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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TROY Matches Found: 229 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, northern men - true hearts and bold" Last Line: "unflinching to the conflict press, / and, fearless, trust our cause to god!" Subject(s): "american Civil War;bull Run, Battles Of;troy;u.s. - History;" "manassas, Batlle Of; 3 EASY LESSONS IN DESTROYING A SECT, by ROBERT WELCH Poem Source First Line: Find a sincere poet and swear him to secrecy Last Line: Anticipate their treasurer's self-disgust by pretending %that you trust him Subject(s): Troy 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 MAN NAMED TROY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the homeless black men begging small coins Subject(s): Troy 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 MOMENT IN TROY, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girls -- / skinny, resigned Subject(s): Troy A MOTEL IN TROY, NEW YORK, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow falls Subject(s): Troy A TROJAN SLAVE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've often wandered in the fields of troy Subject(s): Troy; Trojan War; Slavery; Serfs 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 AENEID: AENEAS' STORY, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While all with silence and attention wait Last Line: Are pleas'd to hear, I cannot grieve to tell Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Variant Title(s): The Destruction Of Tro Subject(s): Troy AENEID: DESTRUCTION OF TROY: THE DEATH OF PRIAM, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus fell the king, who yet surviv'd the state Last Line: A headless carkass, and a nameless thing Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Troy AENEID: THE WOODEN HORSE IS BROUGHT INTO TROY, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Onto the hallowit steid bryng in, thai cry Last Line: Throwout the towne, and for myscheif was glad Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): 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 AJAX BEFORE TROY, by JOHN D. OGDEN Poem Source First Line: Oh father zeus, free the achaians from this darkness Last Line: Remind them that we too were once alive Subject(s): Troy ALEATROY, by MARY ZEPPA Poem Source First Line: But mozart did. %those ivory cubes Last Line: Profuse as pfennigs spilling from %the silk purse of a nobleman, %the wide sleeves of a god Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Troy 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 ANDROMACHE CAPTIVE: THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY, by QUINTUS ENNIUS Poem Source First Line: O father, frendes, my countrey eke, and priams house farewell Last Line: The gushing of whose giltless bloud, joves aultare did distayne Subject(s): Troy ANDROMACHE: THE KINGS OF TROY, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O phoebus embattling the high wall of ilium Last Line: Crossed over a storm, and rained down murder. Subject(s): Troy ANOTHER TROY, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the green island bridge, a scowling trigonometry Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Troy ANOTHER TROY, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the green island bridge, a scowling trigonometry of over-wrought Subject(s): Troy AOR AGAINST PHILISTINE WHO DESTROYED LOVELY DUBLIN VISTAS, by JAMES J. MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: Hello, little bearded squirrel-eyed fellow Subject(s): Troy APPROACHING TROY, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea %the morning-glory blue Last Line: In their seedtime, heads bowed %to the crescent scythe Subject(s): Troy AT THE SUPPOSED SITE OF TROY, by RICHARD RED HAWK Poem Source First Line: There is no evidence of a body Last Line: And still, perchance, just happened to be blind Subject(s): Troy BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF TROY TOWN, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair beauties! If I do confess Last Line: Then, kindly we'll shake hands, and part. Subject(s): Troy BECAUSE IN DESTROYING HE CREATES, by ALAIN DELAHAYE Poem Source First Line: Landslides like fingers Last Line: These scattered and simple bones of space Subject(s): Troy BETSEY DESTROYS THE PAPER, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've brought back the paper, lawyer, and fetched the parson here Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Troy BOKE OF THE SIEGE OF TROYE, SELS., by JOHN LYDGATE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Books; Troy BOOK III: 13. LUXURY IS DESTROYING ROME, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You sk why greedy girls charge so much for their nights Last Line: Her futile tongue experienced god's truth Subject(s): Troy BUT YE SHALL DESTROY THEIR ALTARS,, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: & nobody gets hurt Subject(s): Troy CITY IN WHICH I WAS BORN WAS DESTROYED BY CANNON, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Troy COAL: 1. TROY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: My grandfather mined %for coal in southern Last Line: Every day %and make a living from, %even if it kills him Subject(s): Troy CUPID AND GANYMEDE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, one holiday, you read Last Line: And rise a swan, or fall a shower. Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Love; Mythology; Troy; Eros; Paradise DAUGHTERS OF TROY: ANDROMACHIE LEARNS OF HER SON'S FATE, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O wife of hector, phrygia's mightiest once Last Line: Have I attained - I, who have lost my son! Subject(s): Death - Children; Troy DESTROY / MOTION, by PETER GALE NELSON Poem Source Last Line: Come %I %crevice Subject(s): Troy DESTROY A DAY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Troy DESTROY ALL NUCLEAR ARMS, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: It's time -- %to get rid of those stinking Last Line: Equals starvation %yes, it's time Subject(s): Troy DESTROYED FLYING FORTRESS (PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN), by WILLIAM ALLEN Poem Source First Line: After the automatic eye clicks a frame Last Line: Just where we're left to brood and wonder Subject(s): Troy; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities DESTROYER, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Self-destruction works from the inside out Last Line: The trial. Then, with a clang of ritual music, %the walls of self bow down their severed heads Subject(s): Troy DESTROYER, by JAMES ABRAHAM MARTLING Poem Source First Line: O winds of winter! Wherefore sadly droning Subject(s): Troy DESTROYER, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cynic breaks stained windows Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M. Subject(s): Troy DESTROYER LIFE, by WILLIAM M. BRONK Poem Source First Line: I know there are things: crystals, fossils, basalts Last Line: Of feeling, pulse let go, let go, let go Subject(s): Troy DESTROYER OF DRUMS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sinister man, %beak of steel Last Line: Destroyer of drums, %killer of life Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Troy 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 DESTROYER SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You roll and toss and pound and pitch Subject(s): Soldiers; Troy DESTROYER SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The boys out in the trenches - have got a lot to say of the Subject(s): Soldiers; Troy DESTROYERS, by JOHN GRAHAM BOWER Poem Source First Line: Through the dark night Subject(s): Troy; World War I DESTROYERS, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: Humans, mostly corporate types Last Line: Sure to kill each other and end it all Subject(s): Troy DESTROYERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strength of twice three thousand horse Subject(s): Troy DESTROYERS, by L. LOUIS ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: All nations know of the destroyers. Booze, drugs, smokes Last Line: Because man is far to lost and sinful, to take time %and save self - or the faultless dying child Subject(s): Troy DESTROYERS IN THE ARCTIC, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: Camouflaged, they detach lengths of sea and sky Last Line: But cannot dream long; the sea curdles and sprawls %liverishly real, and merciless all else away fro Subject(s): Sea Battles; Troy; World War Ii DESTROYING ALL TRACES OF EVIDENCE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: His amorphous shape awakens inordinately late Last Line: The ss has arrived to gather his ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Troy DESTROYING ANGEL, by HILARY CORKE Poem Source First Line: In this cool corner where dark stars of ivy Last Line: We archers shoot our arrows at the sun - %nay then, he said,do thus and I am done Subject(s): Troy DESTROYING ANGEL, by BARBARA DIETZ WINDER Poem Source First Line: She might go out into the garden behind Subject(s): Troy DESTROYING BEAUTY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose Last Line: It's beyond me Subject(s): Troy DESTROYING OBSTACLES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THIS WORLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Troy DESTROYING OLD LOVELETTERS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a starved snake the fire fanged briskly through Last Line: Swooped at his head and, missing, slowly wheeled, %chitteredand beat its wings, intent to bite Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Troy DESTROYING THE CORMORANT EGGS, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: Black, black as the plumage Subject(s): Troy DESTRUCTION OF TROY, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Clear was the course of the cold floods Subject(s): Sea; Troy DEVIL'S DESTROYING ANGEL EXPLODED, by TOM PICKARD Poem Source First Line: No sound %but horns of southern ships Last Line: And all your life you nurtured many parasites Subject(s): Troy DOES IT EXIST, THOUGH, TIME THE DESTROYER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Powers a celestial need Subject(s): Troy EULOGY/ HEAVEN IS DESTROYING ME, by JOHN DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The road was so much longer than before Last Line: Tomorrow we pause briefly %in the shadow of your eclipse, %ashadow without cosmology, without ellips Subject(s): Death - Children; Troy EXCAVATION OF TROY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girl do you think Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Troy FAITH DESTROYED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I love him? I looked up to him Last Line: That which I loved. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Troy FALL OF TROY, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No more, o city of home Subject(s): Troy FAULCE HOPE WHICH FEEDS BUTT TO DESTROY, AND SPILL, by MARY SIDNEY WROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Faulce hope which feeds butt to destory, and spill Last Line: For hope deluding brings us to the pride %of our desires the farder downe to slide Alternate Author Name(s): Wroth, Mary, Lady; Montgomery, Countess Of Subject(s): Troy 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 FROM NESTOR TO HELEN NOW OF TROY, by ZONA TETI Poem Source First Line: To the rocks the sea leaves foam Last Line: Dear form until new breasts take the eye. %then we kill the god blocking our way Subject(s): Troy FUTURE MISS AMERICA, MISS TROY, by JOHN N. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Beauty she took to be her birthright Last Line: Her one known truth, self-certain, value-free Subject(s): Troy GAME OF TROY, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You want to smash the pattern of everyday Last Line: He invented his own adventures, or homer did, %telling tall tales, taking the long way home Subject(s): Troy 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 GATES OF TROY, by EDWARD DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is too strong, this proud unyielding love Subject(s): Troy GENERAL, AFTER DESTROYING ALL HIS ENEMIES, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: Having only to reign in peace Last Line: Desert winds swelling my tongue Subject(s): Troy GOD GAVE MAN THE EARTH TO ENJOY - NOT TO DESTROY, by HELEN STEINER RICE Poem Source First Line: The earth is the lord's and the fullness thereof' Subject(s): Troy HAVING DESTROYED OPITSAT THE WORK OF TIME AND AGES, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Gray emptied his guns into the war canoe Last Line: Alongside the ship all night %retrieving bodies Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Troy 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 HECUBA: TROY, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fatherland, o my troy! Last Line: Home, to her father's country. Subject(s): Troy HELEN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full 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 VUYELWA CARLIN Poem Source First Line: The wind blows and blows; throws Last Line: Dear thief, their swandaughter Subject(s): Troy 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 OF TROY DOES COUNTER DANCING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of women Last Line: Touch me and you’ll burn Subject(s): Troy HELEN OF TROY DOES COUNTER DANCING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of women Last Line: Touch me and you'll burn Subject(s): 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 HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS: TROY, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: Whither, o city, are your profits and your gilded shrines Last Line: Save your douth and your story. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Troy HOW CUSHING DESTROYED THE ALBEMARLE; OCTOBER 27, 1863, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The clouds hand dark, the surging waves Subject(s): Troy HOW HONG KONG WAS DESTROYED, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: I'm in hong kong Subject(s): Troy HYSTORY ... AND DESTRUCCYON OF TROYE, SELS., by RICHARD PYNSON Subject(s): Books; Troy I AM KRISHNA, DESTROYER OF WORLDS, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another monday morning! Last Line: With whom we would not wish to die? Subject(s): Troy I BELIEVE IN TIME AS HEALER AND DESTROYER, by CLARY KILLARNEY Poem Source Subject(s): Troy I PRAISE MY DESTROYER, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: How can it all end Last Line: And all the coins of sense are spent Subject(s): Troy 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: HECTOR IGNORES APPEALS TO FLEE TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, weeping bitterly, the aged pair %entreated their dear son Last Line: To combat, and the sooner learn to whom %olympian jove decrees the victory Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy 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 ILIAD: THE ELDERS OF TROY BEHOLD HELEN, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis no marvel,' one to other said Last Line: The toils of war; for goddess-like she seems Subject(s): Troy ILIAD: THE GREEK TROOPS AT TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: War won them now, war sweeter now to each Last Line: These were the princes and the chiefs of greece Subject(s): Troy ILIAD: THE TROJANS OUTSIDE TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big with great purposes and proud, they sat Last Line: Aurora should restore the light of day Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Troy IN THE END IS THE WORD TO DESTROY THE WORLD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Troy IN THE HALL OF MARBLES; LINES RECALLED FROM A DESTROYED POEM, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If genius, turned to sordid ends Last Line: Man fell from edem, fall from athens too. Subject(s): Troy INDIAN MOTHER ABOUT TO DESTROY HER CHILD, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awhile she lay all passive to the touch Last Line: Then in a swoon forgot, a little while, %her child, her sex her tyrant, and herself Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Troy JERUSALEM DESTROYED, SELS., by EBEN FARDD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sound of disquiet is in the great halls Subject(s): Troy JOHNNY TROY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye darling bushrangers Subject(s): Troy 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 LET US DESTROY THE FORESTS