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Subject: PERSIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DARA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When persia's sceptre trembled in a hand
Last Line: Two added provinces blest dara's sway.
Subject(s): Iran; Persia


DEATH THE LEVELLER, by ANYTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In life this man was manes, and a slave
Last Line: He's peer of great darius in the grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes
Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia; Death; Dead, The


DUCKS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her first home each book had a light around it
Last Line: The ducks were building a nest.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ducks; Family Life; Iran; War; Mallards; Drakes; Relatives; Persia


FRAGMENTS OF SACRED DREAMS: 1, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the bright sun illumines the eastern skies
Last Line: Each stops and sighs and casts the pious stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia


FRAGMENTS OF SACRED DREAMS: 2, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah what are all the pomp and courtly pride
Last Line: And sages deem thee wondrous wise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia


HARMOSAN, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the third and fatal conflict for the persian throne was done
Last Line: "drink and live!"
Subject(s): Iran; War; Persia


HOW HARD IS IT TO KEEP FROM BEING KING WHEN IT'S IN YOU AND IN THE SITUATION, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or more than half I’m half inclined to say
Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia; Poetry & Poets


LALLA ROOKH: THE FIRE-WORSHIPPERS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis moonlight over oman's sea!
Last Line: They'll weep for the maiden who sleeps in this wave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): India; Iran; Mythology; Persia


OMAR AND THE PERSIAN, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The victor stood beside the spoil, and by
Last Line: "hold! If there be a sacred thing, it is the warrior's word."
Subject(s): Iran; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Persia


PERSIA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am writing this song at the close
Last Line: On the bird he has put in a song.
Subject(s): Iran; Persia


PERSIA, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of bright eye and lofty brow!
Last Line: Whence cynics rail'd at human pride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Iran; Persia


PERSIA TO EUROPE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You scorn us? You dream we are ready to yield
Last Line: By ormuzd and allah — our rule shall not die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Europe; God; Iran; Soldiers; Persia


PERSIAN [ORIENTAL] ECLOGUES: 2. HASSAN; OR, THE CAMEL-DRIVER, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In silent horror o'er the desert-waste
Last Line: When back to schiraz' walls he bent his way.
Subject(s): Iran; Persia


THE ENCHANTED MIRROR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time o'er persia ruled that upright khan
Last Line: Who holds its glass therein to view - himsel!
Subject(s): Iran;mirrors; Persia


THE HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN, by JOHN UPDIKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In nishapur did khaibar khan
Subject(s): Iran; Petroleum; Persia; Oil


THE KING AND THE COTTAGER; A PERSIAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray list me unto a legend
Last Line: "has propped a monarch's throne!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Iran; Persia


THE TEARS OF PSSAMENITUS, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say ye I wept? I do not know
Last Line: The tears of him—who will not weep again.
Subject(s): Csmbyses Ii, King Of Persia (d. 522 B.c); Grief; Psamtik Iii, King Of Egypt; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Psammenitus Iii


TWO TAKEN, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In iran, the table of allah
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Iran; Capital Punishment - Minors; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Persia