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Subject: ECHO (MYTHOLOGY)
Matches Found: 21

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN (IN THE DORIC MANNER), by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Echo, I ween, will in the wood reply
Last Line: Guard her well.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Misogyny; Women


ABER STATIONS: STATIO QUINTA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherd calls
Last Line: Back from the mountain wall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Death; Echo (mythology); Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The


ECHO, by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm voluble; I'm voiceless; I am echo: I reply
Last Line: But if you're silent, so am I. How well I mind my tongue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Archias
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO, by PAMELA GREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How see you echo? When she calls I see
Last Line: O echo!' (still the children call) 'where are you? %'air --'
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of sweet companions, mine, for choice
Last Line: She only speaks when spoken to.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO AND THE FERRY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven
Last Line: Comes after -- with laughter comes after.
Subject(s): Children; Churches; Echo (mythology); Ferry Boats; Childhood; Cathedrals


ECHO SONG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who can say where echo dwells
Last Line: Echo!
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In thy cavern-hall
Last Line: -- strange, sweet echo! Even like thee replying.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


ECHO TO A ROCK, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou heaven-threat'ning rock, gentler than she!
Last Line: Echo. Well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Stones; Granite; Rocks


METAMORPHOSES: ECHO, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A babling nymph that echo hight: who hearing others talke
Last Line: Amd come (sayth she)
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


NARCISSUS AND ECHO, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall the water not remember ember
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS AND ECHO, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall the water not remember ember
Last Line: Moment, it seems filament of air, fare %the world become cloudswell. Well
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 9. ECHO, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gainst the mast reclining, and high on the lofty deck
Last Line: She loves him! She loves him!
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Love


SONG IN THREE PARTS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white broom flatt'ring her flowers in calm june weather
Last Line: No more -- no more.'
Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Life; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE NIGHTINGALE AND UNSATISFIED HEART, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When in a may-day hush
Last Line: Whose fate is still to yearn, and not be satisfied.'
Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Hearts; Nightingales


THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay
Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World


THE CHARMS OF LIFE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What hath life to charm us? Flowers
Last Line: Life! How sumless are thy joys!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Charm; Echo (mythology); Flowers; Life


THE STORY OF ECHO, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A beautiful maiden was echo
Last Line: Repeating your ultimate word!
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


THE STUDENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As by salamanca's city
Last Line: Travelled with me, ever near.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students


TO ECHO, by ANNA MARIA JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw her in the fleeting wind
Last Line: The nymph, wild echo, sweeps the hallow range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology)


TO THE WOODSMAN OF GASTINE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, woodsman, stay thy hand awhile, and hark
Last Line: Matter abides forever, form is lost.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nymphs; Woods