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Subject: HESPERIDES (MYTHOLOGY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APPLES OF HESPERIDES, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glinting golden through the trees
Last Line: Apples of hesperides!
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology)


APPLES OF THE HESPERIDES 1, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We didn't like the demigodly, the godly, the
Last Line: A certain indefinite and intimate lighting, an almost %aesthetic radiance
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology)


APPLES OF THE HESPERIDES 2, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: So much fuss, so many murders over nothing. The hero
Last Line: And achemorus
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology)


GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that a single sigh could fall
Last Line: When love world-wide has shown his mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hesperides (mythology)


HESPERIDES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thy soul, herrick, dwelt with me
Last Line: And polished as the bosom of a star.
Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Hesperides (mythology); Poetry & Poets


HESPERIDES, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the blue rim of the world
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology); Nature


HESPERIDES, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden apples for goddesses
Last Line: I will have none.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Hesperides (mythology)


HESPERIDES, by VERNON L. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, for the wiles of the fortunate isles
Last Line: And the gold of my southern seas!
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology)


MY HESPERIDES, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the cattle low; I catch the faint sheep-bells
Last Line: Here is the golden fruit, -- mine own hesperides!
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology); Lebanon


THE HESPERIDES, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The north-wind fall'n, in the new-starred night
Last Line: Standing about the charmed root.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology)