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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BYZANTINE EMPIRE Matches Found: 4 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BYZANTINE NOBLEMAN IN EXILE COMPOSING VERSES, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The frivolous can call me frivolous Last Line: It may be just this strictness that provokes their %disapproval Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Exiles; Poetry And Poets OLD WORLD SETTING: 3. LIFE COULD BE A DREAM, by HENRY SLOSS Poem Source First Line: O brimming glass and heaping plate Last Line: Asleep to dream of byzantines Subject(s): Byzantine Empire THE SONG OF THE SHOVEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on creation's muck-pile where the sinful / swelter and sweat Last Line: When you'll rise o'er sword and sceptre a mighty power in the land. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Death; Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Dead, The; Work; Workers WHERE THE SMOKE COMES FROM, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mangoes in moscow-and a biplane circling Last Line: And silence all the angels from ardennes, %who sing like wolves, like men: truth... I love much. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Cavalry; Cossacks; Fights; Revolutions; Russia - Army-military Life; Tyranny And Tyrants; War |
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