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; History; Missions & Missionaries; Sea Voyages; Historians QUIEN SABE?, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In cordoba within the drowsing plaza Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Cordoba, Spain RIDDLE OF THE GUITAR, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: At the round Last Line: The guitar! Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain RIDER'S SONG, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Cordoba %far away and alone Last Line: Far away and alone Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain RIO VERDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rio verde, rio verde! Last Line: No royal power hath he! Subject(s): Peasantry; Rio Verde (river), Spain RIVER OF SEVILLE, by AL-KUTANDI Poem Text First Line: Shining waters of seville Last Line: And in darkness I abide. Subject(s): Seville (river), Spain ROMANCERO (FROM THE SPANISH); A STUDY IN LOCAL COLOUR, by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fair chandeliero, cascara sagrada Last Line: Ohe! Subject(s): Oxford University; Spain ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: SPANISH LYRICS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on hubert's day - the year was Last Line: Ask'd: had we enjoy'd our dinner? -- Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The ROMERO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, from the land of spain Last Line: Shall rise, as from the beaten shore the thunders of the sea. Subject(s): Spain; Freedom; Liberty ROSAMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One soweth and another reapeth Last Line: Too true! Too true! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Spain; Women; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean RUINS OF ITALICA, by RODRIGO CARO Poem Source First Line: Fabius, this region desolate and drear Last Line: Italica' from ruined tower and wall Subject(s): Italica, Spain; Memory; Ruins; War SAN FERNANDO REY DE ESPANA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Here the mountains burn at sunset, with that light / drawn from the skies Last Line: Is the fierce, hot wind of summer sweeping down this lonely vale. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Missions & Missionaries SANCHO SANCHEZ, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sancho sanchez lay a-dying in the house of mariquita Last Line: "he has thrown his hat behind him for the glory of the lord!" Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Death; Fights; Spain; Dead, The SATURDAY, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Every saturday Last Line: By its virtue Subject(s): Spain - History; Travel; Villages SEGOVIA AND MADRID, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sings to me in sunshine Last Line: -- would my soul forget madrid? Subject(s): Madrid, Spain SEVILLE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Seville is a tower Last Line: Always seville to wound Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Performing Arts - Spain SHORES OF THE DUERO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A stork has appeared high on the campanile Last Line: Delicious land of spain! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spain SHORT PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book remained at the edge of his dead waist Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Prayer; Toledo, Spain; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines SHORT PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book remained at the edge of his dead waist Last Line: Abruptly sprouted from the corpse Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Prayer; Toledo, Spain; War SIERRA NOTE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She opened the window Last Line: They called castilla Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spain; Water SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the moon is climbing Last Line: And gone is the violet sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spain; War SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ah, how I wish I could sleep Last Line: But love, from sleeping, me doth keep Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Marriage; Seville, Spain SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mother, I come from the aspen trees Last Line: Ah, how they tremble in the breeze Subject(s): Love; Seville, Spain SONG OF THE SPANISH JEWS, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, dark is the spirit that loves not the land Last Line: And seek not and wish not a lovelier rest. Subject(s): Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Spain; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism SONG OF THE SPANISH WANDERER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrim! Oh say, hath thy cheek been fanned Last Line: They sleep in thy valleys, my sunny spain! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spain SONGS FROM HIGHLANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the white mountains Last Line: The thicket's small, leafless %poplars, march lyres Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing And Singers; Spain; Travel SONGS OF THE UPPER DUERO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The miller is my lover Last Line: Dance. Sound the flute %and drum Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel SONNET TO MARC IN MODERN SPAIN, by LORA BETH PENNINGTON Poem Text First Line: Relate to me the tale of more than war Last Line: Of soul-hewn ships, expanding, take to sea. