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Subject: LASPI
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARISTODEMUS AT PLATAEA, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye have darkened mine honor and branded my name
Last Line: And the desolate hope of the death unadorned.
Subject(s): Cowardice; Heroism; Persian Wars; Plataea, Greece; Heroes; Heroines; Laspi


MARCO BOZZARIS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At midnight, in his guarded tent
Last Line: That were not born to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Botsaris, Markos (1788-1823); Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Plataea, Greece; Bozzari, Marco; Botzaris, Markos; Laspi


PLATAEA: THE ATHENIAN MONUMENT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If valour's best be gallantly to die
Last Line: Laboured, and here in ageless honour lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi


PLATAEA: THE SPARTAN MONUMENT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the dark death cloud they passed, to set
Last Line: Into the splendour from the night beneath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi


THE TOMBS OF PLATAEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And there they sleep! - the men who stood
Last Line: Till rushing winds proclaim, -- the land is free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Plataea, Greece; Graveyards; Laspi