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Subject: MERCURY (MYTHOLOGY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


ODES I, 10. TO MERCURY, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mercury, cunning grandson of atlantis
Last Line: This evanescent flock. You, favorite of the gods above and the gods below
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mercury (mythology)


ODES III, 11. TO MERCURY AND LYDE'S LYRE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mercury! (since you, maestro, taught
Last Line: A mournful epitaph in memory of me
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Mercury (mythology)