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Spain SONNETS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My heart was where a hundred roads converge Last Line: To gaze so pityingly at my gray hair Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Roads; Spain; Travel SPAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Josefa, when you sing Last Line: Flowers in her hair, castanets in her hands. Subject(s): Spain SPAIN AND AMERICA, by RICARDO CARRASQUILLA Poem Source First Line: Her race, her language, laws and creed Last Line: In her our needs are understood Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Freedom; Spain SPAIN NEVER WAS SO BEAUTIFUL, by ALEX R. SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: Today an aching ferment stirs my breast Last Line: Spain never was so beautiful in spring. Subject(s): Spain SPAIN'S LAST ARMADA, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fling their flags upon the morn Last Line: To shed their lurid lustre on the empire that was spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Courage; Navy - Spain; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Valor; Bravery; Spanish Navy; Naval Warfare SPAIN, 1873-1874, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the murk of heaviest clouds Last Line: Thou waitest there as everywhere thy time. Subject(s): Spain SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the world Last Line: Go forth, children of the world; go seek her! Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; Spain SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the world Last Line: Go out, children of the world, go and look for her! Subject(s): Patriotism; Soldiers; Spain SPAIN: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near our ochre pastures with real bulls, your clay one Last Line: Along iron gorges whose springs glitter like knives Subject(s): Spain SPAIN: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near our ochre pastures with real bulls, your clay one Last Line: Along iron gorges whose springs glitter like knives Subject(s): Spain SPAIN: 2. GRANADA, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red earth and raw, the olive clumps olive and silver Last Line: From the cypresses, the mountains, the olives turning silver? Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Olive Trees And Olives SPAIN: 2. GRANADA, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red earth and raw, the olive clumps olive and silver Last Line: From the cypresses, the mountains, the olives turning silver Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Olive Trees And Olives SPAIN: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storks, ravens, cranes, what do these disparate auguries mean Last Line: From nerve-strings and arteries, and cloud-pages close in amen Subject(s): Spain SPAIN: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storks, ravens, cranes, what do these disparate auguries mean Last Line: From nerve-strings and arteries, and cloud-pages close in amen Subject(s): Spain SPAIN:: ANNO 1492, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torquemada. Now that castile and aragon in holy wedlock Subject(s): Torquemada, Tomas De (1420-1498); Spain; Inquisition; Jews; Judaism SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you Last Line: With thinking of your woe! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Spain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails SPANISH DESCENT, SELS., by DANIEL DEFOE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The word's gone out, and now they spread the main Subject(s): Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714) SPANISH GUERILLAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They seek, are sought; to daily battle led Last Line: In some green island of the western main. Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 1, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the light of insomnia, truths Subject(s): Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 1, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the light of insomnia, truths Last Line: The tortured torture, and worse gets worse Subject(s): Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 2, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He omits, goya, not even the good news Last Line: And people are meat, as for francis bacon Subject(s): Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jose De; Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 3, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, self-obsession fills our daily clothes Last Line: We cannot stop clinging where we are Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 4, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day's tours, I gather sandy castles Last Line: And I try to picture your body part by part %to supplant the day's crenellated loot Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 5, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land is dry enough to make the rivers Last Line: Road maps pour out of me in a stream Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 5, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land is dry enough to make the rivers Last Line: Who could ever love me? Misread %road maps pour out of me in a stream Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 6, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neumatico puntrado - we stopped Last Line: In silence wielded sickles. They had seen Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 7, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All crises pass, though not the condition of crisis Last Line: The streets, though dim, are safe at night. Lovers %touch, widows wear black, all is known Subject(s): Spain SPANISH SONNETS: 8, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These islands of history amid traffic snarls Last Line: Tulips outnumber truths in my madrid Subject(s): De Luna, Alvaro; Joan I (juana La Lorca), Queen Of Spain; Spain SPORTS SUNDAYS, by ROBERT MICHAEL O'HEARN Poem Source First Line: A jolt & hue, a cry of humanity Last Line: In those spaniard streets %sunday after sunday Subject(s): Spain; Sports ST. MICHAEL, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: You can see them from the railings Last Line: Of shouts and miradors Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Michael, The Archangel; Saints ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it matters not to know Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night. Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF THE SPANISH PATRIOTS IN RESISTING REGENCY AND THE DUKE OF ANGOULEME, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave men who at the trocadero fell Last Line: But vengeance is behind, and justice is to come. Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain STAVE CHURCHES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: I believe in the darkened churches Last Line: All the days are evil, there's no hope anymore, but we %sail on, sail on. %laudate pueri dominum, la Subject(s): America - Exploration; Andalusia, Spain; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this season of 'sweet / silent thought' on sunday afternoon Subject(s): Imagination; Madrid, Spain; Thought; Fancy; Thinking SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this season of 'sweet %silent thought' on sunday afternoon Last Line: Will be erased by the brightness you find here Subject(s): Imagination; Madrid, Spain; Thought 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 ABENCERRAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely and still are now thy marble halls Last Line: Who thus have suffered, and who thus repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alhambra, The; Granada, Spain THE ANDALUSIAN SERENO, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With oaken staff and swinging lantern bright Last Line: The spectre of the past, the ghost of spain. Subject(s): Spain THE AUTO-DA-FE; A LEGEND OF SPAIN, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a moody air, from morn till noon Last Line: Until, like sir robert, 'I'm duly call'd in!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Inheritance And Sucession; Inquisition; Spain; Jews; Judaism THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a summer evening Last Line: "but 't was a famous victory." Variant Title(s): After Blenheim Subject(s): Blenheim, Battle Of; Churchill, John (1650-1722); Cynicism; Peace; Religion; Spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); War; Marlborough, 1st Duke Of; Theology THE BROKEN PITCHER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a moorish maiden was sitting by a well Last Line: How he met moorish maiden beside the lonely well. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Spain; Women THE BULL-FIGHT [OF GAZUL], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "king almanzor of granada, he hath bid the trumpet sound" Last Line: "upon gazul of algava, that hath laid harpado low" Subject(s): "bullfights & Bullfighters;granada, Spain;spain - War Of Succession (1701-1714); THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory. Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History THE CAMPEADOR'S SPECTRE HOST, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On leon's towers deep midnight lay Last Line: That more than men had fought for god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fights; Spain; Swords; Dead, The THE CHANGE OF FLAGS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flurried scud of sunlit sails Last Line: "that wrought the battle-blade!" Subject(s): England; Flags; Freedom; Spain; English; Liberty THE COMING OF SPRING: MADRID, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is come back, and the little voices are calling Last Line: I know not, but I have forgotten the meaning of spring. Subject(s): Madrid, Spain; Spring THE CONFESSIONAL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a lie - their priests, their pope Last Line: Lies -- lies, again -- and still, they lie! Subject(s): Catholics; Clergy; Confessions; Lies; Spain; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING OF SPAIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Earth and horizons round Last Line: Alas! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Love; Singing & Singers; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE DRAGON OF THE SEAS, by THOMAS NELSON PAGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the spanish ships are out Last Line: Has waked to life again. Subject(s): Navy - Spain; Spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART ONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voices of my home! - I hear them still! Last Line: Earth in her holy pomp, decked for her god alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART TWO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me the sounding of the torrent-water Last Line: But for his presence felt, whom here my soul hath sought. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods THE GRAPES OF MALAGA, by FLORENCE WENNER Poem Text First Line: In spain the grapes of malaga Last Line: To hell-draughts have been ground! Subject(s): Grapes; Malaga, Spain THE JEWESS OF TOLEDO, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back, go back, and leave the garden Last Line: Curtain Subject(s): Jews; Spain; Tragedy; Judaism THE KING OF ARRAGON'S LAMENT FOR HIS BROTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were lights and sounds of revelling Last Line: "my brother! Oh, my brother! Best and bravest! Thou art gone!