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Subject: GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1821-1832)
Matches Found: 11

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANTONIO MELIDORI; DRAMATIC SKETCH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why comes he not? Here on this emerald sward
Last Line: [he dies.]
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832)


APOSTROPOHE TO GREECE; FROM THE PARTHENON, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O land of sage and stoic
Last Line: Bright with the light serene of immortality.
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832)


LAST STOP, by GEORGE SEFERIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Few are the moonlit nights that I've cared for
Last Line: Heroes move forward in the dark. %few are the moonlit nights that I care for
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832)


LIBERTY TO ATHENS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flag of freedom floats once more
Last Line: And freedom is their only lord.
Subject(s): Freedom; Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Liberty


MARCO BOZZARIS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At midnight, in his guarded tent
Last Line: That were not born to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Botsaris, Markos (1788-1823); Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Plataea, Greece; Bozzari, Marco; Botzaris, Markos; Laspi


SONG OF THE GREEKS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again to the battle, achaians!
Last Line: Shall have crimsoned the beaks of our ravens!
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); War


STRATIS THALASSINOS AMONG THE AGAPANTHI, by GEORGE SEFERIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are no asphodels, violets or hyacinths
Last Line: On the blackened ridge of psara
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832)


THE GREEK STRUGGLE, by JAMES GORDON BROOKS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! A morning had dawned on the midnight which slept
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832)


THE MASACRE AT SCIO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not for scio's children slain
Last Line: Is shivered, to be worn no more.
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Chios (island), Greece; Massacres


TO THE SACRED BATTALION, by ANDREAS CALVOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: May rain clouds never burst
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832)


WOMEN OF SULI, by THEONI DRACOPOULU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah! You who wakened in my child's soul
Last Line: But on the peak there blooms a single lily to honor %the last suli woman, foam of your fragrance
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Women