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Subject: CALLIOPE (GODDESS)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLAD OF THE CALLIOPE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the far samoan shore
Last Line: A cheer that english-speaking folk should echo round the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Pacific Ocean; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


CALLIOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chief of the muses - great calliope!
Last Line: Thus mask in modern processes immense.
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology


CALLIOPE IN THE LABOUR WARD, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: She who has no love for women
Last Line: Give birth %bleak as a goddess
Subject(s): Birth; Calliope (goddess)


CALLIOPE TO HER SKYLARK, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush, my little tuneful dear!
Subject(s): Birds; Calliope (goddess); Larks


HYMN TO THE SUN, by HOMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Offspring of jove, calliope, once more
Last Line: Sends from bright heaven beneath the shadowy sea.
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Sun


ODES III, 4. TO CALLIOPE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Descend from heaven, o queen calliope
Last Line: And three hundred chains yet confine amorous pirithous
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess)


ON HOMER'S BIRTHPLACE, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From colophon some deem thee sprung
Last Line: No other than calliope.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey


TO CALLIOPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Permit me here a simple brief aside
Last Line: Yet must I, when far worse is eagerly bought, %cry stinking fish?
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess)