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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHARON Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GHOST SPEAKS ON THE STYX, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not think that time was old Last Line: You ferryman, are one. Subject(s): Charon; Love; Styx (river) A MOCK CHARON; DIALOGUE: CHARON, WHARTON, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charon! Thou slave! Thou fool! Thou cavalier! Last Line: And softly, softly breathe, lest you infect us too. Subject(s): Charon; Styx (river) ALCESTIS: SCENE 2, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun, and thou light of day, and high in heaven Last Line: That our strange guests should be put out by it. Subject(s): Charon; Hercules; Mythology - Classical; Styx (river) AN ANCIENT GREEK, DYING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come nearer, charon / I cannot step so far, into your boat Last Line: Ere death sets us afloat. Subject(s): Charon; Death; Farewell; Styx (river); Dead, The; Parting BIBO AND CHARON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When bibo thought fit from the world to retreat Last Line: You may have forgot, you were drunk when you died. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Charon; Styx (river) CHARON, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The conductor's hands were black with money Last Line: If you want to die you will have to pay for it Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Charon CHARON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my cottage near the styx Last Line: Charon, cerberus, and co. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Charon; Death; Ferry Boats; Styx (river); Dead, The CHARON AND PHILOMEL [PHYLOMEL], A DIALOGUE SUNG, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charon! O gentle charon! Let me woo thee Last Line: Who els with tears wo'd doubtles drown my ferry. Subject(s): Birds; Charon; Styx (river) CHARON'S COSMOLOGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With only his dim lantern Subject(s): Charon; Styx (river) CHARON'S COSMOLOGY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With only his dim lantern Last Line: Once in a long while a mirror %or a book which he throws %overboard into the dark river %swift and c Subject(s): Charon CROSSING ALONE THE NIGHTED FERRY, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And free land of the grave Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Charon; Death DIRCE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand close around, ye stygian set Last Line: That he is old and she a shade. Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Charon; Styx (river) GALSWORTHY TAKES THE FERRY, by ELMER GUSTAFSON Poem Text First Line: Old charon had momentous freight that day Last Line: Met and with diffident good-will clasped hands. Subject(s): Charon; Ferry Boats; Galsworthy, John (1867-1933); Styx (river) LOST, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost on a fogbound spit of sand Last Line: I heard the splash of charon's oar, %who ferries no one to a happy shore Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Charon THE CLASSIC CANARY ON ITS DEATH, BY A STUDENT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell sweet bird, so winsome and so wise! Last Line: And leaves thee hopping to the asphodels. Subject(s): Canaries; Charon; Styx (river) THE CLASSIC LARK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, sweet bird, so winsome and so wise! Last Line: While thou art pois'd above the asphodels! Subject(s): Birds; Charon; Larks; Styx (river); Skylarks THE NEW CHARON, UPON THE DEATH OF HENRY LORD HASTINGS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charon, o charon, draw thy boat to th' shore Last Line: But there to live, where love shall last for ever. Subject(s): Charon; Styx (river) THE REFUSAL OF CHARON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Why look the distant mountains Last Line: Nor could I part them more Subject(s): Charon; Styx (river) THEY DID NOT KNOW, by ELIZABETH WELLS Poem Text First Line: The styx is black, they say Last Line: Where radiantly live the dead! Subject(s): Charon; Hades; Wellesley College; Styx (river) TO DIVES, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dives, when you and I go down to hell Last Line: They order things so damnably in hell Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Bible; Charon; Religion; Styx (river); Theology TO DIVES, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dives, when you and I go down to hell Last Line: They order things so damnably in hell Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Bible; Charon; Religion VARIATIONS ON A THEME, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: If charon drove a hearse along the beach Last Line: And then be gone? Subject(s): Charon; Hearses; Seashore; Styx (river); Beach; Coast; Shore |
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