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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ODYSSEUS Matches Found: 75 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBITION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't always think penelope Last Line: Drunken war. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Ambition; Courage; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Valor; Bravery; Odysseus ARGUS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wise ulysses, from his native coast Last Line: Own'd his returning lord, look'd up, and dy'd! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus CALYPSO TO ULYSSES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there were any room within my heart Last Line: Than you an aging man's concupiscence. Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus CALYPSO'S ISLAND, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know very well, goddess, she is not beautiful Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Calypso (mythology); Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus CANTO 1, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: And then went down to the ship Variant Title(s): The Odyssey: Book 11 (homer) Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus ITHACA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of wisdom and endurance rare Last Line: Rest, care-worn mortal, rest, and let his sleep be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Variant Title(s): The Return Of Ulysses Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise Last Line: Make sweet the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus ODYSSEUS; FOR GEORGE KIRSTEIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Always the setting forth was the same Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, ulysses, whither dost thou roam Last Line: Thou comest not, and I am tired and old. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have looked for you at the familiar center Last Line: Who in the dead thesis of voyage, avoids me. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Patience; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had heard from her several times during his long absence Last Line: Faithful to him, body and heart, as he was to her in his heart alone, alas Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus PENELOPE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pathway of the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; War; Odysseus PENELOPE'S LOVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read how once ulysses, far from home Last Line: Dip toward penelope and ithaca. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Odysseus SONG FROM THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the first soul, from earth, reached the immortals Last Line: Fear overcame them. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE BOW OF ODYSSEUS, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but bitter toil and care! I never Last Line: That I her favourite playthings broke so soon? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ILIAD: BOOK 10. THE NIGHT ADVENTURE OF DIOMED AND ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the chiefs before their vessels lay Last Line: And the crown'd goblet foams with floods of wine. Subject(s): Achilles; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ILIAD: BOOK 3. MENELAUS AND ODYSSEUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then answer thus antenor sage return'd Last Line: Found none, to wonder at his noble form.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Trojan War; Ulysses; Odysseus THE LOTOS-EATERS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land Last Line: O rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Lotus-eaters Subject(s): Lotus; Mythology - Classical; Rest; Ulysses; Lotos; Odysseus THE LOTUS-EATERS; ULYSSES TO PENELOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a far distant land they dwell Last Line: All things resting everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one that for a weary space has lain Last Line: The surge and thunder of the odyssey. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 1, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods in council sit, to call Last Line: About the task that pallas had design'd. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 1. MINERVA'S DESCENT TO ITHACA, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man, for wisdom's various arts renown'd Last Line: And in his raptured soul the vision glows. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses now relates to us Last Line: This way, or that bent; still his ways are free. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 10. ADVENTURES WITH AEOLUS, LAESTRYGONES, & CIRCE, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length we reach'd aeolia's sea-girt shore Last Line: "who eyes their motion? Who shall trace their way?" Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses' way to hell appears Last Line: Our oars and forewinds speedy passage gave. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. DESCENT INTO HELL, AND CONVERSATION WITH SHADES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the shores we bend, a mournful train Last Line: "sing through the shrouds, and stretch the swelling sails." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 11. ENCOUNTER WITH THE SHADE OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He spake, to whom I, answ'ring, thus replied Last Line: Than sov'reign empire hold o'er all the shades.' Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 12, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He shows from hell his safe retreat Last Line: "were past my free contentment to sustain." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 12. THE SIRENS; SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus o'er the rolling surge the vessel flies Last Line: "and what so tedious as a twice-told tale?" Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. ARRIVAL OF ULYSSES IN ITHACA, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear Last Line: To sparta flies, telemachus her care. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 14. THE MEETING AND CONVERSATION WITH EUMAEUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But he, deep-musing, o'er the mountains stray'd Last Line: Where, screen'd from boreas, high o'er-arch'd they lay. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 15. THE RETURN OF TELEMACHUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now had minerva reach'd those ample plains Last Line: And reach'd the mansion of his faithful swain. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 16. THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO TELEMACHUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the morning blush'd along the plains Last Line: And in soft sleep forgot the cares of day. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 17. TRAVELS OF TELEMACHUS; BEHAVIOR OF THE SUITORS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as aurora, daughter of the dawn Last Line: The sun obliquely shot his dewy ray. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 18. THE FIGHT BETWEEN ULYSSES AND IRUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While fix'd in thought the pensive hero sate Last Line: And, rushing forth, tumultuous reel away. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 19. THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO EURYCLEA, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consulting secret with the blue-eyed maid Last Line: And o'er her eyes ambrosial slumber shed. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 2, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Telemachus to court doth call Last Line: And all day long, their voyage did dispose. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 2. THE COUNCIL OF ITHACA; DEPARTURE OF TELEMACHUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now reddening from the dawn, the morning-ray Last Line: And end their voyage with the morning ray. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 20. MINERVA APPEARS AGAIN TO ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ample hide divine ulysses spread Last Line: A feast of death! The feasters doom'd to bleed! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 21. THE BENDING OF ULYSSES' BOW; OMEN FROM JUPITER, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pallas now to raise the rivals' fires Last Line: The beamy javelin lightens in his hand. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 22. DEATH OF SUITORS AND RECOGNITION OF ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then fierce the hero o'er the threshold strode Last Line: Ev'n he indulges the sweet joy of tears. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 23. INTERVIEW OF PENELOPE AND ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then to the queen, as in repose she lay Last Line: The latent warriors in a veil of clouds. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 24. ULYSSES VISITS HIS FATHER, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cyllenius now to pluto's dreary reign Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 3, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Telemachus, and heaven's wise dame Last Line: And shadows all ways through the earth were thrown. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 3. THE INTERVIEW OF TELEMACHUS AND NESTOR, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred sun, above the waters raised Last Line: And o'er the shaded landscape rush'd the night. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 4, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Received now in the spartan court Last Line: The wooers hoped to make their massacre. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 4. THE CONFERENCE OF TELEMACHUS WITH MENELAUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now proud sparta with their wheels resounds Last Line: And in close ambush wait the murderous deed. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A second court on jove attends Last Line: Quickly concluded in his closed eyes. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. THE DEPARTURE OF ULYSSES FROM CALYPSO, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron morn, with early blushes spread Last Line: Lull'd all his cares, and banish'd all his woes. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 6, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minerva in a vision stands Last Line: Till with his country shore he crown'd his peace. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 6. ULYSSES DISCOVERED BY NAUSICAE, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While thus the weary wanderer sunk to rest Last Line: Till great ulysses hail'd his native land. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 7, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nausicaa arrives in town Last Line: And by her lord reposed her reverend head. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 7. THE COURT OF ALCINOUS; RECEPTION OF ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The patient, heavenly man thus suppliant pray'd Last Line: And fast beside were closed arete's eyes. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 8, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The peers of the phaeacian state Last Line: True wisdom is, that blood and birth transcends. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 8. ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN TO ULYSSES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fair aurora lifts her golden ray Last Line: "and claim'd by merit, not by blood, the heart?" Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 9, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses here is first made known Last Line: And yet had comfort since we lost no more. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. ADVENTURES OF THE CICONS, LOTOPHAGI AND CYCLOPS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then thus ulysses: 'thou whom first in sway Last Line: "glad for the living, for the dead in tears." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: THE BUTCHERS, by HOMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he had made sure there were no survivors in his house Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE ODYSSEY: THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies Last Line: The people one, and one supplies the king. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE OLD SHIPS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep Last Line: And the whole deck put on its leaves again. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus THE RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see myself sometimes, an old man Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE SAIL OF ULYSSES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shape of his sail, ulysses Variant Title(s): Presence Of An External Master Of Knowledge Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE WORLD AS MEDITATION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ulysses that approaches from the east Last Line: Never forgetting him that kept coming constantly so near Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Penelope (mythology); Ulysses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Odysseus TOWN AND HARBOR OF ITHACA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By another light surrounded Last Line: Where ulysses was the king. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus TWO TOWNS, by RALPH LINTON Poem Text First Line: There was a mighty city Last Line: Your fate is in their hands. Subject(s): Crete; Greece; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Troy; Ulysses; Greeks; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus ULYSSES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses was a rover, a roamer and a rover Last Line: The way that old ulysses used to do. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: Not yet is all my passion dead Last Line: The old pain and the old surmise. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Oxford University; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the much-tossed ulysses, never done Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Settled to evenings before the doorway Last Line: "go ask your mother penelope." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, whose oath in hollow hell is heard Last Line: Curtain Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ULYSSES AND THE SIREN, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, worthy greek, ulysses, come Last Line: T' undo, or be undone. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Sirens (mythology); Ulysses; Odysseus ULYSSES BUILDS HIS BED, by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE Poem Text First Line: Glorious ulysses, returned from the war Last Line: And the enraptured mothers smile. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Statues; Stones; Ulysses; Walls; Granite; Rocks; Odysseus ULYSSES RETURNS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses has come back to me again Last Line: He never tells -- but penelope knows! Subject(s): Homecoming; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus VALHALLA INN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in valhalla is a double swinging door Last Line: And trade the purple barroom tales that men tell other men! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Odysseus |
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