ALL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Troy LETTER TO GOD FROM ETHAN AMOS BOYD, TROY, NY, 1929, by ANNE STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord / I am ill, I know Subject(s): Troy LETTER TO GOD FROM ETHAN AMOS BOYD, TROY, NY, 1929, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord %I am ill, I know Last Line: To keep one from the strength of the other Subject(s): Troy 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 LOVELINESS DESTROYED, by AGNES FINCH WHITACRE Poem Source First Line: I wonder did the violets bloom Subject(s): Troy 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 MACHAON AT TROY, by PHILLIP PAROTTI Poem Source First Line: I use black spider's silk to knit their wounds Last Line: Or how to clarify a poisoned mind Subject(s): Troy MAN NAMED TROY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the homeless black men begging small coins Last Line: Of this place soon to be called the new world Subject(s): Troy MAN, THE DESTROYER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit of life, by whatsoe'er a name Last Line: Man, the proud fool of thought. Subject(s): Troy MAY I DRIVE YOU HOME, MRS. MURGATROYD?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a statement that anybody who feels so inclined is welcome to make Last Line: Everybody in the car can drive better than the chauffeur Subject(s): Automobiles; Troy MEN DESTROY YOU., by PETER GALE NELSON Poem Source Last Line: Six crevice Subject(s): Troy 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 METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 13. THE SPEECHES OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefs were set; the soldiers crown'd the field Last Line: But those express the grief, and these the name. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Troy; War; Dead, The 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 MOMENT IN TROY, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girls -- %skinny, resigned Last Line: Little girls %returning Subject(s): Troy MOTEL IN TROY, NEW YORK, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow falls Last Line: Across the water Subject(s): Troy MURGATROYD, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Whenever we would open, there he stood Subject(s): Family Life; Troy NARRATIVE CHARM FOR IBBOTROYD, by MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: Cobble & pebble in the teeth. Fang & club upon Last Line: Edge the word. Crow trembles in the knot Subject(s): Language; Troy NEAR TROY, by ROBERT HAZEL Poem Source First Line: In isolation from others Subject(s): Troy NEW YEAR'S EVE IN TROY, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the dark beyond my gates Subject(s): Troy NIGHT BEFORE TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As when in heaven the stars about the moon Subject(s): Troy NO SECOND TROY, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Later, more mother's help than mine alone Last Line: Long rows of empty bottles neatly spread. %next time the dust-cart had a clinking sound Subject(s): Troy 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 NOT TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL', by MOLLY WHITFORD ANDERSON HALEY Poem Source First Line: While the proud garment of our common days Subject(s): Peace; Troy NOW DESTROYED: 1, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl you speak of is lost Last Line: She could be found dead in her urine %and they might throw everything out Subject(s): Greece; Troy NOW DESTROYED: 2, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing like that here Last Line: He will continue doing that %even though I came back to america Subject(s): Greece; Troy ODYSSEY: DEMODOCUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This the divine expressor did so give Last Line: Deathlesse and manly; should stand so enclin'd Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Troy; Ulysses ODYSSEY: DEMODOCUS SINGS THE FALL OF TROY, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The minstrel stirred, and murmuring to the god Last Line: Seems fixed upon his heart. Break off the song! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Troy; Ulysses 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 SEEING BERLIOZ'S LES TROYENS, by EDITH A. JENKINS Poem Source First Line: That witch cassandra with the purple eyes Last Line: Approaches zero. Is there still time? Subject(s): Troy 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 ON THE PILOTS WHO DESTROYED GERMANY IN THE SPRING OF 1945, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a roof top and they wove their cage Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Variant Title(s): Responsibility: The Pilots Who Destroyed German ... 194 Subject(s): Air Warfare; Germany; Troy; World War Ii ON TROY, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I give more praise to troy's redoubt Subject(s): Troy ONE FOR THE LADIES AT THE TROY LAUNDRY WHO COOLED THEMSELVES, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies at the troy laundry pressed Last Line: And yet the very fur within their armpits %made me rise wondering and small Subject(s): Troy 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 PALLAS AND VENUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trojan swain had judged the great dispute Last Line: By mars himself that armour has been tried. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Venus (goddess) PARADOX: THAT FRUITION DESTROYS LOVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is our reason's paradox, which still Last Line: As warm our hands by putting out the fire. