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The Beauty of Venerability: The Wisdom of Time and Age Mawphniang Napoleon	From the ancient Greeks to the Japanese, The concept of venerability endures, A testament to humanity's great...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
MY DEAD WIFE John L. Zwerenz	To a nameless fate The Greeks called...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
A Description of a City Shower Jonathan Swift	Pregnant with Greeks, impatient to be freed, (Those Bully Greeks, who, as the Moderns do, Instead of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable For Critics James Russell Lowell	(I wonder the Greeks should have swallowed them tamely, For one might bet safely whatever he has to risk, They...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Prince from Western Libya Constantine P. Cavafy	He assumed a Greek name, dressed like the Greeks, learned to behave more or less like a Greek; and all the time he was terrified he would spoil...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Achilles' Tomb Thomas OHagan	Since Sinon spun out his tale, And the Greeks returned from Tenedos With a light and prosperous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alexander Jannaios And Alexandra Constantine P. Cavafy	on familiar terms with Greeks and Hellenized monarchs— as equals, though, let that be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alexandreis Anne Killigrew	The gallant Greeks with a brisk March drew near, And their great Chief did at their Head...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
America John Boyle O'Reilly	On fatal Chaeronea's field the Greeks A lion raised—a sombre tomb that speaks No word, no name,—an emblem of the pride Of those...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Apology for my fearfull temper Anne Kingsmill Finch	When that the Greeks were got too nigh'em And such th'effect in spite of weather Our Hecuba's all rose together I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Eastern Tale David John Scott	The Greeks were famous in those days In arts, in letters and in arms; Quite plain and simple in their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain Matthew Prior	Then Britain's Boys excell'd the Greeks: Their Siege did ten long Years employ: We've done our Bus'ness in ten...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Honest Creature Leonid Rozumenko	Greeks showed the world a feature Which could...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Athens: An Ode Algernon Charles Swinburne	Men that wear the sign of Greeks upon you sealed, Yours is yet the choice to write yourselves in story Sons of them that fought...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beppo, A Venetian Story George Gordon Lord Byron	Greeks, Romans, Yankee-doodles, and Hindoos; All kinds of dress, except the ecclesiastical, All...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Biblical Definition Of Baptism Mark V. Markov	Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Boys Bathing Muriel Stuart	The gods of Youth, the lords of Love, Greeks of eternal Thessaly, Mocking the powers they know not of, Naked and unembraced and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Burnt Offerings Stephen Colley	Coolly wiping out slews of good Greeks because some god got up on the wrong side of somebody’s...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Canada Stephan Stephansson	To the Greeks you could only appear in a poem - but to Icelandic sea kings you gave yourself...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Canto III Ezra Pound	More Greeks than...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Certain Books Of Virgil's AEneis: Book II Henry Howard	How that the Greeks did spoil and overthrow The Phrygian wealth and wailful realm of Troy; Those ruthful things...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dainty Dora Edward Smyth Jones	Greeks once sang a lovely song To their maiden Cora;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dimaratos Constantine P. Cavafy	it's the Greeks who are going to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eternal Imprint : The Cosmic Legacy Mawphniang Napoleon	The Greeks believed that life was but a breath A fleeting thing that passed as quickly as The morning...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Exiles Constantine P. Cavafy	some of the few other Greeks still left in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)