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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE; ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eurydice, my fair, my fair eurydice!
Last Line: Helpless, undone eurydice from hell.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


A SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A snake no bigger
Last Line: On the open clasp.
Variant Title(s): A Snake
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


BECAUSE I SENSED, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: All nerve, %all tingle and cringe
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


BETRAYALS/HADES, EURYDICE, ORPHEUS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood before his throne
Last Line: Do not turn your back on her
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Betrayal


BY THE SHORE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some of the women knelt %on the muddy shore
Last Line: And listened now inside, %listened to orpheus
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


EURYDICE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He came to call me back
Last Line: And lost were life and love.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph)


EURYDICE, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it that he sings to thee
Last Line: O poor eurydice, o my beloved one!
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Loss; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness


EURYDICE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So you have swept me back
Last Line: For the dead to pass.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Eurydice (nymph)


EURYDICE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Girls, I was dead and down
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph)


EURYDICE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven's cup held down to me I drain
Last Line: To find but one word, -- nevermore.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph)


EURYDICE, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waiting beside the window while you were brushing
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph)


EURYDICE SNATCHED AWAY, by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: His tears filled with eyes
Last Line: In all her shimmer
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Suicide


EURYDICE TO ORPHEUS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow!
Last Line: Defied, -- no past is mine, no future: look at me!
Subject(s): Consolation; Eurydice (nymph); Leighton, Frederick (1830-1896); Paintings & Painters


FAR BELOW, PLOWED FIELDS..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far below, plowed fields vibrated
Last Line: An emptiness he could fill with song.
Variant Title(s): "far Below, Plowed Fields"";
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


FIELDS TOOK ON..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fields took on their final
Last Line: With vanishing...
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Fields; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HIS DREAM: THE BLACK TREE/THIRST, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her, out past the first
Last Line: "from what deep well."
Variant Title(s): His Dream: The Black Tree/ Thirst
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


HIS GRIEF, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my words / I'll make rocks
Last Line: To make them sing.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


HIS LAMENT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How is it she lies here
Last Line: Could pearl a piece of dust.
Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The


I WAS MOVING ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was moving down the bank / toward the boat, lost
Last Line: Chin propped on fists, listening.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IF YOUR GAZE TAKES IN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they said I must leave hell
Last Line: Alive inside me.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IN MY DREAM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream, she was tired
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IN MY DREAM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream, she was tired
Last Line: In the hill's shadow %which she had become
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IS THIS WHAT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Deep cleft %lightning made
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IT HURT ME TO HEAR..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It hurt me to hear my subjects
Last Line: Dawn's chalk scraped across the board
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


IT'S WINTER..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's winter. Wind gnaws %a bone sky
Last Line: A stubborn %leaf in a bare shrub
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOK, THEY DESCEND, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Settle and sink, %even the flowers bow
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOKING BACK, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marble pillars / of palace
Variant Title(s): In The Meadow
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOOKING BACK, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marble pillars %of palace
Last Line: Of sunlight with %tiny golden hooks
Variant Title(s): In The Meado
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


LOSS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loss more than leaves
Last Line: Is carved in bark, in bone
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


MAENADS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maenads came to me
Last Line: Till the heart is gnawed through
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 10. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thence, in his saffron robe, for distant thrace
Last Line: But every nymph repulsed, with grief retired
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by N. M. BASKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When gathering light
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I hear your soft step treading
Last Line: Through the shades re-echoes back.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance
Last Line: For they were deep in the earth and what is possible swiftly%took hold
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As sweet eurydice, with footfall light
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ROBERT HENRYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nobilnes and grit magnificens
Last Line: And thus endis the taill of orpheus.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1)
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though there are wild dogs
Last Line: The newly-stung
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though there are wild dogs
Last Line: Serene even to a fault
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You and I not sleeping - a preacher
Last Line: Through the hole that her body made
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart so bleeds, words cannot staunch the wound
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloud upon cloud, the purple pinewoods clung to the rich
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They've just made love
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They've just made love
Last Line: Away and enter the dark %tunnel of trees, humming a tune %he'll soon put words to
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir orpheus, whom the poets have sung
Last Line: Just go ahead, and never look back!
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You. You running across the field
Last Line: Tossing a shoe up, a handful of hair
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You. You running across the field
Last Line: The river %tossing a shoe up, a handful of hair
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS DESCENDING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before we lay together %in the fragrant
Last Line: Lost, %unless I bring her back
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


ORPHEUS STOOD IN THE DARK..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus stood %in the dark hall
Last Line: He only had to turn %and she was there
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


SHE PAUSED, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the path down, %she paused at the stone
Last Line: A mortal's a blossom %the earth opens for
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE ENTRANCE TO UNDERWORLD, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A common enough mistake
Last Line: At her first touch?
Variant Title(s): The Entrance To The Underworld
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Solitude; Loneliness


THE FIRE HYDRANT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little stump of a thing stuck on the curb of my street: dull as bark
Last Line: Eurydice.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood before the throne
Last Line: The deep bursting emptiness of song.
Variant Title(s): Betrayals/hades, Eurydice, Orpheus
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Harps; Loss; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Lyres


THE MAENADS, by GREGORY ORR            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maenads came to me
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE MARRIAGE (1), by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The season's leaves half over at their peak
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


THE MIST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eurydice eludes the dark
Last Line: He finds that she is gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mist


THE WEDGE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there were two of us
Last Line: Will only bruise.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sorrow; Sadness


TOMB OF ORPHEUS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My limbs were scattered
Last Line: She was the fern
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Graves; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WARNED HIS SONG... (DEATH OF ORPHEUS), by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Warned his song could tame
Last Line: And threw it in the river %but it would not sink
Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WE'VE COME, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm now, curled away / from each other, backs
Last Line: Joined at the base of the spine
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WE'VE COME, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm now, curled away %from each other, backs
Last Line: Joined at the base of the spine
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus


WHEN I WAS ALIVE ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was alive--only glimpses
Last Line: Of my skin and stepped out?
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Soul