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Subject: LEGENDS, GREEK
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MELAMPUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With love exceeding a simple love of the
Last Line: That glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck.
Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Muses; Mythology; Nature


SANTORIN (A LEGEND OF THE AEGEAN), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you, sea lady
Last Line: And the sea was only sea.
Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Santorini Island, Greece


THE BALLAD OF ZACHO (A GREEK LEGEND), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zacho the king rode out of old
Last Line: "the cords, their golden hair."
Subject(s): Legends, Greek


THE LAST SONG OF ARION, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look not upon me thus impatiently
Last Line: Farewell to light,—to life,—to love,—to thee.
Subject(s): Arion (7th Century B.c.); Dolphins; Homecoming; Legends, Greek; Porpoises