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Subject: FATES (MYTHOLOGY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GREEK EPIGRAM IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hungry wolves had trespassed on the fold
Last Line: Who prove the greatest robbers, wolves or gods!
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Wolves


APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 10, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three women sit at the crossway lonely
Last Line: Turmoil of life's distresses for ever!
Subject(s): Faces; Fates (mythology); Life


ATALANTA IN CALYDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars
Last Line: For the hands of their kingdom are strong.
Subject(s): Atalanta; Fates (mythology); Mankind; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Human Race; Theology


DEATH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We toil and take our rest - we laugh and weep
Last Line: Dreams of strange regions, passing mortal taint.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fates (mythology); Life; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares


IN RE A GENTLEMAN, ONE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We see it each day in the paper
Last Line: Have mercy on 'gentleman, one'!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fates (mythology); Law & Lawyers; Life; Wine


LAUREL'S WORTH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My too great love of you hath been my bale
Last Line: And on their fame the fates shall have no hold.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Youth; Iliad; Odyssey


ON A PICTURE OF THE FATES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye dull and loathly sisterhood forlorn!
Last Line: That hath no peer in moral loveliness!
Subject(s): Fates (mythology)


POSSESSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That which we had we still possess
Last Line: For what was ours we still possess.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fate; Fates (mythology); Life; Property; Soul; Destiny; Possessions


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 24, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well! I will never more complain
Last Line: Without the least regret.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 9, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it, o love, thy want of eyes
Last Line: And double glory thine.
Subject(s): Despair; Eyes; Fates (mythology); Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


STEVENSON MAKES CONRAD WELCOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last you come, my fellow of the seas
Last Line: "how conrad's company will color heaven!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Fates (mythology); Heaven; Sea; Truth; Nightmares; Paradise; Ocean


THE FATES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fortune came to a youth one day and dressed
Last Line: But the whole crowd buried 'im.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Fates (mythology)


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 5, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another, whose more heauy hearted saint
Last Line: That waiteth for the wandring ghosts retire.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Muses; Tears


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 7. THE IMPECUNEOUS FOP, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seest thou how gayly my young maister goes
Last Line: Vntill the mawes wide mouth be stopt with store.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Nature


WISHES FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What would I ask the kindly fates to give
Last Line: To make the best of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Girls; Love; Soul; Wishes