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Subject: CRETE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRETAN IDYL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, see the grasshoppers, flame-colored, beautiful
Last Line: Flashing their flame-colored wings.
Subject(s): Crete


CRETONNE TROPICS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cretonne in your willow chair
Last Line: And I forget the pallid sound.
Subject(s): Crete


CYPRUS / THE STRANGLED, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Malta: fat lady %spain
Subject(s): Crete; Cyprus; Malta; Rhodes (island); Spain


GREECE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say: 'let there be no more war!'
Last Line: Now prove it once again!
Subject(s): Crete; Greco-turkish War (1897); Greece; Greeks


PHAEDRA REMEMBERS CRETE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think, o my soul
Last Line: Waste and drift of the cold rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Crete


THE FREEING OF CRETE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At length! At last! At last!
Last Line: In the great peace and concord that shall be!
Subject(s): Crete; Freedom; Liberty


THE GOLDSMITH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This job's the best I've done. He bent his head
Last Line: A girl was selling flowers along the street.
Subject(s): Crete; Gold


THE TOMB OF LIEUTENANT JOHN LEARMONTH, A. I. F., by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not sorrow, this is work: I build
Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii; Second World War


TOMB OF LIEUTENANT JOHN LEARMONTH, A. I. F., by JOHN STREETER MANIFOLD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is not sorrow, this is work: I build
Last Line: And look on death as equals, I am filled %with queer affection for the human race
Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii


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


WITHDRAWAL FROM CRETE, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doggedly, %inch by bitter inch brought dear with blood
Last Line: When we'll remember anguisg passed away %as a dream and the dark shadow of a dream
Subject(s): Crete; World War Ii