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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: There all the golden codgers lay
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of


NEWS FOR THE DELPHIC ORACLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There all the golden codgers lay
Last Line: Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs %copulate in the foam
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of


ON HEARING A GUIDE EXPLAIN THE DELPHIC ORACLE WAS A HOAX, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis is mount parnassus. Far below us
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of; Impostors And Imposture


TO THE ORACLE AT DELPHI, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great oracle, why are you staring at me,
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of


WE SHOULD NOT MIND IF ON OUR EAR THERE FELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some sense of cunning, more of oracle
Subject(s): Delphi, Oracle Of