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Subject: PERSIAN WARS
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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


PERSIAN VERSION, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truth-loving persians do not dwell upon
Last Line: Despite a strong defence and adverse weather %all arms combined magnificently together
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece; Persian Wars


PHEIDIPPIDES, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First I salute this soil of the blessed, river and rock!
Last Line: "athens is saved!"" -- pheidippides dies in the shout for his meed."
Subject(s): Persian Wars; Pheidippides (5th Century B.c.)


THE BATTLE OF MARATHON, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The war of greece with persia's haughty king
Last Line: Fill all the seas, and thunder thro' the skies.
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece; Persian Wars


THE PERSIAN VERSION, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truth-loving persians do not dwell upon
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece; Persian Wars


THE PERSIANS (PERSAE): SALAMIS - MESSENGER, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Princess, the first beginner of all the woes
Last Line: Perished so vast a multitude of men.
Subject(s): Persian Wars; Salamis (island), Greece


THE PERSIANS (PERSAE): XERXES DEFEATED, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This earth, this asia, wide as east from west
Last Line: With the blood of persia's noble dead.
Subject(s): Persian Wars