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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 17399 EDGEWOOD ROAD, FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A few days before I am to move
Last Line: And the light shining through
Subject(s): Greece


A CLASSICAL CONTRAST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have (in bronze) a tiny / adventuress of greece
Last Line: Of england or of greece!
Subject(s): England; Greece; English; Greeks


A DARK THING INSIDE THE DAY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many want to be lifted by song and dancing
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


A FLOWER NO MORE THAN ITSELF, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was there on the mountain
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


A GRECIAN THUNDER-STORM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thunder came not with one awful pulse
Last Line: But with no pause; the fruit is victory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Greece; Storms; Greeks


A LEGEND, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a day, long, long ago
Last Line: Thus dionysus spoke.
Subject(s): Greece; Kidnapping; Legends; Mythology; Punishment; Sea; Greeks; Ocean


A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: GREEK AIR, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: List! 'tis a grecian maid that sings
Last Line: And every heart was freedom's altar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; National Song - Greece; Greek National Anthem


A NIGHT AT CORFU, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A hoary gleam through boughs prevailing
Last Line: And now the west returns the glow!
Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece


A NIGHT IN LESBOS, by GEORGE HORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon has left the sky
Last Line: And I am here alone!
Subject(s): Lesbos (island), Greece


A PRIZE FOR EURIPIDES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In athens of old when the women wailed of war
Last Line: Sorrow and pity and love, across the years!
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Love; Sun; Tears


A SONG OF DELOS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song was heard of old - a low, sweet song
Last Line: -- oh, linger, seamen, linger on the oar!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


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


A THEORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As thucydides said
Last Line: "murdering
Subject(s): Greece; History; Greeks; Historians


A VOICE FROM ACADEME, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over this azure poplar glade
Last Line: Like that white globe beyond the leaves!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ACADEME, by HENRY ALFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the day the gleaming dawn doth flee
Last Line: Hath risen the noon, and thou wert in thy prime.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ACADEME, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pleasanter than the hills of thessaly
Last Line: And death a happy ending.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ACOUSTICS, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the ancient amphitheatre at epidaurus
Last Line: Shriek, clytemnestra, clytemnestra
Subject(s): Epidaurus, Greece; Sound; Theater And Theaters


ACROPOLIS, by CATHERINE PATRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ancient pile, which sends from the past a
Last Line: Vanish forever.
Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Greece; Greeks


ACTS OF PRESERVATION; FOR THEA KATI, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every story she tells
Last Line: They are all the same size
Subject(s): Death; Greece; Marriage; Old Age


ADULT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've come back to the country where I was happy
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ADULT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've come back to the country where I was happy
Last Line: And wondering if slowly I will take on flesh again
Subject(s): Greece


AFTER ACTIUM: LOSS FILLING THE EMPTINESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowers do not move in the windless pause
Last Line: As nothingness is filled as soon as it is emptied. %as you in me now, all the time, day after day
Subject(s): Greece


AFTER GREECE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light into the olive entered
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


AFTER GREECE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light into the olive entered
Last Line: Also survive its meanings, and my own
Subject(s): Greece


AFTER THAT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sun goes down and the world starts
Last Line: Until the night really comes and covers them, %they are still white. Only perhaps waxier
Subject(s): Greece


AFTER THE BEGINNING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman is preparing her body for sleep
Last Line: There is no music. She pays attention %to his body. It is night and quiet %all around his embraces
Subject(s): Greece


AFTER THE DEFEAT, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the heavy losses that the athenians suffered at aegospotami
Last Line: In the funeral procession or victory celebration, with music and wreaths
Subject(s): Greece


AHDAAM KAI AVA, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came the whole way around from going out
Last Line: Of myself with their unimportance %their elegant, unimportant happiness
Subject(s): Greece


ALL THE SPRING LENDS ITSELF TO HER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If her skirt does not bend the grassw, nor sea air
Last Line: Pressed close to the earth, calling her name %wondering if it is her voice we are whispering
Subject(s): Greece


ALMA IN ALL SEASONS, by LINDA GREGG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She has arms instead of breasts
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ALMA IN ALL SEASONS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She has arms instead of breasts
Last Line: It is summer but the same was true %when there was snow
Subject(s): Greece


ALMA IN THE DARK, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She reaches over and puts a hand on his hipbone
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ALMA IN THE DARK, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She reaches over and puts a hand on his hipbone
Last Line: Or the almond tree is blown around in the wind
Subject(s): Greece


ALMA IN THE WOODS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I show them how the snow melts from the stone
Last Line: Making songs from the bones of belief
Subject(s): Greece


ALMA IS WILLING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is willing to grow larger. Put forth leaves
Last Line: Fragility even in something so good and round
Subject(s): Greece


ALMA THINKING ABOUT MEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood watching the great hulk of desire
Last Line: I, who looked at the drying leaves with my heart, %have learned to come back
Variant Title(s): Coming Bac
Subject(s): Greece


ALMA TO HER SISTER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone no loneliness in the dream in the quiet
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ALMA TO HER SISTER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone no loneliness in the dream in the quiet
Last Line: In the sunrise in the sunset. Louise %in the dream. In the sunrise in the sunset
Subject(s): Greece


ALMA WATCHING HER HUSBAND, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Halfway through the scene I could not decide
Last Line: Player into a soundproof room facing out on the marsh. %theni knew she would just go on standing the
Subject(s): Greece


ALONE WITH THE GODDESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young men ride their horses fast
Last Line: On the wet beach at pangaritis
Subject(s): Greece; Love; Seashore; Greeks


ALONE WITH THE GODDESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The young men ride their horses fast
Last Line: Their beautiful horses %on the wet beach at pangaritis
Subject(s): Greece


ALTERED CONDITION OF ATHENS, by EUPOLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It grieves me to behold the commonwealth
Last Line: Installed prime rogue and minister of state.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ALWAYS MISTAKEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We see the ocean and hear
Last Line: In heaven, a table set with bowls %of rice and cups of tea
Subject(s): Greece; Life; Sea; Self


AN ATHENIAN GARDEN, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The burned and dusty garden said
Last Line: Looked after him thro' happy tears.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Greece; Greeks


AN EPISTLE FROM CORINTH, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Paul of tarsus, I have enquired of jesus
Last Line: An upward gaze. . . .
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Death; Jesus Christ; Dead, The


ANACREONTIC, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the tender myrtle-branches
Last Line: "to the ""ai ai"" of the wailing."
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Adonis; Greece; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


ANCIENT GREEK SONG OF EXILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the summer, with her golden sun?
Last Line: -- far from my own bright land!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Exiles; Greece; Greeks


ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is seven o'clock this morning
Last Line: It is nine o'clock. They walk out into the dark night
Subject(s): Greece


APHRODITE AND THE NATURE OF ART, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want a net made of iron to hold
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


APHRODITE AND THE NATURE OF ART, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want a net made of iron to hold
Last Line: Higher in the half-light of the vast room
Subject(s): Greece


APPARENT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I say transparency, I don't mean seeing through
Last Line: Back into the nearly night of the woods, %it was because the rain came down suddenly harder
Subject(s): Greece


ARCHILOCOS, by GARY N. ATLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young greeks eager to die for their cities
Last Line: Your youth a prize on the walls of some other city
Subject(s): Greece; Soldiers


ARIADNE AT NAXOS, by THOMAS DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: High upon the hill of drios
Last Line: But ariadne sleeps, and nevermore shall wake!
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


ARIADNE WRITES TO THESEUS AT RANDOM, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have been away so long
Last Line: Around the silence in my heart
Subject(s): Greece


ARIADNE'S FAREWELL, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daughter of a king, how should I know
Last Line: We both are royal; we know how to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


ARION, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arion, whose melodic soul
Last Line: Like a pierced eagle fell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Harps; Musical Instruments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Greeks; Lyres


ARISTODEMUS AT PLATAEA, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye have darkened mine honor and branded my name
Last Line: And the desolate hope of the death unadorned.
Subject(s): Cowardice; Heroism; Persian Wars; Plataea, Greece; Heroes; Heroines; Laspi


ARISTOMENES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods of old are silent on their shore
Last Line: Whose names are on the hills and o'er the seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Greece; Past


ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY; BEING THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind, wave, and bark, bear euthukles and me
Last Line: Accordingly I read the perfect piece.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY; BEING THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amphitruon. Zeus' couchmate, -- who of mortals knows me not
Last Line: We have lost forevermore!
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ARISTOPHANES' APOLOGY; BEING THE LAST ADVENTURE OF BALAUSTION: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the long silence ended, -- our best friend
Last Line: "glory to god -- who saves euripides!"
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ARKANSAS AFTERNOONS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I took the postmaster's advice and found
Last Line: Four years ago. Waving to no one now
Subject(s): Greece


AS BEING IS ETERNAL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is sitting alone in the bright room
Last Line: So vast an event, so much becoming
Subject(s): Greece; Time; Greeks


AS BEING IS ETERNAL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is sitting alone in the bright room
Last Line: The air is heavy as water as she %bends her head over the page
Subject(s): Greece


AS IS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pay attention, talk to no one unless
Last Line: Flying. All of it meaning the same thing
Subject(s): Greece


AS WHEN THE BLOWFISH PERISHING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We kept the courtesy an internal form %to have the beauty after
Variant Title(s): As When The Blowfish Perishin
Subject(s): Greece


ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We could have been mistaken for a married couple
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We could have been mistaken for a married couple
Last Line: A woman alone carrying her bag, asking a worker %which direction to walk to find a taxi
Subject(s): Greece


AT DELOS, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An iris-flower with topaz leaves
Last Line: Brings to the grave his tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece; Transience; Impermanence


AT ELEUSIS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was living underground
Last Line: The force and the center
Subject(s): Greece


AT EPIDAURUS, by LAWRENCE DURRELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The islands which whisper to the ambitious
Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips


AT EPIDAURUS, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The islands which whisper to the ambitious
Last Line: All causes end with the great because
Subject(s): Greece; Travel


AT HOME, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far is where I am near
Subject(s): Greece; Loss; Greeks


AT HOME, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far is where I am near
Last Line: If I go out there they are
Subject(s): Greece; Loss


AT RISK, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This body does not smell human
Last Line: Exactly that
Subject(s): Greece


AT THE GATE IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LIFE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had come prepared to answer questions
Last Line: Sadly three times around. Then three times more
Subject(s): Greece


AT THE SHORE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked women are being dragged
Last Line: To the men on a soft wind %caressingly, like sirens singing
Subject(s): Greece


ATHENS, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nymph of the rain
Last Line: With thunders of the scenic muse.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS, by LYDIA AVLONITI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here the dreams
Last Line: Eternity and greece
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS, by NICHOLAS MICHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O land of solon, plato, and of men
Last Line: And but with time's last hour thy fame depart.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS, by STUART MITCHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the small hotel off veranzerou
Last Line: The day man %just died in
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O shining and wreathed in violets, city of singing
Last Line: Citadel full of divinity
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Desolate athens! Though thy gods are fled
Last Line: Age kneels to moralize, and youth to weep!
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, I stand / here on this brow's crown of the city's head
Last Line: Should men say, here was athens.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of softer genius, but not less intent
Last Line: As with an anchor fixed the driving state.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dimmed eye of greece, sad city of great dead
Last Line: Yea, mourn thy faded might with venerating ruth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS (2), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun, that hast lightened and loosed by thy might
Last Line: Athens, a praise without end.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


ATHENS: ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere from under earth again like fire the violet kindle
Last Line: These alone have part in spirit with the sun that crowns the sea.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology


BACKSTAGE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oma is the oldest woman in the house
Last Line: Squawking like offended clergy
Subject(s): Greece


BALANCING EVERYTHING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I lie in bed thinking of those years, I often
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


BALANCING EVERYTHING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I lie in bed thinking of those years, I often
Last Line: Up in the dark among the stars
Subject(s): Greece


BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About that strangest, saddest, sweetest song
Last Line: "sorrow, -- one reckoned faithful from the first."
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then their souls rose together, and one sigh
Last Line: "did I mean this should buy my life?"" thought he."
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, friends came round him, took him by the hand
Last Line: "many and true an ill thing shalt thou hear!"
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There you saw leap the hydra at full length!
Last Line: Right-minded subjects kept them for their lord.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE: PART 5, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, he it was advancing! In he strode
Last Line: Why crown whom zeus has crowned in soul before?
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


BANISHMENT, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whom else have you expelled like a titan forever
Last Line: Left and right like sentinels by your palace door?
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Olympus (mountain), Greece; Titans (mythology)


BECKETT KIT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I finally found a way of using the tree
Last Line: Aguy to mishkin, 'if you've seen all that, %how can you go on saying you're happy?'
Subject(s): Greece


BEING WITH MEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are things a man does
Last Line: But one does not comfort her. %it might look like he is guilty of something
Subject(s): Greece


BEST, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The greeks said: never to be born is best
Last Line: But the greeks were wrong: to live and love is best.
Subject(s): Greece; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Greeks


BLAKE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is on the roof
Last Line: They both shine in that room, %water and spilling light
Subject(s): Greece


BLOOMINGDALE'S I, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I weren't working, I'd sleep next to you'
Last Line: The aisles, letting our hands touch every chance %they got, among the bras and underpants
Subject(s): Greece


BOATMEN OF SANTORIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boatmen on the bay of santorin
Last Line: We float here %feathering death at our oar-blades
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Santorini Island, Greece


BOMBERS, A GREEK LOVE TALE, by MAX GARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The roar of the american bombers
Last Line: Just to lie here and burn %in the moment between them
Subject(s): Greece


BORDER BETWEEN THINGS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our meetings are like hawks mating, you said
Last Line: And forth between the visible and the invisible %not the moment between the natural and unnatural
Subject(s): Greece


BOUNTY AFTER THE BOUNTY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is all in not having
Last Line: Of jesus. He struggles, %it struggles to hold out against our will
Subject(s): Greece


BRACELET OF BRIGHT HAIR ABOUT THE BONE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The romans put skulls into their love poems
Last Line: I wanted absoluteness to be made of my heart
Subject(s): Greece


CAFETERIA IN BOSTON, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could digest the white slick watery mash
Last Line: That was the course that kept the others down
Subject(s): Greece


CALAMITIES: ANOTHER EDEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out beyond what we imagine
Last Line: Heaven is deep and deeper. We leave %and leave into the questing
Subject(s): Greece


CALVES NOT CHOSEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind goes caw, caw, caw, caw
Last Line: Awake or asleep, in white, in black
Subject(s): Greece


CALYPSO, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wanderer, we must part-so the gods decree
Last Line: Peace upon that home in ithaca!
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Ithaca, Greece; Mythology


CASSANDRA'S VISION, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look, mantineans brandish the crest
Last Line: As they leave their town where horses foal...'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


CENTER OF INTENT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there a lesson in the way this new silence lasts?
Last Line: Through the special silence at evening
Subject(s): Greece


CHARLES DI TOCCA, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zoe %hurry, basil! Hurry
Last Line: Was powerless as flowers along its path
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Greece; Hate; Love; Plays And Playwrights


CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 2, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven! - but thou, alas
Last Line: And with the ills of eld mine earlier years alloy'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Homesickness; Travel


CHILDREN AMONG THE HILLS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lamb was so skinny I thought it was a baby goat
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


CHILDREN AMONG THE HILLS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lamb was so skinny I thought it was a baby goat
Last Line: Like a thing made of silver. But inside everything %was movig, shivering with wind. We knew that muc
Subject(s): Greece


CHIRON, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prophetic chiron, %the son of philyra
Last Line: On the trojan marauders' %blood he lets...'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


CHOOSING AGAINST RUINS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought the old statue was a kore
Last Line: She remains. A shadow of stone
Subject(s): Greece


CHOOSING THE DEVIL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mephistopheles enters %between one step and another
Last Line: He is on the mountain. %it is so massive, so incomplete
Subject(s): Greece


CHORUS OF GREEK GIRLS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We maidens are older than most sheep
Last Line: "each call ""me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Girls; Greece; Greeks


CHORUS SPEAKS HER WORDS AS SHE DANCES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are perishing like the old men. Already your arms gone
Last Line: I am a joke and a secret here, and I will leave. %it is morning now. The light whitens her face more
Subject(s): Greece


CHORUS TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS: 1. OF ATHENIANS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought
Last Line: Some athens perishes, some tully bleeds.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


CHOSEN BY THE LION, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the one chosen by the lion at sundown
Last Line: Saying out loud in the darkness, linda %and hearing me answer immediately, yes!
Subject(s): Greece


CHRISTMAS DAY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the temperature rose to freezing. The sun
Last Line: In the silence until I came back to you, to the empty %apartment. You whisper when you call me on th
Subject(s): Greece


CITY OF GOD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What thou lovest well is felt violently
Last Line: Rain will be falling heavily outside
Subject(s): Greece


CLAPPING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did I go there enough? Was it enough when I tried
Last Line: Saying now, and now, and later forever. You and I %innocent in purity and magnificent disorder
Subject(s): Greece


CLASSICISM, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nights are very clear in greece
Last Line: And have no feeling
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


CLASSICISM, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nights are very clear in greece
Last Line: When the moon is round we see it completely %and have no feeling
Subject(s): Greece


CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think, or hope at least, the coast is clear
Last Line: But to make wits of fools is past your pow'r.
Subject(s): Fools; Ireland; Sparta, Greece; Idiots; Irish


CLOSENESS AT THE GOODWILL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had found a shawl made of four foxes
Subject(s): Greece


COLERIDGE SAW THE HARP AS INVENTED BEYOND NATURE'S REASON, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it true women are the most supple form
Last Line: Self-for-love, beaten as all exiles are %these that the earth quickly cares nothing for
Variant Title(s): Women In Winte
Subject(s): Greece


COLONOS, by HENRY ALFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Colonos! Can it be that thou hast still
Last Line: Lifted to heaven by unexampled woe!
Subject(s): Colonos (mountain), Greece


COLONOS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are we now, my dear antigone?
Last Line: Derive, thence called colonians all.
Subject(s): Colonos (mountain), Greece


COLOR OF MANY DEER RUNNING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air fresh, as it has been for days
Last Line: Not one deer, but when many of them run away
Subject(s): Greece


COMING HOME, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see no way to survive the soul's journey
Last Line: To find in the dark only if we have %practiced delicately meanwhile
Subject(s): Greece


CONDITIONS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You will have to stand in the clearing and see
Last Line: You will recognize them as geography. You will know %an unkempt singing you will never hear without
Subject(s): Greece


CONSIDERING THE MOON, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the places on your body where
Last Line: Everything that feels hunger and listens %and lives in the open is allowed to look at you
Subject(s): Greece


CONSTANTINT THE GREAT: DEDICATION: TO VERNON RENDALL, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lover of greece, her laughter and her tears
Last Line: The firm, the brave, the fair fidelities
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Greece; Laughter; Love; Tears


CONSTITUTION OF ATHENS, by SOLON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The force of snow and furious hail is sent
Last Line: Against ambitious aims and lawless power
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece


COPPERHEAD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Almost blind he takes the soft dying
Last Line: With his eyes a moving. A small moving that he knows
Subject(s): Greece


CORFU, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now doth not summer's sunny smile
Last Line: Alas! And is such heart mine own?
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece


CORINNA TO TANAGRA, FROM ATHENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tanagra! Think not I forget
Last Line: Why linger? I must haste, or lose the delphic bays.
Subject(s): Tanagra, Greece; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CORINTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a vanished year and age
Last Line: Which seems the very clouds to kiss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece


CORINTH, by NICHOLAS MICHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Venice of classic times! Where dance and song
Last Line: And corinth bowed in death her beauteous head.
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece


CORINTH, ON LEAVING GREECE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood upon that great acropolis
Last Line: So in that parting hour was it with greece and me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Corinth, Greece


CROWN THAT FLAMES, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In opening roses
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


DANCE-SONG (1), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clear as a lydian touchstone
Last Line: Brings out the blaze of man
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


DANCE-SONG (2), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: No lolling on couches now
Last Line: And bring into light some exquisite song
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


DANCE-SONG (3), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: O periclitus, I expect you
Last Line: To appreciate what's plain
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


DANCER HOLDING STILL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her husband has left and no man moves her
Subject(s): Greece


DANCING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman considers the red tulip stuck in a vase
Subject(s): Greece


DANGEROUS TRADE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would it have been different if we had not dreamed
Subject(s): Greece


DARK THING INSIDE THE DAY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many want to be lifted by song and dancing
Subject(s): Greece


DAYS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moon is hobbled and placed in a field
Last Line: She thinks, it's the beginning of something
Subject(s): Greece


DAYS OF 1931, by JAMES COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A ritual, he thinks, is something you continue to do long after it has lost
Last Line: He was wrong. Not one had that desire
Subject(s): Cavafy, Constantine P. (1863-1933); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Thebes, Greece


DEATH LOOKS DOWN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death looks down on the salmon
Last Line: Motionless days and nights in the cold water. %lying still, always facing in the constant motion
Subject(s): Greece


DECADENCE OF GREECE, 1830, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young tourist to the land whose hope has passed!
Last Line: And mix the records of the plashing seas!
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


DEEPER IN THE JUNGLE, THE RIVER DIVIDES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death rewrites the script, and love does not
Last Line: Each time. A game lasting year after year
Subject(s): Greece


DEFEATED, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat at the desk for a while fooling with my hair
Last Line: I know air. But then everything else stops %because I don't what happens after that
Subject(s): Greece


DELICATE THING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no longer elegant catastrophes of the heart
Last Line: They will not wake up for hours and hours
Subject(s): Greece


DELOS, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O when, my soul, wilt thou resound the praise
Last Line: Amid the sister isles on ocean's breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece


DELOS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though syria's rock was passed at morn
Last Line: Untroubled by the dreamless day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece


DELOS, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Delian apollo, save!
Last Line: And the glorious paeans ring.
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece


DELOS, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of the sea, marvel of earth, made firm for aye
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece


DELOS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the sea there lies a lovely isle
Last Line: Under his roof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece


DELOS, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You could hear the sound of the pick outside the
Last Line: Tied their hair in knots around the nipples
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece


DELOS, by BERNARD SPENCER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wealth came by water to this farmless island
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece


DELPHI HUMORESQUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree of agamemnon gives a shade
Last Line: Then, kissing a dead leaf good-bye, is gone.
Subject(s): Delphi; Greece; Castri; Greeks


DEMON-CATCHERS ON OUR DOORS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We walk up the valley ankle-deep in tenderness
Last Line: And each time something happens %to make them balance in the satin light
Subject(s): Greece


DESIGN INSIDE THEM, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At six every night the women sit on chairs
Last Line: Their idea of justice and good and gentle kindness %gathers up again as the old swallows and flowers
Subject(s): Greece


DESIGNS MADE OF THIS AND THAT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is made of secrecy and the quiet of things
Last Line: To us, careless of something already possessed
Subject(s): Greece


DIFFERENT NOT LESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of it changes at evening
Last Line: What is not given. We see another world alive %and our wholeness finishing
Subject(s): Greece


DISINTERMENT OF THE HERMES, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What forms divine in adamant fair
Last Line: Sterile, with brimming hands.
Subject(s): Archeology; Greece; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Greeks


DOWNSIZED, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lives where no one comes to visit
Last Line: I live closer to it than ever
Subject(s): Greece


DRIVING TO HOUSTON, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody named this primitive river vermilion
Last Line: The injustice of your desire recommends %its reality, now that I have moved
Subject(s): Greece


DRIVING WITH THE MOON, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moon, my company, who does not save the trees from
Last Line: You mut let me go.' make a music like the bells at easter
Subject(s): Greece


DRY GRASS & OLD COLOR OF THE FENCE & SMOOTH HILLS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The women are at home in this california town
Last Line: Wants to know if I want waffles with raspberry jam
Subject(s): Greece


EACH THING MEASURED BY THE SAME SUN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing to tell. Nothing to desire
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


EACH THING MEASURED BY THE SAME SUN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing to tell. Nothing to desire
Last Line: Making a world in the mind %the spirit still connected to the body %eyes open, uncovered to the bone
Subject(s): Greece


EDGE OF SOMETHING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have decided I will not be like john hu anymore
Last Line: Foreignness married by air. This is as close %as we will come. This is the edge of not running
Subject(s): Greece


EDNONDS: 53, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kings of ionia revel in luxury
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


ELEPHANT'S SONG, by TASOS MOUZAKIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Greek land
Last Line: That immortal I s. %greece, my land.!
Subject(s): Greece; Home


ELEUSIS, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With dusk rides up the god-elated night
Subject(s): Eleusis, Greece


ELEUSIS, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turn with the shades immortal at the murmuring sea and pray
Subject(s): Eleusis, Greece


EMPEDOCLES, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He leaped. With none to hinder
Last Line: If heels in air the last of him!
Subject(s): Greece; Pessimism; Philosophy & Philosophers; Greeks


EMPTY BOWL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know when to wake me in the dark
Last Line: No salt, no bread. Only the chanting %lamb, lamb, lamb
Subject(s): Greece


ENCOMIUM (1), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Neither oenone, %paris' engaging wife
Last Line: And firmed her in spurred rock: %her agony ended
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


ENCOMIUM (2), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, no carcass of beef is here, no gold
Last Line: And splendid wine in boeotian cups
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


ENCOMIUM FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: No rest for the clean cut
Last Line: Who shed such blazing light on men
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


ENCOMIUM TO ALEXANDER SON OF AMYNTAS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down from the peg, my lyre!
Last Line: Spumed from the wine and a drinker's glow
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


ENORMOUS ENGINE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oriental women with their children at the laundromat
Last Line: Our destination. Body with body, soul with soul
Subject(s): Greece


EPIDAURUS, by NICHOLAS MICHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo! Epidaurus spreads his velvet vale
Last Line: Endued with powers ne'er known on lower earth.
Subject(s): Epidaurus, Greece


EPIDAURUS, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Epidaurus, Greece


EPIGRAM, by JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH WILLART DE GRECOURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Greece, that produced a warrior host
Last Line: Who, then, can count her fools?
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


EPIGRAM: 1, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daughter of pallas, lady of victory famous in lauded names
Last Line: Wrap cean bacchylides round with opening wreaths
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


EPIGRAM: 2, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eudemus planted this shrine on his fields
Last Line: And they flayed chaff from his swelling stalks
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The female author who recites to-day
Last Line: And the gray mare will prove the better horse.
Subject(s): Friendship; Greece; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tragedy; Greeks


EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have watched a thousand days
Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Greeks; First World War


EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have watched a thousand days
Last Line: Time, not battle, - that slays
Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I


ESTA, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of him overturning the tables of the money
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ESTA, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of him overturning the tables of the money
Last Line: Eso linda. I hold on to that grace as I ride %my bicycle back through the cor, the sun on me
Subject(s): Greece


ETIOLOGY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cruelty made me. Cruelty and the sweet smelling earth
Last Line: Dead animals. I have lifted the dead owl while it %was still warm. Heaven forbid that I should be sa
Subject(s): Greece


EUCLES ANNOUNCING THE VICTORY OF MARATHON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He cometh from the purple hills
Last Line: Sets in tears and blood o'er marathon.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece


EURIDICE SAVED, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am filled with all things seen %for the last time. He lays with me gently
Last Line: Art, I was thinking, is the imitation of what %we called nothing when we lived on the earth
Subject(s): Greece


EURIDICE SAVED, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am filled with the sorrow of all things seen
Last Line: Art, I was thinking, is the imitation %of what we called nothing when we lived on the earth
Subject(s): Greece


EURYDICE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen
Last Line: And was the way out for me, my love
Subject(s): Greece; Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Love; Death; Grief; Greeks


EURYDICE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen
Last Line: Near the opening which is the way in for you %and was the way out for me, my love
Subject(s): Greece


EVENING SONG, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked whatever I met and each thing taht happened
Last Line: By the mythic, destroyed by the grand. An importance %that abandons the human and real. The loss bou
Subject(s): Greece


EVERYDAY RICE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some kinds of love
Last Line: Five or six times before making it into dinner
Subject(s): Greece


