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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GREEKS Matches Found: 208 A CLASSICAL CONTRAST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: I have (in bronze) a tiny / adventuress of greece Last Line: Of england or of greece! Subject(s): England; Greece; English; Greeks A DARK THING INSIDE THE DAY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many want to be lifted by song and dancing Subject(s): Greece; Greeks A FLOWER NO MORE THAN ITSELF, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was there on the mountain Subject(s): Greece; Greeks A GRECIAN THUNDER-STORM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thunder came not with one awful pulse Last Line: But with no pause; the fruit is victory. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Greece; Storms; Greeks A LEGEND, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day, long, long ago Last Line: Thus dionysus spoke. Subject(s): Greece; Kidnapping; Legends; Mythology; Punishment; Sea; Greeks; Ocean A SONG OF THERMOPYLAE (HERODOTUS), by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden days when there were other gods Last Line: And all thy golden visions sink. Subject(s): Greece; Leonidas, King Of Sparta (d. 480 B.c.); Thermopylae, Battle Of; War; Greeks A THEORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As thucydides said Last Line: "murdering Subject(s): Greece; History; Greeks; Historians ACROPOLIS, by CATHERINE PATRICK Poem Text First Line: Ancient pile, which sends from the past a Last Line: Vanish forever. Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Greece; Greeks ADULT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've come back to the country where I was happy Subject(s): Greece; Greeks AFTER GREECE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light into the olive entered Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ALMA IN ALL SEASONS, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has arms instead of breasts Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ALMA IN THE DARK, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She reaches over and puts a hand on his hipbone Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ALMA TO HER SISTER, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone no loneliness in the dream in the quiet Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ALONE WITH THE GODDESS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The young men ride their horses fast Last Line: On the wet beach at pangaritis Subject(s): Greece; Love; Seashore; Greeks AN ATHENIAN GARDEN, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The burned and dusty garden said Last Line: Looked after him thro' happy tears. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Greece; Greeks ANACREONTIC, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the tender myrtle-branches Last Line: "to the ""ai ai"" of the wailing." Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Adonis; Greece; Mythology - Classical; Greeks ANCIENT GREEK SONG OF EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the summer, with her golden sun? Last Line: -- far from my own bright land! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Greece; Greeks APHRODITE AND THE NATURE OF ART, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want a net made of iron to hold Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ARION, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arion, whose melodic soul Last Line: Like a pierced eagle fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Harps; Musical Instruments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Greeks; Lyres ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY; BEING THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, wave, and bark, bear euthukles and me Last Line: Accordingly I read the perfect piece. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY; BEING THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amphitruon. Zeus' couchmate, -- who of mortals knows me not Last Line: We have lost forevermore! Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY; BEING THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the long silence ended, -- our best friend Last Line: "glory to god -- who saves euripides!" Subject(s): Greece; Greeks AS BEING IS ETERNAL, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is sitting alone in the bright room Last Line: So vast an event, so much becoming Subject(s): Greece; Time; Greeks ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could have been mistaken for a married couple Subject(s): Greece; Greeks AT EPIDAURUS, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The islands which whisper to the ambitious Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips AT HOME, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Far is where I am near Subject(s): Greece; Loss; Greeks BALANCING EVERYTHING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I lie in bed thinking of those years, I often Subject(s): Greece; Greeks BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About that strangest, saddest, sweetest song Last Line: "sorrow, -- one reckoned faithful from the first." Subject(s): Greece; Greeks BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then their souls rose together, and one sigh Last Line: "did I mean this should buy my life?"" thought he." Subject(s): Greece; Greeks BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, friends came round him, took him by the hand Last Line: "many and true an ill thing shalt thou hear!" Subject(s): Greece; Greeks BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There you saw leap the hydra at full length! Last Line: Right-minded subjects kept them for their lord. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 5, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, he it was advancing! In he strode Last Line: Why crown whom zeus has crowned in soul before? Subject(s): Greece; Greeks BEST, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greeks said: never to be born is best Last Line: But the greeks were wrong: to live and love is best. Subject(s): Greece; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Greeks CHILDREN AMONG THE HILLS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamb was so skinny I thought it was a baby goat Subject(s): Greece; Greeks CHORUS OF GREEK GIRLS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We maidens are older than most sheep Last Line: "each call ""me." Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Girls; Greece; Greeks CHOSEN BY THE LION, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am the one chosen by the lion at sundown Last Line: And hearing me answer immediately, “yes!” Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Greeks CLASSICISM, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nights are very clear in greece Last Line: And have no feeling Subject(s): Greece; Greeks DECADENCE OF GREECE, 1830, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young tourist to the land whose hope has passed! Last Line: And mix the records of the plashing seas! Subject(s): Greece; Greeks DELPHI HUMORESQUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tree of agamemnon gives a shade Last Line: Then, kissing a dead leaf good-bye, is gone. Subject(s): Delphi; Greece; Castri; Greeks DISINTERMENT OF THE HERMES, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What forms divine in adamant fair Last Line: Sterile, with brimming hands. Subject(s): Archeology; Greece; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Greeks EACH THING MEASURED BY THE SAME SUN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to tell. Nothing to desire Subject(s): Greece; Greeks EMPEDOCLES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leaped. With none to hinder Last Line: If heels in air the last of him! Subject(s): Greece; Pessimism; Philosophy & Philosophers; Greeks EPIGRAM, by JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH WILLART DE GRECOURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greece, that produced a warrior host Last Line: Who, then, can count her fools? Subject(s): Greece; Greeks EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The female author who recites to-day Last Line: And the gray mare will prove the better horse. Subject(s): Friendship; Greece; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tragedy; Greeks EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have watched a thousand days Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Greeks; First World War ESTA, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of him overturning the tables of the money Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ETIOLOGY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cruelty made me. Cruelty and the sweet smelling earth Last Line: Was still warm. Heaven forbid that I should be saved Subject(s): Cruelty; Greeks EURIDICE SAVED, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am filled with all things seen / for the last time. He lays with me gently Last Line: We called nothing when we lived on the earth Subject(s): Love; Greeks EURYDICE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen Last Line: And was the way out for me, my love Subject(s): Greece; Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Love; Death; Grief; Greeks EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arouse thee, o greece! And remember the day Last Line: As the war-song of freedom that calls on the brave. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks FEMALE EDUCATION FOR GREECE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why break'st thou thus the tomb of ancient night Last Line: "give them the book of god?"" immortal shades! -- we will." Subject(s): Education; Greece; Women; Greeks FIGURES NEAR A BRIDGE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything formal / the man turns around Subject(s): Greece; Greeks FISH TEA RICE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is on the earth that all things transpire Last Line: In mud. Eating what is here. Fish, bread, tea, rice Subject(s): Nature; Greeks FISHING IN THE KEEP OF SILENCE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a hush now while the hills rise up Subject(s): Greece; Greeks FREE GREECE; AN ASPIRATION ON ACCESSION OF GEORGE OF DENMARK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now are we free to range thee, hill and plain Last Line: Which led the gods and muses off to rome. Subject(s): George I, King Of Greece (1845-1913); Greece; Greeks GNOSTICS ON TRIAL, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let us make the test. Say god wants you Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GRECIAN KINDNESS: A SONG, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The utmost grace the greeks could shew Last Line: Lulled her asleep, and then grew drunk. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Greece; Kindness; Greeks GRECIAN ODE, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Yes, yes, 'tis greece! Full many a fane Last Line: "yes, yes, -- 't is hellas, hellas still!" Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GRECIAN SUNSET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In perfect kingliness now reigns the sun Last Line: Of a victorious rest, he passes all alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Evening; Greece; Sunset; Twilight; Greeks GREECE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say: 'let there be no more war!' Last Line: Now prove it once again! Subject(s): Crete; Greco-turkish War (1897); Greece; Greeks GREECE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the pilgrim / goes with his eye fixed on his prophet's tomb Last Line: Till all is sweetly pale! Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GREECE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, nature's utmost boast! Unrivalled greece! Last Line: Of farthest crete resounds the libyan main. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GREECE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When life contracts into a vulgar span Last Line: Which on such golden memories can lean? Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GREECE: AN ASPIRATION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now we may roam along thy flowery dales Last Line: Which haunts thy ruins from the days of old! Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GREEK ARCHITECTURE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not magnitude, not lavishness Last Line: But reverence for the archetype. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Greece; Greeks GREEK FUNERAL CHANT, OR MYRIOLOGUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wail was heard around the bed, the deathbed of the young Last Line: "woe! That it smiles, and not for thee! -- my brother and my friend!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Greece; Burials; Greeks GREEK MASONRY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joints were none that mortar sealed Last Line: The blocks in symmetry congealed. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GREEK NEIGHBOR HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, by GERALD STERN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where he hung the bird feeder a month ago Subject(s): Greece; Home; Neighbors; Greeks GREEK SONG: 2. THE BOWL OF LIBERTY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the fiery sun Last Line: -- when shall we crown the bowl of liberty? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks GREEK SONG: 3. THE VOICE OF SCIO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from scio's isle Last Line: O'er the mid-waves of fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GREEK SONG: 5. THE URN AND SWORD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sought for treasures in the tomb Last Line: With freedom's sword, and valor's dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GREEK SONG: 6. THE MYRTLE BOUGH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still green, along our sunny shore Last Line: We still have sword and myrtle bough! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Greece; Greeks GREEK SPRING; MARCH, ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rainbows, rainbows! O fantastic vision Last Line: Or is it the snows again? Subject(s): Greece; Hope; Rainbows; Spring; Winter; Greeks; Optimism HEATHEN GREECE; A SONG, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the islands of the blest? Last Line: The pale-cliff'd albion. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks HECUBA: THE SACRIFICE OF POLYXENA, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see thee, how beneath thy robe, o king Last Line: "of women in thy daughter, most undone!" Subject(s): Greece; Tragedy; Greeks HELLAS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of bards and heroes, hail Last Line: Freedom's last, best hope is here! Subject(s): Greece; Greeks HELLAS; A LYRICAL DRAMA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the day when all the sons of god Last Line: Oh, might it die or rest at last! Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks HEPHAESTUS ALONE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His heart is like a boat that sets forth alone Subject(s): Greece; Greeks HISTORY, by DOROTHY E. REID Poem Text First Line: When xerxes beat the sea with rods Last Line: Uncertain if to shake -- or kiss. Subject(s): Greece; History; Greeks; Historians HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou chronicle of crimes! I read no Last Line: As sidney in his hall of bliss may love. Subject(s): Greece; History; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Greeks; Historians HYALI, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Island in blue of summer floating on Last Line: And like thy rocks shall down through time endure. Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Greece; Islands; Greeks I THOUGHT ON HIS DESIRE FOR THREE DAYS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chose this man, consciously, deliberately Subject(s): Greece; Greeks IN A GREEK GARDEN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have known it all before, in some far dream Last Line: That soon must fall and fade and be no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Artemis; Greece; Mythology - Classical; Greeks IN ARCADIA, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By divination came the dorians Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ISRAEL AND HELLAS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes wonder of the grecian men Last Line: From its great secular heart the readier current drew. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Greece; Jews; Greeks; Judaism IT IS THE RISING I LOVE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as I struggle to float above the ground Subject(s): Greece; Greeks IXION, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the dome, suspended, of hell, sad triumph, behold us! Last Line: Thither I rise, whilst thou -- zeus, keep the godship and sink! Subject(s): Ixion (mythology); Greece; Greeks KEPT BURNING AND DISTANT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You return when you feel like it / like rain. And like rain you are tender Subject(s): Greece; Greeks KYRENAIKOS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me where soft cyrene rambles down Last Line: Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks LESSENING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without even looking in the album Subject(s): Greece; Greeks LET BIRDS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight deer on the slope Subject(s): Greece; Greeks LETTER TO SICILIAN VINEDRESSER SENT FROM EGYPT WITH ... ROBE OF TISSUE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out to sea, if wine thou wouldest make Last Line: Like a stripped child fain in the sea to dip. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Greece; Greeks LIBERTY: PART 2. GREECE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spoke the goddess of the fearless eye Last Line: "till the whole state unnerved in slavery sinks." Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women; Urban Life; Greeks LOOKING FOR EACH OF US, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I open the box of my favorite postcards Subject(s): Greece; Greeks MAGDALEN, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sword, whose blade has ne'er been wet Last Line: The loved, the lovely magdalen. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Greece; Love - Complaints; Soldiers; Greeks MARATHON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern marathon! The mountains view thee yet Last Line: For those who perished therebut not in vain! Subject(s): Death; Greece; Marathon, Greece; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Greeks MARRIAGE AND MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has been a long time now Subject(s): Greece; Greeks MAYBE LEAVE-TAKING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds eat the pansies as soon as they open Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ME AND ALMA, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time holds us together with a strong hand Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ME AND APHRODITE AND THE OTHER, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She doesn't move and she is stronger that I am Subject(s): Greece; Greeks MEDEA, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it, then, done? Last Line: Falls.] Subject(s): Greece; Mothers; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Greeks MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians MODERN GREECE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Who hath trod thy consecrated clime Last Line: "and cry, ""this ancient soil hath nursed a glorious race!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Greece; Greeks MODERN GREECE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, in the legend which our childhood loved Last Line: As all the spirit of nations has not known. