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Subject: GREEKS
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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 there—but 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