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Subject: HERMES (MYTHOLOGY)
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HERMAPHRODITES IN THE GARDEN, by STANLEY MOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the lesson of the serpent there is the lesson
Last Line: A red and purple sunrise blinds me
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


HERMES OF THE PLAYGROUND, by NICIAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine is cyllene's mountain steep
Last Line: With hyacinth and rosemary.
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


HERMES, THE TRICKSTER, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wing born of bone, tear in my sky
Last Line: Ripped from my side, I hear your friends %call you little wing
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology); Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


HOMERIC HYMN: TO HERMES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of hermes sing, o muse, the son of zeus and maia
Last Line: Hail to thee thus, son of zeus and maia, of thee shall I be mindful and of another lay
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


O HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thoth o wise one
Last Line: We need you real bad
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


PARTY ON OLYMPUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When soul love & scrunch love
Last Line: Be more parties on olympus
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology); Olympus (mountain), Greece


SONNET: HERMES, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soothsay. Behold, with rod twy - serpented
Last Line: Stern truth takes flesh in shows of lovely feature.
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology)


THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and
Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.]
Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology