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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GREECE Matches Found: 811 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 therebut 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 sayyer 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 hereto 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.) |
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