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Pygmalion; Troy PENETRATE NEUTRALIZE DESTROY, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: These are the days Subject(s): Troy 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 RESIDENCE II: THE DESTROYED STREET [LA CALLE DESTRUIDA], by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the insulted iron, through the plaster eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Troy SCIENCE DESTROYS ITSELF, by PAT BORAN Poem Source First Line: The doppler effedct of footsteps Last Line: The white hiroshima %of that lone electron %goodbye ... Subject(s): Troy 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 SEARCH AND DESTROY, by DALE RITTERBUSCH Poem Source First Line: They came out of the hootch Last Line: A sudden move like that Subject(s): Troy; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SEARH AND DESTROY, by SUE STAPLES Poem Source First Line: We run scared Subject(s): Troy 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 SIVA, DESTROYER, by GEORGE PERRY Poem Source First Line: Whose voice shall say him nay? Subject(s): Troy SMALL VICTROY, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO Poem Source First Line: At noon I heard a well-known rap Subject(s): Troy SNOWS OF TROY, by ANDREA MOORHEAD Poem Source First Line: Close to the breath of day Last Line: And the day remaining %turns as darkness Subject(s): Troy 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 SONNET 88 USED AS TROILUS' COMPLAINT, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If no love is, o god, what feel I so? Last Line: For heat of cold, for cold of heat I die Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): The Song Of Troylu Subject(s): Troy TAKING OF TROY, SELS., by TRYPHIODORUS Poem Source First Line: Meanwhile the steed's deep caverns, op'ning wide Last Line: Mars now unsheaths his sword; where-e'er he trod %destructi on marched, and bath'd his steps in bloo Subject(s): Troy THALABA THE DESTROYER, SELS., by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Troy THE ASS EATING THE AENEIDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A wretched ass the aeneids did destroy Last Line: A horse or ass is still the fate of troy Subject(s): Troy 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 DESTROYER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the quiet pastures of my soul Last Line: And no one richer by a single bud. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Troy THE DESTROYER OF DESTROYERS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From santiago, spurning the morrow Last Line: Wainwright! The gloucester! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Gloucester (ship); Navy - United States; Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Troy; Wainwright, Richard (1817-1862); American Navy; Naval Warfare THE DESTROYING ANGEL, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stopped at last Last Line: The mighty mystery through its humble sign. Subject(s): Jews; Troy; Judaism THE EPITHALAMIUM OF HELEN AND MENELAUS;, by NOBLE Poem Full 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 Full 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 15. APOLLO DESTROYS THE WALL, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He said: and on his horses' shoulder-point Last Line: Confounding, sentest panic through their souls. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; 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 ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. AT PYLOS: MEMORIES OF TROY, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And nestor, the gerenian knight, replied Last Line: So young a man might have such mastery.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Troy THE OLD WOMAN OF TROYES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is an old woman, certainly one Last Line: Of this old woman of troyes! Subject(s): Old Age; Troy; Women THE RETURN FROM TROY, by QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone was all hope of life. The night was dark Last Line: Seemed caught together in a single whole. Alternate Author Name(s): Quintus Of Smyrna; Kointos Smyrnaios Subject(s): Troy THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation 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 THE SOUL'S DESTROYER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: London! What utterance the mind finds here! Last Line: As dumb and silent as a moulting bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Troy THE TEACHER, by LEONARD FEENEY Poem Text First Line: I drudge and toil-but I have my hour Last Line: And the grocery store? Subject(s): Aulis, Greece; Endymion; Teaching & Teachers; Troy; Educators; Professors THE WISHING-GATE DESTROYED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis gone - with old belief and dream Last Line: Shall bid a kind farewell! Subject(s): Troy THE WRITER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the shade of the pyramids Last Line: Fled away like a flame. Subject(s): Mythology; Pyramids; Troy; Writing & Writers THEY DESTROYED MY MOTHER'S HOUSE, by CALY DOMITILA CANE'K Poem Source First Line: Orphans, my parents are orphans Subject(s): Peace; Troy THOSE WHO DESTROY THEIR OWN TREASURES ARE THE ONES WHO FIND, by BAHU A'WAN Poem Source Last Line: Vowed the prayer of love Subject(s): Sufism; Troy TIME THAT DESTROYS EVERYTHING, by TERESA CALDERON Poem Source First Line: Wings its way