EXCELLENCE SHOWERED WITH PRAISE, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Branches high like a tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arouse thee, o greece! And remember the day
Last Line: As the war-song of freedom that calls on the brave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks


EXPECTING THE BARBARIANS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are we all waiting for
Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P.
Subject(s): Greece


FATHERS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was evening when my love and I
Last Line: Our fathers, dead in america %the spirits singing
Subject(s): Greece


FEBRILE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trehalose, my god, trehalose
Last Line: That claim to be the athens of somewhere
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Courts And Courtiers


FEMALE EDUCATION FOR GREECE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why break'st thou thus the tomb of ancient night
Last Line: "give them the book of god?"" immortal shades! -- we will."
Subject(s): Education; Greece; Women; Greeks


FIEFDOM, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the tea garden of the muslim graveyard
Last Line: Dirt, bushes, and her small sounds
Subject(s): Greece


FIGURES NEAR A BRIDGE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything formal / the man turns around
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


FIGURES NEAR A BRIDGE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything formal %the man turns around
Last Line: The look on her face %is the sound he made
Subject(s): Greece


FINDING THE WAY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I went to the village church
Last Line: The flavor of sesame and cumin
Subject(s): Greece


FINE PALE WILD CLOTH OF LOVE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not precision or passion. Not one or the other
Subject(s): Greece


FISH TEA RICE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is on the earth that all things transpire
Last Line: In mud. Eating what is here. Fish, bread, tea, rice
Subject(s): Greece


FISHING IN THE KEEP OF SILENCE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a hush now while the hills rise up
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


FISHING IN THE KEEP OF SILENCE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a hush now while the hills rise up
Last Line: Repeats to himself: there are fish in the net, %lots of fish this time in the net of the heart
Subject(s): Greece


FLEEING THE FLOODTIDE SEA, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


FLOWER NO MORE THAN ITSELF, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was there on the mountain
Last Line: And dirt and rain. Pride her life. %all nature her wealth.Sound of owls her pillow
Subject(s): Greece


FLUTES IN THE SACRED CITY / SIMONIDES, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hard times hit, a man's bad; when good times come, he's
Last Line: Child of the dark earth, grasshopper, these flutes playing in the sacred city play for you
Subject(s): Flutes; Greece; Simonides Of Ceos (556-468 B.c.)


FOR AND AGAINST MEMORY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can think of nothing the heart finds easy
Last Line: I feel the ticking. The faint counting %that begins at the beginning of being
Subject(s): Greece


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand
Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


FOREIGN LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rivas said the virgin sisters went singing across
Last Line: Just outside the big doors accepting alms, %watching with no particular expression as you pass
Subject(s): Greece


FORGET ALL THAT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't want to confuse the world
Last Line: As I walk to the next one, %and the one after
Subject(s): Greece


FOUR-HAND IMPROVISATION # 3, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is in two places and I will tell you
Last Line: And go toward, dragging the here %all the evidence gone
Subject(s): Greece


FOUR-HAND IMPROVISATION #2, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know what this is, she says
Last Line: (in this wilderness of light %I am nothing %your being lies on my forehead %like a stone)
Subject(s): Greece


FRAGMENT FROM THE MONK OF ATHOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the confines of the aegean main
Last Line: Till heaven in mercy bids your pain and sorrows cease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Greece


FREE GREECE; AN ASPIRATION ON ACCESSION OF GEORGE OF DENMARK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now are we free to range thee, hill and plain
Last Line: Which led the gods and muses off to rome.
Subject(s): George I, King Of Greece (1845-1913); Greece; Greeks


FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou pleasant island, whose rich garden-shores
Last Line: Bright in the dubious track of after years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece; Iona, Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips


GAME CALLED FEAR, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The young cows run in the sound of the river
Last Line: The sky is silent and the river is loud %this time of year
Subject(s): Greece


GEORGE OPPEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It had been a fine day
Last Line: Overwhelmed him, driving him down
Subject(s): Greece


GHOSTS POEM, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy black birds flying away hard from trees
Last Line: It is the final condition.'
Subject(s): Greece


GIFTS OF THE MUSES, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To all who handle arms
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


GIRL I CALL ALMA, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The girl I call alma who is so white
Last Line: And that it's the others who scar me, %not you
Subject(s): Greece


GLAUCUS, by SIDNEY KEYES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The various voices are his poem now
Last Line: And cold aegean voices speak his fame
Subject(s): Greece


GLISTENING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I pull the bucket from the crude well
Last Line: The earth moving slowly as I dry in the light
Subject(s): Greece


GNOSTICS ON TRIAL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us make the test. Say god wants you
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GNOSTICS ON TRIAL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us make the test. Say god wants you
Last Line: Try to keep from rejoicing. Try %to keep from happiness. Just try
Subject(s): Greece


GOD DOOMS ONLY A FEW, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And not fall foul of grief
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


GOD'S PLACES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the soul care about the mightiness
Last Line: Of tht ripeness the soul speaks about
Subject(s): Greece


GOD-SINGING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice rises from the mosque farther down the mountain
Last Line: Neither young nor old, neither bird nor human
Subject(s): Greece


GODS IN THE TWILIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poppies by the sea are
Subject(s): Greece


GODS MUST NOT KNOW US, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the different kinds of light
Last Line: The gods must not know us well or they would %not dance so openly, so happily before us
Subject(s): Greece


GOETHE'S DEATH MASK, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The face is quite smooth
Last Line: And eaten into. What a mess his eyes are
Subject(s): Greece


GRECIAN KINDNESS: A SONG, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The utmost grace the greeks could shew
Last Line: Lulled her asleep, and then grew drunk.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Greece; Kindness; Greeks


GRECIAN ODE, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Yes, yes, 'tis greece! Full many a fane
Last Line: "yes, yes, -- 't is hellas, hellas still!"
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GRECIAN SUNSET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In perfect kingliness now reigns the sun
Last Line: Of a victorious rest, he passes all alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Evening; Greece; Sunset; Twilight; Greeks


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


GREECE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as the pilgrim / goes with his eye fixed on his prophet's tomb
Last Line: Till all is sweetly pale!
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GREECE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, nature's utmost boast! Unrivalled greece!
Last Line: Of farthest crete resounds the libyan main.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GREECE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When life contracts into a vulgar span
Last Line: Which on such golden memories can lean?
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GREECE (THIRD VERSION), by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O you voices of fate, you ways of the wanderer
Last Line: More beautifully blossom the roads, where the land
Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich
Subject(s): Greece


GREECE WHEN NOBODY'D LOOKING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth bleached pale by two thounsand years
Last Line: And the moon almost full. A poetry %of stars and stone and the ordinary
Subject(s): Greece


GREECE, SELS., by WILLIAM HAYGARTH                       
Subject(s): Greece


GREECE: AN ASPIRATION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now we may roam along thy flowery dales
Last Line: Which haunts thy ruins from the days of old!
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GREEK ARCHIPELAGOES, by PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crete smoulders on sea, half-way to africa
Subject(s): Greece; Travel


GREEK ARCHITECTURE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not magnitude, not lavishness
Last Line: But reverence for the archetype.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Greece; Greeks


GREEK EARTH, by GEORGIOS DROSSINIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that I leave for foreign lands
Subject(s): Greece


GREEK FUNERAL CHANT, OR MYRIOLOGUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wail was heard around the bed, the deathbed of the young
Last Line: "woe! That it smiles, and not for thee! -- my brother and my friend!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Funerals; Greece; Burials; Greeks


GREEK MASONRY, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joints were none that mortar sealed
Last Line: The blocks in symmetry congealed.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GREEK NEIGHBOR HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, by GERALD STERN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where he hung the bird feeder a month ago
Subject(s): Greece; Home; Neighbors; Greeks


GREEK NEIGHBOR HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where he hung the bird feeder a month ago
Last Line: Too much away to the poisonous squirrels, poor greek
Subject(s): Greece; Home; Neighbors


GREEK SONG: 2. THE BOWL OF LIBERTY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the fiery sun
Last Line: -- when shall we crown the bowl of liberty?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks


GREEK SONG: 3. THE VOICE OF SCIO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice from scio's isle
Last Line: O'er the mid-waves of fight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GREEK SONG: 4. THE SPARTAN'S MARCH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas morn upon the grecian hills, / where peasants dressed the vines
Last Line: Or on it proudly borne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Sparta, Greece


GREEK SONG: 5. THE URN AND SWORD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sought for treasures in the tomb
Last Line: With freedom's sword, and valor's dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GREEK SONG: 6. THE MYRTLE BOUGH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still green, along our sunny shore
Last Line: We still have sword and myrtle bough!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


GREEK SPRING; MARCH, ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rainbows, rainbows! O fantastic vision
Last Line: Or is it the snows again?
Subject(s): Greece; Hope; Rainbows; Spring; Winter; Greeks; Optimism


GREEKS, by SAMUEL FOSTER DAMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hamlet once met william blake
Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, S. Foster
Subject(s): Greece


GRINDING THE LENS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am pulling myself together
Last Line: It is summer and I am in the middle %of my life. Alone and happy
Subject(s): Greece


GROWING UP, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am reading li po. The t.V. Is on
Last Line: When the man says,'I love you.' %then turn it off and go on reading
Subject(s): Greece


GRUB, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The almost transparent white grub moves
Last Line: But he is falling by definition. He moves forward %touching the frying grease with his whole face
Subject(s): Greece


GYPSY KINGS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another late afternoon and I am sitting in
Last Line: Their addresses for me %one mentioned her own son
Subject(s): Greece


HALF IN THE SHADE ..., by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whispering. After going beyond the end of myself
Subject(s): Greece


HAPPINESS AND WHITE SKY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love hurries me this morning as I see
Subject(s): Greece


HARD SEASON, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already this spring the lilacs are failing %in pieces and chunks, the way rust
Last Line: And counterweight. In the center %with the presence, in the sunlight
Subject(s): Greece


HARMONICA, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone like the fish in water
Last Line: House on the other side %of the hill
Subject(s): Greece


HEART FLOWING OUT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things we see are the shapes death makes
Last Line: Making that meaning, whatever it means
Subject(s): Greece


HEART'S WHITE HORSE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kung-sung said a white horse is not a horse
Last Line: Down, half-asleep, even more white
Subject(s): Greece


HEATHEN GREECE; A SONG, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the islands of the blest?
Last Line: The pale-cliff'd albion.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


HEAVY WITH THINGS AND FLESH, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowing. And a neighbor man already up
Last Line: But when they leave, we don't follow
Subject(s): Greece


HECUBA: THE SACRIFICE OF POLYXENA, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see thee, how beneath thy robe, o king
Last Line: "of women in thy daughter, most undone!"
Subject(s): Greece; Tragedy; Greeks


HELLAS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of bards and heroes, hail
Last Line: Freedom's last, best hope is here!
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


HELLAS; A LYRICAL DRAMA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the day when all the sons of god
Last Line: Oh, might it die or rest at last!
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks


HEPHAESTUS ALONE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His heart is like a boat that sets forth alone
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


HEPHAESTUS ALONE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His heart is like a boat that sets forth alone
Last Line: Made her with rage and disillusion
Subject(s): Greece


HERACLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now heracles performed many more great labors
Last Line: From which curly head poured rivulets of the clearest water
Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Peloponnesus, Greece


HERACLES - FOR THE DELPHIANS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: No songs of apollo now
Last Line: She stooped to a centaur's uncontrolable marvel
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


HERITAGE, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lover can never still in me
Last Line: The ancient fire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Lesbos (island), Greece; Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women


HISTORY, by DOROTHY E. REID    Poem Text                    
First Line: When xerxes beat the sea with rods
Last Line: Uncertain if to shake -- or kiss.
Subject(s): Greece; History; Greeks; Historians


HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou chronicle of crimes! I read no
Last Line: As sidney in his hall of bliss may love.
Subject(s): Greece; History; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Greeks; Historians


HOW IT WORKS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will tell you a story about
Last Line: Hovering over a huge space
Subject(s): Greece


HOW THE JOY OF IT WAS USED UP LONG AGO, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No one standing. %no one for a long time
Last Line: Near day, open and asleep. %a filth on the floor of that room
Subject(s): Greece


HOW YOU CAN KNOW HER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither with nor without a lover
Last Line: If not, she doesn't mind %she carries a love in her as a rose has its scent
Subject(s): Greece


HYALI, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Island in blue of summer floating on
Last Line: And like thy rocks shall down through time endure.
Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Greece; Islands; Greeks


HYMN, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now my child
Last Line: Climbing sorrow - %unspeakable
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


HYMN 4. DELOS, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Windy and waste and battered by the sea
Last Line: But rooted in the aegean waves your feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece


HYMN TO HECATE, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hecate who holds her torch on high
Last Line: Daughter of night with the deep breasts
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


I ASKED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What turns parnassus into a mountain of hate?
Last Line: Open minds know when to keep their mouths shut.
Subject(s): Advice; Hate; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Poetry And Poets


I THOUGHT ON HIS DESIRE FOR THREE DAYS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I chose this man, consciously, deliberately
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


I THOUGHT ON HIS DESIRE FOR THREE DAYS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I chose this man, consciously, deliberately
Last Line: Me awake. I am so happy to have lived
Subject(s): Greece


I WAGE MY LIFE AGAINST THIS YOUR BODY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot keep you with me. You must live apart
Last Line: It ends, just before the sun goes down and evening %as always tries to make everything seem all righ
Subject(s): Greece


I WILL REMEMBER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will remember making love last night
Last Line: All of a sudden part of the same weight
Subject(s): Greece


IDAS - FOR THE LACEDAEMONIANS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once in the dancing rings of sparta
Last Line: Heir of ares with gilded shield
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


IF DEATH WANTS ME, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If death wants me, let it come
Last Line: Like a growing thing, gone and complete
Subject(s): Greece


IMPERFECT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gradual wearing away leaves us alive
Last Line: That I am happy to be painting the river %and dipping my brush in it at the same time
Subject(s): Greece


IN A GREEK GARDEN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have known it all before, in some far dream
Last Line: That soon must fall and fade and be no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Artemis; Greece; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


IN ARCADIA, by LAWRENCE DURRELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By divination came the dorians
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


IN ARCADIA, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By divination came the dorians
Last Line: Less than a nightingale ago
Subject(s): Greece


IN DIRT UNDER OLIVE TREES ON THE HILL AT EVENING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her naked body is too small for the woman's head
Last Line: Why this pity, this glad humming when we see her %sitting with tinted breast on a little clay throne
Subject(s): Greece


IN THE HALF-LIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked women playing happily behind
Last Line: Gone from me for three years now
Subject(s): Greece


INCOGNITA IN THE TEMPLE OF THESEUS, by SEYMOUR GREEN WHEELER BENJAMIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: At athens dwells the woman who hath bound
Last Line: The subtle thrall that made me hers forever.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Theseus


INNOCENTS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dahlias are tied up straight
Last Line: For those who have suffered the most %and have nothing
Subject(s): Greece


INSCRIBED ON A CENOTAPH, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O cloud-capt geraneia, rock unblest!
Last Line: This tomb speaks, tenantless, his ocean-grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Geraneia, Greece


INSIDE THE SAME AS OUT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is violent sound of too many chickens
Last Line: A tree in an empty world. As an orange is seen, %then eaten.Making a ringing anyone can hear
Subject(s): Greece


INSIDE THE WAR, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The muzak loud, full of sighs and bongos
Last Line: The dying city, using my flashlight because it is %the turn of my district to have the electricity t
Subject(s): Greece


INVASION OF GREECE, by MILDRED DODGE JEREMY INGALLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That night, letting lie the copper kettle, she was saying
Last Line: Cleansing our hearts of fear, fear of birds in the sky
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece


INVENTION OF WRITING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is true, all things flake and flow
Subject(s): Greece


IO - FOR THE ATHENIANS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rife are the roads
Last Line: And the chorus that wins wreaths
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


IO: SHAPE-SHIFTED, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You heard it from a distance %saw turning into a cow
Last Line: Below me. Beginning inside %so vast an event, so much becoming
Subject(s): Greece


ION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come hark to the story of ion
Last Line: And justice will find a way.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Legends


IPHIGENEIA AND AGAMEMNON, FR. THE HELLENICS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Iphigeneia, when she heard her doom
Last Line: "o father! Grieve no more; the ships can sail."
Variant Title(s): Sacrifice
Subject(s): Aulis, Greece; Courage; Tragedy; Valor; Bravery


IS IT PAIN IF THERE IS NO ONE THERE TO SEE IT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a roaring as if from a cave
Last Line: Is answering to the sea itself
Subject(s): Greece


ISLAND OF KOS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing but wilderness around
Last Line: Go to sleep little goat. Your first week is over. %go to sleep now
Subject(s): Greece


ISRAEL AND HELLAS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sometimes wonder of the grecian men
Last Line: From its great secular heart the readier current drew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Greece; Jews; Greeks; Judaism


ISTHMIAN ODE FOR AGLAUS OF ATHENS (FOOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fame, herald of virtue
Last Line: Lift aglaus' rising roll of glory
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Racing


ISTHMIAN ODE FOR ARGEIUS OF CEOS (BOYS' BOXING MATCH) (1), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: O gates flung up by the gods
Last Line: The marvelous emblem of fame stands
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boxing And Boxers; Games - Greece


ISTHMIAN ODE FOR ARGEIUS OF CEOS (BOYS' BOXING MATCH) (2), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quick on the wing
Last Line: Pantheides' precious son
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boxing And Boxers; Games - Greece


IT IS THE RISING I LOVE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As long as I struggle to float above the ground
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


IT IS THE RISING I LOVE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As long as I struggle to float above the ground
Last Line: Rise and falls. The terrible blind grinding %of gears against our bodies and lives
Subject(s): Greece


IT WAS IMPORTANT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To outstrip death with theater
Last Line: And the gods don't care
Subject(s): Greece


ITHACA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man of wisdom and endurance rare
Last Line: Rest, care-worn mortal, rest, and let his sleep be thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Variant Title(s): The Return Of Ulysses
Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus


IXION, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High in the dome, suspended, of hell, sad triumph, behold us!
Last Line: Thither I rise, whilst thou -- zeus, keep the godship and sink!
Subject(s): Ixion (mythology); Greece; Greeks


KEPT BURNING AND DISTANT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You return when you feel like it / like rain. And like rain you are tender
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


KEPT BURNING AND DISTANT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You return when you feel like it %like rain. And like rain you are tender
Last Line: You lay me down on the leaves %and the strong thing is not the sex %but waking up alone under trees
Subject(s): Greece


KIND OF VICTORY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God moves as the moon in its arc moves
Last Line: We walk out sadly, and surrender
Subject(s): Greece


KYRENAIKOS, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay me where soft cyrene rambles down
Last Line: Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


L'ALBUM D'UNE CANADIENNE, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis thought, it seems, a pretty thing
Last Line: Thy sex to guard, the fair to crown.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Soul


LACEDAEMON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sparta, the proud inviolate city, sees"
Last Line: And wolves can hear no bleat of any sheep
Subject(s): "sparta, Greece;


LACOSTE IV, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's almost as if we're already there
Last Line: It's your turn to workd outdoors in the sun %on the roof - your footsteps, and the last line's done
Subject(s): Greece


LAMB, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a picture I had after the war
Last Line: Its head, curious, unafraid, hungry
Subject(s): Greece


LAST DAYS OF BYRON, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just at the point / of facing death in
Last Line: Beaten forever by the mighty sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Missolonghi, Greece; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece


LAST WORDS ON GREECE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are to me those honors or renown
Last Line: So strong thy magic or so weak am I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Greece


LATE RETURNS: 7. BESIDE THE HOLY CITY'S SACRED POOL, by RANDY BLASING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once at hierapolis, a booked-up ghost town
Last Line: With wads of cash. I gave her all I had
Variant Title(s): Beside The Holy City's Sacred Poo
Subject(s): Greece; Tourists


LEAVING DELOS, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wandering star of the heaven-colored
Last Line: Discordant, high up in the steel rigging
Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece; Farewell; Parting


LESSENING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Without even looking in the album
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


LESSENING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Without even looking in the album
Last Line: I lived well, was loved and beautiful
Subject(s): Greece


LET BIRDS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight deer on the slope
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


LET BIRDS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight deer on the slope
Last Line: To the fence and whinny. Let birds
Subject(s): Greece


LETTER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not feeling strong yet, but I am taking
Last Line: And have pastry with custard. Sometimes I sit %at a table by the harbor and drink half a beer
Subject(s): Greece


LETTER OF MATHIOS PASKALIS, by GEORGE SEFERIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The skyscrapers of new york will never know the coolness
Last Line: Alone and without a wireless or strength to fight the elements
Subject(s): Kifisia, Greece


LETTER TO SICILIAN VINEDRESSER SENT FROM EGYPT WITH ... ROBE OF TISSUE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Put out to sea, if wine thou wouldest make
Last Line: Like a stripped child fain in the sea to dip.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


LEUCATE, by ESTELLA DELMONTE LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou seest yonder snowy promontory
Last Line: To heal love's wounds, headlong impetuous leaped.
Subject(s): Leucadia, Greece; Santa Maura


LEUCIPPIDES, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crafting a chorus
Last Line: For cypris' violet glance
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


LIBERTY, SELS., by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Greece; Italy; Roman Empire


LIBERTY: PART 2. GREECE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus spoke the goddess of the fearless eye
Last Line: "till the whole state unnerved in slavery sinks."
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks


LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor
Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women; Urban Life; Greeks


LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor
Last Line: It's thirtieth street and hot and no sun
Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women


LIFE OF LITERATURE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very early in the morning at the edge of the capital
Last Line: Of poems in the book she lent him. The one %by basho called the long road into the deep north
Subject(s): Greece


LIFE ON THE RIO ESCONDIDO, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tire is standing in the mud
Last Line: Standing by herself who neighs and turns away %from here it is hard to see the suffering
Subject(s): Greece


LIKE LOT'S WIFE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The italian town is empty
Last Line: The stillness inside her
Subject(s): Greece


LILITH: 1, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light is on my body also
Last Line: Dark trees, bright lights. %speech only was lost
Subject(s): Greece


LILITH: 2, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I line up five stones on the ground
Last Line: To keep warm when it is necessary. %how can they think I am crazy?
Subject(s): Greece


LILITH: 3, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman comes to my door and asks for bread
Last Line: She is standing there with tears on her face, %just like before. Unsure whether to start again
Subject(s): Greece


LILITH: 4, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Statuary used to fill the gardens of rich
Last Line: Gradually there will be gardens again. %first for food and then also for flowers
Subject(s): Greece


LIMITS OF DESIRE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love came along and said, I know
Last Line: In the warm wind
Subject(s): Greece


LINES [WRITTEN] IN THE TRAVELLER'S BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "fair albion, smiling, sees her son depart"
Last Line: "he comes to athens, and he writes his name"
Subject(s): "athens, Greece;


LINES [WRITTEN] IN THE TRAVELLER'S BOOK AT ORCHOMENUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The modest bard, like many a bard unknown
Last Line: His name would bring more credit than his verse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Written In The Travellers Book Of The Macri Family At Athens
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Poetry & Poets


LOOKING FOR EACH OF US, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I open the box of my favorite postcards
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


LOOKING FOR EACH OF US, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I open the box of my favorite postcards
Last Line: The postcard of a summer lightning storm over iowa
Subject(s): Greece


LOST BELLS OF HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Helpless, the one and then the other
Last Line: You are, lover of thunder, lord of the cripples, %lord of the helpless, naked, starved and lost
Subject(s): Greece


LOST IN THE HEART, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The crazy woman at the beginning of the mountain
Last Line: As ever. But my heart does not look up
Subject(s): Greece


LOVE LATE AT NIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I leave my house at three in the morning
Last Line: His and mine, with the prints of a cat between %where she walked sweetly while I was away
Subject(s): Greece


LOVERS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He keeps her away, thinking they know each other
Last Line: Desire and means those who never know each other
Subject(s): Greece


LOVERS IN THE SIZE OF GOD'S HAND, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mostly what you can see now is the hills
Last Line: The other repeating, yes, here
Subject(s): Greece


MADE TO RING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She wants to go into the darkness
Subject(s): Greece


MAGDALEN, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sword, whose blade has ne'er been wet
Last Line: The loved, the lovely magdalen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Greece; Love - Complaints; Soldiers; Greeks


MANIFESTS PURE GOLD, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To mens opinions
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


MARATHON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "miltiades, thy victories"
Last Line: And hallowed by thy prowess lies / the field of marathon
Subject(s): "marathon, Greece;miltiades, The Younger (554-523);


MARATHON, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could believe that under such a sky
Last Line: The rampant insolence that would not be made wise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece


MARATHON, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the very place
Last Line: The sailless sea.
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece


MARATHON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stern marathon! The mountains view thee yet
Last Line: For those who perished there—but not in vain!
Subject(s): Death; Greece; Marathon, Greece; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Greeks


MARATHON, SELECTION, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just these two words beneath a little spray
Last Line: The ruddy fruit of blood-sown marathon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece


MARCO BOZZARIS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At midnight, in his guarded tent
Last Line: That were not born to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Botsaris, Markos (1788-1823); Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Plataea, Greece; Bozzari, Marco; Botzaris, Markos; Laspi


MARRIAGE AND MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It has been a long time now
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


MARRIAGE AND MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It has been a long time now
Last Line: Black with the light behind. They were caught %by their instincts, unable to end their flight
Subject(s): Greece


MARS HILL, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where wild fancy wondrous fictions drew
Last Line: And knew the hour must come, -- but was not yet.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


MAYBE LEAVE-TAKING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds eat the pansies as soon as they open
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


MAYBE LEAVE-TAKING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds eat the pansies as soon as they open
Last Line: After all, and not what eats and is eaten away
Subject(s): Greece


ME AND ALMA, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time holds us together with a strong hand
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ME AND ALMA, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time holds us together with a strong hand
Last Line: As she and I. Stone and water, dirt and fern
Subject(s): Greece


ME AND APHRODITE AND THE OTHER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She doesn't move and she is stronger that I am
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ME AND APHRODITE AND THE OTHER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She doesn't move and she is stronger that I am
Last Line: If she can't, I'll try again to be married
Subject(s): Greece


MEANWHILE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange short trees, views of the mountain
Last Line: Grateful for their desire, but indifferent
Subject(s): Greece


MEDEA, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it, then, done?
Last Line: Falls.]
Subject(s): Greece; Mothers; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy; Greeks


MEDEA IN ATHENS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead, is he? Yes, our stranger guest said dead
Last Line: By which none weeps. I have forgotten thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Medea (mythology); Mythology


MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk
Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians


MEMPHIS SPARED BY SNOW, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And the reedy nile
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


MEN CAN MANEUVER NO HOLD, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Destiny - that pandora - ranges
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


MEN LIKE SALMON, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart does not want to go up
Last Line: Lo with vicious flies close to her heart
Subject(s): Greece


METAPHOR, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a trip, the first morning I saw it
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


MITHRIDATES AT CHIOS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know'st thou, o slave-cursed land!
Last Line: To break, not wield, the scourge wet with their blood and tears.
Subject(s): Chios (island), Greece; Mithridates Vi Eupator (d. 63 B.c.); Slavery; Mithrodates The Great; Serfs


MODERN ATHENS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If fate, though jealous of the second birth
Last Line: The awful skeleton of ancient days!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


MODERN GREECE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Who hath trod thy consecrated clime
Last Line: "and cry, ""this ancient soil hath nursed a glorious race!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


MODERN GREECE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As, in the legend which our childhood loved
Last Line: As all the spirit of nations has not known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


MOMENT IN MARBLE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a figure on the grecian urn
Last Line: How fares my kettle and my unlocked door.
Subject(s): Greece; Pottery And Potters; Greeks


MORE THAN NEW, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of the men begins to sing. The woman
Last Line: But justice is unmoved. Says, 'show me something %don't mess with me. Show me something I can believ
Subject(s): Greece


MORPHO MENELAUS, by ISAAC CATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like art, it winds up under glass
Last Line: Will be kept brief, and distant, a bit ambiguous, fragile as wings, %and prone to slip from the best
Subject(s): Greece; Mythology - Classical


