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Subject: THERMOPYLAE, BATTLE OF
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


AT THERMOPYLAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell them in lakedaimon, passer-by
Last Line: That here obedient to their word we lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Variant Title(s): The Three Hundred;on The Army Of Spartans Who Died
Subject(s): Graves; Thermopylae, Battle Of; Tombs; Tombstones


FOR THE SPARTAN DEAD AT THERMOPYLAI (480 B.C.), by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take this news to the lakedaimonians, friend
Last Line: That we here lie, who followed their command
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


O PASSER BY, / TELL THE LACEDAEMONIANS, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That we lie here %obeying their orders
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


ON THE TOMB OF THE SPARTAN DEAD AT THERMOPYLAE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stranger, tell the spartans how we die
Last Line: Obedient to their laws, here we die
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


THE GREEK DEAD AT THERMOPLYLAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great are the fallen of thermopylae
Last Line: From age to age.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


THE SPARTANS AT THERMOPYLAE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No parleying with themselves, no pausing thought
Last Line: Virtues of earth and heavenly love distil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


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


THERMOPYLAE, by JOHN+(1) REED    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I stand upon the mountain
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


THERMOPYLAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go tell the spartans, thou that passed [or, who passeth] by
Last Line: That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


THERMOPYLAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, stranger, and at sparta say
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


THERMOPYLAE AND GOLGOTHA, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men lied to them and so they went to die
Last Line: The stark black cross against the setting sun.
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


TO THOSE WHO FELL AT THERMOPYLAI, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of valor and glory everlasting
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


VARIATIONS ON SIMONIDES, by GLADYS ELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stranger, tell the spartans we live here
Last Line: A narrow country narrowly defines. %we did out narrow best in narrow lines
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of


WE LIE HERE, / HAVING GIVEN OUR LIVES, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To save all hellas, %when she stood on a razor's edge
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Thermopylae, Battle Of