into the distance %without warning in the sky Last Line: Frighteningly human %falling asllep %on the dark side of death Subject(s): Troy TIME THE DESTROYER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Time bears off upon his wing Last Line: Thou who dost my love forget Subject(s): Troy 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 OF TROY, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Helen, it is not you they have desired Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs. Subject(s): Troy 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 TO THE DESTROYER, by ALBERT MOCKEL Poem Source First Line: Sphinx, fascinating specter of the deceptive vows Last Line: So that hope, with her wings toward the gigantic future, %may throb in the eternal suffering of the Subject(s): Troy TO THE DESTROYERS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes. You havwe shattered many an ancient wrong Subject(s): Troy TRANSPARENCIES; 1. THE DESTROYED ROOM, by RUTH VALENTINE Poem Source First Line: Not scavenging but Last Line: Belly, her secret hair Subject(s): Troy TROADES: THE END OF TROY, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, me! And is it come, the end of all Last Line: Women go out in the darkness.) Subject(s): Troy TROADES: TROY, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In salamis, filled with the foaming Last Line: Hath perished from troy. Subject(s): Troy TROY, by PAUL CURTIS COLTMAN Poem Source First Line: I keep the gate. Others ride out Last Line: Before the walls fall. I should welcome %some sign from the gods: a gift Subject(s): Troy; War TROY, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By maunding the imposture helen came Subject(s): Troy TROY, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Source First Line: I read last night with many pauses Subject(s): Troy TROY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He all that time among the sewers of troy Last Line: Asking: “where is the treasure?” till he died Subject(s): Trojan War; Troy TROY, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He all that time among the sewers of troy Last Line: Asking: 'where is the treasure?' till he died Subject(s): Trojan War; Troy TROY, by MARIN SORESCU Poem Source First Line: Hiding soldiers hunker down Last Line: Led by a chair as chief Subject(s): Troy TROY HIL VOICES, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: I want my father to forget the river Last Line: While sweat like fresh rain %cools her face Subject(s): Troy TROY RESTORED, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hector, blood of ares, can you hear beneath the ground? Last Line: And all your thessaly subdued beneath aeneas' sons.' Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Subject(s): Troy 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 TROY WEIGHT, by RONALD BELLUOMINI Poem Source First Line: Early morning Subject(s): Troy TROY, OHIO, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS Poem Source First Line: Like snow's silken web Subject(s): Troy TROY: THE FIRST DAY, by GREGORY MCNAMEE Poem Source First Line: A thousand vessels ride at anchor Last Line: Seeing them, I know we have come too far Subject(s): Troy TROYNOVANT IS NOW NO MORE A CITY, by THOMAS DEKKER Poem Source Subject(s): Troy TRUTH IS THE ONLY THING THAT CANNOT BE DESTROYED, by VANNA BONTA Poem Source Subject(s): Troy TWO TOWNS, by RALPH LINTON Poem Text First Line: There was a mighty city Last Line: Your fate is in their hands. Subject(s): Crete; Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Troy; Ulysses; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus UNCLE'S HOME MOVIES, TROY HILL, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Uncle john now dead six months Last Line: He built in 1949, still new %in its single luxury Subject(s): Troy VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For shame write better labeo, or write none Last Line: For shame write cleanly labeo, or write none. Subject(s): Cupid; Troy; Writing & Writers; Eros WALKING WITH LINDA AND PETER NORTH AND WEST OF TROY, by HILLEL SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: On linda! On peter! Mist, rain, cold, fog, bog, mud--spring Last Line: Before helen pouted or agamemnon swore, a few pines, %the rest hardwood, hardware, hearthold Subject(s): Troy WAR, THE DESTROYER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is war, %the destroyer %but an appurtenance Last Line: Displayed flagrantly %in its place %beside the face Subject(s): Troy WHAT LIGHT DESTROYS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm thinking of st. Paul -- st. Paul Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Troy; Theology WHAT LIGHT DESTROYS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm thinking of st. Paul -- st. Paul Last Line: That if the moon were my blue coin, I'd never spend it Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; 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 WHEN THEY RETURN TO HOLY TROY, by SYLVA FISCHEROVA Poem Source First Line: They will have everything Last Line: Last love %through the eyelids Subject(s): Troy 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 WOOD OF THE SELF-DESTROYERS, by SAMUEL YELLEN Poem Source First Line: We enter the dismal wood where boughs black Subject(s): Troy WRITTEN TO A YOUNG LADY, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you in the tumult of the fire Subject(s): Helen Troy; Fire 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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