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Subject: NARCISSUS (MYTHOLOGY)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POET'S FANCIES: 1. THE LOVE OF NARCISSUS, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like him who met his own eyes in the river
Last Line: His weary tears that touch him with the rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Poetry & Poets


ALBION'S ENGLAND, SELS., by WILLIAM WARNER                       
Subject(s): England; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Sea; Sleep


FAREWELL TO NARCISSUS, by ROBERT HORAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farewell to narcissus who mistook %his face in the brine brook
Last Line: Nothing now shall leave, now nothing more shall enter
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 3. NARCISSUS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There stands a fountain in a darksome wood
Last Line: A rising stalk, with yellow blossoms crown'd
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by LAWRENCE BRADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You lurch into this alley
Last Line: I'll carry you for miles
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Almighty wondrous everlasting
Last Line: A shadow and not thyself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by KATHRYN E. COLQUHOUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The zephyrs brought him incense of the flowers
Last Line: Had blotted out the world.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by CHARLES (BENNETT) GULLANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water, with lidless stare
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


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, by DONALD PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was it his face that so unsettled him
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind is a city like london,
Subject(s): Mind, The; Narcissus (mythology); Nature


NARCISSUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The god enamoured never knew
Last Line: Of light above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Poetry & Poets


NARCISSUS, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad lilies, o my brothers, lorn I languish here
Last Line: Pour for the moon thy tears in silver urns afar.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS (1), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou with whom I dallied
Last Line: And women honey-sweet.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS (2), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O pool in which we dallied
Last Line: Like earth is honey-sweet!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS AND ECHO, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall the water not remember ember
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS AND ECHO, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall the water not remember ember
Last Line: Moment, it seems filament of air, fare %the world become cloudswell. Well
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


NARCISSUS AS IS, by ELTON GLASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always myself, whatever waters I look into
Last Line: Always myself, whatever waters I look into
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Self


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


SECOND OPINION, by STEPHEN CUSHMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Erat illimis fons. 'there was a clear spring'
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


SONG TO MYSELF, by GLORIA GODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: What makes you move moon-eyed among the haunts
Last Line: Has buried your singing steps, and choked your rhyme.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)


WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pools; Ponds


WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees
Last Line: That beautiful and beauty-blinded face
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology)