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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GODDESSES & GODS Matches Found: 222 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 3. DEMETER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here stood thy temple, on the mountain's horn Last Line: Great mother, vanished from the mountain's horn. Subject(s): Demeter; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Religion; Ceres; Human Race; Theology A FABLE FOR LYDIA, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet love is slain! I saw him at your gates Last Line: Of high olympus, silent watching. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Zeus A FESTIVAL, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nor bloody altar, nor barbaric rite Last Line: A cloudless sky wherethro' the songs fly up! Subject(s): Festivals; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Fairs; Pageants A HOUSEKEEPING, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised by young desire, as by the dawn Last Line: How had he waked, and stretched his arms, and smiled! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods A LETTER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since hired for life thy servile muse must sing Last Line: And where old spenser sung, a new eliza reigns. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Danube (river); Goddesses & Gods; Letters; Mythology; Poetry & Poets A NEW SCULPTOR, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once to my fancy's hall a stranger came Last Line: "here is thy neighbor." Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Sculpture & Sculptors A SIMILE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear thomas, did'st thou never pop / thy head into a tin-man's shop? Last Line: Always aspiring, always low. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Metaphor; Mythology; Similes ACTAEON, by JOHN ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Fair bloomed the happy world, fair bloomed the may Last Line: And when he passed, the quiet gloom returned. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature ADONIS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gods did love adonis, and for this Last Line: "and wrote his 'fecit' on thy work of truth." Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF VENUS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature forg'd the fair unhappy mould Last Line: Lent gods and men a poison and a hell. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Trojan War; Venus (goddess) ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, who now was half asleep Last Line: Here! Jonathan, your master's bottle. Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Sleep; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness AN ADAPTATION OF AN EPISODE IN VIRGIL, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scald, whose song was ever of the norns Last Line: To the forgetting and forgotten dead.' Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Dead, The AN ENGLISH PADLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Miss danae, when fair and young Last Line: And clap your padlock -- on her mind. Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Youth; Eros AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You charm'd me not with that fair face Last Line: Which made us brave before. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the pangs of a desperate lover Last Line: Ah what a joy to hear, shall we again! Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky Last Line: He laugh'd out with a ha ha ha ha. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celimena, of my heart Last Line: When we come together. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN ODE (3), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When great augustus governed ancient rome Last Line: Hangs up her grateful harp to conquest, and to peace. Subject(s): Augustus. Roman Emperor; 63 B.c.-12 A.d.; Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Rome, Italy APHRODITE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Not unremembering we pass our exile Last Line: One fiery visitation of the love the gods desire in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical ARION, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arion, whose melodic soul Last Line: Like a pierced eagle fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Harps; Musical Instruments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Greeks; Lyres ARRACK, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a sultry land of palm and rice Last Line: And dance with cobras on nude bosoms coiled! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Night; Bedtime ARRIVAL, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's how a god descends from a mountain peak Last Line: Later, how in such a flash, the dark came there Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology AT ELEUSIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of eleusis, ye that with long staves Last Line: With their bowed necks of burden equable. Variant Title(s): At Eleven Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature ATHENS: ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere from under earth again like fire the violet kindle Last Line: These alone have part in spirit with the sun that crowns the sea. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology AUBADE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: When fair hyperion dons his night attire Last Line: As storms in june or blossom-boughs in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Spring AWAKE! (TO MOHAMED ALI JINNAH), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, o mother! Thy children implore thee Last Line: Hearken! O queen and o goddess, we hail thee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Worship; Dead, The BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: RAGNAROK, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No fleeter follows echo on the sound Last Line: "baldur the beautiful! Alas! Alas!" Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Greek BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE JOURNEY TO HEL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The aesir's chorus / fast! Ride fast! Last Line: And silence held its breath for what should come. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLADE OF THE FOREST HAUNTERS, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still do they sing, the swarm of mocking fays Last Line: Where dian thro' the forest fareth by. Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods BALLADE: 24, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain of all pain, the most grievous pain Last Line: Unto the soul from the body depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Pain; Soul; Suffering; Misery BROTHER GODS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If woman's a delightful creature Last Line: The devil take the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bacchus; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Eros CALISTO, OR THE CHASTE NYMPH: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As jupiter I made my court in vain Last Line: To bind your friends and to disarm your foes. Variant Title(s): Spilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken By Lady Wentworth Subject(s): Beauty; Crowne, John (1640-1703); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nations; Nymphs CALLIOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Chief of the muses - great calliope! Last Line: Thus mask in modern processes immense. Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology CAMEO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Long shall he live thro' time remembered Last Line: With thrust of tail and fin. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean CANOPUS; A LEAP FROM THE PAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the palms, the peaks of pearly gray Last Line: That makes them purely one! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Past; Singing & Singers CARMEN SECULARE, FOR THE YEAR MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy elder look, great janus, cast Last Line: With everlasting beams of friendly light. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Heroism; Mythology; Nations; Peace; War; Heroes; Heroines CEYX AND ALCYONE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These prodigies affect the pious prince Last Line: And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHANCE TO MACAREUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If streaming blood my fatal letter stain Last Line: As I perform my cruel fathers will. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting CHORUS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surely in no benignant mood Last Line: The disenchanted ledges of old age. Subject(s): Aging; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Youth CHORUS, FR. THE CITY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aegina's foam is high and wild Last Line: Propitiate the woodland pan. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) CHURCH-COUNSELLOR PROMETHEUS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good sir paulus, noble robber Last Line: Not one solitary candle! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology CICERONIS AMOR: LENTULUS'S DESCRIPTION OF TERENTIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightsome apollo in his richest pomp Last Line: And all this heaven was but terentia. Subject(s): Apollo; Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical CICERONIS AMOR: LOVE AND JEALOUSY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gods had framed the sweet of women's face Last Line: Than love united to a jealous thought. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jealousy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations CICERONIS AMOR: ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond, feigning poets make of love a god Last Line: And prove him but a boy not past the rod. Variant Title(s): Love (cupid As A Child) Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros CICERONIS AMOR: SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mars in a fury 'gainst love's brightest queen Last Line: As can subdue the greatest god in arms. Variant Title(s): Mars And Venus;venus Victrix Subject(s): Charm; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mars (god); Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) CINQUAIN: LAVA, by KENNETH CHING Poem Text First Line: Geysers Last Line: Of pele! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Volcanoes CLEOBIS AND BITON; IN ARGOS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise to the queen of heaven, hera celestial fair! Last Line: Nay! Pæans for the heroes borne to the life divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology CLIO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Hail, goddess! Queen of time's renowned estate Last Line: And man, for love of thee, forgets his pain! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology COMRADE SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold not in our power Last Line: In vine-clad bowers drinking! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Muses; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Wine CONSEJOS DE NUESTRA SENORA DE GUADALUPE: COUNSEL FROM VIRGIN, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You seem surprised that I've appeared Last Line: Immaculate and otherwise, happen. He knelt, full of me Subject(s): Chicanos; Goddesses & Gods; Mexican Americans COTTAGE GARDEN PRAYER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Little garden gods Last Line: Little garden gods! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology CUPID A PLOWMAN, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His lamp his bow and quiver laid aside Last Line: What once europa was, nannette is now. Variant Title(s): Cupid Turned Ploughman Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plowing & Plowmen; Eros CUPID AND GANYMEDE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven, one holiday, you read Last Line: And rise a swan, or fall a shower. Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Love; Mythology; Troy; Eros; Paradise CUPID IN AMBUSH, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It oft to many has successful been Last Line: And in the wounds he sees he bears his part. Subject(s): Blood; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros DANA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the tender voice calling 'away' Last Line: Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Male-female Relations DAPHNE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Here's a tale from times called olden, further / qualified as golden Last Line: Not a laurel, but a wall-flower—which is not an evergreen! Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Unrequited; Mythology DEFIANCE TO FALSE GODS, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You do not like my altar-smoke Last Line: And straightway must return to it! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Praise; Prayer DELIO PATRI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more lake como's storied isle Last Line: Their essence still remains the same. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Past; Roman Empire DIONYSOS IN INDIA (OPENING FRAGMENT OF A LYRICAL DRAMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Verge of an upland glade among the himalayas Last Line: They come! They come! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; India; Mythology EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 104. JOPAS'S SONG, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dido feasted first the wandering trojan knight Last Line: For they have their two poles directly t'one to t'other . . .' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers EPIGRAM. ON EROS PLOUGHING, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His torch and quiver down sly eros flung Last Line: "the harvest, or I'll yoke europa's bull." Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plowing & Plowmen; Eros EPIGRAM: 46, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venus, in sport, to please therewith her dear Last Line: I, I for you am weapon fit and trim.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Dead, The ERECHTHEUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of life and death and all men's days Last Line: And friendship and fame of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy; Dead, The ETAIN THE QUEEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see with the eye of my mind where a lady sitteth Last Line: For poets had honour and praise of kings when the world was young. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Love - Marital; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EUTERPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Muse of the mystic flute and purling stream Last Line: That speaks the tempest or the lisping flower. Subject(s): Birds; Euterpe (goddess); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature EVOE!, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many are the wand-bearers Last Line: Hears now this song of mine. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers EXPELLED, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm gradually graduating Last Line: Intellects term, song! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sleep FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 1. CYCLAMEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the tresses, blown Last Line: A picture -- a flower! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Persephone; Women; Proserpine; Proserpina FOR MADAME, by ISAAC DE BENSERADE Poem Text First Line: When you behold your graciousness and glory Last Line: With these three goddesses that in her soul unite. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology FRINGED GENTIAN, by ANNE ARNOLD CHASE Poem Text First Line: The sun-god, reaching down Last Line: We knelt and worshipped. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sun FROM ROSY BOWERS, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: From rosy bowers, where sleeps the god of love Last Line: Ere thus, in vain, adore. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans GIRGENTI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many here have struggled, fought the fight! Last Line: Defeated always -- but how splendidly! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Dead, The GLORIA PATRI, by HARVEY C. GRUMBINE Poem Text First Line: What powerful urging / sent holy ghost Last Line: His beard around his smiling girls? Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology GOD OF THE WINDS, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I am a god of winds that are! Last Line: —s. D. State fair, second prize. 1932 Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Wind GOD-DESS LOVE, by THOMAS F. GREEN Poem Text First Line: The poets of old ne-er fore-told of life controll-ed Last Line: Adop-ted by fathers who cheered words in rhyme. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology GODDESS, by DOROTHY O'GARA Poem Text First Line: Love was my taper. To this shrine of mine Last Line: I knelt too near the flame -- and I am blind! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Shrines GODDESS OF LIGHT, by SATRA. ANNA NAOMI Poem Text First Line: Once again, o goddess of light! Last Line: Turn to you from everlasting night. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Peace HEADACHE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Headache! Thou bane to pleasure's fairy spell Last Line: For ever jingle wisdom's funeral knell. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hate; Headaches; Mythology; Wisdom HELEN'S BEAUTY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady, chiefest slave of love her lord Last Line: When april's gone, october bringeth tears. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Goddesses & Gods; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Tears; Youth HYMN TO THE NAIADS, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er yonder eastern hill the twilight pale Last Line: And all profaner audience far remove. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical IN TIME OF DANGER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now far be heavy dreams; you hateful sprites Last Line: Confirmed the judgements of their lord the king. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Marriage; Mythology; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KEARSARGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kearsarge, thou lonely sentinel Last Line: The distant azure gates of god. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire; Mythology LACENA'S RIDDLE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man whose method hangeth by the moon Last Line: Now tell me, of what ancient pedigree? Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology LAKSHMI, THE LOTUS-BORN; GODDESS OF FORTUNE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who didst rise like a pearl from the ocean Last Line: Hearken, o lotus-born! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology LINES, by MARCO GUAZZO Poem Text First Line: He that appaled with lust would sail in haste to Last Line: All were bliss, if such fond lust led not to repentance. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations LOVE'S ATTRIBUTES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ceres rules the fields of grain Last Line: Are consecrate to love. Subject(s): Demeter; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Orchards; Tears; Ceres MAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction one day, as she harked to the roar Last Line: "and his spirit to jove who bestowed it." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mankind; Mythology; Dead, The; World; Human Race MEDEA IN ATHENS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, is he? Yes, our stranger guest said dead Last Line: By which none weeps. I have forgotten thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Medea (mythology); Mythology MENAPHON: APOLLO'S ORACLE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When neptune, riding on the southern seas Last Line: And sweet content within your troubled clime. Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical MERCURY AND CUPID, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sullen humour one day jove Last Line: For heaven's sake, keep your darts! Good night. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Mercury (mythology); Mythology; Eros; Paradise METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of bodies changed to various forms I sing Last Line: And saw the palace by the purple light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Creation; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting; Human Race METAMORPHOSES: MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrath touches ev'n the gods; the queen of night Last Line: Who yearly round the tomb in feather'd flocks repair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting METAMORPHOSES: THE FABLE OF IPHIS AND IANTHE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fame of this, perhaps, through crete had flown Last Line: And the warm youth enjoys the lovely maid. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Fables; Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Allegories; Reputation MOMUS, GOD OF LAUGHTER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though with gods the world is cumbered Last Line: Hail to momus, happy boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Laughter; Mythology MONSIEUR LE BRUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur le brun (who must not be confused / with the great painter) jointly Last Line: "so put a glass of water to my lips!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Art & Artists; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Peace; Sin MORE THAN NEW, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the men begins to sing. The woman Last Line: A mouth singing, your heart the way it was Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Goddesses & Gods NARCISSUS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days whose memory the heart yet stirs Last Line: Grew, and was called thenceforward by his name. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology) NARCISSUS: A POMPEIIAN BRONZE, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful boy, like a faun here in loneliness roaming, who art thou? Last Line: Stranger, I tremble,—anew, thou a narcissus shalt be. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pompeii, Italy; Statues NEVER TOO LATE: CANZONE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As then the sun sat lordly in his pride Last Line: Her beauty far more brighter than the sun. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature NEVER TOO LATE: EURYMACHUS IN LAUDEM MIRIMIDAE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When flora, proud in pomp of all her flowers Last Line: The salamander, 'twas my whole desire. Variant Title(s): Eurymachus In Praise Of Mirimida Subject(s): Desire; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology NEVER TOO LATE: EURYMACHUS' FANCY IN THE PRIME OF HIS AFFECTION, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When lordly saturn, in a sable robe Last Line: And swore-no thing so sweet and sour as love. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology NEVER TOO LATE: RADAGON IN DIANAM, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a valley gaudy-green Last Line: "what so strong as love's sweet law?" Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Virginity; Vestals NEVER TOO LATE: RADAGON'S SONNET, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No clear appear'd upon the azur'd sky Last Line: Ah, blest be she! Subject(s): Birth; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Child Birth; Midwifery ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise Last Line: Make sweet the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus OEDIPUS: SONG TO APOLLO, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, god belov'd by men Last Line: Tho' he burst with the weight of the terrible god. Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Morning; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Songs ON BEAUTY; A RIDDLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Resolve me, cloe, what is this Last Line: Of idle tales, and foolish riddles. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Kisses; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Riddles ON SEEING THE NEW MOON: PALINODE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked at the young and silver moon to-night Last Line: The windows shall all be wide and thou be adored. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology ORLIE WILDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A goddess, with a siren's grace Last Line: "as mine to her -- as mine to her." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean PAIN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men have made them gods of love Last Line: Yet his soul within is sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Pain; Suffering; Misery PALLAS AND VENUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trojan swain had judged the great dispute Last Line: By mars himself that armour has been tried. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Venus (goddess) PAN, by FERNAND MAZADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pan, as he came toward pheidippides Last Line: Pan whirled of a sudden and cut mad capers. