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Subject: HELLESPONT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DARDANELLES, by THEODORE AUBANEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far, far away across the sea
Last Line: Far, far away across the sea.
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hellespont


HERO AND LEANDER, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But he, leander, almost half across
Last Line: With fluttering arms she leaped, and joined her drowned love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hero & Leander; Hellespont; Leander


HERO AND LEANDER, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark ye how yon time-worn towers
Last Line: Of the unfathomable deep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hero And Leander; Hellespont


HERO AND LEANDER: THE LOVES OF HERO AND LEANDER, by GRAMMATICUS MUSAEUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, muse! The conscious torch, whose nightly ray
Last Line: Each was the radiant star of either shore.
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hero And Leander; Hellespont


ON A PICTURE OF LEANDER, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither all sweet maidens soberly
Last Line: He's gone; up bubbles all his amorous breath!
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hero & Leander; Hellespont; Leander


THE FLIGHT OF XERXES, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw him on the battle-eve
Last Line: For thee, immortal salamis!
Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Xeres I, The Great (519-465 B.c.); Hellespont


THE HELLESPONT, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Wave unto shore in an embrace
Last Line: Gives back my thought!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hellespont


THE MARCH OF XERXES, by LUIGI ALAMANNI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When in the wantonness of kingly pride
Last Line: More than a god he came, less than a man he fled.
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Xeres I, The Great (519-465 B.c.); Hellespont


XERXES, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In gay hostility and barbarous pride
Last Line: Through purple billows and a floating host.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Xeres I, The Great (519-465 B.c.); Hellespont


XERXES AT HELLESPONT, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm is now that stormy water, - it has learned to fear my wrath
Last Line: A dead host with their dead monarch, silent in the silent ground.
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Xeres I, The Great (519-465 B.c.); Hellespont