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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HERCULES Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALCESTIS: SCENE 2, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun, and thou light of day, and high in heaven Last Line: That our strange guests should be put out by it. Subject(s): Charon; Hercules; Mythology - Classical; Styx (river) ANTAEUS; A FRAGMENT, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So neck to stubborn neck, and obstinate knee to knee Last Line: But no so loud as on eurystheus of old. Subject(s): Hercules; Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Soldiers' Writings COMPARES THE TROUBLES WHICH HE HAS UNDERGONE, TO LABOURS OF HERCULES, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not hercules himself did undertake Last Line: Th' hesperian garden rob, and heav'n support. Subject(s): Hercules; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 22. 'TIS HONOURABLE TO BE LOVE'S MARTYR, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bear up against her scorns: 'tis brave to die Last Line: For 'twas love's martyrdom made him a god. Subject(s): Hercules; Love; Martyrs; Mythology - Classical FINE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS, by ERASMUS DARWIN Poem Text First Line: Gigantic nymph! The fair kleinhovia reigns Last Line: And bears her trembling lover in her arms. Subject(s): Giants; Hercules; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs HERACLES AND MELEAGER, by BACCHYLIDES Poem Text First Line: He, who could sack a gated town Last Line: To golden cypris' magic will.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bakchylides Subject(s): Hercules; Meleager (100 B.c.); Mythology - Classical HERCULES SPINNING, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bond slave to omphale Last Line: And beauty yields to love. Subject(s): Hercules; Love; Mythology - Classical IDYLL 4. MEGARA, THE WIFE OF HERCULES, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou vex thy spirit, mother mine? Last Line: "and may no god ordain it otherwise!" Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical MAD HERCULES, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thunder's sister, for that name alone Last Line: To make unspotted the immortal gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Tragedy METAMORPHOSES: THE DEATH OF HERCULES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now a long interval of time succeeds Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical NEMEAN ODES: 1. THE INFANT HERACLES, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But fast in heart I hold the lofty fame Last Line: The shameless outrage of those brutish foes. Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical NEMEAN ODES: 6, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How early has young chromius begun Last Line: Their gaping mouths did forked tongues like thunderbolts present. Variant Title(s): Hercules And The Serpents (1) Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical NEMEAN ODES: 7, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some of th' amazed women dropt down dead Last Line: Black blood, and fiery breath, and poys'onous soul he squeezes out. Variant Title(s): Hercules And The Serpents Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical NEMEAN ODES: 8, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With their drawn swords Last Line: Apollos silver bow, and his own fathers thunder too. Subject(s): Hercules; Monsters; Mythology - Classical NEMEAN ODES: 9, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And that the grateful gods at last Last Line: Bull, centaur, scorpion, all the radiant monsters there. Subject(s): Hercules; Monsters; Mythology - Classical ON THE DARING OF MAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O vessel bearing virgil greeceward now, Last Line: For our audacity thus perish, all? Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Hercules; Humanity; Mythology - Classical; Prometheus; Troy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil PHOTOGRAPH OF THE TEMPLE OF HERCULES, AGRIGENTO, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: At the site, my chief thought was to pose Last Line: Whose gods, overexposed, lie dormant but not dead Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical SONNET: HERCULES, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This fruitage from the far hesperides Last Line: And dwell in peace among the gods, my peers. Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical THE PILLARS OF HERCULES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here ends at last the inland sea! Last Line: Steer oceanward by god's fixed stars! Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ocean TO --, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange was the doom of heracles, whose shade Last Line: He stirs the wheat with the steerage of his wings Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical WAR-SONGS: 2, by TYRTAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet are ye hercules' unconquered race Last Line: (placed nigh your panoply,) to mar the foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Tyrtaios Subject(s): Hercules; Mythology - Classical |
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