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Subject: BION (2ND CENTURY B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` IDYLL 3. A PASTORAL ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye vales, and doric floods, or fount, or rill
Last Line: And from dun night redeem thy sacred shade.
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Flutes; Grief; Lament; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


IDYLL 3. EPITAPH FOR BION, by MOSCHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mournfully answer my groan, dark vales and dorian water
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Epitaphs


IDYLL 3. FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye dorian woods and waves lament aloud
Last Line: Bion the [sweetest singer] is no more.
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Dead, The


IDYLL 3. LAMENT FOR BION, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O forest dells and streams! O dorian tide!
Last Line: I too would seek the dead, and sing thee free!
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Dead, The


IDYLL 3. LAMENT FOR BION, by MOSCHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mingle your sighs with mine, ye dales, thou dorian water
Last Line: Skilled so to pipe, for thy sake I too would have sung before pluto
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.)


IDYLL 3. LAMENT FOR BION, SELS., by MOSCHUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! When the mallow in the croft dies down
Last Line: Sleep a long, dreamless, unawakening sleep
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.)


IDYLL 3. THE EPITAPH OF BION, A LOVING HERDSMAN, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan!
Last Line: Could I charm dis with songs, I too would sing for thee.
Variant Title(s): Lament For Bion
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Cyclops; Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LAMENT FOR BION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ay me, ay me, the mallow in the mead"
Last Line: A sleep that wins no waking evermore
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.)