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Subject: COLISEUM, ROME
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MANFRED; A DRAMATIC POEM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lamp must be replenished, but even then
Last Line: He's gone, his soul hath taken its earthless flight; %whither? I dread to think; but he is gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Alps; Coliseum, Rome; Immortality; Mountains


THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR IN THE COLISEUM; 'CHRISTIANOS AND LEONES', by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christian, come forth! The hungering lions crave
Last Line: Him may we, steadfast in the faith, resist!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Christianity; Coliseum, Rome; Martyrs; Rome, Italy


THE COLISEUM, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Type of the antique rome! Rich reliquary
Last Line: "clothing us in a robe of more than glory."
Subject(s): Coliseum, Rome


VESPASIAN'S CIRCUS, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vast canopies across its crater bloat
Subject(s): Coliseum, Rome