MOTHERS, by JANE URQUHART    Poem Text                    
First Line: As once that stoic boy of sparta old
Last Line: To keep from men the heritage of fear.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Mothers; Sons; Sparta, Greece; Sorrow; Sadness


MOUNT PIERUS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heliconian springs, and rocky steeps
Last Line: And nine the earth, -- a deathless joy to man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Pierus (mountain), Greece


MOUNTAIN FACING A MOUNTAIN (1), by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is holding onto a ledge
Last Line: Its own virtue, its own separateness
Subject(s): Greece; Mountains


MOUNTAIN FACING A MOUNTAIN (2), by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What poetry demands is worse
Last Line: Its virtue, its own separateness
Subject(s): Greece


MUCHNESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She went back %knowing the way in her marrow
Last Line: All around her a world that used to be
Subject(s): Greece


MUSIC AT A DISTANCE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only twice has anyone
Last Line: And the sound of me singing
Subject(s): Greece


MY FATHER AND GOD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain comes down on the desert and the next day
Last Line: Making a huge %animal sound. It was just like a bear roaring, she said
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Greece


NAMES AND ALIASES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Helen pappamarkou (birth certificate)
Last Line: The feral child
Subject(s): Names; Greece


NATIONAL AIR: GREECE, by N. MANZAROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, 'tis thou, I know the gleaming
Subject(s): National Song - Greece


NAXOS, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There ariadne, racked with amorous pains
Last Line: "had never entered minos' royal gate!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece


NEAR KEOKUK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty-two greeks are dipping their feet in a creek
Last Line: And then the deep sleep of children.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


NEMEA, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song in the valley of nemea
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


NEMEA, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song in the valley of nemea
Last Line: Drone of the bald bee on the cold skull, %quiet, quiet, quiet
Subject(s): Greece


NEMEAN ODE FOR AUTOMEDES OF PHLIUS (PENTATHLON), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Graces, thread your gold
Last Line: The pentathlon victor
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


NEMEAN ODE FOR PYTHEAS OF AEGINA (PANCRATIUM), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He will abolish reckless pride
Last Line: That herald him over the land
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


NEMEAN ODE FOR TEISIAS OF AEGINA (WRESTLING MATCH), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like an expert pilot, %clio queen of song
Last Line: And from alpheus glinting in sunlight
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


NEVER UNDERHAND, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Resonates in man
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


NEW ODE TO A GRECIAN URN, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! How sad that simple truth
Last Line: I read the tale of how lhkqion apwlesen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Elgin Marbles; Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Greeks


NEW YORK ADDRESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun had just gone out
Last Line: I wait for the silence to resume
Subject(s): Greece


NEWS FROM OLYMPIA, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Olympia? Yes, strange tidings from the city
Last Line: To banish yet the dream.
Subject(s): Olympia, Greece


NIGHT BEFORE LEAVING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sit at the kitchen table
Last Line: We get out, %and it floats again
Subject(s): Greece


NIGHT MUSIC, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits on the mountain that is her home
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


NIGHT MUSIC, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits on the mountain that is her home
Last Line: To sit with their children and the old %will listen to the music with unreadable eyes
Subject(s): Greece


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 3. AN ENGLISH VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew the stars would come
Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on!
Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 5. VOICE OF AN ENGLISH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: South!...These stars I know!...And south is greece!
Last Line: That hide but do not hush the river's brink. . . .
Subject(s): Death; Greece; Hearts; Sleep; Stars; Dead, The; Greeks


NIGHT STANDING BACK FROM THE WORLD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is this aloneness I have learned
Subject(s): Greece


NIGHTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I carry joy as a choir sings, %but quietly as the dark
Last Line: I notice the ones in pain %shine more than the others %it's so they can be found %I think. Found and
Subject(s): Greece


NINTH DAWN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not for nothing we notice a wider theme
Last Line: All along, will swarm out again under the pliant boughs
Subject(s): Greece


NO MORE MARRIAGES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, there ain't going to be no more marriages
Last Line: Not even if I have to eat alone all those years. %they're never going to do that to me
Subject(s): Greece


NONE HOLDS JOY, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Through his length of time
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


NOR THE MOON NO PRETEND, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this woman is simple
Last Line: Until the world is done?
Variant Title(s): Nor The Moon Nor Preten
Subject(s): Greece


NOT A PRETTY BIRD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was not a nightingale
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


NOT A PRETTY BIRD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was not a nightingale
Last Line: Not the transformation
Subject(s): Greece


NOT KNOWING THE RULES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The two white-bellied antelope stood still
Last Line: On the grass in front of me from the back
Subject(s): Greece


NOT MEMORIES BUT A QUALITY REMEMBERED, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the inconsequential laughter of two children
Last Line: In silence, in a shade that was a kind of sunlight
Subject(s): Greece


NOT SAYING MUCH, by LINDA GREGG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father is dead and there is nothing left
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


NOT SAYING MUCH, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father is dead and there is nothing left
Last Line: Did not talk to them much, and neither time %nor that fine place gave them a sweetness
Subject(s): Greece


NOT SCATTERED VARIOUSLY FAR, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I keep saying, is she here? Is that her?
Last Line: She will tell of truble with her mother %while birds sing. It will be enough
Subject(s): Greece


NOT SINGING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you stop looking at the garden
Last Line: No love. Not singing. But somber thing. %a going to the opening and entering
Subject(s): Greece


NOT UNSEATED, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Gods stand worlds from men
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


NOT WANTING HERSELF, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not wanting herself, she tries to go
Last Line: Separates her mind like milk
Subject(s): Greece


NOT WANTING MYSELF, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not wanting myself, I try to go
Last Line: Separates my mind, like milk
Subject(s): Greece


NOTHING HAPPENING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing happened in the city today unless
Last Line: With fruit on top for sale. Or me %not keeping house for any man I love %or throwing water on the ho
Subject(s): Greece


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


NUMBERLESS BENTS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Distinguish men
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


OAK AND OLIVE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I was born a londoner
Last Line: One of the englishmen!
Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips


ODE TO THE GLORY OF GREECE (A FRAGMENT), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hellas victorious
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ODYSSEY, SIXTH BOOK, by M. WHITCOMB HESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In clear, deep pools
Subject(s): Greece


OEDIPUS EXCEEDING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finally oedipus came back. Returned
Last Line: To be happy in the elements
Subject(s): Greece


OEDIPUS: CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, here thy wanderings end
Last Line: With the nereid company!
Subject(s): Colonos (mountain), Greece


OEDIPUS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What sophocles could undertake alone
Last Line: To please you more, but burning of a pope.
Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Greeks; Dramatists


OEDIPUS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When athens all the grecian state did guide
Last Line: The first play bury'd since the wollen act.
Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Greeks; Dramatists


OF ABSENCE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climb the mountain %up steps the moon has already taken
Last Line: Of absence. Of things broken %to see if the moon is a mouth to see if I am what it wants
Subject(s): Greece


OFF CAPE COLONNA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aloof they crown the foreland lone
Last Line: And many a deadlier wreck.
Subject(s): Cape Colonna, Greece


OFF MESOLONGI, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lights of mesolongi gleam
Last Line: To gaze, and pass.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Missolonghi, Greece; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece; Ocean


OFFICIAL LOVE STORY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a painting by lucas cranach
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


OFFICIAL LOVE STORY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a painting by lucas cranach
Last Line: Of christ in his loss and fear, %sing of the birth after, %sing of the mystery to come
Subject(s): Greece


OLD PICTURES IN A NEW LAND, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dirt bird hedge light scent. A commonwealth
Last Line: And a color. Pewter. Blue. Any color but green
Subject(s): Greece


OLD SONGS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds far away in the air
Last Line: Moving the dark around
Subject(s): Greece


OLYMPIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clio showering gifts that charm
Last Line: Of the nightingale of ceos
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Chariot Racing; Games - Greece


OLYMPIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (HORSE RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Splendid in destiny
Last Line: Unrocked in realms of peace
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LACHON OF CEOS (BOYS' FOOT RACE) (1), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brilliant daughter of time and night
Last Line: Pierced through chaerolas' barrowing tomb
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boys; Games - Greece; Racing


OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LACHON OF CEOS (BOYS' FOOT RACE) (2), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lauds to lachon %from zeus great lord
Last Line: That feeds the fame of ceos
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Boys; Games - Greece; Racing


OLYMPIAN ODE FOR LIPARION OF CEOS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sing of pytho %and altars piled with sheep
Last Line: Won in phrygian pelops' famous games
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUS, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Water is best, but gold blazing like fire
Last Line: With victors, foremost in every skull among the hellenes
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Best of all things is water; but gold, like a gleaming fire
Last Line: Let it be mine to stand beside you %in victory, for my skil l at the forefront of the hellenes
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as water is most excellent, while god, like fire flaming
Last Line: And be foremost in the lore of song among hellenes in every land
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN ODES: 1. PRAISE OF HIERON'S OLYMPIC VICTORY, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each element to water yields
Last Line: Proclaim'd unrival'd in my song.
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


OLYMPIAN VICTORS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood on the slope of kronos gray, above the olympian plain
Last Line: And played in the porch of echo with a murmur long and sweet.
Subject(s): Athletes; Olympia, Greece; Temples; Victory; Mosques


OLYMPUS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With no sharp-sided peak or sudden come
Last Line: To grudge these votive tears to beauty that has been.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Olympus (mountain), Greece


ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A roman master stands on grecian ground
Last Line: By all the blended powers of earth and heaven.
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Flaminius, Titus Quinctius (227-174 B.c.; Freedom; Greek Independence (196 B.c.); Liberty


ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn
Last Line: "which, at jove's will, descends on pelion's top."
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Flaminius, Titus Quinctius (227-174 B.c.; Freedom; Greek Independence (196 B.c.); Liberty


ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere!
Last Line: For a robin's song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks


ON ITHACA STANDING, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tread softly, for here you stand
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ON ITHACA STANDING, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tread softly, for here you stand
Last Line: The green sea licks
Subject(s): Greece


ON LESBOS REMEMBERING HER MOUNTAIN ON PAROS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am back in greece after three years
Last Line: And not anyone even walking away, or desappearing %refusing to be see. Not even someone being lost
Subject(s): Greece


ON MILTIADES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Miltiades! Thy valour best
Last Line: Taught by thyself at marathon
Subject(s): "marathon, Greece;miltiades, The Younger (554-523);


ON RETURN TO GREECE IN 1842, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years ago I deemed that if once more
Last Line: Conferred or cultured by a friend or foe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hearest thou not the pipe of faunus, sweeping
Last Line: By music and enchantment all surrounded.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Greece; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Statues; Greeks


ON THE TOMB OF THEMISTOCLES, by PLATO COMICUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: By the sea's margin, on the watery strand
Last Line: Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Plato The Comic
Subject(s): Piraeus, Port Of Athens, Greece; Themistocles (524-460 B.c.)


ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis time this heart should be unmoved
Last Line: And take thy rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Byron's Farewell;on Completing My Thirty-sixth Year;hail And Farewell;byron's Latest Verses
Subject(s): Adversity; Missolonghi, Greece; War; Mesolonghi, Greece; Mesolongion, Greece


ONLY TRUTH AND THE GODS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: One hearth, one state of mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


ORDINARY SONGS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull with pneumonia, wrapped on the porch
Last Line: On the shard a reclining naked woman kissed by a god
Subject(s): Sea; Absence; Greece; Greeks


ORDINARY SONGS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull with pneumonia, wrapped on the porch
Subject(s): Greece


OSCHOPHORIKON; VINTAGE PROCESSIONAL, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The staffs are wreathed; move on, move on
Last Line: From athens into phaleron.
Subject(s): Autumn; Bacchus; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Greeks


OTHER COUNTRY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is always singing and rejoicing
Last Line: Each carried in the smooth arms of a snake %to the unknown which is finally theirs
Subject(s): Greece


PAEAN (1), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were just decking out the food
Last Line: And exuberant ballads of boys flare up
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PAEAN (2), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: One writer picks another's brains
Last Line: Is no small job
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PAEAN (3), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why beat around the bear?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PAESTUM, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around a lemon tree throwing
Last Line: Steps down, is whole there, and stands
Subject(s): Greece; Nature; Greeks


PAN, by FERNAND MAZADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan, as he came toward pheidippides
Last Line: Pan whirled of a sudden and cut mad capers.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAPA ONCE WENT TO GREECE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor on my pinafore
Subject(s): Greece


PARRHASIUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There stood an unsold captive in the mart
Last Line: We!
Subject(s): Greece; Paintings & Painters; Parrhasius (5th Century); Tragedy; Greeks


PART LEFT OVER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's as though I were an event
Last Line: The special beauty of what's absent
Subject(s): Greece


PART OF ME WANTING EVERYTHING TO LIVE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This new england kind of love reminds me
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


PART OF ME WANTING EVERYTHING TO LIVE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This new england kind of love reminds me
Last Line: And near, and endings more final. If it must %be winter, let it be absolutely winter
Subject(s): Greece


PARTY ON OLYMPUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When soul love & scrunch love
Last Line: Be more parties on olympus
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology); Olympus (mountain), Greece


PASIPHAE, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pasiphae, prey %to the lust of cypris
Last Line: When he learned her scheme
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PASSION, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is death to the man who is already dead?
Last Line: Into glory by the crucifixion of their hearts
Subject(s): Greece


PAST PERFECT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Memory is what has died
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


PAST PERFECT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Memory is what has died
Last Line: I remembered seeing %snow through a window %with someone beside me
Subject(s): Greece


PAUL IN ATHENS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard a stranger, crito -- such a man!
Last Line: A prudent man, our governor, and wise.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


PAUL ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul is an emblem so bright
Last Line: Against a metal wheelbarrow
Subject(s): Greece


PAYING THE PRICE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who lived in sweet illusions
Last Line: On the fine roses in his weedy backyard
Subject(s): Greece


PELASGIAN AND CYCLOPEAN HILLS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye cliffs of masonry, enormous piles
Last Line: And thus these mighty things were made to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


PEOPLE WHO LIVE FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man in the new england village was not really
Last Line: Or maybe northern california among the great trees
Subject(s): Greece


PERMESSUS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then be my guide / wandering permessus, upward through thy vale
Last Line: At evening to her bower.
Subject(s): Permessus (river), Greece


PERSIAN VERSION, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truth-loving persians do not dwell upon
Last Line: Despite a strong defence and adverse weather %all arms combined magnificently together
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece; Persian Wars


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


PETRAEAN ODE FOR CLEOPTOLEMUS OF THESSALY (HORSE RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Best is splendid destiny
Last Line: To gather the fame of chariot triumph
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PHARSALIA, by LUCAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where eurus blows, and wintry suns arise
Last Line: There met the war's worst rage, and caesar's blackest deeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Subject(s): Parricide; Pharsalia, Greece


PHILOCTETES AT LEMNOS; SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN AT LEMNOS, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On this lone isle whose rugged rocks affright
Last Line: That parts famed trachis from the euboic shore.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet Supposed To Be Written At Lemnos;at Lemnos
Subject(s): Lemnos (island), Greece


PICTURES OF MARRIAGE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the way arnolfini holds his wife's hand
Last Line: Into what they dig up to eat. Into that music
Subject(s): Greece


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 6. THE GODS OF GREECE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full-blossoming moon! In thy fair light
Last Line: The stars all-eternal.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


PINDAR AND CORINNA; FOR CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, C.S.C., by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Corinna, hail the victress! Evoae!'
Last Line: Ethereal touched his soul awake with smiles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Greece; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Praise; Greeks; Male-female Relations


PLATAEA: THE ATHENIAN MONUMENT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If valour's best be gallantly to die
Last Line: Laboured, and here in ageless honour lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi


PLATAEA: THE SPARTAN MONUMENT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the dark death cloud they passed, to set
Last Line: Into the splendour from the night beneath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi


PLUMS FAILING WELL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So what if plums fall
Last Line: Small piece by small piece
Subject(s): Greece


POET GOES ABOUT HER BUSINESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Michele has become another dead little girl. And easy poem
Last Line: It seemed to know exactly where it wanted to go. %toward any dark trees
Subject(s): Greece


POST-WAR ROLL CALL, by NICHOLAS PAPPAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those nights with the glorious woes are over
Subject(s): Greece


PRAISING SPRING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is taken by each thing and grows complete
Last Line: Bend in the sunlight as the rain continues to fall
Subject(s): Greece


PRECISION, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is modesty in nature. In the small
Last Line: With skill from one to the next, singing
Subject(s): Greece


PRESENCE IN ABSENCE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poetry is not made of words
Last Line: And barking after the train is gone
Subject(s): Greece


PRESSURE AGAINST EMPTINESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo's left fist covers his heart
Last Line: Away in the fields and within their bodies
Subject(s): Greece


PROCESSIONAL (1), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: One criterion, one approach
Last Line: All the gladness dies
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PROCESSIONAL (2), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: God heaps on
Last Line: An especial grief %for each
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PROCESSIONAL FOR DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES, by HERMOCLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: See how the mightiest gods, and best-beloved
Last Line: Or to stone will charm him.
Variant Title(s): Demeterius Enters Athens
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Heroism; Parades; Heroes; Heroines


PROLOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What greece, when learning flourished, only knew
Last Line: But 'tis your suffrage makes authentique wit.
Subject(s): Greece; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Greeks; Dramatists


PROLOGUE: SPOKEN BY LORD BUCKHURST, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pish, lord, I wish this prologue was but greek
Last Line: Not cleomenes' more than dorset's spirit.
Subject(s): Greece; Heroism; Soul; Greeks; Heroes; Heroines


PROTOGENES AND APELLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When poets wrote, and painters drew
Last Line: That all was full, and round, and fair.
Subject(s): Greece; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Venus (goddess); Greeks


PYTHIAN ODE FOR ALEXIDAMUS OF METAPONTION (BOYS' WRESTLING MATCH), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Victory, source of sweetness
Last Line: Surging achaean acts of strength
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PYTHIAN ODE FOR ARISTOTELES OF LARISA (HORSE RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hestia, goddess of hearth %on your golden throne
Last Line: Lasher of racing horses
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


PYTHIAN ODE FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE (FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT RACE), by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always apollo the blond
Last Line: And a heaping share of the best parts?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Chariot Racing; Games - Greece


PYTHIAN ODES: 2. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magnificent city, syracuse, precinct of ares
Last Line: Is a slippery path. May I %please and consort with noble men
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece; Horse Racing


PYTHIAN ODES: 3. FOR HIERO OF SYRACUSE, by PINDAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that chiron, son of philyra
Last Line: Excellence by illustrious song %is feted long, but accomplishment is easy for few
Subject(s): Games - Greece


REJECTED ADDRESSES: DRURY'S DIRGE, BY LAURA MATILDA, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Balmy zephyrs, lightly flitting
Last Line: Never, never let us part!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Truth; Youth


REMEMBRANCE: GREEK FOLK-SONG, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not unto the forest - not unto the forest, o my lover!
Last Line: There is memory in the forest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Forests; Greece; Honor; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Woods; Greeks


RESISTING THE MUSIC, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the one who took the broken doll
Subject(s): Greece


RESURRECTION, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the tower in your city burn. Let the steps
Last Line: My life gives to them now. To make them flare %as they do inme, bright and hot, bright and burning
Subject(s): Greece


RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The veteran greeks came home
Last Line: Hesitant, sure and slow: %she, alone in her tower
Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry And Poets; Trojan War


REVENOUS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear god, who are my mountain, my kissing birds
Last Line: As bloody lilies. But please, not this nothing
Subject(s): Greece


RHODIAN SWALLOW-SONG, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She has come, she has come, the swallow!
Last Line: Open, open your door to the swallow!
Subject(s): Greece; Guests; Swallows; Greeks; Visiting


RIGHT PEOPLE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I liked everything about the gods
Last Line: Without rising above or letting go
Subject(s): Greece


RIVER AGAIN AND AGAIN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we stayed with each other long enough
Last Line: And we would know each other sometimes %with a love that touches indifference
Subject(s): Greece


RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are thy splendors, dorian corinth? Where
Last Line: Alone are spared to chant the halcyon's dirge.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins


RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, corinth, are thy glories now
Last Line: The nereids of thy double sea %alone remain to wail for thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins


RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER AEGINA, GREECE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many the feet that filled
Last Line: And you have perished!
Subject(s): Abandonment; Greece; Mountains; Ruins


SACRED GROUND, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A place to mark the graces, when they come
Last Line: To utter these high secrets reverently.
Subject(s): Muses; Olympus (mountain), Greece


SAFE AND BEAUTIFUL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moon, you are getting worse and worse
Last Line: Old moon, play safe, safe, beautiful and safe
Subject(s): 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


SALUTE TO GREECE, by WILLIAM ASHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is greece to us now?
Last Line: And wide the portal %opens upon that word! - 'enter, immortal!'
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; World War Ii


SALVINE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead is old greece,' they mourned ere yet arose
Last Line: The myth of jove took rise from lesser majesty.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


SANTORIN, by BARBARA HUGHES FOWLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cinders float in our wake
Subject(s): Santorini Island, Greece


SANTORIN (A LEGEND OF THE AEGEAN), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you, sea lady
Last Line: And the sea was only sea.
Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Santorini Island, Greece


SANTORINI MIST, by LIANA SAKELLIOU-SCHULTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old say %it's moisture rolling in from the sea
Last Line: To break calmly %over my muscular earth
Subject(s): Mist; Santorini Island, Greece; Sea


SAPPHO; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the spot: -- 'tis here tradition says
Last Line: [she throws herself from the precipice.
Subject(s): Lesbos (island), Greece; Mythology - Classical; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide


SASKIA AND ALMA GO DIFFERENT WAYS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My life was already desperate when she got sick
Last Line: My eyes vacant, blurring her in the light
Subject(s): Greece


SAYING GOOD-BYE TO THE DEAD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk on the dirt roads being my father
Last Line: Sweet rolls to eat in my room at the hotel
Variant Title(s): Saying Goodbye To The Dea
Subject(s): Greece


SCENT OF WHITE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old ox and the ancient woman labor mightily
Last Line: By nothing but goats
Subject(s): Greece


SECRETS OF POETRY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very long ago when the exquisite celadon bowl
Last Line: More perfect. Which turned out to be true
Subject(s): Greece


SEEING A HOBBLED HORSE CROSS THE FIELD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Others died for belief, I have been reduced
Subject(s): Greece


SEPARATION, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you came and saw me now you might remember
Last Line: High on the mountain bending down to the earth %to look at a flowering weed or something
Subject(s): Greece


SHE HAD EXPECTED SOMETHING ELSE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love aroused her like a heifer
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


SHE HAD EXPECTED SOMETHING ELSE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love aroused her like a heifer
Last Line: From batu to prambanan
Subject(s): Greece


SHE WRITES TO THE MAN WHO WRITES OF HER IN HIS POEMS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You tried to hide me in darkness
Last Line: A bird is singing, repeating %itself over and over. And over
Subject(s): Greece


SHIP NEWS, by A-N    Poem Text                    
First Line: Piraeus - salamis - what sails are these
Last Line: Piraeus . . . Salamis . . . They are lost between . . .
Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Greece; Shipwrecks; Greeks


SHOPPING BAG LADY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered
Last Line: And fading in the most important place we have yet devised
Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lad
Subject(s): Cities; Greece


SIGISMUNDO, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fete confused me. Guests played the part of gods
Last Line: Lie for the chance to drown in that blue water of his. %sigismundo
Subject(s): Greece


SILENCE SINGING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It happened when we were over by the trees
Last Line: Even so it is tru that stones %make the water and a joy we can hear %we can still wade into the rive
Subject(s): Greece


SINGING ENOUGH TO FEEL THE RAIN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am alone writing as quickly as I can
Last Line: Lived a long time on the sacrament alone %but I also sing to inhabit this abundance
Subject(s): Greece


SINGLE MUSIC FLOODING FORWARD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house is almost empty now ...
Subject(s): Greece


SKYLORD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The small hawk flutters fiercely upright
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


SKYLORD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The small hawk flutters fiercely upright
Last Line: From you joy in the ground as you raise each %prey in your claws from the dear lost earth
Subject(s): Greece


SLIPSHOD SCHOLAR GETS AROUND TO GREECE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of the ancient greeks
Last Line: And I think of her simply as a daughter who was over-daddycated
Subject(s): Greece


SLOW DANCE BY THE OCEAN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The days are hot and moist now. The doves say
Last Line: In the coming and going of time. I dance as slowly %as possible in the fields of barley and weeds
Variant Title(s): Overcas
Subject(s): Greece


SMALL LIZARD, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lizard just beyond the lamp's shine
Last Line: Breathing in this stone room, without evidence
Subject(s): Greece


SMALL THING LOVE IS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body is filled by a summer of lust
Last Line: Against the strength and purring %of the wet couple undone %by a power only the earth could love
Subject(s): Greece


SO DIFFERENT FROM HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a day with heavy rain I went with two men
Last Line: I am sure it is the only life that god can taste
Subject(s): Greece


SOLON, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eye
Last Line: To make the plagues afflicting us things past.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Tyranny & Tyrants


SOMETHING GONE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I seem to have reached the end of all response
Subject(s): Greece


SOMETHING SCARY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the phone joel tells me
Last Line: Like the terrible brightness of heaven
Subject(s): Greece


SOMETIMES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul makes out of ashes
Last Line: To the woodwork, even after all that, %there is a singing about paradise
Subject(s): Greece


SONG, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bird is not smart. The heart
Last Line: One calling from all the other %songs at the end of each day%in the very last light
Subject(s): Greece


SONG OF THE CROW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lords and ladies, for your ear"
Last Line: "and your crow, as in duty most bounden, shall pray"
Subject(s): Birds;crows;greece; Greeks


SONG TO THE SULIOTES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up to battle! Sons of suli
Last Line: Then away despite of thunder!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Greece; War


SONNET, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still, the hanging gardens were a dream
Last Line: And error loves and nourishes thy soul.
Variant Title(s): "be Still. The Hanging Gardens Were A Dream"";
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


SONNETS FROM GREECE: ELEUSIS, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here for a thousand years processional
Last Line: But thro' the rift their choirs in silver train %still passing out rehearsed the human creed
Subject(s): Eleusis, Greece


SONNETS FROM GREECE: MT. LYKAION, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone on lykaion since man hath been
Subject(s): Greece; Lykaion, Mount; Greeks; Lycaeus


SONNETS FROM GREECE: MT. LYKAION, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone on lykaion since man hath been
Last Line: Suck out my heart, and on this awful ground %the great wind kill my little shell with sound
Subject(s): Greece; Lykaion, Mount


SONNETS FROM GREECE: NEAR HELIKON, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By such an all-embalming summer day
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


SONNETS FROM GREECE: NEAR HELIKON, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By such an all-embalming summer day
Last Line: Whereof a migrant bird in passing sung, %and the girl closed her window not to hear
Subject(s): Greece


SONNETS FROM GREECE: SUNIUM, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the strings of the aegean lyre
Last Line: The sun that harps them with his golden hand %doth slowly with his hand of gold consume
Subject(s): Greece; Sounion (cape), Greece


SONS OF ANTENOR, OR HELEN DEMANDED BACK, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Godly antenor's wife %of the pious mien and movement
Last Line: Of earth and all their insolence.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


SOUL RIPENING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is so bright and the air so clear
Last Line: Back up the path this evening
Subject(s): Greece


SPARTA, by NICHOLAS MICHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Land of the lordly mien and iron frame!
Last Line: Like memory's wail for glories long gone by.
Subject(s): Sparta, Greece


SPARTA, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed of sparta...Of the withered hill
Last Line: On athens of the everlasting light.
Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Sparta, Greece; Towns; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


SPARTA, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er all two rival cities reared the brow
Last Line: The tender mother urged her son to die.
Subject(s): Sparta, Greece


SPIRIT AND WHAT IS LEFT BEHIND (AFTER GIOTTO), by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One holding the feet, one the hands, another with her
Last Line: His face, at last for the first and only time, briefly %briefly
Subject(s): Greece


