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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PERSIAN WARS Matches Found: 7 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 |
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