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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HELLESPONT Matches Found: 10 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 |
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