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Subject: ASSYRIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASSYRIAN NIGHT-SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is naught, on either hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Assyria; Deserts; Food And Eating; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Night; Singing And Singers


PARTING AT MORNING, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the cape of a sudden came the sea
Last Line: And the need of a world of men for me.
Variant Title(s): Parting And Meeting
Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; Separation; Isolation; Ocean


SARDANAPALUS; A TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He hath wronged his queen, but he is her lord
Last Line: Tis fired! I come
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Assyria; Sardanapalus (7th Century B.c.); Suicide; Sybarites


THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
Last Line: Hath melted like snow in the glance of the lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Sennacherib
Subject(s): Assyria; Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; War; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology