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Subject: CONSTANTINOPLE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BELISARIUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am poor and old and blind
Last Line: Am belisarius!
Subject(s): Belisarius (505-565); Constantinople; Generals; Istambul; Byzantium


BELISARIUS (1), by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind I am, and poor and aged, but my spirit holds its might
Last Line: For my fame shall live beyond me, and the recompense is nigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Belisarius (505-565); Constantinople; Generals; Istambul; Byzantium


BELISARIUS (2), by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A beggar begging in the public streets
Last Line: "my deeds—my deeds—shall ring through after time."
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Belisarius (505-565); Constantinople; Generals; Istambul; Byzantium


BRIDGE, by ERIN NOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The walls of constantinople
Last Line: Remembered. Not even for that
Subject(s): Bridges; Constantinople


BYZANTIUM, by KAY RYAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What boxes they
Subject(s): Constantinople


BYZANTIUM, by SHARON THESEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half asleep, inhaling a fold-out map
Last Line: An open window %a pink & yellow sky
Subject(s): Constantinople


BYZANTIUM, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that 'cooridor of garments'
Last Line: For, once I have gone %back, such a roulade %and cataract will never come %to the ear as on the side
Subject(s): Constantinople


BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The unpurged images of day recede
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Constantinople; Istambul; Byzantium


BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The unpurged images of day recede
Last Line: Fresh images beget, %that dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Constantinople


EUROPA: 5. HOLBEIN'S AMBASADORS, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each damp november morning was a fen
Last Line: Lying across the floor like his good wife
Subject(s): Constantinople


LINES FOR GARETH AND JANET DUNLEAVY, by JAMES LIDDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I exhort and invoke for you
Last Line: And the stars have arrived
Subject(s): Constantinople; Exhibitions; Marching And Marches; Pens And Pencils; Writing And Writers


PAINTED WHORE, THE MASK OF DEADLY SIN, by WILLIAM LITHGOW    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sweet without fair, and stinking foul within
Subject(s): Constantinople; Travel


SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That is no country for old men. The young
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy


SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That is no country for old men. The young
Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision


SONGS FROM THE SEARCH OF BELISARIUS: THE CYPRIOT'S SONG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two things the gods cannot destroy
Last Line: Where sacrifice is paid.
Subject(s): Belisarius (505-565); Constantinople; Generals; Istambul; Byzantium


SONGS FROM THE SEARCH OF BELISARIUS: THE GIRL'S SONG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me! If you found me in a mart
Last Line: And dream of me?
Subject(s): Belisarius (505-565); Constantinople; Generals; Istambul; Byzantium


SONGS FROM THE SEARCH OF BELISARIUS: THE KNIGHT'S SONG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lady loves her radiant garden
Last Line: Give me love!
Subject(s): Belisarius (505-565); Constantinople; Generals; Istambul; Byzantium


THE EMPIRE OF THE EAST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the glorious morning
Last Line: To the caesars' ancient throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): The Russian's Dream Of Constantinople
Subject(s): Constantinople; Istambul; Byzantium


THE GREEK AT CONSTANTINOPLE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cypresses of scutari
Last Line: "at least one more thermopylae."
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Constantinople; Istambul; Byzantium


THE TURK AT CONSTANTINOPLE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first the prophet's standard rested
Last Line: Haroon er-rasheed and your charlemagne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Constantinople; Istambul; Byzantium


VERSES WRITTEN IN THE CHIOSK OF THE BRITISH PALACE, AT PERA, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me, great god! Said I, a little farm
Last Line: Who dare have virtue in a vicious age.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Constantinople; Travel; Turkey; Istambul; Byzantium; Journeys; Trips