Starting in the Medieval Period, technological and cultural exchanges between the Islamic lands and Europe affected the thought of the latter one. What profoundly affected Europe was the literary and scientific richness of Islamic civilizations especially during and after the Abbasid period. This study focuses on how two 19th century poets conceptualized the zenith of the Abbasid period during which the Barmakids held administrative power. By looking closely at Felicia Hemans’ poem titled The Mourner for the Barmecides and James Clarence Mangan›s poem titled The Time of the Barmecides, the poets’ conceptualizations of the West and the East are examined through a content analytical procedure. While doing that, symbolic meanings ascribed to the Barmakids are scrutinized by searching for the possible relationships between the political and cultural atmospheres of the 19th century Ireland and England and the land of the Barmecides. Analyses of both poems reveal that as Mangan was passionate about Ireland’s freedom against England’s hostile existence in Ireland, he was equally frustrated by the Irish governments’ lack of proper stance against the colonialist Kingdom. Hence, Mangan found refuge in the land of the Barmecides as the content of his poem shows. Similarly, although she was a supporter of the British monarchy, Hemans sought a more assertive nationalist and conservative government, as seen in her poetry. Results of this study are important to exemplify the effect of the East on Irish and English literatures.