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Subject: SALAMIS (ISLAND), GREECE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` PERSIANS (PERSAE): THE BATTLE OF THE SALAMIS, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Meanwhile the sunlight melted from the shore
Last Line: For never yet - this ye may surely know - %have on one day so many thousands died
Subject(s): Freedom; Salamis (island), Greece


SALAMIS, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A treatise of the subtle body
Last Line: To remain and realize were the harder task
Subject(s): Salamis (island), Greece


SALAMIS, by MARGARET SHIPLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The island lies out there, a lioness
Subject(s): Salamis (island), Greece


THE PERSIANS (PERSAE): SALAMIS - MESSENGER, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Princess, the first beginner of all the woes
Last Line: Perished so vast a multitude of men.
Subject(s): Persian Wars; Salamis (island), Greece


THE PERSIANS (PERSAE): THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS, by AESCHYLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some evil god, or an avenging spirit
Last Line: On such a tale of death.
Subject(s): Salamis (island), Greece