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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ATHENS, GREECE Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRIZE FOR EURIPIDES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In athens of old when the women wailed of war Last Line: Sorrow and pity and love, across the years! Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Love; Sun; Tears A VOICE FROM ACADEME, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over this azure poplar glade Last Line: Like that white globe beyond the leaves! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Athens, Greece ACADEME, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the day the gleaming dawn doth flee Last Line: Hath risen the noon, and thou wert in thy prime. Subject(s): Athens, Greece ACADEME, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasanter than the hills of thessaly Last Line: And death a happy ending. Subject(s): Athens, Greece ALTERED CONDITION OF ATHENS, by EUPOLIS Poem Text First Line: It grieves me to behold the commonwealth Last Line: Installed prime rogue and minister of state. Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nymph of the rain Last Line: With thunders of the scenic muse. Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by LYDIA AVLONITI Poem Source First Line: Here the dreams Last Line: Eternity and greece Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by NICHOLAS MICHELL Poem Text First Line: O land of solon, plato, and of men Last Line: And but with time's last hour thy fame depart. Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by STUART MITCHNER Poem Source First Line: At the small hotel off veranzerou Last Line: The day man %just died in Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O shining and wreathed in violets, city of singing Last Line: Citadel full of divinity Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desolate athens! Though thy gods are fled Last Line: Age kneels to moralize, and youth to weep! Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, I stand / here on this brow's crown of the city's head Last Line: Should men say, here was athens. Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of softer genius, but not less intent Last Line: As with an anchor fixed the driving state. Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dimmed eye of greece, sad city of great dead Last Line: Yea, mourn thy faded might with venerating ruth. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS (2), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun, that hast lightened and loosed by thy might Last Line: Athens, a praise without end. Subject(s): Athens, Greece ATHENS: ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere from under earth again like fire the violet kindle Last Line: These alone have part in spirit with the sun that crowns the sea. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 2, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven! - but thou, alas Last Line: And with the ills of eld mine earlier years alloy'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Homesickness; Travel CHORUS TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS: 1. OF ATHENIANS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought Last Line: Some athens perishes, some tully bleeds. Subject(s): Athens, Greece FEBRILE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Trehalose, my god, trehalose Last Line: That claim to be the athens of somewhere Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Courts And Courtiers INCOGNITA IN THE TEMPLE OF THESEUS, by SEYMOUR GREEN WHEELER BENJAMIN Poem Text First Line: At athens dwells the woman who hath bound Last Line: The subtle thrall that made me hers forever. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Theseus ION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Come hark to the story of ion Last Line: And justice will find a way. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Legends LINES [WRITTEN] IN THE TRAVELLER'S BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fair albion, smiling, sees her son depart" Last Line: "he comes to athens, and he writes his name" Subject(s): "athens, Greece; LINES [WRITTEN] IN THE TRAVELLER'S BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The modest bard, like many a bard unknown Last Line: His name would bring more credit than his verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Written In The Travellers Book Of The Macri Family At Athens Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Poetry & Poets MARS HILL, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where wild fancy wondrous fictions drew Last Line: And knew the hour must come, -- but was not yet. Subject(s): Athens, Greece MEDEA IN ATHENS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, is he? Yes, our stranger guest said dead Last Line: By which none weeps. I have forgotten thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Medea (mythology); Mythology METAPHOR, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a trip, the first morning I saw it Subject(s): Athens, Greece MODERN ATHENS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If fate, though jealous of the second birth Last Line: The awful skeleton of ancient days! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Athens, Greece ON THE TOMB OF THEMISTOCLES, by PLATO COMICUS Poem Text First Line: By the sea's margin, on the watery strand Last Line: Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Plato The Comic Subject(s): Piraeus, Port Of Athens, Greece; Themistocles (524-460 B.c.) PAN, by FERNAND MAZADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pan, as he came toward pheidippides Last Line: Pan whirled of a sudden and cut mad capers. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) PAUL IN ATHENS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard a stranger, crito -- such a man! Last Line: A prudent man, our governor, and wise. Subject(s): Athens, Greece PROCESSIONAL FOR DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, by HERMOCLES Poem Text First Line: See how the mightiest gods, and best-beloved Last Line: Or to stone will charm him. Variant Title(s): Demeterius Enters Athens Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Heroism; Parades; Heroes; Heroines SOLON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eye Last Line: To make the plagues afflicting us things past. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Tyranny & Tyrants THE ACHARNIANS: IN PRAISE OF THE POET, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since first to exhibit his plays began Last Line: But teachings the things that are best. Variant Title(s): Aristophane's Defence [or, The Poet And The People] Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism THE CAPTURE OF ATHENS, by ORACLE Poem Text First Line: Now hath the cast been made, and the net wide-spread is awaiting Last Line: Tunnies come with the night, slipping on through the moon-lit water. Subject(s): Athens, Greece THE CONCENTRATION OF ATHENS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we wonder that from such small space Last Line: Was as a father's counsel to his son. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Athens, Greece THE POET'S TITLES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy euterpe teaches me to hate Last Line: And athens' fame. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy THE PROTECTRESS OF ATHENS, by SOLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our city, by the immortal gods' intent Last Line: Pallas of athens shields us with her arm. Subject(s): Athens, Greece THE STATUE OF VICTOR HUGO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since in athens god stood plain for adoration Last Line: What the vesture of his soul revealed on earth. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Sea; Ocean THE UNKNOWN GOD, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To learned athens, led by fame Last Line: Ah! Still that altar stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): God; Athens, Greece THE WOODEN WALLS OF ATHENS, by DELPHIC ORACLE Poem Text First Line: Vainly doth pallas strive to appease great zeus of olympus Last Line: Thou shalt destroy one day, in the season of seed-time or harvest. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Walls TO ATHENS, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shed o'er our choir, olympian dominations Last Line: Echoes and circlet-crowned semele's glory. Subject(s): Athens, Greece |
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