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Subject: CAESAR, JULIUS (100-44 B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF JULIUS CAESAR, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dreamy day; a gentle western breeze
Last Line: The fairy hosts of silvery light might shed.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


A ROMAN SENATOR, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Caesar, on the stones of the deserted hall
Last Line: "I vote to give the imperial crown to cæsar!"
Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Roman Empire


AFTER CONSTRUING, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord caesar, when you sternly wrote
Last Line: Of all you dared to do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dug a square hole
Last Line: And melilot.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


CAESAR, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have sung the greek. The roman
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


CAESAR, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caesar, serene caesar, your foot on all
Last Line: Not knowing what thunder collects in the center of caesar
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


CAESAR, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caesar, serene caesar, your foot on all
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); War


CAESAR AND CHRIST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Proud caesar came in strength of steel
Last Line: And he lives.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Evil; Good; Jesus Christ; War; Dead, The


CAESAR REMEMBERS, by WILLIAM KEAN SEYMOUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caesar, that proud man
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


CAESAR'S LOST TRANSPORT SHIPS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some fell away to westward with the wind
Last Line: And overhead the petrel wafted wide.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Disasters; Shipwrecks


CAESAR, SELS., by THOMAS CAULFIELD IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the dim museum room
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


DE COENATIONE MICAE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look round. You see a little supper room
Last Line: Bid you be merry and remember death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Dead, The


DE ROSIS HIBERNIS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ambitious nile, thy banks deplore
Last Line: They cease to marvel at their own.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Egypt; Nile (river)


DIADUMINIUS, by PIERRE BENOIT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mournful majesty of human greatness
Last Line: In the old house to which one will return.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Monuments


DIRE: 8. A CHOICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faith is the spirit that makes man's body and blood
Last Line: Kill the beast faith that lives on its own dung.
Subject(s): Brutus (marcus Junius Brutus); Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Faith; Nations; Belief; Creed


IN PARIS, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood in paris at the tomb
Last Line: A caesar, from the caesars' home.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


JULIUS CAESAR, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou demi-god of rome, whose fame
Last Line: The act to which the dream is wrought.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


JULIUS CAESAR AND THE HONEY-BEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poring on caesar's death with earnest eye
Last Line: I might have set the honey-maker free.
Subject(s): Bees; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


JULIUS CAESAR, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courage; Death; Religion


MORS LEONIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When o'er the aged lion steals
Last Line: Yet hast thou perished like a king!
Subject(s): Animals; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Earth; Lions; Sleep; Dead, The; World


MYSTERIES OF CAESAR, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Known to the boys in his latin class as 'sir,'
Last Line: Which is the pitiless bliss of solitude
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Schools; Translating And Interpreting


PHARSALIA: POMPEY COMPARED WITH CAESAR, by LUCAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor came the rivals equal to the field
Last Line: And saw the ruin with rejoicing eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Pompey The Great (106-48 B.c.)


PROLOGUE OF LABERIUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whither hath destiny (whose current strong)
Last Line: Save the poor legend of a tomb -- my name
Subject(s): "caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.);fate;roman Empire;" Destiny


REVERSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes it is surely true
Last Line: Wish that the holidays came sooner!
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Flowers; Geraniums; Graves; Love; Sin; Tombs; Tombstones


RIDER AT THE GATE, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A windy night was blowing on rome
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


ROMAN GLASS, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even in the latter, raveling days of the republic, the romans clung archaically
Last Line: Even should the subject prove, the entire time, to have been lost
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Roman Empire


SAVONAROLA BURNING, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And there are no more emperors in rome
Last Line: Each time a monk believes in liberty!
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Grief; Peace; Rome, Italy; War; Sorrow; Sadness


THE KING, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sham, who sittest boldly on the throne
Last Line: "its tardy homage and all cry, ""the king!"
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Mansions; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE LADS OF LIEGE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lads of liege, beyond our eyes
Last Line: Fortissimi sunt belgæ!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Liege, Battle Of (1914); War


THE MYSTERIES OF CAESAR, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Known to the boys in his latin class as 'sir,'
Last Line: Which is the pitiless bliss of solitude
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Schools; Translating & Interpreting; Students


THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Six young men of caesar's household
Last Line: Led them unto paradise.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Religion; Sleep; Theology


THE SONG OF THE MANY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We broke the yoke of the aryan kings
Last Line: We are the many and wear not the chain.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE VOICES OF ROME, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, from the tower of the capitol, looking abroad
Last Line: To build an everlasting state.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Past; Roman Empire; Voices


TO A PERSON TALKING OF 'REAL LIFE', by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so you really hold
Last Line: Go -- find a girl -- and see!
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Fate; Jesus Christ; Life; Stars; Destiny


TO CATULLUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother, my valerius, dearest head
Last Line: My brother?
Subject(s): Brothers; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Rome, Italy; Roundels; Half-brothers


TRAGEDY OF CAESAR AND POMPEY, SELS., by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634)            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.)


WHICH KING?, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have no king but caesar,' answered they
Last Line: That christ is king, that he alone shall reign?
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


WONDERFUL MEN (TO MY MOTHER), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Truly a wonderful man was caius julius caesar
Last Line: Passed, as they all will pass, who have no throne for woman.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Poetry & Poets