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) PENELOPE'S WEB: SONNET FROM ARIOSTO, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet content that quiets angry thought Last Line: But due obedience worketh this delight. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Marriage; Mythology; Obedience; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (1), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In cyprus sat fair venus by a fount Last Line: I am but young, and may be wanton yet. Variant Title(s): Venus And Adonis Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: SONNET (2), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The siren venus nouric'd in her lap Last Line: Rich'd with such flowers as virtue yieldeth thee. Variant Title(s): Adonis Reproved Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Youth PHAEDRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay not thine hand upon me; let me go Last Line: Or off the knees of murder reaching it. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Women; Male-female Relations PHILOMELA: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is love once disgrac'd Last Line: Than lead a wanton life with shame. Variant Title(s): Chastity: An Ode Subject(s): Deception; Goddesses & Gods; Honesty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations PHILOMELA: WOMAN'S EYES; A QUESTION, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On women nature did bestow two eyes Last Line: Allow of two, and prove not nature vain. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 4. POSEIDON, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's bright rays were playing Last Line: And the silly daughters of nereus. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 6. THE GODS OF GREECE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full-blossoming moon! In thy fair light Last Line: The stars all-eternal. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks PIRON, AND THE JUDGE OF THE POLICE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Piron, a poet of the gallic nation Last Line: "so we are quits." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judges; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Police POMONA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the golden afternoon! Last Line: Smiling o'er the orchard wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Orchards PROLOGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shine forth, ye planets, with distinguished light Last Line: Virtue was taught in verse, and athens' glory rose. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Planets; War PSYCHE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This young woman is psyche, of whom you've Last Line: Is a restless, dissatisfied, fugitive guest. Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Eros RAMBLE OF THE GODS THROUGH BIRMINGHAM, SELECTION, by JAMES BISSET Poem Text First Line: Next day they rambled round the town, and swore Last Line: With thund'ring hammers made the air resound. Subject(s): Birmingham, England; Goddesses & Gods; Labor & Laborers; Mythology; Towns; Work; Workers ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE APOLLO GOD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The convent stands high on the rocky steep Last Line: "head-dress, they 'the green sow' call her." Subject(s): Apollo; Clothing & Dress; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Singing & Singers; Songs RONDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing her hair I sat against her feet Last Line: Kissing her hair. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SAPPHO IN LEVKAS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus, my father, once again Last Line: At last the comfort and the cleansing of the sea. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Truth SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long silence of the sea, the seaman Last Line: That dreamed-of harbor lies which we would find. Subject(s): Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean SICILIAN ARETHUSA, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian arethusa! Thou, whose arms Last Line: Of time will only make more durable? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sicily; Dead, The SICILIAN WINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've drunk sicilia's crimson wine! Last Line: To mount thy car and ride the heavens with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Wine SMALL GODS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my father was a god Last Line: Day after day, I watched them grow. Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Parents; Women; Childhood; Parenthood SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had / put an end to his argument Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SONG OF THE SEA-PLANE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of venus and of mars am I Last Line: The conqueror of space. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean; Songs SONNET (SUGGESTED BY THE 'PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS' BY GEORGE MEREDITH), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After apollo left admetus' gate Last Line: Had quickened their dead world? And, ah, his lute... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS: 1. BEETHOVEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from the nebulous elemental sea Last Line: Ere lapped in slumber with immortal love. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sea; World; Ocean SORRENTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods are gone, the temples over-thrown Last Line: And bind the myrtle buds to crown a purer venus. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Past; Roman Empire; Sorrento, Italy SWAMI VIVEKANANDA, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: Vivekananda, swami, now as near Last Line: You taught that all religions lead to god. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Worship SYLVAN APOLOGY, by MAURICE DU PLESSYS Poem Text First Line: You lie who say the gods have left the woods! Last Line: Still drinks. Alternate Author Name(s): Flandre-noblesse, Sylvan Francois Maurice Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods THALIA, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Since first you crowned the rustic's vernal feast Last Line: And fortune's fiercest fling a futile boast. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology THE BALLAD OF LYCAON, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out spoke, then, jove to the gods above Last Line: In the famished wolf was seen!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology THE BAYADERE, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near strange, weird temples, where the ganges' tide Last Line: Lulls the grim, drowsy cobra on her arm. Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Goddesses & Gods; India; Mythology; Temples; Mosques THE BELLS OF SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate Last Line: From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Drowning; Goddesses & Gods; Lament; Mythology; Solitude; Loneliness THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE SINGETH IN THE UNDERWORLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pure is the body in the earth Last Line: And goest on the way Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology - Egyptian THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE WALKETH BY DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "I am yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow" Last Line: My spirit is god Subject(s): Death;goddesses & Gods;mythology;mythology - Egyptian; "dead, The; THE CHILD OF DESTINY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hero-heart of the enchanted isle Last Line: And shaking foamy heads toss the great ocean steeds. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Destiny THE COCK AND THE FOX, OR THE TALE OF THE NUN'S PRIEST, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived, as authors tell, in days of yore Last Line: So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Cock And The Fox Subject(s): Animals; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Widows & Widowers; Allegories THE COMMONPLACE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: By the steps of the paper-box factory Last Line: Of love, and the commonplace things. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology THE COPULATING GODS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing back the curls from your famous brow Last Line: They will concoct a scripture explaining this. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE DEATH OF THE GODS; AN ODE WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF PINDAR, by L. KER Poem Text First Line: I made the muses sick / by a new song Last Line: Their power is gone, and my life is the token. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell (sweet cooke-ham) where I first obtain'd Last Line: Tying my heart to her by those rich chaines. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Farewell; Food & Eating; Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Parting THE FAREWELL TO FOLLY: DESCRIPTION OF THE LADY MAESIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her stature and her shape were passing tall Last Line: To show what nature's cunning could afford. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women THE FEAST OF THE GODS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a high tower I gazed at night Last Line: One psalter. ... Will we never know these gods are dead, and cannot live? Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Imagism; Mythology; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While we to jove select the holy victim Last Line: Virtue and wealth; for both are of thy gift. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers THE GODDESS OF THE ISLANDERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midmost page, the bookworm's pasturage Last Line: And the opal's flame-fraught snows. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Islands; Mysticism; Mythology; Writing & Writers THE GODS AND THE WINDS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The still gods, though they move apart Last Line: "we won our godship far too young." Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Railroads; Wind; Railways; Trains THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below Last Line: They slide to us and air. Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs THE JUDGEMENT OF TIRESIAS, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: When willing nymphs and swains unite / in quest of amorous delight Last Line: That party best obtains its end. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judgments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE JUDGMENT OF VENUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When kneller's works of various grace Last Line: Or venus must to hyde. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Judgments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) THE LADLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sceptics think, 'twas long ago Last Line: Tis all a wish, and all a ladle. Subject(s): Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; War; Youth; Allegories THE LAMENT OF DARTHOOL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O woods of oona, I can hear the singing Last Line: The cuckoos calling by the murmuring stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Home; Lament; Mourning; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Bereavement THE MOURNING-GARMENT: HEXAMETRA ALEXIS IN LAUDEM ROSAMUNDI, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I heard my lief coridon report on a love-day Last Line: "for there is one, more fair than thou, belov'd of alexis""!" Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology THE MOURNING-GARMENT: HEXAMETRA ROSAMUNDAE AE IN DOLOREM AMISSI ALEXIS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tempe, the grove where dark hecate doth keep Last Line: Yet rosamond did die for love, false-hearted alexis! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOURNING-GARMENT: PHILADOR'S ODE, HE LEFT WITH DESPAIRING LOVER, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When merry autumn in her prime Last Line: And counted love but venus' mocks. Subject(s): Despair; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Odes (as Poetic Form) THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the old man of the sea - I Last Line: I'm the old man of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean THE OLYMPIAN IN AUTUMN, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM Poem Text First Line: The goddess stood among the falling leaves Last Line: And did not hear the falling of the leaves. Subject(s): Autumn; Goddesses & Gods; Leaves; Mythology; Seasons; Fall THE POET'S JOURNAL: PREFACE. THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not as in youth, with steps outspeeding morn Last Line: Pardoned, and loved again! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Shame; Youth THE PSYCHE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a strain of wondrous music rising up in cloister dim Last Line: So, in perfect loving blended, bliss would never know alloy. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Singing & Singers THE SEA-BORN VINE (A DIONYSIAC LEGEND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun leapt up the rose-flushed sky Last Line: Ai evoe be vain indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Legends; Mythology; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Vines And Vineyards; Ocean THE SECULAR MASQUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hundred times the rowling sun Last Line: Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriours, and lovers. Subject(s): Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Mankind; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Plays & Playwrights ; War; World; Human Race; Dramatists THE SILENT SINGERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And proserpine, still fragrant of the air Last Line: But pluto's mouth, o mother proserpine! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THE SUNSHINE OF THE GODS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall sunder the fetters Last Line: The hour of perfect song! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers THE SYMBOLS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: The sign work of the orient it runneth up and down Last Line: Since direction counts as nothing when the gods set up a sign. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Signs & Signboards THE TEST OF MANHOOD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks Last Line: Resplendent springs, to faith refreshed compels. Subject(s): Evolution; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Trials THE THUNDER GODS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: To-day the thunder gods strike on their anvils in heaven Last Line: And her soul belong to her love; not to her lovers. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Virginity; Women; Vestals THE TOAST OF MARS, by MARY E. OAKES Poem Text First Line: My ghastly cry I raise on high Last Line: I give you the toast of mars! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soldiers; World War I; First World War THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE LAST BATTLE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud with a terrible clamour once again Last Line: Over that anguish flowed the unquiet sea. Subject(s): Fights; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Odin (norse God); Thor (norse God Of Thunder) THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BIRTH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to a watcher on a pier at night Last Line: A deeper gloaming and I slept in night.' Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Goddesses & Gods; Hodur (norse God); Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature; Sea; Ocean THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BUILDING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then searching in the long grass at their feet Last Line: Upon the story of earth's destinies! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RIDING OF THE GODS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gladly would I my pen at once concede Last Line: While that the immortals drew unto their doom! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse THE TRANSIT OF THE GODS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that the self's continuum should outlast Last Line: To dance my dust at last into the tomb. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE TRITON OF THE MINNOWS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you strike out something new? Last Line: "the triton of the minnows." Subject(s): Fame; Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Time; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Optimism THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long sad row the old gods come Last Line: Lie scattered in the sand! Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Mythology; Wind; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE VITAL CHOICE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or shall we run with artemis Last Line: Shun or too devoutly follow. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Youth THE VOYAGE OF JASON, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Argo, great winged ship, shaped for adventurous quest, when fifty Last Line: Gold, assaulting heaven's vault rose, and soared toward the unknown. Subject(s): Argo (ship); Goddesses & Gods; Jason; Mythology; Mythology - Classical THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lonely stream afar in a lone dim land Last Line: Along that silent strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Redemption; Silence; Sin; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WHITE GODDESS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All saints revile her, and all sober men Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology THE WINGLESS VICTORY, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Nike of samothrace Last Line: Into stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hope; Mythology; Victory; War; Optimism TO A SONG OF SAPPHO, DISCOVERED IN EGYPT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jonah wept within the whale Last Line: As gods are wont to do. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jonah (bible); Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) TO CHROMIS, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: Come, young chromis, I love thee, and I am lovely Last Line: "and gazing, they whisper together, ""what beauty divine!" Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology TO DELIA: 18, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Restore thy treasure [or, tresses] to the golden ore Last Line: So shalt thou cease to plague, and I to pain. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology TO E.O.S., by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When issuing from the realms of 'shadow land' Last Line: Are with the breath of morning fragrance fraught. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Morning; Mythology; Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (1806-1893); Soul TO HIS VALET, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want three days to read the iliad through! Last Line: His heaven, shut fast the door! Don't let him in! Subject(s): Books; Goddesses & Gods; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one story and one story only Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Men; Mothers; Mythology; Sons; Sun TO KO UNG, THE GODDESS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My fortune has been great, I grant Last Line: And keep an eye upon my bank account. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Money; Mythology TO MR. HOWARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear howard, from the soft assaults of love Last Line: Given thee the world, though I withheld the fair. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Poetry & Poets TO PELE (GODDESS OF KILAUEA VOLCANO), by ANNE MOTT-SMITH Poem Text First Line: Break this spell of brittle hardness Last Line: Oh, pele -- live again! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Volcanoes TO THE DUKE DE NOAILLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vain the concern which you express Last Line: But to secure our rest? Variant Title(s): An Epigram Subject(s): Advice; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology TO THE NEW GODS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You, who now wield by earthly right Last Line: The deepest of the human hells. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology TO THE OLD GODS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods TO THE WINE-GOD MERLUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ho! Thou jolly god, with kinked Last Line: And roll me o'er thy tongue eternally. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soul; Wine 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 TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ANDROMETA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now over the mediterranean shore, fronting the sun Last Line: Dragon guards its prey. Subject(s): Andromeda (mythology); Civilization; Democracy; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Artemidorus, farewell Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell." Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AS THE GREEKS DREAMED, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the loose hot sands at foot of the cliffs Last Line: With nature may either know or understand the other. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Greeks TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 2. TO THERON OF AGRAGAS, VICTOR IN THE CHARIOT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O song! Whose voice the harp obeys Last Line: Go -- reckon up the sand! -- Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Victory TRANSLATIONS OF PINDAR: 6. TO AGESIAS OF SYRACUSE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who seeks a goodly bower to raise Last Line: No meaner theme assign of poesy! Subject(s): Fights; Goddesses & Gods; Labor & Laborers; Mythology; Work; Workers TWILIGHT BY THE CABIN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, a pearl-grey river, o'er Last Line: He will follow to the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Evening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many suns have died at the low pool's brow Last Line: Happy to watch themselves there as they die! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FIRST CANTO, OR NEW MOON, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How apt the slanderous and unciuill tongues Last Line: Favour, a while, thy tender sarcells too. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex Role URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FOURTH CANTO, OR LAST QUARTER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moone's bright throne by mulciber was built Last Line: Declare her best effects to be in you. Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Planets; Women; Zodiac URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE SECOND CANTO, OR FIRST QUARTER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the world how simply wonder wee Last Line: When her quills settle, thine againe shall rise. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Sex Role URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE THIRD CANTO, OR FULL MOON, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How great and comprehendles is the minde Last Line: The session broke and the whole senat' rose. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women VENUS IN A GARDEN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at early morning Last Line: Gathered from the roses red. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Roses VICARIOUS ATONEMENT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an old and very cruel god Last Line: This bitter cup from us. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Military; Mythology; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 6: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labeo reserves a long nayle for the nonce Last Line: Who would not but wed poets now a daies! Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Poetry & Poets WHEN THE BRIGHT GOD OF DAY, by WILLIAM MONLAS Poem Text Last Line: If you rashly approach near the sound. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology WITH THE HUNTRESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the water-eye of night Last Line: Maid-preserver, man-maker. Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Hunting; Mythology; Woods; Hunters WITH THE PERSUADER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who murmurs, hither, hither: who Last Line: The music beauty from it draws. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology YARILA, by SERGEI GORODETSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First to sharpen the ax-flint they bent Last Line: A new god. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Russian; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ZEUS AND APOLLO, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Written on clapboard or asbestos siding, the cartoony Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods |
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