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Subject: DURER, ALBRECHT (1471-1528)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 11-NOV-54, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 11, 1954, at ten p.M.
Last Line: And slowly began to fade away
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Genoa, Italy; Portraits


DURER, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dessicated flukes of a whale. A leech so
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)


DURER, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dessicated flukes of a whale. A leech so
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)


DURER PAINTING THE SAVIOUR'S HEAD, by JAN SVATOPLUK MACHAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee do I seek for, o my tortured lord
Last Line: To give my lineaments, most gracious lord!
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)


DURER WENT TO SKETCH THE WHALE, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even though he could do marvelous rabbits
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Environment; Sea Monsters


EPIGRAM: ON DURER'S 'MELANCHOLIA', by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range?
Last Line: More strange than all, more old than heav'n, earth, sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)


JEROME, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In durer's engraving
Last Line: Dozes, with half-closed eyes
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Jerome, Saint (347-419)


JEROME, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In durer's engraving
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Jerome, Saint (347-419)


KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cowhorn-crowned, shockheaded, cornshuck-bearded
Last Line: And the body underneath it says: I am
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)


MELANCHOLIA (FOR AN ENGRAVING BY ALBRECHT DURER), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So many years I toiled like caliban
Last Line: The sun sets, and a bat flies past the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Melancholy; Dejection


MELANCHOLIE, SELS., by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul of bitterness, filled with disgust
Last Line: Blonde scattered locks across her shoulders curled
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Engraving And Engravers; Melancholy


THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT: 21, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anear the centre of that northern crest
Last Line: And confirmation of the old despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis
Variant Title(s): Melencolia
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Despair; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Engraving & Engravers


THE KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cowhorn-crowned, shockheaded, cornshuck-bearded
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)


THERE IS NO NO IN NATURE, by CATHERINE N. PARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Durer's hare requires us to see
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Nature


TO A FRIEND WHO GAVE ME A GROUP OF WEEDS AND GRASSES, AFTER DURER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True as the sun's own work, but more refined
Last Line: Or grown in nature's mysteries an adept?
Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Friendship; Gifts & Giving