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| Searching... Subject: HELEN OF TROY Matches Found: 57 A BOOK OF AIRS: WHEN THOU MUST HOME, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou must home to shades of underground Last Line: Then tell, oh tell, how thou didst murther me. Variant Title(s): A Book Of Airs: Song;among The Shades;conjuration;to Shades Of Underground;vobiscum Est Iope;carmina Ii. 28 (imitated From);elegies 2, 28 Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Love; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Bereavement A MASQUE OF DEAD QUEENS, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Queens parade down avenues of memory Last Line: Remains to be said -- ! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Ghosts; Helen Of Troy; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Supernatural; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A WORM FED ON THE HEART OF CORINTH, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: More amorous than solomon Subject(s): British Empire; World War I; Prophecy & Prophets; Helen Of Troy AGAMEMNON: CHORUS SING THE DOOM OF HELEN, by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who was it named her thus Last Line: Dark angel dowered with tears Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical AGAMEMNON: HELEN, TROY'S DOOM, by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So I would say there came Last Line: A child that is like its parents Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical AMERICAN GIRL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a new poem for helen Last Line: A green flower from a green stem. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Exorcism; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Songs DESTROYER OF SHIPS, MEN, CITIES, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helen of troy has sprung from hell Last Line: And live dissatisfied. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical FAUST BOOK: DESIRES TO HAVE AS HIS PARAMOUR HELEN OF TROY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Sweet helen, make me immortal with a kiss Last Line: She thought her function was to classicize Subject(s): Faust; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy FAUST BOOK: HELEN VANISHES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source First Line: But she's fading away Last Line: But she never returned Subject(s): Faust; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical FLIGHT OF HELEN; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such sudden leaving Last Line: Your thought-begotten ills Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical GANYMEDE AND HELEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In taurus was the sun and flowery spring Last Line: While all who sin thus show repentance deep. %and if ever I should sin so, lord, have mercy! Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Helen Of Troy; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical HECUBA: CHORUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ilion, o my city Last Line: I hope she is wrecked and drowned. %she ruined me Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy HELEN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nights of a marriage are like an egypt in a woods Last Line: Needs / one Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Marriage HELEN, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All greece hates / the still eyes in the white face Last Line: White ash amid funereal cypresses. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical HELEN, by EDWARD ABRAM UFFINGTON VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: She sits within the white oak hall Last Line: And helen feeds the flames as long ago! Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical HELEN OF TROY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn Last Line: Lo, I shall live to conquer greece again! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy HELEN TO PARIS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When loose epistles violate chast eyes Last Line: And may hereafter better news impart. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Letters; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paris (mythology); Translating & Interpreting HELEN'S BEAUTY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady, chiefest slave of love her lord Last Line: When april's gone, october bringeth tears. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Goddesses & Gods; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Tears; Youth HELEN'S BURNING, by LAURA RIDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her beauty, which we talk of Last Line: And lose the gift of prophecy. Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical HELEN'S CUP, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the potent draught that helen poured Last Line: Oh, let me drift and dream, and fall on sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Sleep HELEN'S EYE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Troy's towering roof has tumbled Last Line: The past murmurs back something %foreign as a bird in helen's eye Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical HELEN'S RAPE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hers was the last authentic rape Last Line: Of the continual battle's sound Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical HELLENS RAPE; OR A LIGHT LANTHORNE FOR LIGHT LADIES, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely a lasse, so loved a lasse, and (alas) such a loving Last Line: (helen a light huswife, now a lightsome starre in olympus.) Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Rape HER HEART SO STRICKEN, HELEN, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Source Last Line: Noble, olive-skinned men all slaughtered %on her behalf Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical ILIAD: BOOK 3. THE BEAUTY OF HELEN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then came iris as a messenger %to helen of the white arms Last Line: For like in wondrous wise is she %to the immortal goddesses %in loveliness of countenance Subject(s): Achilles; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War ILIAD: HELEN ON THE WALLS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair helen to the scaean portals came Last Line: "to us, and children's children yet to be." Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical KASSANDRA PROPHESIES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And yester-morn the vision burned again Last Line: Take you and sell you to mene...Men...Menelaos.... Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets LOVE TRIUMPHANT, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helen's lips are drifting dust Last Line: Dear, how long ago we knew! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVELY DAMES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Few are my books, but my small few have told Last Line: Substance to those fine ghosts, and make them live. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Women MENELAUS AND HELEN AT TROY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my way! Off! Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy MODERN BEAUTY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the torch, she saith, and what to me Last Line: The torch, but where's the moth that still dares die? Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical NO SECOND TROY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I blame her that she filled my days Last Line: Was there another troy for her to burn? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Women OENONE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the holy mount of ida Last Line: Did the faithless paris go. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Oenone (mythology) ON THE BUST OF HELEN BY CANOVA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this beloved marble view Last Line: Behold the helen of the heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors ON THE DARING OF MAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O vessel bearing virgil greeceward now, Last Line: For our audacity thus perish, all? Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Hercules; Humanity; Mythology - Classical; Prometheus; Troy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil PALINODE ON HELEN, by STESICHORUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not true, this tale Last Line: To troy's tall battlement. Alternate Author Name(s): Stesichoros Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical PORTRAIT IN SINISTER LIGHTS, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Doom walks with her Last Line: And doom will walk with her. Subject(s): Dunes; Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Stars; Iliad; Odyssey SCRATCH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Did helen of troy ever give herself Last Line: And a thick, buttered slice of barmbrack? Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical SHE WILL LIGHT CERTAIN FIRES, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is helen Last Line: And tossing ships. Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SONG ON THE WAY, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helen dwelt in old troy city Last Line: Liefer than to hers. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical THE DAUGHTERS OF TROY, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let him who puts his trust in kingly crown Last Line: The sea; the sails are set, the vessels move. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Trojan War THE EPITHALAMIUM OF HELEN AND MENELAUS;, by NOBLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve spartan virgins, noble, young, and fair Subject(s): Weddings; Helen Of Troy; THE FLIGHT OF HELEN; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such sudden leaving Last Line: Yes, and thyself, whom all these baubles please Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical THE HOUSE, by BENNETT WEAVER Poem Text First Line: Troy is for beauty, the far, the broken Last Line: Stolen away and returning no more. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. HELEN, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So saying, the goddess into helen's soul Last Line: By nuptial ties a brother once to me.' Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE LAST OF HELEN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring. A hid land of sodden sickly sleep Last Line: Her heart that is both present and forgotten. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical THE SLAVE MARKET, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bronze (true flesh of thought) stern shifting contours Last Line: Pass thou and gaze, she is more greatly thine. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical TO A GENTILWOMAN, by O. R. Poem Text First Line: Some women fayne that paris was Last Line: Then men forsooth must bear the blame. Subject(s): Fidelity; Helen Of Troy; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Paris (mythology); Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations TO DELIA: 39, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read in my face a volume of despairs Last Line: The temple where her name was honored still. Subject(s): Despair; Helen Of Troy; Love; Metaphor; Mythology - Classical; Similes TO HELEN (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Helen, thy beauty is to me Last Line: Are holy land! Variant Title(s): To Helen Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical TO HELEN, MIDDLE-AGED, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The strife on illium's windy plain is still! Last Line: Time leaves to helen who outlive their troys! Subject(s): Aging; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical TO HELEN, ON HER - TH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bounteous gods at helen's birth Last Line: Time never has come near her. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical TROY TOWN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavenborn helen, sparta's queen Last Line: Tall troy's on fire!) Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy WHEN FLORA HAD ADORNED THE FIRTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When flora had ourfret the firth Last Line: "thus ever of greece did fair helene, / whom I luv I dar nocht assay" Subject(s): Helen Of Troy;mythology - Classical;spring WHEN HELEN LIVED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have cried in our despair / that men desert Last Line: A word and a jest. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical WHERE ILIUM WAS PROUD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the sands where ilium was proud Last Line: Only a deathless tale in poets' mouths. Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Iliad; Odyssey; Self-esteem; Self-respect X, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: I used to think of you as my helen Last Line: And I'll give you treasures you can't even conceive Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Relationships |
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