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Subject: GREEK LANGUAGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HANDBOOK TO HOMER, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poluphloisboisterous homer of old
Last Line: That is the homer for college and school!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Greek Language; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey


GREEK BANISHED FROM THE SCHOOLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm speech of sophocles, ethereal clear
Last Line: Through dog's-eared pages on a hopeless quest.
Subject(s): Greek Language; Schools; Students


HOPE, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What saves us begins
Last Line: In which going and coming are the same word
Subject(s): Greek Language


HOPE, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What saves us begins
Last Line: Like ancient greek a difficult language %in which going and coming are the same word
Subject(s): Greek Language


IOTA SUBSCRIPT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seek not in me the big I capital
Last Line: But upsilon which is the greek for you
Subject(s): Greek Language


IOTA SUBSCRIPT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seek not in me the big I capital
Last Line: But upsilon which is the greek for you
Subject(s): Greek Language


MODERN GREEK 101, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These phrases, once lodged in your memory,
Subject(s): Greek Language


ON THE GREEK SCHOLAR GOTTFRIED HERMANN, by RICHARD PORSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The germans in greek
Last Line: And hermann's a german.
Subject(s): Greek Language; Hermann, Gottfried (1772-1848)


ORTHODOXIES 26, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She can not cover the sadness of her silver wings, the
Last Line: How to cross herself efficiently with index and third fingers
Subject(s): Farewell; Greek Language


PROLOGUE DESIGNED FOR THE PLAY OF OEDIPUS, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today before a learn'd audience comes
Last Line: The d-----l a word I'll have just now in greek.
Subject(s): Greek Language


ROMAIOS, by WILLAM GAY BALLANTINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas in the crowded avenue; o'erhead
Last Line: To shine resplendent in thy future's crown!
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Greek Language; New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE CHAUTAUQUAN MAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She had studied every ology
Last Line: But they got themselves in trouble, and, of course, got whipped, by gaul.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); England; Geology; Greek Language; Latin; Philology; English


THE GREEK QUARTER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cryptic letters of the golden tongue
Last Line: The blue Ægean sparkling in the day.
Subject(s): Coffee Houses; Greek Language; Immigrants; New York City; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple