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Subject: CARTHAGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PAINTING OF DIDO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on dido's famous image, friend, you stare"
Last Line: Levelling his lies against my self-restraint
Subject(s): Carthage;dido


CARTHAGE, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sow it with salt where men went to and fro
Subject(s): Carthage


EPIGRAM: 45, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dido am I, the founder first of carthage
Last Line: And now with lies my shame she doth report.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Carthage; Death; Fortune; Love; Dead, The


EPIGRAM: 9, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of carthage he, that worthy warrior
Last Line: At monzon thus I restless rest in spain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 81
Subject(s): Carthage; Pain; Peace; Spain; War; Suffering; Misery


MARIUS AMONG THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas noon - and afric's dazzling sun on high
Last Line: "marius, the exile, rest where carthage once hath been!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Carthage; Exiles; Marius, Gaius (157-86 B.c.)


MARIUS AT THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He turn'd him from the setting sun
Last Line: And then went forth to war again!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Carthage; Marius, Gaius (157-86 B.c.); Roman Empire; War


PUNICA: HANNIBAL'S PASSAGE OF THE ALPS, by TIBERIUS CATIUS ASCONIUS SILIUS ITALICUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: But now, the o'erhanging alps ... Near
Subject(s): Alps; Hannibal (247-183 B.c.); Mountains; Punic Wars (carthage And Rome)


PUNICA: JUNO CHOOSES TO OPPOSE ROME, by TIBERIUS CATIUS ASCONIUS SILIUS ITALICUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again she arms prepares: one captain may
Last Line: To wag, and beat with rage the empty air
Subject(s): Hannibal (247-183 B.c.); Punic Wars (carthage And Rome)


THE WIFE OF ASDRUBAL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun sets brightly - but a ruddier glow
Last Line: Then deep 'midst rolling flames is lost to mortal eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Carthage; Treason & Traitors