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Subject: ADONIS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADONIS IN SUMMER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lotophagi with their silly hands
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek


ADONIS IN SUMMER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lotophagi with their silly hands
Last Line: A mad old man, plucking at my sleeve
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek


ADONIS IN WINTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir
Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


ADONIS IN WINTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Persephone awaits him in the dim boudoir
Last Line: Their mortal lechery in dispassionate hell
Subject(s): Adonis; Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Persephone


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


FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mourn adonis dead - loveliest adonis
Last Line: That
Variant Title(s): Lament For Adonis
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


IDYLL 1. THE EPITAPH OF ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I and the loves adonis dead deplore
Last Line: For thou must wail again, and weep another year.
Subject(s): Adonis; Epitaphs; Mythology - Classical


LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For adonis I am crying, for adonis' beauty dead
Last Line: Woe for cytherea, for adonis' beauty dead!'
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mourn for adonis - adonis is dead
Last Line: And weep new when a new year refits thee for weeping.
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I weep for adonis, 'the lovely adonis is dead.'
Last Line: Cease your grieving today. Cythereia, cease %beating your breats. You must wail again, weep again, c
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


LAMENTATION FOR ADONIS, SELS., by BION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mourn adonis, fair adonis is dead
Last Line: Adonis dead! Sad echo does reply
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink
Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows!
Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day


THE DEATH OF ADONIS, by THEOCRITUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When venus her adonis found
Last Line: His am'rous tusks sing'd in the flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos
Subject(s): Adonis; Mythology - Classical


THE GARDENS OF ADONIS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, I would tell a ghostly thing
Last Line: And we, the summer long, shall bring thee flowers.
Subject(s): Adonis; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spring


VENUS AND ADONIS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as the sun with purple-colored face
Last Line: Means to immure herself and not be seen.
Subject(s): Adonis; Animals; Birds; Horses; Larks; Mythology - Classical; Skylarks