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Subject: ITHACA, GREECE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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


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;