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Subject: BELSHAZZAR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BELSHAZZAR, by GEORGE CROLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hour of an empire's overthrow
Subject(s): Belshazzar


BELSHAZZAR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The midnight hour was coming on
Last Line: Was slain by his servants, -- a ghastly sight.
Subject(s): Babylon; Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The


BELSHAZZAR, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Belshazzar is king! Belshazzar is lord!
Last Line: And a mede's on the throne of belshazzar the king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Praise; Judaism


BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST, by THOMAS SMART HUGHES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joy holds her court in great belshazzar's hall
Subject(s): Belshazzar


BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST (ORIGINAL VERSION), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas night in babylon: yet many a beam
Last Line: And the triumphal hymns thy joy of youth restore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Belshazzar


TO BELSHAZZAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Belshazzar! From the banquet turn
Last Line: Unfit to govern, live, or die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Belshazzar


VISION OF BELSHAZZAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The king was on his throne,
Last Line: The persian on his throne!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Belshazzar; Jews; Judaism