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Subject: VIENNA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEETHOVEN (VIENNA - 1900), by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I came to a great city. Palaces
Last Line: And his the empire of the human soul.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Vienna


THE BATTLE OF VIENNA, by SEYMOUR GREEN WHEELER BENJAMIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stern besieger's fiery balls
Last Line: Where bosphor's shores in beauty swell.
Subject(s): Vienna


THE DELIVERANCE OF VIENNA, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chords, the sacred chords of gold
Last Line: And close my dazzled eye, and rest my wearied wing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da
Subject(s): Vienna


THE SIEGE OF VIENNA, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA    Poem Text                    
First Line: How long, o lord, shall vengeance sleep
Last Line: And charge, victorious champions, charge!
Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da
Subject(s): Vienna


TYING ONE ON IN VIENNA, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been, faithfully, to the thirty-nine birthplaces of beethoven
Last Line: Hooray for purple and gold, for liquor and angels!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Vienna; Women; Women's Rights; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Feminism