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Greece; Greeks MOMENT IN MARBLE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I am a figure on the grecian urn Last Line: How fares my kettle and my unlocked door. Subject(s): Greece; Pottery And Potters; Greeks NEAR KEOKUK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty-two greeks are dipping their feet in a creek Last Line: And then the deep sleep of children. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks NEMEA, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song in the valley of nemea Subject(s): Greece; Greeks NEW ODE TO A GRECIAN URN, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! How sad that simple truth Last Line: I read the tale of how lhkqion apwlesen! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Elgin Marbles; Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Greeks NIGHT MUSIC, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She sits on the mountain that is her home Subject(s): Greece; Greeks NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 5. VOICE OF AN ENGLISH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: South!...These stars I know!...And south is greece! Last Line: That hide but do not hush the river's brink. . . . Subject(s): Death; Greece; Hearts; Sleep; Stars; Dead, The; Greeks NO MORE MARRIAGES, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, there ain't going to be no more marriages Last Line: They're never going to do that to me Subject(s): Marriage; Greeks NOT A PRETTY BIRD, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was not a nightingale Subject(s): Greece; Greeks NOT SAYING MUCH, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is dead and there is nothing left Subject(s): Greece; Greeks OAK AND OLIVE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I was born a londoner Last Line: One of the englishmen! Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips ODE TO THE GLORY OF GREECE (A FRAGMENT), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hellas victorious Subject(s): Greece; Greeks OEDIPUS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sophocles could undertake alone Last Line: To please you more, but burning of a pope. Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Greeks; Dramatists OEDIPUS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When athens all the grecian state did guide Last Line: The first play bury'd since the wollen act. Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Greeks; Dramatists OFFICIAL LOVE STORY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a painting by lucas cranach Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere! Last Line: For a robin's song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks ON ITHACA STANDING, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tread softly, for here you stand Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ON RETURN TO GREECE IN 1842, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years ago I deemed that if once more Last Line: Conferred or cultured by a friend or foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Greece; Greeks ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hearest thou not the pipe of faunus, sweeping Last Line: By music and enchantment all surrounded. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Greece; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Statues; Greeks ORDINARY SONGS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull with pneumonia, wrapped on the porch Last Line: On the shard a reclining naked woman kissed by a god Subject(s): Sea; Absence; Greece; Greeks OSCHOPHORIKON; VINTAGE PROCESSIONAL, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The staffs are wreathed; move on, move on Last Line: From athens into phaleron. Subject(s): Autumn; Bacchus; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Greeks PAESTUM, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around a lemon tree throwing Last Line: Steps down, is whole there, and stands Subject(s): Greece; Nature; Greeks PARRHASIUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood an unsold captive in the mart Last Line: We! Subject(s): Greece; Paintings & Painters; Parrhasius (5th Century); Tragedy; Greeks PART OF ME WANTING EVERYTHING TO LIVE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This new england kind of love reminds me Subject(s): Greece; Greeks PAST PERFECT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory is what has died Subject(s): Greece; Greeks PELASGIAN AND CYCLOPEAN HILLS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye cliffs of masonry, enormous piles Last Line: And thus these mighty things were made to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Greece; Greeks PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 6. THE GODS OF GREECE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full-blossoming moon! In thy fair light Last Line: The stars all-eternal. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks PINDAR AND CORINNA; FOR CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Corinna, hail the victress! Evoae!' Last Line: Ethereal touched his soul awake with smiles. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Greece; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Greeks; Male-female Relations PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What greece, when learning flourished, only knew Last Line: But 'tis your suffrage makes authentique wit. Subject(s): Greece; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Greeks; Dramatists PROLOGUE: SPOKEN BY LORD BUCKHURST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pish, lord, I wish this prologue was but greek Last Line: Not cleomenes' more than dorset's spirit. Subject(s): Greece; Heroism; Soul; Greeks; Heroes; Heroines PROTOGENES AND APELLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poets wrote, and painters drew Last Line: That all was full, and round, and fair. Subject(s): Greece; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Venus (goddess); Greeks REMEMBRANCE: GREEK FOLK-SONG, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not unto the forest - not unto the forest, o my lover! Last Line: There is memory in the forest. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Forests; Greece; Honor; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Woods; Greeks RHODIAN SWALLOW-SONG, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has come, she has come, the swallow! Last Line: Open, open your door to the swallow! Subject(s): Greece; Guests; Swallows; Greeks; Visiting SALVINE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead is old greece,' they mourned ere yet arose Last Line: The myth of jove took rise from lesser majesty. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks SHE HAD EXPECTED SOMETHING ELSE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love aroused her like a heifer Subject(s): Greece; Greeks SHIP NEWS, by A-N Poem Text First Line: Piraeus - salamis - what sails are these Last Line: Piraeus . . . Salamis . . . They are lost between . . . Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Greece; Shipwrecks; Greeks SKYLORD, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small hawk flutters fiercely upright Subject(s): Greece; Greeks SONG OF THE CROW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lords and ladies, for your ear" Last Line: "and your crow, as in duty most bounden, shall pray" Subject(s): Birds;crows;greece; Greeks SONNET, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still, the hanging gardens were a dream Last Line: And error loves and nourishes thy soul. Variant Title(s): "be Still. The Hanging Gardens Were A Dream""; Subject(s): Greece; Greeks SONNETS FROM GREECE: MT. LYKAION, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone on lykaion since man hath been Subject(s): Greece; Lykaion, Mount; Greeks; Lycaeus SONNETS FROM GREECE: NEAR HELIKON, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By such an all-embalming summer day Subject(s): Greece; Greeks SUGGESTED BY THE RUINS OF A MOUNTAIN-TEMPLE IN ARCADIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like stranded ice when freshets die Last Line: The quarries be! Subject(s): Greece; Ruins; Temples; Greeks; Mosques SURROUNDED BY SHEEP AND LOW GROUND, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When death comes, we take off our clothes Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE APPARENT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I say transparency, I don't mean seeing through Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE ARCHIPELAGO, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sail before the morning breeze Last Line: Marquesas! Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Greece; Greeks THE BRIDE OF THE GREEK ISLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come from the woods with the citron-flowers Last Line: In the sudden flow of a plaintive lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brides; Greece; Women; Greeks THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In our museum galleries Last Line: Thine also, mighty nineveh? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Bulls; Greece; Greeks THE CLAPPING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did I go there enough? Was it enough when I tried Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE EDGE OF SOMETHING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have decided I will not be like john hu anymore Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpets of the four winds of the world Last Line: Hasten thine hour and halt not, till thy work be done. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Light; Revolutions; War; Liberty; Greeks THE GARDEN OF METRODORUS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The athenians mark the moss-grown gate Last Line: Which noteless thus apart can keep its dell? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Greece; Greeks THE GIRL I CALL ALMA, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The girl I call alma who is so white Last Line: And that it's the others who scar me, not you Subject(s): Women; Greeks THE GRECIAN GIRL'S DREAM OF THE BLESSED ISLANDS; TO HER LOVER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Was it the moon, or was it morning's ray Last Line: Thy lip shall teach me something more than dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE GREEK BOY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are the glorious greeks of old Last Line: The nations silent in its shade. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE GREEK EMIGRANTS SONG, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now launch the boat upon the wave Last Line: And free the man, and free the mind. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Immigrants; Liberty; Greeks; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GREEK FATHERS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let heathen sing thy heathen praise Last Line: With paul's own mantle blest. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE GREEK PARTISAN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our free flag is dancing Last Line: Like autumn sheaves are lying. Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks THE GREEKS' RETURN FROM BATTLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! They come, they come! Last Line: Io! They come, they come! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): Ancient Song Of Victory Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE HOMECOMING OF THE SHEEP, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep are coming home in greece Last Line: And the climbing moon grows small. Subject(s): Greece; Sheep; World War I; Greeks; First World War THE ISLANDS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the islands to me Last Line: What is greece? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Greeks THE ISLANDS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can love of land give to me Last Line: And delos, the clasp of the white necklace? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can love of land give to me Last Line: And fall back. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What has love of land given to you' Last Line: "and they answered -- ""peace." Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But beauty is set apart Last Line: And from greece. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the islands to me Last Line: And its bleak sacrifice? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Greeks THE ISLES OF GREECE; AN APPEAL FOR THE CANDIOTES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The isles of greece! The isles of greece!' Last Line: The oppressed, the trampled to deliver! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE LAMB, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was a picture I had after the war Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE LANDING OF KING GEORGE I OF GREECE AT THE PIRAEUS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature and man should join with one accord Last Line: For what her mighty hand, unfolding, gave! Subject(s): George I, King Of Greece (1845-1913); Greece; Greeks THE LAST NIGHT IN MITHYMNA, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind heaving in the trees / my room quiet and warm Last Line: And swells again. Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE LETTER, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not feeling strong yet, but I am taking Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE LOST BELLS OF HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helpless, the one and then the other Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MUCHNESS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She went back / knowing the way in her marrow Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE NEW APHRODITE, by WILLIAM PETERFIELD TRENT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the deep sea - stream Last Line: Daughter of god. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks THE PART LEFT OVER, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's as though I were an event Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE PARTING SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A youth went forth to exile, from a home Last Line: "murmuring, ""return, my son!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Greece; Parting; Greeks THE PROFESSOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seven pupils, in the class" Last Line: "three are benches, four are walls." Subject(s): Boredom;greece;schools; Ennui;greeks;students THE RESURRECTION, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the tower in your city burn. Let the steps Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veteran greeks came home Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey THE SECRETS OF POETRY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very long ago when the exquisite celadon bowl Last Line: More perfect. Which turned out to be true Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE SENATE OF CALLIMACHI, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In callimachi's halls are met Last Line: "the gathering word, ""unite! Unite!" Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE SHADE OF THESUEUS; AN ANCIENT GREEK TRADITION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know ye not when our dead Last Line: And spears on marathon. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE SHOPPING BAG LADY, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lady Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Urban Life; Greeks THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS, AT ATHENS, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not silent! - oracles are thine Last Line: And a new iphitus has waked, beneath its string! Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE VINE AND THE GOAT, by EVENUS Poem Text First Line: Although you eat me to the root Last Line: When you are made a sacrifice. Subject(s): Greece; Sacrifices; Greeks THE WEIGHT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Two horses were put together in the same paddock Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THE WHITE BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago apollo called to aristaeus Last Line: Joy and pain of seeking, -- and at last we sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Bees; Greece; Insects; Paganism & Pagans; Beekeeping; Greeks; Bugs THERMOPYLAE, by EMMA E. GRIMES Poem Text First Line: Behold how greece, the ancient, stood Last Line: When time's fleet course is run! Subject(s): Greece; Thermopylae, Battle Of; War; Greeks THESE PRINTED WORDS ARE A PLACE, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These marks on paper tell of places within Subject(s): Greece; Greeks THOSE WHO COME AFTER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will never say of us: / what wonderful myths they had Last Line: Endlessly nibbled and gnawed Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Explorers; Greece; Mythology; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Greeks TO A GREEK GEM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it the signet of an antonine Last Line: Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon. Subject(s): Beauty; Greece; Jewelry & Jewelers; Time; Greeks TO A TRAVELLER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: After many a dusty mile Last Line: It is pan that counsels you Variant Title(s): "wanderer, Linger Here Awhile; Subject(s): Greece;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Greeks;journeys;trips TO AN IONIAN BOY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boy of mitylene! Thou Last Line: Fairer than hath fallen to me! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Greece; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Greeks TO E. L., ON HIS TRAVELS IN GREECE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls Last Line: And fluted to the morning sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Greece; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Greeks TO JULIA MARLOWE (READING KEATS' ODE ON A GRECIAN URN), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I loved this 'attic shape,'the brede Last Line: The empty urn was filled with chian wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Marlowe, Julia (1866-1950); Poetry & Poets; Greeks TOGETHER IN GREECE, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting on the steps of the cinema Last Line: I went to him, with that singing in me Subject(s): Greece; Jealousy; Greeks TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AS THE GREEKS DREAMED, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the loose hot sands at foot of the cliffs Last Line: With nature may either know or understand the other. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks TWO TOWNS, by RALPH LINTON Poem Text First Line: There was a mighty city Last Line: Your fate is in their hands. Subject(s): Crete; Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Troy; Ulysses; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus VIA DOLOROSA: 6. PSYCHAGOGOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As greece of old acclaimed thee god and man Last Line: Nought, when we would have given: thou bidst him live. Subject(s): Death; Greece; Rome, Italy; Dead, The; Greeks VILLANELLE OF CHANGE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since persia fell at marathon Last Line: Long centuries have come and gone. Subject(s): Change; Greece; Greeks VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The courteous citizen bad me to his feast Last Line: One dish shall serue, and welcomes make the rest. Variant Title(s): Hollow Hospitality Subject(s): Feasts; Greece; Greeks WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if the world is taken from me? Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece; Agriculture; Farmers; Greeks WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lives there a man with soul so dead Last Line: Whatever is, is right! Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Greece; Soul; Greeks WHOLE AND WITHOUT BLESSING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is beautiful alters, has undertow Subject(s): Greece; Greeks |
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