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Subject: GALATEA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PASTORAL. IN THE MODERN STYLE. PASTORA AND GALATEA, by WORCESTER [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the umbrageous shadow of a shade
Last Line: "adieu, my goats; for never shall rural muse / your philosophic beards to stroke refuse"
Alternate Author Name(s): Worcester
Subject(s): Galatea


GALATEA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A silver slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses
Last Line: Because, in faint, soft, blowing foam, her shepherd lived for ever.
Subject(s): Galatea


GALATEA AGAIN, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me be marble, marble once again
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Galatea


GALATEA AND POLYPHEMUS, by JAMIE MCKENDRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think of the sheer foulness of polyphemus
Last Line: The waters round him whispering his name
Subject(s): Galatea


GALATEA TO PYGMALION, by LEONORA CLAWSON STRYKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day after day and far into the night
Subject(s): Galatea


IDYLL 12, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I to the sandy shore and seaward slope
Last Line: I'll cast away—when life itself doth end.
Subject(s): Galatea


PYGMALION TO GALATEA, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pygmalion spoke and sang to galatea
Last Line: "give me an equal kiss, as I kiss you."
Subject(s): Courtship; Galatea; Love; Pygmalion; Women