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Subject: ERINNA (4TH CENTURY B.C.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ERINNA, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brief is erinna's song, her lowly lay
Last Line: Of rooks in the april sky!
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.)


ERINNA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was she of spirit race, or was she one
Last Line: Thy truth, thy tenderness, be all thy fame!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.)


ERINNA, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sent you in to say farewell to me
Last Line: I am alone, alone. O cyprian . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.)


ERINNA TO SAPPHO, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many the paths to hades,' an ancient proverb
Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich
Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.); Sappho (610-580 B.c.)


ON ERINNA, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Erinna, songstress of the honeyed lay
Last Line: True to the muses, sang 'ah, envious death'
Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.)


PREFACE TO ERINNA'S POEMS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though short her strain nor sung with mighty boast
Last Line: Of rooks in springtime blown about the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.)


PREFACE TO ERINNA'S POEMS, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This sweet work is erinna's: no great sum
Last Line: Not quickly, death, whose name had equalled hers?
Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos
Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.)


TO ERINNA, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was time not harsh to you, or was he kind
Last Line: "deep in a forest at the break of day""?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.)