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Subject: HELEN OF TROY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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