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Subject: ELGIN MARBLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIT OF MARBLE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This bit of polished marble - this
Last Line: Of lofty thought!
Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Elgin Marbles; Sculpture & Sculptors


BRITISH MUSEUM: THE ELGIN MARBLES, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: So much smaller than I expected
Last Line: The stone still quivering with fatigue
Subject(s): Elgin Marbles


NEW ODE TO A GRECIAN URN, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! How sad that simple truth
Last Line: I read the tale of how lhkqion apwlesen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Elgin Marbles; Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Greeks


ODE ON A GRECIAN URN, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou still unravished bride of quietness
Last Line: Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Elgin Marbles; Mortality


ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My spirit is too weak - mortality
Last Line: A sun - a shadow of a magnitude.
Subject(s): Elgin Marbles; Parthenon; Sculpture & Sculptors