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Subject: SOUNION (CAPE), GREECE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` SONNETS FROM GREECE: SUNIUM, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the strings of the aegean lyre
Last Line: The sun that harps them with his golden hand %doth slowly with his hand of gold consume
Subject(s): Greece; Sounion (cape), Greece


SUNIUM, by NICHOLAS MICHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: High o'er the billows sunium glances now
Last Line: Which glory owns and gods protect no more.
Subject(s): Sounion (cape), Greece; Colonna; Sunium


THE SUNIAN PALLAS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By sunian's rock I took my way
Last Line: "go, fight, and win the conqueror's rest."
Subject(s): Sounion (cape), Greece; Colonna; Sunium