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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LEANDER Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PURPLE HEART BADGE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: A soldier's emblem lost for many a year Last Line: Who earned this military badge of fame? Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Victory ARMS AND THE MAN, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail the great admiral! Hail him who came Last Line: And homeward now departs! Hail and farewell! Subject(s): Admirals; Hero And Leander CASSANDRA, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I am locked away %wrapped in the fillets of a priestess Last Line: How you will fall %and who will take you down? Subject(s): Failure; Hero And Leander; Violence COLIN DUNLAP, by SANDY RODGER Poem Text First Line: We're muckle obliged to ye, colin dunlap Last Line: Is the prayer o' your weel-wisher, colin dunlap. Subject(s): Hero And Leander EL GORDO, by CALVIN WILLLIAM TRUESDALE Poem Source First Line: Some of us knew he would cause terrible problems once we had made Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Courage; Hero And Leander EPIGRAM: HERO AND LEANDER, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground Last Line: Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drownd. Variant Title(s): Epigrams: Hero And Leander Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander GLORIOUS BRUCE OF ANNANDALE!, by WILLIAM MCDOWALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! The lord of annandale! / howe! The lord of annandale! Last Line: Hey! The lord of annandale! &c. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Hero And Leander 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 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On hellespont, guilty of true love's blood Last Line: Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage. Subject(s): Hero & Leander; 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: LEANDER'S DEATH, by GRAMMATICUS MUSAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time was night, when most the violent breathing winds Last Line: And the joy of love together in life's last separation. Subject(s): Death; Hero And Leander; Dead, The 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 HERO AND LEANDER: THE MARRIAGE OF HERO AND LEANDER, by GRAMMATICUS MUSAEUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They had a wedding, but no dancing there Last Line: For short time dates their strange stoln marriage-rites Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Love - Marital HERO AND LEANDER; OR THE BOY'S HELLESPONT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No colder local records did I crave Last Line: Burst on the lonely swimmer, doubly bright. Subject(s): Hero And Leander HERO AND LEANDER; TO S.T. COLERIDGE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh bards of old! What sorrows have ye sung Last Line: No meaner sepulchre should hero find! Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander HERO TO LEANDER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O go not yet, my love Last Line: Or I will follow thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander JAMESON'S RIDE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrong! Is it wrong? Well, may be Last Line: Than the crushings of all the rand. Subject(s): Jameson, Leander Starr (1853-1917); Transvaal, South Africa JOHN WAYNE, GUNSLINGER, R.I.P., by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: John wayne, gunslinger, pranced out Last Line: Of our hero-gunslinger, john wayne Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Hero And Leander; Wayne, John (1907-1979); West (u.s.) LEANDER DROWNED, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' winds and seas oppose their utmost spite Last Line: And at return let me your victim die.' Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander LEANDERS OBSEQUIES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When as leander young was drown'd Last Line: But that his teares forbad the rest. Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander 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 SUBJECTIVITY AT SESTOS, by P. M. HUBBARD Poem Source First Line: To hero nightly, wet and rather cold Last Line: He had in fact been drowned the night before Subject(s): Hero And Leander TARRY, DELIGHT, SO SELDOM MET, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The seas he swam from earth to earth %and he must swim again Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Hero And Leander THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 88. HERO'S LAMP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lamp thou fill'st in eros' name tonight Last Line: O brother, what brought love to them or thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Hero And Leander THE LAMP OF HERO, by LOUISE VICTORINE ACKERMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When hero's lover, reckless of the storm Last Line: To cheer our sinking souls! Alternate Author Name(s): Choquet, Louise Victorine Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Lamps; Mythology; Leander THE LAUREATE'S FIRST RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "say, is it song? -- well -- blow it" Last Line: And jingle to 'breath' with 'death' Subject(s): "austin, Alfred (1835-1913);jameson, Leander Starr (1853-1917); THE PIONEER'S FIELD, by RICHARD BECK Poem Text First Line: You walk a sacred ground, tread gently here Last Line: The fearless planter's worthy monument. Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Pioneers; Sacrifices; Leander TO DELIA: 38, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair and lovely maid, look from the shore Last Line: That thou be pleased, and I may sigh no more. Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Kisses; Love; Peace; Leander VISIT TO THE ART GALLERY, SELS., by CARLOS BAKER Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Museums; Paintings And Painters WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in the month of dark december Last Line: For he was drown'd, and I've the ague. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Sea; Travel; Leander; Ocean; Journeys; Trips |
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