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Mourning; Bereavement THE KNIGHT OF SAINT GEORGE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before saint stephen of gormaz Last Line: Pascal vivas is the saint! Subject(s): Saints; Spain THE LORCA VARIATIONS (1) 'LORCA'S SPAIN: A HOMAGE', by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning with olive trees. Subject(s): Spain THE LORD OF BUTRAGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your horse is faint, my king, my lord! Your gallant horse is sick" Last Line: "he died, god wot! But not before his sword had drunk its fill" Subject(s): "aljubarrota, Battle Of (1385);juan (john) I, King De Castile (& Leon);spain;war; THE LOVER'S ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden through the favouring night Last Line: Says for manuel's soul a prayer. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Escapes; Granada, Spain; Love; Moors (land); Dead, The; Fugitives THE LUST OF GOLD, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rapacious spain Last Line: And left a blank among the works of god. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Spain THE NEW WORLD'S QUEEN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift to the queen, saint angel came Last Line: Dowered isabella — the new world's queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Explorers; Spain; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE PASSING OF SPAIN FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The lord communed with his heart in heaven Last Line: The passing away of spain. Subject(s): Cities; Messages & Messengers; Spain; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE PROPHECY OF THE TAGUS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dalliance roderic the king Last Line: "o land belovéd—in barbarian chains!" Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets; Spain THE PYRENEES, by GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE SEIGNEUR DU BARTAS Poem Text First Line: Frenchman, halt here awhyle nor leave this land Last Line: The eternal sweat of travail downward pourynge. Alternate Author Name(s): Guillaume De Saluste Subject(s): France; Spain THE RIO VERDE SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flow, rio verde! Last Line: Softly flow on! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Rio Verde (river), Spain THE RUINS OF ITALICA, by FRANCISCO DE RIOJA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fabius, this region, desolate and drear Last Line: "italica!"" from ruined tower and wall." Subject(s): Italica, Spain THE SAILING OF THE FLEET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two fleets have sailed from spain. The one would seek Last Line: For sons of drake are lords of colon's world Subject(s): Navy - Spain;spanish-american War (1898); Spanish Navy THE SONG OF THE SPANISH MAIN, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the south, when the day is done Last Line: Then, hush, forevermore. Subject(s): National Songs; Singing & Singers; Southern Hemisphere; Spain; War; National Anthems; Songs THE SOUL OF SPAIN WITH MCALMON AND BIRD THE PUBLISHERS, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rain in the rain in the rain in the rain in spain Last Line: After all it is the spirit of the thing that counts Subject(s): Social Commentary; Spain; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) THE SPANISH BARBER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sights abound the world around, let tourists live and learn Last Line: And, conscious of a triumph, said, servito, señor. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Barbers; Beards; Spain THE SPANISH CHAPEL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a mountain brook my guide Last Line: "an angel thus to heaven!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Spain; Women; Death - Babies THE SPANISH FRIAR, OR THE DOUBLE DISCOVERY: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, luck for us, and a kind hearty pit Last Line: By way of thanks, we'll send 'em o'er our plot. Subject(s): Catholics; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Spain; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails THE SPANISH GIPSY, by THOMAS MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roderigo! Last Line: [exeunt omnes. Subject(s): Gypsies; Spain; Gipsies THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quit now the town, and with a journeying dream Last Line: Where we have found each other, my fedalma. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Family Life; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Moors (people); Spain; War; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now twice the day had sunk from off the hills Last Line: Their ignorant misery and their trust in her Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (land); Religion; Spain; War; Gipsies; Male-female Relations; Theology THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastward rocks of almeria's bay Last Line: On aught but blackness overhung by stars.] Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Farewell; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain; War; Parting; Male-female Relations THE SPANISH REVOLUTION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow loud the silver trumpets, blow Last Line: Let spain improve her golden hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Freedom; Government; Revolutions; Spain; Liberty THE SQUIRE OF DAMES; OR, A TOUR IN SPAIN, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy who travels from london to cadiz Last Line: That man highly favour'd, the squire of four ladies. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Spain; Women; Work; Workers THE STALKING OF THE SEA WOLVES, by CHARLES WEST THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: They had come from out of the east Last Line: "they'll never get home!" Subject(s): Flags; Spain; Victory; War; Wolves THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My new friend, maisie, who works where I work Last Line: Fodor's spain, 1984 Subject(s): Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE VISION OF DON RODERICK, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lives there a strain, whose sounds of mounting fire Last Line: I strike my red-cross flag, and bind my skiff to land. Subject(s): Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711); Spain - History THE VISITOR, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spanish he whispers there is no time left. Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Spain; Convicts THE ZEGRI MAID, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer leaves were sighing Last Line: Thus sang the zegri maid. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Girls; Moors (people); Spain THERE IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sad, tired, pensive, old Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel TO A SENORITA OF SOUTH AMERICA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: You have the loveliness of far-off hills Last Line: Beneath the sun, yet faithful year on year. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Beauty; Spain; Women TO DON FRANCISCO GINER DE LOS RIOS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when the master left us Last Line: Dreamt his sweet dream of spain's new blossoming Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Spain - History TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER ... AFTER THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though dark are the prospects and heavy the hours Last Line: And beam through the cloud of despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Corunna, Spain; Homecoming; War; Half-brothers TO ONE WHO COMES NOW AND THEN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you come in, it seems a brighter fire Last Line: Above you smile or frown. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Change; June TO THE LIGHTHOUSE ON MALTA, by ANGEL SAAVEDRA Poem Source First Line: Black night enswathes the mighty world Last Line: Of cordoba's sweet tower! Subject(s): Cordoba, Spain; Lighthouses TOLEDO, by JOSE ZORILLA Poem Source First Line: No more the jousts and tourneys Last Line: Through the arab darkness then Subject(s): Toledo, Spain TOLEDO CAPTURED BY THE FRANKS, by AL-ASSAL Poem Text First Line: Men of andalus, to horse! Last Line: From the middle wrested. Subject(s): Toledo, Spain TOLEDO, JULY 1936, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Toledo, when I saw you die Last Line: A sacred city of the mind Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Toledo, Spain UNCE UPON A TIME IN SPAIN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I have only a few postcards Last Line: But thanks to our parting, %that last embrace, %I have good memories Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Farewell; Gypsies; Memory; Travel UNTUNED LUTE, by MOHAMED AZIZA Poem Source First Line: Oh blind musician, the caresses of your fingers Last Line: The malouf [andalousian song] sings the lament of a paradise lost -- %a musical mirage Subject(s): Moors (people); Muslims; Spain VALENCIA: WINTER, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Valencia, Spain VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN SPAIN, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was in a dawn in madrid, where I started my passage Last Line: If necessary, in worms I will rise to smile at %the infernal malediction of your dead, oh franco! Subject(s): Politics; Spain VOW OF REDUAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thus said, before his lords, the king to reduan Last Line: Right soon, when this was seen, broke all the moor away Subject(s): Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Granada, Spain; Heroism WAR AND PEACE, 1808, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, bright futurity, whose prospect beams Last Line: One hallowed zone -- to circle all mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Peace; War WAR SONG OF THE SPANISH PATRIOTS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who burn with glory's flame Last Line: In endless night. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Patriotism; Spain WAY OF GUERNICA, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Ride a dead horse to the river of blood Last Line: Night has begun, awakening chills Subject(s): Guernica, Spain WHEN BOMBS ON BARCELONA BURST, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Source Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) WINTER IN SITGES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man building a boat on the beach Last Line: Built to make shapes in the waves Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Spain; Travel WIZZERDE WYNKIN'S DETHE; AN ANCIENT BALLAD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wizzerde's een grewe derke and dimme Last Line: Gramercye on his soulle! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Spain - History; War ZEGRI'S BRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all the blood of zegri,the chief is lisaro Last Line: Fought well that day, yet in the fray the zegri won his spouse Subject(s): Civil War; Granada, Spain; Horseback Riding; Knights And Knighthood |
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