SPIRIT NEITHER SORTS NOR SEPARATES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a flower. We call it god %it closes and opens and dies
Last Line: And departing are flowers %a mouth singing, your heart the way it was
Subject(s): Greece


SPRING WIND, by BERNARD SPENCER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring shakes the windows; doors whang to
Last Line: To set that bony peak lykahvetoss, %athens, and all the opening year of fire
Subject(s): Greece


STAYING ON, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These geese go over
Last Line: Arriving their way %into winter
Subject(s): Greece


STILL, ATTENTIVE, CLENCHED, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fir, poplar and eucalyptus around the house
Last Line: I know he knows I am there. Knows how much I am afraid
Subject(s): Greece


STRANGER IN THE WONDERFUL LIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This woman has no lover. She bathes and stands
Last Line: A color more glamorous than ever, she should %speak now. If she can't, she should make a sign
Subject(s): Greece


STRONG POMEGRANATE FLOWERS AND SEEDS OF THE MIND, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask about the men in my past and it makes me think
Last Line: As greek letters cut into the marble. I tell you this %because you love me and have such a serius mo
Subject(s): Greece


STUBBORN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take the alley instead of the street
Last Line: Giving it to no one
Subject(s): Greece


STUFF, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High up there she saw what
Last Line: Dazed by facts and cared-for %circle facts
Subject(s): Greece


SUGGESTED BY THE RUINS OF A MOUNTAIN-TEMPLE IN ARCADIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like stranded ice when freshets die
Last Line: The quarries be!
Subject(s): Greece; Ruins; Temples; Greeks; Mosques


SUMMER IN A SMALL TOWN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the men leave me
Last Line: Loving the smell and the houses %so completely it leaves my heart empty
Subject(s): Greece


SUN MOON KELP FLOWER OR GOAT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Later I would say, I have cut myself free from order
Last Line: But there is kindness which feeds us another way, %with windlessness, empty heat, or the taste of gr
Subject(s): Greece


SUNIUM, by NICHOLAS MICHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: High o'er the billows sunium glances now
Last Line: Which glory owns and gods protect no more.
Subject(s): Sounion (cape), Greece; Colonna; Sunium


SURROUNDED BY SHEEP AND LOW GROUND, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When death comes, we take off our clothes
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


SURROUNDED BY SHEEP AND LOW GROUND, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When death comes, we take off our clothes
Last Line: The weeds, snake, or crippled mare %never leave behind what the light shone on
Subject(s): Greece


SYRA (A TRANSMITTED REMINISCENCE), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fleeing from scio's smouldering vines
Last Line: And lucre none and love was righteousness.
Subject(s): Syra (island), Greece


SYROS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In syros' harbor leftover cargo steamers lay waiting
Subject(s): Ships - Abandoning Of; Syros Island, Greece


SYROS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In syros' harbor abandoned merchant ships lay idle
Last Line: What a powerful fleet, what splendid connections
Subject(s): Ships - Abandoning Of; Syros Island, Greece


TEMPE, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The smooth peneus from his glassy flood
Last Line: And spring's elysian bloom.
Subject(s): Tempe (vale), Greece


TEMPE, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From tempe's vale next ancient peneus came
Last Line: And varying greens in the gay covert shone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Tempe (vale), Greece


TEMPE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are in tempe
Last Line: And float into the past with softly swelling sail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Tempe (vale), Greece


TEMPE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lapped in thessalia's forest-mantled hills
Last Line: Weary with many wanderings, to the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Tempe (vale), Greece


TERRIFYING POWER OF DARKNESS IS INSEPARABLE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen (kirillov said) to a great idea: there was
Last Line: If you go away, you will make my heart blind in me
Subject(s): Greece


THE ACHARNIANS: IN PRAISE OF THE POET, by ARISTOPHANES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since first to exhibit his plays began
Last Line: But teachings the things that are best.
Variant Title(s): Aristophane's Defence [or, The Poet And The People]
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism


THE APPARENT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I say transparency, I don't mean seeing through
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE ARCHIPELAGO, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sail before the morning breeze
Last Line: Marquesas!
Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Greece; Greeks


THE BATTLE OF MARATHON, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The war of greece with persia's haughty king
Last Line: Fill all the seas, and thunder thro' the skies.
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece; Persian Wars


THE BOAR-HUNT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These having halted bade blow horns, and rode
Last Line: Foamed out the latest wrath of all his life.
Subject(s): Calydon, Greece; Hunting; Pigs; Hunters; Boars; Hogs


THE BOATMEN OF SANTORIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boatmen on the bay of santorin
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Santorini Island, Greece


THE BRIDE OF THE GREEK ISLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come from the woods with the citron-flowers
Last Line: In the sudden flow of a plaintive lay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brides; Greece; Women; Greeks


THE BUILDING OF THE ARGO, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When argos' sons, the golden fleece to gain
Last Line: Their swelling breasts and shapes half-human stood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Iolchos, Greece; Jason; Mythology - Classical


THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In our museum galleries
Last Line: Thine also, mighty nineveh?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Bulls; Greece; Greeks


THE CAPTURE OF ATHENS, by ORACLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now hath the cast been made, and the net wide-spread is awaiting
Last Line: Tunnies come with the night, slipping on through the moon-lit water.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


THE CLAPPING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did I go there enough? Was it enough when I tried
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE CONCENTRATION OF ATHENS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should we wonder that from such small space
Last Line: Was as a father's counsel to his son.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


THE CRANES OF IBYCUS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From rhegium to the isthmus, long
Last Line: Struck by the lightning that reveal'd!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Cranes (birds); Ibycus


THE CURSE OF MINERA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run
Last Line: And she who raised, in vain regrets, the strife.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Sunset In The Morea;morea
Subject(s): Peloponnesus, Greece; Morea


THE DANCE OF THE MUSES, by HESIOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Begin we from the muses, o my song!
Last Line: His lambs beneath the holy helicon.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Helicon (mountain), Greece


THE EDGE OF SOMETHING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have decided I will not be like john hu anymore
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trumpets of the four winds of the world
Last Line: Hasten thine hour and halt not, till thy work be done.
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Light; Revolutions; War; Liberty; Greeks


THE FLOWERS OF HELICON, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The solitudes of helicon
Last Line: To her own western world again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Flowers; Helicon (mountain), Greece


THE FOUNTAIN OF AGANIPPE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enchanted vale! / well did the early worshippers of song
Last Line: More eloquent than words, their love and awe.
Subject(s): Helicon (mountain), Greece


THE GARDEN OF METRODORUS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The athenians mark the moss-grown gate
Last Line: Which noteless thus apart can keep its dell?
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Greece; Greeks


THE GODS LAUGHED ON HIGH OLYMPUS, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think the gods laughed on high olympus as thy
Last Line: We listen -- for your coming, walt whitman!
Subject(s): Olympus (mountain), Greece; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


THE GRECIAN GIRL'S DREAM OF THE BLESSED ISLANDS; TO HER LOVER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it the moon, or was it morning's ray
Last Line: Thy lip shall teach me something more than dreams!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE GREEK BOY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone are the glorious greeks of old
Last Line: The nations silent in its shade.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE GREEK EMIGRANTS SONG, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now launch the boat upon the wave
Last Line: And free the man, and free the mind.
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Immigrants; Liberty; Greeks; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


THE GREEK FATHERS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let heathen sing thy heathen praise
Last Line: With paul's own mantle blest.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE GREEK PARTISAN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our free flag is dancing
Last Line: Like autumn sheaves are lying.
Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks


THE GREEKS' RETURN FROM BATTLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! They come, they come!
Last Line: Io! They come, they come!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): Ancient Song Of Victory
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE HOMECOMING OF THE SHEEP, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheep are coming home in greece
Last Line: And the climbing moon grows small.
Subject(s): Greece; Sheep; World War I; Greeks; First World War


THE HOUSE OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue-eyed pallas, having spoken thus
Last Line: Bestowed on king alcinous and his house.
Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece


THE ISLAND OF SKYROS; SONNET, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where we stood together, we three men
Last Line: "war with this force, and breathe, and am its king."
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Skyros (island), Greece; World War I - Casualties


THE ISLANDS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are the islands to me
Last Line: What is greece?
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Greeks


THE ISLANDS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can love of land give to me
Last Line: And delos, the clasp of the white necklace?
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions


THE ISLANDS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can love of land give to me
Last Line: And fall back.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions


THE ISLANDS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What has love of land given to you'
Last Line: "and they answered -- ""peace."
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions


THE ISLANDS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But beauty is set apart
Last Line: And from greece.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions


THE ISLANDS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are the islands to me
Last Line: And its bleak sacrifice?
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Greeks


THE ISLES OF GREECE; AN APPEAL FOR THE CANDIOTES, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The isles of greece! The isles of greece!'
Last Line: The oppressed, the trampled to deliver!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE LAMB, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a picture I had after the war
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE LANDING OF KING GEORGE I OF GREECE AT THE PIRAEUS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature and man should join with one accord
Last Line: For what her mighty hand, unfolding, gave!
Subject(s): George I, King Of Greece (1845-1913); Greece; Greeks


THE LAST NIGHT IN MITHYMNA, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind heaving in the trees / my room quiet and warm
Last Line: And swells again.
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE LETTER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not feeling strong yet, but I am taking
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE LORDSHIP OF CORFU; A LEGEND OF 1516, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What time o'er gory lands and threatening seas
Last Line: "thus venice claims the lordship of corfu!"
Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece; Legends


THE LOST BELLS OF HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Helpless, the one and then the other
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill
Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song.
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE MASACRE AT SCIO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not for scio's children slain
Last Line: Is shivered, to be worn no more.
Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Chios (island), Greece; Massacres


THE MUCHNESS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She went back / knowing the way in her marrow
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE NEW APHRODITE, by WILLIAM PETERFIELD TRENT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the deep sea - stream
Last Line: Daughter of god.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


THE ORGY ON PARNASSUS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You phrase-tormenting fantastic chorus
Last Line: And here was a bard shall outlast you all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Language; Life; Love; Muses; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Words; Vocabulary


THE PART LEFT OVER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's as though I were an event
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE PARTING SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A youth went forth to exile, from a home
Last Line: "murmuring, ""return, my son!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Greece; Parting; Greeks


THE PERSIAN VERSION, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truth-loving persians do not dwell upon
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece; Persian Wars


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


THE POET AMONG THE TREES, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oak is the noblest tree that grows
Last Line: And dainty flavour to our custard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Poetry & Poets; Trees


THE POET'S TITLES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy euterpe teaches me to hate
Last Line: And athens' fame.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy


THE PROFESSOR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "seven pupils, in the class"
Last Line: "three are benches, four are walls."
Subject(s): Boredom;greece;schools; Ennui;greeks;students


THE PROTECTRESS OF ATHENS, by SOLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our city, by the immortal gods' intent
Last Line: Pallas of athens shields us with her arm.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


THE RESURRECTION, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the tower in your city burn. Let the steps
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The veteran greeks came home
Subject(s): Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Penelope (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey


THE RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, corinth, is the glory of thy keep
Last Line: Unravished yet, to weep thy downfall stay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins


THE SAILING OF THE ARGO, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By juno, kindled in the heros' breasts
Last Line: Dizzied with scourge of strange desire.
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Iolchos, Greece; Jason; Mythology - Classical


THE SECRETS OF POETRY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very long ago when the exquisite celadon bowl
Last Line: More perfect. Which turned out to be true
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE SENATE OF CALLIMACHI, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In callimachi's halls are met
Last Line: "the gathering word, ""unite! Unite!"
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE SHADE OF THESUEUS; AN ANCIENT GREEK TRADITION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know ye not when our dead
Last Line: And spears on marathon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE SHOPPING BAG LADY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You told people I would know easily what the murdered
Variant Title(s): The Shopping-bag Lady
Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Urban Life; Greeks


THE SIEGE OF CORINTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the year since jesus died for men
Last Line: Thus was corinth lost and won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): The Storming Of Corinth
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Courage; Valor; Bravery


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 SLEEPER OF MARATHON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay upon the solemn plain
Last Line: Who doth not wake in might?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Marathon, Greece


THE STATUE OF VICTOR HUGO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since in athens god stood plain for adoration
Last Line: What the vesture of his soul revealed on earth.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Sea; Ocean


THE SUNIAN PALLAS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By sunian's rock I took my way
Last Line: "go, fight, and win the conqueror's rest."
Subject(s): Sounion (cape), Greece; Colonna; Sunium


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 TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS, AT ATHENS, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not silent! - oracles are thine
Last Line: And a new iphitus has waked, beneath its string!
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE TOMBS OF PLATAEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And there they sleep! - the men who stood
Last Line: Till rushing winds proclaim, -- the land is free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Plataea, Greece; Graveyards; Laspi


THE TRYST, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the land of ra the flaming, by the shores of nile's slow
Last Line: As of old, by nile's slow waters, in the land beyond the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Passion; Prayer Meetings; Thebes, Greece


THE UNKNOWN GOD, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To learned athens, led by fame
Last Line: Ah! Still that altar stands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): God; Athens, Greece


THE VINE AND THE GOAT, by EVENUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Although you eat me to the root
Last Line: When you are made a sacrifice.
Subject(s): Greece; Sacrifices; Greeks


THE WEIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two horses were put together in the same paddock
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THE WHITE BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago apollo called to aristaeus
Last Line: Joy and pain of seeking, -- and at last we sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Bees; Greece; Insects; Paganism & Pagans; Beekeeping; Greeks; Bugs


THE WOODEN WALLS OF ATHENS, by DELPHIC ORACLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vainly doth pallas strive to appease great zeus of olympus
Last Line: Thou shalt destroy one day, in the season of seed-time or harvest.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Walls


THEBES, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thebes! Who shall weep aright for thee
Last Line: Shall he herculean thebes profane?
Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca
Subject(s): Thebes, Greece


THEBES, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In whom, o thebes, of all the host
Last Line: The sons of aegeus, sprung from thee?
Subject(s): Thebes, Greece


THERE IS A SWEETNESS IN IT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sap rises in the maple each spring after
Last Line: Makes the sap rise. God squeezes and relents %like winter ending, and the sap rising
Subject(s): Greece


THERE IS NO LANGUAGE IN THIS COUNTRY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poetry is not in puerto sandino. The men stop working
Last Line: To tell the difference between sand and dirt, rocks %and heart, life and death, love and this other
Subject(s): Greece


THERE SHE IS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I go into the garden, there she is
Last Line: If paradise is to be here %it will have to include her
Subject(s): Greece


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


THESE PRINTED WORDS ARE A PLACE, by LINDA GREGG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These marks on paper tell of places within
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


THESE PRINTED WORDS ARE A PLACE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These marks on paper tell of places within
Last Line: Where a glass of water stands waiting on a table, %pears on a plate like gifts from centuries before
Subject(s): Greece


THESEUS AND ARIADNE, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis enough, my wench
Last Line: Make all a desolation.
Subject(s): Ariadne; Mythology - Classical; Naxos (island), Greece; Theseus


THESEUS, OR TRIBUTE TO THE MINOTAUR - FOR THE CEANS ON DELOS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black at the beak that craft
Last Line: Grant us godspeed, work our seachange
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


THESUS, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chorus of athenians %king of our sacred athens
Last Line: He strides on to illustrious athens!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


THEY TELL ME IT'S OVER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say, I stayed in motel 6, where you told me
Last Line: That was this winter's visit. That was a year
Subject(s): Greece


THING BEING MADE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything is black. From a distance
Last Line: Their bodies above their dark world
Subject(s): Greece


THINGS NOT OF THIS UNION, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The weight of myself. The weight of my mother
Last Line: At once. No longer the salt shell and then the pine %tree. Wanting a longer unity to go back home to
Subject(s): Greece


THIRST AGAINST, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a hunger for order %but a thirst against. What if
Last Line: In midwinter and freezing winds %in these chicago avenues
Subject(s): Greece


THIS PLACE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a place in the desert which I keep making
Last Line: And the lions turn in the canyon I have made %with my voice,see me calling, and we move closer
Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Decorating The Grave
Subject(s): Greece


THOSE WHO COME AFTER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will never say of us: / what wonderful myths they had
Last Line: Endlessly nibbled and gnawed
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Explorers; Greece; Mythology; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Greeks


TO A FRIEND ON RECEIVING FROM HIM A VOLUME OF 'THE PARNASSUS JOURNAL.', by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Owre a' parnassus I hae wannert
Last Line: That I should say—yer maist obedient
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Friendship; Parnassus (mountain), Greece


TO A GREEK GEM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it the signet of an antonine
Last Line: Have whelmed us in the sands we build upon.
Subject(s): Beauty; Greece; Jewelry & Jewelers; Time; Greeks


TO A GREEK SHIP IN THE PORT OF DUBLIN, by WILLIAM BEDELL STANFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cleanthes of andros
Subject(s): Greece


TO A TRAVELLER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: After many a dusty mile
Last Line: It is pan that counsels you
Variant Title(s): "wanderer, Linger Here Awhile;
Subject(s): Greece;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Greeks;journeys;trips


TO AN IONIAN BOY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Boy of mitylene! Thou
Last Line: Fairer than hath fallen to me!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Greece; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Greeks


TO ATHENS, by PINDAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shed o'er our choir, olympian dominations
Last Line: Echoes and circlet-crowned semele's glory.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece


TO BE HERE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The february road to the river is mud
Last Line: There is only this. Dead weeds waiting %uncovered to the quit soft day
Subject(s): Greece


TO BE LIKE THAT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anything to move ahead, to get there
Last Line: Back down a long valley through the beauty %where her spirit grew and her heart is real
Subject(s): Greece


TO CORINTH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen of the double sea, beloved of him
Last Line: They smell the floor whereon their necks must lie.
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece


TO E. L., ON HIS TRAVELS IN GREECE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls
Last Line: And fluted to the morning sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Greece; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Greeks


TO JULIA MARLOWE (READING KEATS' ODE ON A GRECIAN URN), by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long had I loved this 'attic shape,'the brede
Last Line: The empty urn was filled with chian wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Marlowe, Julia (1866-1950); Poetry & Poets; Greeks


TO THE BELOVED, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood and cried, 'o you that love in vain'
Last Line: Thy wretched weight, nor dread the deeps below!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Leucadia, Greece; Santa Maura


TO THE DUCHESS OF ORMOND, WITH THE POEM 'PALAMON AND ARCITE', by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam, / the bard who first adorned our native tongue
Last Line: And wear the garter of his mother's race.
Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: To Her Grace The Duchess Of Ormonde
Subject(s): Beauty; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Somerset, Mary. Duchess Of Ormond; Thebes, Greece; Allegories


TOGETHER IN GREECE, by LINDA GREGG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was sitting on the steps of the cinema
Last Line: I went to him, with that singing in me
Subject(s): Greece; Jealousy; Greeks


TOGETHER IN GREECE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was sitting on the steps of the cinema
Last Line: It was more frightening than living. %I went to him, with that singing in me
Subject(s): Greece


TOKENS OF WHAT SHE IS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden lady seven feet tall dies in the mind
Subject(s): Greece


TOO BRIGHT TO SEE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just before dark the light gets dark. Violet
Last Line: Nor liar. Sweet being, if you are anywhere that hears, %comequickly. I weep, face set, no tears, mou
Subject(s): Greece


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TWIN STATUES OF AMENOPHIS III AT THEBES, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands of years
Last Line: "and placed them here—to last as long as heaven."
Subject(s): Statues; Thebes, Greece; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AS THE GREEKS DREAMED, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the loose hot sands at foot of the cliffs
Last Line: With nature may either know or understand the other.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks


TOWN AND HARBOR OF ITHACA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By another light surrounded
Last Line: Where ulysses was the king.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus


TREE FALLING IN A VACANT FOREST, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The window open. Hearing
Last Line: Each one hearing the same one
Subject(s): Greece


TROUBLE IN THE PORTABLE MARRIAGE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We walk the dirt road toward town through the clear evening
Last Line: Me riding and you walking. Feeling the silk and paleness %ofthe air. No one passes us the whole leng
Subject(s): Greece


TRYING TO BELIEVE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing gentle where aphrodite was
Last Line: And my hands hurt. Sit alone looking down at %evening on theocean, drinking wine or not
Subject(s): Greece


TRYING TO TACK, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the great love of my life, he said
Last Line: How to sail home against the wind
Subject(s): Greece


TWELVE YEARS AFTER THE MARRIAGE SHE TRIES TO EXPLAIN HOW SHE LOVES HIM, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the mountain is a meadow with iris
Last Line: And the invisible more clear
Variant Title(s): Twelve Years After The Marriage She Tries To Explai
Subject(s): Greece


TWO LETTERS ON SAMOS: PHILAENIS TO POSIDIPPUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are you pan's goat or the owl of
Last Line: Yet perhaps he is a wise old owl
Subject(s): Greece


TWO LETTERS ON SAMOS: POSIDIPPUS TO PHILAENIS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Procne your charming servant has
Last Line: I shall be waiting here for you
Subject(s): Greece


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


ULYSSES IN ITHACA, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ithaca, ithaca, the land of my desire!
Last Line: And fought heroic giants, long ago!
Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece


ULYSSES ON HIS RETURN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hail, ithaca, my loved paternal soil!"
Last Line: "now, from my soul, I feel how strong the chain / that binds the passions to our native plain"
Subject(s): "ithaca, Greece;


UNACCOUNTABLE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many things are made of pride
Last Line: The husband looks down at his feet %as if trying to remember
Subject(s): Greece


UNDERSTANDING RELUCTANTLY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Usually costa comes after dark, when we are eating
Variant Title(s): Cost
Subject(s): Greece


UNDERTONES, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apollo's steeds are hastening to their home
Last Line: That greet the night as day her mantle flings.
Subject(s): Olympus (mountain), Greece


UNIVERSE ON ITS OWN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature without shape, the universe without form
Last Line: As far as we can see random in a wind
Subject(s): Greece


UNKNOWING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie in the palm of its hand. I wake in the quiet
Last Line: My body, be hidden with it, be one of its secrets
Subject(s): Greece


UNNECESSARY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart grieved so much it felt as if I no longer
Last Line: Wild with loss. Wild with loss.'
Subject(s): Greece


VARIOUSLY US, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something breaches the ocean of doctrine
Last Line: Of the mind wedged in us, shaping
Subject(s): Greece


VIA DOLOROSA: 6. PSYCHAGOGOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As greece of old acclaimed thee god and man
Last Line: Nought, when we would have given: thou bidst him live.
Subject(s): Death; Greece; Rome, Italy; Dead, The; Greeks


VICTORY ODE, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: This for the last time
Last Line: Profoundest minds
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


VILLANELLE OF CHANGE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since persia fell at marathon
Last Line: Long centuries have come and gone.
Subject(s): Change; Greece; Greeks


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 2, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilome the sisters nine were vestall maides
Last Line: From common trulls, and loathsome brothelry.
Subject(s): Fate; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Temples; Destiny; Mosques


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 8, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence ye profane: mell not with holy things
Last Line: Vnto the holy house of betleem.
Subject(s): Love; Muses; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Prophecy & Prophets


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The courteous citizen bad me to his feast
Last Line: One dish shall serue, and welcomes make the rest.
Variant Title(s): Hollow Hospitality
Subject(s): Feasts; Greece; Greeks


VISITOR, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She comes in and sees winter and him
Last Line: Before returning to the man in amherst
Subject(s): Greece


VOICE SINGING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man goes by the courtyard door
Subject(s): Greece


WAKING UP HAPPY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love didn't work, doesn't work
Last Line: Light, before the sun is visible
Subject(s): Greece


WANTING TO STAY, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of it moving, turning every which way
Last Line: The moving, to hear the swish and murmur %the murmuring of division and desiring
Subject(s): Greece


WAR, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were at the border and they were checking
Last Line: Somebody else picked up the scorpion and I told john %I was going. We went outside where there was n
Subject(s): Greece


WAY IS WIDE, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


WE DO THIS WITH OUR BODIES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Taken as an animal, she yields %to taht desire which devours
Last Line: She tries to think in the sexual %darkness they have become,and the dark %inside that dark smelling
Subject(s): Greece


WE MANAGE MOST WHEN WE MANAGE SMALL, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What things are steadfast? Not the birds
Last Line: Making safety in the moment. This touching %home goes far. This fishing in the air
Subject(s): Greece


WEIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two horses were put together in the same paddock
Last Line: The freedom an oak tree knows. %that is built at night by stars
Subject(s): Greece


WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What if the world is taken from me?
Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece; Agriculture; Farmers; Greeks


WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What if the world is taken from me?
Last Line: A woman. Canning when there's time. It will be %very cold soon. Already there are dark rains
Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece


WHAT IS KEPT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a coldness I do not want
Last Line: And whole. No eating soup together %in the restaurant they would go to
Subject(s): Greece


WHAT IS LEFT OVER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is silence after a city is destroyed
Last Line: Could steal the potato plants
Subject(s): Greece


WHAT THEY ATE WHAT THEY WORE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We see the dog running
Last Line: The apples are very cold in the morning
Subject(s): Greece


WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lives there a man with soul so dead
Last Line: Whatever is, is right!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman
Subject(s): Greece; Soul; Greeks


WHEREFORE DOST BRUISE ME? HE EXCLAIMED, WEEPING,, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the museum print room today we looked
Last Line: Exhausted by keeping what I love safe
Subject(s): Greece


WHITE BULLS OF HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white bulls of java, weighing a thousand pounds
Last Line: I am sure it is the only life that god can taste
Subject(s): Greece


WHITE LIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waiting in a place where the cicadas turn the silence
Last Line: Loneliness goes out as far as I can see
Variant Title(s): White Roo
Subject(s): Greece


WHOLE AND WITHOUT BLESSING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is beautiful alters, has undertow
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


WHOLE AND WITHOUT BLESSING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is beautiful alters, has undertow
Last Line: Animals. To suffer exactly at the center, %where there are no clues
Subject(s): Greece


WIFE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My husband sucks her tits
Last Line: This order of reality. My presence stings. %I grow specific without consequence
Subject(s): Greece


WIND BLOWING THROUGH A TREE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clamour of amplitudes
Last Line: Must be there, but that it sometimes is
Subject(s): Greece


WINNING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is having by having
Last Line: Containing the other carefully
Subject(s): Greece


WINTER BIRDS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me a riddle, I said, that has no answer
Last Line: Dancing and singing until our hearts grew fat
Subject(s): Greece


WINTER LIGHT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way you fell asleep
Last Line: (if I had made a garden. If I had stayed happy.)
Subject(s): Greece


WINTER LOVE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to decorate this silence
Subject(s): Greece


WITH A BLESSING RATHER THAN LOVE SAID NIETZSCHE, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The square stone room makes a shape in the air
Last Line: Any sounds even. Less then nothing and deeper
Subject(s): Greece


WOMAN ON HER KNEES AT THE RIVER, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is washing clothes
Last Line: Away by itself full of flowers
Subject(s): Greece


WOMAN STILL WAITING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like one of those barns
Last Line: As she goes past on her way through the fields %to the river
Subject(s): Greece


WOMAN WHO LOOKS FOR HER LOST SISTER SHE SAYS, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She walks all the time in the heart ward
Last Line: No,' she said, 'it's too late for flowers dear.'
Subject(s): Greece


WOMEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The polar bear hasn't eaten since november
Last Line: Slides a little with her thoughts %on the slope of ice. She rolls over %on her back and slides a lit
Subject(s): Greece


WRAITH OF THE MAN OF ITHACA, by BACCHYLIDES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Dyed in darkness
Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides
Subject(s): Athletics - Greece; Games - Greece


WRAPPING STONES, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything I am is what survived
Last Line: To walker creek for the last three years
Subject(s): Greece


WRITTEN AT MYCENAE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a weird procession glide along
Last Line: Quiet, thought-bound, a stone upon a stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Mycenae, Greece; Sculpture & Sculptors


XANTIPPE, by AMY LEVY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What, have I waked again? I never thought
Last Line: O fling it wide, I say, and give me light
Subject(s): Greece; Xanthippe (5th Century B.c.)